Arcade High Scores! Current Game: DEFENDER - COME ON IN!

Spacedeck · 17 May 2020 at 11:46

WELCOME TO THE CLUB! INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
GAME UPDATED EVERY TWO WEEKS

PREVIOUSLY PLAYED GAMES
TOP 3 HIGHEST SCORERS!
() = number of participants for that game

GAME PLAYED	1ST PLACE	2ND PLACE	3RD PLACE
TAPPER (4)	SPACEDECK	JOEBOI	METALFACE MARK
FROGGER (6)	SPACEDECK	JOEBOI	ZOWGHI
SHINOBI (7)	JOEBOI	ZOWGHI	CHEESYBOY
BLACK TIGER (6)	CHEESYBOY	ZATOICHI.UK	METALFACE MARK
MERCS (4)	ZATOICHI.UK	SPACEDECK	JOEBOI
METAL SLUG 001 (5)	ZATOICHI.UK	CHEESYBOY	JOEBOI
BUBBLE BOBBLE (7)	TEALC	METALFACE MARK	ZATOICHI.UK
JUNO FIRST (4)	TEALC	CHEESYBOY	SPACEDECK
PAC-MAN (3)	ZATOICHI.UK	TEALC	SPACEDECK
TRACK & FIELD (5)	METALFACE MARK	ZATOICHI.UK	TEALC
MR. DO! (3)	TEALC	METALFACE MARK	CHEESYBOY
RETURN OF THE JEDI (3)	TEALC	SPACEDECK	METALFACE MARK
MOON CRESTA (3)	TEALC	METALFACE MARK	SPACEDECK
JOUST (GREEN LABEL) (5)	LOVELYHEAD	TEALC	METALFACE MARK
THE SIMPSONS (4)	LOVELYHEAD	CHEESYBOY	SPACEDECK
ROBOTRON 2084 (4)	LOVELYHEAD	TEALC	CHEESYBOY
HYPER SPORTS (3)	TEALC	METALFACE MARK	LOVELYHEAD
MOON PATROL (2)	TEALC	LOVELYHEAD
GAUNTLET (4)	TEALC	LOVELYHEAD	CHEESYBOY
DOMINO MAN (4)	LOVELYHEAD	MCWILDCARD	SPACEDECK
FLICKY (6)	JOEBOI	ZATOICHI.UK	LOVELYHEAD
STAR WARS ATARI (2)	TEALC	LOVELYHEAD
BATTLEZONE (3)	LOVELYHEAD	TEALC	SPACEDECK
BAD DUDES VS. DRAGON NINJA (5)	MCWILDCARD	TEALC	CHEESYBOY
BOMB JACK (4)	ZATOICHI.UK	LOVELYHEAD	MCWILDCARD
SIDE POCKET (4)	CHEESYBOY	TEALC	ZATOICHI.UK
STRIKERS 1945 II (4)	ZATOICHI.UK	TEALC	MCWILDCARD
PIT-FIGHTER (5)	MCWILDCARD	FONZ-VALO	TEALC
RASTAN (5)	ZATOICHI.UK	CHEESYBOY	TEALC
GALAGA '88 (6)	TEALC	SPACEDECK	FOGHORN LEGHORN
TRUXTON II (5)	TEALC	JOEBOI	FOGHORN LEGHORN

RULES:
1 Credit ONLY.
Scores submitted MUST have been achieved and submitted during this period.
MUST be arcade version (so that it uses credits)
NOT platform specific! Play the games wherever you have access.
All Games: DIP Switches MUST be set to default settings (see spoiler tag below for default settings).
TIP: you may find Arcade game playable on a web browser with a Google search.
If anyone needs any help with anything or have any questions, feel free to contact me on Discord @ Spacedeck#6839

STARTDATE: 09/12/2024 00:01
DEADLINE: 22/12/2024 23:59
GAME: Defender Wiki Page Link
Released: 1981

Defender is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Williams Electronics in 1980 and released as an arcade video game in 1981. The game is set on either an unnamed planet or city (depending on platform) where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Defender was Jarvis's first video game project and drew inspiration from Space Invaders and Asteroids. Defender was demonstrated in late 1980 and was released in March 1981. It was distributed in Japan by Taito.

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1. 15,975 [Tealc]
2. 8,700 [Spacedeck]
3. 4,550 [Foghorn Leghorn]
4.
5.

