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Lost in Space (Season 3) Stargate SG-1 End Credits theme

With the strategy I'm using for this game, it's more like "Desert Chicken", but here's my score: 211,094

I tried using a single-button controller, and it may not be ideal, but it was playable enough. 62,244 It's been years since I played Desert Falcon, but I don't think I ever got this far before! I got to the third level.

I have this one, but it looks like the game needs two buttons, and my 7800 controllers need some repair, so I may use an emulator.

I didn't realize you can kick the slipice while they are melting! It appears you get more points for that than when you bump them from underneath, and it generates coins wafers afterwards as well!

The way I got my highest scores so far is to stay on level 9 as long as possible and keep getting the "slipice" enemies. I thought at first that the slipice spawned endlessly, but it turns out they stop after a long while (I'm guessing after disposing of 255 of them, but I haven't actually kept count). That's gotten me to about 200,000, but judging by the higher scores there are clearly more strategies.

The Prisoner

I think I'm starting to get this game figured out. 198,400

78,300

Finally broke 2000: 2378 Something I hadn't noticed before before is how the change in direction of the ball works. I had always assumed when the ball moved faster horizontally, it was because I had hit it on the very edge of the paddle. Instead, it happens automatically after you hit the ball the first 8 times with a new paddle, and resumes normal movement after another 8 hits. The arcade game seems to work the same way. Kind of disappointing, honestly. The player really doesn't have that much control over the ball. Still, I remember playing a DOS clone of Breakout where you had no control of the ball's direction at all, so it's better than that, at least!

Score: 1401 It's been ages since I played a game with paddles. I had to clean up my paddles, too. I never really noticed how the game scores before, but you definitely get more points for having multiple balls bouncing at once.

43,200

17,600 It's a bitter pill to swallow, but I see I may not be able to win this one.

Wow, I'm impressed by you guys! I haven't even reached the fourth maze. I've been just trying to maximize my score on earlier levels because I can't get that far. (I got so close last time, though!)

75,610! Almost certainly my best score ever on this game! I didn't notice any control delay issues to speak of. Here is the controller I am using. It's not perfect, but it is very clicky, so I know when I should actually be changing direction. Maybe that helps? Or maybe I'm just not as observant as you guys!