Season 12 ~ Beat the Leader 2

[Vocelli]

Week 24

Beat The Leaders 2

Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle

This weeks' Game is dedicated to Oyamafamily's aunt who passed away last Saturday.  Kasue Arasaki, who was 86 years old.

We honor her is week. 

 

 

 

 CLARIFICATION: No use of CHEATS, emulation advantages, bugs, cart frying or other variables that gives you an unfair advantage in this HSC. Please assume you have to follow the game difficulty and mode for the playing week/s. There cannot be any game enhancements or favorite settings to play in the 2600 HSC, unless you are given authorization to do so by your humble yet strict MODERATOR! Vocelli

 

Smurfs: Rescue in Garamel’s Castle

Released By:  Coleco

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: Default

 

Post your scores right here in this thread, and we 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 (EST) the evening of  April 24, 2022

 

Beat The Leaders

BONUS: BEAT THE LEADERS!

For Players who are NOT in the Top 16 (17^th Place and lower)

(Standings after Reactor)

Get +10 Bonus Points for finishing in the Top 16 this week!

Get +5 More for finishing Top 8!

+15 Bonus Points Total Possible

 

For Players in the Top 16  (Standings after Reactor)

Get +10 Bonus Points for finishing Top 4 this week

Get an extra +5 for finishing FIRST

+15 Bonus Points Total Possible

 

Smurf Scores

(Double Points This Week ~ 100pts for 1^st, 98 for 2^nd and so forth)

 

245300 - Evandro (+100) (+15)

130500 - Nads (+98) (+10)

130000 - OyamaFamily (+96) (+10)

107600 - JasonHRB (+94) (+10)

  64700 - LaurenTyler (+92) (+15)

  64600 - Keilbaca (+90) (+15)

  63500 - SkippyBCoyote (+88)

  52800 - AtariSphinx (+86)

  44800 - JasonAtari (+84)

  42900 - JGKspsx (+82)

  40600 - FakeCortex (+80) (+10)

  40200 - McCallister (+78) (+10)

  39400 - Absalon (+76)

  37000 - DomBradley (+74)

  35700 - MoisesTuseto (+72)(+10)

  30600 - ClassicGamer (+70)(+10)

  30600 - Atari_Warlord (+70)

  30000 - Kermit (+66)

  29700 - DrMooCowz (+64)

  29400 - AGB (+62)

  29200 - TheActivisionary (+60)

  27000 - Vocelli (+58)

  26800 - Mchetzel (+56)

  20400 - GBAG (+54)

  17100 - RGC (+52)

  16800 - Roadrunner (+50)

    9400 - Krytol (+48)

 

Overall Standings

 

 Possible Major League Competitors

1213	Kermit
1148	JasonHRB
1138	AtariSphinx
1128	SkippyBCoyote
1074	Nads
1005	Evandro
994	MarkGriff
988	Absalon
974	JGKspsx
969	JasonAtari
959	OyamaFamily
949	Dr Moocowz
942	Vocelli
876	DomBradley
832	Maloff
831	Atarian7

 

 

 Possible Minor League Competitors

822	Keilbaca
782	FakeCortex
772	TheActivisionary
765	LaurenTyler
743	Atari_Warlord
688	McCallister
662	Mchetzel
638	GBAG
633	MoisesTuseto
577	AGB
507	Deteacher
504	RGC
435	RaymanC
429	ClassicGamer
414	Roadrunner
397	CrazyClimber

 

 

 All The Rest of the Players

329	Krytol
326	RetroBreakout
221	CTelkin
210	Ed
174	DataFry
171	Lord Innit
141	JoeBradley
118	Diamonds
114	ZeroPageHomebrewJames
97	GType
89	Atariwarlord
86	JacobZu7Zu7
78	ArmscarCoder
77	Jblenkle
76	ZeroPageHomebrewTanya
70	AlNafuur
70	ThomasJentsch
50	Sramirez
48	Nester
41	ZilchSr
38	IsaiahAustin
38	RockPile
29	DevWebci
21	BetwixtThieves
19	ZeroPageHomebewDarcy
3	Capitain Classic

 

 

 

Season 12 will have:

WE ARE DONE

Prepare for the NEW ‘3 Strikes Knockout Tourney’

Edited April 25, 2022 by Vocelli

[Vocelli]

This is it.... The last game of Season 12!

 

Dates to know:

April 18 or 19 ~ Update on the Standings After Reactor

Next Week I will post info on the '3 Strikes Knockout Tourney'. 

April 24 ~ Last day to post for Smurfs

April 25 ~ I will Post Final Standings and I will start the process of picking the Games for Week 1 for the '3 Strikes Knockout Tourney' for both the Major League and Minor League.

The Players will be set and ready to go!

April 26-28 ~ I will Post the first Games played for the '3 Strikes Knockout Tourney'.

