2026-January Gaming Competition- KOG by RETREAM !

For January 2026 we'll be playing another original fast paced & easy to play but hard to master game KOG from our very own Simone Bevilacqua aka RETREAM.

For those that missed its release you can get your copy at RETREAM's itch.io site

The goal is to reach the highest score possible. Please post a screenshot of your high score table below to participate (also note the computer you're playing on). The leader board will be updated regularly.

Please NO CHEATS. Have fun & good luck everyone!

Standings:

1. 328gts- 531,596 (X1000)
2. tedzogh- 315,684 (Sam460)
3. AmigaOldskooler- 235,894 (A1222)
4. Tuvok-132,360 (X1000)
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Congrats to 328gts for getting the top score and thanks to all that participated!

my first entry... it's easy to play and frantic fast paced at times so join in when you can

107,932 (X1000)

@328gts

Can't believe I've never played KOG before! This one is very fun to play, and it runs smooth as butter. Excellent sound effects and music too! Will definitely make a purchase later.

Here is my first entry for this competition:

Score: 210,644 points



System: A1222+

@AmigaOldskooler

yup & glad you like it too

@328gts

Thanks for choosing another of my games for the compo!


@AmigaOldskooler

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Well, it's an obscure game that never got much exposure, so not many know it.

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Glad you like it!

A little backstory...

This game was born during the development of BOH: I thought I'd use the BOH skin system(*) and rotation routine (it's software-only) as the core of another game and somehow came up with the game concept. As a consequence, the development of BOH halted for the time needed to make KOG (2 or 3 months). Since I felt guilty and I really should have resumed the work on BOH, instead of making new music (which would have required additional time), I decided to reuse the music of MAH, so what you get to hear are snippets sampled from the original SID music.

(*)Initially KOG was 100% skinnable, but when I overhauled it in 2017, 9 years after the initial release, I dropped that.

@328gts

Firstly:

Happy new years to everyone!


I launched KOG and struggled so hard to make more than 6000 points! Finally I could make 7000!!! Man was I happy!

Then I saw your scores... and thought: OK, it's like in bicycle sport nobody dopes but then everybody does!

But.. wait! wasn't there a news article about an update for KOG?!
Of course! I then realised I was playing a version of 2008!

My first try with the latest version and I got about 102360 points! Yay! ) I'm right behind you 328gts!

Gonna jump on this, love some good challenges :)
This is my first try, going to try to improve it, but just to get in to the game i'll add this now.

Playing on a Sam 460
315684 points


https://i.postimg.cc/Wb9THDZw/Kog1.png

Hmm, not getting the picture to display, any tips? :p
Working now

@saimo

Thanks for chiming in on the background info of KOG Simone

@saimo

Thanks for chiming in on the background info of KOG Simone

Oops sorry for the double post

@Tuvok

Way to go & you got 132,360 for a solid 2nd place (for now anyway)

@tedzogh

Thanks for joining in & welcome aboard for your 1st post here !
Try usinghttps://postimages.org/ for your high scores pictures

@328gts

Have tryed that aswell, well, left the link in the post so it can be checked.

@tedzogh

can see it now and congrats on the top score !

@Tuvok

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Your screenshot is all wobbly: I hope it's just a matter of grabbing and not how you actually see the game.
Anyway, if you press [F1] any time a screenshot of the interal graphics will be saved to T: (for completeness, [F2] captures a screenshot of the graphics actually shown, instead; these are game features).

@saimo

Thanks for the screenshot tip

and here's my tip...don't drink a few glasses of any adult beverage and play this game

here's my latest:
275,528

Slight improvement in score:

235,984 points

@AmigaOldskooler

a nice Sunday afternoon gaming time set my latest high score

531,596

Where are the X5000 players ???

Where are the X5000 & Qemu players ???