Which level? Or did you beat the game? Level 71 is the cat-eye shaped purple level with all the pulsar tankers, right?
Just scored 3,759,937 , normal mode.. I let myself die several times at the end of the later levels where you can score a lot of pts from all the fuseballs and UFOs. Played the warp levels almost till their end and then failed the last ring on purpose so i wouldn't jump any levels. Problematic with T2k is that one cant know how many lives one has left, so i dont know how many more times i can let myself die and get more pts
I figure if start from level 1 in beastly mode, i should get at least 2 times my highest score, and then some (as i will die more often, but will also have more lives to spend). I'll try to do this on a rainy sunday