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My free time is being totally consumed by Elden Ring, so any NES stuff is on the backburner for the moment.

Beat Sneaky Snakes last night. It was my second serious attempt, after my first ended at the final boss (ugh). It's somewhat fun, but not as good as the NES game. I also beat Alleyway, which was pretty generic, but I see that's already taken.

It's ok, I don't mind struggling for a while. I did make a little more progress last night.

We had required all 4 in the past, so I guess we'll do that for this year as well (since you're doing it anyway). But yeah, there probably should be some consistency there.

I've been playing Portopia, but I'm currently stuck (and I don't want to just spoil it) so I might just move on to something else.

Secret of Mana - this game has always seemed overrated, possibly because it came out in 1993 which was a poor year for the system. Although, that perception might be changing a bit with the re-release. Amazing soundtrack, but I'd rather play the sequel or Secret of Evermore. Earthworm Jim - I think of this game and the sequel as being at a similar level, so I was surprised to see that you have the second game way higher. I find the bonus stages in the sequel to be even more annoying. Of course, you could be taking into account that EWJ1 has an extra level on the Genesis, which makes the SNES version inferior. Final Fight 3 - I didn't care for either of the Final Fight sequels on SNES. I'd say the only essential game in the series would be the arcade original. Pilotwings - You forgot to mention the skydiving? Super Castlevania IV - After playing through Rondo of Blood and Bloodlines, I'm more negative on this game than in the past. Absolutely right to say it's one of the lesser 2D ones. Looking forward to the top 50! You really should do a countdown for the rest of the games - post one per day to build up the tension.

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Well, I did decide to beat the second game today: Legendary Axe II is finished. Just an okay game.

I've been getting into TG16 emulation recently, and exploring the library. I can contribute three more games to the list: Ninja Spirit Neutopia Legendary Axe Ninja Spirit was enjoyable, albeit annoying in parts. I'd already beaten the Game Boy version. Neutopia is a not so great Zelda 1 clone. It seems to be well regarded, but I also played Golden Axe Warrior recently on the Master System and I thought that game was much more fun. Neutopia did have better boss fights, at least. Legendary Axe was great, though. Some frustration with all the death pits, but the combat was a lot of fun. Disappointed that the second is a different game entirely. I also beat Ys 1-2, but I guess Turbo CD games aren't on the list.

It's almost certainly a butchering of the Famicom title Rai Rai Kyonshis: Baby Kyonshi no Amida Daibouken, which was a Family Trainer (Power Pad) game.

Here's something that I found interesting. It's the initial point values from 2014 (the first year of the point system), compared to the amount of points those games are worth here in 2022: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 35 17 7 2 3 3 2 14 23 15 6 4 2 2 3 6 9 15 13 11 4 4 2 2 4 3 6 7 10 8 11 12 1 5 3 5 5 5 7 9 12 7 5 10 2 4 6 1 1 5 6 11 9 9 12 8 4 7 2 4 12 5 11 7 6 10 9 8 2 1 5 3 4 7 9 8 14 13 9 2 1 4 5 5 10 15 10 14 10 1 1 3 7 10 10 15 20 Left column = 2014 points. Top row = 2022 points. So, for example, let's take the 67 games worth 1 point in 2014. There are now 35 worth one point, 17 worth two points, 7 worth three points, 2 worth four points, 3 worth five points, and 3 worth six points. I'm sure you guys can guess the game that went 10-1, right? Also, there's still 38 games which have had the same point value every single year:

I don't think that argument holds up. The first 378 games from this year and last year: PTS AVG 2021 1488 4.10 2022 1460 4.02 The bonus games are probably why the licensed pace is slower. Here's a fun stat: How many days does it take on average for each milestone? Milestone Days 50-100 1 100-150 2 150-200 3 200-250 4 250-300 7 300-350 11 350-400 15 400-450 26 450-500 44 500-550 71 550-600 44 600-650 93 650-677 98 We didn't reach 600 in every year, so the last three might be distorted a bit because of that. Also, you might've noticed that these averages add up to a total of 419 days. So, we have to do better than these to finish it. Seems like 500 is the usual spot where things start to slow.

Here's all the cart only sold listings I found on Yahoo: 17-Aug 10,000 3-Sep 8,450 22-Sep 15,000 29-Sep 6,252 26-Nov 7,500 18-Dec 9,277 22-Jan 13,000 That's an average of 9,926円, which would be $86.16 right now.

I still need to beat Blaster Master and Ironsword without the tricks to make them easier.

