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Tag: coin-op

The Quest for Score -OR- One Last Hitch

by TWiG on May.19, 2009, under Gaming, Social

So over on PixelVixen707’s blog (go check it out, no serious, good stuffs there, and you will then know more about what the hell I am talking about.) a sort of challenge was called.. a quest set forth.. a finger aching proposition.. a.. well, I should just let a quote say it for me..

“We need to go out and play coin-op video games. Any video game, anywhere. … Play a game, get as high a score as you can, and write it down – a picture of the screen is best, but shooting the whole coin-op is fine, and if you don’t have a camera, just write in and tell me what you scored and where you were.”

PixelVixen will get clues at stages, as the collective score builds. (See.. go read her blog, and you will understand)

Not being one to back down from such awesome challenges.. I set out to crack out some score for the Vixen of Pixel. Good ol X-Men Arcade would be a fun try I thought.. till I realized the score was only a “kill count” .. WHEW.. that would take quite awhile to get a good high number score that way.. so around 80 kills I called it quits. My second game thought was TMNT arcade, but it scores the same way.

On to the next game.. another favorite of mine.. 1944: The Loop Master. A simple enough game genre that I always seem to have fun at. Dodge bullets, shoot everything. So I mashed some buttons and put my stick through the loops.. and smashed out a couple high scores on the box and took pics of my best 3.

So lets see how I did.. the scores I pulled out were: 315170 + 355903 + 621192 .. for a Grand Total of 1292265 points. I think thats good for the first few hints!! Time to go report in with my score. Take that mysterious Mr. Collector!!!

So compared to other types of internet challenges.. THIS one is all fun and games. (yeah, I typed that, ugg)

Edit: added the TMNT info link.. Doh!

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