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From: lip@gcc-milo.ARPA (Seth Lipkin)
Newsgroups: net.games.video
Subject: Re: High Scores in general (Robotron)
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 14:02:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 14:02:40 1985
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Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma
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In article <171@srs.UUCP> matt@srs.UUCP (Matt Goheen) writes:
>> ...Alas, my only hope for personal inclusion is a
>> score of 3.5 million in Robotron.
>

Scores from Robotron (along with Joust, Defender, and Stargate) are really
not worth mentioning unless you know at which difficulty level you were 
playing.  Robotron difficulty ranges from Level 0 ("Extra Liberal") to
Level 10 ("Extra Conservative").  Level 5 ("Recommended") is the usual setting
of arcade machines.  

As an example of how the difficulty increases, I used to be able to get 
EITHER 1.2 million on Level 7 or 2.5 million on Level 5.  Level 10 is 
definitely *much* tougher than Level 5.

Our current high score (Level *10*, 25000 per man) is 4,236,000.  The all-time
record (Level 5, I strongly believe) is somewhere in the HUNDRED millions (I
can look this up if anyone wants - there used to be a high score table in 
one of the game magazines).

Seth Lipkin
General Computer Company
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