DamonicFury

Did you accidentally give everyone who scored less than me the Wico penalty? (Believe me, I understand, these things happen!)

54,450 Please give me the -1 Wico penalty. Couldn’t get any standard controllers to work well enough this time around.

Anyone care to speculate why they didn't do something like this? (Y'know, something that would actually appeal to the large-amounts-of-carts-owning fans who might actually want this thing if it was 100% compatible or very nearly so.)

Many, many thanks for all the work you've put into this list. It's great to finally have a reasonably firm timeline for these releases!

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MC+ 88,920

Missile Command Practice Mode: 219,280 I have to admit the CX-52 really shines for this game.

Season 17 Champion - RB5200

Congratulations to Northcoastgamer on an utterly dominating performance in Keystone Kapers. Impressive to see someone so completely master a game that their score can never be topped. And congratulations as well to RB5200, who had one of the most impressive seasons ever on this HSC. Welcome to the 5200 HSC Hall of Fame! Ya'll let me know when you want to start season 18. Final Keystone Kapers standings: Northcoastgamer - 1,000,000 - RECORD BREAKER +11 +1 jblenkle - 83,900 +10 RB5200 - 78,300 +9 Cafeman - 68,500 +8 rubeon - 49,400 +7 Mikey50 - 46,200 - +6 phuzaxeman - 39,800 +5 jeremiahjt - 23,600 +4

Good game, works pretty well with the keypad control option. Haven’t had much time to play this month though. 15,798

Welcome to the eleventh and final round of the 17th 5200 HSC season. Keystone Kapers won the poll by one vote. Play using the default setting. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The high score was set by eegt97 with 607,100 points. Beat this if you can for a bonus point! The ROM can be found here: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-keystone-kapers_13644.html Round ends Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @11pm EST Standings: Northcoastgamer - 1,000,000 - RECORD BREAKER jblenkle - 83,900 RB5200 - 78,300 Cafeman - 68,500 rubeon - 49,400 Mikey50 - 46,200 phuzaxeman - 39,800 jeremiahjt - 23,600

Congratulations to Cafeman on fighting the most fires. Thanks also for creating this game for us all and sharing some tips for it. Keystone Kapers is up next. Final standings: Cafeman - 104,505 - RECORD BREAKER +11 +1 RB5200 - 88,130 - RECORD BREAKER +10 +1 Mikey50 - 11,905 +9 rubeon - 8,940 +8 jeremiahjt - 5,030 +7

New poll is up:

Poll closes Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @11pm EST

On a tough game with an ugly bug in it. Kudos people, y’all are killing it.

Three people broke the high score this time! But new-to-this-season oyamafamily came out on top. Congrats! Final standings: oyamafamily - 81,560 - RECORD BREAKER +11 +1 RB5200 - 54,040 - RECORD BREAKER +10 +1 Cafeman - 53,800 - RECORD BREAKER +9 +1 Mikey50 - 32,010 +8 rubeon - 25,950 +7 jeremiahjt - 20,180 +6 Cafeman’s creation, Koffi, is up next.

Welcome to the tenth round of the 17th 5200 HSC season. Koffi won the poll by one vote. Play using the Normal setting. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The high score was set by Cafeman (also the game’s programmer) with 87,260 points. Beat this if you can for a bonus point! The ROM can be found here: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=2374 Round ends Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @11pm EST Standings: Cafeman - 104,505 - RECORD BREAKER RB5200 - 88,130 - RECORD BREAKER Mikey50 - 11,905 rubeon - 8,940 jeremiahjt - 5,030

Koffi is our winner!

It’s a pretty famously difficult game. The 2600 version is particularly known for being brutal. I don’t think the two points you raised are unique to the 5200, I’m fairly sure they also apply to the arcade original.

New poll is up:

Poll closes Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @11pm EST

10 games?! Ouch that sucks, man. I remember playing the "Glen the 5200 man" conversion ages ago and wondering what on earth happened. So I at least wanted to give folks new to the game a heads up. It would be nice if someone could fix this old annoying bug, but I'm sure if it was easy to do so, someone would have done it by now.

Welcome to the ninth round of the 17th 5200 HSC season. Jr. Pac-man was in a three-way tie with Galaxian and Koffi, but won the die roll. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. Beware a bug in this one… if you die while a energizer is being destroyed by a roaming bonus item, you will be unable to clear the board. Try to avoid this! The high score was set by Mangia-Boy with 48,840 points. Beat this if you can for a bonus point! The ROM can be found here: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=790 Round ends Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @11pm EST Standings: oyamafamily - 81,560 - RECORD BREAKER RB5200 - 54,040 - RECORD BREAKER Cafeman - 53,800 - RECORD BREAKER Mikey50 - 32,010 rubeon - 25,950 jeremiahjt - 20,180

RB5200 smashes another record and mashes the most mutants to take the top spot. Kudos and a bonus point as well to Northcoastgamer for also breaking the previous record. Jr. Pac-man is up next. Final standings: RB5200 - 255,120 - RECORD BREAKER - +11 +1 Northcoastgamer - 156,990 - RECORD BREAKER - +10 +1 rubeon - 84,500 +9 Cafeman - 76960 +8 jblenkle - 11,470 +7 jeremiahjt - 10,040 +6

Three-way tie! I rolled a die to break it, and Jr. Pac-man is up next.