Hello and welcome to the ninth round of the first Sega Master System Weekly Contest!  This week's game is Columns.  Have you ever played a puzzle game where you have to match colored blocks?  Well, this is one of those.

Rules:

-Choose 1 Player
-Original mode
-Normal difficulty
-Start at level 0
-Play until Game Over
-You only have a few seconds after Game Over to take your picture.  I would recommend pausing the game right before losing to take your picture
-Highest score wins

For general contest rules, click here:

http://nintendoage.com/forum/mess...

Good luck and have fun!

SCOREBOARD:

1st: Yoshi (57,660)
2nd: mbd39 (49,350)
3rd: bimmy_lee (42,930)
4th: laddersandcakes (27,930)
5th:
6th:
7th:
8th:

 

49,350


 

This is a game where score matters. So it should retain your high score like Nintendo Tetris rather than it quickly disappearing when you get a game over. I don't know what the programmers were thinking. And since the pause is on the console it's going to be annoying for those playing on real hardware to get a pic.

Otherwise this is a fun little puzzle game.

^^^Very true. I managed to snap the pic real fast before the fade-out. Fun little game. This was my first attempt, so I know I can do better. I'll try to carve out some more time to participate this week and improve my score. But I wanted to post to get in the mix, at least. 

27,938

I don't know if I'll be able to do much better than this. I lucked into some big combos.

Snap, great score! I updated mine a bit, but it's not even close. You're so right re: getting the photo, too. So frustrating. I had at least 2-3 runs that were higher than my current post, but I wasn't fast enough with my phone; one time, the cat laid on it (grr). The Everdrive has a tiny pause button, but there's not enough time to run to the console, unless I physically move the console closer to my seat, ha. 

It's a fun game to kind of zone out to, for sure. Definitely gives me the same feeling as playing original NES Tetris, which I love. I'd played the Genesis version of Columns once or twice. I'll be revisiting it this week, too. Similarly, I don't think I'll ever be a whiz at the game, but it's groovy to play regardless. 
 

My score came from an extremely fortunate huge combo. I've had a couple scores over 30k since then, but I doubt I'll be able to do better.

And the game becomes unplayably fast once you're at around stage 7.

 

57,660
26,400
8,490



Holy shit, I had two amazing combos back to back that I had to photograph the progression of and pausing to get photos just in case.

Starting with 30,420




Then 55,260





Finally ending with 57,660 (first image).  The colums were falling insanely fast at Level 9.

Score updated: 26,400

42,930



I think I might be able to do better than this, but I'll have to get pretty lucky on my combos.

Score updated: 57,660