Great score, way to go! I (still) have yet to hit 200K. I've been trying for over a year now.
FINALLY Broke 300K in DK
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Dr Galaga
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vicjw66
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It's funny how much you retain from your youth all these years later. I was around 8 or 9 when dk came out and would watch the older kids play to pick up tips before I would part with my precious quarters. I never had more than 50 cents in my pocket. Still vividly recall memory of first learning that jumping repeatedly near donkey kong's right leg on rivets to get extra points and the immediate running jump on 2nd girder level to get the timing right to then jump in front of first falling angled barrel for 100 points. Dragons lair cost 50 cents for damn sake. I studied every strategy and move I could for the new games before I dropped my first quarter in and still recall all those memories when I play those games today. Of course the older gamers would never have let me get my turn in anyway. Back then new games always had long wait lines and punk kids like me were pushed aside.
djruden
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Nice work on the score!
My current high is 378,600 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/28561323@N04/3259094172/
Coincidently, 2 weeks ago when I was in Washington D.C. to celebrate New Years and sight see, I found a DK game at a bar - I believe it was called Rocket Bar (http://www.rocketbardc.com/) . Anyway, the high score was sadly only in the 100k's so I quickly beat it and in only a handful of games I rocked it with over 350K!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28561323@N04/4281299518/
I was quite happy with that game. I dunno if I would have liked beating my highest score on a machine other than my own. Anyway, in regards to my first pic link, I dont have a current but the rest of my HS table is all over 300k now.
Now my sights are on 400k and beyond!!!
My current high is 378,600 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/28561323@N04/3259094172/
Coincidently, 2 weeks ago when I was in Washington D.C. to celebrate New Years and sight see, I found a DK game at a bar - I believe it was called Rocket Bar (http://www.rocketbardc.com/) . Anyway, the high score was sadly only in the 100k's so I quickly beat it and in only a handful of games I rocked it with over 350K!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28561323@N04/4281299518/
I was quite happy with that game. I dunno if I would have liked beating my highest score on a machine other than my own. Anyway, in regards to my first pic link, I dont have a current but the rest of my HS table is all over 300k now.
Now my sights are on 400k and beyond!!!
scr33n
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Nice score !!!
My personal: 241,400
My personal: 241,400
I'm stuck at 233,100 k right now..
I play prob 2 games a day.. but I think I'm playing too much.. need to step away..
cause now I'm having trouble getting to 150 k again..
but ! I did go from 168 to 233K in one game and it was only about 2 weeks ago.
I'm looking /wondering if there is a point mining type stragedy now? something other than just 'finish each level fast to get the bonus points and live" thing.. ??
some plans of just milking for max points each level to get me over the 300 k mark?
or is the 'finish fast and live" plan still the best ??
I play prob 2 games a day.. but I think I'm playing too much.. need to step away..
cause now I'm having trouble getting to 150 k again..
but ! I did go from 168 to 233K in one game and it was only about 2 weeks ago.
I'm looking /wondering if there is a point mining type stragedy now? something other than just 'finish each level fast to get the bonus points and live" thing.. ??
some plans of just milking for max points each level to get me over the 300 k mark?
or is the 'finish fast and live" plan still the best ??
OP
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I'm stuck at 233,100 k right now..
I play prob 2 games a day.. but I think I'm playing too much.. need to step away..
cause now I'm having trouble getting to 150 k again..
but ! I did go from 168 to 233K in one game and it was only about 2 weeks ago.
I'm looking /wondering if there is a point mining type stragedy now? something other than just 'finish each level fast to get the bonus points and live" thing.. ??
some plans of just milking for max points each level to get me over the 300 k mark?
or is the 'finish fast and live" plan still the best ??
Some of my problem over the past year is that I was trying to learn how to point press. I stopped doing that because it really messed up my timing on everything else. I don't think I am going to mess with that until I hit the day when I can continually get to the Kill Screen. Until that time I don't think there is much use in point pressing. It's not helping me become a better player.
Well I thought I would give it a shot to get up to your 300,00 after reading your post. It has been a long time, but I got to 165,000 on my first guy and then it went downhill from there. My final score was 203,600. That is the highest I've gotten in a long time.
By the way how do you post images into these replies?
By the way how do you post images into these replies?
OP
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That's a great score for the first guy! I've hit 100K on the first guy a few times but that's about it.
I just have the pics saved on my website and link to them in here.
vicjw66
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Points pressing is something I only do up to second rivet screen jumping next to DK. Anything after that just leaves me more susceptible to getting killed. That strategy is something for the Mitchells and Wiebe's to do to maximize points before kill screen.
vicjw66
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Playing each level with the goal of maximizing points rather than the goal to "get er done" asap.
Thanks Jeff,
I was pretty surprised to get so far with the first jumpman.
Hey Vic, I have never tried the point press. Seen it demo'd before. May give it a shot today.
I was pretty surprised to get so far with the first jumpman.
Hey Vic, I have never tried the point press. Seen it demo'd before. May give it a shot today.
jsquared
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Congrats!!! Only 270K away from me (570K)!! Keep practicing!!
OP
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Soon... .
