Haven't logged on in awhile and I see I missed a couple of my favorite games
I'm gonna make a couple comments, for future reference.
I guess I needs ta point my finger:
At the difficulty select screen, whip all the hanging skeletons and both snakes to receive a 5,000 point 'Completion Bonus'. Whipping all the gas cannisters in the mines stage gives a 'Pyro Bonus' and whipping every bone pile and snake in the altar stage also gives a bonus. On levels which feature pits of molten lava, whipping enemy guards until they fall in the lava will earn additional bonus points.
I'm not sure about the pyro bonus, but I do the start screen (which is actually ten thousand) and altar screen bonuses every time.
I think the pyro bonus is only available on the 1st cave of the Medium track. And it is 5K, not 10K for whipping all the snakes and skeletons on the level selection screen. I've played this game enough to know
You end up with 5700, 5K for the bonus and 700 for the 2 snakes and 5 skeletons whipped.
Note that going the EASY route means you have to go through the caves and mine cart *four* times.
It doesn't matter which route you take, you do the caves and mine cart 4 times. You have to grab the 3 Sankara stones (on the temple level after each mine cart), and the 4th time, instead of going to the temple, you go on the bridge and face Mola Ram himself. After that you go to a challenge stage similar to the cave level, except it's HUGE and you're just picking up statues. Normally I take the Medium route, as that's the one I'm most familiar with. The Hard one scores really big, but I can't time the broken rails right and always end up dying. Normally on a Medium route game, I can make it to the statue stage with a couple lives left. I probably wouldn't have posted a score anyway, since I think I had the Easy track MAME record at one time (don't remember, and the site's been down for a few weeks now). Looking thru my MAME recordings, my top score is around 330K for this track.