Over the past few months, I've been slowly developing a five-stage-long UFO chain, designed to give a high, yet balanced, amount of both bombs and lives, and culminating in the green UFO explosion in Stage 6. It's been a long and arduous process, but I have slowly worn down the game, bit by bit. In the few months I've been doing this on Hard, this intricate and developed chain has brought me as far as Total Clarification (once), but often ends around mid-Stage 4.
Today for shits and giggles I did all Green UFOs and got to Milky Way on my first try.
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