1. 156,570 [Tealc]
2. 117,750 [JoeBoi]
3. 111,380 [Foghorn Leghorn]
4. 71,500 [cheesyboy]
5. 48,760 [Spacedeck]

Game Selection Rules:
Everyone may select up to 3 games as options for the following game.
Games can be selected more than once in your list, and by more than one person.
All games will be added to an online generator and a new game chosen.
The more entries for a game means the more chances of winning.
PREVIOSLY PLAYED GAMES won't be included to avoid replaying games.
(Games with leaderboards below can be included, so long as that game has not featured on the PREVIOSLY PLAYED GAMES list)
(Games will only be considered played if we get more than 1 participant)

Current game selections contained within spoiler tag below. Feel free request a swap of these at any time.

USER	SELECTION #1	SELECTION #2	SELECTION #3
CHEESYBOY	X MULTIPLY	R-TYPE
JOEBOI	CONTRA	PARODIUS	ELEVATOR ACTION RETURNS
SPACEDECK	BANK PANIC
ZATOICHI.UK	MS PACMAN
TEALC	GALAGA (NAMCO REV B)	COMMANDO
MCWILDCARD	SALAMANDER	SHADOW WARRIORS
LOVELYHEAD	TINKLE PIT
FOGHORN LEGHORN	SMASH TV	WONDER BOY	1000 MIGLIA: GREAT 1000 MILES RALLY

The leaderboards below this point are for anyone, at anytime, to submit scores to. Want to see a game added? Just submit a score and I'll add a leaderboard for it!

1 Credit Leaderboards (NO continues!)

1. 414,300 [cee-S-dee]
2. 240,800 [Spacedeck]

1. 199,500 [mcwildcard]
2. 191,900 [Tealc]
3. 159,500 [cheesyboy]
4. 104,500 [Fonz-Valo]
5. 103,400 [lovelyhead]

1. 44,000 [lovelyhead]
2. 32,000 [Tealc]
3. 26,000 [Spacedeck]

1. 265,550 [cheesyboy]
2. 97,400 [Zatoichi.uK]
3. 21,500 [Metalface Mark]
4. 18,000 [Spacedeck]
5. 14,750 [JoeBoi]
6. 4,700 [Littlenose]

1. 472,820 [Zatoichi.uK]
2. 134,350 [lovelyhead]
3. 114,890 [mcwildcard]
4. 113,750 [Tealc]

1. 807,150 [Tealc]
2. 698,840 [Metalface Mark]
3. 419,790 [Zatoichi.uK]
4. 351,960 [cheesyboy]
5. 195,850 [JoeBoi]
6. 186,420 [lakitu]
7. 179,090 [Spacedeck]

*coming soon*

1. 123,086 [lovelyhead]
2. 56,180 [mcwildcard]
3. 43,200 [Spacedeck]
4. 38,202 [Tealc]

1. 18,100 [Spacedeck]

1. 432,170 [JoeBoi]
2. 415,740 [Zatoichi.uK]
3. 331,820 [lovelyhead]
4. 131,590 [Tealc]
5. 117,840 [Spacedeck]
6. 39,080 [mcwildcard]

1. 12,820 [Spacedeck]
2. 12,520 [JoeBoi]
3. 8,400 [Zowghi]
4. 6,700 [Littlenose]
5. 4,800 [Metalface Mark]
6. 3,760 [Armageus]

1. 101,070 [Tealc]
2. 77,670 [Spacedeck]
3. 75,530 [Foghorn Leghorn]
4. 46,670 [cheesyboy]
5. 40,480 [Zatoichi.uK]
6. 11,620 [Fonz-Valo]

1. 43,200 (Warrior) [Tealc]
2. 31,420 (Warrior) [lovelyhead]
3. 9,525 (Warrior) [cheesyboy]
4. 3,980 (Wizard) [Spacedeck]

1. 31,520 [Tealc]
2. 31,200 [Metalface Mark]
3. 18,460 [lovelyhead]

1. 59,350 [lovelyhead]
2. 59,100 [Tealc]
3. 37,300 [Metalface Mark]
4. 20,500 [Spacedeck]
5. 19,500 [cheesyboy]

1. 158,640 [Tealc]
2. 133,980 [cheesyboy]
3. 105,600 [Spacedeck]
4. 78,640 [Metalface Mark]

