toiletunes Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 (edited) Starts: April 16 Ends, April 30, midnight (UTC-6:00) Central Time (US & Canada) The usual fine print: No save states, cheats, bug exploits, etc. Game: XEVIOUSSetting: ADVANCED Difficulty Switches: Player's choice (A/A or B/B) 7800 HSC High Score Record: oyamafamily 302,920 Break a 7800 HSC record for two bonus points Manual: http://atariage.com/manual_thumbs.php?SoftwareLabelID=716 Bonus: Do you have any videogame clothing? Show us a pic for one bonus point! Xevious (NTSC) (Atari) (1987).a78 Final scores: 211300 Jin +1211110 oyamafamily +145360 Dauber +141070 roadrunner 39620 Trebor +128870 BydoEmpire +119870 troff 17870 toiletunes Rankings through game 8: 84 Oyamafamily59 Toiletunes 51 Jin (up)49 S.Baz41 SIO239 Nuclear Pacman35 LaurenTyler29 Trebor 17 Northcoastgamer (new)15 Gorfy14 NIKON 13 roadrunner (up)13 GoldenWheels 08 BydoEmpire (up)07 Mister-VCS06 Dauber06 jblenkle05 troff05 Darthkur05 Deteacher04 JonnyBritish04 Mangia-Boy02 Atarifever02 Cafeman02 JacobZu7Zu701 KosmicStardust01 LidLikesIntellivision01 Vocelli Round 10 will be a new game and/or variation, something that hasn't been tried on the 7800HSC yet, stay tuned... Edited May 1, 2017 by toiletunes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Starting this round off right with a new personal best Advanced difficulty high score. Xevious (Advanced): 154,270 Bonus: A Sonic the Hedgehog hat! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Trebor Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 39,620: Bonus Clothing: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Xevious Advanced (just to be honest, I play this game on Difficulty AA for 1-button function) 138,870 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 BONUS: My HighScore.com T-shirt, which I won in 2016. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 (just to be honest, I play this game on Difficulty AA for 1-button function) Just for rules clarification, are we allowed to play on A/A difficulty? I've been playing on B/B difficulty with a CX-78 Europad and it would make the game a lot easier if I could drop bombs without taking my thumb off the fire button by playing on A/A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) A/A is a-ok (B/B is ok too). I'll update the first post. Edited April 20, 2017 by toiletunes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 41,070 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I always sucked at Xevious, and never found it very fun. Maybe they go hand in hand... oh well, I got in one game in on Advanced. This is one of those games that really cramps your hands with the ProLines. 28,870 Bonus Round CGE T-Shirt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 It's been pretty clear to me this week that if I was going to improve my score in Xevious then I'd have to know more than just where the 4 secret flags were located, I was going to have to memorize the locations of all the hidden Sol Towers as well. I put it off for much of a week until tonight I finally sat down and spent about 4 hours playing Xevious while carefully studying area maps for the game to learn the locations of all the Sol Towers and memorize them as I played. It took quite a bit of practice but eventually I was able to memorize the location of every Sol Tower up to Area 14, which is the farthest I've ever made it in the game. The studying and practice paid off and I have what I feel like is a pretty good new high score to show for it. On a side note, I tried playing with the left difficulty switch set to the A position to make the ship fire it's gun and drop bombs with a single button press but I just couldn't get the hang of timing my bomb drops when both actions were on a single button; so I ended up playing on the normal B/B setting where one button fires the ship's gun and the other drops bombs. I've included some video evidence too this time to show that I was indeed playing on Advanced mode. Xevious (Advanced, B/B Difficulty): 211,300 https://youtu.be/UHanemJEKpE 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Xevious final attempt, advanced and difficulty A/A 211,110 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 Xevious has secret targets? D'oh! I'll have to give it another chance someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Xevious has secret targets? D'oh! I'll have to give it another chance someday. That it does! There are 4 hidden white flags that will give you 1,000 points for uncovering their location by dropping a bomb on them and an extra life for flying over and collecting them, plus dozens of Sol Towers to find that will give you 2,000 points for uncovering them with a bomb and another 2,000 points for blowing them up with a bomb once they're raised. The flags are in the same vertical position every game but their horizontal location changes every time you play, whereas the Sol Towers are always in the exact same spots every time. You can find their locations on the maps that I linked to in my last post. Xevious final attempt, advanced and difficulty A/A 211,110 xevious.png Awesome score Oyama, but you really shouldn't have let me win if you could have beaten my score. I'd rather take second place and know that you played your best than get first place because someone let me win. There is no victory without honor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troff Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 My humble entry: 19,870 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dauber Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 45,360. Heh. I actually got farther in advanced than I ever got in standard. The video game clothing pictures I submitted: the front and back of what I call The Tie Dye To End All Tie Dye. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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