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That's it for week two! Congratulations to @Splain for taking first place. The week three thread can be found here:

Hello and welcome to the third round of the Virtual Boy Weekly Contest! Put down that turkey and pin some Nintendo Power comics to your wall, this week's game is Nester's Funky Bowling! If you have some spare time, give this one a roll! Bowling might not strike your fancy, but don't split! Rack up those points and you may just have a ball! Rules: - Play Bowl in 1 Player Mode - Enter your name as your VGS user name (or as much of it that fits) - You may choose either character, either hand, and whichever ball you want - Highest score wins - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 3, 2021 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: https://www.videogamesage.com/topic/5999-virtual-boy-weekly-contest-leaderboard-rules-20202021/ Good luck and have fun! SCOREBOARD: 1. 267 (ZeldaFan042) 2. 258 (Proveaux) 3. 233 (koifish) 4. 104 (Splain)

Ah, so that's what you were using. I didn't think of that possibility. Don't worry about the name in the picture then. Since you (or anyone else playing like that) would have similar difficulties getting a picture as someone playing on a real Virtual Boy, I'll waive the name in picture requirement for those cases.

No, it's a completely different game.

That's it for week one! Congratulations to @koifish for taking first place. Please remember to include in your picture a piece of paper with your user name on it in the future if you are not using original hardware. The week two thread can be found here:

Hello and welcome to the second round of the Virtual Boy Weekly Contest! Sorry, but this week's game is Waterworld. Hey, the Virtual Boy library is pretty small. They can't all be winners. Let's get this one out of the way early, okay? Rules: - Play until Game Over - Highest score wins - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 27, 2020 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: https://www.videogamesage.com/topic/5999-virtual-boy-weekly-contest-leaderboard-rules-20202021/ Good luck and have fun! SCOREBOARD: 1. 113,100 (Splain) 2. 90,900 (ZeldaFan042) 3. 34,000 (Proveaux)

About 30.5 hours to go. Thanks! Could you try posting your picture again? I can't see it.

That's getting a physical release already. The North American variant will be available for preorder soon here: https://www.vgnysoft.com/product-page/tanuki-justice-nintendo-switch

Hello and welcome to the first round of the Virtual Boy Weekly Contest! This week's game is Mario Clash. Enjoy this 3D update of the classic Mario Bros. arcade game. Can you conquer all 99 levels? You won't have to for this contest if you can rack up enough bonus points! Rules: - Start at Level 1 - Play until you max out the score or Game Over - Highest score wins - If more than one participant maxes out the score, the winner will be the one who accomplished it in the earliest stage (don't continue playing if you max out the score) - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 20, 2020 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: https://www.videogamesage.com/topic/5999-virtual-boy-weekly-contest-leaderboard-rules-20202021/ Good luck and have fun! SCOREBOARD: 1. 267,760 (koifish) 2. 84,430 (ZeldaFan042) 3. 81,100 (Splain)

I gave it a shot.

@bertsampson @Splain @ZeldaFan042 Announcement/Leaderboard/Rules thread here:

Hello and welcome to the Virtual Boy weekly contest! It's like the Game Boy weekly contest from last year, except now the games are in 3D. This will be a ten week event. Each week, one of the following games will be chosen: 3-D Tetris Galactic Pinball Golf Mario Clash Nester's Funky Bowling Panic Bomber Red Alarm Teleroboxer Vertical Force Virtual League Baseball Wario Land Waterworld Not all games will be used. This is just a list of games that may be used. The game of the week will be revealed when the round starts. Schedule: Week 1: Mario Clash (December 13 to December 20) 1. 267,760 (koifish) +10 2. 84,430 (ZeldaFan042) +9 3. 81,100 (Splain) +8 Week 2: Waterworld (December 20 to December 27) 1. 113,100 (Splain) +10 2. 90,900 (ZeldaFan042) +9 3. 34,000 (Proveaux) +8 Week 3: Nester's Funky Bowling (December 27 to January 3) 1. 267 (ZeldaFan042) +10 2. 258 (Proveaux) +9 3. 233 (koifish) +8 4. 104 (Splain) +7 Week 4: 3-D Tetris (January 3 to January 10) 1. 576,000 (Splain) +10 2. 99,000 (koifish) +9 3. 89,000 (ZeldaFan042) +8 4. 3,000 (Proveaux) +7 Week 5: Vertical Force (January 10 to January 17) 1. 542,700 (Splain) +10 2. 311,800 (ZeldaFan042) +9 3. 306,900 (Proveaux) +8 4. 306,200 (koifish) +7 Week 6: Wario Land (January 17 to January 24) 1. Game Cleared, 1:23:38 (Splain) +10 2. Stage 13, 48:01 (ZeldaFan042) +9 3. Stage 3, 13:25 (Proveaux) +8 Week 7: Virtual League Baseball (January 24 to January 31) 1. 1, 0 (Splain) +10 2. 1, -6 (ZeldaFan042) +9 Week 8: Galactic Pinball (January 31 to February 7) 1. 45,502,000 (Splain) +10 2. 23,999,500 (ZeldaFan042) +9 3. 11,325,500 (a3quit4s) +8 Week 9: Red Alarm (February 7 to February 14) 1. 169,100 (ZeldaFan042) +10 2. 166,600 (Splain) +9 3. 137,200 (a3quit4s) +8 4. 84,800 (nesmaster14) +7 Week 10: Teleroboxer (February 14 to February 21) 1. 2 wins (ZeldaFan042) +10 2. 1 win (Splain) +9 GENERAL CONTEST RULES: -Contest is open to all members of Video Game Sage. - In order to submit a score for the contest, post a picture of it in the thread for that week. If you are using an emulator that is not running on a VR headset, take a picture of your score with your Video Game Sage user name written or typed on a piece of paper, which must be present in the picture. Your Video Game Sage user name MUST be in the picture or the score will be invalid. If you are playing on a Virtual Boy console or VR headset, you do not need to have your user name on a piece of paper. Depending on the game, you may have to include your user name (or a portion of it) on a name entry screen. - Previously obtained scores are not acceptable as submissions. You must play the game during the week it has been selected. - When posting a new score, please begin your post by typing out your score. Larger font (18pt) is preferred. - If you are posting an updated score, please create a new post with your new score and delete the picture from your previous post with the old score. You may also edit your initial post with the new photo and score. - It is highly encouraged to play with original software on original hardware, if possible. - This is a contest of skill, so using any sort of device or feature that would give you an advantage over another player is prohibited. Examples include, but not limited to, cheat devices, save states, altered ROMs, remapped controllers, and turbo functions. The use of glitches to alter your score is also not allowed. Any other glitches will be examined on a case-by-case basis to determine whether or not they will be permitted. Any glitches discovered by participants must be reported and approved for use before submitting a score using them. -Although not required, I would encourage participants not to practice a game in advance. - Points will be awarded each week as follows: 1st – 10 points 2nd – 9 points 3rd – 8 points 4th – 7 points 5th – 6 points 6th – 5 points 7th – 4 points 8th and lower – 3 points LEADERBOARD: 1. Splain (93 points) 2. ZeldaFan042 (92 points) 3. Proveaux (40 points) 4. Koifish (34 points) 5. a3quit4s (16 points) 6. nesmaster14 (7 points)

