I want to set up a challenge (and be honest) as to who holds the top score of "Yar's Revenge" on the sector.

I don't mean from your past. But as of today...

Need help playing?

Download Stella (or use your old Atari 2600 (VCS) ) and keep a log of your score. In betwixt stage completion, the game will show your score and pause till you hit your fire button.

I can not provide the ROM for Stella (something I once heard called Law)... but it's not hard to find.

I haven't played the game in a long time but I am getting better... Here is a small log of my progress as of tonight.



(144,371 = top as of 11:39 PM Central Time on March 1st, 2006)

It's far from good, but also far from bad... So I challenge you to a duel... beat me (and be honest about it)...

I will keep posting my scores...

Good luck programs... and welcome to the old game grid...

May your user be with you....

Good deal, Todd...

I'll see how high I can get my score.

Yar's Revenge is my all time fav. 2600 game... It rocks so much...

and this time, I'll try to post screen shots of my scores..

282,274

Pink Shield

Game 6 - 1P Ultimate Yar's Challenge

Ok... I'm getting there...

But what the hell is this?



Cool, MM... I'm going to try and beat your score now...

I'll post a screen if I do...

Don't worry Todd.. I was to (after all these years)... It just takes some time getting back into the game...

Qix77 Wrote:Ok... I'm getting there... But what the hell is this? Cool, MM... I'm going to try and beat your score now... I'll post a screen if I do...

It's an Easter Egg. If you destroy the Swirl in mid-flight and position your Yar over the black vertical line left on the screen where the Swirl was destroyed then you see the programmer's initials.
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Wow buddy... Thats great... I have my work cut out for me...


Thanks for the EasterEgg ordeal, I've ran across it so many times trying to ge a free guy.

Tell you what... If I can beat your score, then you buy me a pizza... lol... Kidding... But I am sooooo going to try this weekend (because I'm a neard and I broke up with my girlfriend)... what a shame I am... lol

but still... I'm going for it... :P lol

Thats good Todd... I never was that good back in the day, but I started playing and was just getting better (but last night I wasn't doing to good).


I get to the blue shield before 60,000, and last night I got to the gray shield shortly after 120,000 (which is near impossible to dodge the swirling missle thingy). I guess it's how you play the game.

I'm learning that trying for a 1up all the time isn't always the best thing to do since the levels become harder more quickly. I'm going to try and play the game without getting free ships and see how I do... besides, I get way too greedy for 1ups and it really screws up my game.

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Qix77 Wrote:...What I find really cool about this is how we are holding our own little tournament on a classic VCS game while the rest of the world is waiting for the next X-Box 360 release... lol... LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!!!!

X-Box 360?

What the hell is that?

Oh yeah - it's supposed to be the newest, hottest, blah, blah, blah, who-gives-a-crap game system out there.

I hear it doesn't have Yars' Revenge, so who cares?

Honestly, I'd rather be playing my old Atari classics than anything on the X-Box 360. I'm sure the games look slick and all, but I honestly have no desire to play them. None.

Something has driven me back to the old-school games we used to love and enjoy so many years ago... AND make fun of too (because the graphics sucked and they were never like the arcade version). Is it because today's games are all rehashed crap with shiny new graphics... that aren't all that much better? Is it because they all kind of start to look the same after a while? Is it because those old games, as basic as they were, have become more enjoyable than today's offerings? Is it because we're all just reliving our youth as we approach middle-age?

Who knows?

All of the above... none of the above?

All I know is those Atari classics seem incredibly fun to me right now. The latest "next" generation of gaming systems all seem very lack-luster and bland. What's so new about them? I don't get the hype.

I'd better stop before this thread morphs in to something else.

I haven't had a chance to play Yars' Revenge since this morning, but I can't WAIT to hit it again soon! I prefer to play it on my Flashback 2 as opposed to an emulator. It's much better that way for me.

Ok - here's a question. I have Stella v2.0.1. The audio is better on this version than the previous version I was using - it's closer to what the games sound like on an actual Atari. BUT the sounds are all delayed slightly. It really annoys me and I cannot correct it. The delay is probably only about 50 to 100 milliseconds, but it is noticeable and irritating. Delay or not, I do prefer playing the games on an actual Atari or Flashback, but I do wish I could correct the delay.

Any ideas?

I screwed up but I'm getting the idea better.

So far my top score is 165,XXX on gray shield (I messed up and started a game before I got the last three digits).

The Gray shield levels are not really that hard but I tend to forget that the swril will follow you when it meets up with you vertically. I just let it chase me off the screen and then continue me attack. Not really hard but I tend to forget that it chases me.

I so love this game. It's one of the best 2600 games ever made. Since I'm trying to learn GameMaker6, I might try to make a PC version of this game as freeware (but knowing me I'll never get around to it). It shouldn't be too hard since I did use the tutorial and made my own pac-man like game (which sucked by the way).

Ok... I'm taking a break from the game for now. I know that I'll be dreaming about Yar ships and wing-shielded ships when I go to sleep.

Besides... If the Qotiles really were so smart, they'ed quit makeing their shields out of breakable pixels and start using iron for crying out loud.... but that's what they get for invading the Yar's world....

Damn Qotiles.... Serves them right... They better not show their ugly swriling thingys around southern Illinois anytime soon. I'll shoot em down with my old Daisy BB gun.



How would you pronounce "Qotiles" anyways?

Qix77 Wrote:...How would you pronounce "Qotiles" anyways?

I think it's like KO-TILES.

Like the "Q" in Qix is also pronounced like a "K" sound.