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You still had one good life to go.

Anyone can join and play. So get your pad, plug in that Gradius cart and play!

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

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

@NESfiend By playing till you lose your turtle on r=1, we can see the progress you made into the game in case a tie break proves to be needed. It is also an optimal spot for taking pictures since you have all the time in the world to take yours while the game is waiting for you to pick your next turtle.

They are still incompetent as ever. Haven't you seen the latest Netflix show? They ain't catching me, that is for sure. For no one knows where in time I am.

Ain't no one in the world knows where I am self quarantined, so it is fine!

Geral and genre scoreboards updated.

And posted! 25 participants. And breaking the 600K mark is what was needed to even place this week. This is heavy!

I will update the scoreboard with the final results in a bit. Thanks you all for participating and making the contest fun!

This is nice, has a nice cat and all, but you need to take your picture when you have the select your turtle option on R=1 or at the very start of R=0 with the game paused.

Rules update. You can now play till your last life. Not that I remember this game having any, but no one up loops will be allowed. Have fun people. This is a good game, so play it till you reach R=0.

I am also wondering if we should make this a play till life 0 contest. Could be more interesting and give more people the chance to get to Shredder.

I think the usual "If you max the score, pause the game, take a picture. Lowest game progress win" would work well enough since different attacks give different amount of points.

1st Kid Dracula 1,068,700 2nd Bearcat-Doug 1,017,100 3rd skinnygrinny 896,800 4th arnpoly 853,200 5th NESfiend 819,600 6th TWarwick07 816,400 7th Gaia Gensouki 740,200 8th 0xDEAFC0DE 654,600 9th ninjistar 488,000 10th Jeevan 466,500 11th 8bitdontquit 461,100 12th Scrobins 436,300 13th Tablew/chairs 357,600 14th Richardhead 267,100 15th profholt82 246,900 16th Chuppa 243,600 17th bertsampson 242,700 18th JamesRobot 232,100 19th Megamanfan 161,200 20th mbd39 149,600 21st Kdiggz 140,700 22nd Ausden 117,200 23rd SuperJimtendo 115,400 24th Br81zad 98,300 25th Deadeye 95,500 26th MeganJoanne 35,000

Welcome and COWABUNGA!!! I hope you all are with your martial arts skills fine honed for this week we kick the Foot Clan's butt! Our master videogame players will face Shredder and the gang on TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3: MANHATTAN PROJECT using the following rules: Play till life 0. Take your picture when you die at R=1. Play as whichever turtle you choose Highest score wins If you reach Shredder with a score of 900,000 or more, take a picture before beating Shredder. If you beat him, take another picture with your score maxed. Your final score will be your score before the Shredder fight + the 100k bonus for beating him. GENRE: Beat ‘Em Up The contest ends Sunday, 05/03/20 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. "They ain't gettin' any prettier.", Bop, Be - 1989

Scoreboard posted.

I will post the scoreboard tonight. Hectic week so I couldn't do it yet.

This a Goomba and Turtle violence free tournament and our competitors better abide to that OR ELSE!

I am still salty that @arnpoly won that but I accept my defeat on the grounds that I am terrible at videogames.

1st Bearcat-Doug 1,146,750 2nd arnpoly 1,079,850 3rd bertsampson 1,002,950 4th TWarwick07 956,950 5th Kid Dracula 891,950 6th mbd39 635,550 7th Jeevan 635,050 8th skinnygrinny 614,200 9th ninjistar 582,800 10th MeganJoanne 530,750 11th NESfiend 459,850 12th Tablew/chairs 398,500 13th 0xDEAFC0DE 395,800 14th 8bitdontquit 391,600 15th Gaia Gensouki 391,250 16th JamesRobot 366,400 17th Deadeye 298,650 18th Murray 288,250 19th Ausden 254,700 20th SuperJimtendo 214,150 21st Richardhead 128,150 22nd Mega Tank 81,650 23rd Scrobins 76,850 24th ookii_risu 54,900 25th Chuppa 31,200

MAMMA MIA! IT'S A ME, BEA! I am happily bring back the WEEKLY CONTEST after a deserved week of rest for our mighty competitors. They better be properly rested, for this week they will brace THE WRATH OF SUPER MARIO BROS!!! Here's the rules that will shackle our athletes for this week: 1 player only 1 life only 1 playthrough only. Once you beat Bowser and save the Princess, you must stop and take a picture of your score. The 1up trick is forbidden / all other turtles hoping techniques are allowed. Highest score wins GENRE: Action/Platformer The contest ends Sunday, 04/26/20 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. "Do the Mario! Swing your arms from side to side Come on, it's time to go! Do the Mario! Take one step, and then again Let's do the Mario, all together now! You got it! It's the Mario! Come on now, just like this! Zap to the right and jump, Zap to the left and jump, Zap to the front and jump, All turn around and jump. Again! Do the Mario! Swing your arms from side to side Come on, it's time to go! Do the Mario! Take one step, and then again Let's do the Mario, all together now! You got it! It's the Mario! " - Albano, Lou, 1989

Emulators are perfectly acceptable to use for the contest, whether they are windows ones, linux ones or web based ones.

Final scoreboard posted. Congratulations to @bertsampson for another victory!

Main and genre scoreboards updated. Bert opened an even more comfortable lead this week, being 19 points ahead of the 2nd place, Bearcat. Let's see how this will go as the contest progress!