cwieland Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 (edited) Wow I totally forgot how to play Checkers! This took me far too long. Edited June 28, 2020 by cwieland 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Larocque Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Kool-Aid Man (B/B) - 42,200 Haven't played any of these carts before, hoping the rest are as fun as this one! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbag Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Picnic 6,970 frogs. 50 kool aid man. 42,500 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Checkers 8 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister-VCS Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 (edited) 22 hours ago, Mister-VCS said: same here - a typical Vocelli-game-pak Correction: Checkers by Activision is on my PAL Atari 32 in 1 cartridge - in NTSC mode with the wrong colors - but I play it in b/w mode- just learning checkers... Atari didn't thrust her own "Video Checkers" - better an average Activision Checkers in NTSC on a PAL cartridge than a bad Atari Checkers with the correct colors... Edited June 28, 2020 by Mister-VCS ok- maybe because ROM-size: VC is 4 and C is 2 K 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Kool-Aid-Man: 56,100! Minor improvement. Picnic: 8,530! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moisés Tuseto Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Bonus 9 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moisés Tuseto Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Kool aid Man 35600 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moisés Tuseto Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Frogs and flies 34 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroBreakout Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 I'm a new member to atariage and have only recently seen this competition topic. What an amazing concept, so happy I've stumbled across it. All 3 are games that I've never played before but having tonnes of fun trying them all out!! Really enjoying Kool aid man , although i have absolutely no idea how some of you are getting 40k+!!! I've managed to get 28k before the game goes crazy....way too quick for me to control properly?. Absolutely loving it though. Looking forward to posting my high scores Brilliant 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Kool-Aid Man 21,600. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Kool-Aid Man 40,500 Frogs N Flies 34 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 2 hours ago, RetroBreakout said: I'm a new member to atariage and have only recently seen this competition topic. What an amazing concept, so happy I've stumbled across it. All 3 are games that I've never played before but having tonnes of fun trying them all out!! Really enjoying Kool aid man , although i have absolutely no idea how some of you are getting 40k+!!! I've managed to get 28k before the game goes crazy....way too quick for me to control properly?. Absolutely loving it though. Looking forward to posting my high scores Brilliant Welcome to the HSC! Great group of people who enjoy a little friendly competition. Enjoy! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerpoco Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 21 hours ago, fakecortex said: Holy mackerel everyone, have you read the checkers manual? It says the computer "thinking" time on expert level is 2-4 minutes and the average game time is 2hrs or more. Thanks for not suggesting that setting Rog! HAHA. It also refers to the computer as "he" instead of "it", so weird. I've always loved the notes and hints from the programmer in the back, but for this one, Alan Miller just suggests going to a library. Hilarious. Bahaha! I was gonna go with "Beat game 3" for the patch score, but the manual says average game time was three hours, so...nope. Nugget- Carol Shaw(later to do River Raid) was developing Atari Checkers at the same time as this, she and Alan Miller were both working with A.L. Samuel, a pioneer in A.I. and "Alpha-beta Pruning", but he didn't let on to either that he was working with the other. (From the Unauthorized Atari 2600 Activision Companion, by Michael Salzman, btw) Man, I actually came up with the particular idea for my own odd reasons, but after I finally had the patches "in hand", I decided I should try to beat the game- I had the opposite reaction as you, I think, I was kinda impressed, because I'm pretty good, and the game kicked my butt over and over and over until I finally got it, and I'm still nowhere near "good". I honestly don't remember playing by the enforced jump rule as a kid, but I may simply be forgetting, or my buddy Weiser may have just permanently knocked it out of my conciousness, not sure. But I was actually impressed that I had to fight the game so hard, I mean, it's friggin Checkers, who can't beat Checkers? ( I swear, I was scared i wasn't going to be able to, lol, it really isn't easy.) 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Kool-Aid Man: 17,800 Picnic: 3,040 (I hit the mouse button before I got a screenshot, sorry.) Frogs & Flies: 44 (I need to get the hang of this darn game.) Checkers: To Be Added later. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 First time ever defeating the computer at Checkers. For such an ancient system it plays a mean game of Checkers! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Frogs-N-Flies: 76! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwieland Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Kool-Aid Man - 41,400 I love how you eventually just get flipped uncontrollably around the screen and it doesn't stop even after you are dead. Picnic 8,400 Frogs and Flies 34 I'm not very good at this one! ? 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 (edited) Kool-Aid Man: 14,200 Frogs: 8 Picnic: 1590 I never did like potato salad... . Edited June 28, 2020 by Scrabbler15 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakecortex Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 I like Kool-Aid Man a lot, wish I had the cart or a cx40 for the emu. Feels like a game that would works best with that over my ps3 controller. 27,900 Picnic controls worse with ps3, understandably since it's made for the paddle. Glad we're using that larger flyswatter here, hah. 4,170 I like how Frogs and Flies is timed. Not many games like that. 22 No improvement with Checkers, unless the goal is to make me hate checkers, in which case I'm earning that patch. I should go to the library and study up ? ? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaiah Austin Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 (Final Updated Scores) Kool-Aid Man: 29000 Picnic: 8570 Frogs and Flies: 54 Checkers: 14 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Kool-Aid Man 22,600. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmiller Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Kool-Aid - 17, 900 Frogs - 12 Picnic - 1340 Never played these, so Plan on getting Better! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Warlord Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Checkers bonus = 6 There's a reason this isn't that popular anymore. It took 5 or 6 tries to finally beat the computer on "Novice". 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Warlord Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Kool-Aid Man = 17,000 OH YEAH! Picnic = 6,740 ( I did better before reading the manual) Frogs and Flies = 32 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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