HSC20 Round 9: "EA40" Hard Hat Mack, Axis Assassin, Archon and Worms?

[RedThunder]

AI Art of Archon Challenge (Still prefer drawing my own)

 

Caveman V Knight

Knight V Unicorn

 

Messing around with Stable Diffusion https://stablediffusion.fr/demo

 

Prompt "templer knight with a sword and shield fighting a caveman with a club in a digital landscape"

 

Show me yours 🙂

Edited May 25 by RedThunder

[McKong]

HHM Level 17

[+therealbountybob]

Innit good RT

ok must get poll sorted for Round 10:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351671-hsc20-round-10-poll/

 

New tougher Archon challenge adding to the first post now

 

Reminder this round ends Weds 31st May 8pm UK time

[AtariSphinx]

On 5/24/2023 at 2:17 PM, therealbountybob said:

perhaps so many goes where neither side attacks

Yep that's what happened.   This was the first day I ever played this one.   Heard it was great and it really is fun.   I think I have a better grasp of it to do much better hopefully this weekend 

[McKong]

Axis Assassin 69150

[McKong]

Played Archon, but need some more practice as I couldn't win!

[+therealbountybob]

20 hours ago, AtariSphinx said:

Yep that's what happened.   This was the first day I ever played this one.   Heard it was great and it really is fun.   I think I have a better grasp of it to do much better hopefully this weekend 

 

2 hours ago, McKong said:

Played Archon, but need some more practice as I couldn't win!

It's a great game but sort of spoiled by being too easy eventually, saying that the sequel Archon II:The Adept is a killer and I've never beaten it! though deteacher's hints about Archon are good using the edges is not as fun as duking it out in the middle. What's nice is even the little guys can attack the Dragon etc and get a blow two in if you go at them with a bunch of them in turn.

 

Axis is good, worth more plays everyone

 

[carlsson]

On 5/10/2023 at 9:47 PM, therealbountybob said:

1 play Archon! 1pt

Ok, so I played it once and was obliterated by the computer. Part of it I blame my joystick for not responding properly to various directions + fire all the time.

[+therealbountybob]

3 hours ago, carlsson said:

Ok, so I played it once and was obliterated by the computer. Part of it I blame my joystick for not responding properly to various directions + fire all the time.

Made me laugh C

I had a bit of going right trouble and lost a few battles but STILL WON!!!

 

On 5/27/2023 at 11:21 AM, therealbountybob said:

..

ok must get poll sorted for Round 10:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351671-hsc20-round-10-poll/

 

New tougher Archon challenge adding to the first post now

 

Reminder this round ends Weds 31st May 8pm UK time

 

[AtariSphinx]

Archon- won by capturing 5 power

Edited Monday at 05:38 AM by AtariSphinx
Update score

[AtariSphinx]

Axis Assassin: 42850

Worms: 56

 

These are OK games.  Nice to try but not ones I would try again 

Edited Monday at 06:17 AM by AtariSphinx
Added photo

[rdrunner]

Just when I thought I was done with Archon...

 

Okay, new challenge accepted.  Beat it with knights/goblins and spells only.

 

The only spells I used were Revive, Summon and Imprison.  Wasn't quite sure if I was allowed to use the Teleport spell to move my spell caster to another space, so I steered clear of that.

 

The computer is a real chicken at this game.  It almost never attacks a piece on an opposite-colored space, in an attempt to force you to make the "unfavorable" move.  However, early in the game it likes to cover the power points when the spaces change colors and then forgets to move them back.  If you're patient enough, you can do almost every battle on a space with a maximum advantage.

 

Oh, and it's funny (and smart) to attack a Shapeshifter with a Knight!

 

 

[rdrunner]

Hard Hat Mack: Level 15

Beat Level 6 and you're golden!

 

Worms? : 132?

They can't all be gems...

 

[MichaG]

HHM: reached level 3

Archon: played...

AA: 57,100

 

[+therealbountybob]

Some good posts above. Well plaid rdrunner on the new Archon challenge

 

Axis Assassin the ATR verion from Fandal does go to the scrambled screen for a second when you press space on the spider and beeps, sometimes it went to a black screen with just a pixel in the top right and locked up. I ran the 800 translator first and this allowed the name entry to work on the high score table.

 

Did get to level 11 on the XEX version I had - it doesn't have the space screen or the difficulty select pre-title screen, nee to check whether it plays like normal or hard on the ATR version. I'm on 130XE anyone else got the inner lair bit working on Atari hardware?

