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High Score Competition # 60: Dig Dug
jasonbar:
I was never much of a Digger Duggerer. I think you guys are safe from my reign of terror for 2 weeks. 8)
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patbb:
Tips I found on the web...
http://www.edcollins.com/digdug/index.html
http://www.retroist.com/2010/01/14/dig-dug-strategy-guide/
TOK:
That is an impressive video, but isn't that person actually giving up points by not killing a few monsters and getting the vegetables in the early levels? Some of those were worth a couple grand and you get get them multiple times per level. <?>
patbb:
^^I think the strategy here is to get the most monsters with one rock and wait until the later levels to get the fruit, when it actually worth more than killing the "extra" monster with the rock.
What I will try to do is to get to level 11, if possible without losing a life ::), and try the patterns for level 11,12,13,14 (rince and repeat for levels 15,16,17,18, ...) from the magazine article. With it, you always get the fruit and it worth 4000 points and more.
quarterstringer:
--- Quote from: TOK on January 29, 2011, 08:34:09 pm ---That is an impressive video, but isn't that person actually giving up points by not killing a few monsters and getting the vegetables in the early levels? Some of those were worth a couple grand and you get get them multiple times per level. <?>
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You can only get the fruit/veg only once per level. It looks like he's maximizing the amount of points for each level. There's some great tips in the video like when dropping a rock, he goes back over the rock to lead the monsters back under the rock to die. He also doesn't kill the monsters vertically, but walks around to kill them horizontally to get more points. I don't nearly get as many points per level because I get bored with the game when all you're doing is pumping and leading one monster under a rock to get 1000 points. I'll just take the 200 points and go to the next level.