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Solar Fox: 115300 I really like this game, but I'm terrible at it and it makes me mad. It just occurred to me that this is how a lot of people view marriage.

Gorf - 36600 This seems to have been a rather unpopular game. I've enjoyed it. I'm going to start playing Solar Fox but I'm pretty sure I'm going to find myself playing for a better score on Gorf before the deadline.

Gorf - 29650 I struggle hard with the mothership too, but you can use the missile as a shield. Tap the hell out of that fire button and then start moving through the falling bombs. You can get through, you just have to get the timing right. Start mashing the crap out of that fire button BEFORE you start moving, get as close to the falling bombs as you can, and then go for it with no hesitation.

There is, or was, a nice searchable system. My participation is sporadic at best, so I might be remembering crazy things, but I recall being able to search by game, player, season, the works.

There are a few people asking for strategies on the 2nd phase. I'm not getting monster scores right now, but I have improved on that screen, I'll share. When the 2nd phase starts the entire enemy group will move right a bit, and then the first of the enemies will start it's rush. It will do that at an angle from the laser ship, and to the right. Get in it's way and shoot it down. (It's probably a 45 degree angle, but it is surely something close to that.) As soon as you do that start moving left because the 2nd ship will do that same thing. You will have to move left again to hit the 3rd ship, and this will put you a little close to the laser, so watch out for it. For the 4th ship start moving to the right as soon as the third ship is down. Basically, the way the ships make their first rush is predictable, watch it and get in the way. You will need to get your nerve up a little as the ships will be getting very close to you. If you don't get these ships on the first rush things get more complicated. If you don't get the first rush for all the yellow ships I find less movement is more consistent. Smaller movements get you into less trouble. Fire not to hit the ships but to have the ships move sideways into your missile. If you get the laser ship the enemy group that remains will move constantly until the laser ship respawns or they are all gone. This can speed up the process of killing them off just by having them move sideways more often, and thus into your missiles more often. With the laser ship gone you also only have to dodge the one rushing ship. Do be careful to and try to predict when the laser ship will respawn as it tends to do so firing that laser. If there are still ships left in the main group when then laser respawns you will have some idea where the laser will be, right in the middle of that group like always, but if you are down to one rushing ship and a laser that will respawn soon it can be hard to know where the laser will be when it comes back. Either way, it is only gone for 20 seconds or so. I hope that helps, I don't feel like I was very clear but I'll leave it here anyway. If you have questions I'll do what I can to make myself clearer, or correct myself as needed. Game on.

Gorf - 22700

Gorf - 18600 There is a clear element of RNG in the hit detection on stage 4. My average is still moving up nicely, but I sure would like to get that mothership more consistently.

Gorf - 12300 I don't know that I can do 50k or better like the top of the chart, but I expect I can get 25k with a few more sessions.

It isn't just you. I'm not sure cheap is the right word for it. I'm pretty sure I have been saved by this goofiness at least a few times.

The 2nd phase of this game tends to eat my lunch. Not sure I'll get more time in this round, but I do hope to be able to stay around for more of the season this time. I have started many and finished... none? Thanks for letting us casuals play along. Gorf: 7250

Speed runners seem to have a great community these days, which is great, but I like high scores. Is their currently a community like that of speed runners for high score gaming? TG seems to be back around, but I just don't know about it. Are they respected these days?

I like having a few boxes around for each system for which I collect. That said, I wont/can't spend big money on cardboard. What's more, I wont keep big money boxed stuff even if I love the game. I got a sweet deal on a dozen or so CIB NES games a few years back. I don't know how it happened that these games survived in this condition, they were amazing. Included was a copy of Mega Man, one of my very favorite games. It didn't cross my mind to keep it. As it stands I have been tempted to sell the loose copies I have of the NES Mega Man games at times, and they are on the short list of games I'm truly proud to own. If the people that have the money choose to build over priced collections just to have them I say great. They have the money to maintain them and maybe these collections will find their way into a museum or something when these folks are bored of owning them. Rich folks donate stuff all the time. Maybe they can raise the prices high enough that I can make a buck or two along the way. My observation on the hobby has been that these trends come and go.

Don't try to "flip" things on eBay. It might happen that you get a bunch of extra stuff in a local deal and you can flip the extra for a little cash, but counting on that cash is a sure way to end up in trouble. Use the "sell one like this" option, or match the item to the eBay catalog manually. Makes a big difference and makes sure you never get hurt by a typo. Everything about shipping is a little terrible. Shipping games or controllers isn't too bad, but even getting the right size box for a console can be hell. Don't list too many items at a time. It can take a lot more time than you think to get 15 items all ready to go on your day off. It isn't bad, but it isn't automatic either.

The biggest difference is how you submit the score. When you submit a MAME score they have extra steps to help ensure you aren't cheating. When you play on the arcade you only have to record the screen. It would be really easy to make the game play itself perfectly, for example, and then record the screen playing it. This would produce a result that would look like you played the perfect game on an arcade cab. When you submit from MAME they require a locked file type that excludes the ability to save scum or something like that.

If Billy was playing a character in KoK, he plays it every time the camera is on him. Over the years we've seen him in all kinds of videos and he is always the same douche. I'm sure they are looking to cash in on all this, so a show wouldn't shock me. Maybe they'll get Roy Shildt in on this one. I bet that dude is having one hell of a good time with all this stuff.

