HSC19 R7: BANDITS

[Gazzabass]

Hi again, 23380

[MichaG]

I just got my SNACK this week so I could use my wireless SNES-controller and the Joy2Bplus version of Bandits. It's nice to have a second button for auto-fire and a third for activating the shield.

 

I finally reached 20,170 points.

 

[Fres]

9895.  Seems to be about all I can muster, Mister. 

 

At least for this round.

 

Pretty cool game.  Has a very Apple //ish feel to it.  I wonder if it used the internal speaker on the 800.  Anyone?  I'm using an XE so I can't tell the difference.

 

 

 

[+therealbountybob]

2 hours ago, Fres said:

9895.  Seems to be about all I can muster, Mister. 

 

At least for this round.

 

Pretty cool game.  Has a very Apple //ish feel to it.  I wonder if it used the internal speaker on the 800.  Anyone?  I'm using an XE so I can't tell the difference.

 

Use the shield!! Yes cool game, watch the title screen animation for apple to atari logo! I'm on XE too but bet it does sound great on the 800 (mine's in the cupboard).

[+therealbountybob]

final tables in 15 mins -  still time for more VOTES PLEASE  EVERYONE - Round 8 POLL

 

[+therealbountybob]

"can E474 hold on for his first HSC win on his debut??!!" YES HE DID

Thanks for playing everyone, will start R8 Up now so play on atarians My review of Bandits was in the last issue of Pro(c) Atari Magazine - will be interesting to see what I wrote now I've played it again! Good classic game and we will be sure to see it played here again soon

 

final tables

   1st   E474                              113,840  12pts
  2nd   therealbountybob        101,320  11pts
  3rd   Deteacher                   39,025  11pts #
  4th   carlsson                      30,115  9pts
  5th   Gazzabass                   23,380  9pts
  6th   MichaG                       20,170  8pts
  7th   AtariSphinx                 18,030  8pts
  8th   Caco                         15,720  7pts
  9th   McKong                      13,045  6pts
 10th   8BIT 1337                  10,950  5pts
 11th   Fres                          9,895  4pts
 12th   RedThunder                 6,630  3pts
 13th   jblenkle                      6,295  2pts
 14th   chevymad                   4,500  2pts

 [] 15th  graywest                  2,380 2pts

#NTSC Bonus Point

[E474]

 

[McKong]

On 5/24/2022 at 3:39 PM, therealbountybob said:

Use the shield!! Yes cool game, watch the title screen animation for apple to atari logo! I'm on XE too but bet it does sound great on the 800 (mine's in the cupboard).

Ah, didn't know there was a shield, perhaps I'll play again at some point, haven't had much time recently

[carlsson]

Yeah. If I was able to triple my score after using the shields, a better skilled gamer probably can fivefold or tenfold their score with that knowledge.

[graywest]

Bandits: 2,380

@therealbountybob Are you taking late scores? I've been out for a few rounds due to the total collapse of the laptop I was using to load .atr images for SIO2PC. But I'm back up and running now! Just wanted to get on the board if I can.

[+therealbountybob]

On 6/24/2022 at 5:25 AM, graywest said:

Bandits: 2,380

@therealbountybob Are you taking late scores? I've been out for a few rounds due to the total collapse of the laptop I was using to load .atr images for SIO2PC. But I'm back up and running now! Just wanted to get on the board if I can.

 

no problem graywest

[carlsson]

So just for fun, I played the VIC-20 version. It was NTSC only up till 7 years ago when it was patched for PAL among with a few more cartridge games that previously only ran on NTSC due to timing issues. However I did play this on my NTSC machine. One of the differences I noticed is that the fruit get replenished to 5 for each stage, unlike on the Atari where you continue with as many fruits as you had from previous stage. Whichever is correct, I'm not sure.

 

At least I scored 38340 pts, which is 27% more than my Atari score above. It probably is a lot due to the bonus fruit replenishing on each stage, and shows that it is not relevant to compare scores across different versions of the same game.