House of the Dead Arcade - 1CC - [Former World Record] Score 111,120 Full Playthrough

Well I guess I can finally retire from high score runs. It wasn't perfect but it's gonna be as good as it gets for awhile. Had an awesome personal best after Chapter 2, did okay enough to muscle through Chapter 3, and Hangedman finally decided to give me the points at the end. I had two runs prior to this today in the 107k range and didn't feel like going for another run but something inside of me told me to just do it, and so I did.
Score Breakdown:
Chapter 1: 22,420 Managed to sneak in a few more headshots than average, missed 4 headshots overall but still happy with the results.
Chapter 2: 55,860 I'm not even sure what happened this run because I've never pulled off a near 56k in my life. I'll have to rewatch the Hangedman battle because I think that's where the magic happened.
Chapter 3: 89,740 I thought I was gonna blow the run when I took 2 silly hits before the 2nd researcher but somehow I muscled through with nearly 90k by playing Hermit very precisely and carefully. Missed some shots at the end but I'm not going to complain.
Final: 111,120 It finally happened, and I skipped 110k entirely. I managed 21,380 in the final chapter, which is well within my average, to earn the only recorded 111k on original hardware.
Final thoughts:
First off, I just want to say thanks to everyone who has supported me with everything that I do HotD related; I couldn't have reached this far without everyone. The list of people is long so I don't want to write everyone's names just so that I don't miss anyone and making them feel left out.
Second, to think that it took a couple decades to finally reach this seems mind blowing but I think I can say that I'll retire from further score runs until someone beats it on original hardware with a lightgun and with a full video. I know it can be done because my run was far from perfect.
Third, I'm glad that All Amusement Fun Center over in Burbank, CA has kept their machine in prestine shape, props to the owner Jim for adjusting the monitor. I'm sure I could've done it on my home setup but it feels just that much better when doing on a public machine. For one, it shows that I didn't cheat in any way and second, it's a way to flex your scores a bit. So in order to reach 10th place on that machine you'll need to score more than 107,600 which is already higher than Ottis Pittman's iconic score of 107,300 from many years ago.
Lastly, I know this isn't the world record as we found an old Japanese archived website that showed a bunch of Japanese players that has also reached 110k+ scores. Unfortunately, those scores cannot be verified as there's no video evidence. I would've loved to see some of their runs and how they approached each chapter but I'm not even sure how to reach out to those players as the scores were from the late 90's. Everyone in recent times seems to follow my guides that I posted back in Jun 2003/Feb 2004 and my more recent guide as of Feb 2020. But those guides are now out of date since I take a different route in Chapter 3 and approach Hangedman a bit differently. I still have $9 left on my game card for All Amusement Fun Center so I think I'll play a few more games to see if I can top this but I wouldn't count on it. Today was a good day, a very good day.
Original Guide from Feb. 9, 2004
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Updated Guide from Feb. 9, 2020
drive.google.com/file/d/129sN...
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Recorded on: Note 20 Ultra | Procam X | ISO 200 | Shutter 1/57.5
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Location: All Amusement Fun Center Burbank, CA
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Date: March 7th 2022 Time: 6:22:50 PM
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[@tinotormed]

big congrats! That was quite a huge feat! Perhaps you may comeback someday to try out also the remastered release on Switch.

[@letsgodrehundo5648]

Congrats on the high score! Excellent run and work as well! 🔥👍🏾

[@maksudmobassherahsan1604]

Congrats on your World Record!!!!

[@positvechao]

Congratz!

[@yarksnaw]

Excellent work

[@s.n.a.r.k.5146]

Amazing gameplay

[@ergastolo4281]

Good job dude!👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@vincently1995]

28:34 Sophie Richards: Thank you! Me: For playing.

[@ganggooneygaming3266]

Bro you are the master. I recently got 80120 on barcade. Headshots all day.

[@PrimevalDemon]

I remember first seeing this I was blown away it immediately commanded my attention I had never seen anything like it Still adore It to this day, and honestly haven't even looked at the remake because I'm afraid I'll dislike it or be burned by the changes

[@mc_reagengaming833]

id finally acheived 69k total at my local theater only issue with my run was having to continue 6 times

[@inn6300]

Good job!

[@kenn1883]

It ’s too good and it ’s wonderful. I also want to do my best to be so good

[@CullenCraft]

Holy shit

[@JV-km9xk]

Nice!

[@kissmyassdickhead9346]

This is the censored version of the house of the dead because it has green blood in the game. If you want to get the uncensored version of the house of the dead, you may want to find an arcade that is rare somewhere in their store has it.

[@egregiousguy]

Actually, the blood is green because the owner set the blood color to green as the Arcade is more family oriented. I have my own arcade setup at home set to blue blood since that color is my personal preference as seen in my All Routes recordings.

[@Jiterdomer]

Actually, Japan shipped it that way by default.

[@Akjxbh]

うわ〜😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@ganggooneygaming3266]

Got shoot the chainsaw mans arm to intercept. gotcha

[@yusufanbarfirdausi621]

I notice you always aiming at head. Is that make better score?

[@CullenCraft]

Yes

[@FEAR_Operative]

*💬 It does feel unfair at times lol, getting hit twice in later stages especially the third chapter as well missing an bonus score item. Kinda sucks missing some of your shots, not able to completely destroy a undead creature's head with just two shots, hit registration can be a tiny bit off, etc. Those are the very little minor things that annoys / frustrates me the most when playing this old classic gem but to me it's part of the game. But still... good job on your high score run I watched the entire video. 💬*

[@ganggooneygaming3266]

Why is he so tanky 14:28

[@IcyPitz]

Former World Record? Who beat it?

[@egregiousguy]

There's a Japanese player who goes by KEN and he reached 113,500 earlier this month. I haven't had the time to play much lately but my next goal is to get into the 114-115k range.

[@IcyPitz]

@@egregiousguy Did they have video of it?

[@egregiousguy]

He only had screenshots of the chapter scores. But I did watch his 110.9k video and he's a legit player. I actually hope he scores higher because a little friendly rivalry isn't bad and it'll push me to do better as well.

[@IcyPitz]

@@egregiousguy Ah okay, interesting. Highest I ever got was 106,780 about 10 years ago. Just wondering if I have it in me to chase after the WR like you guys.

[@egregiousguy]

106.7k is a score to be very proud of. I never thought I would beat my 106.5k from nearly 2 decades ago but here I am now in 2022 finding better strats and still putting up crazy scores after all these years. My biggest advice if you want to reach 110k+ is to 1. Play patiently for the best shot on each enemy and 2. Practice those Hangedman and Hermit battles