I don't know for sure, but I feel like he did the Pac Man game live at least once. The problem is, when you catch the player doping you don't just take one record, you have to assume a cheater is cheating every chance he gets. He mentions in KoK that he hadn't played DK in a long time, and I can see that being true. No one had challenged his old score so he didn't keep playing. When someone beat that score he might not have had the skills polished and ready to go. The issue is, instead of polishing up, or being happy for the next guy, "The Gamer of the Century" had to have what he wanted and cheated to get it. I can't say that I trust the people that were at that Life magazine thing that started all this to be honest about him scoring that first score, maybe he never had that record either. He could be another Todd Rogers.... When first I saw him in KoK he somehow looked like a snake in the grass, as grandma would say. Something about him seemed greasy and just wrong. I know a lot of people that said things like that after seeing the KoK for the first time. Even his parents seemed to suggest this in their small interview in the movie. Maybe we all knew by some intuition that he wasn't an honest person then.

I would be ok with wrapped consoles if it meant we could have a local game shop at all .

When Rogers was booted I thought it was a good time to get into playing the TG game, as there are a few games I can play at a near world record level. Now I'm wondering if there is ever going to be any point. Who didn't think it would be awesome to have a world record as a kid? I know I have always thought it would be pretty cool. TG has damaged itself beyond anything that looks like trust to me at this point. Now that TG has had to send notice to GWR twice in a few months I'm thinking GWR will probably start agreeing with me soon. TLDR: I'm all for killing the entire score board and starting over, else I can see no way to trust anything on it. Very unfair to people that actually earned their record, but I just can't see another way to regain lost trust.

imstarryeyed picked up some Saturn games from me. He communicated well, asked questions before completing the deal, and was more than reasonable about the entire process. I'd be happy to make more deals with him anytime.

Shipping is the one that has killed me lately. The title for the auction says "FAST SHIPPING" but the seller takes the full 3 business days and then ships with a cheaper, and slower, method than listed in the auction. . I have just stopped buying CD based games on eBay for the most part. I used to frequent a bunch of local live auctions, I have seen the condition some things show up in, and the kind of people that buy them are usually much less than reputable. That might not be the case everywhere, but it has certainly been the case often enough that I changed my purchasing habits. Sometimes it is just someone that doesn't know better, they make whatever living they can buying at those auctions and reselling. A lot of the time they don't care if they rip you off. If I buy online I want to know I'm dealing the with either a game shop, or a collector.

I'm still narrowing down my collection to the things I really want to own. I just can't help but pick up things in the wild. Everything has a price, but I'm happy to negotiate. I like to trade, so if you have a trade list, or a few pictures of stuff you would like to trade I'd like to look. I do have somethings listed in my signature, but that is just what comes to mind as I'm looking at that page. Like most of us, I don't always know what I want until I see it . I'm always interested in those "How to Win at" books, video game magazines, Codemaster books, and the like from the SNES/Genesis era back. If you would like to see more images, or have questions please don't hesitate to ask. Everything here is tested and working as it should. Images are below the wall of text, more to come as I get to test to confirm everything is working. Next Up: Intellivision. Prices do not include shipping. Colecovision Console: $50.00 (1 controller works great, the other has a iffy fire button, original power supply, no video cable included) Expansion Module 1: $15 Cosmic Avenger: $13 Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom: $5 Zaxxon: $4 Centipede: $7 (no end label) Donkey Kong Jr: $6 Donkey Kong: $6 Venture: $4 War Room: $4 Mr. Do: $6 Time Pilot: $7 Lady Bug: $5 Destructor: $8 Popeye: $6 Sega Saturn Doom: $20 (disk only) WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game: $16 (disk only) Alien Trilogy: $15 (disk only) Mortal Kombat II: $17 (disk only) Daytona USA Championship Edition: $13 (disk only) Guardian Heroes NTSC-J: $40 Pocket Fighter NTSC-J: $30 King of Fighters 95 NTSC-J: $10 (missing back art) Space Invaders NTSC-J: $8 After Burner II NTSC-J: $10 Fighting Vipers NTSC-J: $10 Sega Rally Championship 1995 NTSC-J: $15 Japan Super Bass Classic 96 NTSC-J: $5 Virtua Fighter 2 NTSC-J: $7 Find Love NTSC-J: $15 Fighters Megamix NTSC-J: $5 NES Top Gun Second Mission: $4 Skate of Die: $4 The Legend of Zelda Gold Cart: $15 (see image, color fading?) The Adventure of Link Gold Cart: $10 (see image, color fading?) Ninja Giaden: $10 Q Bert: $9 Bubble Bobble: $18 SNES Super Mario World: $9 (see image, ink on front, light name on back) The Lord of the Rings: $10 Sim City: $7 Populous: $4 Gradious III: $25 (in box, no instructions, some other paperwork) N64 Mortal Kombat Trilogy: $30 (in box with instructions) NFL Quarterback Club 98: $6 (in box with instructions, and Extreme-G poster) Cruisn' USA: $16 (in box, no instructions, sticker on back of cart) [/url]

Bonus: 11,835 This game is a lot more fun, and a ton more challenging in this difficulty.

Bonus Game: 7465 I'd like to get another shot at this but I'm not sure I will. I only got to try this a few times, would like to get at least 10 attempts in, I think I can get over 10k without much more effort if I can get the time to try.

I thought I was going to get to play with my supercharger for a little while there, but I can't put my hands on Stella's New Brain right now, and Rabbit Transit is one of 2 (I think) supercharger games I never did get. I don't know that I have ever played anything on this list, so this should be a fun one.