Highest Score On Galaga

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Just curious what some of the high scores on Galaga are out there. I played a great game tonight and got 155,000 (Level 20), but I know that can't scratch the surface of what others have scored.
 
im restoring the one i picked up , bitd i could get to level 52 but i cant remember the scores

if your wondering the world record is over 3million


i wish i could remember those scores at 52......just cant remember(22 or 23 yrs ago?)
 
When I was in high school a very long time ago, I used to get over a Million easy but now I could get maybe 500000 or so I think.

Andrew
 
My current high score is close to 3 million, if you add a zero on the end.
 
I typically get 200K - 250K, but a couple years ago I was playing an ugly converted machine with a 25" monitor, a bad leg leveler, and a floppy joystick - and ended up scoring over half a million. It's like the additional challenge of fighting the machine and having to use peripheral vision to keep the whole screen in view made me take it up a notch or something.

I don't think I have the patience to play to a million, even if I did have the skill.
 
I think my personal best is somewhere between 150k and 200k but that's with rapid fire enabled. I much more prefer it that way myself. I have a buddy who moved to Florida and took the 48 in 1 I built for him with. I remember when I got it running he played a pretty mean round of Galaga.
 
if your wondering the world record is over 3million

And that's on tournament settings, 5 men only. The marathon one is much higher. The guy who got the 3 million was at the IVGHoF ceremony last week (he flew in from Australia!), got to talk with him a bit (actually, the guy he beat was also there too, talked to both of them)
 
Right now my best game is 493,000 on my Galaga. Way back when I could flip it from time to time..I dont remember the exact scores on those games, though.
 
Back when I first got my Galaga I had dreams of beating the record, then I watched a video of a guy scoring 20 mill + and the speed of the game at that point is insane. So I stopped practicing and recording my pathetic score.

Here I score 101,320 I have scored 120,000 but didn't record:

 
I don't use the double fire technique. I know people who have scored much high than me who do, though. I've never developed the technique of using it past the early levels of the game. There is quite a bit of video on Youtube of people using it during the whole game and doing very well, though, so one of these days I am going to give it a shot and see if it can increase my score.

I also noticed in the above video that you don't have rapid fire. I cound not play this game on slow fire, I would die of boredom.

Spreaking of this, I am going to fire up the arcade tonight and play a few games of Galaga, we'll see how it goes.
 
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I don't use the double fire technique. I know people who have scored much high than me who do, though. I've never developed the technique of using it past the early levels of the game. There is quite a bit of video on Youtube of people using it during the whole game and doing very well, though, so one of these days I am going to give it a shot and see if it can increase my score.

I also noticed in the above video that you don't have rapid fire. I cound not play this game on slow fire, I would die of boredom.

Spreaking of this, I am going to fire up the arcade tonight and play a few games of Galaga, we'll see how it goes.

I only use 2 ships in the beginning, they become too wide in later levels for me to handle. The fastshoot isn't allowed in Twin Galaxies. I don't have all my dips set to Twin Galaxies settings, I will at some point.
 
And that's on tournament settings, 5 men only. The marathon one is much higher. The guy who got the 3 million was at the IVGHoF ceremony last week (he flew in from Australia!), got to talk with him a bit (actually, the guy he beat was also there too, talked to both of them)

Did you get any tips from them?

I scored 1,000,020 over a year ago with rapid fire. I actually lost around 6 ships when my fire went right through the alien and destroyed my captured ship. This happens because of the rapid fire.
 
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