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  5. Posted · Edited by RJ

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    I guess the best strategy tidbits I use are make sure to always get mosquitos (the dart-shaped bugs that fly diagonally from the top), they move the board UP a row when hit.

     

    The beetles never go up the extreme far left or right columns, so you're always safe from them in the extreme lower left & right corners.

     

    Always keep your area (dark grey area) mushroom-free. If a millipede head reaches the bottom, it starts going UP & stays in the grey area, in addition, NEW heads start coming in from the side. With mushrooms there things can get really prickly.

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    Well it's last-minute but heres some strategy for the newcomers-

     

    1. Probably the most basic strategy- in early waves, wait for 2 missile paths to cross & take em out with a single shot.

     

    2. In higher waves it's essential to determine where a missile is going to hit, i.e. whether or not it'll hit a city or your base. Many times missiles will hit to the immediate left or right & not do any harm whatsoever. Learn to extrapolate the missile paths to see if they'll hit anything.

     

    3.Hit smartbombs/cruise missiles directly dead-on center- any deviation & they'll avoid your shot explosions.

     

    4. Just for fun, if 2 missiles hit an empty city space, you'll hear the same explosion as if the city was there & got destroyed.

     

     

    Does anyone else play with the cities named after real ones? I play (left to right):

     

    San Fransisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Mpls/St Paul (my home base), Chicago, DC, Orlando

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  14. Posted · Edited by RJ

    Kids in bed...wife not home til later...time for some MISSILE COMMAND!!!

     

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    21,445 game 16

     

    "Juggling" those smartbombs are a pain in the @$$ & can really use up your ammo. I took about a dozen shots at one before it finally succumbed.

     

    Tried to better my score again (didnt happen) but had it out again w/ a smartbomb- it hovered over my

    last city & I unloaded all my ammo at it, juggling it, depleted my ammo dumps, & knocked it out of the sky with my FINAL bullet.

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    Nailed the Sun/ATARI theme. Got it last episode in fact.

     

    I OWN a kangaroo machine...sorta. A well-known local collector guy who fixed my Xevious sold me an empty Kang cab for $40, & I outfitted it with a PlayStation 2, LCD TV, & an XGaming X-Arcade DualStick. I play all the PS2 compilation discs (NAMCO, Taito, Capcom, Atari, etc) on it. Like a homemade MAME cab, without the MAME.

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    Once again S1500 comes thru! In response to my thread on wanting obscure 80s music, he posted that he had a bunch of CDs i could have free upon pickup. There were 60 in all with some great stuff! Working my way thru them now!

     

    As always, a good deal & a great guy.

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    Oh & the SNL skit went like this:

     

    Rev. Jesse Jackson: "Let's find out what they're playing for, Don Far- Pardo..."

    Don Pardo: "It's a CAR! It's a LOVELY car! It's a lovely RED car! It's a lovely red car with a RADIO! Back to you, Reverend!"

    Rev. JJ: "Boy, that sounds GREAT!"

     

     

     

    IDK why that stuck with me all these years...

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