With less than 24 hours remaining to submit a score this week for Xevious, here is your weekly contest update.
First, The Stats...
- 29 contestants have entered a valid score over the participation threshold this week so far
- 14 participants have submitted scores over 100,000 points
- 6 Sovalou Masters have topped a score of 200,000
Top 3 Scorers for the Week thus far
1. erizisto - 2,396,230
2. acromite53 - 559,150
3. moobox - 352,530
NEWS...
Five NA Championship Participants Shatter the twingalaxies.com World Record this week for Xevious
With time still left on the clock, Nintendoage has proven once again that many of the world's best NES players call NA home.
Back in 2010, twingalaxies.com member Mark A. Stacy submitted a score of 236,490 that has stood as the "official" world record for the past 5 years. Although 2 players over at uberNES.com have managed to top that mark, no other sanctioned scores have been recorded that have topped that since... ...until now.
Nintendoage shump masters erizisto, acromite53, moobox, WickedWonka, and bearcat-doug have all out scored twingalaxies' best score in attempts to take the Xevious crown this week.
Congrats to all five players in reaching a score most people in the world have never seen in the NES version of Xevious.
NESMASTER14 Un-earths Xevious video from the 1980's with Bizzare Results
NA Member NESMASTER14 entered the championship fray this week and brought along with him a video made by the creators of Xevious. The makers of Xevious hail from Japan, hence the language of this interesting video is completely in Japanese.
Special NA reporter bearcat-doug "doug" a bit deeper this week into the film and discovered there may have been an issue with the translated subtitles.
Is this just a case of botched localization, or is this - as others claim - clearly a secret message embedded by the illuminati?
Take a look at some of the excerpts uncovered by bearcat-doug and judge for yourself.
Sample 1: "I proceed to the abolition reduced both league more than 30 kinds of procurement difficulties of beef."
Sample 2: "American Police are after all against it."
Sample 3: "Young guys in Hong Kong post I to pound was good."
Spooky stuff. We've also been notified that bearcat-doug has returned safe to the United States after covering this story.
erizisto and acromite53 Trade Punches Early and Often in this Week's Contest
acromite53 was the first participant to top twingalaxies.com's world record on Day 2 of this week's contest, but current high score holder erizisto fired back the next day to overtake that impressive score. All week long these two "shumpers" have been slugging back and forth, each time one out scoring the other. Both are currently comfortably in 1st and second place, but competition is heating up.
moobox had his best run of the week here on Day 6 scoring 352,530 to wrestle away third place from 2012 Nintendoage Shump Champion WickedWonka - (who is currently sitting at 290,630).
bearcat-doug has been holding on to 5th place (261,730) but 2014 Nintendoage Shump Co-Champion gutsman004 is hot on his heels with a breakout score he posted late on Day 5. Fellow 2014 Shump Co-Champion Balloon_Kid and Xevious Expert jump_man95 have been lurking this week, but have not yet revealed their hands.
There has been a big jump in scores over the past 2 days. Will the top 3 hold on to their spots this week, or will someone else finally solve Xevious to steal their spot in the 11th hour?
Will arnpoly and khog143 re-enter the Championships this week?
The answers will reveal themselves in less than 24 hours! Get your scores in!
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Santa's 8-bit Xmas Hall of Heroes
bunnyboy, psychobear85, superbobby, captmorgandrinker, guillavoie, KHAN Games (backup from Jon Solo), fsped09 & zi
Edited: 03/07/2015
at 11:19 PM
by Commander Santa
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