Star Wars [Marathon]
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having played this to death for the last few days i just cannot work out how to get past the trench run on level 7 - everything just seems a jumble of walls and i can't work out where to go each time - at this point in the game i have full shields but then i lose them all...
Level 7 is the first level with split catwalks (i.e they cover half of the entire trench left or right), just get past the first part where you have to go left/right several times and it get's easier. It really does just take practice. If you think 7 is tough wait til you get to 8 
Incidentally wave 7 is the last one where I don't fire any shots to get the force bonus
Biggest tips I can give (that works for me anyhow) is that the fireballs fire where you were not where you are when you get up to them. With practice you can learn to place the xwing at a point in the trench, let the guns fire at you, then move to where they are not. If you look/listen carefully you can here the fireballs coming in batches of 4 or 5 (I forget), once you've heard that you're safe until the ones on screen have passed you.
Dan
Incidentally wave 7 is the last one where I don't fire any shots to get the force bonus Biggest tips I can give (that works for me anyhow) is that the fireballs fire where you were not where you are when you get up to them. With practice you can learn to place the xwing at a point in the trench, let the guns fire at you, then move to where they are not. If you look/listen carefully you can here the fireballs coming in batches of 4 or 5 (I forget), once you've heard that you're safe until the ones on screen have passed you.
Dan
Half of the battle is learning how to read the walls in the tunnels. With practice you will soon get to know them and since the game does not get any harder in the long run, simply repeating already familiar wall patterns. Once you can hit 2-3 million, there really is nothing stopping you multiplying that by a factor of 10 or more. I do remember that in the early 90's Mr B's in Blackpool it used to take me a few credits just to get my eye in again due to not having played it for 6 months or more.
"Use the force" if you want a nice boost to the score, but BITD my main boost to scores was shooting all the towers in stage 2. You can get all of them in every wave, but there are a couple where shooting all is just too risky and not worth doing.
Fatigue was the main enemy when I played it in the arcades, and I ended up sharing a game with my mate most times, swapping out after we each cleared 1 Million points.
Incidentally,. the WR is twice as high as the best score I ever saw in Glasgow, and 8-9 times higher than I ever managed back then.
bomjac2012-01-27 10:44:36
"Use the force" if you want a nice boost to the score, but BITD my main boost to scores was shooting all the towers in stage 2. You can get all of them in every wave, but there are a couple where shooting all is just too risky and not worth doing.
Fatigue was the main enemy when I played it in the arcades, and I ended up sharing a game with my mate most times, swapping out after we each cleared 1 Million points.
Incidentally,. the WR is twice as high as the best score I ever saw in Glasgow, and 8-9 times higher than I ever managed back then.
bomjac2012-01-27 10:44:36
Level 7 has a pair of nasty overlapping horizontal barriers which are really close. took me a while to get past that back in the day. I think it's level 11 has a set of towers all in a line but if you hit one you usually end up hitting the next row before you have recovered and can easily lose a lot of shields.
I wish my star wars was working, and accessible.
The highest score in my local arcade was about 24 million. I couldn't come anywhere close to that. I now own that machine but I let someone borrow the board and they gave me back a different one so I lost the one with the high score on.
I wish my star wars was working, and accessible.
The highest score in my local arcade was about 24 million. I couldn't come anywhere close to that. I now own that machine but I let someone borrow the board and they gave me back a different one so I lost the one with the high score on.
I was playing with the settings on my cab last night to set it to "tournament settings", the highest wave in the bookeeping was level 16, which is probably when I scored the high score. I've never reached the point where it just stays the same, it always seems to get harder to me As bombjac says the catwalks come in block patterns, once you've learned them all it's matter of remembering how you deal with each pattern ad nauseum. I never got to that point myself
As bombjac says the catwalks come in block patterns, once you've learned them all it's matter of remembering how you deal with each pattern ad nauseum. I never got to that point myself 
DanP said:Hey Russ, time to post a score
Dan
There ya go Dan,
Not the best photo's (bloody useless with a camera
Was done on 6 shields 1 shield back and on hardest setting.Took around 3 1/2 hrs (could have gone higher but it was 12.20am and the wife wanted to go to bed (the cab is in the bedroom
Tbh i've played and played the cab to death since in got it but i could never find my 'groove' so to speak...until last Saturday night
My aim is to restore all the 'metal work' (re-powdercoat) eg...coin doors,Yoke etc...and then when i get a free full day try and clock the beast (it will happen
Russ J2012-07-05 22:20:17
Russ J said:...and then when i get a free full day try and clock the beast (it will happen)
Well, I hope you have more than a full day to spare. Highest score I saw in person was in Glasgow 1990 or so, and it was in the region of 110 Million more than you have there.
Nice scorte all the same, kinda on a par with my personal best BITD, although i did play co-op with my mate, 1Mill a piece to 40mill +
bomjac2012-07-06 00:08:28
I got an 'untested' boardset off eBay once that when recieved actually booted into test mode with the beeps and boops. Diagnosis said a bad ram so I swapped that and she came right up! The highscore was just over 65 million. I was like 'wtf'.