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[JacobZu7zu7]

Important Note: Competition is over for this week

Xevious


Game Information

Game Name: Xevious
Released By: Atari, 1987
Game Mode: INTERMEDIATE

Use 7800 Console or Emulator to play
Post your scores in this thread, they will be added to the Atari 7800 HSC scoreboard.
Remember to play each game with the recommended game mode or difficulty setting as shown above.
The deadline for posting scores is Sunday Oct 23rd at 1:00 AM
(Central Time, UTC-6)


Challenges / Bonus
Beat out season 3 Xevious top scores FOR...
(4 pts) Mord (178,800)
(2pts) Atarifever (140,000)
(1pt) Atari_Falcon (119,960)

Ultimate Challenge, beat out the Xevious record holder for
(6pts) 452,690 by xZanU

-Bonus Scores-

1. 200,900 Jifremok +4pts
2. 167,280 Gorfy +2pts

High Scores

*1. 200,900 Jifremok +13 +4
*2. 167,280 Gorfy +11 +2
*3. 108,980 Sonic R. +9
4. 74,000 roadrunner +8
5. 59,280 SpiceWare +7
6. 43,660 JacobZu7zu7 +6
7. 37,430 zylon +5
8. 24,000 LarcenTyler +4

Best Tips [+1]
Mord

Standings (OCTOBER 12)
RANK/PLAYER/POINTS/MEDALS EARNED
1. Jifremok-151 [4 gold / olympic silver / 3 silver / 1 bronze]
2. atomickneedrop-129 [3 gold / olympic silver / 1 silver / sports pack / 1 bronze]
3. JacobZu7zu7-92 [ olympic gold / 1 silver / 1 bronze]
4. bigbee99-77 [1 gold / 1 silver / 2 bronze]
5. roadrunner-74 [1 silver / 2 bronze]
6. Gorfy-53 [1 bronze]
7. oyamafamily-47 [1 gold / 1 silver / 1 bronze]
8. SpiceWare-46
9. LarcenTyler-22
10. mord-21 [1 silver]
11. classicgamer_27330-15
12. mingy jongo-7
13. zylon-8
14. thursday83-6
15. cparsley-3
16. The Galaxer-1

DEADLINE is Sunday October 23rd at 1:00 AM (Central Time, UTC-6)

Sneak Preview,
next week is *Xenophobe*

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Edited by JacobZu7zu7, Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:21 PM.

[JacobZu7zu7]

xevious rom for emulator play


manual link

http://www.atariage....emTypeID=MANUAL

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•  Xevious (1987) (Atari).a78   32.13K   24 downloads

[Gorfy]

Man, I thought I'd do a lot better on this. Guess I have to get re-accustomed to the pro-line joystick.
Score: 35,660

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[Gorfy]

Anyone have tips on how to beat the boss ship? I've never been able to do it.

[Gorfy]

Disregard that last post.....I just destroyed the boss ship (finally!)
new score: 40,620

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[SpiceWare]

35,580

[Gorfy]

70,500

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[Gorfy]

91,980

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[JacobZu7zu7]

nice work gorfy, getting close to that first bonus!

[JacobZu7zu7]

43,660

Tough boss... might be better to just avoid him, I lost 3 lives, trying to bomb that thing!

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[SpiceWare]

59,280

[Mord]

For tips, definitely look for and destroy the hidden Sol Citadels in each level. There's usually 2. I think they're worth 4000pts. 2000 to discover (hit appropriate location on ground) and 2000 to destroy (second hit after it's been uncovered.)

That and be extremely careful how you die. Not that it's something you really have control over, but dying in the last part of an area will cause you to be pushed ahead to the next level. The ending section you end up being forced to skip is usually where a lot of points can be obtained. Since everything after that is only going to be harder, it means you'll have missed "easy" points.

[zylon]

37,430

[Gorfy]

New score: 111,170
Man, the second time around that the boss ship appears seems impossible. Immediately before it appears, some explosive device arrives and explodes into multitudinous shrapnel-like fragments. Once in a while I'll luck out somehow and not get hit by one of the shrapnel pieces, but usually I get killed. If anyone has any tips on how to approach this part of the game, it'd be greatly appreciated!

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[LarcenTyler]

24,000

Not too bad.

[roadrunner]

53,050


I posted a link to the maps the last time we played this game if anyone wants to check em out.

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Edited by roadrunner, Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:24 PM.

[Jifremok]

200900, my best performance ever.
I couldn't beat the third boss. Too much of a certain explosive device. Yet the record holder for that final bonus, more than twice my score! Whoa.

Gorfy, on Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:32 AM, said:

New score: 111,170
Man, the second time around that the boss ship appears seems impossible. Immediately before it appears, some explosive device arrives and explodes into multitudinous shrapnel-like fragments. Once in a while I'll luck out somehow and not get hit by one of the shrapnel pieces, but usually I get killed. If anyone has any tips on how to approach this part of the game, it'd be greatly appreciated!

When you know that thing is coming, keep shooting and hope you can destroy it before it detonates. I have no idea if there's any way to predict where on the screen it'll show up though, and I highly doubt that this tip'll be very useful.

If you can help it, get farther away from it when you see it; that'll give you just a little more time to react when it detonates, and the farther you are from ground zero the farther apart the shrapnel will be when the time comes to dodge it. Not only must you avoid the spreadshot, you'll also need to worry about a few faster-moving projectiles that kinda home in on you. I wish I could be of more help, but for me this is much more experience, instinct and reflex. And I still die a lot on those things. Or similar ones that are lesser yet tougher.

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Edited by Jifremok, Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:36 PM.

[Gorfy]

@Jifremok--- Great score, man!!!

Thanks for the tips....I'll try again

[Jifremok]

Oh, I just tried again and paid closer attention to those shrapnel explosives of horrible doom and death. Maybe those extra projectiles don't home in, I don't know what it is they do. But I seem to only need to dodge one of them, while those couple of others just go off to do something else and just make it look even harder than it really is (which is still pretty damn hard).

Edited by Jifremok, Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:01 PM.

[roadrunner]

74,000

I lost most of my lives just before the 2nd boss.
That darn red thing that explodes.

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[Sonic R]

I know I'm not active in this HSC, but I had been playing Xevious a bit lately, and if it's ok, I have a score…

108,980

[JacobZu7zu7]

Updated deadline for Xevious is Sunday Oct 23rd 1AM Central time.
New game will start ajacent to this one.


TIME FOR MORE XEVIOUS SCORES...!

[Gorfy]

Hit the first bonus!........ 137,070
I destroyed the 2nd mothership twice but got killed immediately afterwards both times

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[Gorfy]

2 pt bonus!........140,210

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[Gorfy]

156,530

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