+DamonicFury Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Welcome to the seventh round of the 18th 5200 HSC season. Space Invaders won the poll by two votes. Let’s use Game 4 - same as the default game but with three ships instead of five. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. No record exists for game 4 so somebody will be setting one. The ROM can be found here: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-space-invaders_14917.html Round ends Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @11pm EST Standings: NE146 - 18,398 RB5200 - 13,890 Micheloni2600 - 11,659 Cafeman - 7,530 Ryan Witmer - 7,330 UnRedeemed - 7,289 Mikey50 - 2,452 jeremiahjt - 1,582 bemis - 1,448 jblenkle - 158 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micheloni2600 Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Well let's start it off with 6,830 Played and photographed before work at 7:30am CST Game 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micheloni2600 Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Update 11,659 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Space Invaders - 158 (I've always sucked at this game) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micheloni2600 Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Womp womp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 1,582 for my first score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 948 first score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1,720 new score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) 1st submission score: 9014 Well at least this one is easier on me than the 5200 Galaxian one which confounded me with the enemy movements lol. Although, being a SI arcade fanatic, I've traditionally never cared much for the early home ports which always said to me "Tell me you don't know much about Space Invaders while programming a Space Invaders game" (the first one that "got it" was probably the SG1000 port). Anyway, for all the faults this version has I've softened up on it. It's a nice little member of the Atari 5200 library. Anyway.. first score 9014. I'm definitely going to try to improve that though. Edited April 5 by NE146 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 6,350 new score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 2287. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ryan Witmer Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Here's a 7330. I think this is probably my favorite version of Space Invaders. This game is so fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 7,430 new score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 (edited) New score.. 18,398. I played this last night at like 2am before going to bed and unfortunately it ended up being a really good game that felt like it was taking forever and I was just thinking.. "come on I want to sleep.. just die already" Now that I'm much more familiar.. this game is pretty much a rapid fire shmup.. not really a "Space Invaders". But I definitely appreciate it for what it is now and it is a fun game. Edited April 8 by NE146 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 6851. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 15 hours ago, NE146 said: unfortunately it ended up being a really good game that felt like it was taking forever Great score! Yeah, that’s exactly why we’re not playing the default variation… five ships just feels like too many for this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 I never put time into this game before. Truth be told, the initial impression made me not like it. But now I see the gameplay and strategies of this version. The final wave of each series is tough to get the first couple Invaders without dying once or twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 11,263 new score I agree with everything @Cafeman said, can see the patterns, know pretty much exactly what to do, just struggle getting it done. The one that gets me basically every time is the black row (extremely dark gray) in the first section of enemies, on my tv they look black and you can not see there black shots, I almost always will lose a life because of that. 🤬 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 4 minutes ago, RB5200 said: on my tv they look black and you can not see there black shots, I almost always will lose a life because of that Same here at first, I kept getting blown up by black missiles on a black background. I upped the brightness on my TV and I pay closer attention as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnRedeemed Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 7,289 - held back a little since I heard if you beat Ryan's score it is expected you'll buy another of his games to cheer him up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 7530. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 12,251 new score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 13,890 new score Went for the saucer and it cost me in one of the easier rounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Hey @DamonicFury, isn't it about time for a new poll.😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted April 12 Author Share Posted April 12 On 4/11/2024 at 12:59 AM, RB5200 said: Hey @DamonicFury, isn't it about time for a new poll.😁 Sure, here you go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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