Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!greg From: greg@harvard.ARPA (Greg) Newsgroups: net.games.video Subject: Re: High Scores in general Message-ID: <462@harvard.ARPA> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 21:50:30 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.462 Posted: Wed Oct 30 21:50:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 07:37:49 EST References: <671@astrovax.UUCP> <> <502@unmc.UUCP> Reply-To: greg@harvard.UUCP (Greg) Organization: Harvard Lines: 16 Summary: Nasty surprise in Robotron In article <502@unmc.UUCP> cs2551ao@unmc.UUCP (Dave North) writes: >How about 16.? million on Robotron, played for 4 hours and got too hungry to >continue. So I killed over 200 men (something like 214). I only had the want >to beat a friends 10M score... Alas, my high score in Robotron is only 8M, and that was on a 20,000 machine... A friend of mine who could play Robotron forever described how he and two of his friends went to the local arcade one morning and played ONE game of Robotron until that evening. Total score: ~37M. The game with a nasty surprise: One of the players made a sacrifice play for the 256th man, and alas! The extra-man counter rolled over to zero and he sacrificed what suddenly became the last man. -- gregregreg