Who Here Has A 1M Point Arcade Score?

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The more I think about it, the more impressed I am with people who can score 1,000,000 points on an arcade game. I have never done it. Ever.

I am currently working on a 1M point score on a game, but 700K is the closest I have come. 1M is a lot of points on any game IMO, and for me, it seems the closer I get to it the tougher it gets. If I'm playing a game and get to 500K I start to think about it, and in turn, screw everything up.

If you have scored 1M points in a game, talk about it here. If you have screen shots of the score, post away.
 
Here is my Indy & Temple of Doom high score board....This all done on the "hard" difficulty and on TG settings....


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Holy crap, that's an awesome score...is that with 3 or 7 men to start? Either way, it beats the current record by a long shot. I don't know how you guys do it...I can do fairly well up to the statue stage, then they kick my butt.
Anyway, the million point thing is sorta subjective...depends on which game you play. 1 million on a game like Outrun only takes a couple minutes :D Some games it's impossible (something like Marble Madness), or pretty much impossible (Ms Pac-Man...nobody has broken that barrier yet). I've done a million point game a couple times on Pac-Man, once with 1.7, another time with 1.8. It rolls at 1 million, and on the 1.8 game, it rolled with the high score at 999,990, which was neat. I've also rolled Tron twice (2 different games). Both games ended just over 1 million, as I choked. Unfortunately, Tron doesn't update the score until you finish, so the high score on the machine ended up being 53K (which was what I ended up with, 1,053K)
 
It's with 3 men--Unfortunately high scores don't save on 7 men...

I actually beat all the records on the 3 difficulties on a tape I need to submit to TG....
 
i'll spend the long weekend seeing how close i can get on satan's hollow. using 7 men, i can get 330k right now, hopefully i can push it to at least 500k...
 
Kind of depends on the game right? It's pretty easy to score 1M points in Star Wars. My current record is 2.9M on wave 13.
 
I can get over a million on Mr. Do! Haven't done it in a while. It's one of those games that I know I am good at, but is still fun to play, even when executing the same patterns.
 
You all should try pinball! On some games you can go over a million just by launching the ball!!! :)


And no, not even close to a million on any vid.
 
BITD I could get a million on Tron, Galaga, Joust, and Journey(by point scalping though so that don't count).

Currently, I can get a million on Galaga. And if I practiced I'm pretty sure I could get there on Tron and Joust again too.

There probably were a couple more but that's all I can remember due to suffering from CRS. :)
 
I got a million on Satan's Hollow a back in January. Did it twice back to back. The second score was 1,158,940. That's on TG settings, with only 3 men. But I haven't played since then....too busy. :(

I just fired it up again. Only got 270k. Man that game is hard!!!
 
I can get over 1 million points on Punch-Out and Super Punch-Out. The highest score that can be displayed on either game is 999,990. Here is a screenshot of SPO showing that score:

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Here is an Ikari Warriors screenshot (Twin Galaxies settings, no continues):

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I doubt that getting over a million points is naturally possible in Ikari Warriors, but you get a 1 million point bonus for beating the game. The natural limit is probably somewhere in the 600K range (for a completed game total in the 1.6M point range after the bonus is added).
 

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BITD, I could score over a million on Robotron about every tenth try. Now it just laughs at me. I don't remember what my high in Joust was, we used to play that for hours at a time and would just walk away after a while.

ken

PS: It helps to have 20 something reflexes and the programmer standing next to you giving tips....:D
 
The more I think about it, the more impressed I am with people who can score 1,000,000 points on an arcade game. I have never done it. Ever.

I am currently working on a 1M point score on a game, but 700K is the closest I have come. 1M is a lot of points on any game IMO, and for me, it seems the closer I get to it the tougher it gets. If I'm playing a game and get to 500K I start to think about it, and in turn, screw everything up.

If you have scored 1M points in a game, talk about it here. If you have screen shots of the score, post away.

Play a single game of Giga Wing.... you'll score a million for sure.
 
Robotron, Zoo Keeper, Journey, Cliff Hanger, Q*Bert, 1943, Donkey Kong 3, Galaga. I can't think of the others. It's so game dependent though, I think something like 500k on DK is more impressive than 1m on Galaga for instance.
 
Robotron, Joust, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong Jr., Zoo Keeper, Galaga, Kickman (or Kick), and Super Basketball. Hmmm I think that's it.
 
Robotron for sure. That is probably the "toughest" game to reach 1,000,000 where I have actually done it on more than one occasion. Star Wars and Major Havoc are "easy" to score a million on, just due to the fact that you can get bonuses for skipping levels. I think I got 1.5 million on Galaga "back in the day" using the no-missle trick. Just playing a game of Galaga "straight up", however gets pretty hard for me at around 260,000 points or so these days...
 
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