First of all to post score you need a setup standard. I suggest we all use the Twin Galaxies settings.
For Robotron it is as follows:
Variation: Marathon [Default] Platform: Arcade Rules: Extra Men Every: 25000 Points Turns Per Player: 3 High Score To Date: Yes Difficulty Of Play: 5 Letters For Highest Score: 3
I was looking at Twin Galaxies to set up my Stargate and give it a go. It looks much easier than what I have in terms of settings since I had max difficulty at 30 but they are using 15! I really think there is a distinct possibility of blowing away the world highscore on these settings.
Anyway it didn't add up. Here is what they posted:
Variation: Points [Marathon] Platform: Arcade Rules: Extra Ship Every: 10000 Ships for 1 Credit Game: 5 Ships for 2 Credit Game: 7 Free Play: No Master Difficulty Control: 3 Initial Difficulty: 5 Moderate Maximum Difficulty: 15 Moderate 1st Wave of Accelerated Difficulty: 0 Last Wave of Accelerated Difficulty: 0 Difficulty Acceleration Rate: 0 Moderate Inviso Time Per Ship: 10 Men Needed To Warp: 4 Last Wave Warp Allowed: 10
The problem is Master Difficulty Control 3 does not equate to the Maximum Difficulty default of 15, it equates to 30, which is the way I play it.
You in fact require Master Difficulty of "Custom" to set Max Difficulty to 15.
I will contact them for clarification.
By the way Steph. I am pretty sure I can beat that Robotron score.
By the way Steph. I am pretty sure I can beat that Robotron score.
Glen, I would love to see you try. You're welcome to give 'er a go on my machine anytime. I've owned a Robotron for a couple of years now and have yet to break even 1 million. (I've had a few 900,000+ games, but get jittery when it looks like I'm gonna hit the million mark and wind up quickly losing all of my lives.)
To get 5 million+ would require, what, over an hour of non-stop frenzied playing time? Excellent score, Steph.
Eugene Jarvis has said he has never broken 1 million either, so I don't feel so bad.
I'm pretty good but it was mostly a rub of Steph for a joke. To get that proficient again I would have to have access to a machine and definitely focus. You know us star performers have needs. No Kabbalah water, but a cheeseburger and a couple of Mountain Dews to get the ball rolling are in order.
Without knowing the setup though there really is no baseline to go by and as I am seeing with reference to my Stargate settings, the records are not necessarily being set with the factory settings all defaulted.
First of all to post score you need a setup standard. I suggest we all use the Twin Galaxies settings.
For Robotron it is as follows:
Variation: Marathon [Default] Platform: Arcade Rules: Extra Men Every: 25000 Points Turns Per Player: 3 High Score To Date: Yes Difficulty Of Play: 5 Letters For Highest Score: 3
Yes, this is what I have. It is the default setting for the Blue Rom set
To get 5 million+ would require, what, over an hour of non-stop frenzied playing time?
It takes roughly about 20 min per Million points. So that game was about 1hr 45 minutes. [ ... it's a better work-out than an hour of hard cardio ! ]
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The goal I've set for myself is to roll the screen/level counter...
Like many games of that era, 8 bit registers only allowed 255 levels (or screens). When you got to the 256th screen, some games (like PacMan) would crash. Others, like Robotron, would "roll-over" back to screen 1 .
It takes me about 35-38 levels to score 1M points. I figure I'd need a score of about 7.5M to roll the screen...
If I can do that, then rolling the score ( which is 9,999,999 ) should be within reach.
...it's important to have meaningful goals in life !
Gee, if only you knew someone who had one for sale .... (..I'd even erase the scores so you could get your name up there ! )
Gee, if I only had space.
I think you hold the world record for owning the most of the same game of anyone title at the same time.
Still don't understand why these original dedicated games don't have a good following. I don't see the slump lasting forever on them. It would be like saying a photograph is better than a Picaso when comparing them to newer games. Better technology doesn't equate to better playability. They are definitely different from the modern game. The movie once again makes a point of stating that.
It would appear that a guy named Brian King is your nemesis. 348,691,680 is the starting point. If you do the math using your 20 minute analysis, that would be 4 and a half days of playing.
Anyone heard of a John McKeever? He's from Montreal and holds the number two spot on Mr Do!. Here's anouther Canuck; Mr. Kelly R. Flewin of Winnipeg, MB. Best Time Pilot tournament score. "Mr." that's a laugh "I won at Time Pilot so you better call me Mr."
It would appear that a guy named Brian King is your nemesis. 348,691,680 is the starting point. If you do the math using your 20 minute analysis, that would be 4 and a half days of playing.
Yah, I saw that. 348M .... that's just nuts.
I assume he was likely far more proficient at scoring than me, but still, even if he could get 1M in 10 minutes (...which would be incredible ..), that's still over 2 days of playing ....
watched a guy do the astriods record in trenton way back in the day. it was nice to have the arcade open all night long. i played arabian http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6899 for most of one night (acid hmmm). i think it was over 6hrs and i finished the book quite a few times. don't know anything about score keeping back then (acid hmmm).
i do really enjoy all the video game talk and hearing the scores. need more of it. like how glen said that dedicated machines should make a come back. that makes me happy. trenton just got a new arcade open downtown. i haven't been there yet. but others have come to the shop and told me. i found out thursday when they opened and i haven't been back to trenton since. can't wait for tuesday to go see what they have.
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