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On 10/17/2023 at 10:09 AM, T-Pac said:

17 - Green Hockey Player from Ice Hockey [Nintendo Entertainment System - 1988]

@Kguillemette - good call on this one! I'm definitely not a sports guy, but those sprites all looked fun. I gravitated to the green one since I thought I could play-up his squat shape.

[T-Pac]

Nice, and he's wearing magnificently the classic Canadian 'Green and Blue' hockey shirt our country is so proud of!

1 hour ago, Dr. Morbis said:

I'll make time whenever it happens, but if we could do it before year's end, that would be cool since it's the 2023 tourney, but I'll be in regardless, so no worries

No worries here, one of the main argument to starts the tournament later is to have it done between US Thanksgiving and the Xmas Holidays. Giving that it will most probably have 3 rounds, the tournament would start on 26 of November and ends by the 17 of December.

Edit : Okay, I see now that Bea actually proposed January 2024 in the OP, but I'd say it is highly unlikely we do that for the sake of keeping things in 2023. If she's still overwhelmed in late November, I'll naturally step in to starts things off for everyone to have this done and finished before the Xmas Holidays.

4 hours ago, B.A. said:

It is posted for sale in a specialty collector group.  I am sure the "Nes Tapes" is just a fun title, much like if someone made a FS thread here with that title.  

2 hours ago, doner24 said:

The guy is well known on Facebook collector groups and legit. 

Thanks for clarifying guys, as I know pretty much nothing about Facebook marketplace.

The Gotcha is a 5 screws, hence why he's asking for so much on it.

What's very strange is that it has to be the prices of someone that knows very well what he has for sale, but very loosely presented as 'Nes Tapes'.

51 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

Fun game - rules dont specify # of lives @guillavoie. I assumed you could use them, but want to make sure early on. 

@Bearcat-Doug, bring on the point pressing tactics. Skinny be damned, keep the sharebear tradition alive!

Yes, you can use all your lives for this contest!

6 hours ago, BeaIank said:

Final standings posted. Sorry it took so long to post it. Life caught up with me real fast. I will need surgery on my hand soon. Hopefully it will be during a break week or I will have to ask @guillavoieto handle the thread for the week I will be out.

For sure Bea, gotta take care of those Street Fighter Champion wrists of yours!

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

Just sat and watched the video and... yeah dude's not very good at this at all. His deaths from the swimmers especially, where he complains saying stuff like "what is the key in this shit?" and "this is impossible, man"... dude's just not great at the game; those enemies telegraph their moves heavily. Every video I've seen from him tells me he's not particularly highly skilled overall, mostly just persistent. I'd love to see a video which shows some serious skill from him, but my impression from everything I've seen is just dedication/persistence. Which, don't get me wrong, I admire that - cool dude that did a cool thing. I'd just not consider him the bar by which I measure skill in gaming on the NES. This video reminded me of how he beat Elevator Action by abusing the time mechanic which resets the difficulty of the enemies - something I don't need to do to beat that game.

Reading the thread that you linked from NA, you yourself had said this back in 2016:

 

 

The 2016 gang didn't even live up to the 2013 gang, by a fair margin. 

To put things in perspective, I am quite sure that EOTN's 2013 score was BS, so removing it kind of balance a little better with the 2016 standing.

1 hour ago, docile tapeworm said:

I have a question about the rules. Is what link presented a legal technique? The “1up” never comes into play.

For the sake of not burdening you with a turtle hopping technique contest, we're going to forbid continuous turtle hopping, so what is shown in the video posted by link would be forbidden.

You can use a turtle or beetle to make extra points throughout your run as you wish while advancing in the level (even if you actually hop on a same turtle twice or thrice), but you can't take a single turtle in order to hop on it numerous times while killing the clock.

@BeaIank can you second me on this please?

4 hours ago, BlackVega said:

I mean the dates in the 1st post are supposed to be 2023, not 2022 right? Not to pinpoint mistakes but just making sure. Is everything else correct?

You're right, I fixed the dates accordingly. Thanks for pointing it out!

It was about time we see your ass around here Jimbo, where you've been all that time?

Also, is it too late to ask you to be my Valentine?

For those having anxiety for not scoring 10 out of 10, remember that you can't recognize something that you never saw before.

- A gamer proud of his 4/10 score

On 1/28/2023 at 7:54 PM, Gloves said:

Ivanhooooooooe!

