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"3D Pinball: Space Cadet" was a game well known for Windows XP users, which had the game by default.

When you play the game often you will usually hit what I call the 4 Million barrier. If you play good in all three balls, you will always get a maximum High Score between 3 and 4 Million in a normal game. Breaking trough the 4 Million barrier is quite hard.

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Strategy:

My strategy is to only play the first ball over and over, until I get an excellent play for the first ball. I need to complete the training missions (getting to the second yellow circle in the center) in the first ball. If I don't get the second yellow circle in the first ball, I will re-start the game with F2.

If I got the second yellow circle, I will try to survive and try to complete more missions. After the second yellow circle you will get missions with (I think) better rewards, but if you are unlucky these missions might be harder. Playing good is now key to get above the 4 Million barrier, but you don't need to play excellent, like you did for ball one.

In my 5 Million play you can see how long I keep ball 1 and how "fast" I loose ball 2 and 3. You can also see that I got the "rescue survivors" mission over and over, which is quite hard becaue I think upgrading the flags is luck based and not skill based.

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Maybe 10 Million is possible for me?

I think getting above 10 Million might be possible if a second (and maybe third) ball is played excellent. But this is quite hard. Today I played for around 3 hours to get one excellent play for ball one and I don't know how many games I played. Lets say I need 100 games to get the second ball with an excellent play. That would be 300 hours of grinding.

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Maybe completing the yellow circle is possible?

The completion of the yellow circle is another story. I think I got a few yellow circles filled in my 7.7 Million High Score (not recorded). This was due better missions from yellow circle two. I got missions that needed weapons upgrading to green and then hitting the bumpers, which is easier than upgrading the flags and entering hyperspace. I think the rewards were also better. So with luck it might be possible to "beat the game". It depends how hard the missions will get and how much you will need to upgrade the weapons/flags. I can imagine that you will need to upgrade the weapons fully in the last few missions. I think "beating the game" is possible, but requires luck and skill beyond my current gameplay.

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download for new versions of Windows:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/space-cadet-3d-pinball-bc1

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Chapters:
0:00 Ball 1
9:03 Ball 2
10:35 Ball 3
11:24 High Scores