Hi Score Competition #23: Galaga

[Todd H]

*unless you pick a random game and let me kick your ass so I feel better.

If that random game was Defender then you'd probably kill me. 

If there's one game that I've never been good at it's the arcade version of Defender. Hitting 10,000 for me is a major miracle, since most of my games only last a minute or two. I'm hoping whoever wins this one picks Defender as it will make me actually practice and pick up some pointers from others.

[dafelandry]

if columns were the game.... HAHA death to all.... me and the old lady were dueling last night she hit 5 million point (on hard) while i had a weak 2.5 mill... it was nuts!

[Todd H]

Well, I'm out. All these marathon sessions have taken a toll on my left hand. I'm having some pretty sharp pains shooting through it. I tried to play a little guitar yesterday and the pain was unbearable. Hopefully a few days rest will make it better.

Hats off to quarterstringer. 

[Ginsu Victim]

All these marathon sessions have taken a toll on my left hand.

Be careful. You'll go blind.

[Todd H]

Be careful. You'll go blind.

So THAT'S why my vision is poor! 

[DrFrag]

I know what you mean.  After I scored 400K my left hand was in a fair bit of pain.  It's been a long time since a game did that to me.  Fortunately it was okay half an hour later.

Not much longer now.  Is anyone going to take a final shot at the lead?

[quarterstringer]

I haven't played since that last score, I could feel the pain in my wrist.
I'm going on vacation, so I won't be around to make a new game thread.
If Todd stays in 2nd, he can have Defender as his pick.
But I think playing Defender might cause more pain.

[CrazyKongFan]

- Last day is Wednesday, July 30th (11:59:59pm Pacific Daylight Time), 2009.
 

Never noticed this, but there's an error here...Wednesday is July 29th, not the 30th. So does it end at 11:59pm Wednesday, or July 30th (which is Thursday)? 

[DrFrag]

Oops.    Make it Wednesday 29th.

[(+_+)]

I bowed out a few days ago after getting about 250,000 without losing a man yet. Followed this up with suicide mission after suicide mission. It felt as though I was repeatedly trying to kill their bullets using my ships. You should have heard the names I called myself. I ended up with about 350K, disgusted with myself and wondering if the Mame version is harder than the arcade version... Is it? Oh, and what's with that random bullet that falls from the sky every now and then at around wave 25. It almost killed once because the wave was over and I had let go of the controls for a sec.

I think I'd be back in form but am running at of time. The same thing happened with Joust and QBert. I starting to whoop its ass again in no time. So far Galaga is handing me ---my bottom--- and it doesn't look like I'll be bouncing back any time soon.

And Yes, Defender would be a nice choice.

[DrFrag]

Looks like the final standings are:

quarterstringer - 1,346,630
Todd H - 901,380
DrFrag - 401,390

and no one else submitted scores. 

I believe quarterstringer has nominated Todd H to start competition #24 with Defender.