place@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/11/85)
Has anyone ever topped my high Q-Bert score of 1,144,000?
nomura@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/14/85)
I know someone who died 3 times on the way to 1M. Though not a pattern game, the technique is not terribly hard to master. Now Robotron 2084, that is a cool game...
sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) (10/16/85)
In article <26300003@uiucdcs> place@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU writes: > >Has anyone ever topped my high Q-Bert score of 1,144,000? An ex-girlfriend of my best friend got over 7 million. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean Casey UUCP: sean@ukma.UUCP or 915 Patterson Office Tower {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean University of Kentucky ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA Lexington, Ky. 40506-0027 BITNET: sean@UKMA.BITNET -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) (10/22/85)
A friend of mine can play Q-bert until the arcade shuts down. I am not making
this up! He can go on for 4 hours on one quarter, and sometimes does! I don't
even want to think what his high score is, but he told me that past some level,
the game's difficulty level does not rise anymore. So, if you make past that
without any problems you are guarranteed to go on till your arms fall off.
This friend of mine now works on playing two Q-bert machines at the same time...
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In article <43@birtch.UUCP> oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) writes: >A friend of mine can play Q-bert until the arcade shuts down. I am not making >this up! He can go on for 4 hours on one quarter, and sometimes does! I don't >even want to think what his high score is, but he told me that past some level, >the game's difficulty level does not rise anymore. So, if you make past that >without any problems you are guarranteed to go on till your arms fall off. > Very true. Once you pass a couple hundred thousand, nothing new happens. In fact, you acquire the ability to predict what and when the machine will throw at you next. About 6 of us in the lunchtime crowd perfected this some years ago; one stayed around enough to turn the machine over (he claims) and after that, we simply counted Qberts left to kamikaze after some time-period (usually one hour). Of course, we used to attack each new arcade game in turn, and usually managed to produce one or two experts at each. One Stargate/Defender wacko, two Food Fight zombies, and a nest of Galaga players. BEFORE we learned how to cause the aliens in Galaga to stop shooting at you until wave 256. Many scores verifiable by close examination of back wall of UMd Macke room. >This friend of mine now works on playing two Q-bert machines at the same time... This sounds novel...(and confusing. How far apart are the machines?) -dave p.s. Has anyone looked inside a Q'bert machine to see if there REALLY IS a hammer in the bottom or not??? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Hsu Across the net... USnail: Communications & Signal Processing Laboratory hsu @ eneevax.umd.edu Dept of Electr Engr, Univ Md hsu @ mit-prep.arpa College Park, MD 20742 hsu @ umd2.arpa UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu BITnet: CF522 @ UMDD "...YOU can enjoy an EXCITING career as a diesel mechanic..."