Deteacher Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 (edited) A shoot-em-up through the Earth's solar system where the player's ship moves in a circular orbit around the outer edge of the screen while shooting at enemies in the center. Excellent synthesizer music score of Bach's "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor" Game Information: Game Name: Gyruss Manufactured By: Konami/1983 ROMSet: gyruss.ziip Dipswitches: Level 5 difficulty, 3 starting lives, bonus lives at 30K and every 60K afterwards Chosen by: mr. toast Contest ends on Saturday, March 16th at 11:59 p.m. (EST) High Score Table (Final): 1. 385,200 M.A.M.E Offender [+15] 2. 295,200 patbb [+14] 3. 207,600 mr. toast [+13] 4. 152,850 kane [+12] 5. 127,350 Cynicaster [+11] 6. 126,200 NIKON [+10] 7. 124,150 Kloverz178 [+9] 8. 115,100 darthkur [+8] 9. 114,650 bigbee99 [+7] 10.111,800 Deteacher [+6] 11. 93,650 onmode-ky [+5] 12. 85,100 roadrunner [+4] 13. 79,850 Fallout_002 [+3] 14. 68,450 jblenkle [+2] 15. 52,350 racerx [+1] 16. 52,250 hepcat [+1] 17. 40,150 asponge [+1] 18. 33,300 BillyHW [+1] 19. 28,700 Mangia-Boy [+1] Points Leaderboard: 1. patbb [122] 2. kane [120] 3. M.A.M.E. Offender [112] 4. Deteacher [105] 5. bigbee99 [98] 6. Cynicaster [82] 7. Fallout_002 [65] 8. JohnnyBlaze [64] 9. hepcat [59] 10. darthkur [57] 11. NIKON [55] 12. asponge [50] 13. Mangia-Boy [45] 14. kloverz178 [36] 15. Classicgamer_277330 [34] 16. roadrunner [21] 17. Jblenkle [17] 18. Vocelli [14] 19. racerx [12] 20. onmode-ky [11] 21. BillyHW [11] 22. Beaver On The Wood [9] 23. Wispfollower [8] 24. MisterVCS [8] 25. ommode-ky [7] 26. mr. toast [7] 27. Mingy Jongo [5] 28. Liduario [3] 29. Homerwannabe [2] 30. Wolfman24 [1] Edited March 17, 2013 by Deteacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKON Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 (edited) what are the settings for this round? Edited March 10, 2013 by Deteacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Here are the default settings: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. toast Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) Sorry, posted too early. Edited March 10, 2013 by mr. toast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKON Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Gyruss - 28,150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 85,100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Gyruss - 50,150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patbb Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 129,700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I remember playing this for the first time at a Chuck E Cheese in the latter 80s. Very cool game with unique style and controls. I remember thinking it was way cooler than the vertical shooters like Galaga. It was next to a Ghosts'n Goblins machine and I played a few games of both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Gyruss - 52,100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallout_002 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 79,850 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. toast Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Got a new PR! 207,600 Any tips on the Mars section? I got destroyed big time--3 lives lost in 2 stages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I know I've got better in me. It's just been a while since I played this one. I use my wired 360 controller instead of the keyboard for it. 57,700 B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patbb Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 295,200 With INP using WM106 gyruss 295K patbb.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patbb Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Any tips on the Mars section? I got destroyed big time--3 lives lost in 2 stages! For the first 2 waves I go to 5 o'clock and move up and try to get as many as possible. For the third and forth waves I go to 10 o'clock and move down while trying to get as many enemies as possible. Then I shoot in the center, on one side of the screen, to kill as many ships as possible (the ones that are not flying towards you) When the satellites shows up I go to the other side. Easier said then done. I probably lost a few lives myself but I was lucky enough to only loose 1 life in the first 19 stages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Gyruss - 53,700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Gyruss - 68,450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kloverz178 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Hi- 81,100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I'm not done with this one yet!! I don't find the Mars warp to be all that difficult. It's the Earth one that gives me a real challenge. After you get through the Earth warp, it goes back to the outer reaches of the Universe to Neptune again. There is quite a difference between difficulty level 1 and level 5. I think I can get ahead of Pat if I could fly to Earth with 3 or 4 men. Then I would be stylin. I think it would have been better if they included all of the 9 planets in this game. I wonder why they left out Pluto, Uranus, Venus and Mercury??? Anyway, Gyruss is a lot of fun and I will be atter again as soon as I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Whoops, I forgot to include my score. Gyruss --- 264,950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onmode-ky Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 93,650. I don't get along well with the controls in this game. When playing on keyboard, it's even worse (I don't think I broke 30,000 then; switching to gamepad really helped). This is all compounded by the fact that, for some reason, the game stutters on my computer. Not only the game itself, but also the firing button, where I sometimes only get 2 shots at a time instead of the proper 3 when rapid-firing. I'm pretty sure the stuttering contributed to my quick deaths right after getting a new life at 90,000. I checked CPU consumption, but there was never a maxed-out core during the running of the game, so I don't know what the cause was. Incidentally, in the season leaderboard, I'm back with two identities again, onmode-ky and ommode-ky. That doppelganger sure is crafty. onmode-ky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 HEHE. I told you I wasn't done. 385,200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 ....correction on my previous post about the involved planets. They only left out Pluto, Venus and Mercury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 ....they didn't forget about Uranus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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