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JESUS KRIS KRINGLE, DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT, YOU LUNATIC
My high score was Defender on the Atari 5200 system. I made it to level 99 (the farthest the game goes, it just repeats that level if you beat it) and Stayed there for half an hour.
So yeah, bring on the alien invasion. I trained for this. XD
So yeah, bring on the alien invasion. I trained for this. XD
I once got a pinball lodged on top of one of the bumpers such that it kept triggering over and over again.
I'm not sure how many points I scored. I snuck away once it was starting to get physically damaged.
I'm not sure how many points I scored. I snuck away once it was starting to get physically damaged.
You managed that too? Except I didn't let it stay there until the bumper started to get damaged. I allowed 20 counts, and then did a quick shake of the machine to loosen the ball. Yes, you can still shake pinball machines. Just make sure not to tilt it too far in any direction.
High Score: 998,766
High Score: 998,766
I've only ever gotten the high score in golf. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered the truth...
On a cross-country road trip to Delaware for a wedding, we stopped at two camp doors with small arcades, and an actual arcade. The top ten scores on almost every machine in all three locations were held by GOD. There was one machine where DVL was #2, but it looked like GOD had swooped in to steal the win, because he had only five points higher, like a big old fuck you.
Duty is heavier than a mountain; death is lighter than a feather.
OK, so the spider incident (and possibly the Canterlot Voice) is going to be deliberate? This comic continues to surprise, invert the plot, and all-around be awesome.
High scores? Hm. I've managed to hunt down 210 mines in a single 24x30 Minesweeper window. I know it's an old and simple game but I keep upping the challenge by adding more mines every time I win.
On Gameboy Tetris I once managed 201 lines before losing. Never did beat a classmate who got to 205.
High scores? Hm. I've managed to hunt down 210 mines in a single 24x30 Minesweeper window. I know it's an old and simple game but I keep upping the challenge by adding more mines every time I win.
On Gameboy Tetris I once managed 201 lines before losing. Never did beat a classmate who got to 205.
My high score in minesweeper was an eight. I got a square in an expert level that was completely surrounded by mines. At the time, it was also the fasted I'd ever beaten expert, but I was more concerned about the eight.
when I went to college, several of my friends lived off campus so they could drink. (beer is bad kids, don't drink it) and one of them had a gameboy, and so the game of "let's see who can get farthest in super mario land 1 while plastered started. unknown to anyone else I had a copy of the game myself, and had beaten it several times. so when the game got passed to me I ended up playing it for about 2 hours, until I handed it off to the host.
he had no idea the game gets harder once you beat it, and even having 99 lives didn't help him. he just figured he had had WAY too much to drink.
he had no idea the game gets harder once you beat it, and even having 99 lives didn't help him. he just figured he had had WAY too much to drink.
"Beer is bad?" I mean, anything is bad in excess, and it's not that great for you ("Beeer is liquid bread, it's good for you!" notwithstanding, though the song is amusing) and I'm not particularly fond of the taste, but in my opinion brewing it remains an art form.
One new years at a friend's house we all got drunk and played one of the racing games on Playstation 2. I can't remember which game, but the simulated DWI was kind of funny.
I guess I'm horribly boring that way.
I pretty much have to play cooperative games no matter what, and it still feels like everyone is gunning me down for some reason (usually in the end for some reason).
I once got second place in a video game tournament, on a game I had never before played (Super Monkey Ball). During the qualification round, I checked out the competition, and adopted tricks from those who looked like they knew what they were doing. In the process, I got an explanation of one trick from the person who I would ultimately face in the final round. Afterward, it came out that I had copied his strategy so well, I forced him to try something else to eke out a win. I still have the medal.
What are you, Taskmaster?
actually, can you teach strats as well as copy them?
actually, can you teach strats as well as copy them?
Sure can. I've written a few guides, for low-fanbase indie games where no one else had written one yet. (For popular games, where someone else has already done it, there's less point.) My best guide so far is for Moonbase Alpha, if you want to look it up.
