bertsampson

You're probably right, but at least I would have put up a good score. You beat me by 27 points in 2015. I'm up 23 points right now. At this rate, by the end you probably won't even make the tournament.

Well don't I have egg on my face... Getting second on Life Force by an over 1 million point difference isn't too much to brag about either... I wasn't even close? Kinda like you aren't even close this year?

You went and had kids and apparently feel that being a good parent means playing less video games...

It seems you didn't even make it to round 3 in 2013. Your idea of "second" is a nice thought, but not reality. You beat me in 2015 because you went all in, and I met you about half way. Genre Icons and overall points are swell little consolations, but winning the tournament separates the men from the boys.

Looking back, it appears that you blew your load in the second half of 2015 and really haven't been that much of a contender before or since. Going against the best and losing looks to be your forte. Mine on the other hand appears to be losing my mind. I won the tournament in 2018 by beating Ninja Gaiden III for my first time, and then won again in the first VGS tournament in 2019 by maxing Balloon Trip, and (yes, by a very small margin) getting the high score in Balloon Fight. So, that means when I win the tournament this year, I'll be retiring a threepeater. How many tournament wins do you have?

No loss of step, just a need to actually try again.

He broke yoshi's cookie. Dude's a puzzler. My money is on him this week.

I don't miss the split seasons. A final tournament between the two champs would have been nice though. I like the late start, and the early finish. Playing into November and December gets too busy.

There can only be one!

Touching, but I'll be retiring this year a two time champion. Let all you youngsters have a shot at the title again in 2021.

Is that all it would take? Excuses, excuses...3 million, ha!

2 million? Ha!

7,007,200 1,694,550 665,400

I couldn't decide if spending time to round up the fireballs was worth it. Sometimes I'd try, but end up only getting one or two fireballs with the hammer. Other times four or five, so maybe averaging out more points than the bonus.

Yup. And I don't know which version of the rom I have. Mine are all renamed omitting the info after the game title. I could try and figure it out, but my guess is that the luck isn't effected. Did you speedrun the rest of the game, or did you try the hammers on board 3?

Yeah, I never got it to work at all.

Referring to the trick where you get next Donkey Kong at the top of the Rivet stage. You get close enough that you simply jump and score 100 points per jump.

It killed you occasionally? Which cart were you using? My DK Classics rom killed me every time. My DK rom never killed me. I thought the video posted up in here showed the board 3 trick working on the NES, but I could be mistaken.

I was just about to point that out. Seems to only get another 100 or 200 points, but yeah, more points. I died/restarted a few times due to double jumping and then getting hit by the next barrel coming down the ladder. I used the broken ladder up near the top. Seemed like a more likely spot to have barrels go down the ladder. Apparently it's about the same.

So no hammers? I tried both ways with similar points. I did my final score using both hammers and ladder trick based upon if I got the ladder trick first try.

@Bearcat-Doug, which cart did you play? Did you do the jump trick on board 3? (I couldn't get it to work at all) Did you use the ladder warp trick on board 1 or do the hammers? I only got around a dozen attempts in, but couldn't decide which way was best. Too much luck involved. Also, on my rom of Donkey Kong Classics, the ladder warp trick resulted in death at the top of the screen. I'm thinking next time this one is played, it needs to be restricted to one version. There are revisions in even the original version, so it's quite possible that playing the other versions may impact luck as well.

602,300 558,200 252,400

Ah @Red Foiled again! Really though, nice score. I'm going to have to step it up.

Ok, I figured it out. Best advice is to forget everything you know about soccer. Double edged sword here. I would have liked to have more time, but then I would have played it more...

Score updated.