Had this a few weeks now and have only managed to have 2 or 3 games in a row, so this morning I thought I would finally fire it up and try to get my head around the game, figure out how the enemies work, etc., and see if I could get anywhere near my previous best of around 275,000.
Despite having played before, I only realised 2 things today which I really should have noticed earlier, and which are pretty important - namely that the 'smart bombs' also fire bullets at you (hence, what I thought were random deaths caused by poor collision detection, weren't!
) and also that when you've collected the alien from the escape pod and the screen is red (bonus points time), none of the enemies fire at you.
I figured out these mid-game around level 9 and went on to reach level 24.
Still a long way to go to reach a million, though.
Despite having played before, I only realised 2 things today which I really should have noticed earlier, and which are pretty important - namely that the 'smart bombs' also fire bullets at you (hence, what I thought were random deaths caused by poor collision detection, weren't!
I figured out these mid-game around level 9 and went on to reach level 24.
Still a long way to go to reach a million, though.
You only just realised about the bonus then got 500k
Jesus
I
Good score
Jesus
I
Good score
Not played this since I last posted on here and fancied a quick casual game tonight with a beer to unwind.
Just went on a shooting spree and couldn't be bothered to milk the astronauts for points on the first few stages (was at less than 60k by the end of wave 4) but sometimes the 'can't be arsed' games are the best and despite carelessly losing 3 lives on one level I ended up getting a new PB - not too far behind Strykr!
I was sweating like a pig after 31 waves so God knows how Danny felt after 3.9 million.
That's enough Juno First for one evening. Back to the beer.
Original PCB, TG marathon settings.
Just went on a shooting spree and couldn't be bothered to milk the astronauts for points on the first few stages (was at less than 60k by the end of wave 4) but sometimes the 'can't be arsed' games are the best and despite carelessly losing 3 lives on one level I ended up getting a new PB - not too far behind Strykr!
I was sweating like a pig after 31 waves so God knows how Danny felt after 3.9 million.
That's enough Juno First for one evening. Back to the beer.
Original PCB, TG marathon settings.
CharlieFar
Active member
Great score, Jay!
thats just stupid but great score jay
DataEast77
Active member
Love this game! my highest score is currently 1,152,350, really gotta start playing this again as have original pcb.
old screenshot from way back in jan.
old screenshot from way back in jan.
its a awesome game and one of my favourite arcade games of all time.
Great score mate.
Great score mate.