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That's it for week 7!  The week 8 thread can be found here:

On 2/16/2024 at 2:09 PM, Splain said:

It will be fun to try this one again later with turbo. My hand is sore from slamming the button like crazy to simulate turbo lol.

This was a game I was originally going to allow turbo when I was planning the contest.  I wound up just banning turbo for every game though.  I wanted to prevent runs from taking too long in these contests so one could make multiple attempts in a short period of time.  That's why along with no turbo, all of the rules limit the number of lives that could be used or number of stages that could be played.

Hello and welcome to the eighth round of the TurboGrafx-16 Weekly Contest!  This week's game is Time Cruise.  Although we already played a few weeks ago, this week we will be playing the non-pinball mini games! 

- Enter the code Up, Up, Down, Down, II, II, Right, Select on the practice menu to unlock all the mini games

-Play Neanderthal and Moon the Sky

- Highest combined score wins

- Be quick!  Your score doesn't stay on the screen very long

- Turbo is not allowed

- You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, February 25, 2024 to submit your score.

For general contest rules, click here:

Good luck and have fun!

 Scoreboard:

1. 1,520,000 (a3quit4s)
2. 1,040,000 (Splain)

That's it for week 6!  The week 7 thread can be found here:

Something about it makes me think RPG monster.

Final Fantasy VI?

That's it for week 5!  The week 6 thread can be found here:

That's it for week 4!  The week 5 thread can be found here:

I'm probably done with contributing to this thread.  I only have a few of the remaining games, but they're not ones that I care to play through anytime soon.

If we're going by the win conditions that were added to the OP, you should remove my completions for Bloody Wolf and Pac Land.  I only cleared one loop of each.

On 1/22/2024 at 12:23 AM, Splain said:

I really did keep trying, and I kept getting close to a million but I didn't ever beat my score. I started playing the main game which is a ton of fun. Might have to pick up a HuCard of this game.

Yeah, I like it quite a bit.  It gets overshadowed by the Crush games, but I think it's one of the better Pinball games of that generation.

That's it for week 3!  The week 4 thread can be found here:

Hello and welcome to the fourth round of the TurboGrafx-16 Weekly Contest!  This week's game is Victory Run.  If you like games like Rad Racer and Out Run, you might like this too.

- Start a new game and play until the first check point

- Fastest time wins

- Turbo is not allowed

- You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 28, 2024 to submit your score.

For general contest rules, click here:

Good luck and have fun!

Scoreboard:

1. -17'35" (a3quit4s)

2. -20'42" (Splain)

I'm a day late in posting this, but that's it for week 2!  The week 3 thread can be found here:

Hello and welcome to the third round of the TurboGrafx-16 Weekly Contest!  This week's game is Time Cruise, the only non-Crush pinball game on the system.

- Play the dungeon stage in practice mode.

- Highest score wins

- Be quick!  Your score doesn't stay on the screen very long

- Turbo is not allowed

- You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 21, 2024 to submit your score.

For general contest rules, click here:

Good luck and have fun!

 Scoreboard:

1. 2,741,600 (a3quit4s)
2. 1,072,500 (Splain)

Tamagotchi?

There's a duplicate game on the Japanese list.  Choro Q and Penny Racers are the same game.

That's it for week 1!  The week 2 thread can be found here:

Hello and welcome to the second round of the TurboGrafx-16 Weekly Contest!  This week's game is Super Star Soldier.  Isn't it nice when a game has a mode specifically meant for a high score challenge?

- Play 5 Minutes Game

- Highest score wins

- Turbo is allowed

- You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 14, 2024 to submit your score.

For general contest rules, click here:

Good luck and have fun!

Scoreboard:
1. 540,300 (Dr. Morbis)

2. 340,300 (Splain)

52 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said:

If you're willing to take some constructive criticism, I feel like you started this contest way too early, as many people are/were still in the midst of their holiday shenanigans in the first week of January; it would have been better if you had started in maybe the third week of January when everyone's day to day lives have gotten back to normal.

Anyway, I said I would participate if you did TG games, so here I am .  You didn't specify in the rules if this was a one life contest or if we were supposed to burn our lives to maximize our score, so I erred on the side of caution and this is what I ended up with after killing every enemy on 1-1 on a single life (including a trip back to the start to see if any of them respawn; answer: they don't)...

1,300

 

I wanted to start this earlier to coincide with the end of the NES contest, but didn't have it ready in time.  I realized that the New Year's Eve start date may not have been ideal, but I didn't want to start so late that it would be still running when the NES contest starts up again.

As far as I could tell, having a one life rule wouldn't make much of a difference.  Enemies don't respawn when you lose a life and I'd assume anyone participating in this contest is an experienced enough player that having to stay alive in the first area wouldn't add a significant challenge.

About a day left.  Anyone give this a try?

7 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said:

Is it allowed to use the Japanese characters as help? If so, I found out which game it is via that. If it's not allowed, ignore this and the spoilers.

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Power Rangers Pinball, based on the series Chouriki Sentai Ohranger. It basically says, Go! Go! Chouriki Sentai!

 

You got it!

17 hours ago, Sumez said:

So, odd question, and you're probably not required to answer it... But are you supposed to hit that character/object with  something that bounces off him? (like a pinball or arkanoid kinda thing)

I don't know why I thought that, for some reason it just feels familiar to me.

There's definitely a pinball kinda thing happening here.

15 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said:

Clockwork Knight on the Saturn?

Nope.

5 hours ago, G-type said:

is it a Japanese exclusive?

No.  It was released in the US, Japan, and Europe.