nerdynebraskan

11 hours ago, bronzeshield said:

My repeat completions were interesting to see:

7x - Star Voyager
6x - Marvel's X-Men
5x - Overlord
4x - Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour, Racket Attack
3x - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonstrike, Chessmaster, Target: Renegade
2x - Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stone, Evert & Lendl Top Player's Tennis, Hydlide, Robowarrior, Tennis

No big surprises, I guess, but I don't think I realized I did X-Men quite so many times.

Is this the year that you go 5x on Racket Attack? 

Thanks @Khromak. Keep the advice coming. Dance Aerobics was intimidating in a way that I wasn't really expecting after how easy the other four Power Pad games were (sans Street Cop, which was already done).

Also, Tag Team Wrestling is done.

And I may start chipping away at All-Pro Basketball soon, unless someone else has already started it or is burning to do it for the first time.

Also Also: This completion put me over 500 points for the year! It's my 8th time doing so, which ain't half bad for a down year.

Also Also Also: This completion leaves us with exactly 67 games to go. That basically means to me that we have now reached Level 10 of the challenge! (Since there are 67 10-point games...)

3 hours ago, scaryice said:

Thanks for taking out all the Power Pad games! Dance Arobics next?

That was my intention and I just spent the better part of an hour with it. Dance Aerobics is MUCH harder than the other four Power Pad games I just did. I'll probably try it again later, but this one may be beyond my abilities.

I couldn't beat the first stages of any of the game modes, and the game doesn't seem to have difficulty settings like Athletic World or Super Team Games. I think I was even racking errors on some parts because my Size-12-wide feet were simultaneously touching more than one button at once. I'm not sure if I have enough flexibility for some of the exercises, and the musical rhythm game is really unintuitive for me.

I'm an out-of-shape, middle-aged dude (turning 40 in May...), and Dance Aerobics is far less forgiving than its sisters. I was able to cheese those by tucking my Power Pad between the legs of a chair; I would sit down over the Power Pad and be able to manipulate the buttons faster and more easily while seated. Are there any other broke-down older nerds who've beaten this and can share some tips?

On 1/25/2024 at 2:17 PM, McBryce said:

Anyone have any tips/strategies for Bases Loaded 3 and 4? I’m trying to take them both down this year.

I’ve played a few games of 3 and gotten absolutely nowhere.

It's time for a wellness check! How is this going for you?

Athletic World is done. This one was the hardest of the running games for sure.

Super Team Games is done.

World Class Track Meet is done. 

Short Order / Eggsplode is done. Finding space to put my Power Pad down was longer and harder than beating this for the first time. I'll continue working on Power Pad games. 

Gumshoe is done. 

Conflict is done.

I have 5 battles left to win in Conflict, so that should hopefully be history in the next few days.

Does anyone know if there's some kind of compatibility issue with Little Ninja Brothers and the Everdrive N8? I've started four different games with three different ROMs in the last few days, and the game keeps crashing about 20 minutes into my game during random encounter battles. It's really starting to irritate me.

It's weird, because I've beaten Little Ninja Brothers on my Everdrive before. I do remember it having some instability, and that I previously may have had more success with some ROMs better than others.

I think I'll also start Conflict again.

Beetlejuice is done. 

NES Play Action Football is done for another year. 

RoboWarrior is done.

With this completion, I have preserved my record of being the only one to score 400+ in every year since @scaryice instituted the points system.

1 hour ago, Khromak said:

I'm about halfway through Startropics now, though obviously the second half will be much tougher than the first half. Thus far: very meh. Graphics, sound, atmosphere, etc are all great, but the gameplay is trolly and annoying at best. Trying to play an action combat game with what feel like RPG controls is really awkward and leads to a lot of cheap hits IMO. Dreading the end game when it truly gets tough [Emphasis added. -NN]

Thank you! I was so disappointed with the stage design. I expect first-party Nintendo games to be fair, and StarTropics wasn't.

3 hours ago, NESfiend said:

Playing one game that can be beat in an hours time for an entire week, you will eventually get good enough to not embarass yourself.

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Also, if you did it week to week, it changes the way you play. Its very different and a lot MORE fun playing games for score. You may be better at it then you know because you have never played that way.

I appreciate the enthusiasm and the kind words, but I'm afraid I didn't find your pitch terribly persuasive. I really like just beating a game and moving on to something else. I have a handful of comfort games that I play over-and-over, but I really prefer changing games frequently. I'm not really motivated by high scores or style points most of the time, and I only enjoy going deeper when it's entirely my own idea. (I once read a 1000 page history book for fun over the summer after refusing to touch it while a couple of its chapters were assigned reading for a high school class...) The thought of playing one game over and over for an entire week sounds like a chore, and I have enough of those already.

11 minutes ago, guitarzombie said:

Ok finished Adventures of Rad Gravity.  @nerdynebraskan the most annoying levels are the last two.  The volcano level (luckily you can skip past a little part of it) and the final level.  Basically the final level there are areas that you're gonna get hit like 99% of the time.  I ended up being able to memorize and get thru the first 3 parts of the last level without getting too much damage.  At the VERY end before you fight the boss you can get the "white" armor.  The problem is you basically have to redo the last half of the level again but playing thru it again with white armor is MUCH easier and pretty much something you would need to fight the last boss.  The best part of it is, they give you a teleport/code for the last level boss, AND the final boss.  So at least they help you at the very end.  Also I'm sure if you got enough health upgrades, you can play pretty sloppy on the last level and get past it easy.  The problem is you need to use some platform thing and it takes away part of your life.  If you use it over some spikes, and get hit, you cant use it again properly to make jumps over walls so you have to start over.  So I'd say get used to how to use that platform thing, and memorize the first few parts of the last level and it shouldn't be too bad. 

Thanks for the write-up. I was using walktrhoughs when I tried Rad Gravity a few years ago; I remember burning through the game up to the last level, and I'm pretty sure I had every upgrade available. Then I got to the last level, and I couldn't last 30 seconds. I beat my head against that proverbial wall for about an hour, got no better, and put the game down until someone else beat it.

35 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

Can you PLEASE join in on the weekly contests this year?

1. We need players.

2. We need more entertainment. Your posts are always the funniest shit ever. 

@Gaia Gensouki should join in as well. Id suggest @nerdynebraskan too, but I know the photo requirements are a problem for you 

 

Aside from probably not having the time, I don't think I'd be any good at it. I'm usually the kind of player that just barely limps across the finish line of NES games, and usually on lesser difficulty settings if they're offered. My skill level is far below most of the competitors here. I do well on this challenge only because I have a very broad knowledge of the NES catalog, and I generally fatten up on the cupcakes.

1 hour ago, guitarzombie said:

Im at the end of Adventures of Rad Gravity.  Only a couple of levels left so I should be finished at some point today.

I like that game, and would like to finish it someday. But man, I was surprised by how sharply the difficulty spiked on the last level.

Cobra Command is done.

I also did the first three games of NES Play Action Football today. No one else needs to start that one.

Dragon Fighter is done. 

Congrats to @guitarzombie for doing The Mutant Virus. That's a huge clear that boosted our odds of beating the whole catalog.

I may be within a few days of doing another run at RoboWarrior, but I'm curious if @TheGameDisplay may already be onto it. He last posted a few weeks ago with conquests in the R's.

Silent Service is done.