See? I was hardcore once.

 

MY HIGH-SCORES and GAME COMPETITIONS
 
GAME / CONTEST
SCORE
PROOF!!
WHATNOT
Darius (MAME)
4,419,190
1 2
Not a bad good score, a better one is coming soon...
Darius (Arcade)
4,640,350
1
Achieved this on my own machine, set on 3 lives. My personal best out of a LOT of playing Darius. I have never seen any other high score claims, so as far as I know... a record! My second best was 4,525,840.
Darius Gaiden (Arcade)
7,123,330
1

Achieved this on Sept 9, 2004 on my own Jamma machine. I did use continues, so it's not official or anything...

TurboGraf-X Playtour Challenge: Blazing Lazers 5 Minute "Caravan" Contest
220,080
1 2

This was performed live at the CSU Dominguez Hills Olympic Velodrome. With it I nabbed the Grand Prize, which included a color NEC TV, Turbografx with CD-Rom, a mountain bike, and a Vision skateboard.

CyberCore (TG-16)
9,999,990
1 2
Winner of the Featured EGM Magazine monthly Hi-Score contest. I won with the rollover score because I was the first to submit.
Super Star Soldier Contest, TurboPlay Magazine (TG-16)
1,492,100
1 2

Won with highest score in the timed "contest mode" of the game. I got my choice of five Turbo Grafx-16 games... and a letter from ANDY EDDY!! Sweeeeet...

Thanks to Base Nectaris for providing these clippings!

Legendary Axe (TG-16)
12,166,200
1
Placed Third in EGM Magazine monthly Hi-Score contest.
Blazing Lazers (TG-16)
24,523,070
1
First published in EGM's scoreboard. Was soon demolished!
Space Harrier (TG-16)
31,264,570
1
Published in EGM and Gamepro scoreboards. Also was listed on the original Saturday morning Gamepro TV show... I got to read my score on the show! Not listed at TwinGalaxies, but unofficially (as far as I know) it still stands.
Sidearms (TG-16)
6,396,400
1 2
Still stands in the Twin Galaxies scoreboard! First published in EGM's scoreboard.
Gaiares (Genesis)
1,791,041
1
Still stands in the Twin Galaxies scoreboard, first published in EGM's scoreboard.
Zanac (NES)
27,532,480
1
Unpublished, so who cares?? Personal record only.
Raystorm (Playstation)
6,713,400
1
I bombed out in this contest... Grand prize was $10,000,000. I got a mousepad, and was lucky at that. I was falling off man, bigtime. I lost my edge, lost my nerve. Now All I get are the jitters. The horror... the horror. That's Graphic-Violence.
 
   
 
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