gezkc

I've never played Loco-motion before but it looks a really interesting game. I'm a big fan of Happy Trails but I can see this has a bit more to it tactically. Here's my best attempt so far. I'm going to be away for a week so won't be able to get any more tries in for a while. Loco-motion: 29,105

Jumping becomes very important from the fifth island onwards. Time your jumps so you manage to keep far enough away from the left side of the screen so you don't get bonked, and then hope that you can pick up a white hankie. Once you do, run as fast as you can to get to the right side of the screen!

Improved my score a bit. I used to be a lot better at this - I keep messing up my timing on the bridge! Tropical Trouble: 8 islands, 8,300pts

OK, first go at Tropical Trouble. I used to really like this game! Tropical Trouble: 5 islands (5,750pts)

I haven't had a chance to play Tropical Trouble yet. Pitfall - 5 Gold bars

Slight improvement on my Space Armada score: 40,100

Some improvements on my 100m and Javelin. I still can't really work out how the timing works for the second and third jumps in the Triple jump though. 100m: 11.59s Javelin: 81.12m

For me, I have no problem with the invisible levels now. It's the ones after them - specifically those green spinny things! I just can't seem to stop getting wiped out by them. If I can replenish my shield/bases enough to protect me a bit more, that will help, but this game could really do with a hyperspace button like in Astrosmash!

OK, I'm starting to get a little bit better at the running side of things. I'm still not sure how using two controllers helps things though, so I'm sticking with one for now! 100m: 11.91s Triple Jump: 9.07m Javelin: 73.09m

Impressive, Rick! Great times/distances! Do you find using 2 controllers helps or do you have a different technique?

Ah I see! I did try using two controllers for the 100m after reading your post, but I couldn't do any better than with just using one. I'm miles away from 11.5 secs for the 100 though, so my technique clearly needs some work! I'm sure you'll show us how it's done in due course! ?

I'm not sure what Intelligentleman's method is, but I thought I'd have a quick go to see what the game's like. I've never played it before amazingly enough, though I used to love playing Track & Field and Hyper Sports at the arcade! So, these are probably rubbish scores, but someone has to go first! ? 100m: 12.74s Triple Jump: 8.59m Javelin: 62.12m

Thanks Rick! That was the first time I managed to play that level without having my base destroyed. I was surprised I had so many ships remaining - usually I mis-time it and lose all my ships because the squadrons arrive at the enemy fleets at the same time and get decimated. This time it worked out pretty well and I didn't have to rely on the computer to fight for me.

My first decent score on the fastest level! You really have to shoot accurately to be quick enough to get back to your other fleets before your base gets attacked! Space Battle - "Blue Return to base" speed, 8 ships remaining: 5-8

Space Battle - disc level, 4 ships remaining. 4-4

I'm giving Space Battle a go now. I do remember playing this game - it always used to make me think of Battlestar Galactica, protecting the Battlestar from the Cylons! ? Just so I'm clear on the scoring for this game though - are we saying there are 4 difficulty levels or 5? I can understand that Blue is 3, White is 2, Gold/Yellow is 1 and Disc is 4, but how do you play level 5? Surely the best possible score is 4-9, or am I missing something? (Edit: Just read the instructions again - Super advanced speed is the Blue Return to Base key, so that's level 5!) Blue difficulty, 6 ships remaining so: 3-6

I remember playing Space Battle when I was a kid, but I don't think I ever owned it so I must have just rented it from the local video shop or something. I'll give it a try soon and see if it rings any bells! I'm not even going to try playing Bomb Squad - I tried reading the manual and it made no sense to me whatsoever! ? Space Armada: 33,960

OK, my second and final try at Space Hawk (my hand is crippled!): 236,130

One new controller board later, and my Ultimate Flashback's working again! Now to try to catch up with all these games! I'm not sure if I'll get another chance to play these today, so I'll post these scores for now to at least get something on the board! Space Gunner: 64 Space Hawk: 44,040

Wow, so am I right in thinking we've got 4 games on the go at the moment: Space Hawk Space Gunner Bomb Squad Space Armada (with Space Battle soon to be added). Even with a fully working Intellivision, I think I'd struggle to keep up with this number of games!! ?

Managed to improve my times a bit and unlock Course 3! I'd forgotten how fun this game is, but I think these'll be my final times for this round: Course 1: 86 secs Course 2: 93 secs Course 3: 60 secs

I've learnt the problem with my Ultimate Flashback is a bad controller board. Byte Knight is sending me a new one (top man!) but until that arrives, I thought I'd give Motocross a go on my original hardware. Please excuse the crazy psychedelic colour scheme for my course 1 time(!) - it's hard to tune it in properly on my TV. Here's my best so far: Course 1: 93 secs Course 2: 98 secs

He's a star ?

Thanks guys. It turns out the controller board has stopped working (LED on the underside is not flashing). Byte Knight is kindly sending me a new one so that should hopefully fix the problem.

Hi guys, I've got an Ultimate Intellivision Flashback, which is a Flashback that has the internals replaced with a Raspberry Pi, and have never had any problems with it. However, this week it suddenly started coming up with "No gamepad detected" when I boot it up. I'm just using the standard Intellivision Flashback controllers (as I always have done) so I don't understand why it's suddenly stopped recognising them. I've tried pressing 0 on the controllers to try to get them to register with it, but nothing happens. Does anyone know how I can get it to recognise my controllers again? I'm trying to take part in this season's Intellivision HSC so you can understand how urgent this is!! ? Edit: BTW, I've checked the internal connections and it doesn't look like anything's come loose. Any help will be much appreciated. Many thanks, gezkc