Topic: Arcade SHMUP High Score Thread

Great challenge, thanks @Corneel for your work. A big surprise for me was Wild Guns Reloaded. I bought it a few days ago on Steam. It's an awesome game. For the round three I have Devil Engine and I will buy Strikers 1945 and Shock Troopers.

Great! This month I can't play more than 2 games, because I only have Shock Troopers and Dig Dug, which is better for focus! I'm not going to win, especially Dig Dug is a game like Pac-man to me: I enjoy it, but I can't get too far, so I'll be glad to just participate and try to do my best.

Hi ,just curious as to what controllers people are using for shmups/arcade games,do arcade sticks make a huge difference,especially for shmups? cheers

@Microjak I play almost 99% of the times on the go, with my joycon in portable mode. For shmup I sometimes use the HORI lef joycon, which has a d-pad (not an exceptional one, but still...).
I have a modded HORI RAP4 Kai arcade stick, but I seldom use it nowadays.

@Microjak I have the HORI Arcade stick for Switch but use my Pro Controller most of the time out of habit and ease of accessibility.

Thanks for the response guys,I was hoping someone would tell me that I will suddenly become awesome if I buy a decent arcade stick,but I guess I will just stick with my pro controller and practice practice practice,cheers

Couple of new scores:

I’m just starting on this month’s challenge and here is an early Dig Dug Score along with my set up and some pics of a late edition Atari Digdug Box. This game is an 80s arcade classic so it was released on a ton of really old systems including the famous Atari 2600.

@Microjak

Hello, as you can see above by scrolling through the pics, I use joycons with the flip grip. For games playable in TATE mode, I think that’s the best way to go.

@Agent721 Well played. I’m loving DIG DUG. Hard to maximise scoring whilst avoiding being hit but tons of classic arcade fun.

@Lroy

Thanks! The trick is to kill as many with a rock as possible and more than one if you can at a time. Which is of course harder said than done as you have to get them to follow you and then properly set them up for squashing. I always played Dig Dug in the arcade but was never very good at it. This challenge gives me a chance to revisit this oldie but goodie. Very fun so far.

@CW13 Amazing score! I doubt anyone will be able to get close to it during this challenge.

I made some minor improvements with Shock Troopers; got to the end of stage 4 (valley route) and Dig Dug; 37530.

Voting for round 4 is open!!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FDGPVFC

My current progress at this time is

• stuck with latter half of stage 5 easy on DE and not really improving, a bit sad really.
• 474100 on Strikers
• and middle of stage 4 on shock troopers.

Focus have been a bit all over the place for the past couple of weeks and it shows, but hoping I get a bit of improvement in the second half of the challenge.

btw. for those who wonder, the challenge has quite a good participation even though this thread hasn't been super active lately. The discussions just been over at the 'adult switch gamers' discord channel lately.

Voted for the next set of challenges, thanks @corneel

I managed to reach Stage 4 on Shock Troopers via the valley route. I’m hoping to press harder next week. I’m using the big mama chick...for some reason she works best for me. What’s everyone else using?

I still haven’t broken 300k on Strikers which is bothering me. I’m mid 40k on Dig Dug & hoping for more!

10 days left! Still plenty of time. Most of my time is gone to Devil Engine which I am determined to 1cc on easy mode. Currently I can reach the final boss, but need to practice more the final two levels. I love the first Strikers 1945 game, but I totally suck at it, would be lot easier to me if the stages wouldn't be in random order. Shock Troopers is just awesome, but unfortunately haven't found enough time to play that game more and finally I feel like that I am more a Pac-Man guy than Dig-Dugger.

Scores so far:
Strikers 1945 364200
Dig Dug 20330
Shock Troopers: 2nd Level boss
Devil Engine: Final Stage

So most of us are stuck at stage 4 in Shock Troopers... I'm going to focus on it some more, hopefully to get to the final stage and attempt a 1CC. Maybe I'll switch to highscore mode as well to get the score on the ingame leaderboard. Hopefully I don't get too tempted to slice and dive the baddies for extra point.

@Agent721 For me also Valley route, by far the easiest. And with Maru for no particular reason.

@Zkibu Things are looking good for a 1CC at Devil Engine for you. I'm sure you will get there before the end of this challenge.

Also four people in first place at the moment...

I still haven’t tried Devil Engine. I think I may skip out on it and concentrate on the other 3. It would be cool if someone could 1CC Shock Troopers. I think with enough practice it’s definitely doable. It’s amazing how much I like the Ikari Warriors type of gaming...it’s quite addictive. Too bad we can’t use the original arcade joysticks on those anymore, at least without the arcade.