McKong Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 13 minutes ago, carlsson said: From what I experience, you must first press fire button (e.g. Numpad 0 if you have the default config) and then push in either direction to walk slowly. You can not move in one direction and then suddenly push fire in order to crouch slowly. Whether this is particularly obvious on emulation, I'm not sure. Yeah it doesn't like something about my joystick. I can hold the trigger and take one step, but then the next movement (with the trigger still held down) would be a run, or vice versa. Anyway I'll play with my Mega drive controller instead. Sort of getting the hang of it a bit. Made it to the skeleton on the 3rd level Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BIT 1337 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 1 hour ago, McKong said: Yeah it doesn't like something about my joystick. I can hold the trigger and take one step, but then the next movement (with the trigger still held down) would be a run, or vice versa. Anyway I'll play with my Mega drive controller instead. Sort of getting the hang of it a bit. Made it to the skeleton on the 3rd level I'm going to have to try a Genesis controller then because I can't see how I will ever make that long run/jump at present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BIT 1337 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Level 4! The Genesis controller wasn't helpful, but I *did* finally make that jump. So happy there's essentially a save point after that as I died on the skeleton the first time we fought (but after he fell down the first ledge) Made it a reasonable amount of the way through level 4 (got the powerup) but after about ~30min of playing I'd had enough. I can blow through the first 2 levels in 5 mins or less. I'm wondering if I'll get through level 3 quicker now but we'll see. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I managed to get onto level 7 yesterday, well sort of fell into level 7 anyway! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 On 11/9/2021 at 12:49 PM, 8BIT 1337 said: Definitely make sure you are holding the button when you do leap - if you're close enough you'll grab the ledge. There's a big jump earlier in level 2, and I just found a spot on the ground I look at and jump from, and never miss. I've done the same for that last big jump to the left. BUT, know that you can't do a running jump on the way back, you have to get close to the edge and leap (holding button!) Since you can't run jump right afterwards I've wondered if you can stand jump left too but I'm not sure. I just had a bit of a go but I let that last guy beat me just before I got to the jump so I couldn't test it. I will though. It really was that simple, pace up to the edge, keep button in jump across, climb up, sort of less skillful than the run and jump. ok level 3 now but playing on emulation as away from Atari for most of the rest of the round. Will play the game more This round is longer than usual; ideas for next poll welcome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 1 hour ago, therealbountybob said: It really was that simple, pace up to the edge, keep button in jump across, climb up, sort of less skillful than the run and jump. ok level 3 now but playing on emulation as away from Atari for most of the rest of the round. Will play the game more This round is longer than usual; ideas for next poll welcome Games suggested by McKong ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Played a bit more today but didnt finish level 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) 31 minutes ago, McKong said: Games suggested by McKong ? I had a look at your latest list of game suggestions and focused on the lesser known ones that yet haven't been played in the HSC. It would yield four interesting candidates: Blinky's Scary School (7.6 on AtariMania) Lone Raider (7.4) Skool Daze (9.5, recent port) Great Escape (7.0, recent port) I don't think we need more than four choices in a poll to get more distinctive results. Edited November 12, 2021 by carlsson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BIT 1337 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 4 hours ago, therealbountybob said: This round is longer than usual; ideas for next poll welcome I love Synapse games - something from them would be fun. Or Broderbund. Lode Runner is one I love playing. Do we avoid Activision games because they're watching or something? I'd love to play an Activision game too, and I've got legit copies of River Raid and Pitfall II 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 4 hours ago, therealbountybob said: This round is longer than usual; ideas for next poll Paddle games from your Paddle game list 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 4 hours ago, carlsson said: I had a look at your latest list of game suggestions and focused on the lesser known ones that yet haven't been played in the HSC. It would yield four interesting candidates: Blinky's Scary School (7.6 on AtariMania) Lone Raider (7.4) Skool Daze (9.5, recent port) Great Escape (7.0, recent port) I don't think we need more than four choices in a poll to get more distinctive results. The only one I've played is Lone Raider, which is a great game. We have played it before in HSC, but not recently 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompateus Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Improvements on Bluemax: Bluemax 4 12430 pts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompateus Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Thank's to carlsson, i can now play these games that i did't have on my sd card. ☺ Pheonix lair: 4250 pts. (hate this game) Space mines: 27100 pts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 2 hours ago, tompateus said: Thank's to carlsson, i can now play these games that i did't have on my sd card. ☺ Pheonix lair: 4250 pts. (hate this game) Space mines: 27100 pts. There will be additional catch-up points for good performances, i'll try and come up with something fair at the end of the round 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 2 hours ago, tompateus said: Thank's to carlsson, i can now play these games that i did't have on my sd card. ☺ I'm waiting for you to being able to download PoP onto the Micro-SDHC card so you can enjoy that game too (assuming one of your Ataris is an 130XE). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompateus Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 (edited) Well, i havent tried to download a game to the new sd card yet, but i will get there soon. Yeah, the one i'm playing on is an 130xe Edited November 14, 2021 by tompateus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 In the mean time, I reached to the point where the jar of super power is on level 2, but didn't make it past the spikes on my way back so not yet cleared that level. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 On 11/14/2021 at 3:30 PM, tompateus said: Thank's to carlsson, i can now play these games that i did't have on my sd card. ☺ Pheonix lair: 4250 pts. (hate this game) Space mines: 27100 pts. Good to have you back! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 (edited) Make-up games Atari Invaders 5,210 Gorf 7,090 Edited November 15, 2021 by roadrunner 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompateus Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 1 hour ago, McKong said: Good to have you back! Thank's? Have discoverd the world of GTA 5 and lost focus from the Atari for a while? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 37 minutes ago, roadrunner said: Make-up games That is an interesting suggestion, though I'm not sure how many of those games have a score. Actually the only Atari one I can name right away would be Facemaker though surely there were more of the same kind. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 (edited) Quick go at more games i missed this season Nibbler 30,530 Dig Dug 10,380 Galaxian 12,680 Frogger - fast 6,265 Popeye 24,110 Pole Position - NTSC Malibu GP 4 laps 32,850 Qix 5200 - score 50,490 Edited November 15, 2021 by roadrunner 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompateus Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Busy baby: 83010 pts. Runner bear: 614 pts. Did not like busy baby at first, anoying music and wierd headshaking baby, but it is a quite good game. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompateus Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 More improvments on Blue max: Blue maxian 4 13780 pts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 7 hours ago, tompateus said: More improvments on Blue max: Blue maxian 4 13780 pts. Welcome back! Great score. I see you quite like this game. The HSC was the first time I played it and it is great just I am not good at it yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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