Season 14 ~ Week 1 ~ Joust

[Vocelli]

Week 1

Joust

Game 1

 

 

 

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

 

Joust

Released By:  Atari

Left Difficulty: B

Right Difficulty: B

Game Mode: 1

 

 

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 May 7, 2023

 

Bonus: Beat Your Rank

Finish Even or Higher than your Season 13 Final ‘End of Season’ Ranking on Joust: Get 5 Bonus Points!

Or

Took a season off and you do not have a Season 13 Final ’ End of Season’ Rank… Post a score on Joust:

Get 10 bonus points!

Or

ALL NEW members to the HSC (That means you have NEVER played in any season of the Atari 2600HSC) and post a score on Joust:

Get 25 Bonus Points

 

 

Joust Scores

(Rollage at 950,000)

 

ROLLAGE - McCallister (+50) (+5)

ROLLAGE - AtariSphinx (+50) (+5)

ROLLAGE - ZilchSr (+50) (+10)

367900 - DrMooCowz (+47) (+5)

285000 - GBAG (+46) (+5)

264150 - CapitanClassic (+45) (+5)

245100 - JasonAtari (+44) (+5)

144350 - Vocelli (+43) (+5)

134800 - SkippyBCoyote (+42) (+5)

131300 - Absalon (+41)

128050 - JacobZu7Zu7 (+40) (+5)

125550 - Mikey (+39) (+5)

125050 - Danger (+38) (+5)

108500 - Evandro (+37)

100750 - Kermit (+36)

  97950 - Keir (+35) (+5)

  97950 - Keilbaca (+35)

  95450 - TheActivisonary (+33) (+5)

  94200 - JasonHRB (+32)

  86700 - EricG (+31) (+25)

  77900 - LaurenTyler (+30)

  72150 - JeremiahJT (+29) (+5)

  70650 - JimBlargh (+28) (+25)

  69900 - p1Fq03 (+27) (+5)

  67150 - JGKspsx (+26) 

  56600 - Classicgamer (+25)

  56350 - RGC (+24) (+5)

  55100 - GType (+23) (+5)

  44850 - AGB (+22) (+5)

  44850 - RaymanC (+22) (+5)

  44350 - MoisesTuseto (+20)

  42100 - AbleMVada (+19) (+10)

  39300 - FakeCortex (+18)

  39050 - Atarian7 (+17)

  35300 - Krytol (+16)

  31050 - Rickster (+15)

  19500 - Mchetzel (+14)

     6750 - JBlinkle (+13) (+5)

 

 

 

OF NOTE FOR NEW PLAYERS

Scoring will be as follows for The HSC SEASON 14:                              

50 Points for 1^st Place each week

49 Points for 2^nd

48 Points or 3^rd and so forth.

 

This scoring system will allow players who join later to score more points later in the season and qualify for the end of season Tourney

The last 2 weeks of the Season will be double Points!

 

The Overall Rankings will be Posted Every Tuesday or Wednesday.

A new Game will be Posted Every Thursday or Friday. (unless it is a 2 week special game/games.)

 

This will give you several games to play every weekend!

 

Season 14 will have:

Here is what we can expect:

Start Of the Season is on April 27.

~ Arcade Weeks

~ Company Weeks

~ Paper Medal Pick by FakeCortex

~ Silver Medal Pick by Kermit

~ Gold Medal Pick by McCallister

~ Summer Special Weeks

~ Challenge Week

~ Special Weeks

~ Request

~ HomeBrew Weeks

~ Quickies

~ Company Weeks Part 2

~ Beat the Leaders

~ Beat the Leaders

Tournaments Start at the End of September!

 

The TOP 26 will qualify for the End the Season Challenge.

The End of Season Challenge is:

 

Major Leagues Survivor 3 Strikes Tourney

~ The Top 13 Players will Qualify

~ It will last 3 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 3 Rounds, gets to pick a game for Season 15.

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

(The Major Leagues will last 6 Weeks)

 

Minor Leagues Survivor Tourney

~ The Players who are ranked 14-26 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 15!

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

(The Minor Leagues will last 4 Weeks)

Edited May 9, 2023 by Vocelli

[Vocelli]

It's Thursday somewhere!

