[Ze_ro]

Important Note: This week's competition is over, and no further scores will be accepted.

The Gorfian armada has been encroaching into our space, Cadet. Your job is to attack them and do as much damage as possible. Do a good enough job and you just might get a promotion!

Game Information

• Game Name: Gorf
  
• Released By: CBS, 1982
  
• Left Difficulty: B / Novice
  
• Right Difficulty: B / Novice
  
• Game Mode: Game 1
  
• Chosen By: Goochman
  

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 Thursday, October 12th at 1:30 AM (CST).

If you want to suggest a game for future weeks, please send me a private message and let me know! I will add your game to the list. One one game per person will be kept on the list, so you will not be able to suggest a game until your first game is played!

Anyone can play! Just post a score and I'll add you to the list! Please read the Rules & Information if you haven't already done so!

Current High Scores

• 58,200 (rheffera) [+11]
  
• 43,900 (Rom Hunter) [+10]
  
• 15,900 (Deteacher) [+9]
  
• 15,500 (Christophero Sly) [+8]
  
• 15,300 (SpiceWare) [+7]
  
• 13,000 (scogey) [+6]
  
• 11,950 (JacobZu7zu7) [+5]
  
• 8700 (atari2600land) [+4]
  
• 7700 (mojofltr) [+3]
  
• 4300 (vdub_bobby) [+2]
  
• 3900 (LarcenTyler) [+1]
  

Best Tips

• Deteacher [+2]
  

Bounties and Challenges

• None yet posted
  

TwinGalaxies Top 3

(Game 1, Difficulty B)

• 322,650 (Ron Corcoran)
  
• 182,800 (Stephen Knox)
  
• 118,100 (Robert T Mruczek)
  

Current Standings

Rom Hunter [238] keilbaca [172] SpiceWare [170] vdub_bobby [103] Deteacher [96] LarcenTyler [93] BrianC [78] shawnb [71] the 5th ghost [66] Malc74 [63] scogey [53] Cybergoth [42] theKLT [37] 128bytes [34] Jred [26] Christophero Sly [26] atari2600land [25] Goochman [25] doctorclu [22]

SeaGtGruff [21] phaxda [21] Lord Helmet [19] Random Terrain [1]5 Lord Thag [15] Nathan Strum [12] rjchamp3 [11] shadow460 [11] ResOGlas [11] Thomas Jentzsch [11] rheffera [9] Gabriel [8] mojofltr [8] Hiryu [7] supercat [5] Recycled [4] Omegamatrix [1] Dan Iacovelli [1] ewing92 [1]

Scoring Points Gorf

• Mission 1 - All enemies worth 50 points
  
• Mission 2 - All enemies worth 100 points
  
• Mission 3 - All enemies worth 100 points
  
• Mission 4 - Flagship worth 1000 points
  

Hints and Tips

The Manual said:

As always, you really should read the manual. In case you don't have the manual, AtariAge has a typed copy available online. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer any real hints.

atari2600land said:

In the first level, if you shoot all of the aliens in the bottom row except one, the last one will be the only one that will shoot. So you can go take out all the red ones without a fear of being shot at. The only problem then is taking out the green one and the red one and still have enough time to take the white ones out. (colors I mention are for NTSC version)

rheffera said:

Here is a tip for after you have been through the cycle three times or so.
At this stage the bombs dropped by the first two rows of invaders ( purple and oraange on PAL system) are extremely fast and if you are trying to shoot them from bieng underneath them you will run out of lives quickly. what i do is whittlee at the eges and then them move into my bullets.

Christophero Sly said:

Here's a tip for the Laser Battle stage. Keep firing your cannon in rapid succession and pick off the dive bombing aliens by guiding your ship into them. They'll be destroyed when they meet your short, but nearly continuous cannon volley.

Deteacher said:

Here's a couple hints.

Invaders stage: The White invaders don't fire, so try to clean out the green and red ones quickly.

Laser Battle: If the blue alien gets too far down, just evade his shots until he works his way back up. It's easier to pick him off when he's up high because you can get a shot off and run when he stops to fire at you.

Black Hole: (this is my best hint for the game.) Position your ship about 1 ship's width to the left of the first number in your score. I find that spot to be the easiest place to pick off the circling ships. You might need to adjust a hair or two between each ship to get the sweet spot. See the second screenshot for the general position.

