Taking Back the High Score

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Man what a great feeling. 6.5 months after someone put a high score of 83xx on my Berzerk, I finally took it back with a score of 8990. Love that feeling. LOVE IT. I was finally in the zone. SEX is on top once more.
 
i know how you feel! my personal best of 275,000 on phoenix has had me in a good mood lately!
 
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Man what a great feeling. 6.5 months after someone put a high score of 83xx on my Berzerk, I finally took it back with a score of 8990. Love that feeling. LOVE IT. I was finally in the zone. SEX is on top once more.

Who put up the 83xx, Mythtrip(Jim)? Damn I couldn't even get 5K on that game.

At my last party someone put up 273K on Mr. Do! blowing away my 106K. Also Andre laughed at my 54K on Asteroids and played till he got 99K and quit so the score wouldn't turn over the bastard. But he couldn't beat my Missile Command score, ha!
 
Who put up the 83xx, Mythtrip(Jim)? Damn I couldn't even get 5K on that game.

At my last party someone put up 273K on Mr. Do! blowing away my 106K. Also Andre laughed at my 54K on Asteroids and played till he got 99K and quit so the score wouldn't turn over the bastard. But he couldn't beat my Missile Command score, ha!

It had to be Jim. That son of a bitch is on my Asteroids Deluxe scoreboard as well. Time to get in the zone on that game too.
 
I felt the same way after finally getting the top score back on Frogger (59K) after someone had put up 57K back in June at the Seattle show.
 
just this evening i finally broke the 100k barrier on Quantum on SanTe's machine and had the high score for the night (at least until i left; Ken House and Perry Rogers were still there so plenty of talent left in the house.) got to write "Bite Me" next to my initials with the track ball. wOOt!

next goal: kick John MacAllister's initials off the machine (he's at 134k, 3rd of the three permanent slots.)
 
It had to be Jim. That son of a bitch is on my Asteroids Deluxe scoreboard as well. Time to get in the zone on that game too.


I would have scored higher on Berzerk but that is when the roofies must have kicked
in. :)


I only have a couple of games that save the high score and one of them is BattleZone.
My buddy is a savant at the game and hasn't played one since the early 80's.
In only his second try he put a very respectable 130k. The game saves the top ten scores and it has gotten so bad that I'm clinging on to 9th and 10th place.


Jim
 
I would have scored higher on Berzerk but that is when the roofies must have kicked
in. :)


I only have a couple of games that save the high score and one of them is BattleZone.
My buddy is a savant at the game and hasn't played one since the early 80's.
In only his second try he put a very respectable 130k. The game saves the top ten scores and it has gotten so bad that I'm clinging on to 9th and 10th place.


Jim

Funny thing is, until yesterday, breaking 6K seemed hard, 7K seemed impossible. Once I broke 8K I was like, man this shit's easy. Then my kids came in fighting and yelling and I fell out of the zone. I hit 8K with 3 guys, they were all gone within 900 pts. I hate to say it but this run was the first time I ever heard the free man at 5000 tone.
 
Man what a great feeling. 6.5 months after someone put a high score of 83xx on my Berzerk, I finally took it back with a score of 8990. Love that feeling. LOVE IT. I was finally in the zone. SEX is on top once more.

It took me about four months to beat Lance's score of 96XX after he fixed my boards and I have been able to only once. That's a game that you have to build yourself back up on if you take an extended break. Now I have to beat the high score on my SID that has been there for a couple years now.
 
Man what a great feeling. 6.5 months after someone put a high score of 83xx on my Berzerk, I finally took it back with a score of 8990. Love that feeling. LOVE IT. I was finally in the zone. SEX is on top once more.

Is there going to be documentary on it? :D
 
just this evening i finally broke the 100k barrier on Quantum on SanTe's machine and had the high score for the night (at least until i left; Ken House and Perry Rogers were still there so plenty of talent left in the house.) got to write "Bite Me" next to my initials with the track ball. wOOt!

next goal: kick John MacAllister's initials off the machine (he's at 134k, 3rd of the three permanent slots.)

You can easily get 100k by board 9 by doing the orbit trick on the early levels. When you circle nuclei, quickly circle over and over and you'll keep getting bonus points. When you get it down should be able to get at least 10+ orbits on each one.... you can orbit more than one, but it's trickier to maintain that large of a circle to keep getting points. Your arms will get tired but you'll have plenty of points/lives for the harder levels. Also, if you die on a level where you have orbited a few times - the game will wipe off nuclei (the # depends on how many orbits you got before you died) when you restart the level, so it can help you on some of the trickier levels later on. You can also orbit the photons and the bombs from that thing that drops them in later levels.

On subject, I have the high scores on most of my games except Bubbles, Tron and Space Invaders Deluxe. I'm convinced I can get the SID back... gotten really close a few times. Tron score was put up over a year ago by Tron Guy. Still want to learn the later patterns and beat it but I might have to admit defeat on that one. As for Bubbles, there's no way in hell that I'm going to invest the time to get get good enough at Bubbles to score 500k+ - Damn you Jkolpe!
 
Man what a great feeling. 6.5 months after someone put a high score of 83xx on my Berzerk, I finally took it back with a score of 8990. Love that feeling. LOVE IT. I was finally in the zone. SEX is on top once more.

In honor of your post, I fired up Berzerk today to try and better my own high score of 7800. Evil Otto and his robotic minions had other plans in mind and held me to 6800 points today. One day I will prevail.
 
I finally broke a million on my Joust, and after that I've hit 1 million almost every single game. Most of this stuff is mental. Once you cross a level you've been trying for so hard, then you're not worrying about it so much.

Nice Job. The 10K extra man sound in Berzerk is just as fun to hear! I can hit 12K every game before my play falls apart. Soon you'll be running to the fast bullets on your first man every game.
 
I finally broke a million on my Joust, and after that I've hit 1 million almost every single game. Most of this stuff is mental. Once you cross a level you've been trying for so hard, then you're not worrying about it so much.

Nice Job. The 10K extra man sound in Berzerk is just as fun to hear! I can hit 12K every game before my play falls apart. Soon you'll be running to the fast bullets on your first man every game.

The fast bullets caught me off guard, no doubt. Between that and my kids no wonder I lost 3 guys within an 800 pt span.
 
I have only managed about 13k on Berzerk but haven't played it that much.

The Berzerk WR holder is on KLOV. He sent me a copy of his player's guide.
 
I finally broke a million on my Joust, and after that I've hit 1 million almost every single game. Most of this stuff is mental. Once you cross a level you've been trying for so hard, then you're not worrying about it so much.

Nice Job. The 10K extra man sound in Berzerk is just as fun to hear! I can hit 12K every game before my play falls apart. Soon you'll be running to the fast bullets on your first man every game.

5K extra man sound is unmistakeable. I have never heard the sound for the 10k extra guy sound.
 
I'm glad you bumped this so I didn't have to. I broke 9K yesterday morning. 9130 is the new high on Berzerk at the Outer Limits Arcade. Heading for 10K this week.
 
5K extra man sound is unmistakeable. I have never heard the sound for the 10k extra guy sound.

Just realized why I never heard the sound for the 10k extra man. Mine is set up for only 1 extra guy at 5k. New high score 14770.
 
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