Giga Wing 2 Score Attack Stage 7 - 11.691 quintillion points

This attack run was recorded on October 29, 2007. I remember I was hitting this game hard for a solid two months after I had bought a Dreamcast off of one of my co-workers. Somewhere early within that time I had also acquired an old S-VHS VCR so I could record gameplay footage in all analog glory (as I didn't/don't trust a DVD-R's capacity to record all those bullets and medals without artifacting, which mine did).

Not long ago 1/6th of this score was called 'the highest video game score ever recorded' by the Guinness Book of World Records, much to my surprise and praise from my peers, and a little embarrassment to the shmup community, which prompted me to tackle the game again in order to put up a more reputable score. While this new score can still be considered astronomical, 'The Highest Video Game Score' has since been surpassed by Mr. Rodrigo Lopes of Brazil (on this same Score Attack), Tom Duncan (on a different game entirely), and possibly Todd Rogers (on the same said different game entirely; I need to find out what happened on that run). I, too have beaten this score since then.It was in the month of practice before Funspot X when I decided to switch planes on a hunch. Unfortunately, the run wasn't recorded and the high score still haunts me to this day. It wasn't as high as Mr. Lopes, but it brings me hope that I can still surpass my best efforts.

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• GigaWing2
• Giga
• Wing2
• Wing
• Capcom
• vertical
• shooter
• shmup
• Takumi
• Dreamcast
• masterLEON
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• J.C.
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• thesavepointdotnet

[bbutters2]

I just got my copy of this game the other day and I must say it is far more fun to play than the first one. It's pretty effin cool to play and look at(total eye candy)

[thesavepointdotnet]

@bbutters2 ^^truth. I should get around to getting a backup copy of GW2 and backup Dreamcast at some point so I can have this game to play forever :D

[bbutters2]

@thesavepointdotnet Go for it. By the way how the fuck did you manage to not die on the last boss like that? I die 3 times minimum with bomb usage too.

[thesavepointdotnet]

@bbutters2 I only upped a video where I didn't die. For every one of those there was about 10-20 where I either died or restarted because it didn't look like I was going to score high enough.

[chazkm]

That was 1.3 trillion not quintillion. Still pretty amazing though. I love Giga Wings but I prefer the 1940s series of shootem ups.

[thesavepointdotnet]

@chazkm

This sounds familiar...yeah, we did the long and short scale counting discussion a while back. We're both right.

[mattpryor216]

I love how ridiculous the score system is in this game.

[thesavepointdotnet]

@superfatttyfatboy Lol, technicality! Just count me in the niche group that finds these types of games fun. I find the fun is in working to beat the game without continuing and topping my old scores. Then there's dodging masses of bullets without getting hit, that's always exciting! Besides, if these games really were impossible, there wouldn't be anyone posting up high score or game clear videos on YouTube.

[MyPedro5000]

touhou brother



[bbutters2]

@bbutters2 I thought of that, still amazing though, it would take me AWHILE before I could ever manage to remember the attack pattern and where to position the ship for maximum avoidance of the bullets. Fucking fun game to play all in all, Dreamcast has these gems that no other system seems to have.

[bbutters2]

I have never heard such epic music in any video game ever. Gets points for that alone . Never played this game but i will be in 3 days as i just ordered it yesterday on Amazon. Can't fucking wait!

[Mundusthe42nd]

Reminds me of touhou...

[fcbahamutzero]

like if Rinry brought you here! 

[bbutters2]

This game a seriously epic soundtrack, top-notch, maybe the best of a game of this type ever!