Man, you're bringing me back some childhood memories here, that show used to play on Teletoon when I was young (watched it dubbed in French then). I never thought about looking for it on youtube, but now I might just for the nostalgia kick.

A man meets a woman on the golf course and both get to please each others, but the man is serious about taking it slowly between them. So, everyday for a week, they both get along on the golf course, having a wonderful time golfing and getting to know each other.

After a week, the man accepts her invitation to come at her place for dinner, and she prepares him the most delightful meal he ever ate, but, he still doesn't succumb to her charms, insisting on letting things evolve naturally between them. So for another week, they play golf every day, and every evening she treats him with the most satisfying of meals. At the end of the week, he finally let her kiss him, and you know for sure that she is the most passionate kisser any man would ever dream of.

After that kiss, the man can't no longer restrain his desires, and he tells her that he's ready to follow her to the bedroom to consume their urging love. The lady then hesitates, she has something important to reveal: ''darling, before we go to bed together, I must tell you that... I'm a man''.

The guy pauses, and then goes : ''What? You're a man, and you played from the fucking RED TEES?'

This is one, fine feature, I can enjoy on my PC! Thanks for that, Casual Gloves!

And I thought this would be about naming names.

Just give us the names Corey!

31 minutes ago, spacepup said:

Unfortunately we’ll never really know.  And to be clear, despite everything I said above, I obviously would hope for improvements to the processes to at least minimizing damage of people’s personal items.

I’m sure I’d be upset too if something of mine was destroyed.  I just happened to build a greater appreciation for what they are really doing is all.

I do think this kind of thing is relatively uncommon at least.  I have shipped literally hundreds of packages from overseas and have never had this happen.  Granted, I don’t buy graded games, but still.

Indeed, customs officials do this for a purpose and it is for the greater good of all in a sense, that's a fair acknowledgement of their duties and responsibilities to keep what's going through borders in check.

But the need of improvement is absolutely needed to ensure the protection of individual properties. It is true that these incidents are quite scarce, it happens in much less than 1% of the cases for sure. But still, it only takes one really bad incident to prove the process flawed.

I'm ready to understand that their procedures will irremediably lead to some valuable properties to be 'destroyed' or dramatically devalued, but if it is how it must work, damn, they should be held accountable of the damages and be legally responsible to compensate the party at loss through some kind of ruled procedures. The problem, as I see it right now, is that it seems you have absolutely no individual protection against customs officials ruining your property going through borders. This is silly, at least from an individual's rights point of view.

5 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

I wonder if there is Fine print anywhere that covers them

I think it all comes down to shipping insurance from where we stand legally right now, but I must admit that I never went to the end of the question whenever it happened to me or my buyers in the past. And even with insurance it would be a total pain to assess the correct value to such thing as sealed video games.

It would be good to know for sure if there's anything to cover the lost or something. It happens very rarely, but it does happen.

The truth is that if a custom official knows the potential value of something, they would handle it accordingly. If a customs official knows how much more a sealed video game can be worth vs opened, then they would reasonably not open it to inspect it. But as we stand right now, it is not common knowledge and this is why it happens.

Nobody's going to rip off a Picasso painting to see if there's drug hidden in it, even if there is actually drugs hidden in it. Not that sealed games are anywhere on par with fine arts culturally and value wise, but you get what I mean.

10 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

And FYI, customs has every right to rip into it. They arent shredding anything, they are making sure nothing illegal was being stored in there.

That's actually a big problem, customs shouldn't have the rights to ruin the value of a collectible of a private citizen. If they need to check the inside of sealed video games as prevention of drug smuggling or whatever, then they should use X-rays equipment and be done with that.

Let's not be delusional, liking sealed games or not, customs officials ruining private properties' value aren't saving the world from druglords.

Final Round Results :

Donkey Kong Jr. :

1st   docile tapeworm   69,900 = 10 points
2nd  NesFiend              63,900 = 8 points
3rd  Krunch                   62,200 = 6 points
4th  Dr. Morbis              59,100 = 5 points
5th  Pii                           54,300 = 4 points

Code Name: Viper :

1st  Dr. Morbis Cleared/66,270 = 10 points
2nd Krunch      Stage 6/53,850 = 8 points
3rd NESFiend  Stage 6/29,690 = 6 points
 

Tournament Final Standing :

1st  Dr. Morbis           = 31 points
2nd Krunch                 = 17 points
2nd NesFiend             = 17 points
4th docile tapeworm = 15 points
5th Pii                         = 11 points
6th the_wiz_666       = 8 points
7th mbd39                 = 4 points
8th JamesRobot       = no point

Congratulations to @Dr. Morbis for winning the 2022 Nes Weekly Contest Tournament, defending his 2021 VGS championship!

