Gorfy

improvement: 9,980

Finally made it to the sphinx, but didn't know what to do. I'll have to consult the manual. New score: 26,094

I don't know if you should avoid any game based solely on hit detection. Planet Patrol is notorious for lousy hit detection, but I think it's still worth playing up to a point. I could never get thru the 4th level because the combination of high speed and lame detection makes it impossible for me to improve at that point. Up until then, I had fun with the game, but ultimately the replay value is limited. And I agree that it could've been a much better game.

yeah, I scored the big zip at least a few times. Also, the protagonist gets on my nerves a little. He's running around in green tights, grabbing treasures from dragons, and doesn't even have so much as a sword with which to protect himself. You'd think he would've planned this one out a little better.

very slow progress at this one........ 7,270 I have a harder time with the duck and jump routine than I do with the dragons. Anyone else in the same boat?

Didn't think i'd like this game at first, but it's starting to grow on me. First post: 5660

Broke 200K and met my first goal. New Score: 204,678

This game's going to take me a while to get used to....... Best so far is a measly 7,706.

That sensory-overloaded brain state sounds so very familiar ... Yes, Gorfy explains it well... I think we all have had this. My brain overloads and shut off, for a second... and then a plane swoops down and hits the side of my Square shooting device. Oops! I didn't even notice it was there, 'till I was hit! The feeling of my eyes "working" is after the game is over with and I try to go to sleep. Or just shut my eyes and sit. Feels like I'm coming down from a Millipede high... Or an eye workout with Jane Fonda... Must be after watching Barbarella!

Hi Amstari. Welcome to the HSC! How's the Compumate stuff coming along?

Ahh, the fine art of sandbaggin'

LOL, I know... I can't even imagine anyone rolling the score, like oyama did. even todd rogers didn't roll it at the TG records. :!: My goal is 250ks, but I dunno if I can... it gets tiring after a long play, my eyes feel like they are going up/down/left/right... at least last night they did. So you guys have 40 and 50k mishaps. I have those sometimes but not often, I lately get over 100ks ok, which is bad because all the work goes down the drain when I run out of lives.. at 89,000, 96,000, 113,000, 115,000, 116,000 117,000 119,000... I KEPT LANDING IN THE 6 figure "TEENS". I must have scored in every 'teen number lol. Finally!, I broke through that now... I don't know if my eyes go up and down and so forth, but at times I reach a point at which i enter some kind of a sensory-overloaded fugue state and my brain just shuts down, as my precious lives rapidly slip away.....

On a roll this evening....... 179,625

Are you playing on a 7800 console by any chance? I could never get Robot Tank (two different carts) to work on my 7800, but they work o.k. on my 2600 (a 6-switcher).

Small improvement: 112,429

wrong picture in previous post--- let's try it again:

Broke 100K finally! New score: 103,646

I think the mystery bonus points are a good idea. It adds an additional cost/benefit aspect to the game --- Do i want to spend a moderate amount of time to reach my first goal (hopefully) or do i want to go nuts on this for the remainder of the week and try for the second goal as well? I'm going to assume Oyamafamily's top score is unreachable for me, so i won't even consider that a goal. Scrabbler, I think your experience of averaging only half of your high score is pretty typical. I have a high of 97000, but most games i struggle to reach 40K to 50K. I really have to be in a state of Flow to challenge my own high score.

Man, so close to breaking the 100K barrier, but choked in serial fashion once I got within striking range Anyways, new score: 97,164

I was a lonely child and played plenty of one player Combat. I just tried to shoot the other tank / plane as many times in the time limit as possible and kept a list of high scores. Got pretty good at shooting the other tank and hitting the wall as he was spinning so that I glitched through the wall to shoot him again. Good times. Good lonely pathetic times. Yeah, I've played my share of Combat solitaire as well

Congratulations!! What's his name, and more importantly, have you picked out an avatar for him yet?

New Score: 72,539

This game is wicked! My first post: 44,138

What happens in case of a tie? Make a variety pack of the games tied for first?

I can't begin to describe the extent to which I suck at this game. I like it, but I'm clueless as to how to play it. Now that that's off my chest, I can go back to trying to break 30K