I had a personal best of 1,204,000 and few other guys in the game room I played had >1,2M as well. World record is an overstatement, especially since you lost more than 10 times. I used to run it without loss or maybe 1 (that would be most possibly in stage 25, which I consider the hardest of all! :) ) In the final boss stage you hit it 14 times, whilst you can hit it 1 more before you bust. So in this game you lost ~40,000 (counting the extra life you would get by +30K). I see 2 differences between this game and the cabinet: the pills you get are averagely better, too many lives and purple ones. But I have to say that the random moving enemies are more aggressive here, that is, they go down the screen rather early. I tried to play this at mame but it's very hard to play with the keys instead of the wheel of the cabinet. I never had a playstation or sthg so I don't know if the gameplay is better there. Thanks for the memories anyway.
It's funny, all these years later and I watch this and as soon as I see a screen I can remember which bricks have pills in them. I haven't seen these screens in ages. It doesn't go away! Thanks for posting this.
Highlights: 0:58 10,000 points reached in first round. 2:12 First extra life earned from points (20,000 points). 3:37 First round cleared with 38,800 points. 7:43 100,000 points reached clearing Round 4 38:02 500,000 points reached in Round 23 42:00 Life lost in Round 25 - 614,900 points. 1:02:29 Final boss reached with 928,680 points. At this point, player milks the maximum points he can by hitting the boss up to one less than necessary to defeat him, and then deliberately missing to reset the boss hit counter. Several lives are lost to the boss attack as well. 1:04:58 One million points reached milking from the final boss. 1:11:30 Player on final paddle - boss defeated 30 seconds later.
Wow, this is the World Record? I used to play this game around 1987 and 1988. I know at the time I topped 1.2 million points a few times, but it never occurred to me that I actually might have been World Record level. There was no one I knew that could beat me regularly, only one other guy that would beat me from time to time. This blows me away to think I could have had a world-best score and had no idea, we didn't even think about filming a game back then. I haven't played in probably 15 years now. At age 47 I seriously doubt I could play like this anymore but I want to give it a try now. Seriously, wow.
As did I back then. My best was 1.3M. As to tricks, or lack of them, the guy playing here was amazingly bad at shooting the Doh at the end. Should be able to make 14 hits -- 14,000 -- per man and there were plenty of times where he gets just 3 or 5 hits. And on his last man he almost didn't complete the game...check it out again.
Nothing like responding to a 4 year old comment. Lol. 1.3M is a very respectable score and to average around 1.2M per game is even more impressive. Before I had any real association with twingalaxies back in the 80's, I had set a score back in '86 of 1,450,230. It wasn't until late '99 when I beat my own record with a score of 1,466,460 at Boomers in Boca Raton, Fl, which landed me an interview with the Boca Raton News (www.twingalaxies.com/content.php/732-Video-game-world-record-set-at-Boomers-in-Boca-Raton-Florida-Score-slated-for-Video-Game-and-Pinball-Book-of-Records). Walter Day recognized and inputted my score into his database but after new ownership took place and Walter sold TG, my score somehow disappeared from the database and my Arkanoid Tournament Edition high score took its place. In any event Floyd, I really think you should come out of retirement and give it a shot again. I'd like to see a bunch of great players like you and a few others work on improving their scores and give my good friend Zack Hample a run for his money (the current wr holder). Lol :)
The pods are worth 1,000, while tiles are worth just 100. Plus, some pods greatly help a level. Give you 10K and warp you to the next level. Or even give you an extra life. You give up the chance of getting pods while playing more than 1 ball. On some levels this is a very sub-optimal strategy.
On the above version of Arkanoid, can anyone tell me how to start the game and then move the paddle independently. I've consistently tried but the game continues allowing me to do nothing with the mouse or arrow keys. I do not have a game controller. Thanks in advance for your help
Yes. The next game in the line-up was Arkanoid Tournament Ed. which was exactly the same as the first version, but with different board layouts. Still 32 stages and all the same power capsules s well as the boss on stage 33. The next one after this one was Arkanoid Revenge of Doh. A revised Arkanoid with new power capsules to add to the original lineup and the ability to exit the stage after completion via the left side or right side. The last installment in the series was called Arkanoid Returns and was totally revamped compared to the first 3 versions. Scoring was a lot lower in this version and it way much harder than that of the first 3.
