Is this normal for Gorf?

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I noticed tonight on my Gorf that the points displayed for shooting a flying enemy will kill you if you touch it. Is this normal or is something wrong with my board?
 
I've owned a Gorf for almost 2 years, never ran into points before...

For a lot players its natural to be moving upwards if you shoot an alien when its close, therefore you run into the "points". Not always the case. Give it a try...for you its a new way to die
 
For a lot players its natural to be moving upwards if you shoot an alien when its close, therefore you run into the "points". Not always the case. Give it a try...for you its a new way to die

i think i must've already embedded the idea of just to avoid anything and everything on the screen even if after the flag ship stage
 
Is it really suprising? I mean your in a space ship and you run into a giant score in the middle of space.... ive yet to see the score lose..
 
My Gorf has twice now started speaking gibberish all on its own. Once while working in the garage late at night I nearly leaped out of my skin.
 
It might be normal for some revisions, but not all. I've got around 80 GORF boards (okay, I love the game) and there are differences. It can also indicate a partial RAM or Pattern board failure.

I think the correlation between collision detection with points displayed may coincide with the heat sink added to the single 40 pin CPU on the processor board. Which is also around the time of punched louver lower bezel retainers -vs- flat bezel retainers.

My GORF is about 5 rows back in the garage right now, but one of these days I'll sort out the revisions.
 
Every Gorf I've ever played has done this...all the way back to the 1980's when I played at Ace Hardware.
 
It might be normal for some revisions, but not all. I've got around 80 GORF boards (okay, I love the game) and there are differences. It can also indicate a partial RAM or Pattern board failure.

I think the correlation between collision detection with points displayed may coincide with the heat sink added to the single 40 pin CPU on the processor board. Which is also around the time of punched louver lower bezel retainers -vs- flat bezel retainers.

My GORF is about 5 rows back in the garage right now, but one of these days I'll sort out the revisions.

You wouldn't happen to be the same Mike that I think I bid against on a Gorf back in 98, were you? Used to have those monthly game auctions down in downtown kc. That was my very first auction I went to. Picked up that and a Donkey Kong Jr.
 
You wouldn't happen to be the same Mike that I think I bid against on a Gorf back in 98, were you? Used to have those monthly game auctions down in downtown kc. That was my very first auction I went to. Picked up that and a Donkey Kong Jr.

Quite possible, I went to every one of those auctions starting around 1994 or so. Those were some great times and deals. Back then, the dead games were super cheap, and working games brought top dollar so it was easier to build a collection by making carefully planned deals.
 
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