I liked the relaxed pace of having only one game a month and two weeks to play it. It made it easier to keep up for the a full year. Although, I did have a tendency to wait until the end anyway, so I can see JamesRobot's point about the two weeks not being necessary. As long as it's still only one game a month, it probably wouldn't make much of a difference. Although it didn't matter in the end, I liked how winning earlier games gave a small boost for the final game. I think you have to be extra careful choosing a final game when you do that though. NNNNNN was a great choice since it's the kind of game where you have to just keep going until you can't survive anymore and it's difficult enough that someone being able to play it endlessly is unlikely. I think the final round would be less exciting if a game where a maximum possible score is used (like Scramble). A game like that could make it impossible for anyone who doesn't have a score/time boost to win. Like JamesRobot, I wasn't crazy about the immunity game. If you want to keep it, maybe there should be a downside to it? You could make it so that if you beat the immunity game, you won't be eligible for the time/score boost.

M.U.L.E. is a great game, though it's understandable that watching a gameplay video could give someone a bad first impression. It may not look pretty and would probably be hard to follow if you don't already know how to play, but if you like simulation games, it definitely worth giving a try.

Three times? Once was enough for me. It is one of my least favorite pinball games. The glitch ruins the main table (not that it's a great to begin with) since it can be unintentionally activated, making it a pain to get a high score legitimately. The two-player modes might be interesting to try with another person, but playing against the computer just isn't fun. 9-Ball is easily the worst part of the game. The ball just bounces around so slowly.

Thanks for running this! I didn't intend to stick around the whole year, but I'm glad I did. It was a good time. Thanks. How many tries did you give NNNNNN? I don't think I broke 10 seconds in my first couple dozen attempts and it took me a while to be able to break 20 seconds regularly. Even after I started to get the hang of it, I'd still have attempts that would last less than 5 seconds.

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Hmm, only three people showing interest. That's not a lot. Although, my post probably would have been more visible if I made a new thread instead of posting here. Oh well, I think I'll go for it anyway. It can't go worse than my second Sega Master System competition. At least, I don't think it can. N64 was kinda my backup plan. As I've mentioned before, my N64 collection isn't that big, so I might not be the best person to run it, but I think I wound up putting together a pretty good lineup of games. Only one of the ten is not that well known and only one is a game I don't own. I like to only include games I own so I could test out different rule sets and check for any issues the rule sets may have. It's a popular enough game that I think I would be able to find any information I need on it online though. Maybe if no one else runs one, I could give it a go at a later date. I'm under the impression that VB emulation is decent nowadays, but I'm not certain. While I like to see people using original hardware/software in these contests, I realize that requiring it would kill participation.

It's getting closer to the time of the year I'd like to start this and now I'm leaning towards making it a Virtual Boy contest. I looked over some potential games and, despite the small library, a 10 week competition seems doable. Any interest in this?

Sorry for not bringing this to your attention sooner. I only started playing tonight.

1.40.06 Added both pictures to show you what I mean. My best total lap time is really 1.39.46.

Did anyone else notice that the total time doesn't always add up correctly? @Deadeye Are we going by what the "TOTAL TIME" says or what the lap times add up to?

Unless there's something I'm missing, I don't think so either. Since our scores are so close, I'm guessing we had the same strategy, I just missed a few more shots. Any chance you kept track of what you missed and can estimate the maximum possible score?

Oof. I should have kept playing. Nice job.