1. 294,850 [Zatoichi.uK]
2. 83,400 [Spacedeck]
3. 77,250 [JoeBoi]
4. 74,600 [Metalface Mark]

1. 777,790 [Chris [BEANS]]
2. 171,880 [Zatoichi.uK]
3. 123,000 [cheesyboy]
4. 91,020 [JoeBoi]
5. 67,810 [Spacedeck]
6. 50,910 [Metalface Mark]

1. 71,900 [Tealc]
2. 23,080[MetalFace Mark]
3. 5,840 [Spacedeck]

1. 24,730 [Tealc]
2. 11,120 [lovelyhead]

1. 128,450 [Tealc]
2. 32,950 [Metalface Mark]
3. 23,600 [cheesyboy]

1. 143,500 [Zatoichi.uK]
2. 52,490 [Tealc]
3. 30,120 [Spacedeck]

1. $104,360 [mcwildcard]
2. $57,680 [Fonz-Valo]
3. $43,400 [Tealc]
4. $12,000 [cheesyboy]
5. $11,970 [Spacedeck]

1. 167,200 [Zatoichi.uK]
2. 90,200 [cheesyboy]
3. 70,500 [Tealc]
4. 63,000 [Fonz-Valo]
5. 53,200 [Spacedeck]

1. 131,975 [lovelyhead]
2. 119,250 [Tealc]
3. 67,525 [cheesyboy]
4. 58,375 [danoliver1]

1. 114,270 [JoeBoi]
2. 88,620 [Zowghi]
3. 82,780 [cheesyboy]
4. 62,720 [Metalface Mark]
5. 44,030 [Spacedeck]
6. 38,090 [lakitu]
7. 15,760 [Littlenose]

1. 42,000 [cheesyboy]
2. 31,300 [Tealc]
3. 17,000 [Spacedeck]
4. 12,400 [Zatoichi.uK]
5. 5,200 [mcwildcard]

1. 224,100 [JoeBoi]

1. 1,494,051 [Tealc]
2. 113,062 [lovelyhead]

1. 672,530 [Tealc]
2. 133,590 [Spacedeck]
3. 85,400 [MetalFace Mark]

1. 405,400 [Zatoichi.uK]
2. 223,000 [Tealc]
3. 173,900 [cheesyboy]
4. 167,400 [mcwildcard]
5. 159,400 [Spacedeck]

1. 77,125 [Spacedeck]
2. 71,950 [JoeBoi]
3. 55,000 [Metalface Mark]
4. 7,800 [Armageus]

1. 65 (Homer) [cheesyboy]
2. 64 (Bart) [lovelyhead]
3. 46 (Marge) [Spacedeck]
4. 38 (Bart) [Tealc]

1. 85,190 [Metalface Mark]
Event PB's: 100MD:[8.42] LJ:[9.36] JT:[92.67] 110MH:[10.37] HT:[95.41] HJ:[2.46]
2. 84,040 [Zatoichi.uK]
Event PB's: 100MD:[8.52] LJ:[9.39] JT:[89.85] 110MH:[11.54] HT:[92.00] HJ:[2.45]
3. 78,630 [Tealc]
Event PB's: 100MD:[9.22] LJ:[9.53] JT:[92.60] 110MH:[11.02] HT:[95.50] HJ:[2.43]
4. 49,680 [cheesyboy]
Event PB's: 100MD:[-] LJ:[-] JT:[-] 110MH:[-] HT:[-] HJ:[-]
5. 21,380 [Spacedeck]
Event PB's: 100MD:[11.80] LJ:[6.63] JT:[62.04] 110MH:[-] HT:[-] HJ:[-]

1. 162,510 [JoeBoi]
2. 156,570 [Tealc]
3. 111,380 [Foghorn Leghorn]
4. 71,500 [cheesyboy]
5. 48,760 [Spacedeck]

cee-S-dee · 17 May 2020 at 13:52

This is a pretty cool idea! I'll submit a score later today! One suggestion, i think its more of a challenge if we limit credits. I can see you used 19 credits for your score, Or have a separate section for 1 credit scores.

chroniclard · 17 May 2020 at 13:58

First tell me, what is arcade? :confused:

Spacedeck · 17 May 2020 at 14:05

chroniclard said:
First tell me, what is arcade?

Them big machines you would find in an arcade

, usually takes coins to play. Not the same as playing the games on system like MegaDrive. Many people build MAME cabinets and have their builds on this forum but I just run it on my PC. If you're still not sure and would like more info, add me on Steam if you have it; Spacedeck.

chroniclard · 17 May 2020 at 14:09

Ah right, MAME. Not tried that for a while!

