Response to Twin Galaxies

Unfortunately my computer skills aren't up to par, otherwise I would be doing it myself, but I really don't see it being a problem in knowing if a player has played a game using the corrent TG settings or not. A friend of mine Mark Longridge has been taking this allready into consideration. The scores (450+) on his page have been carefully looked at as far as the settings are concerned, and will do so for the MAME action replay page when the time comes to gather the scores for the next edition of the book. He's good at knowing when someone has used a cheat, or set the game on a much easier setting then that of the TG settings. He's had to dissqualify inps for this reason.

Not all of the TG settings are set to hard. Some games are broken into 2 groups which are: "Tournement" and "Marathon" settings. With tournement settings, games like Robotron, Stargate, Defender, Q*Bert, and a few others have a setting of 5 men to start, and that's it! Now the Marathon settings are used for the majority of the games which is self explanitory. You can find the settings on The Twin Galaxies web sight, and Mark Longridges's sight for even more games listed. Basically the reason for this is because you can't compare a score on lets say Joust of 200,000 pt on (tournement)vs 10,000,000 pt on (marathon). So if most of the scores for Joust on Chris's page met the TG marathon settings, then they would be published in the next edition of the book under "Marathon". For some of you Curious players out there, I listed just a few game scores on both settings which are current world records.

If anyone should have any questions about settings, or about Twin Galaxies in general please e-mail me, and I'll do my best to answer you back. Also, if you don't have the book allready, GET IT! It's AWESOME!! A video game players bible! It's the Guinness Book of World Records on Video and Pinball Games since 1980!

Regards, Steve "Galaga" Krogman

*** MARATHON ***

1) Robotron: 348,691,680 2) Joust: 115,910,850 3) Q*bert: 33,273,520

*** TOURNEMENT ***

1) Robotron: 960,350 2) Joust: 1,537,050 3) Q*bert: 2,222,220

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