scaryice

We're up to 250 games beaten after ten days. Here's how that compares to previous years:

Top 25 "easiest" games left, with overall rank

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:

20 minutes ago, nerdynebraskan said:

@scaryiceIs this 10 years in a row for me taking down SMB3? I don't understand why no one else seems to be eager to play this on New Year's Day.

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.

7 minutes ago, nerdynebraskan said:

Super Mario Bros 3 is done.

@scaryiceIs this 10 years in a row for me taking down SMB3? I don't understand why no one else seems to be eager to play this on New Year's Day.

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.

21 minutes ago, MegaMan52 said:

@scaryice You might want to look on page 2 and make another update, because I beat Mega Man 3.

Got it, thanks.

6 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said:

Hey @scaryice, you may need to double check the numbers...Nightshade was a 9 last year when I beat it, but it's listed as a 10 now...that can't be right...

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)

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