Since I started this challenge nearly two years ago, my scores on some
games have remained unchanged. A couple of nights ago, that finally changed for
two games – Dig Dug and Qix.
Firstly, my score of 83,360 on Dig Dug has been unattainable, let alone
unsurpassable, with my next best score being around 68k. That was until Sunday
night, when I had just one attempt, and had the game of my life so far!
Everything seemed to click, all the bonus items were collected and I not only
surpassed that long-standing score but smashed through the 100k barrier in
style with a score of 110,460! Whether it was a fluke or not, I’ll not find out
until I next play, but that’s another game crossed off the list regardless…
The second score improvement was not quite so impressive, but to be
honest I never thought I’d surpass my best score of 55,906 on Taito’s
challenging Qix. I may have only beaten that score by a few hundred points to
give me a new best of 56,348, but at least I know progress is actually
achievable after nearly two years of trying!
So that’s a great start to September, and 100k now achieved on 16 of the
40 games. Let’s see what happens next!
