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[Q] Centipede only the first three scores in NVRAM?
#386461 - 05/26/20 02:35 AM
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Does Centipede only store the first three high scores in NVRAM normally? (not via hiscore.dat) I'm trying to beat my daughter's hiscore and she has the top three, laugh. I got the fourth one and entered it but on re-run it's gone.
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Re: [Q] Centipede only the first three scores in NVRAM?
[Re: John IV]
#386462 - 05/26/20 03:46 AM
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> Does Centipede only store the first three high scores in NVRAM normally? (not via
> hiscore.dat) I'm trying to beat my daughter's hiscore and she has the top three,
> laugh. I got the fourth one and entered it but on re-run it's gone.
Yup... frustrated me as a kid a few months after it first came out. I had the high score at the corner liquor store for awhile... then this one REALLY good guy came in and took all three top spots... I never had higher than fourth after that day. 
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Re: Centipede only the first three scores
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#386464 - 05/26/20 06:02 AM
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>Yup... frustrated me as a kid a few months after it first came out. I had the high score at
>the corner liquor store for awhile... then this one REALLY good guy came in and took all
>three top spots... I never had higher than fourth after that day.
*Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee infamous movie line quote*
That ain't a knife.
Now this is what I call a knife.
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Re: [Q] Centipede only the first three scores in NVRAM?
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#386474 - 05/26/20 06:52 PM
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Re: [Q] Centipede only the first three scores in NVRAM?
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#386482 - 05/27/20 07:10 AM
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Street Fighter EX2+ is like this as well. It has different high score lists for single player, multiplayer wins, etc. but it only keeps one top score in non-volatile RAM, the rest are just today’s top scores. You have to be the very best to be remembered.
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Re: [Q] Centipede only the first three scores in NVRAM?
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#386485 - 05/27/20 09:59 AM
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Of course she only has the top three because they're the ones kept... otherwise...
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Re: [Q] Centipede only the first three scores in NVRAM?
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#386495 - 05/28/20 06:10 PM
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> Yup... frustrated me as a kid a few months after it first came out. I had the high
> score at the corner liquor store for awhile...
Asteroids Deluxe is the same way. But my question is what is a kid doing in a liquor store? 
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Re: [Q] Centipede only the first three scores in NVRAM?
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#386496 - 05/28/20 09:34 PM
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>> Yup... frustrated me as a kid a few months after it first came out. I had the high
>> score at the corner liquor store for awhile...
>Asteroids Deluxe is the same way. But my question is what is a kid doing in a liquor store?
Mr. Do was probably tall enough back then and probably mistaken for an adult (partly kidding). 
iirc, back in 1980s decade, a couple of liquor stores in my area had Spy Hunter (sit down/cockpit) version. I am pretty certain it was, but if not, then it was an upright. I rarely went in that liquor store. The other one that I went to more often had Tecmo Football iirc.
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Re: [Q] Centipede only the first three scores in NVRAM?
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#386498 - 05/28/20 10:02 PM
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> >> Yup... frustrated me as a kid a few months after it first came out. I had the high
> >> score at the corner liquor store for awhile...
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> > Asteroids Deluxe is the same way. But my question is what is a kid doing in a liquor
> store?
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> Mr. Do was probably tall enough back then and probably mistaken for an adult (partly
> kidding).
When Centipede and Mr. Do came out... not quite, I was still 10-11. I gotta think backwards here for a sec...
-- maxed out at 6'5" when I was 16
-- so I probably hit 6' when I was 14... 9th grade... sounds right
-- so probably hit average adult height of 5'9" when I was 12
-- either way... I was REAL skinny and looked like a dork back then, so probably still looked like a kid
> iirc, back in 1980s decade, a couple of liquor stores in my area had Spy Hunter (sit
> down/cockpit) version. I am pretty certain it was, but if not, then it was an
> upright. I rarely went in that liquor store. The other one that I went to more often
> had Tecmo Football iirc.
Yup... every little liquor store or corner market in my neighborhood had 2-4 video games during the early 80s. I frequented 6-7 different ones that were within bicycle distance to play various games, since each one had a different selection. Weekends and summer would be to make the bike ride to the mall to Bally's Great Escape in Lakewood. (Bummer side note... I was kinda "sheltered" back then... didn't know Los Cerritos Center even existed that whole time, so I never got to see the Time Out there until far past its heyday).
The store from the original post... that was closest, just a block from my house. I was a regular, and on good terms with the owner there. He offered me my first job. He needed to give his clerk a day off during the week, so I would fill the cold beer/soda box from 5pm-11pm each Saturday during the summer when I had just turned 15. Got paid $20 cash each night. And probably worth it to him, as I would put a good portion of that back in to the games each week anyway.
Also where I took my first bet. He knew I was good at Mr. Do (shoot, if I knew about things like Twin Galaxies back then, I could be listed as #5 today). He asked me if I had ever completely cleared the screen of everything before. Said no... he offered me $10 if I could do it. Got it first try. 
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