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[Mister VCS]

NOTE: THIS COMPETITION IS OVER!

Welcome back to the Colecovision HSC! The first game of Season 3 is...

Game Info

Released by: Coleco, 1983
Original arcade game by: Bally Midway,1981
TwinGalaxies High Score: 569,440 (Skill 1) by Tom Duncan

Only your fighter stands between Gorf's fleet of robot ships and their control of the galaxy!
With your skill, you can defend the universe against the enemy's twisted technology.

But Gorf never quits. Each mission you survive, Gorf sends another fleet even meaner
than the previous one!
When a player completes all four missions in the first round, a bonus fighter is awarded.

If you survive, after each round of four missions you'll become Space Colonel, Space General,
Warrior or even Space Avenger!

Settings

Skill level 1 - 1 Player

Use the same skill level as posted so that all the scores will be accurate!


Patch Challenge

Receive 2 bonus points for a promotion to "Space Avenger".

LaserHawk


Contest ends on

Wednesday, 07-01-09 at 1:00 AM eastern.


New HSC-members are welcome!

-Please read the Rules & Regulations thread for a thoural description of the HSC rules.

-Emulators are allowed.

-Please do not cheat!

Current High Scores

1. user42 35,540 [+10]

2. LaserHawk 27,530 [+8] [+2]

3. darthkur 21,880 [+6]

4. Mister VCS 21,530 [+4]

5. ed1475 18,430 [+2]

6. chuckwalla 17,420 [+1]

7. roadrunner 17,030 [+1]

8. JEFF31 16,350 [+1]

9. 1982VideoGames 16,080 [+1]

10. Ikrananka 15,990 [+1]

11. ten-four 14,870 [+1]

12. Kurt_Woloch 14,810 [+1]

Leaderboard

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Edited by Mister VCS, Sat Feb 6, 2010 12:24 PM.

[LaserHawk]

LaserHawk is the first to engage Gorfian Empire with wrecked robots number score this many.......


27,530








and now LaserHawk is "Space Avenger"!!

[roadrunner]

14,650

[ten-four]

ten-four had this score: 14.870

[chuckwalla]

17,420

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[user42]

I'll toss my hat into the ring...

[Mister VCS]

My best score after the first Gorf-session: 21,530 - Space General

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Edited by Mister VCS, Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:09 AM.

[user42]

Check it...



And here is the manual if anyone is interested.

 Gorf__U_.pdf   3.77MB   61 downloads

[user42]

I broke Gorf....

There I was on level M4 just playing away...When all of a sudden...the screen goes to "Player 1 Get ready" and I am taken to an alternate M5 where it looks like M4 but the flag ship is frozen (and invincible) and saucers show up, also invincible...and I'm just stuck here...

[darthkur]

21,880

Not quite an Avenger yet.

[user42]

35540

[darthkur]

user42, on Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:39 PM, said:

35540

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How are you getting such high scores while at low rank?

[user42]

I looked at the instruction manual to find out how to score points....

[JEFF31]

Me suck at this game! Never did like it 25 odd years ago...

16350

Maybe i should read the manual!



Nah! this game is weak!

Good luck to all in season 3!

[ed1475]

high score: 18430

[1982VideoGames]

High score of: 16,080

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[roadrunner]

I'm doing a little bit better at this game.

17,030

game over

space general

[user42]

Not that the score really matters, (my high is 35540), but I finaly made "Space Warrior"
I hope to hit Avenger before the contest ends...

[Kurt_Woloch]

OK, here's my best so far... 14810.

This game is quite different from the arcade original. As was to be expected from Coleco, they took way too many compromises (try the C-64 version for a comparison, which is also 16K long!). But at least, here all objects move at a consistent speed, which they don't do in the arcade original, which sometimes makes it hard to hit the enemies correctly.

Oh, and I think they intentionally made the "invaders" in the first stage look completely different from the ones in the arcade, in order to prevent a lawsuit from Taito!

[Ikrananka]

I really do not like this game - I just don't find it fun

Nevertheless, I did my best and managed to get 15,980

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[Ikrananka]

LOL - managed to get 10 more points 15,990

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