Season 13 ~ Week 9 ~ Challenge Week!

[Vocelli]

Week 9

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Game 3 (1 Run Challenge)

No Annoying Humans

Must Finish the Game to Post a Score

 

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

 

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Released By:  Atari

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: 3 (No Annoying Humans)

1 Run Challenge: What is your final Score after 1 run.

The Challenge is you MUST FINISH THE GAME 1 Time…. Take your Pic… That is your score.

If you don’t finish the game… DO NOT POST YOUR SCORE.

 

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 Oct 16, 2022

 

Bonus:

Challenge Week!

Beat Your Opponent for +3 Bonus Points

See Opponent Match-Ups Below

 

 

 

E.T. Scores

Game Mode: 3 (No Annoying Humans)

1 Run Challenge: What is your final Score after 1 run.

The Challenge is you MUST FINISH THE GAME 1 Time…. Take your Pic… That is your score.

If you don’t finish the game… DO NOT POST YOUR SCORE

 

23144 - McCallister (+50)

22834 - DrMooCowz (+49)

21948 - SkippyBCoyote (+48)

21127 - Absalon (+47)

20675 - Keir (+46)

20625 - Chavert (+45)

20149 - Rickster (+44)

20082 - AtariSphinx (+43)

19959 - JasonAtari (+42)

19688 - JGKspsx (+41)

19681 - JasonHRB (+40)

19660 - TheActivisionary (+39)

17722 - AliceTwoPointOh (+38)

17702 - DomBradley (+37)

17547 - JacobZu7Zu7 (+36)

17134 - Kermit (+35)

16780 - Mchetzel (+34)

16658 - LaurenTyler (+33)

16589 - Deteacher (+32)

14574 - Vocelli (+31)

14037 - GBAG (+30)

13804 - Krytol (+29)

11869 - AtariWarlord (+28)

11536 - FakeCortex (+27)

11051 - ClassicGamer (+26)

10968 - Keilbaca (+25)

  9284 - RGC (+24)

  8823 - Evandro (+23)

 

 

 

The Match-Ups

Challenge Week

Beat your opponent for +3 Bonus Points

 

Kermit vs AtariSphinx (+3)

JasonHRB (+3) vs AliceTwoPointOh

McCallister (+3) vs Absalon

SkippyBCoyote vs DrMooCowz (+3)

Keilbaca vs JasonAtari (+3)

Vocelli (+3) vs Evandro

Tituzzz vs Deteacher (+3)

AtariWarlord vs Rickster (+3)

JGKspsx (+3) vs LaurenTyler

DomBradley (+3) vs MoisesTuseto

JacobZu7Zu7 (+3) vs Mchetzel

Atarian7 vs GBAG (+3)

TheActisionary vs Chavert (+3)

CrazyClimber vs RaymanC

Krytol (+3) vs ClassicGamer

RGC (+3) vs JeremiahJT

LordInnit vs RetroRob

AdamChevy vs p1Fq03

RetroBreakout vs JeremiahK

RedMiller vs CapitanClassic

AGB vs Tripled

CXK vs FiveX7

IntellivisionMaster vs Nebulus

Jblenkle vs FakeCortex (+3)

(ALL New Players receive 3 Bonus Points)

Keir (+3)

 

Overall Standings

Remember the TOP 24 will Qualify for Tourny at the end of the Season!

 

462	AtariSphinx
460	Kermit
454	JasonHRB
441	McCallister
435	SkippyBCoyote
432	AliceTwoPointOh
419	Absalon
394	JasonAtari
383	Dr Moocowz
378	Keilbaca
366	Atari_Warlord
364	Evandro
354	Vocelli
338	Rickster
332	Deteacher
329	JGKspsx
318	Mchetzel
310	MoisesTuseto
303	FakeCortex
299	GBAG
299	LaurenTyler
271	TheActivisionary
265	Chavert
263	Atarian7
247	Tituzzz
236	Krytol
210	DomBradley
207	JacobZu7Zu7
203	RaymanC
192	ClassicGamer
177	CrazyClimber
161	RGC
129	JeremiahJT
119	Lord Innit
115	RetroRob
107	Keir
72	AGB
65	AdamChevy
63	p1Fq03
61	RetroBreakout
58	JeremiahK
52	RedMiller
50	Capitain Classic
40	Tripled
34	CXK
28	FiveX7
26	IntellivisionMaster
24	Nebulus
13	Jblenkle

 

 

Season 13 will have:

~ Request Week

~ Halloween Games

~ Request Weeks

~ Featured Company Weeks

~ Paddle Weeks

~ Homebrew Holiday Break weeks… Featuring 4 Homebrew Games!

