HSC20 Welcome and Games Suggestion List

[8BIT 1337]

3 hours ago, therealbountybob said:

Here are all the games we played last season

This is helpful as I almost picked a game we had played, but had forgotten!

[McKong]

Henry's House
YOOMP!

Manic Miner

Great Escape

Blinky's Scary School

RGB

Hobgoblin

The Last Ninja 2

 

Edit: removed Skool Days (played it recently, not the best game ), and Wonder Boy ( I'll play it on the C64 cos it's not going to be on the Atari any time soon!)

[carlsson]

@therealbountybob For round 10 (two rounds away from the current one), we should play Hard Hat Mack and Axis Assassin in celebration of the Electronic Arts 40 years release. Indeed Archon (hard to play in HSC settings), M.U.L.E. (already is continuously played) and Worms? (not sure it even generates scores?) also were included in that first batch.

[+therealbountybob]

12 hours ago, carlsson said:

@therealbountybob For round 10 (two rounds away from the current one), we should play Hard Hat Mack and Axis Assassin in celebration of the Electronic Arts 40 years release. Indeed Archon (hard to play in HSC settings), M.U.L.E. (already is continuously played) and Worms? (not sure it even generates scores?) also were included in that first batch.

good ideas carlsson, we did HSC play Archon before there's always a way !  Let me know if there are any other to pick from / I suppose everything is coming around to 40 years if it's not already been there

 

[carlsson]

Yeah, generally speaking many games hit 40 years but this initial launch of 5 games is fairly well dated in history, which was unusual back then to pinpoint a month and a particular date when games went for sale.

[rdrunner]

Not sure if it's too late to suggest games, but I'll contribute a few from my little collection.  Some I'm sure you've played, but here goes.

 

Apple Panic
Aztec Challenge
Caverns Of Khafka
Forbidden Forest
Frogger 2

Montezuma's Revenge
Ninja (for progression not points)
Panther
Rear Guard

The Tail of Beta Lyrae

 

[+therealbountybob]

On 4/29/2023 at 4:02 PM, rdrunner said:

Not sure if it's too late to suggest games, but I'll contribute a few from my little collection.  Some I'm sure you've played, but here goes.

 

Apple Panic
Aztec Challenge
Caverns Of Khafka
Forbidden Forest
Frogger 2

Montezuma's Revenge
Ninja (for progression not points)
Panther
Rear Guard

The Tail of Beta Lyrae

 

Never too late some goodies there overdue a HSC play

 

[+therealbountybob]

Round 11 poll will be games never played in the HSC before so thinking caps on, you know Blue Max 2001 will be there and I have a couple of other s

The ratings and records thread lists just about everything we have played

 

[carlsson]

I went through all the suggestions above, and using the All-time Games Rating thread as my guide, I came up with the following games asked for this year but previously not in the HSC. The number in brackets is the average score on Atarimania, but note that some games only has two or three votes so it could be somewhat misleading.

 

Adventure II [n/a]
Airball [7.5]
Apple Panic [5.6]
Aquatron [7.8]
Avalanche [7.5]
Aztec Challenge [3.7]
Blinky's Scary School [7.6]
Blue Max 2001 [4.4]
Dimension X [7.8]
Fast Eddie [7.4]
Forbidden Forest [6.3]
Frostbite 400 [8.5]
Great Escape [8.5]
HiJack! [6.2]
James Bond 007 [7.7]
Joe Blade [7.8]
Journey to the Planets [7.7]
Kennedy Approach [7.7]
Last Ninja 2, The [unrated]
Mad Stone [7.6]
Maniac Miner [5.9]
Manic Miner [9.7]
Maxwell Manor [7.6]
Mission on Thunderhead [5.0]
Mr. Do's Castle [8.6]
Ninja [7.7] (for progression not points)
Operation Blood [7.7]
Panther [7.7]
Planetary Defense [7.6]
RGB [9.2]
Skool Daze [9.5]
Space Harrier [7.8]
Stampede (port phaeron) [6.7]
Tanks [7.3] - assumed it means the 1991 Mirage Software game
Zone X [7.7]

 

I saw that Wonder Boy was more or less declared a dead project in March 2023, so I left it outside of the suggestions until it is revived.

 

A few of those may have scoring issues so perhaps playable more for fun that to set high scores or otherwise competitively, but I didn't bother to weed those out in the first run.

Edited June 6 by carlsson

[McKong]

20 hours ago, carlsson said:

I went through all the suggestions above, and using the All-time Games Rating thread as my guide, I came up with the following games asked for this year but previously not in the HSC. The number in brackets is the average score on Atarimania, but note that some games only has two or three votes so it could be somewhat misleading.

 

Adventure II [n/a]
Airball [7.5]
Apple Panic [5.6]
Aquatron [7.8]
Avalanche [7.5]
Aztec Challenge [3.7]
Blinky's Scary School [7.6]
Blue Max 2001 [4.4]
Dimension X [7.8]
Fast Eddie [7.4]
Forbidden Forest [6.3]
Frostbite 400 [8.5]
Great Escape [8.5]
HiJack! [6.2]
James Bond 007 [7.7]
Joe Blade [7.8]
Journey to the Planets [7.7]
Kennedy Approach [7.7]
Last Ninja 2, The [unrated]
Mad Stone [7.6]
Maniac Miner [5.9]
Manic Miner [9.7]
Maxwell Manor [7.6]
Mission on Thunderhead [5.0]
Mr. Do's Castle [8.6]
Ninja [7.7] (for progression not points)
Operation Blood [7.7]
Panther [7.7]
Planetary Defense [7.6]
RGB [9.2]
Skool Daze [9.5]
Space Harrier [7.8]
Stampede (port phaeron) [6.7]
Tanks [7.3] - assumed it means the 1991 Mirage Software game
Zone X [7.7]

 

I saw that Wonder Boy was more or less declared a dead project in March 2023, so I left it outside of the suggestions until it is revived.

 

A few of those may have scoring issues so perhaps playable more for fun that to set high scores or otherwise competitively, but I didn't bother to weed those out in the first run.

Great work, thanks @carlsson. Think there are some we've played in the list, but they probably dont have scores in the all time list

[+therealbountybob]

20 hours ago, McKong said:

Great work, thanks @carlsson. Think there are some we've played in the list, but they probably dont have scores in the all time list

yeah that admin guys is a bit slack - we've played Blinky that's for sure, sometimes in the multi-game rounds I skip over them in the RnR

 also played apple panic and Aquatron I think

 

OK I have a few ideas will get the poll up...

 

[ok1rp]

Hello guys,

 

just FYI, the Kolony 2106 game is back...

 

nostalgia stuffs...: Kolony 2106 for Atari XL/XE revealed ! (nostalgia-stuffs.blogspot.com)

 

DO you remember or did you play it in the past?

 

Petr

[AtariSphinx]

This may be a good bonus game.  Been trying to remember the name of the game as played this a lot when was a kid.  

 

Match Racer.   Really nice colors and sounds.  Probably needs a higher difficulty level than 4.

[+therealbountybob]

On 8/2/2023 at 7:03 AM, AtariSphinx said:

This may be a good bonus game.  Been trying to remember the name of the game as played this a lot when was a kid.  

 

Match Racer.   Really nice colors and sounds.  Probably needs a higher difficulty level than 4.

 

Fun game but a bit easy, did it have 2 player head to head like Rally Speedway

 

[AtariSphinx]

23 hours ago, therealbountybob said:

Fun game but a bit easy, did it have 2 player head to head like Rally Speedway

 

Agreed, bit easy.  In 2 player head to head is probably where it it is really fun ramming each other off the road.