Atari 2600 / VCS - Alligator People - EMU - Game 1, Difficulty B - - 1,111,110 - Garrett Holland

EMU - Game 1, Difficulty B -
Score Track	https://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=23612
Rules	5 Lives only. Scoring will be stopped after your 5th death.
Submission Message	Not so sure this variation was ever supposed to be tracked. Performed on 12.13.19 Timeline: 00:01 Emulator startup 00:12 Emulator/MD5/diff sw settings 00:18 Title select 00:22 Variation select 00:24 Start of run 20:20 Rollover @ 1,000,000 48:39 Suicides begin 48:39 1st life lost 48:42 2nd life lost 48:45 3rd life lost 48:47 4th life lost 48:50 5th life lost 48:50 End of run and final score displayed Run duration: 48m 26s https://www.twingalaxies.com/images/...2164b20e58.jpg

Interesting!!

Well you worked out that pattern early, does the difficulty increase at all?

Looks the same from start to finish?

Accepted!

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Originally Posted by nads

Interesting!!

Well you worked out that pattern early, does the difficulty increase at all?

Looks the same from start to finish?

Accepted!

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If there were any increase in difficulty, it wasnt noticable. This must be the child variation ... like the 1 ghost option in Ms. PacMan except easier LOL

I have a hard time believing Flewin played 1B and only managed 15K.

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Originally Posted by Garrett Holland

If there were any increase in difficulty, it wasnt noticable. This must be the child variation ... like the 1 ghost option in Ms. PacMan except easier LOL

I have a hard time believing Flewin played 1B and only managed 15K.

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I honestly have no idea, but I've wondered before if some of Flewin's scores are similar to the Yancey occurances?
Not sure if this is commonly known, but there was a time when, if there wasn't a score on the board, the track couldn't be viewed by the GP, so I'm pretty sure a few of the past refs have what I'll call "starter scores", just to get a track up and running.

Truly, many of Yancey's scores are like that, and is one reason for the purported discrepancy in his skillset.

As usual, don't set your thinking in stone based on my thoughts, I could be out in left-field somewhere, but I do think it accounts for many "stinky scores".

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Originally Posted by Rogerpoco

I honestly have no idea, but I've wondered before if some of Flewin's scores are similar to the Yancey occurances?
Not sure if this is commonly known, but there was a time when, if there wasn't a score on the board, the track couldn't be viewed by the GP, so I'm pretty sure a few of the past refs have what I'll call "starter scores", just to get a track up and running.

Truly, many of Yancey's scores are like that, and is one reason for the purported discrepancy in his skillset.

As usual, don't set your thinking in stone based on my thoughts, I could be out in left-field somewhere, but I do think it accounts for many "stinky scores".

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Myself and some of the other ex-refs submitted scores sometimes just to get the ball rolling on a game, but Flewin had a ton of them, especially on the NES.

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Originally Posted by Rogerpoco

I honestly have no idea, but I've wondered before if some of Flewin's scores are similar to the Yancey occurances?
Not sure if this is commonly known, but there was a time when, if there wasn't a score on the board, the track couldn't be viewed by the GP, so I'm pretty sure a few of the past refs have what I'll call "starter scores", just to get a track up and running.

Truly, many of Yancey's scores are like that, and is one reason for the purported discrepancy in his skillset.

As usual, don't set your thinking in stone based on my thoughts, I could be out in left-field somewhere, but I do think it accounts for many "stinky scores".

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Agreed. Here's my thinking ... this game is odd, in that the "default" game selection is Game 7, meaning, when you turn the game on and hit game reset, it starts Game 7, and when you hit game select, it shows you the current game # (7), and hitting it again will cycle through 7 to 9 and then rolling back to 1...2...3... etc. I'm thinking whether this score was actually played or was just a "track-starter" to encourage subsequent participation, either way, it probably should have been applied to the 7B track. While 15K may not be a masterful score for 7B, it *is* a very good score for 7B. (That variation is challenging .. Stilphen is just that good.) Speaking of Stilphen, apparently he had a hand in this games eventual limited release ... here's Page 8 of the Official Coleco Atari 2600 Looping manual:
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Okay ... I'm a frikkin' dummy, and have only had one cup of coffee today so far. Obviously, Looping is not *this* game. I'm conflating two of my different submissions. My mind wandered and suddenly forgot we were talking about Alligator People. Sleep, plz & ty.

Accepted!!