Atari5200 Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 (edited) Ok, sorry for the delay. This rounds game is Defender. Defender is a pretty common game and I think plays well with the stock controllers. The competition will end on 6-08. Adding a few extra days since I delayed this by a few days. Get blasting and for god sakes, save the humans, don't shoot them. Final Leaderboard darthkur: 2,131,000 bydoempire: 252,075 MIKE5200: 101,620 Atari5200:68,575 doctorclu: 25,550 Edited June 10, 2008 by Atari5200 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 I'll get this started. I didn't like 5200 Defender at fist, having played the 2600 version so much, but it's definitely growing on me. 164,775 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1525581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 25,550 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1525699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKE5200 Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Now your talking my favs game! I can play for hours on the 2600 version. It might be afew days though i need to clean my stock controller. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1526712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted May 27, 2008 Author Share Posted May 27, 2008 i played a little yesterday, not enough for me to post a score, this game is tougher than I remember it being. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1526730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKE5200 Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 (edited) This might help if you dont have keypad overlay like myself ONE PLAYER EASY NORMAL HARD -------- -------- -------- | | | | | | | | | | | | -------- -------- -------- TWO PLAYER EASY NORMAL HARD -------- -------- -------- | | | | | | | | | | | | -------- -------- -------- DURING GAME PLAY PRESS ANY KEYPAD BUTTON TO ENTER HYPERSPACE -------- -------- -------- | | | | | | | | | | | | -------- -------- -------- DEMO -------- -------- -------- | | | | | | | | | | | | -------- -------- -------- Edited May 27, 2008 by MIKE5200 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1526963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted May 28, 2008 Author Share Posted May 28, 2008 68575, not to bad, took a few tries but finally got the hang of things. The game seems a lot harder than I remember and the default setting is Easy. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1526979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 252,075. Some games I can't break 20,000, but every 4-5 games I seem to be able to get in the zone for a bit with one or two of my lives. This morning I had one of those games! Now, if only I could play consistently. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1526986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 849,750 wave 54 Defender is always a fun and exciting game no matter on what platform. I do miss the myriad of controls on the arcade cabinet though. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1527956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted May 30, 2008 Author Share Posted May 30, 2008 damn. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1528284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Darth - how long did your game last? Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1528381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Darth - how long did your game last? I'm not sure really. I seldom pay attention to the the flow of time other than to notice the fact that the days seem to fly by faster and faster the older you get. Seriously though, it didn't seem like a really long time though. An hour, hour and a half........I just don't know for certain. Sorry. If I try again I'll try to remember to keep track. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1528426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted May 30, 2008 Author Share Posted May 30, 2008 stock controller? Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1528485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 stock controller? Yes, indeed. I always use the stock controller. The only exception is, if I'm feeling motivated enough, I'll hook up the trak-ball for Centipede and Missile Command. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1528518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKE5200 Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Whew! 101620 Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1529852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 2,131,000 Wave 134 Well, I decided to go at it again and kept track of the time. I obviously was way off on my estimate for the last one because this game took an hour and a half. And it seemed like forever. Truthfully I could've gone on ad infinitum but I was getting both seriously bored and my left hand was going numb. I did discover a couple interesting things during the journey though. On waves 86, 87 and 88 there were no landers present, just bombers and pods. The only green enemy to appear was the occasional baiter. Secondly, the wave tally does not go past 99 so I had to keep track manually. I think I keep a correct tab. If not I'm only one or so off I'd say. I was beginning to wonder if perhaps a glitch had occurred on account of the number of ships remaining throughout the duration never went down. I did run out of nuke's just before hitting the first million mark. So I figured I'd make things more interesting. First I stopped using smart bombs after passing 2 mil. Even then I wasn't dieing enough so I decided to become homicidal and kill off all of the humans. This is where I discovered another interesting oddity. After each board the humans were replaced instead of the every five as usual. I assume it's because of the wave tally being stuck at 99 so the computer thinks it's going onto a "5th" board every time. So after doing the mutant board thing a few rounds I finally ran out of ships. Well, I doubt I'll be feeling like playing Defender any time soon. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1531724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratix Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 (edited) hey wait a minute what mode? normal? hard? easy? cuz im doing normal. never mind Edited June 8, 2008 by Ratix Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1531888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Wow, darthkur, that's fantastic. Hats off to you! Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1532277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thanks. I appreciate it. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1532606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted June 10, 2008 Author Share Posted June 10, 2008 well, no surprise who the winner was this round, and the one score alone will catapult him into the top of the overall scoring. Congrats darthkur!!! Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1533261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Thank you very much. I look forward to the next round. Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/126095-atari-5200-hsc-round-26-defender/#findComment-1533310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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