Some Bank Panic tips since we're sucking it on that one:
- Read
http://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/584031-bank-panic/faqs/44889 for a good overall summary of the game and how gameplay works
- Start on level 1. You can score way more points playing through all levels from level 1 than you can from starting on a later level.
- Slow play levels until the timer almost runs out. You can score at least twice as much per level on the early levels by slow playing them than by clearing them quickly.
- At least on the early levels, wait for the bandits to start drawing their guns before shooting them. If you shoot them before they start drawing, then your kill is considered "unfair" and only gets you 100 pts. If you wait for them to draw you can score a lot more, and in perfectly timed kills of the red guys up to 5K for the kill. This also helps with your average "Fair Kill" bonus at the end of the levels.
- The game is patterned, so for practice save states or starting on later levels can be very useful to help you figure out a good approach for a level and also to get used to the faster pace of the later levels.
- If you are scrolling left or right, once you start scrolling and hold left/right down, no doors will open until you stop scrolling.
- If you are playing with a keyboard, map the fire buttons to your dominant hand and the scroll buttons to your other hand since reflex firing is much, much more important than movement.
-George
