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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The speedrun world record for Drop Wizard Tower.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your world record sounds arguably funner than mine.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

My run was very luck dependent, i run the game for fun at times (mobile game, each attempt takes like 15 minutes) and still havent managed to beat my time 2 years later.

Since the game got delisted from Google Play for some reason this year, I'm likely not seeing competition on it for a long time.

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I once got 100% in banjo tooie without the Internet or a game guide. I'm kind of a big deal.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Were the secret areas hard to find?

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I remember when I figured out the kazooie dragon permeant transform area my jaw was on the floor lol!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I did 100%'ed Tony hawk pro skater 2 back in the day

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I routinely get scores so high that they stop me from carrying on

I play a lot of golf games

[–] xiao@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Personally I never pay attention to the score.

[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

So, when I was in highschool (circa 1996-ish) I couldn't sleep one night. Decided to walk down to the 7-11. There were a few pinball games in there that I played before, but never really took it seriously. Popped in the quarter and got my ass handed to me. Decided, fuck it, I have nothing better to do at midnight in North Dakota. Popped in another quarter. Ended up hitting the multiplier in the top left corner. This machine was so worn out that I kept pushing the pinball into the multiplier slot. It got stuck and just bounced around there for a while. I eventually lost the ball, but now I knew the secret. Put the ball in the upper left corner. Every game after that I would aim for the upper left corner and it would just stick up there earning points. I eventually got bored at like 2 am and left the machine with like 65 free games from all the points I gathered. Fun as hell.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My current record for beating the original Pikmin game is 7 days, which is very close to the fastest it can be beaten, which is 6 days.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You at least slept, right?

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I did haha. I mean in-game days!

672k playing Zombies Ate My Neighbors on SNES

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Level 87 in Diablo II

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tony hawk 3 I played online a bit and could slap out million plus tricks. I could do one trick and AFK the rest of the match and win.

Just Rodney Mullen things

[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I always think of THPS3 as a PS1 game, didn’t even know it had online MP

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

However many paperclips are the max in Universal Paperclips. Some ridiculous number like β€œundecillion” but probably a few factors of 10 higher.

[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I broke 1500 in Star Fox 64 once and I've never been able to do it since.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

When Wolf said he can't let you do that, I guess he meant it.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Alfenstein@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Once killed 224 in a game of Halo

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've tried those games a few times, could barely kill two. I'd make a terrible soldier.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Why was at first. Just hang in there and you'll be killing aliens in the three digits.

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I used lucky patcher and got score of few million in subway surfer

[–] MoonElf@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MoonElf@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

okay one trick is to use the mode where pulling back on the joystick flips your ship 180Β° and never moving, just stay in the middle and flip and rotate!

nasa should know what to do with this information

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 2 weeks ago

Rock, paper, scissors (whoever gets to 10 first wins). I didn’t win.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sixty hundred.

408000 in Super Retro Mega Wars Tetris. This is equivalent to 199 lines.

111 in Flappy Bird

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Last player alive in a 50 player survivor tournament in a 2D space shooter.
I can't remember the name of anymore.
SpaceHQ or something.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I once got 29 in cribbage, then it was mostly 19s the rest of the game.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I got close to a perfect pacman clear twice. Can't remember the exact number of either run, but one was a little over the 3mil mark. I got excited and fucked it up.

The other was maybe 100k below that.

Both were high enough that nobody even got close.

I was absurdly good at pacman. Pretty damn good at centipede, though I wasn't obsessed with it the same way, so I don't remember any scores at all.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What's the secret to succeeding at Pacman levels? The ghosts always find me by like the fifth level.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The ghost movement is not random. They go in memorizable patterns. So it is possible to simply rote memorize the solution to all 256 levels or something.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean I kind of got the gist that it's a set pattern, but when I play, I feel like the movements are specifically designed to be inescapable past a certain point.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Back in the day it was combination of being young and paying attention to the basic patterns of the ghosts, then keeping a count of dots eaten so you could know when fruit was going to appear.

Each ghost has a set behavior in each phase of a board, plus a different way of picking where to go. The red ghost is always trying to get to where you are, but pinky is trying to get ahead of you. I can't remember all of it any more, it's been over thirty years.

Back then, it was all a bunch of kids spamming quarters and figuring things out as best we could. I wasn't the one to figure out the patterns, I was just good at using them. And my hand/eye coordination was fast. So I could see the ghosts and where they were going, then adjust my movement before it would be a problem.

Staying ahead of the "ai" of the ghosts was the only real way to get past around lvl 50. Before that, you could usually just clear a quarter of the screen while avoiding them reactively. After that, if you weren't able to visually track all 4, and have a sense of where they were going to be, you'd eventually crap out, or lose fruit, which means a lower score.

There's articles out there now that give details I had no idea were part of it back in the arcade days though.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL Pacman is just a disguised game of American football/rugby.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, there's a ton of similarity in the concept

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