BeaIank | 1,676 Events Team · Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Welcome to the MOST EXPECTED week of our beloved Weekly Contest. A fast paced week, full of action and high scores where our skilled players struggle to prove who is the VERY BEST at MARBLE MADNESS! Expect several heavy hitters to show out of nowhere to try to claim the title of BEST MARBLE MADNESS VGS player! The rules for this skirmish are very simple: Play till game over or till you beat the game Highest score wins Participation: 5,000 Genre: Arcade Get your marbles ready and be mad about them! The contest ends Sunday, 04/18/21 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 | 1,676 Events Team · Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 1st mbd39 179,820 2nd Krunch 169,440 3rd NESfiend 168,640 4th arnpoly 168,260 5th Dr. Morbis 137,240 6th PII 129,160 7th Jeevan 114,410 8th bertsampson 104,530 9th 0xDEAFC0DE 86,640 10th 8bitdontquit 56,210 11th FireHazard51 51,070 12th dvertov 50,650 13th MegaMan52 41,320 14th Deadeye 37,080 15th JamesRobot 36,030 16th Mega Tank 31,370 17th Ausden 18,740 18th docile tapeworm 13,010 19th SuperJimtendo 12,870 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,092 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,092 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) 179,820 Edited April 12, 2021 by mbd39 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitdontquit | 226 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 2 hours ago, mbd39 said: 178,120 Gonna have to go and pull a @Richardhead and ask. Is this a good score? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,092 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 28 minutes ago, 8bitdontquit said: Gonna have to go and pull a @Richardhead and ask. Is this a good score? Probably. Here are the scores from when we played this last time. http://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageviewc9d6.html?catid=31&threadid=171432 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,553 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, 8bitdontquit said: Gonna have to go and pull a @Richardhead and ask. Is this a good score? No, it is isnt good. Its completely insane and probably not far off the world record. 178 on Sunday? Michael locking this one up early as expected Edit: that may actually be the world record. I thought a couple people in the old NA contest vested the record and this score is higher than the winning score for that. Edited April 11, 2021 by NESfiend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,092 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, NESfiend said: No, it is isnt good. Its completely insane and probably not far off the world record. 178 on Sunday? Michael locking this one up early as expected It's the best I can do without wands and I wasn't getting any this morning (other than the worthless one in silly). I'll need some luck to do any better. 178,650 is the weekly contests MM record that was achieved in 2009. I'd like to top that this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitdontquit | 226 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Well I wish you luck sir.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,553 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 1 hour ago, mbd39 said: 178,650 is the weekly contests MM record that was achieved in 2009. I'd like to top that this week. Looks like twin galaxies record was updated to 184k in late 2020. Your current score would rank 3rd. And its only Sunday. One early wand and you are all over it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 7,850 Graphics Team · Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Yeeeah show em who's boss @mbd39! I've still never played Marble Madness, but it's on my list of NES games to get because you're always so enthusiastic about it haha. -CasualCart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,120 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 I was just listening to this the other day, so it seems like a good time to share it: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,092 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 There, 179,820. That's going to be tough to beat. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 2,020 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 @mbd39 Just in case anyone thought this game is boring... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 2,020 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Damn shame the world was denied this game's well deserved sequel. This is one of those instances, I think, in which I will probably never understand what was going on in the heads of the wigs who killed this one back in the day. They had an initial effort of a game that was great, unique and a commercial success. What the hell happened? This kind of gameplay could have spawned a legion of sequels and a disgusting amount of money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 2,020 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,553 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 26 minutes ago, PII said: I can distinctly remember that first one happening a couple times. Crazy maddening. Never knew about the potential sequel. That is really sad. Marble madness 64 could have been out of this world. Or really horrible. Would have been nice to find out which Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 2,020 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 1 minute ago, NESfiend said: Marble madness 64 could have been out of this world. Or really horrible. Would have been nice to find out which Yeah, I think that would've been mind-blowing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,210 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Oh we're really playing this. I thought it was a poor timed but well thought out April Fools prank. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,116 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Alright, who wants to post the first score in the official "VGS Marble Madness Battle for Second Place"??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,256 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 sorry all alpha mission has been in the frontloader warming up letting the title screen/demo run for a couple days now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,120 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 12 hours ago, mbd39 said: There, 179,820. That's going to be tough to beat. Have you hit 180k before? You could probably make a run at the TG record as good as you are at this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,092 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 1 minute ago, Bearcat-Doug said: Have you hit 180k before? You could probably make a run at the TG record as good as you are at this. I have hit 180k half a dozen times. The TG record is 184k which is well beyond my capabilities to beat. A speedrunner named yelsraek got that, and he's probably the best player in the world. But we're the only two people who are documented to have scored that high. Maybe other people did, but it's not on the internet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,092 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Here's yelsraek beating the game 1 player two controllers. So far he's the only human who can do this. I actually helped him out on Twitch when he started playing for score because he'd only done speedruns. Like I taught him how to break the black marble in the second stage for an extra 1k. I love his stream on Twitch, he's great. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,120 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 45 minutes ago, mbd39 said: I have hit 180k half a dozen times. The TG record is 184k which is well beyond my capabilities to beat. A speedrunner named yelsraek got that, and he's probably the best player in the world. But we're the only two people who are documented to have scored that high. Maybe other people did, but it's not on the internet. You can't be too far off from making a run at the record if you've come that close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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