Flag Ship: Seems like more luck than anything else. Hope these help!

--Ze_ro

[Ze_ro]

Sorry, I'm a little pressed for time... I'll fill in the blanks when I get home from work.

--Zero

[LarcenTyler]

Jeez, if it's this tough on the Atari 2600, I'd hate to see how difficult it is on MAME!

Well, I suppose it's worth a try.

But here's my first score.

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[Rom Hunter]

This post has been edited by Rom Hunter: Thu Oct 5, 2006 8:44 AM

[vdub_bobby]

4,200

EDIT: Didn't realize until I attached it what a goofy screenshot that is.

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This post has been edited by vdub_bobby: Thu Oct 5, 2006 9:13 AM

[Christophero Sly]

7500

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[SpiceWare]

7200

[rheffera]

8,950

This post has been edited by rheffera: Thu Oct 5, 2006 6:16 PM

[Deteacher]

7,100

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[rheffera]

13,000 on real hardware with a tac2 controller!

EDIT: 1 game later my new high score: 22,400!

This post has been edited by rheffera: Fri Oct 6, 2006 8:55 AM

[vdub_bobby]

4,300



Baby steps...

[atari2600land]

Took me a while to understand the game. Here's my first score: 4900.

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[atari2600land]

Score #2 - 6200. Man, this game is HARD.

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[mojofltr]

I played three games and scored 7400, 7700, and 7700 again. I need a new strategy as flipping the bird at the screen doesn't seem to be helping much.

[Deteacher]

9,900

Here's a couple hints.

Invaders stage: The White invaders don't fire, so try to clean out the green and red ones quickly.

Laser Battle: If the blue alien gets too far down, just evade his shots until he works his way back up. It's easier to pick him off when he's up high because you can get a shot off and run when he stops to fire at you.

Black Hole: (this is my best hint for the game.) Position your ship about 1 ship's width to the left of the first number in your score. I find that spot to be the easiest place to pick off the circling ships. You might need to adjust a hair or two between each ship to get the sweet spot. See the second screenshot for the general position.

Flag Ship: Seems like more luck than anything else. Hope these help!

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[SpiceWare]

13,300

On the Flag Ship you have to hit the Yellow section of the ship without hitting the Blue section.

[rheffera]

30,700. best gorf game ever!

This post has been edited by rheffera: Sat Oct 7, 2006 5:21 PM

[Christophero Sly]

15,500

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[atari2600land]

6950. The third level is like, let's see how many direct shots the ship can take before the emulator doesn't want to taunt me anymore. The flickering is horrible if it messes up with whether you shot a ship or not. And the fourth, well, shooting that orange thing is harder than winning the lottery.

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This post has been edited by atari2600land: Sat Oct 7, 2006 9:50 PM

[Christophero Sly]

Here's a tip for the Laser Battle stage. Keep firing your cannon in rapid succession and pick off the dive bombing aliens by guiding your ship into them. They'll be destroyed when they meet your short, but nearly continuous cannon volley.

[rheffera]

My colours are different cause im PAL. also im using an actual 2600 so ita a bit easier. Personally the game is easy till after ive killed the mothership for about the 5-6th time!

Here is a tip for after you have been through the cycle three times or so.
At this stage the bombs dropped by the first two rows of invaders ( purple and oraange on PAL system) are extremely fast and if you are trying to shoot them from bieng underneath them you will run out of lives quickly. what i do is whittlee at the eges and then them move into my bullets.

thats one of the things i used to survive to get my 30,700.

This post has been edited by rheffera: Sat Oct 7, 2006 11:05 PM

[atari2600land]

My new high score: 8700. My first-ever hint. In the first level, if you shoot all of the aliens in the bottom row except one, the last one will be the only one that will shoot. So you can go take out all the red ones without a fear of being shot at. The only problem then is taking out the green one and the red one and still have enough time to take the white ones out. (colors I mention are for NTSC version)

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This post has been edited by atari2600land: Sun Oct 8, 2006 10:49 AM

[SpiceWare]

15,300

[Rom Hunter]

[rheffera]

damn you rom hunter

EDIT: 39,700 so bleah

This post has been edited by rheffera: Mon Oct 9, 2006 11:44 PM