Q.T. Quasar, thanks for resonding to my thread. The only reason I mentioned 5 men only is because it's pretty much the standard number of men according to Twin Galaxies tournament settings coming from Walter Day. I see your point though, compare a Robotron 5 men game to a Galaga 5 men game and you'll notice the difference. I've gotten 499,000 on Robotron which is about a 15 min game. That's close to only 500,000 on Galaga (18 min) compared to probably around 6M I could get on 5 men which would be about 3.5 hours. What we really need to talk about is what classifies a game as marathon? It has to be a factor of time were talking about. Galaga may seem like it's a marathon game, but in reality no one will last 14 hours on Galaga to my knowledge especially if it's the original fire ver. Now Robotron let's say, is endless because you get extra men every 25K. Galaga you have 18 total men and even if a player could average a million pts per man that would give him 18M and roughly a 10 hour game as I did on turbo fire. Robotorn, Joust, or Q*bert for that matter can be played for 48+ hours, it has been done already. Galaga 5 men wouldn't be more then 4 hours I suspect so could we say any game that lasts more then 5 hours is considered a marathon game? This may be too time factor may be too low, I can find out tonight when I talk to Walter on the phone and ask him what he considers a game to be marathon. Is it because it's played endlessly (continuously awarding men and not getting any harder)? or is it because it's being played for a certain amount of time consistantly? I'll respond back to this post later on.(posted 9285 days ago)Regards, Steve Krogman
Longest marathon ~ Galaga Turbo fire MAME ver. 10 hrs.