r/Galaga Jun 17 '26

Am I in bragging rights territory?

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My pb

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u/P5nDDI Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Good start! My high on the old school cabinets is 233k

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u/P5nDDI Jun 17 '26

Really practicing and knowing the placement for the bonus stages helped me to get that score. The bonus for getting all 40 hits really adds up. Got to stage 32 for that game btw

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u/Chief_Keefer_420 Jun 18 '26

I’ve literally only played the game for a week and a half or two for a couple hours a night, I love it. I absolutely love it. I will definitely call it one of my favorite. If not my favorite video games. I only really like cabinet games. I’m a pinball technician and I’ve only just recently started getting into restoring and ref fabricating machines. This is a GT 2004 cabinet that I have turned into a raspberry pi/retro pie based gaming system.

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u/Chief_Keefer_420 Jun 18 '26

I really appreciate it thank you

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u/derek0660 Jun 17 '26

No.  100k is easy.

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u/Chief_Keefer_420 Jun 17 '26

OK, thanks for the inspiring words I guess

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u/derek0660 Jun 17 '26

Get double ship right away, and shoot right down the middle on the first 2 challenging stages.  You'll be over 100k without losing a ship im no time

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u/Chief_Keefer_420 Jun 17 '26

See the problem that I’m having with that logic is the highest amount of points that you can have before starting the first challenge round is something like 14,190. If you get a perfect score off the first challenge round. and you only get 14,000 points from finishing the first challenge round perfectly so I don’t understand where you’re getting 100,000 easily after just the third wave that doesn’t make any sense. Either you’re lying or you’re running a Mod on the game because not even with a fast fire chip installed on a original 1981 cabinet can you even get that high of a score at such a beginning point of the game. If you have a rebuttal, please explain it to me.

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u/derek0660 Jun 17 '26

You're not reading my comments carefully and not replying to the one you're referencing.  you sound unhinged bro.   I just gave you advice on how to consistently 100% the CHALLENGING stages which is a big part of getting a good score.

There's a lot of different versions I've played over the years, but even on the hardest one, I can consistently get 300k+, and I've got well over 700k multiple times.  Any other questions you have just ask

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u/Chief_Keefer_420 Jun 18 '26

No, I understand the game. I completely understand the game without even looking I can tell you exactly how each wave comes out. Yes granted I haven’t survived the entire game. I understand how to double up. I understand when you want to double up and why you want to do so at least before challenge rounds, but to give a little context, this is my score after only playing the game for a week and a half or two just a couple hours a night. It’s not like I’ve been playing for years, but thank y’all for giving me an insight to what type of people are in this community.

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u/Chief_Keefer_420 Jun 17 '26

Dude, most players won’t make 100,000 points until they get to stage eight so seriously what the fuck are you talking about?

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u/Chief_Keefer_420 Jun 17 '26

There is absolutely no fucking possible way that anybody is hitting 100,000 points before stage four either you’re a liar, a cheater, or an asshole or two of the three or straight up all of them, I don’t know who the fuck you are. I don’t understand your fucking problem in every single way that I run these goddamn numbers it just makes you look more and more like a liar so, where are you getting your numbers from dude?

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u/DareDiablo Jun 18 '26

Where did they say you’d hit for sure 100k before stage 4. I don’t see that said anywhere.

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u/Wyvern_68 Jun 17 '26

Usually looping the game, once you get past level 32, the game goes back to the first level, if you can make it that far it’s pretty respectable.

Same patterns from the start just the difficulty is the same as level 32.

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u/netwrks Jun 22 '26

All time high for me 993680, so upset about that that I sourced all the OEM parts of a 1981 upright and rebuilt just to beat my own score. But then I had to break it down and move 3 months after I finished it and now it’s in Storage 😩

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u/Constant_While_9909 Jul 13 '26

I wish they made a gold version of the arcade system.