April Retro Community Playthrough - Atari 2600 Activision Challenge

[douglie007]

I cant find anything on pitfall so far

[singlebanana]

heres my best Score so far, 2520 on Kaboom! I am going to stream all my Atari playing on on Twitch here is the pic. [img width=700 height=394]http://i.imgur.com/MufPBip.jpg[/img]

I dunno.....that screen seems a little blurry.  Oh......wait.........it's just 2600 graphics.

[douglie007]

I plan of trying to get the Badge Score of 3000 but I dont know if I will

[singlebanana]

I plan of trying to get the Badge Score of 3000 but I dont know if I will

The only badge score I have ever accomplished is the Spider Fighter badge. I'll have to denote the badge scores for each game.

[singlebanana]

So I got around to putting up a few scores last night. The first game I played was Pitfall! I remember playing this game all the time as a kid, but my strategy was basically just trying to stay alive. Pitfall! has an odd points system in which you get points for accumulating treasure and lose points for running into logs or falling down holes. You get 3 lives or a 20 minute timer, whichever ends first. Surprisingly, I was able to run out the timer on my first game. Not a bad score, but beatable now that I have a strategy:

[img width=700 height=522]http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y359/necrom99/Atari/9DE1051A-7F49-4A9B-A5FA-FE871DBB00EE_zps5n4efooo.jpg[/img]

Secondly, I played Kaboom! and got my a#@ handed to me. I never remembered this game being so hard and that the paddles on screen were so small........oh.........yeah..........I had the difficulty switched over to hard....... Once I got that figured out, I was able to put up a decent score after a few tries. Nothing close to douglie I'm afraid, but there's still time. Muwahaha!

[img width=700 height=522]http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y359/necrom99/Atari/C4263D78-0EF2-4C9E-B2A6-5E860742163C_zps0u2fofrq.jpg[/img]

Let's see some Atari scores guys! Did you forget that there is a prize?

[singlebanana]

Badge scores now posted.

[bombatomba]

Let's see some Atari scores guys! Did you forget that there is a prize?

71571?  Back to the drawing board (slightly).  Also, I'm intrigued by the direction you have Pitfall Harry running...

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Tip for Pitfall: Run to the left...

[singlebanana]

I tried to play a second game starting out running left, but wasn't running into any treasure. I am sure there are probably advantages to running left, but I've always been use to going right.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

This is something that was provided originally for Pitfall! It's a map of the game, along with a hint as to how to collect all the treasure. You'll understand where my hint comes from, but I would only use this once you're familiar with the game and want to max out your score:

Spoiler (hover to show)

[img width=700 height=845]http://www.rickandviv.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/pitfallmap.png[/img]

[bombatomba]

This is something that was provided originally for Pitfall! It's a map of the game, along with a hint as to how to collect all the treasure. You'll understand where my hint comes from, but I would only use this once you're familiar with the game and want to max out your score:

Soooo much easier this way.  Considering this I can't believe that the badge score was only 20,000 points.  Gonna spend a solid 30 minutes tonight after chores and baths.  I'm playing it two different ways: A260 and PS2 via emulator on PC - my PS2 is sick .

Can't tell you guys how much I want the crown of RFGeneation Atari Activision K...  What?

[singlebanana]

This is something that was provided originally for Pitfall! It's a map of the game, along with a hint as to how to collect all the treasure. You'll understand where my hint comes from, but I would only use this once you're familiar with the game and want to max out your score:

Soooo much easier this way.  Considering this I can't believe that the badge score was only 20,000 points.  Gonna spend a solid 30 minutes tonight after chores and baths.  I'm playing it two different ways: A260 and PS2 via emulator on PC - my PS2 is sick .

Can't tell you guys how much I want the crown of RFGeneation Atari Activision K...  What?

No doubt, I was thinking the same thing about the 20,000 pts. for the badge. Seems way too easy compared to how hard the other badges are to acquire. Maybe Activision wanted to send out more badges to advertise and sell more of their other games. No idea.

Go for that title man! I want this to be a month long slug out. I know that some people are having trouble getting all of their games in time. If this is the case, I will add a few days at the end of the month for people to post new scores for all games like I did in the SoR challenge. If you are waiting on games, PLEASE send me a PM. I want this to be a fun and inclusive month.

[singlebanana]

New scores. Getting closer to you douglie. I'll get there soon enough.

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Extended this one a bit. I really want that perfect score now.

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[Shadow Kisuragi]

Sorry, games will be going out today for what I can send. Finally had a moment to breathe last night.

[singlebanana]

Sorry, games will be going out today for what I can send. Finally had a moment to breathe last night.

Not a problem, like I said, I'll be happy to add some extra play days for others to "catch up" at the end. If those people will let me know who they are and if they still plan on participating. Thanks.