The NEW High Score Club S2 ~ Week 21 ~ Midnight Magic

[Vocelli]

~ WEEK 21 ~

Midnight Magic

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!

 

 

Midnight Magic

Released By: Atari

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Game 1

A Score of 975,000 is considered rolled.

 

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 October 6, 2013

 

Bonus

More Pinball please!

Closest to the your Midnight Magic Score

Ok. Come close to your Midnight Madness score by playing Video Pinball (B/B).

Post a Video Pinball score that is very close to your Midnight Madness score to get some bonus points.

 

Your Video Pinball score is within 1,000 of your FINAL Midnight Madness score = 3 Points

Your Video Pinball score is within 10,000 of your FINAL Midnight Madness score = 2 Points

Your Video Pinball score is within 100,000 of your FINAL Midnight Madness score = 1 Point

CLOSEST PLAYER out of all players GETS 1 ADDITIONAL POINT!

 

Notes:

Your Midnight Madness score MUST BE over 100,000 to qualify for the bonus!

Your Video Pinball score MUST BE A COMPLETED GAME. No Pics during gameplay or after ball 1 or 2.

FINAL SCORE VIDEO PINBALL PICS ONLY!

 

 

Midnight Magic ~ Scores

 

ROLLAGE (994030) - Oyamafamily ~ (VP 1,002,593 - MM 994,030 = 8593 ( +2 Bonus)) (+25)

ROLLAGE (976965) - Scrabbler15 (+25)

ROLLAGE (999250) - NorthCoastGamer ~ (VP 999,830 - MM 999,250 = 580 (+3 Bonus)) (+25) (+1 closest bonus)

 

914220 - Liduario (VP 847,323 - MM 914,220 = 66887 (+1 Bonus)) (+22)

849790 - Snakeboy (+21)

659035 - Zoyx ~ (VP 671,400 - MM 659,035 = 12365 (+1 Bonus )) (+20)

521170 - Keilbaca (+19)

503600 - Vocelli ~ (VP 504,829 - MM 503,600 = 1229 ( +2 Bonus)) (+18)

482150 - Karokoenig (+17)

323735 - Gorfy (+16)

208255 - Khryssun (+15)

204170 - MisterVCS (+14)

158650 - Darthkur (+13)

138680 - Fallout002 (+12)

128360 - Redtide (+11)

125889 - Miss2600 ~ (VP 149,999 - MM 125,889 = 24110 (+1 Bonus)) (+10)

121815 - Botbird ~ (VP 125,749 - MM 121815 = 3934 ( +2 Bonus)) (+9)

101000 - SBAZ (+

98435 - Roadrunner (+7)

20390 - Jblenkle (+5)

6005 - Classicgamer (+4)

 

 

 

 

OVERALL STANDINGS THROUGH TOYSHOP TROUBLE

The Top 24 Make the Medal Bracket Challenge at the end of the Season.

 

1. Liduario Y 470

2. Northcoastgamer O 445

3. S.BAZ 443

4. Gorfy Y 389

5. Zoyx O 349

6. Vocelli Y 342

7. Snakeboy 333

8. Spiceware 330

9. Oyamafamily 298

10. Scrabbler15 279

11. Keilbaca 247

12. Karokoenig 242

13. Darthkur 236

14. Aftermac 172

15. Classicgamer27330 158

16. NIKON 147

17. Shinobiedo 137

17. Khryssun 137

19. Larcen Tyler 108

20. Mister-VCS 103

21. CraftsmanMIKE 100

22. Skosh 93

23. The Smirk 84

24. RJ 82

 

25. Fallout002 76

26. Roadrunner 72

27. Ferghead 62

28. Botbird208 59

29. Serious 49

30. WickeyColumbus 44

31. jblenkle 43

32. Vaughan 42

33. RedTide 37

34. KeyboardCowboy 30

34. GSampson 30

36. Weird Paul 27

37. AtariBrian 25

38. Zeptari1 24

39. Stan 22

40. Gray 21

41. Star Knight 20

41. Chuck D. Head 20

43. Turnquest 19

44. Miss2600 18

45. Yarjr 15

46. DoctorTom 12

47. DTKofoed 11

47. Wolfman24 11

49. Ahuffman 6

50. Darrin9999 4

50. W.Lefeavers 4

50. Algus 4

50. Dan I 4

50. Ashkin2002 4

55. Atariano 2

56. JacobZu7Zu7 1

56. BSA Starfire 1

 

NEW SEASON ~ The NEW High Score Club Season 2 LINE-UP

Oct
We will play 2 more 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 33-34.

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

Edited October 7, 2013 by Vocelli

[LidLikesIntellivision]

1) 19,835 (09/28) First time I played a full game of Midnight Magic. Great game I discovered recently and was willing to play. Now it's the time.

2) 178,910

3) 288,525 (09/29)

4) 365,240 (09/30)

5) 914,220 (10/02)

[roadrunner]

V Pinball 67,847

[classicgamer_27330]

I suck at pinball

6,005 and since my score won't total 100,000 even if I play the game 100 times, I will not attempt the video pinball

[Scrabbler15]

110,305

 

I've pretty much left my job at the toyshop, so I can spend my time playing pinball.

