darthkur Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 (edited) Well, let's apply the defibrillator to this thing and bring it back to life. It's time to face the evil Galagans who are reclaiming planets they lost during a centuries-old interstellar war. It is our call to board our Intergalactic Command Ships and face the merciless onslaught. As with the other HSC's emulation is fine and dandy if you don't have the original cart or just don't feel like hooking the system up. Screenshots are great but not mandatory. Let's try this for two weeks time. Contest ends on 11-24-08 at 1:00am EST. Current High Scores: 1st: keitaro - 395,430 2nd: Sauron - 229,330 3rd: famicommander - 207,540 4th: darthkur - 184,580 5th: LaserHawk - 177,420 6th: Almost Rice - 162,610 7th: Atarifever - 153,090 8th: bfutrel - 141,670 9th: HammR25 - 112,550 10th: suaiden - 68,970 11th: LarcenTyler - 52,240 Current Standings: (using the 2600 HSC scoring formula) 1st - gdement (24) 1st - suaiden (24) 2nd - Darthkur (22) 3rd - HammR25 (20) 4th - AtariFever (18) 4th - rockman_x_2002 (18) 5th - doctorclu (12) 6th - ratfink (11) 7th - Allan (10) 8th - atomickneedrop (9) 9th - Artlover (4) 9th - shadow460 (4) 9th - Zoyx (4) 10th - LarcenTyler (3) Edited November 20, 2008 by darthkur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Guess I get to start this one off. 133,670 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 125,440 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarifever Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 92,170 I'll put in a picture whenever I find the thing my phone card slides into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaserHawk Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 LaserHawk swats the Space Bugs with this many score number! 159,020 LaserHawk will search out more Space Bugs for squishing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarifever Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 153,090 Anyone know if it costs very much to buy one of those little things you slide the miniSD card into to make it an SD card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 52,240 I can do better. Maybe if I weren't eating at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 178,010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 125,680 It sure does get challenging when you lose the twin ship option in the later levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 200,390 - Wave 26 Sorry for lack of pics, they're completely unreadable from my phone's camera, and that's all I've got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfutrel Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 (edited) 72,980 - wave 8 Not my best work, but I was playing with a keyboard. EDIT - second try, 125,850 wave 16 This time I used a Gravis GamePad Pro. It would have been a better score but the #$@#%#@ screen saver kicked in near the end. Edited November 12, 2008 by bfutrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 200,390 - Wave 26 Sorry for lack of pics, they're completely unreadable from my phone's camera, and that's all I've got. That's alright. No problem at all, other than I'm going to have a real hard time trying to beat that score. This time I used a Gravis GamePad Pro. It would have been a better score but the #$@#%#@ screen saver kicked in near the end. Oh that's infuriating. I've had that happen many times. Unless you hit "pause" really fast odds are you'll get annihilated before you get the screen to come back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 125,680 It sure does get challenging when you lose the twin ship option in the later levels. Ugh, you're telling me. At the end of my run, I got my twin ship destroyed. I had an extra, so I let it get captured and then I accidently shot it. Then I was crashed into and lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarifever Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 It's funny, but I prefer this version to the arcade. Something about the colours is more fun in this version. As well, the small ship size makes dodging more of an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfutrel Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 It's funny, but I prefer this version to the arcade. Something about the colours is more fun in this version. As well, the small ship size makes dodging more of an option. I have played the arcade version since 1988. Getting high scores on it was not much of a problem. I'm still getting used to the positioning on the 7800 version. On my last score no perfects were scored on the challenge stages. It didn't help that I get the challenge stages mixed up too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 It's funny, but I prefer this version to the arcade. Something about the colours is more fun in this version. As well, the small ship size makes dodging more of an option. Yeah, the colors are vibrant on the 7800 version. It's odd that this game wasn't ported to many systems. Other than the MSX and Sega 1000 ones, which never seen release over here in the States, we had the 7800, NES and the extremely minimalist version for the C=64. Strange for a game that is supposed to be one of the best shooters of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaserHawk Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 LaserHawk returns with a bag filled with this many bashed bugs!! 177,420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfutrel Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 A little better: 141,670 on level 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 207,540 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keitaro Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 (edited) 267440 (wave 33) I used to play expert mode. I played in advanced now to the HSC and in the first 9 waves, the gameplay is very slow. From wave 10, is very challenging and hard. Edited November 14, 2008 by keitaro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 (edited) Whoa, nice score. I see I won't be placing 1st this time around. Or probably 2nd or 3rd either for that matter. 267440 (wave 33) I used to play expert mode. I played in advanced now to the HSC and in the first 9 waves, the gameplay is very slow. From wave 10, is very challenging and hard. Edited November 14, 2008 by darthkur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suaiden Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 (edited) Well, it's a new game for me, so... 68,970. Will have pics on future scores. Didn't charge the camera. Life is better on a real system, but you can't take screenshots. and if anyone can explain how to get a twin ship without getting tractor beamed I'd like to know since I can't figure it out. (Yes, you can laugh now.) Edited November 15, 2008 by suaiden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted November 15, 2008 Author Share Posted November 15, 2008 ...if anyone can explain how to get a twin ship without getting tractor beamed I'd like to know since I can't figure it out. (Yes, you can laugh now.) Getting a ship captured and then freeing it is the only way to get the twin ship option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suaiden Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 ...if anyone can explain how to get a twin ship without getting tractor beamed I'd like to know since I can't figure it out. (Yes, you can laugh now.) Getting a ship captured and then freeing it is the only way to get the twin ship option. So you have to lose a ship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted November 15, 2008 Author Share Posted November 15, 2008 ...if anyone can explain how to get a twin ship without getting tractor beamed I'd like to know since I can't figure it out. (Yes, you can laugh now.) Getting a ship captured and then freeing it is the only way to get the twin ship option. So you have to lose a ship? Well, yes initially. But you do get it back, assuming that you shoot the alien that captured it and manage not to destroy your own captured fighter in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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