~ Beat the leader weeks

The Season should end at the January, 2023

 

The TOP 24 will qualify for the End the Season Challenge.

The End of Season Challenge is:

 

Major Leagues Survivor 3 Strikes Tourney

~ The Top 12 Players will Qualify

~ It will last 4 Rounds (No more or no less)

~ 3 Games per round and 2 weeks per round

~ Receive a STRIKE by finishing in the bottom half of scores for each game.

~ The GOAL… Just survive by not getting 3 strikes.

~ Any Player NOT receiving 3 strikes by the end of the 4 Rounds, gets to pick a game for Season 14.

~ The Top 4 Ranked players from Regular Season will have a hand in picking the 3 games each round.

(The Major Leagues will last 8 Weeks)

 

Minor Leagues Survivor Tourney

~ The Players who are ranked 13-24 in Regular Season will Qualify.

~ It will last 4 Rounds (No more or no less)

~ ONE game per round and ONE week per round.

~ Finish in the bottom half in scoring for that game and you are automatically eliminated.

~ ONLY the last remaining Player will get to pick a Game for Season 14!

~ The TOP 2 ranked players will get to pick the game each week.

(The Minor Leagues will last 4 Weeks)

Edited October 20, 2022 by Vocelli

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Very cool (and difficult) challenge idea! For the sake of clarification, each player can only post one score for the entire round right? As in, no multiple attempts, it's one and done?

[Vocelli]

1 hour ago, Skippy B. Coyote said:

Very cool (and difficult) challenge idea! For the sake of clarification, each player can only post one score for the entire round right? As in, no multiple attempts, it's one and done?

You can post multiple times... You just can't fly off in your spaceship and continue to do it another time.

One spaceship rescue... get your bonus points... take pic... post your score

[Keir]

Oh, that's a relief! I don't think I've actually finished the game ever so I'm glad I'll get to practice a few times.

[fakecortex]

@Vocelli You forgot me!

[Vocelli]

1 hour ago, fakecortex said:

@Vocelli You forgot me!

Oooops... My Mistake... Looks like I will put you are the bottom.

[Lauren Tyler]

This is going to be interesting.

[Absalon]

Ok, I start: e.t. 3.b.b.: 9337

 

 

 

 

[+Atari_Warlord]

3bb = 11,869

 

 

[Rickster8]

5 hours ago, Atari_Warlord said:

3bb = 11,869

 

 

Lol, 'Down goes Rickster' (said in the Down goes Frazier fight call voice)..... 🤣

Edited October 8, 2022 by Rickster8
Formatting

[Jasonhrb]

So, this week we have "The worst video game of all time". But is it really that bad ?. In short, no, not even close. It's actually a brave attempt to do something quite innovative for the time, that just doesn't quite work. It's also quite a feat of coding and game design given the timescales to make it.

 

HSW talks in his book about what he'd have done given a bit more time, and probably his "an extra week" changes would have been enough to make this a pretty good game, although I suspect that the fact that it needs some thought put into it before you can enjoy it means it would still have been heavily criticised and been a realtive flop. In hindsight, Speilberg's comment about "couldn't you have made somethig like pac man" was probably true commercially speaking, and a simple arcade style game would probably have dome much better in  the marketplace.

 

I enjoyed playing it in mode 3, and was pleased to get ET home for the first time. I have no idea how some people are hitting the scores they have, but I'm pleased to have just got ET home. At some point I'm going to play it on the harder levels and see if I can crack those.

