DamonicFury

New poll is up:

Poll closes Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @9pm EST

Congratulations! No one else has come anywhere close to rolling this game, so the question of counting scores after the roll may be academic. I personally think it should depend on if the game is still fun and challenging after that point, or if it’s just a grind. (For example, 5200 Pac-Man’s monsters-stay-blue bug makes it pointless to count scores past the roll.) So you may just be the only person on the planet who can tell us if 5200 Space Dungeon is indeed still worth playing after the roll!

Sorry… let’s blame the coin flip. ?

Congratulations to rubeon on trashing the most TIEs, tagging the most towers, and blowing up the most battlestations. Final standings: rubeon - 1,674,106 +11 jeremiahjt - 489,090 +10 mark griff - 474,438 +9 bemis - 402,791 +8

Welcome to the fifth round of the 15th 5200 HSC season! Space Dungeon and Space Invaders tied the poll with votes each, and Space Dungeon won the resulting coin toss. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The high score was set by rubeon with a score of 945,735 points. Beat this if you can for a bonus point! The ROM and manual can be found here: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=661 Round ends Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @9pm EST Standings: rubeon - 1,331,000 - RECORD BREAKER! jblenkle - 88,425 mark griff - 72,475 bemis - 23,060 jeremiahjt - 12,965

Had to flip a coin again… Space Dungeon won the toss. It was released for the 400/800 computers. More recently, it was converted to play on the 5200.

Daaaammmn! That’s really impressive! Well played!

Multiple shots are fine… if you haven’t fired until the exhaust port is visible, you should be good.

New poll is up: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/331953-5200-hsc-season-15-round-5-poll/

Poll closes Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @9pm EST

If you don't shoot anything else in the trench other than the exhaust port, that is considered "Using the Force" and you are granted a sizeable bonus each time.

I was another huge fan of the arcade game. I was already a big Star Wars fan and it was simply the most immersive SW experience you could have back then. Got the 2600 version for my birthday in 1984 and it wasn’t bad, but didn’t quite slake my thirst for “the real thing.”

Welcome to the fourth round of the 15th 5200 HSC season! Star Wars won the poll by a single vote. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The high score was set by darthkur with a score of 11,065,749 points. Beat this if you can for a bonus point! The ROM and manual can be found here: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=667 Round ends Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @9pm EST Standings: rubeon - 1,674,106 jeremiahjt - 489,090 mark griff - 474,438 bemis - 402,791

Congratulations to rubeon for cracking the most codes and trashing the most turrets! Not an easy record to beat… well done! Star Wars:The Arcade Game is up next. Final standings: rubeon - 207,500 - RECORD BREAKER! +11 +1 = +12 mark griff - 65,000 +10 jeremiahjt - 38,650 +9 bemis - 33,450 +8 Cafeman - 32,900 +7

Star Wars is our winner!

New poll is now up:

Poll closes Sunday, February 20th, 2022 @9pm EST

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Clearly I’m losing my mind! Many thanks for the correction!

It does take a while to get used to! Just surviving means learning to avoid difficult terrain when you can and especially when within range of the turrets. You also have to learn to avoid approaching the turrets at right or diagonal angles and slipping into those angles right after their shot misses to get your own shot in. Then there's the matter of getting the code letters. It's not hard to get all three in the early levels... later you'll probably just want to get two (or even one!) and guess what you don't know as quickly as possible. It's a fun game when you get used to how it works! One of the very few 5200 exclusives.

Here’s the final standings for season 15. We did something a bit different, and had a 11 round season, instead of the usual 22. Standings as of the end of Round 11: rubeon - 0 +9 +12 +11 +12 +9 +11 +11 +6 +11 +9 = 101 jeremiahjt - 6 +8 +9 +10 +7 +11 +0 +10 +11 +10 +11 = 93 bemis - 9 +7 +8 +8 +8 +10 +9 +9 +5 +0 +0 = 73 mark griff - 10 +10 +10 +9 +9 +7 +8 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 63 jblenkle - 0 +4 +0 +0 +10 +6 +7 +0 +10 +9 +10 = 56 Cafeman - 11 +11 +7 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 29 roadrunner - 7 +5 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +8 +9 +0 +0 = 29 IICCEEMMAANN - 0 0 0 0 0 +8 +10 +0 +0 +8 +0 = 26 eegt97 - 8 + 0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 8 krytol - 0 +6 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 6

My apologies! This is now corrected. Thank you for letting me know!

Welcome to the third round of the 15th 5200 HSC season! Countermeasure won the poll by three votes each. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The high score was set by Northcoastgamer with a score of 204,500 points. Beat this if you can for a bonus point! The ROM and manual can be found here: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=616 Round ends Sunday, February 20th, 2022 @9pm EST Standings: rubeon - 207,500 - RECORD BREAKER! mark griff - 65,000 jeremiahjt - 38,650 bemis - 33, 450 Cafeman - 32,900

Congratulations to Cafeman for knocking off the most knights. Countermeasure is up next. Final standings: Cafeman - 468,400 +11 mark griff - 349,350 +10 rubeon - 295,950 +9 jeremiahjt - 157,100 +8 bemis - 86,950 +7 krytol - 54,100 +6 roadrunner - 51,600 +5 jblenkle - 32,300 +4