I defeated the boss even 3 times in a day in the 90s, I never went for points or the world record, just focused on the Boss. Maybe being autistic helped 😊
That is highly interesting to hear because back then I thought these enemies looked like nothing (sprites) i had ever seen. This was so ahead of its time.
I have original Arkanoid floppy disc for MS-DOS and I have played it many years. By now, I can say that I am pretty good at it, because I have passed ~ 23 stages. Also, Arkanoid is one of the hardest MS-DOS games (that I have played), but it's still my favourite MS-DOS game. It would be really awesome to play Arkanoid on a real Arcade machine, but I guess I have to download emulator instead...
I came for tips on round 20. Sometimes I get the "catch" and that is fine, but if you end up dying with only one brick on the screen, it can really eat away your lives.
Yes that's correct jjstratfor. In addition to shooting as many of those floating "orbs" as you can from stage to stage for 100 points each. Break are important too as their worth 10k for advancing to the next stage.
I doubt very few people alive ever successfully played this game to its end. It was a difficult game and as you can see here it would take over an hour with 32 levels to reach the conclusion
The game ALLOWING the player to purposely die to gain points at the end is asinine. The player's ability to exploit it at a high level is NOT asinine. Just wanted to make that clear. I completely and totally understand accumulating points during the actual rounds, but there you're not intentionally sacrificing lives to rack up points. Don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite games and one of the two or three that was/still am can play at the highest level (I'm middle-aged now and have hardly played in 30+ years), but I always thought the ending of this game was really idiotic. I started Atari Breakout and Super Breakout when they first came out, so this game was in my wheelhouse.
Between my friend Zack Hample (current wr holder) and myself (currently 2nd), I believe the highest score for completing the game without "cashing in" any of your extra paddles for 15k a pop is around 1.1M. Still a very impressing score nonetheless. Not too many players can get on an average day. Your point most definitely has merit, however, I tend to look at it as the game awards you 1k for each shot to the boss for as long as it takes for you to beat it, as opposed to the game lets say giving you one lump sum of 16k for beating it, but nothing for hitting it incrementally 16 times. So lets say it took you 10 men to beat the boss but each man you hit it 13, 14, or 15 times but then accidentally died, that would be a lot of work without any reward for making an effort in the interim. At least the way it is now, during those 10 men played, you would be "compensated" if you will for trying to beat the boss even though it may have taken you 10 men to do it. If that makes any sense. :)
@@TheGalagaKing That's a fair point, and that's cool that Zack is your friend. I follow him on Twitter and love his work and dedication to what he does, and of course his Arkanoid skills like yours. Thanks for the reply. Sorry I just got to it.
1:03:20 & 1:03:43 why did you let the ball go? It looked deliberate...after all the great play I've seen from you, to die on those two instances looked strange
Totally! I've been wanting one for years now. Some day I'll build my MAME cab and have one. I'm lucky if I've scored over 200k with using a mouse/keyboard.
At the end, he is getting a thousand points per hit on the guy, so he is point scoring for the record... good tactic there, he is killing each man before the Knight starts flashing and the game ends. I have beaten this game on a few occasions, I have the arcade cab, but never thought to go for a world record, looks like a lot of guys can beat it, so it is down to max points for the record. This is why he doesn`t use the lazer much, as it kills colored blocks off that give him big points for more pills to come down.
Steven Villman I have never counted them but try to make it bounce off the top of his head to top of screen, as it pinballs, it takes stacks off his life, whilst this is happening, try to guide his diamond mouth bullets to the other side of screen that you think the ball will come down from,, then get it back up on top of his head.
***** No worries, comrade. Fact is, DOH didn't show up in Arkanoid Returns (for the arcade), but did appear in Arkanoid 2000 for the PSX, so we did get to bash his Moai-face real hard in the latter game.
