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Wooooahhhh! Atomic Super Boss

By Kieron Gillen on October 12th, 2009 at 2:43 pm.

While my heart wants to play Borderlands, my poorly head makes me play Atomic Super Boss. It’s actually a webgame port of the freeware Bullet Hell, but with a high score table. You with a boss, who moves through different attack patterns, randomly. You shoot him. The closer you are, the more points you get. Maximise score before he inevitably kills you. Videogame!

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  1. Schmung says:
    10/12/2009 at 14:49

    My meagre shmup skills yielded a feeble 1179 on my second go, :( My 11 year old Xenon II playing self would surely be able to whup that score.

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  2. ChampionHyena says:
    10/12/2009 at 14:55

    Echoes of RRootage and Warning Forever? It seems we’re slowly generating a new genre of boss shooters.

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  3. Alexander Norris says:
    10/12/2009 at 14:59

    I got to 3005 on easy, which put me at the top of the scoreboard, apparently.

    Go me?

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  4. Colthor says:
    10/12/2009 at 16:19

    After several goes on normal I managed 295.

    Yeah.

    So, you mentioned Borderlands..?

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  5. Arathain says:
    10/12/2009 at 16:49

    I got 333! I think I’ll go back to rRootage and Warning Forever.

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  6. El Stevo says:
    10/12/2009 at 17:32

    I could only move diagonally in one direction!

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  7. Robin says:
    10/12/2009 at 17:36

    @El Stevo:

    Were you holding down Space? It’s a Flash Thing (or possibly a Certain Keyboards Thing), I think.

    (WASD + Space) *or* (cursor keys + Z) should work ok.

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  8. El Stevo says:
    10/12/2009 at 17:42

    Yeah, WASD works.

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  9. army of none says:
    10/12/2009 at 17:59

    1905 on normal… I can’t quite unlock hard, but I’m trying :(

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  10. ZephyrSB says:
    10/12/2009 at 20:22

    Nooo… 1619, 1 point off the current top hard score lol.
    *shuffles off back to touhou*

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  11. Sagan says:
    10/12/2009 at 20:45

    Normal 2317!

    First time in years that I made it into the top 10 anywhere.

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  12. Psychopomp says:
    10/13/2009 at 02:16

    While we’re on the subject of shmups, I’m just going to throw Shoot the Bullet out there

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_the_Bullet

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=58PMM4PR

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  13. Glove says:
    10/13/2009 at 02:46

    4413! 3rd! *pelvic thrust*

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  14. Lyndon says:
    10/13/2009 at 03:13

    Normal 2079.

    Just scrapped into the top twenty though I’m sure someone will come and bump me out soon.

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