Barnstorming score more than once per barn trick/stragegy?

[aros-sg]

Hi

 

I played first Atari 2600 game ever yesterday (Dragster) and today the second one (Barnstorming) in Stella emulator. Only because of stumbling over this controversy of impossible scores after a video about this somehow ended up in YouTube video suggestions.This stuff about 5.51 being impossible in Dragster and that the world record holder as some say already may have a impossible record in another game: Barnstorming where some say it was shown that his record/time is impossible to reach even if you hack the game to remove all obstacles and you fly the plane straight all the time. Others say the guy uses some special strategy which almost no one knows and that's why he is so fast.

 

So I have been playing Barnstorming today in Stella emulator and I noticed that it is possible to fly into barns - which pushes the plane back a bit - but still get the score counter decreased just like you were flying threw the barn. And since you were pushed back, you can fly through the exact same barn once again. So you can get score going from 10 to 9, then 9 to 8 with the single first barn. No need to fly to second barn to get score to 8.

 

Could this be the special strategy? Or is this a long known feature/bug/cheat?

 

 

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Interesting.

 

But if that would have been the strategy, I am pretty sure this would be considered as abusing a bug/cheating.

[aros-sg]

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