BeaIank | 1,707 Events Team · Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 LADIES AND GENTLEMAN! Prepare yourselves for a week of HIGH tensions and high speed action! For this week, our bravest will tackle GRADIUS! Here's the rules our unfortunate athletes will have to follow: Play until Life "0" (There is no number where your lives are displayed when you reach your last life, so this will count as Life "0") Once you reach Life "0," you MUST stop playing and take a picture of your score. If it is determined you played more of the game on your last life, your score will not count. Looping of the game will be allowed. If you roll the score, make sure to take a picture of your score right before the roll and right after. Please do this for each roll of the score. Highest score wins. GENRE: Shooter/Shoot 'Em Up I know damn well that you all are going to stop playing after dying the 1st life due to the Gradius effect, but still, you can use all but your last life to achieve a LUDICROUS SCORE! The contest ends Sunday, 05/10/20 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. "Destroy the Core!" - Warship, Core - 1985 5 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,707 Events Team · Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 1st Kid Dracula 3,580,400 2nd bertsampson 2,450,800 3rd Gaia Gensouk 922,500 4th skinnygrinny 662,300 5th nesmaster14 526,500 6th dvertov 436,400 7th ninjistar 384,400 8th NESfiend 317,500 9th arnpoly 285,600 10th MeganJoanne 275,000 11th CasualCart 231,000 12th Kdiggz 206,400 13th DoctorEncore 192,600 14th Tablew/chairs 161,500 15th NEET.dreams 157,400 16th Bubbapauls 142,300 17th Bearcat-Doug 133,300 18th mbd39 123,600 19th Megamanfan 117,500 20th Murray 107,400 21st Richardhead 104,500 22nd Ausden 100,700 23rd JamesRobot 98,900 24th Jeevan 94,900 25th Deadeye 67,600 26th 8bitdontquit 33,200 27th SuperJimtendo 17,100 28th 0xDEAFC0DE 16,100 29th Reed Rothchild 0 2 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74513 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausden | 323 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Pew pew 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,133 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 I'll get a participation score up later today. I'm awful at this game. Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,994 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 The rules here don’t really make me think I can win this week. Can we change them up a bit so it’s easier for me to beat skinny? 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 12,583 Administrator · Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 The rules don't state that you can't use in-game cheats, jus' sayin'. EDIT: I'm blind, they do. 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 12,583 Administrator · Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 @rdrunner get in here and post a score. Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,133 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 (edited) 133,300 Edited May 3, 2020 by Bearcat-Doug Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,241 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Shmups r 4 shmucks 2020 2 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,133 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 9 minutes ago, SuperJimtendo said: Shmups r 4 shmucks 2020 That must be why I'm no good at them. Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 8,443 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Wait! You didn't post the GIF I made for this weeks contest! -CasualCart 15 3 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 8,443 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Also - is there some kind of pre-season sign-up for these NES contests, or can anyone join in? I'm terrible at Gradius, but it's a ton of fun and I'd like to submit a score if this is open to anyone... -CasualCart Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertsampson | 345 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 (edited) 2,450,800 - Four! 1,808,100 - That's three! 1,236,600 - Two loops down 610,600 - Is that a good score for loop one? I can't remember... Edited May 9, 2020 by bertsampson Update Score 3 2 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,707 Events Team · Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 35 minutes ago, CasualCart said: Also - is there some kind of pre-season sign-up for these NES contests, or can anyone join in? I'm terrible at Gradius, but it's a ton of fun and I'd like to submit a score if this is open to anyone... -CasualCart Anyone can join and play. So get your pad, plug in that Gradius cart and play! Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,565 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Participation score amount set? I'm going to try to get one up tonight. Probably won't have much time to play this week. Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,707 Events Team · Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 7 minutes ago, NESfiend said: Participation score amount set? I'm going to try to get one up tonight. Probably won't have much time to play this week. There is not a participation score for this week. Plug in the cart, start the game and die with zero points, you can still earn them 3 points for the tournament. I am feeling generous! Which also means I will be extra bitchy and mean next week, so get them points now. 1 3 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,133 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 1 hour ago, BeaIank said: There is not a participation score for this week. Plug in the cart, start the game and die with zero points, you can still earn them 3 points for the tournament. I am feeling generous! Which also means I will be extra bitchy and mean next week, so get them points now. It's a good thing there's no participation score. I probably wouldn't have been able to get it. Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 9,352 Events Helper · Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 i practiced this for a few rounds when i was bored with smb.......hopefully i can get decent, but not my type of game really......... Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,707 Events Team · Posted May 4, 2020 Author Share Posted May 4, 2020 3 minutes ago, Bearcat-Doug said: It's a good thing there's no participation score. I probably wouldn't have been able to get it. Let it be known that I will be very judger and will think shameful things of anyone that can't even score 20K on this easy game, though. 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,133 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Just now, BeaIank said: Let it be known that I will be very judger and will think shameful things of anyone that can't even score 20K on this easy game, though. Well, I got 133k which I think is higher than my equally embarrassing 2015 score. Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 9,352 Events Helper · Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, BeaIank said: Let it be known that I will be very judger and will think shameful things of anyone that can't even score 20K on this easy game, though. shit!!!!! lol, jk i think i might be able to do that :) Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,565 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, BeaIank said: Let it be known that I will be very judger and will think shameful things of anyone that can't even score 20K on this easy game, though. I'm tempted to take the 0 option just to save me from the embarrassment of submitting a sad score. But that would in poor taste. Ill make 20k the goal to keep from getting shamed publicly! Finally saw full schedule and you did a freaking awesome job picking games. Can't believe you included heavy shreddin. I'm so fired up to have an excuse to play through it again. I didnt think anyone played that game. I had never heard of it as a kid and bought it on impulse first time I saw it. So dope. If you've done it for a competition before, is it usually one life or one credit? Edited May 4, 2020 by NESfiend Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xDEAFC0DE | 1,277 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 16,100 First and possibly last game of Gradius ever. I'm absolute trash at shmups and will almost certainly not place. Although I will say this immediately feels way better than star force. Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjistar | 517 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 2 hours ago, BeaIank said: Let it be known that I will be very judger and will think shameful things of anyone that can't even score 20K on this easy game, though. Challenge accepted 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,241 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 I dislike this game as much as i dislike all shmups. Can I just show an eggplant shadow and get banned for real this time 3 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/3537-vgs-weekly-contest-gradius/#findComment-74941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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