To "cash in" each extra paddle for 1k a shot to the boss. 15 hits (15k worth) is the most you can get before finishing the game. That's why players miss the ball on the 16th shot to avoid finishing the game so that they can try again with their next man and earn more points for each hit to the boss.
+Jared Abbate He wasn't intending to finish the game quickly, but to get the highest score as possible. To kill the final boss, it requires 15 hits, and each hit scores 1000 points. Furthermore, if you die during the fight, you have to start it all over, so it gives a possibility of 14 hits and an extra score of 14 000 points per remaining life, except for the last one with 15 hits and 15 000 points. You can be sure the player was aware of that, and was counting every hit he made before killing himself. If you kill the boss quickly, the game is over, and you can't score points anymore, so spending all remaining lives in fighting the boss and register as many hits as possible without killing it is a good strategy if you want to achieve the best score possible. He actually spent 24 lives in fighting the boss, including the 5 extra lives won in the process, from 960 000 to 1 200 000 points, since the rate for gaining extra lives is every 60 000 points at that point of the game, and the last one was won at 900 000 points. In the best case, he would had made 14 hits during 23 fights, and 15 hits in the last one, for a possibility of : (23 X 14 000) + (1 X 15 000) = 337 000 points (337 hits), which is quite significant. As his score was 920 680 when he reached the boss' stage, he had a possibility to reach a score of 1 257 680, with no possibility of gaining any other extra life, since the next one would had been at 1 280 000. He didn't succeed to make all the 14 hits every time; the game ended with 1 236 680 points, with a gain of 316 000 points, which is 21 000 points less than the maximum possible; this means that he only missed 21 hits out of 337. If he had killed the boss at the first try, which wouldn't had been a problem for a skillful player like him, the extra points gain would had been only of 15 000 points, for a final score of only 935 970. For an average player of any video game, the main strategy is to play safe and save as many lives as possible to progress in the game. For an experienced player, sacrificing lives is often a good strategy in high-scoring and even speedrunning games.
+manaquri You're right, it's theoretically possible, but actually won't likely to happen. Sometimes, the ball could get stuck in an infinite loop, whatever where you hit the ball in the field, or whatever how wide the angle goes when the ball hits the paddle, and then you may not be able to hit the last brick and finish the level. That's happens sometimes in older games of the same kind, like Breakout or Super Breakout; as there's no other obstacles but bricks and walls, so you are eventually forced to drop the ball intentionally. In these games, as the ball is served to you in a random direction when beginning a new turn, unlike Arkanoid where you can aim the ball where you want, you just can hope for the RNG to be on your side. In Arkanoid, these ships going erratically all around the playfield weren't implemented only to troll yourself, but to deviate the ball's direction and prevent it to get stuck in an infinite loop, and eventually it will find its way to that last brick that you wouldn't be able to blast otherwise. The developpers learned from older games, I guess. The player can intentionally try to hit these ships and get more points, but it usually last not much long.
Level 3 is a pain in the ass. You have to position the Vaus in the right spot and get the ball on the far right. The ball(s) can also come all the way back down if you're struggling
@@SimsMoyal After a one year hiatus, I played last week at a retro arcade and got 175K, not bad for my AARP ass. I lost only one life on Level 3. If I lost two ships on Level 3, I was lucky to get about 130K. I played yesterday and got sharper on Level 3. My score more doubled when I didn't lose a life in two games, with my high at 292K.
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i was addicted to this game. been withdrawing for the last 30 years.
I had a personal best of 1,204,000 and few other guys in the game room I played had >1,2M as well. World record is an overstatement, especially since you lost more than 10 times. I used to run it without loss or maybe 1 (that would be most possibly in stage 25, which I consider the hardest of all! :) )
In the final boss stage you hit it 14 times, whilst you can hit it 1 more before you bust. So in this game you lost ~40,000 (counting the extra life you would get by +30K).
