Thursday, March 11, 2004
High Scorer
Today I decided to give Doom Funnel Chasers a shot. It's the cousin of the Spaced Penguins game I tried and blogged back on March 1. And, it looks like it was my day, because I got on the high score list--there I am, number ten for the day, with 806,295 points. I'll tell you what it felt like for me to get on that high score board. It felt like I had blindfolded myself and thrown four straight bullseyes on a dart board.
I'm basically not so sure I could do it again. I still don't know how these guys get 2 trillion points. "reg," the high scorer for the day, doesn't even get close to the points on the all-time high score board. He's nabbed a whopping 43,749,856 points, which is way better than my score, obviously. But he's still scored over 2,103,734,000 fewer points than the bottom scorer on that all-time board. I mean, I know what it'd take for me to get that many points. I'd have to sit down and run a computer simulation that would calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, their size, their gravity, the location of the bonuses, and then the coordinates from which and velocity with which I should launch my duct tape ball projectile.
That's not to say that there aren't people out there who could not do that. Or even that there aren't people who do that. But I know what it's like to score 10th for the day. I'd think, personally, getting on the all-time score list would be like pulling off that blindfold to find out I'd thrown all five of my plastic darts into the exact same divot in the board--and had none pop out.
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