score updated

Damn Jorge, you are a beast at this game.

EDIT: Disregard my score as I agree with both statements below. I will be attempting this again without the loop. I think best thing to do is lose at the shooting range and that's life number 1. I was playing the game thinking know matter how you get it, its still the high score. 

Ouch! Now that's a killer score.

I think we really need to adjust a rule for this game.

No 'second chance' at the shooting range.

 

I think if you fail the shooting range even once and have to replay a stage, should be considered a life deduction, as is thinking about it, someone could replay the first stage, very easily, over and over again just to rack up points. I tested this out a little while ago, got over 3 million points playing the first stage over and over again before I got bored with the testing. I have to keep moving forward, feel like I'm getting somewhere, otherwise for me, just doesn't seem worth the effort, getting high points is easy if you find a loop or safe method, but then where's the challenge in that. So far, I refuse to accept even getting through a stage if I have to play the shooting range, means that I'm not good enough to make it with what is found in each stage. But regardless of the rules, I'm still going at it as is in my own strict way, and just enjoying the challenge of not only trying to rack up a high score, but to see how far I can get on just one life.

What I'm surprised about is that even after failing the shooting range twice, and then afterward not even being allowed to do them again, just being sent back to the first stage again without any more chances at that, that the game don't deduct a life from you. I was going to test it out further, but getting tired, got work tomorrow, thankfully not early though, still, I've played enough of this for tonight-this morning.

^^ Yeah I did pretty much the same thing. Three million was quite easy this way, but it was kind of like point racking, kind of felt like I was cheating even though it seemed to be within the rules of the contest. So I probably won't submit a score unless I make points by going Stage 1, stage 2, ect. See pic below.

(This is not my submission)

I thought the game didn't let you go to the shooting range more than 2 times in the whole game (I thought it made you lose after that). Anyways, it's ok for me to leave out the shooting range, I'm not using that to score more points.

Sorry no can do.






Seriously though...someone better hurry and make a decision on the rules for this silly game. It's Thursday already.

Yeah, it does only let you do it twice, after that you merely get sent back to the previous stage. The only penalty is getting set back once again. But I guess if you already had failed twice, they are basically forcing you to find the sewer access so as to get the Nuke through the stage itself, as well as arresting enough guys, no more chances at the firing range because they want you to get better at it through normal means of the stage.

So much as I don't like the whole idea of point racking, already half the week is gone, rules were set, some already put time and effort into their scores, even if done by looping back around to the first stage again, and again, nothing in the rules said there was anything wrong with this method.

Too late to change, just going to have to make sure in the future to stress that there should be no point racking: no finding a safe spot to stand in or going back and forth and continuously killing respawning enemies (if the game has a timer there could be some allowance for this, so long as there's not a way to keep resetting it), and no looping back to previous stage(s) just to play an easy part again so as to easily build up score, because with either of these meothds, anyone could do those with very little difficulty, only thing against you would be monotony of repetitiveness. What else am I missing? Anyway, point racking by any method that doesn't keep you progressing forward at all times towards the end of the game should be noted as forbidden in all future games held, this'll keep the challenge up and keep scores fair.

To me that's clear, there's no debate about if it's too late or not.

No looping stages, final. Anybody that put effort into this technique just need to get back to it and go forward into the game.

That's not the first time we need to adjust that kind of rule late in the week. Otherwise, that's just a silly 1st stage looping contest, it doesn't take a genius to figure out this is not fair playing.

Agreed peep?
There's still 4 days to go to this contest, so there's plenty of time to record another score until then.


Edit: Also, this is showing us once again that the rules must be set correctly before picking up a contest.

I don't want to accuse anyone seriously for this, but, Jorge should have thought about this when suggesting this contest since he knows this game so well, and, Jeremy should have tested the game to be sure the rules are correct. Otherwise, it's normal that players only figure this out later in the week.

Yes you're right, I should have. The problem is that I honestly thought it was 2 rounds of shooting range and then you lose. I even thought that going to the shooting range was going to be a legit strategy, when I set the rules. Sorry about that, I think I didn't remember that mechanic very well.

Yeah, it is an odd mechanic, I understand fully how you thought it differently. I too thought that it was twice at the shooting range and then you lose.

I agree that there should be no looping of stages in this game. If we allow stage looping, this will turn into a point racking contest as opposed to a contest of skill. We still have 4 days to go with this contest and there's still plenty of time to submit scores. It's not like we are making this rule change on Sunday afternoon at 3 PM.

Ya, whats with that. How come you never play with us dude?

O boy is this going to create a whole other fight about why I dont play,,, I just dont have the time,, I'm spending alot of my time in school,, its almost summer so when I have some free time ill play a little bit but if this is gonna turn into a fight like the prizes why I dont play theres your answer
Jeremy

Score updated, betcha you can't beat this one.

Awesome! You really are good at this game. No way I'm going to get close to that score. I might be able to play some tomorrow, but not sure yet, regardless I really do think you have this one, I'll be really surprised if anyone else could top it. It is possible of coarse.

I didn't have so many NES games in my childhood, so I specialized in this, Ninja Gaiden and a few others

Very minor update in my score. I seem to be doing worst at this game now, though I did find another bonus area, but it was a friggin' slide puzzle, urgh, never been good at those.

Another, slightly higher score update, its not much, but at least I finally made it up to stage 6, actually got there twice in a row, which is good, I'm getting better. But I need to start doing better at completing bonus areas if I want higher points.

^^that's true, the bonus areas are great for points. I actually did one for 2 million points last time (it's the one with the numbers), but got killed immediately afterwards, so I got just below my highest score... but I was like 3 levels before.

The slide puzzle seems to be the same every time, how its scrabbled up, so if I could've remembered the sequence I could've gotten it, but too late now, go to work in a couple hours, won't be home til the contest is over. So my score stands as is, eh, may not be close to your's, but its a good score anyway given how little I've been able to play it. And I enjoyed the game again since I last played it years ago, so that's good.

Yes, you really improved, yours is a good score.

7,082,800


Here we go.