DANG IT!!! So close to 10K!!!

9625 Points

Same here. My cart loves to troll me, apparently.

Heh.freaking Yoshi and his egg top stinginess. I'll try again tonight and see what I can do.

14,610 Score Updated!!

^^ I've just had crap run games so far. This game is very frustrating with its stinginess. Not only that,but its so wasteful by dropping lots of stuff you can't really even use,so you are just sitting there...sometimes for quite a while....just pairing monsters so your playfield won't fill up. Very exciting.... Also the level increases just seem to be time based or based on a certain amount of "blocks" having fallen instead of merit based,which I think is ridiculous. Oh well,I'll try again tomorrow.

645

Not a fan of puzzle games.

Don't know. Probably the same reason Natsume renamed their NES game everywhare
(Kage - JP/Shadow of the Ninja - US/Blue Shadow -EU)

I allowed your score since this is the first time you have participated this year, but please make sure to take a picture of your computer monitor if playing on an emulator.  I no longer accept submissions of scores where a screenshot is taken using the "print screen" option on a computer.

What about word of mouth? I heard that gutsman guy scored 40 billion on Yoshi last night.

What an amateur! Some vectrex26 guy or something like that scored 80 trillion last night

My user name is in the screenshot, u see the UPN logo on the right hand side?

UPN the former home of WWE Smackdown!

This is my first ever Gamer's Gauntlet! Glad I took part. I plan on doing many more. 6155

Just got 80.1 trillion. Played one handed with my eyes closed too.I had a pretty good run. Then skies opened up and it started raining money. =p

I didn't even know you could do that. I thought you had to match up the egg pieces together. I guess I should have looked up the instructions first.

My score has been updated to 7,280.

Also, I'd like to give credit to everyone who has broke 10k so far. The speeds just get ridiculous in the later levels so that's impressive, at least to me anyway.

Going to try to crack 10K tonight. We'll see how it goes. I want to do decent on at least one puzzle game. I got smoked on Tetris and Dr. Mario.

Not sure that I agree too much on the luck thing but there is definitely a lot of patience necessary. The most important thing is just being able to manage your board properly like many puzzle games (although this one probably requires more stamina since the pieces don't fit together that smoothly).

Since the best strategy is to go for x7 egg drops only you just need to focus on building one at a time and make rules for how to dispose of unwanted pieces.

Always drop a bottom egg in an empty space if available (unless you are breaking another bottom egg sitting atop a monster). Try to keep one bottom space open if possible.

Given the choice between killing a monster outside of an egg or filling another spot in an egg tower, always kill the monster.

Always break egg bottoms that are not on the bottom row (you only get 200 for a x6 combo so it's better to restart).

On earlier levels, it's okay to try to build two x7 egg towers but make sure that one is being focused on more.

If you start panicking, focus only on clearing and not on the x7 combo.

Hope this helps a bit. I am not even coming close to my last score do I think maybe that one was "the one."

Bimmy means taking a picture like this:



As opposed to this:

Updated my score. 12,930

Cracked the 10K barrier tonight like I was hoping to. I will agree with krunch about the patience aspect,but I think there is a decent amount of luck involved as sometimes you get a lot of egg pieces and other times you may go a while before any drop. What I've been doing is filling one column up completely and having another with 1 free space in it,with the other two columns being used for trash,cleanup,or to help build a third full column. It's not often that you'll get two top egg shells to drop at the same time,and sometimes things get crazy when you are switching things around with two full columns,so having a column with one free space in it gives you some latitude in case you mess up while letting you be one block away from having a full column to get the 500 points.

EDIT

This is exactly what I'm referring to regarding pictures.  There was no issue with the user name in the picture, as I saw the UPN logo. 

Also, just wanted to give a huge thanks to ookii_risu for donating a box of games that will used as prizes throughout the year and Vectrex280996 for donating a game to be used as a prize as well. Thank you both for your awesome donations

I think this is the only attempt I'm going to make. I'm literally exhausted from just this. Although it was fun since I used to have the Gameboy version as a kid.

5335 

(oops, I missed the part about the high score screen. oh well, I'm only making the one attempt. I do not feel up to trying again. if it doesn't count, oh well, whatever.)

12470!!!
Sorry Dev Actually I had a couple of shit runs yesterday but this evening's efforts have paid off! Sometimes I go on a Yoshi rush and get 10K+ but sometimes I only get 3K+ and usually after 3 tries of 3K+ I go play the Three Stooges. That or watch Stooges shorts.
Also pretty close to gutsman... Don't worry! I saw that vex26 or something like that guy today and he told me he's going for 100 trillion blindfolded while unicycling on a tightrope, playing with only one foot!

Nice one, Vectrex. I've put in a few more hours and can't seem to break my 12k score.