Ridiculously Low Scoring "Boss" Enemies

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I'm getting OK at Zaxxon... I can get through about a half dozen stages or so...

...and over the last few months I've often lamented over the fact that the lame asses at Sega gave ZAXXON... the friggin' BOSS and NAMESAKE of the game a measly 1000 points when you kill the bastard.

ONE THOUSAND POINTS? You can get 500 points for killing a tank... hell you get 1000 points for shooting one of the satellite things...

...yet you're "awarded" a measly grand for killing the all mighty ZAXXON?!


FAIL. How about 5,000 Sega? How about even doubling the score of the next lowest "enemy" score... 2000? Sega... you suck.

What other games have ridiculously low scoring "boss" enemies when comparing to other enemies?
 
I'm getting OK at Zaxxon... I can get through about a half dozen stages or so...

...and over the last few months I've often lamented over the fact that the lame asses at Sega gave ZAXXON... the friggin' BOSS and NAMESAKE of the game a measly 1000 points when you kill the bastard.

ONE THOUSAND POINTS? You can get 500 points for killing a tank... hell you get 1000 points for shooting one of the satellite things...

...yet you're "awarded" a measly grand for killing the all mighty ZAXXON?!


FAIL. How about 5,000 Sega? How about even doubling the score of the next lowest "enemy" score... 2000? Sega... you suck.

What other games have ridiculously low scoring "boss" enemies when comparing to other enemies?

Galaxian's scores are kinda ghey. You get 800 pts for killing the command ship in a convoy, IF you hit both flanking guard ships first. If you only hit the command ship after 1 guard ship, you get 300 pts. If the command ship comes down without a guard ship, you get 150? Sad.
 
Simpsons only gives you 1 point. X-men too. But I'm guessing you are taking about classic, score based games...
 
The Phoenix mother ship is lame that way. There have been plenty of times I got zero points for killing the alien. Phoenix cheats like no other game I have.
 
The Phoenix mother ship is lame that way. There have been plenty of times I got zero points for killing the alien. Phoenix cheats like no other game I have.

Here is how you get massive points with Phoenix Mothership:

(1) Shoot out a 1 or 2 block "path" to the moving blocks near the center...so when the moving blocks are gone you can hit the mothership center thing.

(2) Shoot out all the moving blocks...I sit at the left and shoot them all out...all the time you are shooting them out the mothership is dropping.

(3) Once all the moving blocks are shot out the mothership is near/at the bottom...she won't go further... then move in and take out the mother ship.

(4) Get points.
 
Here is how you get massive points with Phoenix Mothership:

(1) Shoot out a 1 or 2 block "path" to the moving blocks near the center...so when the moving blocks are gone you can hit the mothership center thing.

(2) Shoot out all the moving blocks...I sit at the left and shoot them all out...all the time you are shooting them out the mothership is dropping.

(3) Once all the moving blocks are shot out the mothership is near/at the bottom...she won't go further... then move in and take out the mother ship.

(4) Get points.

Yeah, that's the best way to do it :) You'll end up with 8000-9000+.
 
I just played through Life Force to see the point values for each boss. The first and easiest boss in the game gives 12,000. Then not in this order, there is a 4k, 6k and 3 that give NOTHING! Even the last boss is ZERO.

WEAK!

Hector
 
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