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Are some games too fast or am I too old?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Scotty on September 02, 2022, 04:12:31 pm ---PS, Hey Randy!! I just got a Tron stick (with you still sold them), and will be ordering a trigger from you soon.
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Glad to hear that you are enjoying the Dominux sticks. We'll still be offering the TRON switches for a while, so whenever you are ready. :)
negative1:
Millipede - easy settings 377k - never got this far back in the day,
but several years ago could hit a million:
also got 368 on default
later
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RandyT:
When I was about 16 years old, Atari had a contest for a high score on centipede. I played and played that game (although I admit that was using a WICO on a home-built panel even at that time) to get good at it. Eventually, I had gotten so good at the game, I had to stop playing so I could photograph the score before it rolled back to zero. Lousy Atari never even responded to my entry and I'm not sure if they ever even paid out to any winners.
I'm here to say that I probably couldn't get close to that today. Maybe due to age, but more likely is that after a point it would just be a huge effort and grind with no tangible reward at the end of it. At least in the arcade you got to try to think up 3-letter cuss words to put in the high scores for other players to see.
So that leads me to a question: To the old coots who are still playing for the sake of trying to beat your personal high scores, what exactly motivates you in that direction today and how do you find the time to devote to it? I would find the answers to this one far more interesting. :)
leapinlew:
Was this the contest? https://www.ebay.com/itm/384951909415
RandyT:
That's the one. I was very excited because I had what I believed was the highest possible score. I get the feeling that there were tons of people who did the same, because after all, if I could do it .... :)
But there was no internet in those days so if anything was ever awarded, I didn't hear a thing about it.