I can think of two, both from back in the arcade days, so early 80's...
Got 550,000 or so on a Missile Command set to 20,000 for an extra city. I had gotten to the 800,000 level (where the 256 extra cities bug kicks in) a few times on default settings (10,000 for extra city). I think 550k on a 20k extra city game was a better played game. Once you reach high levels on a 10K city game, you really don't even need to defend your cities, if you shoot well, you can score 10K every round. On a 20k city game, you MUST defend cities at least 1 out of 2 rounds and more like 2 out of 3 rounds depending on how the score falls.
Got 49k+ on a Deluxe Space Invaders. I was a major Space Invaders addict when it came out. I played it all over and sought out any game room if I heard there was a hot player there. I have only seen one person ever, beside my game, get over 30k on Deluxe SI. The world record listed is absolutely bogus. I think it's 200k or so. It's higher than the regular SI record. No possible way. Deluxe SI is WAY harder than SI. If the SI world record (by Richie K) is about 125k I believe, there is no way someone did better on Deluxe. Richie could not use the technique he used on SI on Deluxe SI. I am not saying Richie isn't great on SI, he is. I give him full complete credit. But I challenge him to get even 20k on Deluxe.
A lot of the old records are highly suspect to say the least. That's needed cleaning up for a long long time now.



