NESfiend

My initial thought is bring the tourney back. This year it didn't land like usual, but most years it does. And we can always tweak the time we do it and format, etc. I am an old sentimental sap, but some of my best memories of this contest are playing the black box games the year we did that (especially golf and soccer) and playing alien syndrome over thanksgiving week with my brother stupidly late at night. I can see why spirits may be down on the tourney after this year, and I take some blame dropping off. But I'm a big believer in not scrapping it. Maybe even shorten the season a little if you don't want it to fall in the holiday scene with thanksgiving or christmas Edit: Forget shortening the season, we could always start it earlier. Also, alien syndrome freaking rocks. I am going to revisit that one in the very near future. Great example of a classic I never played until this contest gave me the nudge.

Password to level 4. ABAABBBB if memory serves. It keeps score. Was burning lives a concern? I could see that. Its too tough for a 1 life challenge

I cant stress this enough and have already many times. AMERICAN GLADIATORS!!!

You and @Dr. Morbis

I will leave the posts about the glitch and put official score here. Damn, @SuperJimtendo! 10 mili impressive 7,311,710

I figured this would not be allowed. It sucks that it ends your run without a mistake on your part. Its not like I was looking for a glitch. It happened to me. But yeah, you cant crown a winner when its blind luck to find that

Well I seem to have broken it. First picture is when the ball first got stuck between two bumpers. I had by far my high score at 5.5 million when the ball got stuck there. Second picture shows it 10ish hours later at 15 million. Seems to go less than a million an hour, but more than 500k. It moves slow and I am about to call it to free up my NES, but it will run forever like that. I posted this in the wrong thread earlier and apparently @RH stumbled upon the glitch as well. He has been running his NES on it for days and is probably around 50 million now, so first is out of reach anyhow. 15,015.540

Looks like I posted in the wrong thread. I'll break the grinch's heart in the appropriate thread when I get back from dinner and see if its still going

Well I seem to have broken it. First picture is when the ball first got stuck between two bumpers. I had by far more high score at 5.5 million. Second picture I took before leaving for dinner. Still going. Should be over 10 mil when I get back. I could let it run another 12 hours overnight. Have to leave town after that

2,065,150

There has been a lot of talk about making you a mod next year. Not playing that much, but still active and loved by all. Its a solid fit. May want to see if glovesie can up your inbox storage space

As a criminal defense attorney, this statement is making my head spin. Please, please, if you ever make it onto a jury, please read the jury instructions very carefully several times over. In first world countries, the burden of proof is always on the prosecution for obvious reasons. Its kind of a pillar of civilized society. God knows what jail cell @Bearcat-Doug and @docile tapeworm would be sharing right now without the heavy burden of proof placed on the state in criminal prosecutions. That nerdy sentiment aside, I really sympathize with the good doctor, @Dr. Morbis here. From janky photos to seemingly impossible feats, I have always wondered whats up with vega. He is either a savant who can break any game, but has trouble with taking simple photos, or someone who is having a lot of fun with us. And with his passion, which sometimes looks like rage, morbis is kind of the perfect target. I honestly dont know and would feel terrible if it was all legit, but I get dr morbis calling it into question.

I had a stupidly involved writing project and a deadline. Ate up a lot of night time. I did make a couple efforts at the 100 yard dash. Even a few quick playthroughs destroyed my thumbs, and I got nowhere scorewise. Being out of the running, it was easy to say no thanks on that.. Rolling thunder Im sad I missed. I checked my local store and no copy. Looked for my adaptor to put on a flash cart and came up empty. That one is high up my buy and try list. I love codename viper. You would like it, doug. Worth a playthrough. Someone has to get those 90s drug lords

Reserved

The 5k bonus that is advertised as a 1k bonus on the screen that comes up when you complete a level. I kept hoping it may correct itself.

Somehow podiumed on a shooter I think? @docile tapeworm very skinny spirit must have been with me....

I cant believe I didnt finish commando. Ended up catching a window and played a lot tonight. Had a good run and choked when I got to the road on 1-4. Wouldnt have made a difference in points, but its just demoralizing.

The game runs for 10 seconds. There isnt that much variance that you wouldn't remember your high score if you didnt bother to record it. Its one number. Mine is just over half of what gloves got in that example video. 200+ is straight up crazy

That someone is the very person who posted the video. Schmup speed!

My god. This is the video game version of 'beauty is pain.'

With the exception of "the wall" event on american gladiators, I have never been able to play NES games with anything but thumbs. Speaking of gladiators, the commando challenge is a lot like the assault event on that game. One of many reasons that its killing me how much I suck at commando. Im bearcat done. Been 3 places looking for xmas trees and still have no tree. Aside from a last minute game or n 2 at 9:30 tonight, my scores are in.

Thanks, Bea. Always nice to see my name in gold for a hot minute or two while the sandbaggers are still in hiding

Gold medal challenge - ROUGH on the already sore thumbs. I better ice them up @Bearcat-Doug style

The two games compliment one another very well. Commando destroys your left thumb. Galaga destroys your right thumb. Switch it up based on which one is throbbing more

Commando seems like it should be so easy. You know exactly what you have to do. But somehow I manage to die and die and die