39,100 on my 2nd game, after I figured out the strategy of the colors & items to pick up & the vegetable prize.
This game is hard on my shoulder--it's a bit unforgiving with the required precision for turning corners & such.
Cute but frenetic.
-Jason
This is my strategy:
I get all the hearts in blue. This way you have a X5 multiplier on everything.
Then I grab the letters to spell EXTRA in yellow unless I already have it then I try to get it red.
All the other letters, the one that spell SPECIAL, I take in red.
A red letter is worth 800 X 5 = 4000 points. (If you took the 3 hearts in blue)
It's not important to spell SPECIAL, you only get an extra game!
It's not like on the Coleco Vision version where you have a bonus screen with only veggies.
Another important thing to know, especially for later levels when the vegetable is worth a lot of points, is that if you grab the vegetable (in the center) and then an bug kills itself by running in to a skull, the vegetable will reappear when the bug will gets out of his hole.