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(+_+):
It gets very fast, but beyond a certain level it remains at the same speed.

Here's a few suggestions from someone who used to get almost 100,000,000 points. I got tired and stopped playing. What a choker.  :P

- Come up with a usable pattern for each level and master it. There are many ways to skin a cat. There is no specific pattern.
- Always use flat sections of the maze as a pause point.
- When you go into a corner that could possibly cause your snake to wrap around , make sure you hold the joystick in the direction of exit as soon as this roundabout is entered.

I knew a guy who tried to go for the record once when it was at I believe 800,000,000 and passed out due to fatigue before he could reach it. I think he got around 700,000,000.

I just checked and the record stands at 1,000,042,270 points. Had to have taken over 2 days to do this. Crazy.

Ginsu Victim:
Yeah, many of us watched Tim McVey's attempt at that record. It was somewhere around, what, 42 hours before his leaf switches messed up on him and his stick went dead. He was not happy, to say the least.

CrazyKongFan:

--- Quote from: isucamper on September 28, 2009, 12:57:22 pm ---CKong.  Are you from Iowa?  I watched quite a bit of his run.  I wonder when he's going to try again. 
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No, actually, I drove from Michigan ;D I wanted to go to the opening ceremony at the video game hall of fame in Ottumwa a few weeks prior, but ended up having to work that weekend. So I drove down there Labor Day weekend, visited him, and another friend who lives about an hour away that has a nice basement arcade. Only got to see a couple hours of Tim's play though, before I had to leave. (sometimes that pesky work gets in the way of your fun :lol )


--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 28, 2009, 01:01:56 pm ---Oh yeah, I forgot you were the one that won it. How do like that stick?

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Pretty good, although it has a little more throw than I like, which makes some games a little tougher (I don't like it for Frogger). I don't think that's adjustable though, so I just have to live with it. It works good for the Pac games though.

javeryh:

--- Quote from: (+_+) on September 28, 2009, 01:41:56 pm ---It gets very fast, but beyond a certain level it remains at the same speed.

Here's a few suggestions from someone who used to get almost 100,000,000 points. I got tired and stopped playing. What a choker.  :P

- Come up with a usable pattern for each level and master it. There are many ways to skin a cat. There is no specific pattern.
- Always use flat sections of the maze as a pause point.
- When you go into a corner that could possibly cause your snake to wrap around , make sure you hold the joystick in the direction of exit as soon as this roundabout is entered.

I knew a guy who tried to go for the record once when it was at I believe 800,000,000 and passed out due to fatigue before he could reach it. I think he got around 700,000,000.

I just checked and the record stands at 1,000,042,270 points. Had to have taken over 2 days to do this. Crazy.


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Wow.  Talk about perspective... I suck!!   :o

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: CrazyKongFan on September 28, 2009, 04:40:24 pm ---Pretty good, although it has a little more throw than I like
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Ah, so I'm not alone in this thinking. The throw bugs me too.

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