April Retro Community Playthrough - Atari 2600 Activision Challenge

[singlebanana]

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This month we will be playing games for one of the best developers (if not the best) for the Atari 2600, Activision. Each week, we will have high score competitions in both games and competitors will duke it out for the sole title of RFGeneation Atari Activision King. The contest winner will also receive a prize from yours truly.

Of course, all of these titles can be found in their original form on Atari 2600 carts (which we highly encourage for the experience), but we are also allowing members to join us by playing later Activision Anthology and Collection releases, which can be found on the PSX, PS2, and GC. Please play all titles on normal difficulty and use stock lives (the number of lives provided by the game, no option changes). For those of you playing on the 2600, please use initial game settings and press "Game Reset" on start up to begin; no game select should be used, unless otherwise noted.  Please let me know if you will be participating this month and go ahead and track down these titles:

Enduro
Kaboom!
Keystone Kapers
Pitfall!
Seaquest
Sky Jinx
Spider Fighter
Stampede

PLEASE NOTE: NO SCORES WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR GAMES PLAYED OUT OF TURN. YOU CAN ONLY SUBMIT SCORES DURING THE WEEK EACH GAME IS BEING PLAYED. THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS THAT SCORES FOR ALL GAMES CAN BE POSTED DURING THE ROYAL RUMBLE ON APRIL 28TH THROUGH APRIL 30TH.

PLEASE ABIDE BY THE HONOR SYSTEM WHEN POSTING SCORES AND ACHIEVEMENTS. ALSO, DO NOT USE THE PAUSE BUTTON, SAVE POINTS, OR ANYTHING THAT GIVES YOU AN ADVANTAGE OVER ANY PARTICIPANTS PLAYING ON THE 2600. COMPETITION HERE IS ENJOYABLE AND WE HAVE A VERY TRUSTWORTHY COMMUNITY, SO LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY. THANKS.

The overall points champion for the month shall be crowned the RFGeneation Atari Activision King.

**Contest rules subject to change or be added to prior to April 1st. If you have any suggestions for rules or restrictions, please contact singlebanana via PM. Photos of high scores are required and fun pics of you playing with a friend(s) are highly encouraged**

Week 1 (4/1 -4/8) - Putting An Exclaimation! on the Classics Week - (Pitfall! & Kaboom!) - The person with highest score for EACH game gets 10 points, others get points in decending order (for example: 2nd place = 9 points, 3rd place = 8 points and so on). No one will get less than 5 points for participating. Scores can be submitted until midnight server time (CST) on 4/8.

Week 2 (4/9- 4/15) - Shmup Week  - (Spider Fighter & Seaquest) - same points system in place. Scores can be submitted until midnight server time (CST) on 4/15.

Week 3 (4/16 -4/22) - The Thrill of the Hunt Week - (Stampede & Keystone Kapers) - same points system in place. Scores can be submitted until midnight server time (CST) on 4/22.

Weeks 4 (4/23 - 4/30) - The Race to the Finish - (Enduro & Sky Jinx) - same points system in place. Scores can be submitted until midnight server time (CST) on 4/30.

ROYAL RUMBLE - (4/28 - 4/30) 3 Days Only! During this time, you can post scores for any Activision games we are playing this month. This will help you raise your overall score and help those who missed the initial weeks of play catch up. As a means of helping me keep up with the scoring during this time, please only post scores that will get you on the board or raise your standing.

PARTICIPANTS (FINAL STANDINGS):

bsr241 - 75
singlebanana - 75
douglie007 - 63
bombatomba - 52
Wempster - 52
Jerry Greenwood - 13

WEEK 1: PITFALL! & KABOOM!

Pitfall!
Badge score - 20,000 pts. (*Explorers' Club Members)

singlebanana - 100,915* - 10
bsr241 - 89,856* - 9
bombatomba - 81,814* - 8
douglie007 - 68,665* - 7
Wempster - 12,628 - 6
Jerry Greenwood - 8,812 - 5

Kaboom!
Badge score - 3,000 pts. (*Activision Bucket Brigade Members)

singlebanana - 3,110* - 10
douglie007 - 2,520 - 9
bsr241 - 1,641 - 8
Wempster - 461 - 7
bombatomba - 261 - 6

WEEK 2: SPIDER FIGHTER & SEAQUEST

Spider Fighter
Badge score - 40,000 pts. (*Spider Fighter Club Members)

bsr241 - 206,410* - 10
singlebanana - 78,440* - 9
Jerry Greenwood - 67,160* - 8
douglie007 - 48,940* - 7
bombatomba - 32,960 - 6
Wempster - 16,600 - 5

