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Broke 100,000 points on Galaga. 100,300 to be exact.

Level 13 is freakin' HARD. Non-stop rain of missiles, and those little phoenix thingees (stingrays?) are a bitch. They dive right at you, and if you don't kill them all, one latches onto a bumblebee and starts going all ape-shit, diving and looping at hyperspeed in a kamikaze dance of death. WTF?

I really, really need a power up in this game. All they give you is doubled-up ships. What I want is a screen-clearing NUKE.

I wonder if I'll ever have time to acheive the perfection of this guy.

Meanwhile, lifegoal #238 - see Act 3 of Ms. Pac-Man - is looking more and more impossible. I'll have to make it to the 3rd maze without dying once. Ugh.

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  • ...of an arcade game from the mid-80s, "1942".

    I could literally go on forever on that stupid game. My high score was somewhere in the millions -- the only reason I stopped was I had to go take a leak and my eyes were burning so badly that I could hardly see anymore.

    This is, of course, what we call "fun".

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

    • I loved 1942.

      Once I read an newspaper op-ed by some hippie who guilted his son into "thinking about all the poor japanese pilots that were being slaughtered in the game.' Barf. Thank god GTAIII came along.

      1942 was too easy - first, you had all those powerups, you could continue as long as you wanted if you had enough quarters, and you could evade enemy shots with that cowardly loop-de-loop.

      Galaga is definitely the genre-setting classic. All hail Galaga!
  • i used to have the high score in centipede at the arcade i frequented as a twelve year old. sadly, i've forgotten what that score was.

  • I pretty much suck at arcade games, so I have no story to contribute.

    • Eons ago I was really enjoying the game "Disks of Tron". Nasty little game.

      You have three disks at your disposal that you can fire at the enemy. Both of you are standing on circular platforms so you movement is limited. You have a dial that you can spin around with a marker on the wall to show where you are pointing your disk at. You can bounce it off of the wall and hit the enemy, but he can do the same, PLUS he can fire energy blasts at you and launch satellites at you that slowly home in on you unless
      • Dude, disks of TRON - I'm all over that

        Remember that crappy tron game that came out first? It had the cyber bikes, tanks and a really crappy version of the disks game?

        That sucked.

        I'm pretty sure you can get Disks of Tron as a ROM emulation - you should check it out.
        • Disks of Tron emulated sucks. There is no way to reproduce the feel of the knob that you can push down and pull up. That, right there, kills it dead.

          If I wanted to I am sure that I could find one of the old cabinets or something and salvage the control, but if I ever get my hands on ANY old arcade cabinet then life for me is over. I'll dive in and rebuild that thing for my own custom gaming cabinet.

          Oh, and if you are running low on arcade ROMS I might know where you can get some. E-mail me if you are
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          • Dude, over the weekend I was at boxpho's [boxpho] place and his roommate had a Game Cube with Midway Arcade Classics - which included...Robotron.

            Damn that game was hard - but I think the run & shoot was perfected in another Midway Classic: Smash TV [appolo.com]. Holy crap is that game unfair. I don't think I lasted more than 30 seconds at a time without dying. WTF? In terms of eating quarters, the game is pure genius
  • I think this comic [vgcats.com] distinctly shows which games to play, or suffer the consequences.
    • Ummmm...I don't get it.

      BTW - what did your coach think about the Men's Saber performance at the Olympics. IIRC he thought they only won the NYC Grand Prix because Russia wanted to have better seeding at the Olympics.
    • I guess it was out of context. I try.

      Haven't talked to him recently. After watching several national and olympic clips, I realized I was being taught classical fencing for 3 years. o_O

      Surprisingly similar to modern fencing at the local competition level... but I stopped going to practice recently, and I'd be daffed if my coach even watched the Olympics. I'm getting some real training in a few weeks.

      Well, I should probably ask him if he did watch, and what he thought.

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