It's not, really. At least by our standards: 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 50 2-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 100 4-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 2-Jan 3-Jan 2-Jan 4-Jan 150 9-Jan 1-Jan 1-Jan 2-Jan 2-Jan 1-Jan 2-Jan 5-Jan 5-Jan 2-Jan 8-Jan 200 16-Jan 3-Jan 3-Jan 3-Jan 3-Jan 2-Jan 4-Jan 10-Jan 8-Jan 4-Jan 10-Jan 250 29-Jan 7-Jan 6-Jan 4-Jan 5-Jan 4-Jan 6-Jan 22-Jan 11-Jan 6-Jan 15-Jan 300 6-Feb 14-Jan 11-Jan 6-Jan 8-Jan 10-Jan 9-Jan 14-Feb 17-Jan 8-Jan 22-Jan 350 17-Mar 25-Jan 17-Jan 10-Jan 12-Jan 16-Jan 15-Jan 19-Mar 22-Jan 11-Jan 27-Jan 400 26-Apr 17-Feb 26-Jan 16-Jan 19-Jan 27-Jan 30-Jan 14-Apr 30-Jan 15-Jan 450 7-Jun 2-May 16-Feb 21-Jan 31-Jan 7-Feb 10-Mar 19-May 14-Feb 19-Jan 500 22-Jul 10-Jul 9-Mar 31-Jan 21-Feb 10-Apr 11-Jul 20-Jul 1-Mar 29-Jan 550 16-Aug 8-Nov 7-Jun 10-Feb 21-Apr 2-Sep 13-Nov 21-Oct 31-Mar 7-Feb 600 14-Oct xxx 13-Sep 24-Feb 29-May xxx xxx xxx 21-Apr 13-Mar 650 30-Nov xxx xxx 8-Apr 26-Aug xxx xxx xxx 20-Jun 25-Oct 677 31-Dec xxx xxx 12-Jun 13-Dec xxx xxx xxx 25-Dec xxx Total 677 562 638 677 677 589 582 587 677 665

Tecmo NBA Basketball. Easy victories with the Lakers, and the final game's score is below. I discovered tonight that if you hold down the pass button, the computer can't steal it from you. So that makes wasting time easier.

I guess it should probably be changed, but I already counted it as beaten this year. Hmm... I guess if we beat everything, then I can always go and beat it myself just for peace of mind (to say we really finished everything).

NARC done. It's important to bust a lot of guys in the first stage to have extra lives for the end.

Magic Darts finished. I beat a cpu opponent in every game (although that's not even our requirement, maybe it should be).

Pet has been gotten to. Seicross is finished.

Baseball Simulator 1.000 done. 5-0 record as the Heroes: Allstars 0-11 Heroes (3 innings, 0 hits allowed, 4 HR) Heroes 16-3 Homers (3 innings, 3 hits allowed, 5 HR) Heroes 10-0 Sweepers (2 innings, 1 hit allowed, 2 HR) Powers 0-11 Heroes (1 inning, 3 hits allowed, 5 HR) Heroes 15-0 Winners (2 innings, 0 hits allowed, 5 HR) TOTAL: 11 innings played 63 runs scored 3 runs allowed 7 hits allowed 21 home runs hit

Top 25 "Easiest" Games Remaining (overall rank on the left, based on the last five years) 32 Overlord 76 Sesame Street: 123 116 Sesame Street: Countdown 121 Sesame Street: ABC 130 Hollywood Squares 131 RoadBlasters 132 Battletoads 136 Trojan 141 Rampage 151 Gun Nac 153 Kick Master 154 Bucky O'Hare 155 Journey to Silius 173 Stinger 188 Magic Darts 189 NARC 190 Life Force 201 Ghostbusters II 202 Super Pitfall 203 Seicross 213 Jack Nicklaus' Major Championship Golf 215 Xevious 229 Little League Baseball: Championship Series 231 Alfred Chicken 232 Legend of Kage

It's still there in the first post - "no turbo controllers".

Looking at the past champions, you had the second highest PPG: Champion PPG Points Games 2014 nerdynebraskan 5.38 487 90.5 2015 DoctorNick 7.41 697 94 2016 Bea Iank 5.75 657 114.35 2017 guitarzombie 6.88 475 69 2018 nerdynebraskan 4.27 802 188 2019 nerdynebraskan 3.51 772 220 2020 nerdynebraskan 3.82 695 182 2021 nerdynebraskan 3.82 641 168 Two things to note here. First, I removed bonus points from the past 4 years, since that wouldn't be a fair comparison. Second, the first champions weren't included since of course, the points system didn't exist then. You did have the highest average of anyone the year that you won, if that's what you meant (counting only people with 10+ games). That leads to another interesting question, who had the highest average in each year? This includes unlicensed/pal/famicom games in years those were included. Highest PPG (minimum 10 games completed) PPG Points Games 2014 DoctorNick 6.94 368 53 2015 DoctorNick 7.41 697 94 2016 TheMexicanRunner 8.85 292 33 2017 guitarzombie 6.88 475 69 2018 Crabmaster2000 8.60 258 30 2019 arnpoly 8.18 90 11 2020 tablew/chairs 8.65 294 34 2021 tablew/chairs 9.09 100 11

In years past we required it, but since then I allowed the bad ending for Mighty Bomb Jack, so I'm inclined to say that this time you don't need the best Gimmick ending. I think it's fair to call them the "normal" and "best" endings, rather than a bad one, actually. Although, I don't think you get a "The End" message for the easier one, you still get credits either way, so it seems fine to count it.