That's awesome Bert! Congrats. 

Great stuff Santa!!! I could never write as good as you, you always come up with some solid material. Every week I look forward to reading your update. Can't say thank you enough. *tips hat*.

That's awesome! Congratulations!

The picture looks good, but you need to put your score in your post along with your picture. When posting a score, you can either edit your original post or if you make a new post, you need to take down your old picture so that your score doesn't accidentally get counted twice.

Seeing that million point score makes me wonder, does anyone find this game boring after a point? I hit the letters and honestly got tired of playing. I think its the fact that there's only four levels. 

Score Updated!

Well my video kinda sucks, but it shows the fun that the key level can be.

Loop Z:



Also, yes, I did find this boring after a while, but rolling the score, and then finding out what happens after loop Z kept me going. Not much past that, but it kept me going...

I'm not sure that I'd call it boring, just repetitive. I couldn't play this or Kung Fu more than 2-3 times in a row because I'd start to lose focus trying to breeze through the early levels and end up losing lives due to stupid mistakes. I really only had trouble with the key stage and that wasn't until loop 6 and after once the difficulty maxes out, so it did seem to be a bit tedious having to grind through the first 5 loops before I could get a serious run in.

 

Funny thing is I feel like the first stage is the hardest as you move up in the loops,

until I saw the birds on the key stage flying through the ground level, I always usd that as a safety net if things got too hectic I would drop down and walk across the bottom.

I usually worked from the middle out on the key stage of the later loops since I could go to whichever side had fewer snaptraps. The only downside was having to work my way back across the screen, but there's a lot more room to work with in the middle compared to getting boxed in on one of the sides.

I second this motion

x3! The contests just didn't seem the same last year without them. He seriously deserves a Community Writers Award icon for the effort that he puts into them.

^^^^^
That is a great idea doug, we need to talk to someone and make it happen

Another update.... gah, so close to the top 8.

Well, posted a miniature update. I feel like I could maybe get to 200k if I played for a few hours more today, but I'm not sure the spirit is there. I'm more excited about starting 1943 to be honest. Not saying the stray desire won't hit me for a couple more attempts at DKJ, but I kind of doubt it'll happen.

Really amazing to see these astro-wizard-mode scores being posted, though. And great write-up, Santa, as per usual.

Always stupid mistakes ... 137,300

Updated: 122800 keep making simple mistakes stressin over the score instead of just rollin through the loops

Here's a fatty participation score folks!  Great scores from people!

One of the NA mods would have to add it, but it would be a well deserved honor IMO.

You know nothing John Snow! Keep stressin' ! At least you've done better than James Robot!
 

41,000.

Last updated score for the week .... 193000
Better than James Robot, but I can't crack 200k or the top 8. You people are making me a better gamer.
Thanks!

Think I'm done.

246,200

Thanks guys, It's fun to write these up every week - but knowing other people actually enjoy them is a thrill for me.
bimmy always puts up a dynamite write up to start the contests every week (sometimes even bimmy poetry!) so I always feel like I need to keep his efforts going at the end of the week that he started.

Community writers icons are not given out very often here on NA and are a big honor for anyone who fancies themself a writer - but I'm beyond thrilled to even be nominated.

Besides, so much usually happens during the week that everyone basically writes the stories themselves. 

 

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