TrevEB
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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?
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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