scaryice

We're up to 250 games beaten after ten days. Here's how that compares to previous years: 250 300 Time 2012 29-Jan 06-Feb 8 days 2013 07-Jan 14-Jan 7 days 2014 06-Jan 11-Jan 5 days 2015 04-Jan 06-Jan 2 days 2016 05-Jan 08-Jan 3 days 2017 04-Jan 10-Jan 6 days 2018 06-Jan 09-Jan 3 days 2019 22-Jan 14-Feb 23 days 2020 11-Jan 17-Jan 6 days 2021 06-Jan 08-Jan 2 days 2022 15-Jan 22-Jan 7 days 2023 10-Jan ??? ???

Top 25 "easiest" games left, with overall rank 31 Caesar's Palace 43 Monster in My Pocket 46 Kabuki: Quantum Fighter 53 Ghosts 'N Goblins 89 Bomberman 91 Nightmare On Elm Street, A 98 Championship Bowling 102 Pinball 107 Baseball 110 Target: Renegade 112 Astyanax 114 Soccer 121 Castlevania II: Simon's Quest 131 Jackal 133 Adventures of Dino Riki 144 Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stone 145 1942 151 Joust 153 Super Jeopardy! 156 Sesame Street: 123 159 Tennis 163 Baseball Stars 166 Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach 167 Little Nemo: The Dream Master 170 Legendary Wings

After my yearly excruciating 45 minutes of NFL Football, it's finally over:

Tecmo NBA Basketball, title won with the San Antonio Spurs:

Golf done, beating the top score of +28:

Phantom Fighter defeated:

Wayne Gretzky Hockey - Chicago 2:0 Minnesota.

Major League Baseball - Chicago White Sox 12, Chicago Cubs 2.

lol, I'm playing Major League Baseball, and the game actually soft-locked after hitting a grand slam. The runners won't go home I guess. Worthless kusoge....

Cyberball finished. This game is actually easier to play on the advanced difficulty, since it makes you select a play type before the actual play. The clock runs down on both screens, so you can waste twice as much time.

Three Stooges beaten. Took me longer to get the stupid cart to work than to actually beat it. $5,000 to get the worst ending then purposefully game over.

Guerrilla War cleared!

Spelunker defeated. Like 5 deaths, but still a comfortable clear thanks to some 1ups.

Twin Eagle, one life clear. It's important to always use your bombs whenever the green tanks than shoot the circular missiles show up. Don't even think about it, just use them. I'm not sure why the score counter goes to the ten millions when I only ended up with around 635,000 points.

John Elway's Quarterback is done (CHI 44-7 NY):

Out of the 113 games that went unbeaten in 2022, 87 had also gone unbeaten in a previous year. That means 26 games went uncleared for the first time: Alpha Mission, Athena, Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure, Bo Jackson Baseball, California Games, Castle of Dragon, Chubby Cherub, Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum, Dragon's Lair, Gemfire, Genghis Khan, Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour, Kiwi Kraze, Legend of Kage, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Section Z, Shooting Range, Star Soldier, Starship Hector, Strider, Tecmo Baseball, Tom & Jerry, Uncharted Waters, Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds, World Class Track Meet, Xevious Overall, 416/662 games have still been beaten in all 11 years (2012-22), or 62.84%. The lowest ranked game to be beaten every year is Ren & Stimpy Buckaroos, a 9 pointer at 587th overall. The next lowest in order are: Wall Street Kid, James Bond Jr, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, NES Play Action Football, Prince of Persia, and 3D Worldrunner.

Cybernoid and Burgertime completed:

We're at 85/677 after 24 hours. Here's how that compares to previous years: 2012 26 2013 164 2014 158 2015 131 2016 132 2017 167 2018 122 2019 73 2020 68 2021 94 2022 65 2023 85

Also, heading into this year, the only game you've beaten for 10 straight years is Operation Wolf. The only game with a longer streak is me and Amagon.

Probably cuz it's a longer game than some of the other 5 minute ones. And a lot of the world 8 stages are not the most fun if you just warp. Looks like it's been 9/10 years for you. Seppatoni beat it in 2017.

Amagon is complete once again on January 1st. Honestly, my play was really bad. Guess I need to play more NES stuff, because I was quite rusty and died a bunch.

Got it, thanks.

It's actually right. Let me explain: The points are based on the last 5 years, so the 2017 data was replaced with the 2022 data. And Nightshade was beaten 29 spots higher in 2017 vs 2022, so it ended up losing a bit of ground - falling from 589th to 598th overall. The final 9 point game is #595, so it was barely was a 9 last year, and now just barely fell into the 10s this year.

New thread is up: https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/11709-nes-completions-thread-2023/ 10 minutes until the competition start for 2023! I haven't figured out the bonus games list yet, sorry. I'll try to get that done this weekend.

History Champion Second Third 2012 Crabmaster2000 scaryice 8-bit boice 2013 WashYourFace Crabmaster2000 Red 2014 nerdynebraskan 487 DoctorNick 368 scaryice 277 2015 DoctorNick 697 Bea Iank 692.5 nerdynebraskan 449 2016 Bea Iank 657 nerdynebraskan 514.33 tablew/chairs 435.25 2017 guitarzombie 475 John198X 447.5 nerdynebraskan 437 2018 nerdynebraskan 852 Crabmaster2000 268 Kid Dracula 246 2019 nerdynebraskan 872 Crabmaster2000 498 tablew/chairs 318 2020 nerdynebraskan 711 Gaia Gensouki 574 Kid Dracula 467 2021 nerdynebraskan 658 Gaia Gensouki 403 Khromak 349 2022 nerdynebraskan 849.5 Gaia Gensouki 425.5 the wizard 666 322 For 2012-13, champions were decided by total games beaten. Total Progress (percentage of licensed games beaten) (others listed on the right column) 2012 677 100% 2013 562 83.0% 81/91 UNL 2014 638 94.2% 75/91 UNL 2015 677 100% 34/34 PAL 2016 677 100% 91/91 UNL, 35/35 PAL 2017 589 87.0% 55/73 FC 2018 582 86.0% 35/73 FC 2019 587 86.7% 2020 677 100% 2021 665 98.2% 2022 564 83.3% 83/100 bonus ...