 

Round 10 poll EVERYONE...

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351671-hsc20-round-10-poll/

 

Reminder this round ends

TOMORROW Weds 31st May 8pm UK time

 

[rdrunner]

Axis Assassin: 310,750 (default settings)

 

I figured out how to (sometimes) get the extra life from the bonus screen.  First, to reach the screen, you need to use the smart bomb at the right time, which is at the point where your ship is being sucked towards the giant spider at the end of the round (bombing the spider when it first appears did NOT work for me).  Once there, the ship you're trying to rescue starts out in the lower right corner of the spider's box, but it then randomly moves to some other random corner, one of which is very close to your starting point.  I would just tap to the right until you are lined up with where the ship "might" move to, then VERY carefully tap down (too hard and you crash) until pointed straight down at the box.  If the bonus ship appears, shoot open the box and zoom in before the timer runs out.  If it doesn't, no big deal, just let the timer expire and move on to the next stage.  Precision is important or you'll crash into something instead of rescuing the ship, but once you figure out the right spot, it's not so hard to pull off.

 

I was able to use this strategy at the end of almost every early stage to build up a full stock of lives (4).  However, I'm not good enough at the main game to survive the later stages without using the smart bomb, so I would stop playing the bonus stage after round 10 or so in favor of just getting as far as I can with the lives I have.  Not sure what round number I got to, but the grid color was white when I died.

 

Overall, there's no real substitute for the original Tempest, but Axis Assassin gave it a good try.  It's a buggy mess and I can't imagine playing this game with an actual joystick and having to hit the space bar to bomb.  Still, the bonus stage added an interesting element.

 

I just wish the game wasn't so hard so quickly.  I goofed around with the stage select and tried playing the last selectable round (which had an invisible grid).  The enemies were so blindingly fast that I lost all my ships in a matter of seconds.  Either it's meant to be impossible on later rounds like this or I'm missing something!

 

Edited Wednesday at 01:30 AM by rdrunner

[+therealbountybob]

20 hours ago, therealbountybob said:

...

Axis Assassin the ATR verion from Fandal does go to the scrambled screen for a second when you press space on the spider and beeps, sometimes it went to a black screen with just a pixel in the top right and locked up. I ran the 800 translator first and this allowed the name entry to work on the high score table.

 

Did get to level 11 on the XEX version I had - it doesn't have the space screen or the difficulty select pre-title screen, nee to check whether it plays like normal or hard on the ATR version. I'm on 130XE anyone else got the inner lair bit working on Atari hardware?

 

AXIS ASSASSIN

Atarionline.pl have http://www.atarionline.pl/arch/A/Axis Assassin/Axis Assassin (1983)(Electronic Arts)(US).atr

this runs fine on my 130XE and have now seen the inner lair in action! sort of asteroids like... failed to get an extra life so now going to digest rdrunner's comprehensive info above

 

Round 10 poll EVERYONE...

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351671-hsc20-round-10-poll/

 

Reminder this round ends

TONIGHT Weds 31st May 8pm UK time

[+therealbountybob]

11 hours ago, rdrunner said:

Axis Assassin: 310,750 (default settings)

 

I figured out how to (sometimes) get the extra life from the bonus screen.  First, to reach the screen, you need to use the smart bomb at the right time, which is at the point where your ship is being sucked towards the giant spider at the end of the round (bombing the spider when it first appears did NOT work for me).  Once there, the ship you're trying to rescue starts out in the lower right corner of the spider's box, but it then randomly moves to some other random corner, one of which is very close to your starting point.  I would just tap to the right until you are lined up with where the ship "might" move to, then VERY carefully tap down (too hard and you crash) until pointed straight down at the box.  If the bonus ship appears, shoot open the box and zoom in before the timer runs out.  If it doesn't, no big deal, just let the timer expire and move on to the next stage.  Precision is important or you'll crash into something instead of rescuing the ship, but once you figure out the right spot, it's not so hard to pull off.

 

I was able to use this strategy at the end of almost every early stage to build up a full stock of lives (4).  However, I'm not good enough at the main game to survive the later stages without using the smart bomb, so I would stop playing the bonus stage after round 10 or so in favor of just getting as far as I can with the lives I have.  Not sure what round number I got to, but the grid color was white when I died.

 

Overall, there's no real substitute for the original Tempest, but Axis Assassin gave it a good try.  It's a buggy mess and I can't imagine playing this game with an actual joystick and having to hit the space bar to bomb.  Still, the bonus stage added an interesting element.

