Hey, I'm just glad to have someone to go up against, and I know that you are putting some real effort into this, I've seen your scores, seen the improvements, there's potential there. As for waiting, well I was thinking of playing another game for a contest over on the NES board at Gamefaqs, Life Force, but after plenty of thinking, I dunno, seems I'd only be competing against myself with that one, I can do that anytime, so yeah, maybe I'll get in some more games of Wrecking Crew after all. I have a hard time playing more than one game at once anyway.
For 15, drop down, take out the bottom row, but not by using the bomb, that seems to make it harder to get the rest, instead bash them each in turn while following the eggplant man, then climb down the ladder and move all the way to the far left, wait for all of the wrench guys to get off the ladder, move off the screen to the right side before the one closing in on you gets you, then climb the ladder, take your time and let the eggplant guy get ahead of you then go up all the way to the top, and drop down to each of the floors of the pyramid in turn either by destroying them individually or with the bombs. For me this has been the safest way to get through this phase.
Now 28, that one just requires a ton of patience and careful timing, but when I did pass it I took out every other floor starting from the bottom, but it takes a lot to try to get the red and purple wrench guys to stay somewhat together, kinda hard with the purple ones being so fast as well as smarter than the red ones. Make sure to use the left side of the screen out of their reach if you need a safe place to wait until the coast is clear to clear some more of the floors, well at least until the fireball makes you move.
My most hated phases currently are 19, 24, 27, and 28. Phase 19 takes too long to break all those 3 hit bricks and kinda hard to get the 2 red wrenches to both follow you and not try to block you in, but its easy if you have the hammer. Also hate phase 24, another phase that takes quite some time to finish and can be quite dangerous. Phase 27, don't know why, it shouldn't be difficult, but oddly somehow I always lose some lives here. And of coarse 28 because of all the phases that I've played through this is the one most likely you are to get surrounded and trapped in if you aren't quick or make the wrong move. I don't much like 32 either from what I've played of it. I hated 15 for the longest time, but that one, if I'm careful not to let Spike break my ladders is actually not too hard anymore.
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Are you absolutely sure you won't continue to try, because while that score is awesome, as well as hard to beat, I'm confident that I'll have it beat. Waiting to see what nes_king's going to come back with, he caught up too quickly, and passed me just as you've just done, makes me even more worried that he'll pull through and win this.
