and Bruce came up with a special rule. Whenever a Michael Jackson song came on, they both had to abandon the game, and head to the dancefloor. Well, at least it got Phil off the machine…
Another postby Don;depending on the machine, 1 quarter can last for hours, or until im bored. i usually get bored at 1 million. once you get to a certain point, the rate at which you get a free man and how often you die is disproportionate, and my ships can't fit across the screen. i've had machines go out of whack at certain points past a million. on the stand up machines, the score never shows 1 or 2 million, it flips over to 000001. im not sure about the cocktail or console games. some machines don't shoot initially on board 10. some do. i've played alot of diff. versions.
A confusing game to go for score onI played galaga quite a bit back years ago in the arcades. The best I ever did was 255 stages cleared and my score was 3,292,090. Stage 255 is a challenging stage and then no aliens would appear on stage 256, only was my twin ships. This was a standup arcade machine at a putt-putt golf and games. The machine gave an extra ship @ 20,000 and every 70,000 upto 980,000 and then it stopped giving extras.
.Nikkos, I did that becausenikkos010 wrote:whydja link to the digg blurb and not the actual article?
Galaga's behaviour varies greatly - depending on the dip switch settings.DEL wrote:Its a strange record to go for, as it counter stops at 999,990 and I guess you've then got to somehow count from there...?
A Nick post;Another postby Don; (snip)depending on the machine, 1 quarter can last for hours, or until im bored. i usually get bored at 1 million. once you get to a certain point, the rate at which you get a free man and how often you die is disproportionate, and my ships can't fit across the screen.(snip)
A confusing game to go for score on
I simply counter stopped it by doing the 255 thing.
Actually, if you're good enough, I would think that one could manage. It takes time for a ship to be destroyed, the game to "reboot" from that point, and progress, and if you were good enough to have the ships lining up at the bottom of the screen, technically speaking you'd be able to have at least a couple of bathroom breaks built into that time, and eating would be far less of an issue, too. When you can "safely" leave the game and know that you're only going to be leaving, say, four or five ships to their demise as a result of sitting on the throne, it's doable.Mr_Staypuft wrote:The other setting is "marathon" - where you *do* get extra lives.
Current record for marathon is about 15mil - ie approx TEN HOURS gameplay.
(urgh, don't wanna think about how you manage that, in terms of bodily functions)
Yes, and ends it incorrectly. Unless someone can find a source that Namco tried to emulate, the typical katakana->romaji prounciation from ギャラガ would stand.PS: If nothing else, by the end of the article he ends the debate as to how Galaga is PRONOUNCED!
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
2nd player goes up to 9,999,990, and anyway, it doesn't counter stop, it just rolls over. Pretty easy to keep track of with a video camera.DEL wrote:Its a strange record to go for, as it counter stops at 999,990 and I guess you've then got to somehow count from there...?
The one in my local arcade does. It doesn't roll over, it just remains at the 9,999,990 or 999,990 (I forget). This is probably because its on one of those classic multigame cabs.and anyway, it doesn't counter stop, it just rolls over.
