Response to Yet another new leaderboard(YANL) Comments

Chad,

Pacman: Yes, if someone gets 200k on a fast pacman then your 100k on slow pacman gets only 50 points. The point being, if you're good on the slow version it won't take long to get good on the fast version and reclaim your points. If you want to see totally different games of Galaxian, try Galaxian and GalTurbo. Although the games look the same the gameplay required to get high-scores on them is considerably different and once you know how to play it, GalTurbo is the easier game to play with the least practice. You will possibly always be able to get more on the Galaxian/GalMidw/Galap1 versions with practice because GalTurbo is very unforgiving on mistakes.

As far as the fighting games go, my point was that even though they are 'totally' different games, the techniques you learn on one are useful on the other game as soon as you learn the new combos to use. I was merely trying to infer that they are effectively almost as much clones as GalTurbo is of Galaxian - yes they look similar but the gameplay is significantly different until you learn the new moves to use on GalTurbo.... but you could extrapolate that to any vertical scrolling shoot-em-up, and horizontal scrolling shoot-em-up, any platform game, etc..... I am of course being facetious. ;-)

BeeJay.

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