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[vdub_bobby]

The shooting doesn't stop, but now let's take to the air - yes, it's time to play Twin Cobra!

Post a score and let's get this thing rolling!

Please post any tips you may have - best tip gets 1 bonus point. No continues - only games played from the beginning count!

And if anyone has a link to the manual, please post it.

This week's competition ends in a week on Wednesday (September 17th) at approximately noon PST.


This week's scores:
301,120 aikainnet (+10 pts)
86,200 darthkur (+8 pts)
73,220 LarcenTyler (+6 pts)
71,500 gdement (+4 pts)
63,040 Wickeycolumbus (+2 pts)
62,740 vdub_bobby (+1 pt)


Twin Galaxies High Scores

754,980 Matthew N Runnels
671,560 Stephen Krogman
581,000 Ryan Culton


Standings

1. darkthur (42 pts)
2. Wickeycolumbus (34 pts)
3. vdub_bobby (19 pts)
4. RJ (14 pts)
5. LarcenTyler (13 pts)
6. atari2600land (10 pts)
7. aikainnet (10 pts)
8. Atari5200 (8 pts)
9. Shannon (4 pts)
10. Jibbajaba (4 pts)


Game Info

Coin-op originally released by Toaplan in 1987. Ported to the NES by American Sammy in 1989.

Other platforms: Genesis, TurboGrafx-16

Prequels/sequels/spinoffs: Twin Cobra 2 (coin-op, 1995)


Tips

None yet.

Edited by vdub_bobby, Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:05 AM.

[vdub_bobby]

62,740


Gets a lot harder on the 2nd level.

Edited by vdub_bobby, Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:25 AM.

[LarcenTyler]

49,800

Not bad I suppose.

[LarcenTyler]

73,220

Getting better.

[darthkur]

69,860

[darthkur]

86,200

[vdub_bobby]

Updated scores above.

[aikainnet]

Thank god I wasn't late haha... The hurricane trashed my internet + power, so I'm basically doing this from some remote location next to a college school.

Here is my score, 301120!

[gdement]

71,500

[vdub_bobby]

Updated scores above. Nice score, aikainnet!

[Wickeycolumbus]

63,040.

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[aikainnet]

Thanks bobby, when theres nothing to do but to play the nes... because it uses less power than the xbox 360... scores are gonna be high haha...

[vdub_bobby]

And we're done! Hope you had fun playing this; I hadn't played or heard of this game much before and, to my pleasant surprise, it seems to be one of the better vertical-scroll shooters in the NES library.