 

Anyway, given how much has been written about this game over the years there's nothing more useful I can add (and the above was just my mindless musings) so here's a score :

 

 

Edited October 8, 2022 by Jasonhrb

[Absalon]

I kind of like the game. I never played this before, because I heard it's terrible... Well, in game 3 it plays like adventure 😅 find the phone pieces, give those little dots to Elliot (@jason: for more bonus points!) before calling the U.f.o.

 

15099

 

[Jasonhrb]

Thanks @Absalon . Big improvement now acheived. Don't think I'll be near the top on this one, but great to have got something a bit better.

 

[classicgamer_27330]

yeah I think this game was heavily rushed

 

 

[Moisés Tuseto]

I don't know How to play this bug

 

 

[Lauren Tyler]

So it pays to give Elliot the Reese's Pieces before heading off.  Cool.

 

I'll remember that for next time.

 

9,093

 

Better score this time! 14,710

Edited October 10, 2022 by Lauren Tyler

[Lauren Tyler]

9 hours ago, Moisés Tuseto said:

I don't know How to play this bug

 

 

 

You have to successfully rescue E.T. and complete the game for your score to count.  You didn't finish the game so your score doesn't count.

[Rickster8]

So I just attempted to play this one a few times and kept falling into a hole repeatedly. Seems pretty annoying.😵

 

EDIT: Looks like I receive 3 bonus points anyway for being a new player.... SWEET!!!!!  

Edited October 11, 2022 by Rickster8
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[Skippy B. Coyote]

For the first time ever I read the manual and now I FINALLY understand how to play E.T.! 

 

And honestly? It's not that bad of a game once you know what you're supposed to do. E.T. is kind of like a really obtuse take on the Adventure formula, and I'm happy to have learned how to play it after all these years

 

Here's a link to the manual for anyone still struggling to figure out how to play this game: https://atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=157

 

 

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Game 3, B/B Difficulty, 1 Run): 17,897

 

 

Edited October 11, 2022 by Skippy B. Coyote
Score improvement! =)

[+McCallister]

21,340 

 

 

[Krytol]

13,804

 

[Rickster8]

Okay I actually finished the game. I sent E.T. home and as far as I'm concerned he can STAY THERE!!!  

 

Much thanks to @Skippy B. Coyote for posting the manual. It helped out ALOT!!! 👍

 

 

E.T. - GAME 3 - (B/B) - 1 RUN TOTAL - 16,480 POINTS!!!

 

 

 

Edited October 11, 2022 by Rickster8
Updated with a better score.

[AtariSphinx]

E.T. (3 B/B): 17,095

 

Definitely not the worst game. If you don't read the manual you won't like it nor know what you need to do making this one not a pick up and play which definitely hurts its appeal.

[Keir]

I remember being immensely frustrated with this game as a kid. I was constantly falling into pits, and the map never made sense to me. I kept trying to figure it out though because at the time we only had maybe a dozen games. As others have mentioned, actually reading the manual definitely helps!

 

15,024

[Rickster8]

13 hours ago, Skippy B. Coyote said:

For the first time ever I read the manual and now I FINALLY understand how to play E.T.! 

 

And honestly? It's not that bad of a game once you know what you're supposed to do. E.T. is kind of like a really obtuse take on the Adventure formula, and I'm happy to have learned how to play it after all these years

 

Here's a link to the manual for anyone still struggling to figure out how to play this game: https://atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=157

 

 

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Game 3, B/B Difficulty, 1 Run): 17,897

 

 

The game actually isn't terrible once you learn how to play it. But if you don't know how to stop the constantly falling back into the pits this game is miserable..... The one drawback I have is there's only one call the spaceship zone and it can be hidden ANYWHERE on the map and if you cannot find it your E.T. will eventually run out of energy. I played a few games lastnight where I had everything I needed, but just couldn't find that white beetle looking icon (the call spaceship zone). 🙄

 

I do vaguely remember playing this back in the day at my friends house. I cannot recall if we ever beat the game because we probably didn't play easy level 3. So there would have been FBI agents and scientists all over the place which would have made me hate the game as it's hard enough to learn without all those rude PEOPLE!!!!  

Edited October 11, 2022 by Rickster8
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