scaryice | 587 Posted February 18, 2023 Author Share Posted February 18, 2023 Super Off-Road and MUSCLE finished. For the first one, I got somewhere around race 55-56. I know someone mentioned that game does technically end after the 99th race, but we haven't required that before and that seems a bit excessive. I guess a similar case would be Rally Bike, which does end after a second loop (with no ending, like Super Off Road. But at least that game has different scenes after certain races. In Super Off Road, you've seen the last new track on race 35, and the reversed version of that on race 43. So nothing new from 44-99, after which it just sends you to the high score screen, the same as a game over. I stopped playing MUSCLE after round 6, although I felt like I could've gone on a lot longer with some luck. Did you know that there's a Famicom game based on Ramen Man, one of the selectable characters from this game? Screenshots: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 Mappy-Land is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Defenders of Dynatron City is done. What a terrible and frustrating game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Well, you've slayed another giant, @Gaia Gensouki. You joined the 600 point club with authority and style. I don't know if you realize this yet, but you're only the fourth player in the history of this competition to hit that threshold, and all three of us before you have won at least one singles championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper is done. It was a rough run where I had to abuse the unlimited continues, aside from somehow crushing the three-stage last-boss of Cogswell on my first try with only one hit left and no extra lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 3 hours ago, nerdynebraskan said: Well, you've slayed another giant, @Gaia Gensouki. You joined the 600 point club with authority and style. I don't know if you realize this yet, but you're only the fourth player in the history of this competition to hit that threshold, and all three of us before you have won at least one singles championship. Thanks. And no, I didn't realize that this was that special. I still have a little bit more energy left in me to try and break the 700 points, but recently I didn't have much time to play games. So progress is significantly slower right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) RoboWarrior is done. I'm also a little more than halfway through Bad News Baseball. It should be done in the next couple of days. I've also crossed the halfway point of Wrecking Crew. That one may still be about a week away. Edited February 20, 2023 by nerdynebraskan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Fun House is done. In Earthbounds Beginnings I recently got Ana to join my party and things have been going more smoothly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,105 Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 On 2/11/2023 at 11:01 PM, NESfiend said: Excitebike is done. Based on all the feedback, seems like this one will be in the weekly contest this year. Cant wait, despite the inevitable ass kicking I have to come, from @Bearcat-Dougand countless others. I didn't even notice that it was still on the list. Great job clearing it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 Gremlins 2 beaten again: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Section Z is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 Lethal Weapon done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 Demon Sword done. About 1 hour for this game, maybe 30 minutes for Lethal Weapon? Pretty good for the point values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 I had a funny moment the other day playing Bo Jackson Baseball. It only takes 4 games to beat, so it's very simple for a 10 pointer. I got halfway through the playoffs with the Chicago White Sox, to the World Series. Unfortunately, I picked the Chicago Cubs as one of the NL teams, and they advanced as well. That's unfortunate because this game makes you pick which team is yours for each matchup ("NES" or "player"). It also doesn't list each Chicago team with a different name. That means upon getting to the World Series, I had to pick from the menu which team I wanted to be - Chicago vs Chicago, with no indication of which was which. So I had a 50/50 chance of picking the right team to control, and of course I picked wrong. Ugh. Anyway, we're at the 450 games mark. It only took us 14 days to go from 400-450. That's the 5th fastest out of 12 years. Days to go from 400-450 2012 26-Apr 07-Jun 42 2013 17-Feb 02-May 74 2014 26-Jan 16-Feb 21 2015 16-Jan 21-Jan 5 2016 19-Jan 31-Jan 12 2017 27-Jan 07-Feb 11 2018 30-Jan 10-Mar 39 2019 14-Apr 19-May 35 2020 30-Jan 14-Feb 15 2021 15-Jan 19-Jan 4 2022 08-Feb 05-Mar 25 2023 06-Feb 20-Feb 14 It's taken on average 44 days to go from 450-500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 @scaryiceI tried both games before, but didn't make it far, unfortunately. And now there are more and more games left that are tough or long and tedious to beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Sword Master is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Castle of Dragon is done. It's much jankier than Sword Master which already didn't play too well. Especially the final boss, the dragon, was really annoying. The way I got him was this: He always keeps moving his head up and down and depending on the position and timing it seemed to be more or less tricky hitting him. I had the best luck by getting fairly close to him, while watching out to not get hit by his tail, and then wait until he slightly raises his head. Around the time when he shoots his fireballs I jump up and a little bit towards him while attacking him consecutively with the sword. With a bit of luck I got two hits in per jump. If there's any better way to defeat him I'd love to hear it, but after some failures this finally earned me the victory. On a side note, the princess seems to have a "wardrobe malfunction". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strikezone1 | 154 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Simpson’s: Bart vs the Space Mutants is beaten. Between the frustrating control scheme, cheap hits from enemies, lack of continues given, and oddball stuff you gotta figure out in order to progress, this game is a pain in the ass to beat. There’s some ambitious ideas here, just lackluster execution in gameplay development. Par for the course for NES games done by Imagineering I suppose. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 Smash TV beaten (with 1 controller). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,073 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Frankenstein: The Monster Returns is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriHart | 88 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Had a small hiatus.... Although that's not totally true. My NES collection is limited, and a lot of the games I have and can beat had been finished. I am now dabbling into the library of games that I struggle with, but have been working to try and get some more done. Currently working on air fortress. I spent some time playing some other games I like that had already been beaten though. I count that as a win, as there is still some gaming happening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitdontquit | 226 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Pin-Bot is done. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 1,885 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 4 hours ago, scaryice said: Smash TV beaten (with 1 controller). This should have been on your challenge list ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Bad News Baseball is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Barbie is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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