I take the same approach to life in general: learn complex stuff, to the point I can teach it to others. (I hear that "can teach others competently" used to be the gold standard of mastery, before we knew enough about teaching that it became its own skill.) Science (so I can help people understand what's going on), job tasks (so I can teach others to do my job), hobbies (so I can share what I like to do), all kinds of things.
I take the same approach to life in general: learn complex stuff, to the point I can teach it to others. (I hear that "can teach others competently" used to be the gold standard of mastery, before we knew enough about teaching that it became its own skill.) Science (so I can help people understand what's going on), job tasks (so I can teach others to do my job), hobbies (so I can share what I like to do), all kinds of things.
So you copied them and Your username is Winged cat...
WINGED COPYCAT!
That is now a thing!
WINGED COPYCAT!
That is now a thing!
:3
Careful, lest I copy myself and start spamming my clones, trying to get the high score in the number of simultaneously-existing mes.
Careful, lest I copy myself and start spamming my clones, trying to get the high score in the number of simultaneously-existing mes.
Galaga, arcade version. I got to stage 150. Don't remember what the final score was, but it broke a million.
Only arcade games I played all that much were Centipede, Galaga, & Asteroids. Of the 3, I did better by far at Centipede, though not having played it in over a decade I don't recall my score. Probably not as good as I'd like to think, given that I was around 8 years old at the time.
I do strive for 100% completion in most games I play, though - it makes sandbox games a little grueling.
I do strive for 100% completion in most games I play, though - it makes sandbox games a little grueling.
I don't know the score I've gotten on this, but I've gotten through every level of this game in sequence before over a period of two days without ever getting a game over. I am amazing at this game (though admittedly, there is one person on youtube who is better than me at it).
Good times. I'll have to dig out my old disks and look through 'em for that sometime soonish.
I got to level 50 in Sinistar. Been so many years, though, and the trick to do it is hard.
I was in awe of you before, but now I am increasingly more so. I assume you're talking about the double death trick.
Zork, on the other hand, well, you can beat the game relatively quickly if you know what to do. Alas, it has been a few years.
2.5 hour completion in Metroid 2. (Not Prime) My reward? And 8-bit bikini.
Also back in high school I used to have the timing for that Space Cadet pinball game for Windows down to a science. Can't remember what my high score was though.
Also back in high school I used to have the timing for that Space Cadet pinball game for Windows down to a science. Can't remember what my high score was though.
I've got a high score worth bragging about...
Everyone's familiar with Contra and the Konami code? Up up down down left right left right B A start? I owned Contra for the NES, and I used that code a lot. And after I'd played through enough times... I didn't need the code.
Three lives, one continue. Red Falcon = beaten.
Everyone's familiar with Contra and the Konami code? Up up down down left right left right B A start? I owned Contra for the NES, and I used that code a lot. And after I'd played through enough times... I didn't need the code.
Three lives, one continue. Red Falcon = beaten.
I currently hold my college society's high score in 'Donkey Kong's Crash Course' in NintendoLand. One of my friends took the game home over Christmas a year or two ago and said he'd beat my highscore...and he's still 1000 points off :D
(Also, due to a bug, I have the first and second high scores. Woo me)
(Also, due to a bug, I have the first and second high scores. Woo me)
I hold the record for most session breaking character in a DnD campaign. We found the relic, Deck of Many Things...I think that's what it's called? It's been awhile. I drew three times, gained 100000 EXP and lost all my magic items. My companions were levels 6 to 10. I was level 18 after that.
I held the world highscore in Robot Unicorns attack once. Lasted less than an hour, but I had it.
Daang. There's some serious competition for that spot. RUA2 (the phone version), or classic?
A record for me was going for 2029 panels on Don't Touch The White Tiles...My sister is still pissed at me for breaking her record and going above and beyond what she had....She's still trying to get back her record, and it's almost been one year now....
I didn't run a session this past Sunday, and just as well - my headset snapped in twain first thing Monday morning. At least we're almost at the beginning of a new month, but that lone headset had served me well for almost a whole year and was the foundation for about half the stuff I make. Gave me some things to think about this week at the very least.