Uh, You play the game... Lose a bunch of times, learn some tricks on how to play while doing it... get agitated, go to bed... and then get 70,000 points on your first try when you pick it up the next evening.
Or, at least thats how I did it... (An unexplainable cheat glitch helped me reach the 250,000 score, which probably set some kinda record in the process.)
At first it seems like it might be nigh impossible, but you may notice that each saved Babelian and each destroyed Nebulon is worth progressively more points as the levels continue.
By the 7th level, the Babelians are worth around 1000 points apiece. So, while the levels do get progressively harder, it gets progressively easier to score points.
Depending on how many Nebulons you shoot (and how many you let escape with a living Babelian) you should be able to score 50k points by getting mid-way through level 7.
One thing I hadn't really paid attention to was whether or not you lose points for shooting "hostage" Babelians, and whether or not it changes the number of points you lose for letting a Nebulon escape with one.
Stupid Videlectrix....
For some reason I like Limozeen's Hot Bablien Odyssey more than BotB itself.
Still stuck right under 100k, need more!
I think this is the best minigame of the 3 so far, and it's gonna be hard for them 2 mustachioed dimwits to top themselves.
Since the difficulty maxes out at lvl 5, if you get to lvl 50 you can win just by getting a single babelien but it would still be as easy it was 40 lvls earlier.
Yeah, I know it was a glitch, but its like the high score of an arcade game. You see your piddly little 80,000 versus the 270,000 that gets its name plastered on the screen while your trying to eat your ice cream. You loathe that person for either being too good, or spending too many quarters on pac-man. You don't know where that score came from, how many quarters were dumped into the machine, or exactly who you are attempting to beat. None of that matters -- It's been done. You must eat more ghosts, and stomp that no-named foe into the number 2 spot. Once you do, he will be crushed, forced to watch your initials, not his, come across the screen. You sleep better at night because of it. Your children will tell of stories of how their father beat the pac-man high score in 1989. Your grandchildren will know what pac-man was, and that their grandpappy was the best at the ice cream place. In our futuristic dystopian society, you can lay unstirred in your grave knowing, that somewhere in the deep crusts of the earth is a little piece of 70's era silicon with your initials carved permanently into its memory address for the top score.
Wow that got long, and if it sounds douchebaggy, I'm sorry, didn't mean to be!
And if you ate at the Dar-E-Kreme in Cedar Hill in 1994 (yeah, in 1989 I wasn't old enough), Somebody owes me $20 in quarters, a few bowls of ice cream, a Lamborghini, a 4000+ sq. ft. mansion, and a trophy wife for what could have been, had I only had the muster to beat you.
I gotta say that HBO was probably my least favourite of the first three Videlectrix games. Maybe if they offered more lives (or a way to get more lives) or something that'd be nice. But by level 6 it's just getting so fast and crazy I can hardly keep up. Level 7 was impossible for me.
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Or, at least thats how I did it... (An unexplainable cheat glitch helped me reach the 250,000 score, which probably set some kinda record in the process.)
By the 7th level, the Babelians are worth around 1000 points apiece. So, while the levels do get progressively harder, it gets progressively easier to score points.
Depending on how many Nebulons you shoot (and how many you let escape with a living Babelian) you should be able to score 50k points by getting mid-way through level 7.
One thing I hadn't really paid attention to was whether or not you lose points for shooting "hostage" Babelians, and whether or not it changes the number of points you lose for letting a Nebulon escape with one.
For some reason I like Limozeen's Hot Bablien Odyssey more than BotB itself.
Still stuck right under 100k, need more!
I think this is the best minigame of the 3 so far, and it's gonna be hard for them 2 mustachioed dimwits to top themselves.
Yeah, I doubt that will fall anytime soon. Once I get up around 110k, its hard as hell.
You set the bar, buddy.
Start a new thread and see if anyone beats it!
Wow that got long, and if it sounds douchebaggy, I'm sorry, didn't mean to be!
And if you ate at the Dar-E-Kreme in Cedar Hill in 1994 (yeah, in 1989 I wasn't old enough), Somebody owes me $20 in quarters, a few bowls of ice cream, a Lamborghini, a 4000+ sq. ft. mansion, and a trophy wife for what could have been, had I only had the muster to beat you.
Sounded kinda good though, right?