High Score Challenge. Live 01/01/2016 Game 3 - Donkey Kong

[zmaster18]

Either one is OK with me You're right about Gradius being over once you die... Pacman is totally fair when you die and start again. Both games are equally easy to get a hold of too.

[DahrenDreamcast]

I finished gradius on one man when I was about 14.....I'm not so sure I could now.

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You can finish Gradius one less lives but my point is once you've losta  life (and therefore upgtrades) - you might as well reset as you high score attempt is trashed

So I think Pac Man is a more accessible choice, at least in terms of high score.  Those early arcade games are all about score!

[P]

Great I need a reason to get into both those games again, so either is fine by me. OK I vote Pacman too! It's better to start out simple.

I had never completed the second loop before in Spartan X, but since we did this challenge it got me motivated to get better on the game. I didn't realize how close I was to Nightstar's score at first.

[zmaster18]

I think Pacman is better suited since the focus of the game is about score. Gradius is also about beating the game! I vote Pacman.

[chowder]

Pac-Man's a good call.  Donkey Kong would be a future contender too.  And I'm not pushing for games I'm good at, I suck at everything but beat-em and shoot-em ups

[DahrenDreamcast]

Shall we say pac-man then......

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Let's do it

[DahrenDreamcast]

Pac-Man it is. I'll update 1st page Now. Scores can be submitted from the 1st.
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[DDCecil]

Better score!



346,960 - Got to the third loop Boomerang Boss. Tried to take a picture on the Game Over screen by pausing it, but it just took me back to the title.   So I took it during a new game.

EDIT: Didn't know we had until the 20th! Oh well, I'm still proud 

[P]

Nice score anyway! You had been on the list if you had submitted it earlier.

For Pac-Man I assume Namco's own Pac-Man for Famicom. Tengen's Pac-Man won't support the expansion port and I wanna play Pac-Man with an arcade stick.

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Yeah this is Namco version

[chowder]

Are there any gameplay differences between the versions?

Post Merge: December 02, 2015, 09:20:36 am
I might as well get the ball rolling.  16710.  And you guys thought I was bad at Spartan X!

[Cheetahmen]

Are there any gameplay differences between the versions?

From what I remember the only differences are the copyright text and the ghost names being translated.

Also, I've been so busy with other things in the last month that I totally forgot about the Spartan X thing I'll totally try to get a score here assuming that I'm allowed to played a pirated version of the game

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Pirates are fine but we should really be using the same version - all sorts of code differences in a port that otherwise looks exactly the same