However, once you get to round three, that rat bastard that keeps tossing footballs at you apparently now has a muddy football, and now that football is getting mud on all of the other platforms you just jumped on!! I thinnk I got through Round 3 on an earlier pass, but I'm a little out of practice as I've been playing a lot more BoulderDash and DragonStomper lately, and Rabbit Transit is another one of those "Let's kill 15 minutes with some quick fun" type games in my book. Basically, a scorefest, making it apropriate for this compeitition.

What ensued was about 52 minutes of non-stop, in-the-zone, game playing. It seriously would not end. Dinner was even ready, and here I was still cramming through the whole series of levels of LaserBlast non-stop. My wife started taking videos of me recording the video as I rattled off in my broken rizz about the situation that this darned game would not end, and I was still kicking butt at almost 150000 points with six extra lives (I think that's the maximum the game will hold), and just blowing the smithereens out of those little laser-armed landmines on the ground below.

Someone on the post for the high scores on FB said that this game was "not a game, it's a prostate test"...I guess he had to pee, luckily I did not, but that still is hilarious because yeah, with LaserBlast, it seems once you are "in the zone" you get to this werid plateau where you won't lose until you just get really tired, and start playing fast and loose with the controls. There's one round in there I wish my wife had caught where I was looking at the TV as she was talking about Celebrities or POlitics or something, and I was watching the TV while killing three aliens in a row 100% blind....WTH? So I guess, if you want to kill six and a half hours with a 2600, LaserBlast is one of those games you can do it with.

Actually, that was kind of the running gag of most of the contest's comments, was that running with both Difficulty Switches in "B" on level 1 just lead to us all getting the same scores. Plus it's a 2 player game, and we were playing 1 player on the game.

Anyway, Freeway was a game where someone took the old joke "Why did the chicken cross the road" and tried to make it into a video game. Basically, you are a Chicken who apparently only sees one dimensionally, and has to follow a straight line across the street without getting hit by cars. It's basically like playing Frogger with a broken controller. I'm not quite sure what the allure as an actual game is to this one. I think it's more about the "Joke". Kind of like how "Tarot" for the NES is more about seeing naked pictures of people generated by an NES, or Custer's Revenge is your fat prick uncle's idea of "interactive porn".

The thing is, and I should have known this having played Raiders and E.T. as a kid, Howard Scott Warshaw made some of the most advanced games on the console, and Yar's Revenge is no exception. I actually had to break out the manual to understand what was going on, and that's how his games actually become fun. It seems he actually made those pieces of paper inside the box legitimate, rather than redaundant.

Interestingly, this is the only contest so far done with an Emulator (Stella), and I vaiguely recall this was using my CX-78+ gamepad thorough USB as well. I was doing this because my UnoCart had been reflashed and I'd messed it up, and had the STLINK programmer ordered and was waiting for it from e-bay. So I decided this was the way to go...either that or this was when I was still waiting for the cartirdge shell and PCB to come in.

Barnstorming is a game I actually owned like new in BOX for the ATari 2600, and paid $20 for a stack of games with this one in it from a Valley Alabama thrift store in....I think 2002 or 2003. I have since sold that copy (for profit), but this is my CURRENT copy of Barnstorming listed on this website. I bought it at cap'n'games.

So this run I was on...I think the Sears Light Sixer IIRC, and was playing this with the CX-78+ Wireless gamepad, as I think I had to replace the RIOT in the heavy sixer at that time....or jujst had and was playing the Heavy Sixer on the main TV. Anyway, Nice 1:49:76 score I got in this, and I did play pretty well. I actually have a bigger page for this game here so go there if you want more of my detailed thoughts on it.