I see 2 differences between this game and the cabinet: the pills you get are averagely better, too many lives and purple ones. But I have to say that the random moving enemies are more aggressive here, that is, they go down the screen rather early.
I tried to play this at mame but it's very hard to play with the keys instead of the wheel of the cabinet. I never had a playstation or sthg so I don't know if the gameplay is better there.
Thanks for the memories anyway.
It's funny, all these years later and I watch this and as soon as I see a screen I can remember which bricks have pills in them. I haven't seen these screens in ages. It doesn't go away! Thanks for posting this.
You're the "Vaus!"
Highlights:
0:58 10,000 points reached in first round.
2:12 First extra life earned from points (20,000 points).
3:37 First round cleared with 38,800 points.
7:43 100,000 points reached clearing Round 4
38:02 500,000 points reached in Round 23
42:00 Life lost in Round 25 - 614,900 points.
1:02:29 Final boss reached with 928,680 points. At this point, player milks the maximum points he can by hitting the boss up to one less than necessary to defeat him, and then deliberately missing to reset the boss hit counter. Several lives are lost to the boss attack as well.
1:04:58 One million points reached milking from the final boss.
1:11:30 Player on final paddle - boss defeated 30 seconds later.
Wow, this is the World Record? I used to play this game around 1987 and 1988. I know at the time I topped 1.2 million points a few times, but it never occurred to me that I actually might have been World Record level. There was no one I knew that could beat me regularly, only one other guy that would beat me from time to time. This blows me away to think I could have had a world-best score and had no idea, we didn't even think about filming a game back then. I haven't played in probably 15 years now. At age 47 I seriously doubt I could play like this anymore but I want to give it a try now. Seriously, wow.
Nice ! So you knew the scoring tricks presented here in 1988?
As did I back then. My best was 1.3M. As to tricks, or lack of them, the guy playing here was amazingly bad at shooting the Doh at the end. Should be able to make 14 hits -- 14,000 -- per man and there were plenty of times where he gets just 3 or 5 hits. And on his last man he almost didn't complete the game...check it out again.
Nothing like responding to a 4 year old comment. Lol. 1.3M is a very respectable score and to average around 1.2M per game is even more impressive. Before I had any real association with twingalaxies back in the 80's, I had set a score back in '86 of 1,450,230. It wasn't until late '99 when I beat my own record with a score of 1,466,460 at Boomers in Boca Raton, Fl, which landed me an interview with the Boca Raton News (www.twingalaxies.com/content.php/732-Video-game-world-record-set-at-Boomers-in-Boca-Raton-Florida-Score-slated-for-Video-Game-and-Pinball-Book-of-Records). Walter Day recognized and inputted my score into his database but after new ownership took place and Walter sold TG, my score somehow disappeared from the database and my Arkanoid Tournament Edition high score took its place. In any event Floyd, I really think you should come out of retirement and give it a shot again. I'd like to see a bunch of great players like you and a few others work on improving their scores and give my good friend Zack Hample a run for his money (the current wr holder). Lol :)
@@TheGalagaKing Man you guys are talking about 1M+ scores casually while here I can't even beat level 2 without continuing. Insane
this is awesome.. just curious why always intentionally let the multiball fall?
No bonus pods drop if more than 1 ball in play
Point pressing
The pods are worth 1,000, while tiles are worth just 100. Plus, some pods greatly help a level. Give you 10K and warp you to the next level. Or even give you an extra life.
You give up the chance of getting pods while playing more than 1 ball. On some levels this is a very sub-optimal strategy.
Round 16 shows this brilliantly
15:21 not a Human play the game.
lol
Very good. Tactics spot on. Get most capsules, fire little but give yourself room at the lower end. Yes, very nice.
the capsules don't score-complete jackass
I LLLLOVED this game as a kid. Great reflexes btw.
On the above version of Arkanoid, can anyone tell me how to start the game and then move the paddle independently. I've consistently tried but the game continues allowing me to do nothing with the mouse or arrow keys. I do not have a game controller. Thanks in advance for your help
Round 12 really happened like that? I'm astounded.
