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[Ze_ro]

Important Note: This weeks competition is over and no further scores will be accepted.

We, the leaders of the Omegan Star System, have spent countless eons perfecting our method of training our warrirs to defend our star colonies. This method -- you may call it Omega Race -- has proven so successful that evildoers tremble at the mere thought of interfering with us. As a result, our lives have become rather mundane and boring. So now we search the galaxies for other forms of intelligent life fast and tough enough to meet the challenge of our OMEGARACE. Having failed to locate such life, we're settling for you. We await you in the arena!

Note: This game normally requires the Booster Grip adaptor, but you can substitute a ColecoVision controller instead if you are playing on actual hardware. Apparently this does NOT work through a Stelladaptor however.

Game Information

Game Name: Omega Race Released By: CBS Electronics, 1983 Left Difficulty: N/A Right Difficulty: N/A in Single Player Game Mode: Default Chosen By: godzillajoe Post your scores right here in this thread, and I 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 elses. The deadline for posting scores is Wednesday March 17th at 1:00 AM (CST).

Current High Scores 68,000 (toymailman) [+11] 61,500 (zylon) [+10] 54,000 (darthkur) [+9] 50,500 (Zoyx) [+8] 41,500 (LarcenTyler) [+7] 6500 (katana) [+6] 3500 (roadrunner) [+5] Best Tips None Challenges None yet TwinGalaxies Top 3 (Game 1, Difficulty B) 70,000 (Alan W Hewston)

Current Standings toymailman [290] Zoyx [209] darthkur [166] shadow460 [133] roadrunner [117] oyamafamily [116] Cebus Capucinis [107] JacobZu7zu7 [93] Atardi [84] Deteacher [81] LarcenTyler [79] vjames [71] aftermac [70] Captain Beard [61] godzillajoe [56] keilbaca [42] Mister VCS [38] katana [33] brandondwright [30] zylon [30] Vectorman0 [29] Carey85 [29] 4Ks [29] homerwannabee [26] Impaler_26 [26] Hornpipe2 [25] SpiceWare [24] Wickeycolumbus [22] pis [19] devwebcl [13] Nathan Strum [11] LoneWolfSeth [10] LaserHawk [10] joeypsp [9] Tr3vor [9] kote [8] Animan [6] Pioneer4x4 [6] HatNJ [6] chuckwalla [5] Chris Leach [5] MIKE5200 [4] Skaarg [4] JayWI [3] Shannon [2] jeremysart [2] vintagegamecrazy [2] sloth713 [2] jjd [2] SpaceInvaders [2] ChrisKoopa [1] SeaGtGruff [1] Nati [1] disjuakifa [1]

Scoring Points in Omega Race

Photon Mine - 500 points Droid Ship - 1,000 points Command Ship - 1,500 points Death Ship - 2,500 points Droid Force Bonus - 5,000 points

Hints and Tips

The Manual

As always, you really should read the manual. In case you don't have the manual, AtariAge has a typed copy available online. Here are the hints it provides:

• Learn to use your Booster-Grop to control your direction as you ricochet off the walls of the arena. Mastering this technique will almost always enable you to maintain a good position for destroying both Command Ships and Death Ships.
  
• Use your thrust sparingly to "float" back and forth or up and down. You'll be able to fire without worrying about navigating.
  
• To rack up really high scores, go for the more valuable ships first. Since they're always replaced, you'll be able to get more points for the same quantity of ships destroyed.

We played this game once before in the High Score Club. Check it out!

--Zero

[LarcenTyler]

41,500

(My kingdom for a Booster-Grip Adaptor!)

[roadrunner]

3,500

Hmmm.. playing this game on the emulator Stella the fire button doesn't fire.

Edited by roadrunner, Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:01 PM.

[Zoyx]

28500 45500

I HAZ BOOSTER GRIP!

Probably something you shouldn't announce on Twitter.

Edited by Zoyx, Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:02 PM.

[Pioneer4x4]

I have a grip also, but alas, I prolly don't be havin' skilz.

[zylon]

This is one hard game. With the "grip" it's doable.

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[toymailman]

The enemies are fantastic shots. Really time them well when I am zomming around.

64,000

[zylon]

I hate that little bugger who turns into a X looking thing! Keeping a good drift going is crucial.

[toymailman]

I think katana should have been awarded the [+11] from Crash Dive last week instead of me. It looks like he submitted a score of 188,900 on time. It was an edit of a previous post rather than a new post so could have been easily missed.

[Zoyx]

50500

Good news, I made it to Rack 4. Bad news, it wasn't my hi-score.

[katana]

6,500 is there anyway to fire on the emulator?

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Edited by katana, Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:51 AM.

[katana]

toymailman, on Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:22 PM, said:

I think katana should have been awarded the [+11] from Crash Dive last week instead of me. It looks like he submitted a score of 188,900 on time. It was an edit of a previous post rather than a new post so could have been easily missed.

thanks for pointing that out. i did not mean to confuse anyone
from now on i will start making a new post.

[toymailman]

katana, on Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:53 AM, said:

thanks for pointing that out. i did not mean to confuse anyone
from now on i will start making a new post.

No problem, I'm not sure which way is easier for Ze_ro, but I think a new post would be easier to spot an update to an old score versus editing a previous post.

This also means I apparently have to keep playing until the bell rings.

[Zoyx]

Yeah, you do have to keep playing. I think the only win I had this season was when I sniped Dumbo at the last minute.

[darthkur]

54,500

[toymailman]

This is the best I could do this week.

68,000

[BrianC]

katana, on Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:46 AM, said:

6,500 is there anyway to fire on the emulator?

Yes, in Stella, you have to configure the controls for booster grip and assign a button for fire. I had to go into multiple menus to do so.