Dusty Diamond was the last Broderbund game, which means that Nerdynebraskan wins that publisher title (his 10th of the year, so he's hit the max for bonus points already). He beat Guardian Legend and Lode Runner to claim the crown. That's also the first publisher out the top 30 to have every game beaten this year.

Broderbund Champions

(with point totals)
 

2012	Crabmaster2000
2013	WashYourFace
2014	DoctorNick	10
2015	DoctorNick	19
2016	Vectrex280996	11
2017	guitarzombie	14
2018	nerdynebraskan	20
2019	nerdynebraskan	13

 

I beat Rock 'n Ball tonight. I realize it's already been beaten for this year, but I have a question for anyone to answer. Are the codes you unlock in the game BS? I unlocked the 10 ball code from the gambling game and tried to input it for 20 minutes to no avail. Checked the codes out on gamefaqs to make sure it was correct and tried again with no luck. Tried all the other codes you can unlock and also got no results. Used the player 2 pad as suggested in game at the title screen and got nothing. Tried the player 1 pad and nothing. Tried both pads on the main game select screen, character select screen and during the games themselves and got nothing. Did they actually get programmed into the game or are they all just crap?

knight rider

WashYourFace should know, he's the resident Rock 'n Ball expert. He was having problems with it in the 2012 thread, but somehow he figured it out.

He also posted this glitch:

times of lore done

NES Play Action Football is done.

I have finally broken my single-year points record with this completion. Now let's see if I can get to 900 this year. I've been really busy with adult things, but I'm going to keep trying!

California Games is done

I finally beat Genghis Khan! Took me about 66 years lol. So I didn't play it very well but I did get it done and that's all that matters!

Roger Clemens MVP Baseball, terrible game

Nice, congrats!  
 

Rainbow Islands is done

@ table

Nice to see another time-sink of a sports game off the list. I really don't mind Clemens MVP too much, as it plays pretty close to the really good baseball games like Baseball Stars or RBI Baseball. It's just a bit of a slog because of how long the game is. I hope it can still be a 10 pointer next year, for the amount of commitment it requires to see it to the end.

@ Doyce

Are you still going to play some KOEI games this year? I know you mentioned possibly starting the Nobunaga's Ambitions.

If a few players crank it up, I still think we can finish the list this year. Some of the really hard ones are still on the list (Championship Pool, Mutant Virus), but most of the most notoriously long-and-tedious ones are already gone! On that front, we seem to be down to the first Bases Loaded and a few of the obscure RPGs. We may especially need an ace shooter, though, given how many of those are still on the list.

I can start them since it seems there are no other takers. I vaguely remember someone talking about L'Empereur so I can save that for last.

I think it was Crabby talking about L'Empereur and bronze maybe said something a couple of months ago about maybe trying the first Romance of the Three Kingdoms. So, I guess save those two for last.

RoboWarrior is done. The game is so cryptic that I followed a walkthrough the whole way, but aside from that it was relatively enjoyable.

Would be such a great game with a few tweaks. You're right though, way too cryptic.

@Daniel Douce - I'm still planning to hit L'Empereur in October. If you get to it first no biggie, but if you have other things to play first and wouldn't mind leaving it for me that would be awesome.

I finished Nobunaga's Ambition tonight. Took about 4 hours using the ninja strategy. Will do Gemfire next.

Edit: will post picture tomorrow in case anyone cares

Gemfire is done. That's the two easy Koei games. I'll do NA2 next.

I could potentially do Mutant Virus, Track & Field 2, Rad Gravity, Top Gun, Tecmo Cup Soccer, Total Recall, Bart VS World and Starship Hector, if I knew there was a steady plan to finish the list this year.. but I'm not sure if there's much fizzle left this year to do that?

Starship Hector is coming up next week in the weekly contests so it will probably be completed then.
 

I keep meaning to do Destination Earthstar, though it's one of those things where I'm hesitant to start because I know how much pain I'm going to experience in the course of trying.   But I'll give it a shot sometime soon.

It is a pain, especially in the later levels, but, it is doable. Here is my full review and frustrations while playing though:

https://hoz14nes.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/destination-earths...

Yes, I've got your site bookmarked -- I remember reading (and enjoying) that review!  

I got to Level 7 a few years ago and got slaughtered in the side-scrolling level. I was playing on an emulator so maybe real hardware will go better (though I'm slightly afraid of my EverDrive's tendency to crash on occasion).

I've got the first 7 areas mapped out IIRC, just need to find the paper...
 

Nobunaga's Ambition 2 is done. I'll start on Uncharted Waters next

Puzznic is finished, i did both puzznic and gravnic.  Also finished MC Kids last month but i guess i forgot to post it