The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 16 ~ Sub Scan

[Vocelli]

~ WEEK 16~

Sub Scan

CLARIFICATION: No use of CHEATS, emulation advantages, bugs, cart frying or other variables that gives you an unfair advantage is allowed in this HSC. Before you even consider using such non-sense a PM must be sent to me, the Moderator, to ask for clarification on any such advantage or rules and if any of the above variables are allowed. So assume you cannot use any of the above variables to play in the 2600 HSC until you are given authorization to do so by me, your humble yet strict MODERATOR!

Sub Scan ~
Released By: Sega
Left Difficulty: B
Right Difficulty: B
Game Mode: Game 1

OF NOTE: PLEASE TAKE YOUR PIC RIGHT AFTER YOU LOSE. WHY? IF YOU LET THE GAME CONTINUE TO RUN, THE ATARI CONTROLLED SHIP STILL SCORES POINTS AND YOUR SCORE WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB AFTER YOU HAVE LOST. SO BE FAIR WE ARE HERE FOR FUN! This scoring glitch does not happen all the time but it could happen to you so be fair.

Post your scores right here in this thread, and I will add them to the list. Remember to play the game with the recommended game mode and difficulty settings as shown above so that your scores will be consistent with everyone else. The deadline for posting scores is Midnight the evening of Sept 1.


Bonus
Backward score challenge
If the backward score is lower than your actual score you score 2 bonus points.
That includes the ZERO ‘0’ at the beginning of your score.
Example:
010550 (actual score) ~~ 055010 (backward score) NO BONUS
023120 (actual score) ~~ 021320 (backward score) +2 Bonus

OF NOTE: PLEASE TAKE YOUR PIC RIGHT AFTER YOU LOSE. WHY? IF YOU LET THE GAME CONTINUE TO RUN, THE ATARI CONTROLLED SHIP STILL SCORES POINTS AND YOUR SCORE WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB AFTER YOU HAVE LOST. SO BE FAIR WE ARE HERE FOR FUN! This scoring glitch does not happen all the time but it could happen to you so be fair.

 

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087910 - SBAZ (+25) (+2)

087130 - NorthcoastGamer (+24) (+2)

083920 - Liduario (+23) (+2)

074750 - Scrabbler15 (+22) (+2)

069550 - Zoyx (+21) (+2)

064500 - Gorfy (+20) (+2)

064430 - Karokoenig (+19) (+2)

062340 - Khryssun (+18) (+2)

039060 - Vocelli (+17)

029720 - Darthkur (+16) (+2)
029560 - Nikon (+15)

028520 - Roadrunner (+14) (+2)

017390 - Snakeboy (+13)

013640 - Serious (+12)

012200 - Fallout002 (+11) (+2)

010200 - Spiceware (+10) (+2)

008640 - Aftermac (+9)

008320 - Classicgamer27730 (+

006220 - JBlenkle (+7)

005180 - Keilbaca (+6)

004540 - LarcenTyler (+5)

000250 - CraftsmanMike (+4)

 

 

OVERALL RANKINGS THROUGH VENTURE

The TOP 24 qualify for the bracket challenge at the end of the season.

 

1. Liduario Y 356

2. Northcoastgamer O 334

3. S.BAZ 327

4. Gorfy Y 298

5. Zoyx O 275

6. Snakeboy 272

7. Vocelli Y 270

8. Spiceware 248

9. Oyamafamily 236

10. Keilbaca 212

11. Scrabbler15 205

12. Karokoenig 179

13. Darthkur 174

14. Aftermac 160

15. Shinobiedo 137

16. Classicgamer27330 123

17. NIKON 105

18. Mister-VCS 100

19. Skosh 93

20. The Smirk 84

21. Larcen Tyler 83

22. Khryssun 81

23. RJ 77

24. CraftsmanMIKE 75

 

 

