Prof. Will Lestrange Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 As April turns to May, it is time for the penultimate monthly challenge in the academic year for the Arcade Club. This one will feature the game Galaga! While this game featured in the OASIS, it did not make an appearance in last year's Emerald Cup. But we are about to rectify that omission right now! Galaga was made by Namco Japan in 1981 and released in the US by Midway in the same year. It was a hit in arcades, as well as on the Nintendo Entertainment System several years later. While this game is every bit as grounded in Muggle thought as last month's game, it is an "opposite' in many ways. While last month you were controlling a frog trying to maneuver its way around Muggle cars, this month you get to control a Muggle spaceship engaged in aerial combat with other spaceships! In this game, you control a spaceship floating around on the bottom of a screen. While it can only move horizontally, it can shoot vertically. Meanwhile, strings of enemy ships fly towards you before settling into their formation; shooting their weapons at you every once in a while. And once you've defeated most of the ships, they will break formation and start flying towards you! Colliding into an enemy ship or bullet will take away one of your lives, though colliding with a ship will at least end their life too. And so the game goes on... For this month's challenge, you want to go to THIS LINK and play Galaga there. Screencap your best performance (and post it in this thread) by May 31 at 11:59 PM HOL! -Participation at all will earn you 5 scales. -If you score 4000 points or higher - or beat Level 1, your screencap will earn you 10 scales instead of 5. -The top three scores of the month will get extra scales (25, 20, and 15 respectively for the month instead of 5 or 10) as well as special awards! -For additional bonus scales: at the end of the game, a screen displays your "Hit/Miss Ratio". The person who submits a screencap with the highest hit/miss ratio (as long as they score at least 1000 points in this screencap) will get an additional 5 bonus scales! PS: Feel free to edit your post throughout the month as you improve your score! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iverian Gnash Posted May 10, 2019 Report Share Posted May 10, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof. Scarlet Leslie-Lewis Posted May 16, 2019 Report Share Posted May 16, 2019 T EDIT: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elena Galatas Posted May 21, 2019 Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 (edited) HOW DID THIS GAME EVER BECOME POPULAR?! IT'S INFURIATING OMG. Edited May 21, 2019 by Elena Galatas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arianna Stonewater Posted May 21, 2019 Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 Here's my score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof. Will Lestrange Posted May 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Prof. Will Lestrange Posted June 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2019 FINAL STANDINGS FOR MAY 2019 1st place: Cody Lewis - 49900 points (Gold Joystick) 2nd place: Will Lestrange - 31760 points (Silver Joystick) 3rd place: Prof. Scarlet Leslie-Lewis - 26250 points (Bronze Joystick) ACCURACY WINNER: Prof. Scarlet Leslie-Lewis - 58.3% But you still have a chance to compete against these scores at the Living High Score Board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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