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

• When given the choice, pick whichever team you want
• Play until Game Over.
• Furthest progression wins, lowest score takes precedence. If you reach stage 6-4 (green section at the end of stage 6) you must immediately commit suicide to get a Game Over and take a picture of your score. In other words, your run ends at stage 6-4.
• To prevent excessive lives farming, you can't have a score higher than 100,000 by stage 6-1.
• Get to stage 2
• GENRE: Beat ‘Em Up

 
 
The contest ends Sunday, 8/14/16 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
Rollergames (Beat 'em Up)
Place	Stage	Score	Username	Points
1	6-4	38,700	Brock Landers	+11
2	6-4	40,000	Krunch	+10
3	6-4	47,300	Jandrem	+9
4	6-2	40,900	skinnygrinny	+8
5	4	20,600	mbd39	+7
6	3-2	19,300	laddersandcakes	+6
7	3-2	26,300	barrelsAndRivets	+5
8	3-2	31,900	bertsampson	+4
Participation
9	3-1	15,400	zobber	+3
10	2	9,200	egaskrad	+3
11	2	11,400	Ferris Bueller	+3
12	2	13,200	SuperJimtendo	+3
13	2	13,800	Commander Santa	+3
T13	2	13,800	JamesRobot	+3
15	2	14,200	ToxieRules	+3
16	2	14,600	smick	+3
17	2	15,200	arnpoly	+3
18	2	25,300	Seppatoni	+3

Stage 4 - 20,600


 

I have to give this game some credit for the hilarity of the first boss that's just some dude frantically running back and forth until he's out of breath.

does anyone else remember the TV show this game was based on ? it was on saturday mornings after wrestling and was a scripted roller derby / drama , good teams vs the bad teams

Edit: not valid. 

Stage 2: 11,000   Stage 3-1: 17,100
Stage 3-2: 26,300


 

Heck yeah! Except here, they only showed it at 1am on saturday nights, after Saturday Night Live. That was a task and a half staying up for when I was a kid. 

Can't believe I missed the past two weekly contests(my schedule has been exhausting the past two weeks). I love this game, I can't wait to buckle down and submit a good score.

It's actually an old lady, which makes it a little more hilarious...

There's a really hard jump in 3-2 off a sloped surface over a pit that I haven't figured out how to do.

EDIT: I beat stage 3-2 and made it to the boss using continues and then game over'd on the boss. I had enough and shut it off after that, but he didn't seem too difficult.

This game has momentum based jumping and there are times where it's tricky to gain enough momentum.
 

Anyone want to be transparent about how the scoring works?  

I know that you get points when you kill people so just try to kill a lot of people.

Oh, that's the badass crone who trash talks you at the beginning of the stage.
 

31,900

Went to swap out my powerpak for the real Rollergames cart, and broke the tray in my NES TV.  Leaving Friday to Canada for my 15th Wedding Anniversary, so whatever I can muster before then will be my score this week.  I love a good beat 'em up!  

After a bunch of continues I made it to stage 4, finally. Another tough stage.

Unfortunately I have discovered that high score in this game can easily be broken.  I'll discuss with the mods now, but anticipate rule changes or amendments

But there is a time limit that constrains things so a rule change might not be necessary.

I'd be fine with a progress/low score contest though. It might be more fun with progress through the game being the goal.


 

I can assure you it is

How about making this a one life contest? That way even if you point press, you only have one life to do it, so good luck.

EDIT: That might be impossible because it doesn't show your score. Crap.
 

I changed the rules to make something that is almost decent, lol. If you guys have questions, please ask and I'll clarify.

I'm going to check and see how long it takes to get a picture to see if the 1 life rule works.

Yeah, It's my opinion that this doesn't give enough time to get a decent picture especially with my bright screen. I think the low score rule is good enough, and there is no need for the 1 life rule in addition to that.
 

This is a TOUGH game. Making good progress, losing a life, and then not being able to get a picture in that window of a few seconds would be infuriating. But I want to see what others think.

But do we see the stage you're in when you get a game over?

Yes. Stage appears on the continue screen.

 

Oh, so we might go with game over. The thing I liked about 1 life is that we know for sure with the score how much lives someone is supposed to have. But I'll go with Game Over since it is so hard to take a picture between lives.