+DamonicFury Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Welcome to the eighth round of the 14th 5200 HSC season! Gorf and River Raid tied in the poll, but Gorf won the resulting coin toss. Play using the default setting. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The high score was set by zylon with 46,500 points. Bust it if you can for a bonus point! The regular game “features” some rather jittery analog controls. Some like them, others don’t. As such, please feel free to use kenfused’s hack instead if you prefer more standard controls. Just let us all know which version you used. The standard ROM can be found here: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=623 And the hack can be found here: Round ends Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 @9pm EST Standings: zylon - (original) - 31,210 Mr. Trust - (original) - 30,590 rubeon - (original) - 28,030 Cafeman - (hack) - 25,790 jblenkle - (hack) - 11,420 roadrunner - (hack) - 10,790 Mangia-Boy - (?) - 10,210 bemis - (hack) - 10,380 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTrust Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 21,480. Original version. Good controls are for the weak. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4806502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 It ends June 2? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4806762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Gorf - 7,140 (hacked version) Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4806778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4806841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 3 hours ago, jblenkle said: It ends June 2? My bad... corrected to May 2nd. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4806894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 (edited) 17,670 via OE as a warmup Edited April 21, 2021 by zylon improved Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4806942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 19 hours ago, DamonicFury said: My bad... corrected to May 2nd. I'd be down, I love this one. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4807433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 10,870. Kenfused control-hack version. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4807449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 Gorf - 11,420 (Hack) Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4808280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 25,790. Hack. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4808429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTrust Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 30,590. Gorf is an anagram of "frog". Is that what those pink bad guys are??The places your brain goes when zoning out on a retro game Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4809407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 From Wikipedia: Gorf is an arcade game released in 1981 by Midway Mfg., whose name was advertised as an acronym for "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force". Gorf was originally intended to be a tie-in with Star Trek: The Motion Picture but after reading the film's script, the game designers realized that the concept would not work as a video game; however, the player's ship still resembles the Starship Enterprise. The underlying hardware platform for Gorf allowed arcade operators to easily swap the pattern, CPU and RAM boards with other similar games such as Wizard of Wor, since only the game logic and ROM boards are specific to each game. The name of the game is also Frog spelled backwards; "Frog" was the nickname of designer Jamie Fenton during college. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4809465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTrust Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 Haha, shoulda' known. Everything back then was some inside reference backwards. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4809712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted April 26, 2021 Author Share Posted April 26, 2021 New poll is up: Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4810859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 (edited) 2nd session- 29,110 Nothing but the real stuff used here Edited April 27, 2021 by zylon Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4811532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 (edited) 31,210 all 80's here Now all the boys are after me, and that's the way it's gonna be. I'm running free, yeah, I'm running free , then cleaning TV, lol Edited April 28, 2021 by zylon Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4812018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubeon Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 28,030 (original) This game does such a great job of mixing up the old-school sliders, lots of fun. Once you get used to the janky controls, they actually become a useful and fun part of the game! I may take another run at it ? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4815375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 10,790 digtail controller fixed version game crashed both times i played it on winplus3.1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4815411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bemis Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 10,380 (Hack) Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4815457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bemis Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 The poll for the next round may have closed early. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4815458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 On 4/27/2021 at 9:17 PM, zylon said: 31,210 all 80's here Now all the boys are after me, and that's the way it's gonna be. I'm running free, yeah, I'm running free , then cleaning TV, lol Alot of dust Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4815512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 Congratulations to zylon on successfully repelling the Gorfian invaders! Standings: zylon - (original) - 31,210 +11 Mr. Trust - (original) - 30,590 +10 rubeon - (original) - 28,030 +9 Cafeman - (hack) - 25,790 +8 jblenkle - (hack) - 11,420 +7 roadrunner - (hack) - 10,790 +6 Mangia-Boy - (?) - 10,210 +5 bemis - (hack) - 10,380 +4 Interestingly, however annoying the jittery controls are to get used to, it sure looks like mastering them leads to higher scores! 2 hours ago, Bemis said: The poll for the next round may have closed early. It does look that way. My apologies, but y’know, anyone who wanted to certainly could have cast a vote in the comments. As is, Wizard of Wor is up next. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4815522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 1 hour ago, roadrunner said: Alot of dust has since been cleaned, pollen season here 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319678-5200-hsc-season-14-round-8-gorf/#findComment-4815579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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