 

I just wish the game wasn't so hard so quickly.  I goofed around with the stage select and tried playing the last selectable round (which had an invisible grid).  The enemies were so blindingly fast that I lost all my ships in a matter of seconds.  Either it's meant to be impossible on later rounds like this or I'm missing something!

 

Perhaps worth a try on the easier difficulty if you have any time, wonder if it wraps around to the next difficulty etc. White screens are 3rd batch of 10 if the menu level select is accurate

 

[RedThunder]

 

Better get in before the round end

 

Archon

Two Player...... Managed to Win 🙂  Other, player complained about the joystick being to heavy and unresponsive.

 

The two player Knight battles are supurb. Wish the computer could play a human a bit more  🙂

 

Imagine an online version and two player games ???

 

 

 

[RedThunder]

THe exclusive video

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVtMuD4VC9k

 

 

LIKE & SUBSCRIBE 🙂

Edited Wednesday at 07:04 PM by RedThunder

[+therealbountybob]

10 minutes ago, RedThunder said:

THe exclusive video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVtMuD4VC9k

Watching this now is it Mrs RT you are fighting?! - like you gave them the bad joystick - bonus point

Will do final tables when video is over!

[+therealbountybob]

11 minutes ago, therealbountybob said:

Watching this now is it Mrs RT you are fighting?! - like you gave them the bad joystick - bonus point

Will do final tables when video is over!

You big bully

that last battle made me laugh, fun round thanks for playing everyone...

 

[+therealbountybob]

Congratulations to rdrunner for the win on the original EA games set Was glad to have had another look at Axis Assassin, the inner lair bit was a new discovery. Archon still a hoot for 2 player and HHM was worth a quick dust off again. I'll leave Worms? to the fishermen

 

Some sort of final tables below

let me know if I've missed anything

I reduced some of the Archon points hope that is ok

 

	EA40
	Player		HSC points
1st	rdrunner		26
2nd	therealbountybob		17
3rd	McKong		12
4th	AtariSphinx		9
4th	carlsson		9
6th	MichaG		7
7th	RedThunder		5
8th	Dinky2008		2

8th        Mrs RT                                                2

	HHM
	Player	Score	Lv
1st	McKong	25,000	17	6
2nd	rdrunner	20,000	15	5
3rd	therealbountybob	10,200	6	4
4th	MichaG	8,150	3	3
5th	AtariSphinx	1,500	2	2
6th	carlsson	855	2	1

 

	Axis Assassin
	Player	Score	Pts
1st	rdrunner	310,750	7
2nd	therealbountybob	141,600	6
3rd	McKong	69,150	5
4th	carlsson	63,100	4
5th	MichaG	57,100	3
6th	Dinky2008	53,050	2
7th	AtariSphinx	42,850	1

 

Archon
Player	Score	Pts
rdrunner	LD-W-S KG	12
Deteacher	LD-W-S	9
therealbountybob	LD	5
AtariSphinx	LD	5
RedThunder	L 2	5
McKong	P	1
MichaG	P	1
carlsson	P	1

 

	Worms
	Player	Score	Pts
1st	carlsson	162	3
2nd	rdrunner	132	2
3rd	AtariSphinx	56	1

[RedThunder]

1 hour ago, therealbountybob said:

You big bully

that last battle made me laugh, fun round thanks for playing everyone...

 

Mrs RT was White on a Wico Joystick and myself Dark was on the laptop keyboard and cast onto a 32" TV.

 

THis game played with two players is supurb.  I wish there was a remake of somekind or game mechanic copy. Like I said before Knights V Trolls ... great laugh.  Like 8bit "Its a Knockout".

 

She wants to play more, but I have to get the gamepad working.

 

Also, Mrs RT is owed a copy of points for playing and a two player game 🙂

 

 

[+therealbountybob]

11 hours ago, RedThunder said:

Mrs RT was White on a Wico Joystick and myself Dark was on the laptop keyboard and cast onto a 32" TV.

 

THis game played with two players is supurb.  I wish there was a remake of somekind or game mechanic copy. Like I said before Knights V Trolls ... great laugh.  Like 8bit "Its a Knockout".

 

She wants to play more, but I have to get the gamepad working.

 

Also, Mrs RT is owed a copy of points for playing and a two player game 🙂

 

Yes great fun head to head - I once pitched my niece and nephew (gwobby!) in battle was fantastic watching the learning curve as the younger niece soon figured out what was what and made a recovery to win!

 

Mrs RT has 2pts

will do the current standings later on.