What is your Omega Race highscore?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:50 am

For a 3 ship play?

Leeeeee · Post by **Leeeeee** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:19 pm

As it's probably been two decades since I played Omega Race my poll vote is just a poorly remembered guess. It was over 100,000 but by how much I'm not sure, so I'll say 100k - 120k.

My highest score may not have been entirely mine as we sometimes used to play as a group taking turns with the joystick. Fun days.

Lee.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:29 pm

So am I the only one who have seen the screen "Droid force 2 elimenated"? And actually managed to clear a screen after that? My high-score is 184.000...

/Anders

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:39 pm

what do you like to do when the nice victory music come on before the next screen comes up?

i like to constantly thrust while doing tight turns. like free time for the pilot

chris

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:47 am

First I shoot down all remaining squares and triangels. If there are none, then just as you say, som free pilot time! Sometimes I try to go around the middle box without bumping into the walls. That's pretty tricky...

/Anders

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:27 am

I always maximum thrust into one of the top corners and keep bouncing there trying to get perfectly into the corner.

Is that strange?

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:42 am

never thought of flying to a corner.

wow, i thought flying in tight circles was the obvious thing to do, but obviously not

chris

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:46 am

LOL, what an obscure topic. So it's not just me!

I try to get the ship "stuck" beside the center box. You get the bounce sound playing continuously, which clashes nicely with the victory music.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:08 am

I have almost never played Omega Race on the VIC (although an image sits on one of my floppies). I keep a note book on personal records, but there were none in the VIC-20 section. In the C64 section however, I once had scored 59,000 pts so I guess that has to be my record, despite achieved on the "wrong" platform.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:59 pm

The C64 version really sucks!!!

I had it once, but it dissapeared for some reason. And I didn't try to get it again because it was simply not worth having...

/Anders

Post by **Jeff-20** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:51 pm

Everything on the 64 looks too tall, narrow, and just... vertical!

For a good comparison try gridrunner!

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:39 am

Yes, but the C64 version of Omega Race is completely different, using sprites... A big blue sprite for the ship - if my memory serves me right...

/Anders

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:54 am

No, it is just as B&W as the VIC-20 version. While the sprite emulating routines could've been ported, it's rather logical to use hardware sprites as they were available anyway.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:08 am

Logical or not... They did a very poor job!

/Anders

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:21 am

My new high-score is 206250. But I don't think I can change my vote...

/Anders

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