Scoring Millions of Points in Battlezone in Seconds

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Scoring Millions of Points in BattleZone in Seconds

Back in 1981 I was playing BattleZone at Bagatelle in the Rye Town Hilton.

The game started as usual but then I got a blitz with wave after wave of missiles and saucers, no tanks.

The game ended after a couple minutes. Definitely longer than normal but not by much.

I had 2,600,000 points.

Called over the attendant, got a high score card, got my 10 free game tokens a week later.
It was ultra cool, but it definitely was a mistake.

It happened again last night at CAX 2012.

Right from the beginning I got nailed with Missiles.
I thought maybe I was finishing someone else's games.
Definitely not the case.
Fortunately I took a photo, but I was tired and sloppy about putting in my initials. TAA instead of TEB
I should have called one of you guys over to see it to.

In less than 30 seconds, I scored the 6th highest score of all time.

edit: asterisk added for ill gotten points
*8,407,000

Has anyone else ever witnessed the BattleZone crazy score bug?
 

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i haven't personally witnessed it but it's been well documented and the subject comes up every so often on here.

i'm pretty sure i've seen the results once or twice saved in high score tables as well.
 
Man, I've never heard of that. Figures I sold my Battlezone before I experienced that. Now I got to get another one up and running.

Pat
 
it's a bug that pops up every so often. Had a guy over here and it happened - left a score of 9.6 million on my high score list.

something when you exchange shots and kill each other when you're on your last guy.
 
Ahh, yes ok I'm finding a little more now.
Ok, my game play is so bad, I don't think I have ever seen a supertank before tonight on YouTube.

I'm thinking whatever this glitch is, once it happens, the game then starts treating me like an ace player. Thus quick death, but the score remains.

Trev
 
Ahh, yes ok I'm finding a little more now.
Ok, my game play is so bad, I don't think I have ever seen a supertank before tonight on YouTube.

I'm thinking whatever this glitch is, once it happens, the game then starts treating me like an ace player. Thus quick death, but the score remains.

Trev

Yes, I think once it happens and your score gets in the millions you'll be hit with waves of cruise missiles and you'll only see supertanks, same as if you'd earned the millions legitimately.
 
This is my anomaly high score. Only shot a few tanks, got nailed by a missile and somehow this is the score i got.
 

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some goofball dropped 4, 404,000 and 2million (something) on my mini at cax

If I hit 30,000 I am killing it, bigtime
 
bz

i can barely get 32k
whats the secret? where can i get some tips i really wanna get a million on bz some day!!
 
The secret is to never face the enemy tanks heads-on. If you do, you're dead.

What you want to do is point to their side, let them get almost even with you on the side, then back up suddenly, turn and blow them up.

Still hard to get a million even if you know the trick. My high is between 400K and 500K -- too lazy to get up and confirm. :)
 
72k is my high score and I feel like I worked my ass off to get that.

Couple hints I use are:

Move towards the tanks at an angle and keep moving forward. They will fire and miss every time. When you are within killing range, just after the enemy tank fires the miss, turn for the kill.

Buzz bombs seem to get confused if you use rapid right/left rapid tank movement. Just before they are closing in, turn straight and fire for the kill.

- Don
 
The secret is to never face the enemy tanks heads-on. If you do, you're dead.

What you want to do is point to their side, let them get almost even with you on the side, then back up suddenly, turn and blow them up.

Still hard to get a million even if you know the trick. My high is between 400K and 500K -- too lazy to get up and confirm. :)

72k is my high score and I feel like I worked my ass off to get that.

Couple hints I use are:

Move towards the tanks at an angle and keep moving forward. They will fire and miss every time. When you are within killing range, just after the enemy tank fires the miss, turn for the kill.

Buzz bombs seem to get confused if you use rapid right/left rapid tank movement. Just before they are closing in, turn straight and fire for the kill.

- Don

Great now I want to play BZ and I dont have a cab.
oohh and thanks for the tips :D

G12
 
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