Gyruss WR attempt / Saturday 22. 2014 starting 6am EST/ 3am PST

[DaLar]

Chassis Arcade located in Denmark (EU) will host mr. Kim K's Gyruss WR/marathon attempt this weekend..!

Kim "Cannon Arm" Købke is a pleasant, animated, focused and fit man in his 40's with a passion espicially for shoot 'em ups.
A month ago, Feb 22. Kim started an impromptu Gyruss session, ending it just shy of 30 hours, with a neat 40,002,000 pts. Killing of the approx. 220 remaining lives took 15-20 mins..

This time Kim is first aiming for the TG record of 47,024,400 points set by Michael Bangs in 1987.
Sencondly, getting up towards the illusive 100 hour mark..!!


 The stream willl be on http://twitch.tv/chassisarcade



"""Feb. 23. 2014:
Today ended what my guess is one of the first arcade marathons on Danish soil.
Saturday, February 22 at 11:15 slammed Kim "Kanonarm" Köbke a 2 crown in Gyruss at Chassis Arcade, and an hour or so ago he stopped his game. It was nothing less than 40,002,000 points Sunday at 16.45, which then used about 15-20 min to count extra life. Around 220 lives were back.
The world record is 47,024,400 points set by Michael Bangs in 1987.
This was "just warming" into something bigger. Kim leaves Kanonarman up and return shortly (this time with the camera)
Congratulations to Kanonarm, and all due respect here from
http://killscreen.dk/?p=2240 Thank you!"""


http://www.champow.com/game.php?id=729
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php/topic,5826.msg69317/topicseen.html#msg69317

Billede 2 --- http://killscreen.dk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IMG_0192-300x300.jpg
Billede 3 -- https://scontent-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1891236_10202387947037349_37723670_n.jpg
Danish article on Chassis Arcade p.36 = http://ipaper.ipapercms.dk/DSB/udogse/2013/Februar/

[TheSunshineFund]

so awesome.  totally checking this out.

[tudose]

awesome! thanks for the heads up, daniel

[ThomasTHC]

Thanks Daniel! But yeah, tune in tomorrow and watch Kim "Kanonarm" Köbke destroying this shit game   

[KIG666]

Already tought finally I would get a real opponent until I saw the word marathon 

IMO to marathon Gyruss is like watching paint dry or to visit this guys elite forum ---->    

Anyway nice to see someone besides me playing Gyruss. I will definitely check the stream for his first 5 ships to see how much he would have scored under TGTS.

[D.B. Cooper]

Marathons are awesome and I've wondered why someone hasn't taken this game on yet.  I'll tune in when I can.  Will be interesting to see how high this score can be pushed.

[Barra]

Should be a good watch
Wheres the score being submitted?   
 

[TheSunshineFund]

KIG,

Is the difficulty setting different under TGTS than the marathon settings or same?

[KIG666]

No both marathon and TGTS use level 6 now.

The old marathon record from Michael Bangs on the other hand plus the older TGTS records were played on level 5 (average) according to Mark Longridge site http://cubeman.org

Don't know when they changed the level of difficulty from 5 to 6 but I played mine already on level 6 so I'm sure it was more than 3 years ago.

[ThomasTHC]

KIG666: What's your TGTS score? Don't know Kim's score, but come by and ask him (and of course see how much he get's on the first 5 ships) Think he would love to talk to another Gyruss player, and maybe some day he'll go for that score as well.

And regarding Gyruss being a boring marathon game to watch, I read some guys on MARP talking about the same thing. And I can see what you mean. But to me ex. Q*Bert, Missile Command and Armor Attack wasn't that much fun to watch either, but still think those marathons are great achievements, and have big respect for those gamers. I think that marathons are as much to see how long can someone play before their brain/body start to screw up.

Barra: Thought about maybe submitting to recordsetter or something like that (but havent checked out how that works), but then agan I don't really think Kim cares. I think it's enough for him to know that the arcade gaming community knows about it. If someone can track down Michael Bangs that would be fucking awesome.

[KIG666]

It's not that I would be totally against marathons I just don't like the fact that a marathon has usually no real rules.

Lives should be limited even for a marathon, at least for my taste. For a game like Gyruss 20 lives would be more than enough.

It also should not be allowed to go away from the cab. The game should end straight if you stop to play the game. A missed bonus round ok but stop to play for minutes no thanks that's pointless in my eyes.

All those crutches like toilet breaks, snacks, energy drinks and even little naps in between not my thing.

Guess you already figured out that I'm not really THE marathon fan 

I would prefer something like the 24 hours of Gyruss or any other marathonable game. Like the 24 hours of le mans for example.

Would be interesting to see how far someone could go in just 24 hours without any break. The winner would be the guy that scored the most millions with the less killed ships.

Sounds much more fun than just a marathon without rules but hey that is just my opinion. I know many ppl like the marathon tracks so each to their own

Even if marathons are not my thing I will still check the stream tomorrow cause I love to see someone playing Gyruss on the dedicated cab.

Haven't seen a dedicated Gyruss cab in ages 

My current record on TGTS is 9,460,950
My best one ship score on hardest settings ( level 8 ) is 4,217,250

[ThomasTHC]

That's also fair enough I see you are from Germany! Come to Copenhagen and have a 24 hour Gyruss battle with Kim! The machine that's at the arcade is his, but he actually has another one at home.

Denmark vs. Germany - who will win? 

Will let him know about your TGTS score, and will update with his score after 5 men. Do you know about this european forum: http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php ? Lots of people from Germany, Netherlands etc. think you should be able to find someone with a Gyruss near you.

[JCHarrist]

I've added a news item linked to this thread and Chassis Arcade is already on the streamer list.

Thomas, please let Kim know that he is welcome to register here and that we talk about more than just Donkey Kong.

[ThomasTHC]

Awesome, thanks! Kim is still living in the 80's, so his computer skills is limited  But I will let him know  He plays a little DK as well, you can find his score here (tag = EXA) http://chassisarcade.dk/test/

[danman123456]

9 million on TGTS niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee KIG. I got 1.5 million after starting my first man at 1 million+ and then just had a huge brain fart and lost 3 men practically back to back and just haven't tried again :/

40 million in 30 hours is really not to shabby. Thats like 1.33 million an hour. 222 men to kill off when he quit and see it only too 15-20 minutes. Is he playing non-stop because you really dont have time to nap. I'm curious where this goes because I will start getting serious about doing this and also thinking about Galaga too.

Dan