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High Score Competition #81: Pleiads (Pleiades)
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CrazyKongFan:
Raised it a little more :D 30,800
jasonbar:
Oy, I think I had a score in the high 30k range, but I didn't take a screen grab at the time.

It seems that Pleiads doesn't keep high scores when exiting, at least in the MAME rev that I'm using.  Argh!

Be warned!

Thanks,
-Jason

PS--I found a way to point press for thousands of points--I didn't exploit this fully, as I got bored--it might be possible to rack up points indefinitely, until you pass out. In the "second" wave, with the large ships swooping down the screen at you, if you hit them on the side, they're damaged & can't swoop to the side, & you get 200 points for each damaging hit. Shoot all but 1 bad guy, then shoot his wing over & over. As he drops down, sidestep & continue shooting him up when he reappears at the top of the screen. These points can add up quickly!
CrazyKongFan:
I didn't realize you got points for hitting the wings. I know if no wings are damaged when you kill them, they're worth 100, if one, 200, and if both, 400. It's gonna be hard to do it for a long period though. I tried it and kept shooting them. Also, they sometimes shrink back to small size and can ram you alot easier.
Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: jasonbar on December 18, 2011, 05:38:12 pm ---Oy, I think I had a score in the high 30k range, but I didn't take a screen grab at the time.

It seems that Pleiads doesn't keep high scores when exiting, at least in the MAME rev that I'm using.  Argh!

Be warned!

Thanks,
-Jason

PS--I found a way to point press for thousands of points--I didn't exploit this fully, as I got bored--it might be possible to rack up points indefinitely, until you pass out. In the "second" wave, with the large ships swooping down the screen at you, if you hit them on the side, they're damaged & can't swoop to the side, & you get 200 points for each damaging hit. Shoot all but 1 bad guy, then shoot his wing over & over. As he drops down, sidestep & continue shooting him up when he reappears at the top of the screen. These points can add up quickly!

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Yeah:

4) One trick some players do is to go all the way to the left corner on the remaining Space Monster. It lines up in such a way that the bombs miss your fighter. Then you just keep hitting the fire button, which results in you constantly hitting the wing (20 points a hit). Some players rack up a couple of thousand points before the Space Monster is coming down too fast for them to hit.

Helps to read the history. I guess I've always John Wayne'd it.

I also didn't notice the set used. But my score wasn't high enough anyways.
Hurray Banana:

--- Quote from: jasonbar on December 18, 2011, 05:38:12 pm ---PS--I found a way to point press for thousands of points--I didn't exploit this fully, as I got bored--it might be possible to rack up points indefinitely, until you pass out. In the "second" wave, with the large ships swooping down the screen at you, if you hit them on the side, they're damaged & can't swoop to the side, & you get 200 points for each damaging hit. Shoot all but 1 bad guy, then shoot his wing over & over. As he drops down, sidestep & continue shooting him up when he reappears at the top of the screen. These points can add up quickly!

--- End quote ---

Can we agree not to point press then as this would make the contest pointless?
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