Article-I.D.: uiucdcsp.7100001
Posted: Sun Nov 17 00:18:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU!nomura Nov 10 23:18:00 1985
I used to follow the national high scores on Robotron back when Joystick
magazine published them. I remember it being somewhere around 350 million
when Joystick stopped coming out. Now that is a truly incredible score:
10M takes from 2.5-3.5 hours depending on how efficient you are, and once
I played a 38M game with 2 other people at space port that lasted from
9am-7pm (we died because the count of extra men wrapped to 0...)
350M would take 87 hours by this reckoning, or 3.6 days of solid play.
The credit was given to one person, though I find this hard to believe.
Also I wish they had given the game parameters - it doesn't mean quite
as much to roll a 20K/level 2 machine (old space port style) as it would
to roll 30K/level 8 (impossible).