Round 12 was pretty normal, maybe even a bit slow/poor. One rarely gets through Round 11 on one man, but they did here.
I'm thinking this was on the easiest/default settings. I've exceeded 1.3M a few times (on a cabinet). Love this game.
"But the real voyage of Arkanoid in the galaxy has only started"...so that's not the conclusion?! Does the game continue in a sequal???
Yes. The next game in the line-up was Arkanoid Tournament Ed. which was exactly the same as the first version, but with different board layouts. Still 32 stages and all the same power capsules s well as the boss on stage 33. The next one after this one was Arkanoid Revenge of Doh. A revised Arkanoid with new power capsules to add to the original lineup and the ability to exit the stage after completion via the left side or right side. The last installment in the series was called Arkanoid Returns and was totally revamped compared to the first 3 versions. Scoring was a lot lower in this version and it way much harder than that of the first 3.
Is this the one Zack Hample plays?
I defeated the boss even 3 times in a day in the 90s, I never went for points or the world record, just focused on the Boss.
Maybe being autistic helped 😊
Incredible reaction !!!
5:20 !!WOMBO COMBO!! XD
this game was so fucking hard
アルカノイドはリターンオブザブロック崩しでした。大ヒットしましたね。まだ学生でした。それから私は当時のセガに面接に行き、リターンオブザサーカスを提案しました。不合格でした。ザンネーン！^_^
That is highly interesting to hear because back then I thought these enemies looked like nothing (sprites) i had ever seen. This was so ahead of its time.
16:15 makes an impossible move, which proves that this record is totally false....
Ta gra miała w sobie tajemniczą głębię. I to sterowanie pokrętłem.
I have played the Apple IIgs version of this as well as a kid!
Compared to me back in the day, this dude's a noob!
world record lolll!!!!!!!! i have 1.540.000 and 10 times 1.400.000+ and 1.300.000+ every day at 80s
fukyou
this reminds me of super breakout.
Absolutely. The paddle control it took to excel at Super Breakout was a major asset when I started playing this.
BASEBALLと同じく、ＵＳＡ国内のＮｏ.1で世界一と呼称しているのが何ともバカらしい・・・
最終面（ラスボス）では、できる限り得点を稼ぐために、故意ミスをしているところも要注目。すぐにラスボスをやっつけると得点がそこでストップしてしまうため。
Next, please challenge to get more than 1,720,000 points at "Arkanoid Revenge OF DOH".
No this isn't the world record Zack Hample has a larger score with 1,658,110
...there's a boss monster?!?
I have original Arkanoid floppy disc for MS-DOS and I have played it many years.
By now, I can say that I am pretty good at it, because I have passed ~ 23 stages.
Also, Arkanoid is one of the hardest MS-DOS games (that I have played), but it's still my favourite MS-DOS game.
It would be really awesome to play Arkanoid on a real Arcade machine, but I guess I have to download emulator instead...
I came for tips on round 20. Sometimes I get the "catch" and that is fine, but if you end up dying with only one brick on the screen, it can really eat away your lives.
Ahhhh...think I figured it out...are you maxing points without killing him? Eating up all your extra ships before ending the game?
Yes that's correct jjstratfor. In addition to shooting as many of those floating "orbs" as you can from stage to stage for 100 points each. Break are important too as their worth 10k for advancing to the next stage.
That was a Amazing Recorded i don't know but how to get a Biggest Score not a Lowest Score but i try it
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10:18and13:37very perfect obstacle interfere HAHAHAHAHAHA😂😂😂
Probably Asian
Say thats a real edgy upside down cross you got there.
Round 11. Holy balls that was some good reflexes.
I never even knew that face boss was at the end of this game
I doubt very few people alive ever successfully played this game to its end. It was a difficult game and as you can see here it would take over an hour with 32 levels to reach the conclusion
I am one of those few ones 😊
I finished the game even 3 times a day. It was exhausting!
What kind of controller did you use?
~15:00, why do you not get the multi-ball pill? Twice? That's one of the few times it's OK to get rid of the laser.
