Scoring update

Happy 2015 to everyone. Hope you’re all still on track with those various resolutions.

I admit I’m struggling a little with mine, which, as an inveterate Sydney CBD ‘J’-walker, was to wait for the green man before starting to cross.

That said, it’s been a productive new year period here at PengoQuest HQ with some quite heavy scoring. I finished up 2014 with a bang with 1M+ scores on each of the last two days of the year (1,272,650 and 1,193,270). Then, after a short pause, I proceeded to rack up another two in the past week (1,075,130 and 1,269,950).

I’m now up to 14 scores over 1 million, with five of those eclipsing the official world record of 1,217,650.

To recap, my top 5 scores are:
1. 1,548,250 - 6 December 2014
2. 1,452,130 - 31 July 2014
3. 1,272,650 - 30 December 2014
4. 1,269,950 - 13 January 2015
5. 1,237,950 - 15 July 2014

My other ‘records’ are:
• Fastest Act clearance - 11 seconds
• Fastest Act clearance with 10,000 bonus - 24 seconds
• Total scores over 1,000,000 - 14

Given I exceed 500,000 in just about every game I play these days (which is around 2-4 a week), and that I only bother keeping track of the scores over 1 million, I decided to change this benchmark from total scores over 500,000 to those over 1,000,000.

I’ve also decided to add a new benchmark - the highest score after completing the first 16 Acts. I was prompted by a slashing start to a game during the week when I managed to score 10,000 bonuses in each of the first 14 Acts, followed by near misses on each of Acts 15 and 16. While I lost three men in the process, it was worth it just to see what sort of score I could reach - which was 221,880. And it didn’t really affect the rest of the game. I finished with just over 708,000.

The top 5 official Twin Galaxies high scores remain as follows:
1. 1,217,650 - Paul Hornitzky, 9 September 2012
2. 1,110,370 - Rodney Day, 13 August 1983
3. 809,990 - Kevin Leisner, 25 February 1983
4. 723,950 - Frank Lupia, 20 September 2008
5. 694,030 - Paul Elia, 31 March 1983

I note from a recent check of the Twin Galaxies website that the date for Paul Hornitzky’s record has been amended from 10 July 2012 to 9 September 2012, although the score itself is identical. Perhaps this reflects the date of verification rather than the date of the game? But it makes my blog entry back in July 2013 celebrating the anniversary of his score look a bit silly. In any event, for the purposes of this list, I’ll go with the latest information.