Xenon - Hiscore Competition

Welcome to the next classicamiga hiscore competition.

This time we are playing the classic Bitmap Brothers game, Xenon.

Quite a traditional vertical scrolling shooter that turned out to be quite revolutionary at the time thanks to it's dual move of play, being able to both fly around the screen and convert your ship into a ground vehicle by wiggling the mouse quickly or hitting space. It was also one of the first game to contain digitised video.


The competition is as always, get the hiscore and take a screenshot of the hiscore table with your username entered for that score. Then upload your screenshot to the members arcade on the main site and then link to the image in this thread to prove your score.

Good luck everyone. I hope you all have fun playing this great game. After this we will then move on to the sequel Xenon 2 for the next competition.

Game to be played: Xenon.
Platform: Amiga A500 OCS/ECS
Emulator: WinUAE (quickstart config: A500 - 1.3ROM, OCS, 512KB Chip RAM 512KB Slow ram)
Difficulty Level: Normal
Length of Competition: Extended! (ending Friday 27th July '07)
Competition Rules: Obtain the highest score!

Points to be won:

1st Place:	5000 points
2nd Place:	2000 points
3rd Place:	500 points

Game Files: The ADF for Xenon can be found in the Private Downloads forum. Let me know if you need the password to access that area of the forum.
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I tested the game, long time ago I've played it. It's a bit tough, cannot get past the first boss.

There's no hi-score list in the game (or is there?), so you must be quick to take a snapshot. Is this the best way to post the pics?



So the score is 15.950
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Finally got into the loft to find my copy of this.
That's corrupted as well.
Can't install it.
It will play from the floppy though, so could have been worse.
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So you can finally have a go at the hiscore?

I'm surprised no one has submitted any hiscores yet. I thought this one would have been more popular. I will see what score I can do myself this coming week.
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Yes, in the machine and all set to go.
Must admit, thought there would have been a lot more entries for this one.
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Haven't given it a go yet, but I will for sure one of the coming days.
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Although just a test, but I submitted mine Don't think I'll get more than that.
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My first try at Xenon in the high-score competition. The game was for sure a lot harder than I remembered.

The score is 20190
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You are telling me! I used to be able to play through the first two stages without losing a life! Now I cannot even get to the end of the first stage.

Maybe it is true what people are saying. Games have become easier and we have become used to their difficulty? I don't think that is the case. I just think this style of game isn't common these days so it is harder to get back into it with the fast reactions and timing needed.
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Games nowadays are very different, as also the size varies a lot. We get huge levels, big intros, long cutscenes and a lot more freedom in the games. Thus the difficutly is reduced.

Older games tend to be more arcade like, where you had to pay coins to play. Imagine GTA on a cabinet, you would play forever.

The hardware also didn't allow to develop the kind of games we are used to play now.
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