BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2nd round of the 2023 VGS NES Weekly Contest! This week we visit the Arcade genre with a very classic Arcade game! Coming all the way back from the year 1982, we have Millipede!!! This week our players are in for another round of fast and furious action. The rules they will have to follow are belo: Player 1 player mode B Play till you lose your first life You can't point press the millipede by not killing it for more than 3 minutes per round till round 10. After round 10 you can farm it freely... if you can. When you die, pause the game and take your picture as you respawn Participation: 5,000 points Genre: Arcade May the best insect killer win! The contest ends Sunday, 04/09/23 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,618 Events Team · Posted April 2, 2023 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 1st Gloves 129,073 2nd Dr. Morbis 117,406 3rd nesmaster14 109,248 4th NESfiend 79,479 5th Richardhead 60,766 6th PII 59,858 7th BlackVega 50,246 8th mbd39 50,038 9th RH 45,047 10th docile tapeworm 43,753 11th G-type 39,407 12th 8bitdontquit 32,685 13th JamesRobot 29,309 14th SuperJimtendo 22,210 15th Krunch 19,668 16th a3quit4s 15,318 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,198 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,020 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Wow, one life Millipede. Now this is a contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 (edited) SCORE EDIT #1 - 34,052 SCORE EDIT #2 - 117,406 Edited April 10, 2023 by Dr. Morbis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,776 Administrator · Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 129,073 112,656 106,433 90,814 65,422 35,713 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,903 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 (edited) Score: 45,047 Score: 35,468 Score: 21,660 Score: 5,792 18 Edited April 10, 2023 by RH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,121 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 (edited) 22210 Edited April 4, 2023 by SuperJimtendo Score 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type | 2,480 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriHart | 88 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Question.... Is there a place that lists the games that will be played through the contest this year. I want to do my best to try and acquire any I may be missing, such as this one. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,910 Events Helper · Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 6 minutes ago, TriHart said: Question.... Is there a place that lists the games that will be played through the contest this year. I want to do my best to try and acquire any I may be missing, such as this one. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriHart | 88 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 15 minutes ago, Jeevan said: Beauty! Thanks. I didn't know exactly where to look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 (edited) Never played this one. This is hard as shit!! 79,479 Edited April 10, 2023 by NESfiend 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 1,885 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 This game should be called Arachnid... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,903 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 The first real score of mine is posted-- 21,660. The only advice I have to give is you probably will want to play this on on a NES if you can. I really like the Analogue Pocket's controls (for what they are) but there's nothing like the Gunpei Yokoi classic design to the d-pad, and you really need to be precise in your ship placement. I know my score is no @Gloves but I'll get better. Also, this game is the king of pick-up-and-play. Man, I made that +20k in about 2 minutes. Gloves, how long you think it took you to get that 90k? 5 Minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,776 Administrator · Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 1 hour ago, RH said: The first real score of mine is posted-- 21,660. The only advice I have to give is you probably will want to play this on on a NES if you can. I really like the Analogue Pocket's controls (for what they are) but there's nothing like the Gunpei Yokoi classic design to the d-pad, and you really need to be precise in your ship placement. I know my score is no @Gloves but I'll get better. Also, this game is the king of pick-up-and-play. Man, I made that +20k in about 2 minutes. Gloves, how long you think it took you to get that 90k? 5 Minutes? Probably about 5 minutes, yeah. I'll have runs where it FEELS like I'm doing great but then I die and look at my score and it's 40k, whereas the 90k score felt short. I've not looked up anything on the game yet, but there's pretty clearly some correlation between rounds and what I'd call "bonus" enemies - you've likely seen that with some progress you get a bunch of enemies flying down from the top of the screen for like 15 seconds or so with no millipedes on screen. These evolve into harder to hit enemies which give more points ("bonus 1" = 200 each, 2 = 500 each, and so on). There's likely some balance between playing it "safe" and NOT pushing through rounds (thus increasing difficulty) too quickly, and getting to higher rounds with more score opportunities. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitdontquit | 226 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 32,685 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,776 Administrator · Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Got into a zen mode and broke 100k. Not too bad, but really not sure what the upper tier of scores will be. Technically the sky is the limit - play incredibly well and you'll go far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,813 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 60,766 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type | 2,480 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 for every game like this, I have 10 that last 2 seconds 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,097 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 15,318 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,121 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 Was thinking maybe a one and done this week but now I'm flustered and want to Tappa Tappa Tappa a little more and do better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 1,885 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 I wonder if there's a way to kick a spider so that it hits all the other enemies.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesmaster14 | 434 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 (edited) 109,248 Great game design. Only thing the NES port needed was analog trackball support. They made analog work with arkanoid NES, woulda been cool for this port. I feel the d-pad leaves a bit desired (also nintenditis lol) for millipede. Still a fun challenge though, perhaps even harder than arcade. 69,083 Edited April 10, 2023 by nesmaster14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,776 Administrator · Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 7 minutes ago, nesmaster14 said: 69,083 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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