Man, I had been stuck at a high score of 276,000 for almost 2 months.
Donkey Kong can be so cruel--twice in the last week I had gotten to 200,000 with three lives left. Then I got hammered to death with wild barrels and didn't even break 250,000.
Tonight was looking like it was going to be the same old story when I lost two lives on one barrel screen at 260,000...except...this time I somehow hung on for 40,000 points on the last life to hit 303,800. A dumb unforced error ended things on the elevators--I failed to make the jump to the down elevator and jumped straight up and down onto the fireball. Ah well.
On another note, I added the final details to my DK restoration project--I installed a new set of blue & orange buttons from Mike's Arcade. I also installed a reproduction of the bezel instruction decal. It's done!
Maybe it was the new buttons that helped?
Donkey Kong Restoration
Donkey Kong can be so cruel--twice in the last week I had gotten to 200,000 with three lives left. Then I got hammered to death with wild barrels and didn't even break 250,000.
Tonight was looking like it was going to be the same old story when I lost two lives on one barrel screen at 260,000...except...this time I somehow hung on for 40,000 points on the last life to hit 303,800. A dumb unforced error ended things on the elevators--I failed to make the jump to the down elevator and jumped straight up and down onto the fireball. Ah well.
On another note, I added the final details to my DK restoration project--I installed a new set of blue & orange buttons from Mike's Arcade. I also installed a reproduction of the bezel instruction decal. It's done!
Maybe it was the new buttons that helped?
Donkey Kong Restoration