Re: [stella] Sometimes they come back.. :)

Subject: Re: [stella] Sometimes they come back.. :)
From: Erik Mooney <emooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:02:07 -0500 (EST)
> Does anybody remember how the old trick to get the 300(?)-points saucer
> works, in the original Space Invaders? I would like to put it into INV too.

Yes.  On the 23rd player shot of any board, and on every 15th shot after
that, it's worth 300 points.

> >- The game looses color if the aliens are in the last line before touching
> >the ground, the line where the aliens don't shoot.
> 
> that usual PAL thing... thanks.

Arrgh.. this means that the game takes one too many scanlines if the
invaders are in the last line before landing.  And figuring *that* out is
gonna be a headache.



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