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Welcome mighty fighters. It is time to prove your strength and be toadly radical! Pick your favourite fighter out of Billy, Jimmy, Rash, Zitz or Pimple and kick but around Battletoads & Double Dragon. Here are the rules: Pick any character you want. Play till you die for the first time or till you reach 3-1 Pause the game after you die or reach 3-1 and take your picture. Highest progress + highest score wins Genre: Beat'em up The contest ends Sunday, 07/16/23 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.

1st Gloves 469,990 2nd PII 417,810 3rd Dr. Morbis 207,870 4th Richardhead 145,140 5th mbd39 52,700 6th Bearcat-Doug 46,190 7th SuperJimtendo 29,880

Welcome back, warriors. I hope you enjoyed your break and rested your muscles. Because now we will resume our contest, and you will need to lay down the brawl and get them brains to work to solve the puzzling... SOLOMON'S KEY! Here are the rules for this skirmish: Play until Game Over Take your picture on the Game Over screen. Alternately, you may take your picture on the Title Screen if the Game Over screen disappears Highest score wins GENRE: Puzzle The contest ends Sunday, 07/09/23 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.

Geral and genre scoreboards updated.

Not a lot of people seemed to enjoy dangerous, extreme, snowy sports this week. Final standings posted.

Current standings posted.

Geral and genre scoreboards updated.

Final standings finally posted. Sorry for the delay.

Ninja Gaiden final results haven't been tallied yet. I will do it during the next few days.

Geral and genre leaderboards updated.

You people that play this silly little contest that I keep putting effort on!

At the end of the day, I just want you people to have fun with these games. I will figure better ways and better rules as we go onwards. There are a lot of great games on the NES that can be used for competition.

Also, I am 100% open to criticism on my rule set, specially now when I can play the games to try it. I tried something this week, didn't quite work as expected, will try to find a better solution next time. And we have Battletoads Double Dragon coming up. I HATE that game. I will have to figure out something that isn't boring as hell for it.

Maybe a "no video means your full game run is one hour long" rule could have worked. I will consider it for next year as I want Ninja Ryukenden III: Yomi no Hakobune in the schedule.

Yeah, I was wary of making this a speed run due to that. This' prime candidate for speed run rules. It would work perfectly. But video is a no-no for a lot of people, sadly.

I couldn't see a way to make faster rules for Isolated Warriors in a way that wouldn't ruin the experience of such fine, underrated game. But for Ninja Gaiden 2 I wanted something that could be done in 15 minutes. I will figure something better next time a Ninja Gaiden game shows up.

The run time being short was definitely the key. I don't want people to spend a fucking hour playing Ninja Gaiden to get a run in. We don't have that kind of time anymore.

Current standings posted. And thanks @PIIfor posting those funny scoreboards!

Final standings posted.

1st Richardhead 103,814 2nd PII 73,644 3rd NESfiend 71,632 4th Dr. Morbis 39,599 5th Bearcat-Doug 21,557 6th G-type 8,544

Welcome, fans of dangerous, extreme, snowy sports! It is your week to SHINE! Get your skies, go to the mountains and do some SICK moves! Here's the rules for SKI OR DIE, our game of the week: Play in Compete Mode (Register your name on the clipboard) You must play Downhill Blitz, Snowboard Half-Pipe, Snowball Blast, and Inner-Tube Thrash Add all four scores together to get your final score Take a picture of all four scores on the High Scores menu Highest score wins Participation: 8,000 GENRE: Sports The contest ends Sunday, 06/25/23 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.

I don't mind it either, ignoring the pain in your hand. 1 life burn would cause less hand pain. I know it all about hand pain. But overall, this kind of rule set works for Ninja Gaiden. Imagine having to do this through the whole game? We're too old for this shit.

OK, 1 life burn would be better. I will note this for the next Ninja Gaiden game on the contest.

To add some strategy to this whole thing.

You can be down to P-0 and keep playing if you burned P-2 and P-1. Or down to P-1 if you burned P-2, got back to P-2 and died again. And so on. You can die twice. That's it. Now, if you lose your third life, you're done. You have to reach stage 3-1 by your third life or you don't have a score. I will trust the players honour that they will only die twice in their run. We have relied on the honour system before it worked.