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[JacobZu7zu7]

2600 Knockout Game 2:

+ 2600 HIGH SCORE CHALLENGE 2012

Our second HSC + Elimination round is US Games RAFT RIDER


SETTING: Play on DEFAULT setting (B/B Game 1)

DEADLINE TO PLAY: This round has now begun, it will run a week or until
Sunday, January 15th 11:59PM EST (EASTERN TIME)
Play with Atari 2600 Console, or Emulation.
Any joystick or keyboard is fine!

Pics are encoraged here, however I WILL accept a no pic score.

Anyone can jump in and play for a High Score and Ranking, if they like...
Every score will be counted for the High Score Challenge also, even if you're not entered
in the Winter 2600 Knockout.

Everyone starts each game with a score of ZERO, one goal is to get above 0... or get a high score,
if you don't you will be eliminated and the lowest score earned of the active KO players, is safe!
A KING status will be awarded at the end of every round winner, as well as rankings and
points. First place gets +15 points! From there on, 1+ less...

For the K.O., you need not win, just not finish LAST! Let the battle begin...

THIS GAME IS ALSO OPEN FOR HIGH SCORE CLUB POINTS AND RANKING!


Knockout players & High Score Challengers:

RIVER ROLLERS... tied for 1st place.
+15 - 100,000 roll - oyamafamily
+15 - 100,000 roll - Deteacher
+15 - 100,000 roll - toymailman
+15 - 100,000 roll - Cortat G
+15 - 100,000 roll - DT Kofoed
+15 - 100,000 roll - Scrabbler15
+14 - 69,796 - bigbee99 2nd
+13 - 67,049 - pis 3rd
+12 - 60,384 - Vocelli 4th
+11 - 55,800 - Jifremok 5th
+10 - 31,173 - Gorfy 6th
+09 - 25,932 - cparsley 7th
+08 - 25,785 - Stan 8th
+07 - 16,848 - classicgamer_27330 9th
+06 - 14,965 - LarcenTyler 10th
+05 - 12,795 - Fallout_002 11th
+04 - 9,948 - JacobZu7zu7 12th
+03 - 8,903 - Zoyx 13th
+02 - 7,985 - roadrunner 14th
+01 - 4,887 - HatNJ 15th
+01 - 4,080 - Metal Jesus 16th


Rankings after 1 round

Rank/Points/Player
1 (15) oyamafamily
2 (14) toymailman
3 (13) cparsley
4 (12) Vocelli
5 (11) classicgamer_27330
6 (10) Metal Jesus
7 (09) Deteacher
8 (08) DT Kofoed
9 (07) Jifremok
10 (06) Gorfy
11 (05) Zoyx
12 (04) Cortat G
13 (03) JacobZu7zu7
14 (02) Fallout_002
15 (01) roadrunner
16 (01) Scrabbler15
17 (01) LarcenTyler
18 (01) bigbee99
19 (01) pis
20 (01) Stan
21 (01) HatNJ
22 (00) phaxda


Eliminated players
1st round: H.E.R.O. - phaxda






Someone will be eliminated from K.O. every Monday at 12:00AM EST)
(Anyone without a score by the deadline, will be eliminated!)

pis has been chosen out of the hat to select Round 3.
He picked B-4. which is... YARS' REVENGE (Jifremok choice)
"B-4 is X checked off the game list" cparselys choice is also Yars'
Revenge but, his game now becomes a wildcard slot.

New Adjustments, now a category E.
A few games are moved around... to accommodate new players.

A - 1/2/3/4/5
B - 1/2/3/X/5
C - 1/2/X/4/5
D - 1/2/3/X/5
E - 1/2/3/4/5

Edited by JacobZu7zu7, Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:45 PM.

[JacobZu7zu7]

Raft Rider ROM

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[Jifremok]

First out the gate, with an amazing 618 points!

I think it's time to read the manual.

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Edited by Jifremok, Sun Jan 8, 2012 11:18 PM.

[Zoyx]

2727

Your manual

[Jifremok]

I think I liked this game more before I knew what I was doing.

8697

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[JacobZu7zu7]

LOL, cheers to not knowing...

I'll have the Rankings and Point totals, done by start of weekend Fri/Sat...
HERO is still open for HIGH SCORE improvements (11:59PM FRI 13TH).

[Zoyx]

5540 - First time playing this. Still haven't figured out the gold nuggets yet.

Edited by Zoyx, Sun Jan 8, 2012 11:58 PM.

[Stan]

Hahahah, can't believe you actually included this one. I've gotten some really high scores on it in the past. Anyway, the gold nuggets are very difficult to nab, I don't know if I can really explain how it's even done. Takes quick and very accurate timing, that's all I can say.

[classicgamer_27330]

[Cortat G]

4819



How ironic! I die trying to catch gold to get an extra life!

[oyamafamily]

FIRST SCORE - 04793

[Vocelli]

I love reading that manual.
White water excitement! Dangerous journey!
Ok...
My starting score:
Vocelli ~ 5995 ~
Right now I am 50% getting the nuggets and 50% deciding if I even want to try when I see it.
See ya' on the river.

