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While I like the idea of challenge runs, it seems a bit far off from what this thread is about. Maybe it would work better as a separate event? I think including imports works best for the bonus games. A specific list of games isn't necessary, just track them as they are completed like in the Game Boy and Nintendo 64 threads. I got this game back in the day and still can't consistently complete the river jump. You have to be incredibly precise.

Hello and welcome to the sixth round of the Multiplatform Weekly Contest! This week's game is Looney Tunes for Game Boy. Rules: - Play until you lose one life or you beat the game - Highest score wins - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 15, 2023 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: SCOREBOARD: 1. 83,100 (Splain)

That's it for week 4. Congratulations to @NESfiend for taking the top spot. The thread for week 5, Military Madness (TurboGrafx-16) can be found here:

Hello and welcome to the fifth round of the Multiplatform Weekly Contest! It's time for something different for a weekly contest, a strategy game! This week's game will be Military Madness for TurboGrafx-16. Rules: - Start a new game and play the first 3 maps, REVOLT, ICARUS, and CYRANO. If you complete all three, use the 1P CONTINUE option to skip to the map LIPTUS - Take a picture of the Combat Result Graph at the end of each map - You must play the maps in order, but you may go back to previously completed maps to try for better results - Most completed maps wins - If more than one player completes the same number of maps, the least total number of turns wins - If more than one player completes the same number of maps in the same number of turns, least number of AX KILLS wins - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 8, 2023 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: SCOREBOARD: 1. 2 maps, 14 turns, 51 AX kills (Splain)

Spy Vs. Spy is done.

I made an attempt at this one earlier in the year. It seemed interesting enough, but it was so slowed-paced I couldn't get into it. I stopped playing a few hours in. It's the kind of game I'd like to see remade. It has some significant flaws, but with a few tweaks, I think I could have fun with it. If the walking speed was a bit faster and the combat wasn't such a slog, I would likely have kept playing.

That's it for week 3. Congratulations to @BlackVega for taking the top spot. The thread for week 4, Snowboard Kids (Nintendo 64) can be found here:

A game called Little Big Adventure already existed when that came out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Adventure

Fixed it, thanks.

Nice! You beat my score of 153,380:

Hello and welcome to the fourth round of the Multiplatform Weekly Contest! Continuing with the cold weather theme from last week, this week's game is Snowboard Kids for Nintendo 64. Rules: - Start a new 1 player game - Choose any character you want - Choose Skill Game - Choose Speed Game - Play Rookie Mt., Big Snowman, and Sunset Rock - Choose any of the default boards you want (you may not buy new ones) - Fastest combined time wins - You may change your character and/or board between stages - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 1, 2023 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: SCOREBOARD: 1. 04'09"30 (NESfiend) 2. 05'09"49 (Splain)

That's it for week 2. Congratulations to @Splain for taking the top spot. The thread for week 3, Frostbite (Atari 2600) can be found here:

Did you keep playing after losing your first life? You're supposed to immediately pause the game after losing your first life for the picture.

Hello and welcome to the third round of the Multiplatform Weekly Contest! To celebrate the arrival of Winter, this week's game will be Frostbite for Atari 2600. Rules: - Start a regular game - Play until you run out of lives - Highest score wins - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 25, 2022 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: Good luck and have fun! SCOREBOARD: 1. 168,310 (BlackVega) 2. 159,970 (Dr. Morbis) 3. 12,750 (Splain) 4. 11,940 (CasualCart)

There are plenty of Japanese games that have English titles that don't sound quite right, but Out Live - Be Eliminate Yesterday is one of my favorites.

This paragraph is a bit confusing. It looks like forgot to mention that the original Saiyūki World for Famicom was a reskin/modified port of Wonder Boy in Monster Land. I reads like you're saying that Saiyūki World 2 on Famicom is the sequel to Bikkuriman World for PC engine.

That's it for week 1. Congratulations to @Dr. Morbis for taking the top spot. The thread for week 2, Double Dragon (SMS) can be found here:

Hello and welcome to the second round of the Multiplatform Weekly Contest! This week's game will be Double Dragon, but not the NES one you're so used to playing. Test your beat 'em up skills with the Sega Master System version! Rules: - Start a single player game - Play until you lose one life or you beat the game - If you lose a life, immediately pause the game and take your picture - If you beat the game, take your picture after beating the final boss - Furthest distance wins. Distance is determined by which section of the stage you lost at - For participants who reached the same distance, the tie-breaker will be highest score - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 18, 2022 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: Good luck and have fun! SCOREBOARD: 1. Splain (Stage 3 - 31,780) 2. BlackVega (Stage 2 - 25,040) 3. Dr. Morbis (Stage 1 - 2,450)

I don't know anything about FPGA, but after doing a quick search on the topic, I don't see any issues with it. As long as it's not giving any advantage over playing by other means, I'll allow it. Ideally, I'd like everyone to play on original hardware with an original cartridge and a standard controller, but I realize that might not be possible for a lot of people and would limit who can participate.