Special mentions to @NESfiend @Krunchfor upping their standing in the final bout for a second place tie!

As always, thanks to everyone playing and participating in the Nes Weekly Contest! We'll all see you next year with a fresh lineup of Nes games to compete in! Never forget that YOU GUYS ROCK!

Developer > Publisher, no? For childhood sake, I would have to say RARE (coin it).

As an older douchehead, I'd like to give Koei a gigantic thump up for what they did during the NES period, even if they're PC based games.

4 hours ago, rdrunner said:

Wow, first I've heard of this Life Force scoring glitch.  Wonder how far it can be exploited?

Hopefully not too far.  I hate seeing silly things like this factor into a contest (thankfully it looks like it didn't).

It's kinda like scoring 700 points for head-butting people in NES Double Dragon.  The game's weakest move should not also be the highest scoring move.

The bigger problem is that you can't really forbid it as anyone can trigger it by mistake just by being fully powered up and firing casually enemies. Hence why allowing it in a 1 loop contest makes it interesting.

Of course, the best way to exploit it is to try to trigger it on the bosses as glitch can multiply by 2x-3x (4x?) the bosses points if their last hit is triggered by many of your projectiles. So taking the risk of defeating a boss at very close range was the best strategy to score most points in this contest.

Second Round Results :

Life Force :

1st   docile tapeworm   329,990 = 5 points
2nd  mbd39                  276,670 = 4 points
3rd  Dr. Morbis              238,390 = 2 points

Q*Bert :

1st  Pii                    77,660 = 5 points
2nd Dr. Morbis      70,800 = 4 points
3rd Krunch            70,130 = 2 points

Tournament Standing :

1st  Dr. Morbis           = 16 points
2nd the_wiz_666       = 8 points
3rd Pii                         = 7 points
4th docile tapeworm = 5 points
5th mbd39                 = 4 points
6th Krunch                 = 3 points
6th NesFiend             = 3 points
8th JamesBlowbot    = no point

5 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said:

Just dawned on me...since when is Q-Bert a puzzle game?  Honestly, I didn't realize this sooner, but it's definitely NOT a puzzle game, it's an arcade game...

Bea is definitely stretching the definition of what a puzzle game is here, hahaha! But, to her defense, there's some puzzle elements in Q bert, especially when the blocks start to change every time you step on them, and then when a third color is introduce to the whole. Still more an arcade game, but we can accept it as puzzle oriented for sure. Also, the arcade genre is the most historically based, and a lot of the game mechanics and criteria we easily recognize in the other genres can actually be found in a lot of arcade games. They're almost always arcade + 'insert another genre' games , theoretically speaking.

And it could have been even more weird as she initially picked up Popeye as a puzzle game for the first round, lol!

1 hour ago, Dr. Morbis said:

@BeaIank Could you copy/paste Guillavoie's tabulated results to your reserved post on the first page so that it's easier to find?  Thanks.

58 minutes ago, BeaIank said:

I am doing that early in the morning tomorrow. Today was too hectic for me to post the final standings.

I copy/pasted it in the OP as a temporary solution!

Bea will most likely have a better looking standing done tomorrow or soon enough.

First Round Results :

Batman Returns :

1st   Dr. Morbis            120,250 = 5 points
2nd  the_wizard_666   87,100 = 4 points
3rd  PII                          84,110 = 2 points
4th  NESFiend              84,080 = 1 point
5th mbd39                   83,420 = no point

Pro Wrestling :

1st  Dr. Morbis             1:32 = 5 points
2nd the_wiz_666         3:26 = 4 points
3rd NESFiend              3:44 = 2 points
4th Krunch                   5:24 = 1 point
5th mbd39                   11:45 = no point

Tournament Standing :

1st   Dr. Morbis          = 10 points
2nd the_wiz_666       = 8 points
3rd NESFiend            = 3 points
4th PII                         = 2 points
5th Krunch                 = 1 point
6th mbd39                 = no point
6th docile tapeworm = no point
6th JamesRobot        = no point