Today, I scored the highest I've ever managed in Geo Wars 325,115 points and got my 40th achievement point in the game.  How much more do I need to do to be able to take some personal pride in my skills in the game?  Some of those remaining achievements look nearly impossible to get.

This is Retro Evolved yes?

I can't remember what my score on that is... give me a minute (I have the Wii game "Geometry Wars Galaxies")

Yes, Retro Evolved.  The next achievement it looks like I could get is Scored 500,000 or survived 500,000.  Poor as I consider my score to be since the top achievement is survived 1 million points, My leaderboard position is in the 208,000 range, so I don't think that's too terrible considering how many people must have downloaded the game.  But, I'm not a Gold Member, so I can't see the higher scores on the Geo Wars:  Retro Evolved leaderboards.

My best on RE is 125,500... but bare in mind I have only had 3 goes on it as there are the Galaxies (57 different levels [64 if I had a DS] with new enemies and such)

Edit.

Also, the Wii leaderboard is obviously seperate from the X360 one, as my 125,500 comes in 1283rd position.

Oh, and the top 10 for Wii has the username LOOP at the top, with a score of 13,436,518,400 (there really is an exponential increase as you get to the top of the boards... 10th place has 3,892,375.

Also I believe the 8th position "ROB" is someone on this website too (or else someones brother) and they have 4,095,550

I got past 500,00 only once. I have a friend who is much, much more skilled, and he's never survived 500,000. It looks like you're doing pretty well to me.

I can see how the Nintendo versions could be better (except for the fact that they don't have achievements but some of 360 RE achievements like Multistatic (where you have to get 10 multipliers, Mad Cat Skills 9 Lives, or Quartermaster -- I think you have to get 7 bombs) look like they would require a lot of work and luck to achieve.

Well yes... but it is on a disc (albeit still budget priced)

Even so, Retro Evolved is just 1 rectangular level yes?

     It is one screen like asteroids.   

It does pan a bit though yes?.... the Retro Evolved that comes on the Galaxies disc is a single rectangular level, but it i slightly larger than the screen, and there is a kind of bounding box for the ship so that it stays relatively in the centre of the screen. (so if you go up the the "wall" of the level you willl see the ship near the middle, and blackness outside the grid that is the level.

Unless I am getting Galaxies mixed up with RE now.

That is the way Retro Evolved is.