 

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[LidLikesIntellivision]

178,910

 

It's a very good game as I suspected.

Much better than Video Pinball.

I played Video Pinball as a kid, I liked it but the game kept me remembering it was an Atari Video Pinball (even Atari logo was there!).

Midnight Magic makes me feel I'm playing Pinball.

WOW, Amazing coincidence!!!

I just got another 178,910! I should have played Video Pinball for the bonus.

[LidLikesIntellivision]

BONUS - VIDEO PINBALL

1) 72,847 (09/28)

2) 98,577 (09/29) Now I can improve my midnight score up to 198,577!

3) 154,973 midnight up to 254,973 is now possible!

4) 281,441 Within 10k. I was looking so often at the points I dropped the ball.

5) 847,333 (10/06)

I'm going to update this post and I think it's a good idea to keep me from posting to much bonus posts... At the end of the week, I'll make another post with the final bonus video pinbal score.

[Scrabbler15]

143,940

 

Have I mentioned that I love pinball? Oh yeah, I think I have.

 

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[Gorfy]

1st submission: 112,955

 

I love pinball as well. Before video games existed, my friends and I used to haunt the local pizzarias to play pinball. If you got a high score, you'd scratch your name and the score into the side of the machine. At Athens Pizza, they'd give you a small pizza if you managed to turn it over. Great stuff!

 

I'm curious as to why there were so few pinball games made for the atari. I only know of the two -- this one and Video Pinball. Are pinball games much more difficult to program than other games??

[roadrunner]

MM 98,435

[LidLikesIntellivision]

288,525

Now I have to play Video Pinball and reach, at least, 100k less.

Great bonus round.

 

[AtariBrian]

288,525

Now I have to play Video Pinball and reach, at least, 100k less.

Great bonus round.

 

great score ... Liduario ... do you play games 24/7 ?

[LidLikesIntellivision]

great score ... Liduario ... do you play games 24/7 ?

Oh, not that much.

After 30 hours you start to shiver, and it's very strange when you stop playing after very long sessions. You begin to see some flickering lights and you lose some control of yourself as when you're drunk.

Not a good experience and I don't play more than 8 hours for years... Not healthy.

 

Nowadays I like to play 4 to 10 games or so. It's rare I spend more than 2 hours but last night pinball got me.

For me, pinball is dangerous as speed chess, I can spend much more time than I wanted to.

[AtariBrian]

Oh, not that much.

After 30 hours you start to shiver, and it's very strange when you stop playing after very long sessions. You begin to see some flickering lights and you lose some control of yourself as when you're drunk.

Not a good experience and I don't play more than 8 hours for years... Not healthy.

 

Nowadays I like to play 4 to 10 games or so. It's rare I spend more than 2 hours but last night pinball got me.

For me, pinball is dangerous as speed chess, I can spend much more time than I wanted to.

I found that as frantic as toyshop trouble gets in the later rounds i put the paddle down in between rounds in the later rounds . Or else you start blankly staring at the screen as the toys go by as everything starts looking the same . Kind of like a deer in the headlights

[Vocelli]

I think I will set my MM score then play VP on Saturday and Sunday next weekend.

 

I never played this before. Death is quick but once that x2 is reached the score climbs fast.

 

Vocelli: 100870

[Mister-VCS]

First try (scored at midnight MESZ): 186,840

[oyamafamily]

MIDNIGHT MAGIC - ROLLAGE - 1,000,000+

 

 

Video sent to Vocelli

[LidLikesIntellivision]

MIDNIGHT MAGIC - ROLLAGE - 1,000,000+

 

 

Video sent to Vocelli

Fantastic score Oyama!

[LidLikesIntellivision]

365,240

[Gorfy]

198,615

[keilbaca]

I see a lot of people rolling this score. Game B is pretty easy with the outlanes removed from the equation.

[karokoenig]

Sweet... I was actually at home yesterday, and had access to my collection and console. I have both carts, and so I was able to squeeze in a few games. I'll post a picture of my score (around 180 or 190k, I think) as soon as I have time to download the pics from my camera.

 

Now I'm on the road again, and the emulator will have to do. It will be interesting to see how that affects my performance. I have a feeling that keyboard controls could be even better than the original hardware in this case. We'll see...

[Scrabbler15]

210,100

 

This game's flipper action feels like the old days when a Gottlieb pin had flippers that were starting to fade away. In those cases, if the ball didn't land just right on the flipper, it wouldn't go anywhere. I remember the Williams pins' flippers having a nice "snap" that either worked or didn't. In my experience, the Gottlieb flippers always seemed to die a slow death. And that makes this game feel nostalgically familiar.

 

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[Zoyx]

245015

 

[Zoyx]

When I hit the ball, the flippers act like dead fish. The ball hardly goes anywhere. In Oyam's vid, the flippers seem to have more impact. Anything I am missing?