Thanks--I was playing pretty much non-stop right up till the end of the competition. My arms are sore!
I couldn't break my big score, but I could pretty consistently get scores in the 6 millions. I almost made it to Scarface once or twice (just a couple of rooms away).
I was beginning to see patterns in the "weapons" that appeared--often, you get 3 free guys in a row--when you do, you're in good shape.
But I couldn't make much sense of the prize bonuses given after beating Mutoid Man. I got pretty good at dragging out room 1 & picking up lots more prizes & cash, then picking off tanks when they came to hurry me along. I managed to get 160k on my best effort on room 1. I figured that this would also up my bonuses, but sometimes I got huge bonuses, & sometimes I got piddly ones...differing by a million points from game to game...I'm stumped on how that all works...
Anyway, thanks. I'll have a post up pretty soon. I keep an ongoing short list of candidates, so I don't need to do any hunting to find the next game.
Thanks,
-Jason