ha, no marathons for me. I'm no gladiator in the arena.

A 5-10 min game of Robo on difficulty 10 is about the extent of my attention span.

I see Dane Tullock just ordered patched roms for his machine, so there should be some more action happening sooner than later.

I have a newspaper article for the 300M score i seen in a magazine about that score it was supposed to be a 96 hour game but i don't think it happened. On the leo daniels adn some of the earlier scores they were definitely playing on the level 3 factory setting so that is way to easy to play.

Starting a legitmate track on validated scores is probably the best way to go on Robotron.

dwayne

970? Is that a typo?

Robtron is the Hardest game I've ever played

CKFan Wrote: 1500points Wrote: yes. sorry.....or just trying to keep the saga of the old scoreboard alive. ;) ah ok...was wondering if maybe there finally WAS a possibility that one with the 80 in it was legit ;) (length of time to actually play it that high notwithstanding)

Ha, good to know about the typo! What's the real ending for that score Mark? Congrats to Master House on such a big achievement! Thanks for the updates as always Mark, I didn't realize folks were still going for that big feat of 100 million.

mattburke Wrote:Robtron is the Hardest game I've ever played

Matt, the game is a challenge to those of us who have not yet mastered it. Not only is there a a tournament setting of five lives only (no bonus lives per 25k points achieved), but the game also has difficulties of 1-10. Most of us have only played on the default five at the arcades. Keep practicing and you'll excel in no time!

I've got a long ways to go to hit that million point mark, my personal best to date is 722,050! Happy New Year everyone!

-Duc

100,009,700

Here are a couple of cruddy videos I took when his game was being broadcast on the Lounge, front page of TwitchTV, and received over 200,000 total views for the 23 hr event.

The score rolling to 100 million- http://youtu.be/A0jEbRZ-VWI
The end of game showing settings, took 9 minutes to kill off extra men- http://youtu.be/253j1cG1zSk

The final laugh goes to Robotron, as the final onscreen score of 9,700 wasn't good enough to even make the daily high scores.

Ken used an innovative idea to pull off this feat without rolling the men at 256 lives.
at 50 million he killed off all his spare men down to 6 then started over.
worked out well considering the masters tend to roll their lives between 25 and 45 million, if break times aren't calculated properly.

rolling lives....something that will NEVER happen to me or most mere mortals.....oy vay.

I see Jacob's magfest run is in the database. very cool.
anyone going to add Ken's? http://www.twitch.tv/kencade3/c/3516525

Thanks to Ken and John talking we now have a brand new development that no players seem to have ever discovered in the past 32 years, too.
further proof Ken is more than likely the only person in the history of the game to hit 100million on one single credit.

good stuff. see full details here- http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/robotronextralifebonanza/

yes, that is correct. let's say you earned 100 men in the bonanza. you'd have to get (25k x 100) 2,500,000 before more lives could be earned.

so to continue that scenario- let's say you rolled the lives during the bonanza and ended up with 10 men in storage when the score goes back to zero. mmmmm, you be done...well unless you are Red Elf and pull off a WR 5 man TGTS miracle. :)

this is a common way a Defender players game will end because it is tough to manage the lives without seeing them on screen. one strategy by the UK's Simon G is to try to have more smart bombs than lives going into the bonanza. still no guarantees.

Stargate apparently does it too at 99mil but no one has been that high, yet.

the fun news is that one of the Vid Kidz is working on some romset changes to put a life counter and extra digit into a new robotron romset. What fun!