Overall Score (Normal Mode)
#1 Shubibiman: 1,770,100
#2 Elnino: 1,760,800
#3 geise: 1,727,800 - 1 Life Clear
#4 Keranu: 1,642,900
#5 Tatsujin: 1,458,500
#6 rag-time4: 526,000
#7 blueraven: 485,100
#8 ceti_alpha: 438,900
This is hitting the wayback machine here, and no, I don't have a screenshot to post. Yet. But all of these scores are extremely low. In order to max out your score for this game you NEED to play it on Devil mode. If you do this, scores on the order of 2.3 to 2.6 million are commonplace on a 1CC game. From there, if you strategically hold your fire in order to build up enemies onscreen, particularly with ones that fire missiles and such which you can destroy for additional points, then you can amass scores from 2.7 to 2.9 million. I learned this way, way back in the day when playing this game on Normal or even on Hard mode had turned into a cakewalk.
Late in 1994, I was playing this game on a lark at a friend's place, not serious about it or anything, but just playing using the strategy that I laid out above as it was more challenging that way. When I finished, after the multiplier totaled up the score, I had broken 3 million points. I had literally attempted to do that for half a year and was beginning to believe that it might be impossible, all of my best scores were always over 2.9 million. I jumped up and bounced off the walls for a good five minutes. But I had no camera and no Tennokoe Bank, which would have been more ideal than a screenshot for me. It took me a few months to save up and locate a Tennokoe Bank to buy from the good ol' Turbolist, and by the time I had received it from Japan, my friend had pawned his TurboDuo in order to pay his rent.
I guess now I need to buckle down again and put up the proof, yeah?