 

Good Luck to All!

[Lauren Tyler]

63,900

 

I remember getting this for my Atari 2600 when I was like six or seven years old.  Spent many hours playing it on the small black and white television in my bedroom.

 

I feel old.

[Keir]

Nice! This was one of my arcade picks. Time to find out if I’m still any good at it (if I ever was)!

[+jgkspsx]

Not sure how much I will be able to participate this season but I had to get a score in for my old favorite.

 

67150 (Improved!)

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Welcome back everyone!

 

 

Joust (Game 1, B/B Difficulty): 44,100

 

[Lauren Tyler]

1 hour ago, Skippy B. Coyote said:

Welcome back everyone!

 

 

Joust (Game 1, B/B Difficulty): 44,100

 

 

What kind of console is that?

[Skippy B. Coyote]

37 minutes ago, Lauren Tyler said:

 

What kind of console is that?

 

It's an Android based emulator console called the Retroid Pocket 3+! 

https://www.goretroid.com/collections/frontpage/products/retroid-pocket-3-handheld-retro-gaming-system-1

 

It can emulate almost every system from Atari 2600 up through Dreamcast flawlessly, and has 720p HDMI out so I can just plug it into a modern TV and use it like a controller for gaming on the big screen. It's what I've been playing most of the time during the break between HSC seasons and it's pretty much replaced using original hardware for me, just cause it's so darn convenient having every game I could want to play for the two dozen or so retro systems I like in my pocket and being able to use it like a Switch to play on the big screen too

 

Edited April 28, 2023 by Skippy B. Coyote

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I remembered my strategy for Joust and now my thumb feels like it's going to fall off, but it did result in a major score improvement!

 

 

Joust (Game 1, B/B Difficulty): 134,800

 

Edited April 28, 2023 by Skippy B. Coyote
Additional score improvement

[Keir]

68,400

[Krytol]

Joust (1,b,b): 28,050

[RaymanC]

Joust 18,500

[jblenkle]

Joust - 6,750

[EricG76]

My 1st High Score Club submission! 

Thanks for doing this.  It's a really fun idea. 

If I get a higher score do I edit this post or post again?

 

52,100

Edited April 29, 2023 by EricG76

[Atarian7]

You just post again.

[Mikey50]

my first score 49350

[p1FqO3]

69900

 

 

[+McCallister]

338,560

 

Stay high, don't die! 

[AtariSphinx]

Joust (1 B/B): 842,100

 

My favorite arcade game! Have a few of the versions on the Atari (the only game I have across multiple atari systems).  The computer is my favorite since that was what I grew up with but the 7800 is probably the most closest to the arcade.

 

Couple pointers: 

 

1.  At the start of the wave, stay at the very top flapping as fast as you possibly can about 1/3 of the screen across to avoid getting hit at the start of wave.  Sometimes you can kill an enemy if positioned just right. 

 

2.   If you land on the middle platform at the top section the enemy birds will fly lower towards the platform.   That's when you can take off again and kill them giving you space to be higher. 

 

3.  Only 2 objects other than yourself can be in the top, middle, or bottom sections.   Those objects being 2 eggs, 2 pterodactyl, 2 birds or any combination of these but no more than 2.  Can take advantage of that knowing what can and can't be in your section.

[kermit73]

Joust: 68900

 

After seeing some of the other scores posted, I have some work to do on this game.  I think it's just a matter of learning how to "drive".  My bird sometimes flies erratically rather than where I want it to go.  And who knew eggs could fly in an environment where gravity seems to influence everything else?

 

The only thing I noticed that hasn't already been mentioned is that the pterodactyls cross the screen in a straight line and never move up/down, making them much easier to avoid.  I've found it's better to avoid them rather than try to kill them.  I think I managed to kill one once.  The other 17 times I tried, it ended up killing me.

 

 

[classicgamer_27330]

[+McCallister]

999,100 (rollage)

 

 

[Keir]

3 hours ago, kermit73 said:

I think I managed to kill one once.

I didn’t realize that was something you could do!

[RGC]

10,250

 

[Lauren Tyler]

70,150

 

I feel like a kid again.