nutballchamp
Well-known member
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?
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Yeah that's one that always gets everybody. Normal but frustrating...
I've owned a Gorf for almost 2 years, never ran into points before...
I know how you feel. I'm very surprised to find this out. Now I want to try to kill myself touching the points.
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

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.