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[Mister VCS]

From the far reaches of Neptune, to the save heaven of Earth - battle your way across the Universe in this exciting adventure based on the popular arcade game.

Game Information

Game Name: Gyruss
Released by: Parker Brothers, 1984
Original arcade game by: Konami/centuri, 1983
TwinGalaxies High Score: 291,900 by Tom Duncan
Settings: 1 Player
This game was suggested by: Ikrananka, ed1475, pattb, Mr.Smiley, and duncantoml

Contest ends on

Saturday, 01-15-2011 at 1:00 AM eastern.


Quick-Start-Bonus-Info and HSC rules

Current High Scores

1. duncantoml 285,400 [+10] [+3]

2. patbb 270,700 [+9]
3. NIAD 227,900 [+8]
4. LaserHawk 215,700 [+6]
5. chuckwalla 212,300 [+4]
6. JEFF31 175,700 [+2]
7. Tombale 158,600 [+1]

8. RangerG 139,300 [+1]
9. rmaerz 116,100 [+1]
10. roadrunner 109,200 [+1]
11. Mr.Smiley 93,300 [+1]
12. ed1475 71,400 [+1]

13. Yurkie 38,500 [+1]

14. Ms. Do 35,900 [+1]
15. jblenkle 26,000 [+1]

Leaderboard

• duncantoml (14) [146 points] 7 1
• ColecoDan (12) [106] 3
• Yurkie (12) [69] 3
• ed1475 (14) [53] 1
• Ms. Do (9) [48]
• roadrunner (12) [40]
• patbb (9) [35]
• RangerG (14) [24]
• Mister VCS (6) [23]
• ten-four (3), NIAD (3) [19]
• atariron82 (5) [18]
• jblenkle new! [10] 1
• rmaerz (3) [8]
• purenergy (4) [6]
• Madaracs (1) [4]
• JEFF31 (1), LaserHawk (1) [1]

Edited by Mister VCS, Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:31 PM.

[jblenkle]

GYRUSS - 26,000

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Edited by jblenkle, Sat Jan 1, 2011 4:32 PM.

[patbb]

204600

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[jblenkle]

Wow! I got some catching up to do...I've never played this game past the first couple of levels until today.

patbb, on Sat Jan 1, 2011 5:28 PM, said:

204600

[patbb]

jblenkle, on Sat Jan 1, 2011 6:13 PM, said:

Wow! I got some catching up to do...I've never played this game past the first couple of levels until today.

patbb, on Sat Jan 1, 2011 5:28 PM, said:

204600

I played a lot in the arcade.
This is a really good port.

I also played this version a lot back then!

I just don't remember where to place my ship during the chance stages ... except for the 2 first one.

Also, I don't know exactly what killed me at level 20 but I lost 4 lives in about 20 seconds.

[duncantoml]

I thought I was going to beat my best but lost 6 ships on the last round to Earth.

Had to settle for 285,400

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[Mr.Smiley]

93300
Yay Gyruss, my first try today Fortunately I still have vacation next week so a lot of time to practice

@duncantoml: 285k is awesome!

Is it allowed to use another controller like the MegaDrive? My hand starts to hurt with the Coleco controller at 50k points

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Edited by Mr.Smiley, Sun Jan 2, 2011 6:04 AM.

[roadrunner]

109,200

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[LaserHawk]

LaserHawk zaps the Plutonians from Neptune with this many zap number score.........


102,100

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[rmaerz]

84,300

I had to switch controllers - the CV controller just wasn't cuttin' it for this game...

[rmaerz]

116,100

[LaserHawk]

LaserHawk zaps the Plutonian ships from Neptune again and reaches Earth with this many zapped ships number score number of ships.........


215,700



LaserHawk now scans the mess hall of his ship for BEER!!

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[RangerG]

43,800

[patbb]

233600
I'll play on the console next time.

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[NIAD]

227,900

A definite destroyer of joystick fire-buttons... can we get Daniel to hack this one and add an auto-fire feature!

One of the BEST ColecoVision titles.

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Edited by NIAD, Fri Jan 7, 2011 2:25 PM.

[chuckwalla]

Haven't played this in a while. Grew up with the c64 version and this one plays good, a tad fast, but the Coleco controller works perfectly with it.

109,300

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[patbb]

270700

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[ed1475]

71400

[RangerG]

Had a good game (for me :-) = 139,300

I get in the zone on this game and do well and then when I lose a ship and go back to one bullet I end up losing three ships in a row quickly.

[chuckwalla]

Final Hi: 212,300

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[JEFF31]

Played it a few times last night and got to 122500... 20+ years ago my top was 223000... gettin to old... reflexes are WAYYY to slow. Need to play the children's version of these games...

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[JEFF31]

Tried a few more times.... 175700

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[Tombale]

158,600

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Edited by Tombale, Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:19 PM.

[Yurkie]

I don't care for this game. Seems a matter of shooting really fast and memorizing locations to shoot from. I'll take my 1 point for participation.

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[Ms. Do]

I'll take the 1 point also. 35,900

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