My 8 ~ First round of the '3 Strikes Knockout Tourney' ENDS... eliminating many players.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Growing up I had the ColecoVision version of this game and it was one of my absolute favorites as a little kid, so I'm always happy to give the 2600 version a go! Unfortunately I'm a fair bit older now than the last time I played Smurf and my reflexes don't seem to be quite what they used to be, so I think there's pretty much zero chance of me beating my all time personal best high score of 150,100 points this round. I'll do my best though!

 

Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle (Game 1, B/B Difficulty): 63,500

 

[oyamafamily]

Smurf - 67,700

(Thanks very much to @Vocelli for dedicating this week to my aunt. RIP, Kasue.)

[oyamafamily]

Congratulations to @Skippy B. Coyote on the best campaign on 2600 NEW HSC Season 12.

You are among the best players of this 2600 HSC Season, and will be part of Major League Competitors.

[Lauren Tyler]

24,100

 

@oyamafamily - My condolences about your aunt.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

4 hours ago, oyamafamily said:

Congratulations to @Skippy B. Coyote on the best campaign on 2600 NEW HSC Season 12.

You are among the best players of this 2600 HSC Season, and will be part of Major League Competitors.

 

Aww, thanks Oyama! I'm pretty sure this will be the first season that I've played every single game in from beginning to end and I'm definitely hoping to take one of the top 3 spots in the three strikes tournament since it would be really cool to be able to pick one of the games we play next season! I don't know if I'm good enough to pull it off, but I'm sure gonna give it my best effort!

 

Also, my sincerest condolences on the passing of your aunt Kasue. Losing a family member is one of the worst things in the world so my heart goes out to you and your family. Stay strong my friend!

[+jgkspsx]

First score: 21300. Full disclosure: I have had this game since 1998 and never figured out how to get past the first fence before  

 

[AtariSphinx]

1 hour ago, jgkspsx said:

. Full disclosure: I have had this game since 1998 and never figured out how to get past the first fence before  

First time playing it tonight myself.   The two games I lost all my lives on that first fence.    Interesting jump mechanic.   Finally got passed it but need more practice.

[agb]

24,400

 

Edited April 15, 2022 by agb
Update

[Lauren Tyler]

64,700

[oyamafamily]

Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle - 130,000

[classicgamer_27330]

If I got 2 copies of this game for an xmas , it would of been some Simple Gifts.

 

 

Edited April 16, 2022 by classicgamer_27330

[+jgkspsx]

I don geddit.

 

25600.
 

 

Man the difficulty really ramps up after the third loop! Smurfville really needs to institute better operational security.

 

EDIT: 28800 is my best score so far. I am getting the feel for it and can do the first three loops without issue, but after that it gets really dicey.

[+jgkspsx]

Is anybody playing this on a Concerto cart? I ran into a bug where I randomly die entering a screen with it. This didn’t happen with a real cart, so it isn’t the system, and it didn’t happen on the emulator, so it isn’t the rom.

[classicgamer_27330]

2 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

I don geddit.

 

 

 

[+jgkspsx]

‘Tis a gift to be Smurfly

’Tis a gift to be blue

’Tis a gift not to trip on fences, I’m telling you

[mark griff]

I don't have this game anyone know I good download?

[fakecortex]

3 hours ago, mark griff said:

I don't have this game anyone know I good download?

There's one here on AA: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=444

 

And @classicgamer_27330, I had no idea that the music wasn't original, hahaha. I always thought it was good, lol.

 

I would play this a lot on CV, but the harder skills get frustrating. I also always thought it was a Colecovision exclusive. Doesn't play too bad on the 2600, tho I wish the big red button would jump. It does take some getting used to for sure.

[mark griff]

Lol thanks

[fakecortex]

Wow, loop 4 really amps up the difficulty. And finishing 3 isn’t a walk in the park either. So far, each loop has its own rhythm to it, and it’s about finding it and remembering it. A level number would help with that, so I’m trying to make a mental note; at least the score is an indicator. I also didn’t lose a life until after 20k, which was cool to see 5 smurfs at the top. I was expecting to keep getting extra lives, but I didn’t after 10k ?

 

Smurf RiGC - 26,600 1b level 4

[+jgkspsx]

Here is the Harmony cart bug. Good thing I had a real cart!

 

 

[Krytol]

6600

 

[classicgamer_27330]

12 hours ago, fakecortex said:

There's one here on AA: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=444

 

And @classicgamer_27330, I had no idea that the music wasn't original, hahaha. I always thought it was good, lol.

 

 

and Aaron Copeland also stole it for Appalachian Spring

[+jgkspsx]

So for what it’s worth unplugging the system and plugging it back in helped with the Concerto cart issues, if anybody else experiences them. Apparently the game is coded with some bad practices that open it up to a lot of bugs.