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No, I meant three games as in three out of the five in the challenge, hence winning the title early like Munich. I haven't done the maths yet, but I suspect you're uncatchable.

Ah, I see.

Next week I'm working away from home, so probably won't have much time to play Flying Shark, and then Space Harrier could go badly wrong for me.

With one point difference per place, it only needs one bad game for me to be overtaken.

Now if we had F1 style scoring I'd be feeling more confident.

Was it ever converted to the 8 bits? Chinny reckon no!

Only the SG1000, if Wikipedia is to be believed.

I don't think this is working correctly. Some of the current and potential figures are off.

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I like this one, I might try and beat someone.....

EAT SCORES, other people!
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Ahhh, I really quite like this game.

This is just from a first 20 minute blast, I expect to be submitting better before the deadline.

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Huh. Which ones?

Zaphod was showing 27 points after two rounds. He's now showing the same after posting three scores.

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I'm fucking tired this morning, but it looks okay to me?
27 points seems about right (and he's showing 40 potential, not 27).

Dont worry about it right now - but there have only been 2 games so far so I should be on 17

9 for week 1 / 8 for week 2

I think you've just got the crossover point wrong on your calculations - its midnight Sunday (and for the first week there were some 'early' posts)

My 'potential' for Flicky should be 8 which means the main score should show me as 17 and the potential should be 25

Aah! I remember thinking something seemed off with the days. I'll jiggle it this weekend.

Fucking early posters!

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Gonna have to be another Sunday rush for me. Cannae fuckin' wait for Flying Shark week, though!

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I'm rather cross at this as I was doing quite well and then for no reason MAME ditched me back into Windows but with the game still running resulting in a lost life. When I got back into the game it seemed to be running at a faster speed which again made it harder. No idea what was happening.

Rather soured it all as I was on a decent run after hitting brick walls.

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Damn you Zaphod, I really should have had you there....

Shit, I forgot about the Sunday rush! I've got about three hours, then. Right, let's 'ave it...

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Ed: not sure why the screenie turned out like that...

Black Ops 2 distracted me this weekend, but it looks like my score is safe. Phew!

It's safe from me, for sure. The cats become total pains in the arse about 6 stages in, and I'm too hung over too put in much effort...

Flying Shark's ass is mine.

Challenge accepted

Scores for Week 3

And on to week 4 - Tatio's Flying shark

Klov page http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7833





Flyers : http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=wide-flyer&db=videodb&id=4212&image=1

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Sleepless night, so I got up early and had a quick go on this. Too knackered to make it very far! I love how quickly this throws the kitchen sink at you, though. I don't remember Flying Shark being as hard as Raiden, but its early stages certainly seem to have more teeth...

Zaphod - in the first post surely Dr Zoidberg should now have 28 points...

Correct - and fixed.

I remember playing this cooperatively so very many times when I was in primary school.

On the spectrum though.

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End of stage 3 thinks you've played quite enough, sir. Really wants you dead. Managed to get to st4, though. It gives extends fairly generously.

The only scoring tips I have thus far are:
1) Shoot everything.
2) Collect bombs / don't bomb.
3) Don't die.

This is very hard.. I can't see me doing very well this week.

I don't think I'm going to beat that score.

It's one of those games where once you lose a life and all the associated power ups you are basically screwed - chances of you lasting much longer are very slim indeed.

Yeah, all I can suggest is tapping the shot button like a madman until you have 3 or more power-ups. Then you have some decent stopping power and can concentrate on dodging stuff for a while!

Ed: also, an obvious tip, but try to memorise the levels. A lot of the nastier attacks made by groups of enemies trying to pin you into a corner (e.g. the row of tanks at the end of st3) can be totally avoided if you know where they're going to come from...

Ed: be aware that the middle part of the big ship in st3 can't be destroyed until it has left the bottom of the screen and come back up again. Don't waste your bombs trying to kill it quickly!

I can't even get within an order of magnitude of YOG on this.

I'm not risking permanent RSI until someone else posts a more human score.

I'll get a more normal one tonight - expect me to get somewhere between about 150,000 mark

I got a score at lunch time but I couldn't read what it was because the screen was distorted. I'll try again later this week but I'm not hopeful.

I used to be good at Shoot em ups but it's seems that I'm not anymore.

I was thinking someone would have a problem with that. How about allowing autofire on this one? If you set the delay to, say, 5 or 6, you can get a very humanly-possible firing rate without knackering your hands...

That's Satan talking there, YOG, pull yourself together - autofire must not be allowed. It's a level playing field and you managed that score fair and square. For the rest of us it's 40K and a week in hospital

I'm on 230000-ish I think.
Autofire isn't needed, it's just remembering the patterns at a few critical moments as Yog says.

And a new keyboard

Are some of you using keyboards? Wow, I think you should be manacled and taken to the nearest secure institution congratulated and awarded bonus points.

It's not for me, but you can definitely do just as well on a keyboard. The best 'western' DoDonPachi player I've seen plays with one, IIRC...

D'oh!

I was having a great game with perfect rounds 1 and 2, including getting a 1up, then died after the first shot on round 3 and couldn't recover!

Still, I had a better go next time.
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Nice one! Glad I have a reason to keep playing this week!

Toaplan forever.

There are a few 1-ups in this (as in actual floating items, not just extends), but I'm not sure what triggers them. I got one earlier when I destroyed the whole formation at the start of stage 2, but didn't when I repeated it later...

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