I'm not a staff member here and this isn't an official VGS event, so I didn't send any sort of notifications out. I'm just running these on my own for fun. I see you were notified for the VGS Thanksgiving Contest, so I would assume you're still on the list, but I would suggest you ask a staff member (maybe @ZeldaFreak) if you want to be sure. With the Analog Pocket, that would just be playing a ROM on an emulator, right? That would be okay for this competition.

Hello and welcome to the first round of the Multiplatform Weekly Contest! Let's play some Pilotwings (SNES) to start things off! Rules: - Choose Continue on the title screen and enter the password 520771 - Play through all 4 events and take a picture of your total score - If you earn enough points for certification, continue on to the helicopter mission - If you complete the helicopter mission, take another picture when the screen says "RESCUE SUCCESSFUL" and the helicopter takes off. Be quick! This will only last a few seconds - Your final score will be your total score from the 4 events, minus 1 point for every second you took to complete the helicopter mission - If you did not complete the helicopter mission, subtract 600 points from your score - A negative score is okay - Highest score wins - You have until 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 11, 2022 to submit your score. For general contest rules, click here: Good luck and have fun! SCOREBOARD: 1. Dr. Morbis (109 points) 2. Splain (-278) 3. Krunch (-404) 4.

Hello and welcome to the Multiplatform weekly contest! It's like the Nintendo 64 weekly contest from last year, except every week the game will be for a different console. The genre will be different each week as well. This will be a ten week event. Rules for the game of the week will be posted on Sundays. When the rules are posted each week, the game for the following week will be announced. Schedule: Week 1: Pilotwings - Super Nintendo - Flight Sim (December 4 to December 11) 1. Dr. Morbis (109) +7 2. Splain (-278) +6 3. Krunch (-404) +5 Week 2: Double Dragon - Sega Master System - Beat 'em up (December 11 to December 18) 1. Splain (Stage 3 - 31,780) +7 2. BlackVega (Stage 2 - 25,040) +6 3. Dr. Morbis (Stage 1 - 2,450) +5 Week 3: Frostbite - Atari 2600 - Single-Screen Arcade/Action (December 18 to December 25) 1. BlackVega (168,310) +7 2. Dr. Morbis (159,970) +6 3. Splain (12,750) +5 4. CasualCart (11,940) +4 Week 4: Snowboard Kids - Nintendo 64 - Racing (December 25 to January 1) 1. NESfiend (04'09"30) +7 2. Splain (05'09"49) +6 Week 5: Military Madness - TurboGrafx-16 - Strategy (January 1 to January 8) 1. Splain (2 maps, 14 turns, 51 AX kills) +7 Week 6: Looney Tunes - Game Boy - Platformer (January 8 to January 15) 1. Splain (83,100 points) +7 Week 7: Dance Dance Revolution - PlayStation -  Rhythm (January 15 to January 22) 1. Splain (58,226,705 points) +7 Week 8: Digidrive - Game Boy Advance - Puzzle (January 22 to January 29) 1. Splain (447 points) +7 Week 9: Dragon's Revenge - Sega Genesis - Pinball (January 29 to February 5) 1. BlackVega (9,997,600 points) +7 2. nesmaster14 (4,779,000 points) +6 3. Splain (985,100 points) +5 Week 10: Satryn - PC - Multidirectional Shooter (February 5 to February 12) 1. BlackVega 3,213,780 +7 2. nesmaster14 209,260 +6 3. Splain 98,990 +5 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. 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. - 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. NTSC only. No PAL. - 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 – 7 points 2nd – 6 points 3rd – 5 points 4th – 4 points 5th – 3 points 6th and lower – 2 points - At the end of the event, your lowest scoring week will be dropped from the final standings. This is to allow some flexibility for people who don't have time to play one week or don't own all the games to still stay competitive in the final standings. LEADERBOARD: 1. Splain (57 points) 2. BlackVega (27 points) 3. Dr. Morbis (18 points) 4. nesmaster14 (12 points) 5. NESfiend (7 points) 6. Krunch (5 points) 7. CasualCart (4 points)

Maybe you saw the thread I started? I'm running another off-season contest this year starting next weekend. In the past, they focused on one console (Sega Master System, Game Boy, Virtual Boy, Nintendo 64), but this year every game will be on a different system. It will follow the same format as my previous ones. Here's a link to the Game Boy one from a few years ago.

I don't think having the Game Boy consoles will lower participation. When I ran the Game Boy contest a few years back, it got better participation than any of the others I ran. I'm aiming to start this next Sunday and will announce the first game a few days ahead of time.

#34 looks like Rise of the Robots.