Different route = different river layout/map, order, difficulty and number/type of enemies all around. The river fork you pick determines what river combos comes next/later. If you go all left from Class 1/Colorado you get the Amazon river next. If you stay to the right at forks you end up with the American river. The last river of each Class will always be at its highest difficulty/hardest enemies.

I am working on mapping the whole game out, and seeing what "route" allows for more points or not. But, no matter what the route: its still all about collecting the Toobin' letters early and hitting that score x5 bonus at the end of each Class (1.4 million point bonus possible with all letters per river). I would have added 350,000 points to the game I posted here if I had gotten x5 instead of x4 on one river finish!

Glad you like the site. I agree it is super easy to record and submit scores. I made the switch a few years ago as soon as I found this place.

Will taking the right route yield any more points? Is it comparable in difficulty? I have never played the game myself!

Cheers

Howdy + Thanks for the welcome to this excellent site and for the Toobin' props. I'm getting back in "shape" after not playing for a month+ (after setting the coin-op WR over at High Scores Arcade Alameda). Retro Uprising seemed like a good spot to do some more "training" (+ how did I not notice for months that I could play "online" here...doh!).

I am working on a 10,000,000+ game finish attempt taking the much different "all right route" as we speak (this game I went left at all river forks). I hope to share the results with the classic gaming community in the not too distant future.

Happy Gaming!

JRK Toobin' 10,334,935 (one credit "left route" game finish) @ Retro Uprising:
http://www.retrouprising.com/other/h...61/#post275902

Welcome to the site, jerky. Awesome toobin' score well done. I noticed your marp score is slightly higher too!