Okay folken, I've been away for a spell and spent the time doing a useful experiment. I have played through the entire game - with a minor form of cheating. I've taken advantage of WinUAE's save states to maximise my score.
I've completed it without doing this - I'm merely finding out what the maximum score *is*. And, unless one of my sacrifices turned out to be unnecessary (can you complete "Quick 'n' Easy" without losing both Zapper and Pusher?) the maximum score is - 26170.
Anyone beats this, let me know.
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Oh, wow, that's a full 100 points more than I had. Not bad! You didn't write down the surviving spiders for each tower by chance, did you? That would be interesting info to add to the towers list. I can't remeber quick'n'easy, but I will check it tomorrow, maybe. There are still a couple of tax forms waiting for me...
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Darn it, no I didn't. The thought had occurred to me somewhere about group 7, by which point I felt it was already too late. Do you have a tower listing of these groups detailing which spiders are on each tower? I wouldn't need to replay them all then.
I remember one tower - title escapes me - with Zapper and Grabber on. Zapper's chief function was, I believe, simply to kill himself by shooting a glass block so that Grabber could stand on that square and get a klondike. This struck me as incredibly pointless and I still wonder if Zapper can somehow escape this fate (even though the room for manouvere is highly limited).
"Erosion" (lots of lizards in that one) was a hated nemesis when I was younger. So obvious to me these days. Ahhh, growing up...