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All right, this thing is rad. Can’t wait to get some RGB cables and see what it looks like on my Trinitron.

32,450 38,890 84,800 Edit: Reread the rules and revised with an earlier score. I’m not sure what it means to “point press” the final boss is but I think I unintentionally did it, because it took forever and I racked up a ton of points, so this is the run just before that one.

Updated score with 999,999 points and 24 lives in reserve. I feel like I could break 30 lives with a better run, but I’m out of podcasts to get caught up on so I’ll stick with that one.

I bought my first crypto two days ago and I've already lost 20% of my investment. I don't know, folks. That's literally an entire dollar just gone. Come on DOGE you gotta turn it around baby, I just want out of this with my entire $5 back Edit: I’m kidding, it’s fine. I just bought this so I could bug my crypto friends with texts like “Much loss. Very ouch.” The jokes are worth $5 to me.

Good point. Looks like “gorilla fighters” is an overlooked NES subgenre?

For the record, I don't think this is a better game than Kung Fu. I enjoy it more for the stage variety, the cut scenes, and, as has been noted, the fact that it makes you defeat a gorilla in a fist fight.

I also didn’t like the look of the big LE boxes, although I would love to read the Jeremy Parish-authored inserts and the CDs of course will probably be great. I already own the Japanese CDs though, so...

Looks like my Nt Mini Noir is arriving on Friday.

Did anybody else grab the RIKI 8Bit NES full set, or even any of the individual CIBs? I picked up all three standard editions, since I figured it was the only way to get officially released versions of these games on quality cartridges that won't accidentally fry my console. Oddly, it looks like they're still available as of this post although presales were supposed to end last night.

Playing this game with a trackball is such a unique and fun experience. The dpad never feels quite right, but the trackball feels realistically tactile in a way you rarely get to experience with a video game.

999,999 (24 lives) 139,330 First time playing this game. I also like it more than Kung Fu.

Burritos

No. See this is why you always read the damn manual

WTF there is a go faster button, you have got to be kidding me. One thing I love about this contest is realizing I’ve been doing a thing completely wrong for 35 years. Good stuff. Ok, I guess I will try this again after all.

42,280 48,870 50,650 Slightly better after discovering the speed button.

We’ve got a local place that does them pretty well. I get mine with bulgogi, extra kimchi, a fried egg, and... damn. Now I kind of want one Thanks. I spent most of my time living in the Sunset but usually worked around the Mission and Potrero Hill. But I would go all over the city for a burrito. Now that I’m thinking of it, the best burrito I’ve ever had in my life was at Taqueria Cancun on Mission St. Unfortunately I can’t remember exactly what kind of burrito it was as I was also very drunk. It was definitely the best though, whatever the hell it was.

Mfw I tie for 3rd place

Ah, I see. I read your comment as kicking off one of those burrito gatekeeping conversations, e.g. "a burrito with french fries is not really a burrito." I don't like the gatekeeping part but I do think there's an interesting discussion there about regional food variants, like with pizza. Incidentally my favorite go-to burrito was at a SF taqueria called Gordos, and the best thing about it was that they melted a layer of cheese across the entire tortilla before adding any other ingredients. Once wrapped up the cheese worked as glue to hold the whole thing together and you were sure to get a mouthful of hot melted cheese in every bite. Genius.

I moved from burrito mecca San Francisco, where I was a proud burrito connoisseur / snob, to the US Midwest a few years ago. Outside of a few sparse urban taquerias I've never seen someone around here even wrap one correctly, and in my head I've come to think of Midwestern burritos as "a loose tortilla-sack full of whatever Mexican-flavored food you want to stuff in there." So when defining "burrito" I think one should consider the broad array of regional distinctions that exist. Also, Korean burritos are legit.

Good, because the thought of trying to go back and 1 cc a few of those actually makes me nauseous. There are some true classics on that 40th Anniversary Collection, but man are there a lot of stinkers.

If it’s the former you can strike all of my SNK wins, and then buy me a stiff drink I can cry into

66,440 137,450 Lost by a &!$@*% nose...

Thank you for making my profile pic relevant

Just wanted to brag about this since I finally got a big one

I don't know how tiebreakers work for these contests but it really should be biggest marlin, not just because they're tough to reel in but because they're so hard to find in the first place. For the record, mine is 730lbs 994lbs