25. Fallout002 63

26. Ferghead 62

27. Birdbot 46

28. Vaughan 42

29. Roadrunner 38

30. Serious 37

31. KeyboardCowboy 30

32. jblenkle 28

33. Weird Paul 27

34. Zeptari1 24

35. WickeyColumbus 23

36. Stan 22

37. Gray 21

38. Star Knight 20

38. Chuck D. Head 20

40. Turnquest 19

41. Yarjr 15

42. DoctorTom 12

43. DTKofoed 11

44. Red Tide 9

45. Ahuffman 6

46. Darrin9999 4

46. W.Lefeavers 4

46. Algus 4

46. Dan I. 4

46. Ashkin2002 4

51. Atariano 2

52. JacobZu7Zu7 1

52. BSA Starfire 1

 

NEW SEASON ~ The NEW High Score Club Season 2 LINE-UP
August
Unique Weeks 3
Sept
Wow, we will play 2 homebrews.
~~~ Lady Bug
~~~ToyShop Trouble
Oct
We will play 3 of your suggestions
Paddle weeks. We will Play 2 Paddle Games
Nov
We will play 3 of your suggestions
We will play 2 games that were NEVER played.
Dec
The last 3 weeks we will play Wild Cards. Double points and beat the leader weeks.

Estimated # of Weeks is 30-35.

Bracket Challenge to follow. TOP 24 make the Bracket Challenge!

Edited September 2, 2013 by Vocelli

[LidLikesIntellivision]

I never played this game before.
1) 3,360 (08/24) I believe the top score is mine... 000 --> I believe this is not my score.
2) top score: 7,050 bottom score: 00
3) 33,880 Wow, I think I got a good score in the first day .
4) 34,530

5) 36,750

6) 54,090 (08/25)

7) 69,400 (08/27)

8.) 73,540 (08/29)

9) 83,920 (08/31)

[Mister-VCS]

The season of low-quality-games...

[LidLikesIntellivision]

The season of low-quality-games...

With many games beeing suggested from players it's a good proof you NEVER can please everybody.

Not to mention the 3 games from the 20 better 2600 games.

Or the always great Activision games, and we played many of them.

Or the coming homebrews...

Or S.Baz experience with bad games, many times, by digging a game, you can discover it's actually a good one.

Yes, I'm loving this season.

[NIKON]

A game of strategy and timing.....winning combination...sometimes what looks like a simple game can be difficult to master.

 

I have never played this game before and so far I like it...thanks again 2600 HSC for turning me on to another great title.

[Scrabbler15]

46,980

 

I find this one thoroughly intriguing.

 

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[NIKON]

25020

 

 

Gettin da hang of dis game!!!

[LidLikesIntellivision]

46,980

 

I find this one thoroughly intriguing.

 

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If you don't count the 1,000,000 in Twin Galaxies , you're already with the world record!

[Scrabbler15]

If you don't count the 1,000,000 in Twin Galaxies , you're already with the world record!

 

And around here, that can get a guy 6th or 7th by the end of the week.

 

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[LidLikesIntellivision]

54,090

 

 

And around here, that can get a guy 6th or 7th by the end of the week.

 

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Maybe I'm wrong as in Skiing scores when I thought early in the week we already had the winning score...

I must stop my predictions, I'm beeing surprised over and over with higher scores.

[Scrabbler15]

62,510

 

Fun stuff.

 

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[Vocelli]

Holy CRAP!

First off... I was unable to post for about 36 hours. So updates were not done unless I was in my office on my desktop. It is fixed.

Secondly... I love this game. I don't know why but it is fun.

Thirdly... I am amazed at the scores so far!

Forthly... 'low quality games'? C'mon Mister VCS. Maybe the last 3 weeks have been less than stellar but if we play the same games over and over then we lose the fun of discovery.

 

Ok. Back to business.

Good Luck.

[S.BAZ]

I'm new to this game, although I did play it for about 30 seconds once.

 

it does have a cheap appearance at first but

thanks to the radar map at the bottom, it seems like a pretty good game to me

played one game last night:

 

7330

 

 

also i gotta say, even when we play a game i don't like and it's truly bad (like coconuts)

it's still fun to compete at a crappy game I never played before

and coconuts was fun to joke about

also it helps me give each of my games a chance so I can explore my collection!!

