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BYOAC High Score Comp #1-40 all time champs - Got a throw down score?
Epyx:
Damn those Marps guys ;)
4 scoring title tie for both Quarterstringer and CrazyKongFan, grats guys. All that and with games they aren't pros at lol.../sigh
isucamper:
About the Marps. I've been playing a bit of Shinobi to see if I could compete with the high score (since I love that game and didn't have my cab together back then to compete). Reading back over that thread, the high score was around a modest 100K before Destructor (who's high score on Marps is over 700K) came in and squashed everybody with his 400K+ "just for fun" score. Not that I think we should alter the record books, but I think that one deserves an asterix if only because he says earlier in the thread that he won't compete.
There's no way to regulate this, but I really like the tone of these competitions in that everyone is more or less playing these games from scratch. It's a different skill that gets tested when everyone is racing to learn the game as opposed to having someone who already knows it forwards and backwards coming in and effortlessly taking the competition.
I guess my point is, if your a pro at a certain game, it's nice if you don't crush us :). At least for the 2 week competitions. The longer term scores should maybe be open to everyone?
Epyx:
I also like the scramble from baseline when a bunch of people start at the same level. And MARPs players playing a game they haven't played before is fine too...it was fun trying in vain to catch Quarterstringer in Funny Mouse and it drove me to liking the game and I had never heard of it before the competition.
Hopefully the MARPs guys will just continue to use their discretion (which I think they have for the most part). What's the fun in nuclear striking your competition into the stone age...then again on the long term score list it does set a "you better be good if you think you are usurping this spot".
CrazyKongFan:
I do have a couple of scores at MARP (all from the Macho/Funny/Super Mouse series, which I didn't participate in anyway ;) ) I consider myself an average to slightly above average gamer...better than some, but no way world record class (even though I have a few, they're not that high on the titles. The arcade versions of the scores are alot higher) As to the ones I've won, my high on Klax was only in the 800K range before the competition (got better thanks to tips from quarterstringer and some luck), Jungle Hunt, that score isn't impressive at all, and sucks compared to people who can REALLY play it, and Ms Pac turbo, that's more of a just playing conservatively to stay away from the ghosts :laugh: Some of the other scores I can't touch (Q*bert, Robotron, Wonderboy, Ghouls N Ghosts, Galaga, Bank Panic, Defender). I guess some of us are good at some games, and suck at others, and vice versa. Don't know about the players, but that's my view anyway. :cheers:
Ummon:
I wasn't confused about anything, though due to the complexity of the posting, I did have to look closely to make sure which list was the one needing amendment, if it did, and it did. (Man, that score is intense. Been actually playing the game a bit lately, and not gotten over four hundred grand.)
All this talk of high scoring brings to mind one of my other ideas that got passed over initially: a general BYOAC high score board.
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