Seaquest
Badge score - 50,000 (*Activision Sub Club Members)

singlebanana - 125,010* - 10
bsr241 - 118,930* - 9
douglie007 - 65,380* - 8
bombatomba - 63,620* - 7
Wempster - 31,430 - 6

WEEK 3: STAMPEDE & KEYSTONE KAPERS

Stampede
Badge score - 3,000 (*Trail Drive Members)

singlebanana - 2,692 - 10
bsr241 - 2,587 - 9
douglie007 - 2,295 - 8
bombatomba - 1,557 - 7
Wempster - 563 - 6

Keystone Kapers
Badge score - 35,000 (*Billy Club Members)

bsr241 - 46,050* - 10
singlebanana - 37,850* - 9
Wempster - 37,300* - 8
douglie007 - 20,250 - 7
bombatomba - 15,350 - 6

WEEK 4: ENDURO & SKY JINX

Enduro
Badge score - survive 5 game days (*Roadbusters Club Members)

bsr241 - 912.9 (day 6*) - 10
douglie007 - 793.3 (day 5*) - 9
singlebanana - 589.2 (day 4) - 8
Wempster - 407.2 (day 3) - 7
bombatomba - 389.1 (day 3) - 6

Sky Jinx
Badge score - 37.0 time (*Activision Sky Stars Members)

bsr241 - 35.53* - 10
singlebanana - 36.99* - 9
douglie007 - 40.01 - 8
Wempster - 42.21 - 7
bombatomba - 43.43 - 6

[Fleach]

Closest one is in Rome. Better get a plane ticket... and not a Malaysian one.

That's enough silliness for now.

[singlebanana]

http://youtu.be/nX5rqwe8hQg

[Shadow Kisuragi]

If anyone needs some of these cartridges, let me know. I have 2 full Banker Boxes full of Atari 2600 cartridges that are duplicates, and a large majority of those are Activision titles.

[singlebanana]

If anyone needs some of these cartridges, let me know. I have 2 full Banker Boxes full of Atari 2600 cartridges that are duplicates, and a large majority of those are Activision titles.

Awesome Shadow! Thanks for offering those up. I tried to pick titles that were inexpensive so that people could grab the original carts if they wanted them. If you get a chance and have easy access to the boxes, let us know which of and how many of each game you have. Thanks

[Fleach]

And look what article made IGN's front page! The History of Atari

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Actually, I think I took pictures of the contents of the boxes since I was planning on trading them in when I was low on money... but couldn't part with them for $0.05/cart. Let me check - otherwise, I'll let you know once I pick up my wife this afternoon since they're in the car still.

EDIT: Nope - not on my phone anymore.

[Disposed Hero]

The Atari is well before my time, but I've owned one for a couple of years and have never actually played it.  Go ahead and sign me up, but I'll be using this playthrough as more of an Atari sampler and probably won't be all that competitive with the high scores unless I get really into it.

[singlebanana]

Welcome aboard Disposed.

[Wempster]

Sign me up for the retro playthrough.  I do love to play some Enduro.

[singlebanana]

Done amigo, we Enduro.

[JerryGreenwood]

I'm in for some of them if you're allowing Game Room on XBox. I'm insanely good at Spider Fighter.

[singlebanana]

I'm in for some of them if you're allowing Game Room on XBox. I'm insanely good at Spider Fighter.

I don't see why not, as long as it's the same game. I think there is an Activision remix version on the PSP that I'm weary about.

[bombatomba]

More information to come soon regarding the monthly high score competitions, but I will go ahead and list the games that we are playing so that you can go ahead and start grabbing them. Please note that there are also several Atari Activision Anthologies/Collections out there on other systems including PSX, PS2, and GBA.

Games played:

Pitfall!
Kaboom!
Stampede
Spider Fighter
Seaquest
Keystone Kapers
Enduro
Sky Jinx

Participants
singlebanana
Disposed Hero
Wempster
Jerry Greenwood

Yeeeeeesss!  I am in!

I don't see why not, as long as it's the same game. I think there is an Activision remix version on the PSP that I'm weary about.

It's not all bad, but if you really want to jam on a non-Atari console you should hunt down the PS2 version.  It is nice.

[singlebanana]

Initial post edited with competition rules and weekly games listed. If you are joining us, PLEASE READ over the rules post. I am doing a very similar points format, which we used during the Streets of Rage competition. Did I mention that I will be giving away a prize to the winner??? Be sure to sign up if you haven't already. It should be a fun month!