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[scogey]

13390

I am used to playing this one on GBA, but this week I tried it on the computer(ROM). This game is a good example why I love the 2600. Simple as hell, but huge fun factor. I could play this for hours...its addictive. Sadly, however, my score is not improving so i'll put this one to bed.

[khryssun]

35,620

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[panda_racer]

13,730

i don't care too much for this game, but while playing it i did learn that someone had spilt off-brand mountain dew on my keyboard. so i got something out of it.

Edited by panda_racer, Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:03 PM.

[Keir]

I don't really get how this game works. My first game, the difficulty ramped up very quickly. I made it to level 7 by 9,000 pts and died shortly thereafter (I'm assuming the number at the bottom to the left of your lives is some sort of level indicator). Second game I got nearly 25,000 pts before passing level 1! My final score for that game was 36,810.

[Mad Scientist]

{score excised} ***edit: change to 12,470. I was on the wrong difficulty before. The comments below still stand, though...***

Like Keir, I also do not understand how the difficulty progresses. It ramped up rapidly on my first game, but on my second game the lower-left number remained at "1" until I was around 20,000 points. When it started to advance, it rapidly did so. Once I had my first death, I only managed to take out one more enemy... there wasn't time to see them before my vault was struck. The explosion/ death throes also seem to be quite long. I'm using Stella; is this also the way that the game behaves on real hardware?
-MS

Edited by Mad Scientist, Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:28 PM.

[panda_racer]

yeah, i got over 35,000 while playing it earlier, but i passed it off as stella messing up. (once it played barnstorming without any ducks)

new score: 16,770

[Mad Scientist]

Improved: 36,790.

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[Keir]

I'm using Z26. It appears that when emulating, it resets to the easy difficulty every game.

My new score at the correct difficulty (please ignore my last score):
12,360

[Ze_ro]

Well, that's the end of this week's edition of the High Score Club. Congratulations to everyone on their high scores! I hope you all had fun with Vault Assault! And remember, this game is still available from the AtariAge store, so if you haven't already, do yourself a favor and buy yourself a copy!

--Zero