MoomUnit Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 The scoring for E.T. is lacking in one big way: The only bonus for being successfully rescued is that your remaining energy is converted into points. There is NO PENALTY for dying.Having trouble getting a decent score? Here's an easy way to get 15,403.Just make sure to collect 20 Reese's Pieces (I can't seem to get more) and give them all to Elliot. As for the phone pieces, just try to always have one or two parts in your inventory, so if the FBI Agent touches you, he takes a phone part and not some of your candy. The Scientist is annoying, but if he grabs you, just enjoy the ride. Don't worry about dying or failing to get rescued! If you successfully give Elliot 20 pieces of candy, your final score will be 15,403 = 20(770) + 3. You always get 3 points at the end for some reason. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 The scoring for E.T. is lacking in one big way: The only bonus for being successfully rescued is that your remaining energy is converted into points. There is NO PENALTY for dying. Having trouble getting a decent score? Here's an easy way to get 15,403. Just make sure to collect 20 Reese's Pieces (I can't seem to get more) and give them all to Elliot. As for the phone pieces, just try to always have one or two parts in your inventory, so if the FBI Agent touches you, he takes a phone part and not some of your candy. The Scientist is annoying, but if he grabs you, just enjoy the ride. Don't worry about dying or failing to get rescued! If you successfully give Elliot 20 pieces of candy, your final score will be 15,403 = 20(770) + 3. You always get 3 points at the end for some reason. The way I play, I usually have all 3 pieces of the phone by the time I have 4 pieces of candy. I rarely let the FBI agent take anything. If I'm having a hard time finding the Phone Home Zone, I'll let the scientist give me a free ride and sometimes he'll find the zone for me on the way back to Washington, D.C. and I won't have to waste any more energy looking for it. I don't know if it's just because I'm using Stella, but most of the time I can only collect 15 or 16 pieces of candy. If one of us could get 20 and have at least 5000 energy, we could hit 20,000. One penalty for dying is that you don't have much energy left to add to the score. Most of time the Phone Home Zone can be found while looking for the Find Phone Piece Zone on each of the 4 well screens, so once you give every piece of candy you can find to Elliott, you can call the ship and get home with at least 5000 energy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 E.T. - 19,378 Game 1 B/B One Run. Alien - 83,570 Game 1 B/B. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoomUnit Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 There's NCG. I knew it was too quiet. Dammit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 There's NCG. I knew it was too quiet. Dammit. Beat me by 78 points. I'll try for 20,000 tomorrow. I'll record it using Bandicam while I play and if I get a high score, I'll post a video of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoomUnit Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 (edited) ET: 19,432 That's 19(770) + 4799 + 3 Edited April 18, 2015 by MoomUnit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 E.T. - 19,708 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Yeah, I'm having trouble getting more than 14 pieces of candy consistently. There has to be something to it, but those who know are keeping it under their hats... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Alien 36,756 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoo_chilly Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 (edited) Alien 68,489 Star Wars: The Arcade Game 66,411 Edited April 18, 2015 by voodoo_chilly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 493 - E.T. 10,057 - Star Wars Participation point for E.T. I think I'm still living in the 1982 of Christmas Past. I still can't get into it, even 33 years later. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Alien - 59,438 Star Wars - 50,888 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 ET 16,997 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoomUnit Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Yeah, I'm having trouble getting more than 14 pieces of candy consistently. There has to be something to it, but those who know are keeping it under their hats... There's no secret as far as I know. I'm not doing anything special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoo_chilly Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 (edited) Alien 71,668 Star Wars: The Arcade Game 104,424 Edited April 19, 2015 by voodoo_chilly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Yeah, I'm having trouble getting more than 14 pieces of candy consistently. There has to be something to it, but those who know are keeping it under their hats... I just figured out that when I start a new game with Stella using Ctrl + R, I always seem to get a crappy candy count. If I hit Ctrl + R then hit Reset a couple of times, I seem to get more candy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabbler15 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 24,123 - Alien I'm starting to like this game. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Yeah, I find that on consecutive resets I end up landing and there is no candy for about 4-5 screens or until I drop into a pit. Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 E.T. 20,329. 20 candies given to Elliot = 15,400 + 4926 left on timer + 3. I reset or wait until a candy piece is showing on the screen below the starting point, then reset again! So when I start, there are candy pieces to gather right away. I also only fall into one well for a phone piece, getting the other two from Elliot after giving him 9 pieces of candy each time and giving him the 19th and 20th candy pieces aswell. Finding the call ship zone (imp looking icon) and the landing zone icon early on and remembering their locations is key to saving time. It takes numerous resets to get 20 candy pieces. Moving quickly and accurately without falling into any other wells and avoiding the FBI agent also helps. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoo_chilly Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 (edited) I like how this guy gets the ship at the end by freezing the FBI agent on the screen BELOW the landing zone forest, and then runs north to the forest with a few ticks left! Prevents the ship from not landing with humans on the screen. (Around 5 minute mark) Edited April 19, 2015 by voodoo_chilly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Star Wars Arcade 11,980 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I like how this guy gets the ship at the end by freezing the FBI agent on the screen BELOW the landing zone forest, and then runs north to the forest with a few ticks left! Prevents the ship from not landing with humans on the screen. That's actually my video from nearly thirty years ago. Scott Stilphen is a good friend and he formatted it from VHS to disc for me. A portion of the same video is on my Youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=najF9S4CiHI. The video Scott has on his channel also shows collecting 33 candy pieces, turning E.T. dark and as the score/symbols go down the designers initials appear, HSW. This was the first documented example showing this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 SW 89,987 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I reset or wait until a candy piece is showing on the screen below the starting point, then reset again! So when I start, there are candy pieces to gather right away. I also only fall into one well for a phone piece, getting the other two from Elliot after giving him 9 pieces of candy each time and giving him the 19th and 20th candy pieces aswell. Finding the call ship zone (imp looking icon) and the landing zone icon early on and remembering their locations is key to saving time. It takes numerous resets to get 20 candy pieces. Moving quickly and accurately without falling into any other wells and avoiding the FBI agent also helps. Thanks. That resetting tip looks like the thing the rest of us have been missing. I reset after candy was on the screen and got 2 pieces of the phone from Elliott, so I ended up getting a higher single round score than I could before. After hitting reset with candy on the screen, I got ((9 + 9 + 2) * 770) + 5300 + 3: 20703 youtube.com/watch?v=oBWNX1Vjk8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBWNX1Vjk8g I made a few mistakes while playing thanks to the distraction of 3rd Rock from the Sun on Netflix. I was expecting this round to be a high score failure like so many before it. I wonder if I could have reached 21 thousand if I wasn't an idiot? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 10,943 Yeah, first time I can return home! I had to read the manual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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