Maximizing points. Level 10 is an easy level loaded with pills, you don't want to waste them.
Missed the break pill at 10:48...that HAD to be frustrating.
i played this game on an apple iigs.
LOL. That game has a boss fight at the end.
0:01 - 0:08 best story ever
TAS
The game ALLOWING the player to purposely die to gain points at the end is asinine. The player's ability to exploit it at a high level is NOT asinine. Just wanted to make that clear.
I completely and totally understand accumulating points during the actual rounds, but there you're not intentionally sacrificing lives to rack up points.
Don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite games and one of the two or three that was/still am can play at the highest level (I'm middle-aged now and have hardly played in 30+ years), but I always thought the ending of this game was really idiotic. I started Atari Breakout and Super Breakout when they first came out, so this game was in my wheelhouse.
Between my friend Zack Hample (current wr holder) and myself (currently 2nd), I believe the highest score for completing the game without "cashing in" any of your extra paddles for 15k a pop is around 1.1M. Still a very impressing score nonetheless. Not too many players can get on an average day. Your point most definitely has merit, however, I tend to look at it as the game awards you 1k for each shot to the boss for as long as it takes for you to beat it, as opposed to the game lets say giving you one lump sum of 16k for beating it, but nothing for hitting it incrementally 16 times. So lets say it took you 10 men to beat the boss but each man you hit it 13, 14, or 15 times but then accidentally died, that would be a lot of work without any reward for making an effort in the interim. At least the way it is now, during those 10 men played, you would be "compensated" if you will for trying to beat the boss even though it may have taken you 10 men to do it. If that makes any sense. :)
@@TheGalagaKing That's a fair point, and that's cool that Zack is your friend. I follow him on Twitter and love his work and dedication to what he does, and of course his Arkanoid skills like yours.
Thanks for the reply. Sorry I just got to it.
Mio record 99400 punti anno 1990
Absolutely riveting.
Great upload and gameplay. Thanks!
1:03:20 & 1:03:43 why did you let the ball go? It looked deliberate...after all the great play I've seen from you, to die on those two instances looked strange
Points milking -- read the other comments
HE WAS POINT MILKING THE BOSS
1:12:00 BEST final ever
really good at playing
was it that slow?
Round 11 ! WOW!
Nice reflexes!!!
Well done.
Does anybody know how to pronounce "Vaus?"
vows?
"voz"
13:38 HURTS to lose a guy with a "break" active.
Your telling me. Especially if you have a laser and are steadily picking off the floating orbs for more points.
God
i need a spinner!!
Totally! I've been wanting one for years now. Some day I'll build my MAME cab and have one. I'm lucky if I've scored over 200k with using a mouse/keyboard.
At the end, he is getting a thousand points per hit on the guy, so he is point scoring for the record... good tactic there, he is killing each man before the Knight starts flashing and the game ends. I have beaten this game on a few occasions, I have the arcade cab, but never thought to go for a world record, looks like a lot of guys can beat it, so it is down to max points for the record. This is why he doesn`t use the lazer much, as it kills colored blocks off that give him big points for more pills to come down.
***** How many hits does it take for you to destroy the Knight in Round 33???
Steven Villman I have never counted them but try to make it bounce off the top of his head to top of screen, as it pinballs, it takes stacks off his life, whilst this is happening, try to guide his diamond mouth bullets to the other side of screen that you think the ball will come down from,, then get it back up on top of his head.
***** That's no Knight - that's the dimensional entity known as DOH!
SaviourV DOH [hit head], I should of remembered !, well done.
***** No worries, comrade.
Fact is, DOH didn't show up in Arkanoid Returns (for the arcade), but did appear in Arkanoid 2000 for the PSX, so we did get to bash his Moai-face real hard in the latter game.
why does he let the ball drop at the end boss?
To "cash in" each extra paddle for 1k a shot to the boss. 15 hits (15k worth) is the most you can get before finishing the game. That's why players miss the ball on the 16th shot to avoid finishing the game so that they can try again with their next man and earn more points for each hit to the boss.
