Tapper World Record Crushed 19
Greg Erway writes "There's a story at Twin Galaxies about my recent record-beating Tapper high score. It took almost 16 straight hours to rack up 9,100,125 points and beat the previous arcade game record, set back in
1986 by Mike Ward." Many of you probably remember Midway's Budweiser-sponsored Tapper arcade machine, and the story estimates that Greg filled over 75,000 virtual beer glasses, as well as having to kill off 79 bartenders at the end of the game to actually get the game over screen.
wow (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't mean to detract from that awesome goal, but since you mention yourself that it's a lot more useful to use the 5-man Tapper score as the One To Beat
Re:wow (Score:5, Insightful)
space dungeon (Score:4, Informative)
When you roll over the level counter on Space Dungeon, it prints out the rhyme "you're the hero on level zero". I should know. That's where my undergraduate career ended. Level zero, 6,999,995 points.
With a little help from my friends while I guzzled an omelette.
tapper was great (Score:1, Interesting)
Why no interest here? (Score:2)
Re:Why no interest here? (Score:1)
I think that many people here may not have tried Tapper (because when it came out we couldn't get into
Re:Why no interest here? (Score:1)
As a matter of fact, we are developing a game loosely based on Tapper. It's in alpha stage right now, but you can see an early screenshot here. [mrio-software.com]
Re:Why no interest here? (Score:2)
I personally won't bother trying.
BTW have you ever seen the various Quake Done Quick demos, or DOOM II done in Nightmare mode?
Those are impressive too.
Crushed? (Score:3, Funny)
New Record: 9,100,175
I don't mean to belit achievement, but that's not exactly the trouncing that "crushed" brings to mind.
Re:Crushed? (Score:5, Insightful)
If you'd care to read the article, or for that matter the summary, you'd see that he had to kill off 79 extra lives to end his game after breaking the record.
In other words - he 0wnz3rz this game. Whether he beat the old record by a thousand or ten million is irrelevant. The fact is that he could've beat the record by whatever number you'd care to mention - he just didn't see the need to bother.
Re:Crushed? (Score:2)
Re:Crushed? (Score:2)
I read it as saying he killed off 79 men during game play, leaving 79 men to be intentionally killed at the end. He is gaining men at twice the rate he is losing them, and as the game is not getting any harder he could play
Nice one (Score:1)