Talk:Stargate (video game)
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I removed the "category:pinball" from this article because the article doesn't mention anything about a pinball machine variant of the game, and I can't find anything about there being one. There does appear to have been a pinball based on Defender, and one based on the Stargate movie, but not one based on this game. If there was one that I'm just not aware of, though, please add a paragraph about it and then re-add the category to this article. :) --209.108.217.226 03:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
"...there has never been a confirmed score of 1 million or higher on Stargate." ??
Sorry, but I have to disagree... Back in '82/83 in Elizabeth, NJ I topped out on several occasions at more than a million and there were a few people I knew who were way better than me. One guy I knew named Tony broke 4 million. His father owned an arcade distributorship and so he could play for free. Another red haired guy in the area named "Stymie" supposedly broke 5 million. He was the acknowledged champion, even by Tony. His friend named Kurt broke 2-3 million. Breaking 1 million in Stargate is an ordeal that takes well over an hour, so breaking 4 or 5 million would be an all afternoon marathon. Anyone who can break 500,000 in Stargate is spectacular and breaking a million in my book makes you a certified bone fide ascended Stargate master. In those days we Stargate masters could recognize each other on sight, no words needed even though we were complete strangers. The zen like experience we had in common of surviving multi-hour battles in the Stargate universe on a single quarter gave you a certain look, a certain attitude that let you recognize one another for what you were. Stargate is quite simply the most demanding video game ever created, with the largest number of moving objects and the greatest degree of hand eye coordination required to master it. Hours of play caused your left middle finger knuckle to get callused from moving the control stick, your arms to get rigid, your back to ache, and your eyes to get blurry. Even among die hard Stargate players, very few had the stamina and skill required to break a million, no matter how many years and quarters they spent trying. Those that did became legends, and had a piercing gaze on their faces like the so called "thousand yard stare" of those guys from Vietnam. Ahh, how I miss the good old days in the early 80's! There'll never be days like those again!
Back in the day, I had a couple of friends that were just as good as each other on Stargate. They would take turn swapping out as they got tired. They would have smart bombs, inviso and ships off the register. They would use something and it wouldn't even register that it was used. They would play for hours. The highest score I ever saw them get was over 9 million before they walked away from the machine, too tired to continue playing....
Not many people know this, but there is a maximum number of points before the score "rolls over" to 0. I know what the number is first hand, as back in the day when Stargate was THE game, I played for 10+ hours straight on one quarter. A buddy (who owned the arcade), as well as dozens of others witnessed the event. When time came to close down the arcade that day, there was well over 100 ships and smartbombs remaining.