As much as I love this game and get to that level, I can't stand the point compiling on the last level by dying. It's a "Time Pilot" move of sorts
Why r u killing itself at the end of the game?!?! Doesn't make sense.
To maximize points
Orelly?
+Jared Abbate
He wasn't intending to finish the game quickly, but to get the highest score as possible.
To kill the final boss, it requires 15 hits, and each hit scores 1000 points. Furthermore, if you die during the fight, you have to start it all over, so it gives a possibility of 14 hits and an extra score of 14 000 points per remaining life, except for the last one with 15 hits and 15 000 points. You can be sure the player was aware of that, and was counting every hit he made before killing himself.
If you kill the boss quickly, the game is over, and you can't score points anymore, so spending all remaining lives in fighting the boss and register as many hits as possible without killing it is a good strategy if you want to achieve the best score possible.
He actually spent 24 lives in fighting the boss, including the 5 extra lives won in the process, from 960 000 to 1 200 000 points, since the rate for gaining extra lives is every 60 000 points at that point of the game, and the last one was won at 900 000 points.
In the best case, he would had made 14 hits during 23 fights, and 15 hits in the last one, for a possibility of :
(23 X 14 000) + (1 X 15 000) = 337 000 points (337 hits),
which is quite significant. As his score was 920 680 when he reached the boss' stage, he had a possibility to reach a score of 1 257 680, with no possibility of gaining any other extra life, since the next one would had been at 1 280 000.
He didn't succeed to make all the 14 hits every time; the game ended with 1 236 680 points, with a gain of 316 000 points, which is 21 000 points less than the maximum possible; this means that he only missed 21 hits out of 337.
If he had killed the boss at the first try, which wouldn't had been a problem for a skillful player like him, the extra points gain would had been only of 15 000 points, for a final score of only 935 970.
For an average player of any video game, the main strategy is to play safe and save as many lives as possible to progress in the game. For an experienced player, sacrificing lives is often a good strategy in high-scoring and even speedrunning games.
+DaringDramis doesn't the ships spawn infinitely? as they give 100 points you could theoretically get an infinity of points.
+manaquri
You're right, it's theoretically possible, but actually won't likely to happen.
Sometimes, the ball could get stuck in an infinite loop, whatever where you hit the ball in the field, or whatever how wide the angle goes when the ball hits the paddle, and then you may not be able to hit the last brick and finish the level.
That's happens sometimes in older games of the same kind, like Breakout or Super Breakout; as there's no other obstacles but bricks and walls, so you are eventually forced to drop the ball intentionally. In these games, as the ball is served to you in a random direction when beginning a new turn, unlike Arkanoid where you can aim the ball where you want, you just can hope for the RNG to be on your side.
In Arkanoid, these ships going erratically all around the playfield weren't implemented only to troll yourself, but to deviate the ball's direction and prevent it to get stuck in an infinite loop, and eventually it will find its way to that last brick that you wouldn't be able to blast otherwise. The developpers learned from older games, I guess.
The player can intentionally try to hit these ships and get more points, but it usually last not much long.
i take great pride in the fact i reached level 3 at my best game :)))
Level 3 is a pain in the ass. You have to position the Vaus in the right spot and get the ball on the far right. The ball(s) can also come all the way back down if you're struggling
@@gynandroidhead yea that why i take that pride 😀
@@SimsMoyal After a one year hiatus, I played last week at a retro arcade and got 175K, not bad for my AARP ass. I lost only one life on Level 3. If I lost two ships on Level 3, I was lucky to get about 130K.
I played yesterday and got sharper on Level 3. My score more doubled when I didn't lose a life in two games, with my high at 292K.
@@gynandroidhead good game!!
Thanks. I cut my teeth playing Breakout and Super Breakout in the 1970's, so I had a knack for this
Arkanoid: 1:02:25 Mr game & watch (1,000 score 1up) (1 player) (1:11:51 Complete)
Hello , does someone know how to find or download this game on imac Yosemite 10.5 ?