As most people on the forums know there isn't a true killscreen for Donkey Kong 3. The boards get funky from 160 to 256 with repeating blue screens, but the game could be played as long as you can survive on the 37 men that are given you after your first million points. So it got me to wondering. What if DK3 did have a killscreen at board 117? I chose this because Donkey Kong killscreens on board 117, and I do believe it would have been accomplished in the 80's. Given his score Bromola would have been darn close in the 80's, and even if it had not been accomplished in the 80's board 117 was reached by 4 different players in the 2000's before I came along. Two on Twin Galaxies settings, and two using the easier default settings.
So what would happen? I believe getting extra points would be extremely interesting. In fact the style of play becomes extremely interesting.
For instance people would point press on the last gold/yellow board. This is how they would do it. They would get the super spray on this board, and then go to town killing the worms with the super spray. My guess is you could get an extra 5,000 per man by using up the super spray. So if someone had 10 extra men, this could equate to an extra 50,000 points.
Next people would try not using the super spray before the last gold/yellow board. You see if you use the super spray to pass a board you are going to get around 15,000 point or so, but if you pass the blue and gray boards with regular spray you can get around 25,000 points on these boards. That's 10,000 extra per board NOT using the super spray! That comes to an extra 250,000 points or so NOT using the super spray before the final board. So a person with these two methods could get an extra 300,000 points before the killscreen.
Now another thing comes into play. The time bonus. For instance a person who averages 500 on the blue, and gray boards as opposed the person who averaged about 1,500 on the blue gray boards would lose an average of 1,000 points per blue, gray board to the higher skilled player. Now since there are a total of around 79 blue and gray boards before the killscreen that would amount to the higher skilled player having 79,000 extra points just in time bonuses.
Than finally defending your flowers becomes extremely important. For instance if someone loses a flower they lose automatically a 5,000 bonus, and than only receive a 2,000 bonus the next two boards. Meaning that player loses 11,000 in bonus from the flower.
So if a player loses at least one flower on three different boards that's a loss of 33,000 points while the more skilled player may not lose a flower the entire run.
So that means a very skilled player could get an extra 400,000 points higher than an average killscreen player. So it would a be 2.15 million game versus a 2.55 million point game.
I am just posting this to show that even in Donkey Kong 3 there would be a whole strategy involved in getting the most points possible per board.
