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Hi Score Competition #23: Galaga
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DrFrag:
268,010 stage 29.  I'm comin' for ya.  >:D
CrazyKongFan:
Someone from here who can't seem to log in wanted me to pass on this info. It might not matter if nobody is good enough, but on the "easy" setting, Galaga has a kill screen at 256. You can still move and fire, but the bugs won't come out, so you can't finish the game. In fact, you'll need to kill yourself off by 254 if you want to put your score on the high score table. Highest score possible should be about 3.3 million. If you set it to "hardest", it will continue on as normal at stage 256. (he actually told me "hard", but Twin Galaxies uses "hardest" for both arcade and MAME, so I assume that's the one to get past 256.)
Todd H:

--- Quote from: DrFrag on July 17, 2009, 09:10:28 am ---268,010 stage 29.  I'm comin' for ya.  >:D

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Uh oh. Time to break out a two liter bottle of Shasta and my all Rush mix tape. Let's rock!

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--- Quote from: CrazyKongFan on July 16, 2009, 12:51:05 pm ---20/70/70 means free man at 20K, 70K and every 70K. I was in a mini tourney last fall that had Galaga in it, and there was a 1 hour time limit. The guy who got 1st place (Donald Hayes, who has many world records) got 1.4 million in 1 hour.  In case you're wondering, I only got 243K and was competing with a 10 year old for 2nd place (he got 197K! not too shabby eh? I've been playing it since the early 80's) My game usually falls apart after the bugs (or whatever they are) start flying at high speeds after going thru the bottom of the screen. That 15 million is actually very impressive, as you stop getting free men at 1 million, so he did that with whatever men he had left at 1 million. Glad to see another early 80's classic as the game...these are much more interest to me :)

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That makes sense now regarding the world record. It didn't seem that impresive at first. But now that I know the free men stop after 1 million, that is crazy! I don't think I could do that. A few bad waves could easily wipe out your reserves after the 1 million point. Are you certain the free men stop after this point. I may have to take a look myself.  ;)

CrazyKongFan:
Yeah, I downloaded a 5 million INP awhile back to watch it. I just watched it again, and the last free man he got was at 980K. I watched it thru 1.1 million and never heard the free man award sound after the 980K (he had 8 men in reserve at the bottom, and that's all it shows, even if you have more)
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