PII

Thanx, nice run yourself. Took me all week but I was finally able to catch up with @Gaia Gensouki's impressive beginning of the week run. I tried as much as possible to avoid shooting that dang yellow/orange car until the later levels...

Level 11 / 92,271

No way to walk through lower room....

Just for you, it's: "Best Of The Best Championship Karate!" You have to work out between matches... A LOT. And boy-o- boy is it ever fun...

The most important thing is to collect 8 letters that spell NINTENDO, which upgrades your car, but also adds something like 50k to your score. Then take first place every time, hit all the upgrades and blow up your opponents as much as possible.

Sometimes I like to wonder how things would have gone if all of the Simpson's "black" characters had been colored Red.

@BeaIank Is it me or did the original post say "pause your game at the start of level 12" ?

@Dr. Morbis It's about time you showed up. I was starting to think you'd been kidnapped and replaced...

I've heard a lot of people say s1-6 or s1-10 is the limit of this show being good but I remember still enjoying the heck out of it in the early 2000's. Every few years, I notice that Simpsons is still making new episodes and think: "Hey, why not watch a new episode of the Simpsons? Maybe it's gotten good again.." I watch one episode.... and swear I'll never watch a new episode ever again, it's that bad. This has happened like three times in the last decade, I'm not even joking. I'm sure everyone's heard it at some point or other but Matt Groening has stated that as long as there is stuff to make fun of The Simpsons will be around. The clown show is bigger than ever and it's still here, so basically this shit will not go away until society falls, so like maybe a few more months if it doesn't happen this Spring...

@NESfiend

Participation?! You're Supposed To Be Leading The Revolt!!

Wow, all the way across the state; that's cool. I used to know this crazy "old" guy who was well into his fifties and had to live on a very small/tight budget. He survived on a diet of rice, chicken, free bread and snickers. The last one being what he took on bike rides. The guy really didn't look like much but he would go on rides like 6 days a week and he frequently did these crazy bike rides that were well over 100 miles. Have a blast! ..and maybe report in around here after the fact and let us know how it went...

Nice, I am a teensy bit jelly ; hitting that kind of speed on the downhill can get a little scary if conditions/brakes/cars are not ideal, or at least that's been my experience. Pretty much all my bikes need at least a little lookin at; I'm a little behind on that right now. Where are you doing your 162 and your 50?

All very cool! Looks and sounds like you are getting serious. I'm currently on a Trek 700 Multitrack Hybrid that is basically a tank compared to what you're riding, but it works well for what I do which boils down to "road and trail." I've also got a no namer that I Frankensteined and use as a single-speed trainer. I also have a mountain bike that I haven't used much yet that is probably very cheap since I got it for next to nothing and it says "Fear Factor" on it with a picture of a Tarantula.... + a few other old fixer uppers waiting for me to get at them any day now. That Fezzari looks slick as can be. I used to have a pretty sweet road bike, the make/model of which escapes me now, but it would have been light enough to chuck one-handed. Kinda wish I'd hung onto it...

Sweet, that's a nice looking steed. I'ma be doing much the same soon.

PII's MINIATURE SKINNIATURE SCOREBOARD Earth-Something-Japanese-Word - 487,250 P.opp-I.n I.ndefinitely - 369,500 M.y B.alloon D.oes 39 - 339,500 Bashful Carp - 112,250 Super Balloon-Can-Do - 93,250 Helium Fiend - 87,250 Separate Theater Award - 74,500 I Squat 4 Booty - 42,950 Skinny Balloon Animal - (posting instead of playing) Balloon Butler - (still tryna figure out the name of the game)

369,500

I was thinking much the same about 227, especially on Sunday after I'd had the brunt of the week to forget about why I decided against screwing around any longer than I did with the red turtle. The thing is, I think, it's one of those things that seems like it's just waiting to be utilized and it shouldn't be that hard but then when you actually try to make it happen you see all these problems popping up left and right and it's just totally unworkable; it's too much to account for in too little time. You'd have to be in two places at once to make it work. If you can figure that out, I'm all ears. Until then the red turtle is just a red herring. ...And it is too bad more folks didn't dive in as you say. There are so many great bits of strategy we could've been comparing notes on... Oh well, ever onward.

Yeah, I get it now. Seems like trouble though the way you have to keep dealing with red guy and taking hits...

Can't say I perfectly understand your strat either, but here's what I did: After dropping out of the pipe and moving left I jump on the green turtle and pick him up and continue to run left to pick up 3 coins above the light blue rectangle, 1 coin above the white rectangle which also has the red turtle on it that I ignore more or less and then the 1 coin above the salmon rectangle. Then I move back to the right still carrying the green shell and hop over the two ground goombas. I'm still holding the shell because I don't want the green turtle to manifest yet. If he does he's walking left and bumps into the first goomba which screws everything up. So once I'm to the right of those goombas and have successfully prevented the green turtle from manifesting, I release the green shell to the right. Next I'm using my P-wing to avoid the advances of the flying goomba. FG lands and I fly over him to the right. FG lands a 2nd time and I fly over him and the other two goombas to the left in order to manifest the green turtle who will be marching to the right again. Then we all march to the flashing box in the following order: goomba, goomba, Mario, green turtle. FG is flying around and lands twice more on the way. Finally I jump into the flashing box and the 4 enemies present turn into coins. Also, I missed something insipidly obvious. I could have shaved a second or two off by picking up the green turtle right at the end and been able to jump into the box earlier. I guess I got so obsessed with avoiding the FG as well as making sure that FG sticks around that I didn't see it right in front of me. If you fly for the flashing box too soon, FG will leave the screen.

eaauuuch! I knew I shoulda kept my mouth shut!

It was not taking the flying leap off the turtle at the P-switch all week that kept me from 260's on 1-1. By the time I realized it wouldn't be as difficult as I thought to do it consistently, time was close to up. Glad to hear I'm not crazy thinking 240 is possible on 1-2. At first I was like how in the heck can he get a 224 on 1-4, but after a moment of thought I think I have an idea: A flying leap for a slightly earlier pipe might result in being partially up to speed upon emerging out the other side. Don't know why I didn't think of that during the week, but then that's how these things tend to go. It really is amazing how many little points there are to think about. So it looks like 9:30 - 9:31 might be the max... Hmmm, it sounds like you should have potentially walloped me a good one by ahem, holding your score until the end after figuring out that red shell stuff. I decided early on the first day or so that getting both turtles marching along just wouldn't work and then moved on. I always used the green one. I did wonder a little if someone was going to manage one more coin -looks like it might have been you w/a little more time to play...

Mario 3 was a good precursor for all this floating around. All the Joust I played over the weekend was too...