Spacedeck · 17 May 2020 at 14:23

cee-S-dee said:
This is a pretty cool idea! I'll submit a score later today! One suggestion, i think its more of a challenge if we limit credits. I can see you used 9 credits for your score, Or have a separate section for 1 credit scores.

I'm happy to limit to say 1 credit or have a separate leaderboard for it. The only reason I didn't suggest this is because I didn't find any way of seeing how many credits someone used? Where did you find out how many credits it took me? Also can these be viewed for each game as otherwise wouldn't it be hard to check scores are legit?

cee-S-dee · 17 May 2020 at 14:31

The last 2 digits in your score represent credits used.. at least in Capcom games. I'm not sure how it works in others. Maybe a 1cc leader board would be a good inclusion.

Spacedeck · 17 May 2020 at 14:40

cee-S-dee said:
The last 2 digits in your score represent credits used.. at least in Capcom games. I'm not sure how it works in others. Maybe a 1cc leader board would be a good inclusion.

Ok well if it's easy to figure out how many credits have been used, but if it isn't I suppose I'll just take someone's word for it on a particular game, I'm sure nobody will be out to cheat.

I've updated the OP to include a 1C leaderboard. I didn't know about that credit rule on Capcom games so going to go test that feature out before uploading my 1C attempt.

EDIT: Quick test is telling me that on the original credit used, score will be end in 00 but any additional credits added will up the last two digits. So after I died, I inserted my second credit and the two digits jumped to 01, then input my third credit and the score became 02. So going off this, it must mean my OP post used 20 credits (19 extra attempts after the initial 1C to start the game).

Spacedeck · 18 May 2020 at 17:03

I made an attempt at Frogger. The good thing with this game is you can't continue, so only requires 1 leaderboard.

So do we have any takers?

One Vision · 19 May 2020 at 20:26

Spacedeck said:
I made an attempt at Frogger. The good thing with this game is you can't continue, so only requires 1 leaderboard.

So do we have any takers?

Ill have a pop at that Frogger, however i challenge anybody to beat me score wise on Double Dragon (1987) and Shao Lins Road (1985) for starters.

Spacedeck · 19 May 2020 at 23:07

One Vision said:
however i challenge anybody to beat me score wise on Double Dragon (1987) and Shao Lins Road (1985) for starters.

What score would that be? I'll have a go at these games tomorrow, I've never played either of them.

cee-S-dee · 19 May 2020 at 23:10

My score for 1cc 19XX - 414300

One Vision · 23 May 2020 at 02:14

Spacedeck said:
What score would that be? I'll have a go at these games tomorrow, I've never played either of them.

You never heard of the infamous double dragon? Come on man we’re you been

That frogger I’ve not touched yet as few things came up in last few days but I’ll be on it

ShiWarrior · 27 May 2020 at 09:44

One Vision said:
You never heard of the infamous double dragon? Come on man we’re you been

That frogger I’ve not touched yet as few things came up in last few days but I’ll be on it

Double Dragon was my favourite back then

bought a megadrive just for this game many years ago, amiga, Atari ST etc too, MD was the best home version (except mame of course)

One Vision · 28 May 2020 at 22:36

ShiWarrior said:
Double Dragon was my favourite back then

bought a megadrive just for this game many years ago, amiga, Atari ST etc too, MD was the best home version (except mame of course)

For me there was no home conversion that did the coin-op version justice, they didnt even come close.

That frogger score is no easy score to beat, quite hard tbh

Wolgang · 29 May 2020 at 08:10

What about flappy bird?

Pickirk · 18 Nov 2020 at 10:53

I would love to be able to build my own arcade.
I remember the arcades in Blackpool in the 80's. They had some great games,frogger,galaga, galaxian, golf etc.

Chris [BEANS] · 19 Nov 2020 at 16:17

I’ll submit my 1 credit score for Metal Slug later...

Nice idea for a thread!

Chris [BEANS] · 20 Nov 2020 at 14:02

Metal Slug, 1 credit, Level 4 (Normal) difficulty - 777790

Spacedeck · 20 Nov 2020 at 18:46

I dropped off on this and ventured to other games but I've updated the first post. I'm going to kick this off again this weekend and have another go at these scores.