 

one of my inspirations that kick started me into a retro-gaming attack was Dr. Sparkle's Chrontendo episodes -- If you like NES and haven't seen his videos, check it out, I had a two-week all day krakk-fest watching those when I first found it. Now that guy knows how to have fun with a cheap game!

 

 

Edited August 25, 2013 by S.BAZ

[Lauren Tyler]

004540

[roadrunner]

9,250
what's the 900 below my score mean?

[NIKON]

@roadrunner

 

 

 

 

1. Your game score

2. Bonus score for hitting number 3

[classicgamer_27330]

Just to clear this up, no bonus if your score is a palindrome correct?

[Zoyx]

6740

 

[Northcoastgamer]

Sub Scan - 63,310. Much more fun than Venture, that's for sure.

[LidLikesIntellivision]

It seems the bonus won't work well this round.

The backward score goes to zero soon after you die and it's difficult to take a pic in time.

 

On the other hand, last round had the best bonus ever.

It was a way to play a great game that doesn't give us scores to compare.

I don't know if we have time for this round (if everyone agrees with a change in the middle of the round), but I'd like to play a game for bonus again.

I was checking the 'winnable games' thread in order to find games we could play and earn points if we can finish it.

 

So my humble suggestion would be to play such a game. I think fathom has an ending and maybe not too hard to accomplish...

Well, at least, this 'win a winnable game and get bonus points' appears to be a good bonus idea. Just like the Adventure (actually having 3 dragons in a room is harder than rescueing the calice)

 

P.S.: we also could be allowed to take a pic of the lower non zero backward score... but that's not a good strategy for higher scores, just sayin'

[Vocelli]

It seems the bonus won't work well this round.

The backward score goes to zero soon after you die and it's difficult to take a pic in time.

 

On the other hand, last round had the best bonus ever.

It was a way to play a great game that doesn't give us scores to compare.

I don't know if we have time for this round (if everyone agrees with a change in the middle of the round), but I'd like to play a game for bonus again.

I was checking the 'winnable games' thread in order to find games we could play and earn points if we can finish it.

 

So my humble suggestion would be to play such a game. I think fathom has an ending and maybe not too hard to accomplish...

Well, at least, this 'win a winnable game and get bonus points' appears to be a good bonus idea. Just like the Adventure (actually having 3 dragons in a room is harder than rescueing the calice)

 

P.S.: we also could be allowed to take a pic of the lower non zero backward score... but that's not a good strategy for higher scores, just sayin'

Lid,

Maybe I didn't explain the bonus well enough.

Take your posted score and read it backwards including the zero.

If it is lower than your posted score than you get +2

Scrabble15, right now, has the +2 bonus but you do not.

 

I also like the idea of accomplishing winnable games. But with winnable games most of the solutions are on-line somewhere.

I still might try it in the future but I also like the idea of doing something special in a game. I thought the five dragon idea was cool and I didn't think anyone could do it. Surprise, it was done by many. So you may see more of those in the future.

 

Ok, back to playing.... er' I mean working.

[Zoyx]

013530

 

[LidLikesIntellivision]

Lid,

Maybe I didn't explain the bonus well enough.

Take your posted score and read it backwards including the zero.

If it is lower than your posted score than you get +2

Scrabble15, right now, has the +2 bonus but you do not.

 

I also like the idea of accomplishing winnable games. But with winnable games most of the solutions are on-line somewhere.

I still might try it in the future but I also like the idea of doing something special in a game. I thought the five dragon idea was cool and I didn't think anyone could do it. Surprise, it was done by many. So you may see more of those in the future.

 

Ok, back to playing.... er' I mean working.

Oops, now I understand .

[Scrabbler15]

65,570

 

This score regains the lead and loses my bonus at the same time. Guess that will just add some extra incentive to try to push this up again.

 

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[Chuck D. Head]

 

I also like the idea of accomplishing winnable games. But with winnable games most of the solutions are on-line somewhere.

I still might try it in the future but I also like the idea of doing something special in a game.

Maybe a week with more than one winnable game might be an option. Fathom and Pitfall II are someone easy winnable games but very hard to max the accompanying score of each. What are some others like this?