+jgkspsx Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 I don’t know what it is, but I just can’t do it with these games. With Asteroids at least I can blame the horrible bugs in addition to my incompetence. It’s not just shooting to the left that the shots get weirdly short - shooting straight up I couldn’t shoot objects that were 1/3 of the screen away from me. The wonky hitboxes continue to oppress me. And enemy UFOs frequently take me out on their first shot upon entering the screen. In this game I scored more than 10000 points without losing a life, then got killed by an asteroid a full ship width away, then got picked off by a first shot from a big saucer, then got picked off by a second shot from a little saucer, then accidentally dropped my shield twice, and that was that. But Galaxian is a wonderfully polished game, and what continues to kill me time after time is that I look up the screen and then get clipped by a bullet or an enemy. As long as I’m focusing on hazards to my ship I do fine. In this game I scored 12000 points without losing a life, then utterly collapsed. If I could just sustain the no hit runs in these games or recover after things start going bad, I could get somewhere. But as it is I am not feeling good about improving my score in time. How long are y’all playing to get these good scores? I’ve probably put four hours into Asteroids this week without any noticeable improvement, and Galaxian is at least two hours. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Finally improved my score in Galaxian (marginally)… by using a Zircon Video Command. (aka Channel F controller.) Booyahz. Aaaaand improved my score in Asteroids, but not my using a Video Command I feel like I’m on the verge of a breakthrough in both games but I don’t know if it will come in time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 48970. Thank goodness. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Atari Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Asteroids (14 A/B): 52,640 Galaxian (9 A/B): 17,910 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Galaxian: 20670 EDIT: 22020, last two lives lost from stupid mistakes in the last thousand points ? I finally looked up what the left difficulty switch does. Autofire seems like a SERIOUS handicap given how precious shots are. My best scores have come with autofire off. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Galaxian - 28610. I didn’t lose a life until after 20000 points, and then fell to pieces. It’s weird how you can be locked in and then just lose it. Finally in the top 10. That may have to be good enough for me. @Vocelli it looks like JasonHRB is on the list twice? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermit73 Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 1 hour ago, jgkspsx said: Galaxian - 28610. I didn’t lose a life until after 20000 points, and then fell to pieces. It’s weird how you can be locked in and then just lose it. For Galaxian, the difficulty varies from one wave to the next. Levels 9 and 10 have relatively fast enemy ships. On Level 11, they slow down a bit and progressively speed up until Level 15. Things slow down again at Level 16 and speed up until Level 20, except now additional red aliens and an additional boss ship appear in the formation. I think this 5-level cycle of starting slow to getting progressively faster continues, but I cannot say for sure since I'm not sure I've made it much past level 20. I think this could explain why we have some games where we get on a nice run, then, once we hit one of the faster boards, we end up losing 2-3 ships in rapid succession. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakecortex Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) Finally had some time to sit down with these ones. Was never a big fan of Asteroids, not good with the thrust. Galaxian is a fun version. Asteroids 14a - 5,800 Galaxian 9b - 5,090 Shout out to @jgkspsx with the sweet cabinet tv. Edited November 30, 2021 by fakecortex 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evandro_ECM Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Asteroids - Game 14 A/B - 34.140 Galaxian - Game 9 B/B - 46.730 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nads Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 43 minutes ago, Evandro_ECM said: Asteroids - Game 14 A/B - 34.140 Galaxian - Game 9 B/B - 46.730 Hey Evandro, looking at your screenshot for galaxian I think you played on game 1 not game 9. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absalon Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 leaving my "all guns blazing"-approach behind, I guess I learned my lesson to go for precice shots instead... SO, my new score: 12500 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evandro_ECM Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 7 hours ago, nads said: Ei, Evandro, olhando sua imagem do galaxian, acho que você jogou no jogo 1, não no jogo 9. True, I put it in game 9 for sure, but I must have reset it and forgot to put it back in again. Disregard this score, I will play again and sorry for the mistake. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evandro_ECM Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 8 hours ago, Evandro_ECM said: Asteroids - Game 14 A/B - 34.140 Galaxian - Game 9 B/B - 46.730 8 hours ago, Evandro_ECM said: Asteroids - Game 14 A/B - 34.140 Galaxian - Game 9 B/B - 46.730 True, I put it in game 9 for sure, but I must have reset it and forgot to put it back in again. Disregard my score in Galaxian, I will play again and sorry for the mistake. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nads Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Final Effort Galaxian (Game 9) : 49,900 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 I missed the first 2 weeks of season's high score club which is a shame as they are good games for me. Anyhoo, had a quick blast of Galaxian (9-A) 26590. I can definitely beat that. Will give Asteroids a go at the weekend. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 (edited) After a couple more hours of trying I got a slight score improvement in Asteroids, though not enough to change my standing on the leaderboard. This was one of those weird rounds where my very first attempts were my best and I spend the next two weeks just kinda sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting for the next round to start Asteroids (Game 14, A/B Difficulty): 47,660 Edited December 2, 2021 by Skippy B. Coyote 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absalon Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 21740 is my final score !! (to admin of this post: my name is 2x in the score list on page 1) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 (edited) A bit of a improvement. 29140. I'm playing the NTSC version on a PAL console and I really like the wrong colours. I akso like the speed too, and now the PAL version feels sluggish when compared. Edit: Now we are getting somewhere! 42210 Edited December 2, 2021 by Lord Innit 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermit73 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Galaxian: 106380 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Asteroids new attempt 53,680 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermit73 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 @Vocelli - It looks like you have Nads listed twice for Galaxian scores. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nads Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 7 hours ago, kermit73 said: @Vocelli - It looks like you have Nads listed twice for Galaxian scores. I’m actually there 3 times ? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evandro_ECM Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Galaxian - Game 9 B/B - 48.920 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasonhrb Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Quote Big improvement on Asteroids. Was doing really well until just past 60,000. I then started dreaming of rollage and it all went to pot ?. Despite the big improvement, I ended up feeeling that I should have done better, but I don't think I'll get a chance for further improvement now 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytol Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Galaxian (9 b/b) - 9,540 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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