Hello everyone and welcome to the latest installment of the Weekly Contests!  This week’s game is going to be Klax.  Here are the rules:
 
 

• Under the Options Menu, set the Drop Meter to On, Difficulty to Easy, and Ramping to On
• Start on Wave 1
• Warping is allowed, but you must start on Wave 1
• Play until Game Over
• Take your picture after you lose the option to continue (A little timer on the left side of the screen will count up to zero.  When it hits zero, you will be able to see your score)
• Highest score wins
• GENRE: Puzzle

 
 
The contest ends Sunday, 11/8/15 at 11 PM NA time.  Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid.  The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid.  No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted.  No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed.  You must take a picture of your computer monitor.  There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers.  Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator.  Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests.  The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed.  Good luck everyone and have fun

OFFICIAL SCOREBOARD
Klax (Puzzle)
Place	Score	Username
1	1,611,450	Red
2	807,475	bearcat-doug
3	545,725	bertsampson
4	452,725	arnpoly
5	272,700	barrelsAndRivets
6	160,350	ninjistar
7	102,625	floydfan38
8	65,800	ne$_pimp
9	9,900	zobber
10	4,875	skinnygrinny

I probably won't get a chance to try this one out until tomorrow, but it definitely looks like an interesting game.

Very fun game!

I'm usually decent at arcade style puzzle games, so I'll keep my fingers crossed this week!

 

Fun game indeed! Man, some of these Tengen releases really surprise me. Top-notch.

272,700

807,475

 

It's a lot more fun than I expected, but it gets tough in a hurry!

 

If you didn't know. Make sure you pause and press B a couple times.

1,611,450

Me and Red both made it to Wave 17 (I even got two more diagonals) and I still got outscored by over 150k points. I know puzzle games are my weakest genre, but I really must be missing something.

You have to create combos/clear a large number of blocks at the same time to score big points. Don't just go for the round goal.

Some of those large combos look like crazy Bingo patterns. I'm just not skilled enough to pull those off, so I just have to take the "survive and advance" approach.

 

545,725

Hey! You still have to pass me first!

Yeah, but that'll be easy!
 

Thanks for this. Had no idea there was in-game music. 

After the first few levels, though, the pace ramps up and I find the music distracting. However, these are some great tunes!
 

More than likely, but I'm doing my best to be somewhat competitive!

 

Indeed. The sound is good with or without it, but the music (especially the first and third songs) took this game from decent curiosity to completely awesome in my book. I wish I could play this week but I am still waiting for contractors to finish, this is like Eldin on Murphy Brown, lol. Good luck to all competitors!

 

Score updated. I still can't get past Wave 17, but I got one diagonal closer.

I got busy, forgot to post my score, and now I'm seeing what you guys have been up to! O.o We're treading into Twin Galaxies territory here!

At least Wave 17 must be legitimately difficult to get past and it's not just me that's stuck there. I got within 1 Klax of getting past it yesterday, but my score was lower than what I've already got posted.

The TG record is 3.2 million on medium difficulty. Puzzle game usually aren't my strongest genre, but I was hoping that I could do better than about 11% of that with the difficulty set on easy.

I forgot about the difficulty difference. Way to burst my bubble!

 

I know I felt worse about my score when I saw that the TG settings were on medium. I'll probably give this a few more tries, but I've been mostly practicing ahead on Ikari Warriors III since at least I can beat that already.