I`ve seen some great recordings here at MARP , and some great games in arcades way back then, but Hisa-Chans' INP of Rainbow Islands tops the lot. Period.

Steve Krogman spoke of Hisa-Chans ' shooter ' skills, but this is exceptional .( R.Islands )

And like I always said , supposed records on Arcade games have to stand the Japanese test. These guys are awesome.

Hopefully, Hisa-Chan can bring some more players to the fray ?

AL

-- Alex Weir (alexweir@indigo.ie), June 16, 2000

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I'll say... Hisa-Chan has made such an impact with a mere four recordings (I've seen three of them - Raiden, Magic Sword, and Rainbow Islands). It will probably mean my (and probably everyone else's) points go spiralling downwards, but if this is the quality we get, I'd say it's worth it. I'm looking forward to Hisa-Chan's next upload...

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hn.pl.net), June 16, 2000.

I agree. These are some truly incredible uploads. The scary thing is that he keeps commenting on his "poor play"... looks pretty damn good to me!

Hey Hisa-Chan, you wouldn't happen to have any Gamest's that list the Japanese high score record for Shock Troopers, would you? ;)

-BBH

-- BBH (lordbbh@aol.com), June 17, 2000.

It was really poor. My best record of RAIDEN (my youthful days)was over 7.5million(3- 3).
but I know some over 10million players in Japan.
#Japanese version stop game when you died.It makes much more difficult.
that 3.4 million is 4th or 5th play during these 7years.wait more pls.......

-- dangerous-replayer (weavuspert@yahoo.co.jp), June 17, 2000.

Shock troopers 31,356,100-----from GAMEST VOL 226.

-- dangerous-replayer (weavuspert@yahoo.co.jp), June 17, 2000.

31,356,100 on Shock Troopers?!? Oh my god, I'd love to see that. My all-time best is 29,594,600, and I thought I'd squeezed as many points out of the game as I could... maybe this player has perfected doing a multi-shot kill into close-range attack consistently...

Thanks Hisa-Chan, now I feel inferior. ;)

-BBH

-- BBH (lordbbh@aol.com), June 17, 2000.

Gee, this is a flashback.

And, of course, BBH has demolished that 31M score on Shock Troopers now as we all know.

-- dissolute city (dyishamista@aol.com), November 27, 2001.

I no longer feel inferior.

As I had suspected, multi-shot into close-range kill is the key... the only thing that was holding me back was that I was playing with blood on. I thought it did not affect the gameplay in any way, but I was wrong... at random times when shooting an enemy your shots will no longer push them back because their arm will get blown off their body or something gory like that. With blood off you can always push them back with repeated shots for maximum points. (it's better explained by the .inps...)

Sadly, if I'd known this a year ago I could have easily taken the record then. But at least now I know for sure I'm the best Shock Troopers player in the world. It's given me a swollen head about it, but dammit, I've played the game so much I feel I've earned that title... even if hardly anybody cares about it.

I want a predecessor that I can pass along my level patterns to though. :) You have no idea how in-depth I could be in explaining what to do on each level.

-BBH

-- BBH (lordbbh@aol.com), November 27, 2001.

It'd be easier to pass your secrets to a successor. :)

Blah, why am I in correction mode today? Congratulations again. So do you still think the limit is ~33.2 million, or can you go higher?

-- Tenchi (rpeng@usc.edu), November 27, 2001.

The thing about Shock Troopers is... every time I think I've reached the limit in terms of points, I manage to drive it higher. :) 33.2 million seemed reasonable, but now I believe it's a bit higher. 34 million still looks a little unlikely though. Perhaps I should post some of my score analyzations...

-BBH

-- BBH (lordbbh@aol.com), November 28, 2001.