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High Score Competition #126 Bosconian
kixfan:
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--- Quote from: kixfan on October 24, 2013, 12:16:20 am ---I'm done. The 2 weeks went by quick.
Could not quite make it past Cynicaster.
239,650 --sorry mimic for the late post but you knew it was coming ;D
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Yeah, I knew that one alright! Although I was expecting a little more from the self-proclaimed "shmups lover" jason.
The two weeks indeed went by fast! But you still didn't answer Galaga or Bosconian! (I think I know the answer, but humor me)
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Galaga holds a special place in my heart for a few reasons. At our hang-out, we had a galaga cocktail that several of us would sit and spend hours playing. The nice thing about Galaga is that you had some breaks in the game to rest your hand. I'm going to guess and say a 2 person game probably took 15-20 minutes to play (averaging 250k or so). So my answer is Galaga BUT, since having it MAME I almost never play it. Bosconian (which I'm not sure how to even pronounce properly) has continuous action that is fast and furious specially in the later rounds. Very fun game. I will probably find time to play this every once in awhile (but not Galaga).
mimic:
--- Quote from: kixfan on October 24, 2013, 08:20:35 pm ---
Galaga holds a special place in my heart for a few reasons. At our hang-out, we had a galaga cocktail that several of us would sit and spend hours playing. The nice thing about Galaga is that you had some breaks in the game to rest your hand. I'm going to guess and say a 2 person game probably took 15-20 minutes to play (averaging 250k or so). So my answer is Galaga BUT, since having it MAME I almost never play it. Bosconian (which I'm not sure how to even pronounce properly) has continuous action that is fast and furious specially in the later rounds. Very fun game. I will probably find time to play this every once in awhile (but not Galaga).
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It's clearly nostalgia for you, but to me Bosconian is the superior game. In Galaga you've seen 2 levels (regular and bonus) you've seen them all, Bosconian at least was ever changing, and that's what I craved as a kid. I never even cared to play Galaga, I would stand behind a player and it did nothing for me. I guess I'm lucky that Bosconian was popular in my neck of the planet.
Anyway enough of that, since no one posted summary, here it is:
1. Cynicaster - 251,790
2. kixfan - 239,650
3. mimic - 234,400
4. Comtek - 99,660
5. blashyrk - 98,810
6. JDFan - 81,850
0. jasonbar - 135,230 DISQUALIFIED! hahaahahaha >:D
jasonbar:
Busy week(s) for me, & playing Bosconian was probably at the very bottom of my priorities list...just below cleaning the toilets...
As much as I loves me my SHMUPs, I can't get into Bosconian. "Hi, I'm Bosconian. I'm like Sinistar, but I'm boring & slow-paced & my voice is even more unintelligible!" It took me a while to decipher "Alive! Alive!" as being "Alert! Alert!" I forget what "Condition Red!" sounded like to me, but I think it had something to do with ordering breakfast at a diner...
Even that title screen--ack! So very TI-99/4A! =O
OK, just my $.02. I seem to be in the minority.
I did play some legit games w/ the corrected free ship settings, but I couldn't find the motivation to spend 3 minutes to post the score. Here it is now, for the record. My legit score was close enough to my DQ score that I would have still landed in 4th. Hooray for me!
-Jason
PS--weird glitch on 115u2--or is this universal? My 6-figure high score displays only the rightmost 5 figures during gameplay, but it shows the "1" on the high score table. Weird. Boo on Bosconian!
Generic Eric:
A week late and 2 dollars short. I finally gave this a shot tonight and I am wondering how many found it an effective strategy to grind in the border regions to trigger the red condition? My PB is 56k so not really a contender to the posted scores.
JDFan:
--- Quote from: Generic Eric on October 28, 2013, 09:50:09 pm ---A week late and 2 dollars short. I finally gave this a shot tonight and I am wondering how many found it an effective strategy to grind in the border regions to trigger the red condition? My PB is 56k so not really a contender to the posted scores.
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Wouldn't suggest it -- figure the ships are only worth 50 -60 - 70 points so would take quite a bit of shooting them to improve your score much and they come at you pretty fast under the condition red status so doubt it would lead to much of a high score !
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