(3/26/2014 - 4/1/2014) Game of the Week: Air Zonk

[Ray]

Good god, phase. What's the secret? I've not noticed any way to boost the score like in sapphire with the combo attacks. Did you just not miss a single bad guy or what?

IIRC, you can get a maximum of about 1,000,000 points doing level 1-4 and 9,000,000 doing level 5, with a further 10,000,000(US)/90,000,000(JP) given by the final boss.

Here is the picture I took about a year back when I first 1CC'd this game:

[roflmao]

I played this some on the Express this evening, though my score wasn't anything to write home about.  I'll try to give it a real go again tomorrow.

[Phase]

nice job
damn, I almost beat it, did'nt get the final shot cuz I was too pissed lol
snapped one prelast boss

[Phase]

lolz, yeah tell me about it the prefight with drool I was down to 0 lives then got the nine for the final boss

I just beat it with a continue, cool ending - will try a no continue shot later.

last boss isn't too bad once you get him down, was too aggressive the first time...

[Phase]

Well I beat it a second time without using any continues, but didn't beat your score nullity (18,478,830)

So I tried again.. trying to figure out how to get more points
It took me many hours but I found a few ways to rack up points then I past it a third time with no continues..

I remember starsoldier1 being the high score world record holder for this game. Will he post here?

Whats his score with some patients I can beat it.

[geise]

Are all you guys playing on Spicey mode? 

[lukester]

This is a quote from Ryan Genno's (starsoldier1) website. idk what difficulty, only lives change, correct?

Air Zonk also holds a special place for me and here on this website because I have the World Record of a massive 30, 332, 430 points found in the magazine EGM#45 and website Twin Galaxies. As of today the game has yet to be broken.

[munchiaz]

who do you guys think are the best buds to take into a stage

[Phase]

Are all you guys playing on Spicey mode? 

yeah spicy

This is a quote from Ryan Genno's (starsoldier1) website. idk what difficulty, only lives change, correct?

Air Zonk also holds a special place for me and here on this website because I have the World Record of a massive 30, 332, 430 points found in the magazine EGM#45 and website Twin Galaxies. As of today the game has yet to be broken.

bitter/hard starts you with 0 lives and has more enemy fire and I'm going to guess more hits to kill bosses? will check later
spicy/normal start with 2 lives
sweet/easy starts with 4 lives less hits for bosses and I think a few things have less firepower? 4th boss doesn't shoot red fireballs for instance- Id have to doublecheck

Hmm just looked at a few of his vids and im guessing he is using spicy or sweet for his high score.
I will try and beat his score in a few days. currently my thumbs hurt from pressing down too hard and when i close my eyes i see the game.. so I gotta break for a day or two.

who do you guys think are the best buds to take into a stage

Well I don't want to spoil anything, some of the fun of the game is finding out who you like best, maybe you don't want to read the white text unless you have beaten it.
I noticed mumbles will own the first boss. The second stage I like moo moo for destroying everything and third I like spike ree because the dropping crab kills the second part of the football boss pretty nicely.

Agree with nullity on good weapons and the alone mode I just figured out yesterday (maybe I knew and forgot?) is like its own cool mode with the mini helpers, gonna beat it in that mode next.

just looked on game facts Expert Mode- on the difficulty  screen, hold right & press select.
briefly looked just now, from what I can tell slightly harder than spicy? faster enemy fire stage 2..

Edit: anyone know will sweet mode give you the same ending?

[Phase]

Cool, will be trying it once i recover 

[Phase]

yeah or mod a controller to have select as a shoulder button would work nice.

[PunkicCyborg]

Is it cheating if I use an ave 3 pad, map select to button III, turn turbo all the way up and wrap a rubber band around the button so I can spam the thruster???

[csgx1]

Finally had some time to play Air Zonk.  I forgotten how much fun this game is.  Here's my score.

18,572,200 - 1cc - Spicy

[Phase]

I beat the high score



uploading a vid shortly

[Phase]

..what, and spoil all the fun 

well my video turned out horribly, man what a piece of crap camcorder. It must have some secret technology in it where it can hear the shower through the wall but cant pick up the damn game 6 ft from it. Not an exciting video just me vs the last three bosses, once I start taping my skills take a dive and I loose quite a few lives. Video won't stay in focus through out. Also if your using headphones and decide to watch this there are some loud clangs enhanced by the videos low sound and the need to turn up the volume to hear the game.. you've been warned.

http://www.ektophase.com/TG16/Phase_AirZonk_HighScore.avi

Spoilers- last three bosses and about 10 seconds of ending.

(the butt head lackey shoots red fireballs proving this is spicy mode)