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Edited by Vocelli, Mon Jan 9, 2012 8:07 AM.

[bigbee99]

Vocelli, on Mon Jan 9, 2012 8:06 AM, said:

I love reading that manual.
White water excitement! Dangerous journey!

Excitement would not be the word I would use. I think the people that say "E.T. is the worst game EVER" have clearly never played this one.

I had a good run earlier but had to walk away from the machine. I was at 11k with 3 rafts in reserve and two $$$ bags already! I thought for sure I would be able to beat that. I'm gonna give it one more run before my day starts. Maybe I have time

19803

B

[bigbee99]

65796

I really thought I was going to roll it that time! I'd say that score took about 50-60 minuets to get.

Let's talk about this abomination for a sec. I noticed you can't bank any men. When you get to 3 men that's it. You can still get the gold. When you get to 3 bags of gold, nothing happens. The bags just stay on screen. When you die, you loose the bags but keep the 3 men. That's okay with me. Somewhere around 39k something weird happened. I had maxed everything out and I was collecting the gold just for fun. I've never played this game before so I was wanting to see what happened. I guess I had only collected about 5 or so extra gold when I skipped one. I went over the top and when I was past it, I went down. It killed me! I was clearly several pixels away from the gold. Then it happened again right after that on the following rock.

So now I'm back at 2 lives and the game throws 2 impossible combination in a row at me. NOW I'm back at zero men and bags so I tighten my game up. I managed to max everything out again. This time when I maxed everything out, I skipped the bags when I could. I'd say I only collected one extra bag on top of the max. An impossible combination comes up and I'm back at 3 men. Then I lost 2 men trying to collect gold and another along the way. OOPS back on my last man again. When I get going back down the river after my last failed gold collecting scheme, the game gave me ALL white rocks right up the middle. GAME OVER. I didn't get a pic of it since I was trying to get a shot of the score. I forgot it shows the score again during the flashing screen after a game over.

I'd like to roll the game, but I don't know it I can sit through it that long again. It was torture!

B

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[Zoyx]

Does the game roll at 100,000? I noticed the twin galaxy record is just above 100k.


edit: new score 6824

Edited by Zoyx, Mon Jan 9, 2012 10:39 AM.

[bigbee99]

Zoyx, on Mon Jan 9, 2012 10:25 AM, said:

Does the game roll at 100,000? I noticed the twin galaxy record is just above 100k.

I would think so. With the score at Twin Galaxies just right above 100k, it looks like the guy rolled it and walked away from it.

B

[LarcenTyler]

13,027

Whoever rolled this game must have a TON of patience.

[Deteacher]

I played a little in practice and managed over 10K. It seems that once you get the hang of the controls, the game does not increase in difficulty. Just slow river, fast river, slow river, fast river (ad nauseum...)

I'll post something tonight, but once you know how to pick up the gold nuggets, you can pretty much play forever (or until the game throws impossible rock formations at you.)

[Deteacher]

Stan, on Mon Jan 9, 2012 12:16 AM, said:

Hahahah, can't believe you actually included this one. I've gotten some really high scores on it in the past. Anyway, the gold nuggets are very difficult to nab, I don't know if I can really explain how it's even done. Takes quick and very accurate timing, that's all I can say.

Just line up your pole with the flashing gold nugget. If you hit the gold with your pole, you're good. If you pole misses low, you're safe...the gold will pass safely right over you. If you miss high, you're going down with the raft.

[bigbee99]

Deteacher, on Mon Jan 9, 2012 11:42 AM, said:

I played a little in practice and managed over 10K. It seems that once you get the hang of the controls, the game does not increase in difficulty. Just slow river, fast river, slow river, fast river (ad nauseum...)

I'll post something tonight, but once you know how to pick up the gold nuggets, you can pretty much play forever (or until the game throws impossible rock formations at you.)

That's right. If it got a little faster that would be one thing, but it stays the same mostly.

I played this game a few time last week when it was reveiled as the game this week for the 1st time. Never hit over 2k. Played it last night and got about 4.5k. Then I read the manual this morning and it was a breeze.

As far as lining up the nugget, I use the top corner of the raft to line me up. I play on a smaller TV so the pole confuses me.

B

[oyamafamily]

<-----NEW ATTEMPT: 07800

[Stan]

Yes, it's possible to roll this game, I've done it, but you have to be very patient, as mentioned above. Takes around 10 minutes per each 10K of points. It goes on forever, it never gets any more difficult. Once you get it down, it's quite easy. I actually purposefully died so I could eat!

25,785

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[Stan]

bigbee99, on Mon Jan 9, 2012 10:12 AM, said:

I'd like to roll the game, but I don't know it I can sit through it that long again. It was torture!

Nice score! Yeah, I personally couldn't take it anymore. It's a patience thing when you get the controls down. Not sure I can sit with it to roll it again. I spent a week on this game to figure it out and once I did I rolled it. It's soooo boring eventually, though in a meditative kind of way.

[Cortat G]

IMPROVEMENT!

12,884!

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[roadrunner]

4,691


This game has some of the worst sound effects.

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