Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsp!nomura From: nomura@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.games.video Subject: Re: High Scores in general Message-ID: <7100001@uiucdcsp> Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 00:18:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsp.7100001 Posted: Sun Nov 17 00:18:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:24:58 EST References: <671@astrovax.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:astrovax.UUCP:-67100:uiucdcsp:7100001:000:754 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).