Hello everyone and welcome to the latest installment of the Weekly Contests!  This week's game is going to take us all the way deep down south to the swamps of Louisiana for some hair-raising action.  My name is Bayou Bimmy and my cousin, Bayou Billy (and not to be confused with my other hotdog-loving cousin, Bayou Jerbilly), needs your help.  It seems just last night, he and his girlfriend, Annabelle, were enjoying themselves at the annual Jambalaya Jamboree, chowing down on of Professor Hector's world famous Gyro-MITE Gumbo, romantically bobbing for crawdads, and Billy even won an alligator wrestling contest.  That's right, he wrestled an alligator!  Yep, that's what I said, an alligator.  You still don't believe me?  Then read my lips: Alley-Gay-Tore!  And no, he didn't take down the famed creole gator, Leatherhead, I guar-own-tee!  Anyway, it was that night when Billy and Annabelle ran afoul of the legendary New Orleans gangster of Bourbon Street, Gordon.  Apparently Gordon was there sampling some of his famous red beans n' rice when Billy cracked a joke that anyone who ate it would be in for a rootin, tootin good time.  Trust me, I've had the stuff before and it will make you gassier than Bo Abobo at an all you can eat barbecue buffet.  Anyway, Gordon didn't take to kindly to the joke, so he kidnapped Annabelle and took her all the way to his base of operations in downtown New Orleans.  To help Billy get her back, you'll have to first help him navigate the backwaters of Louisiana.  You'll have to help him take down thugs with big sticks and whips, beat off big crocs and turn them into luggage or fancy boots (yes, I know crocodiles live in salt water, I just wanted an excuse to say “beat off big crocs&rdquo , and steer him clear of any dueling banjos he might hear in the swamps, otherwise he will be subjected to squealing like a pig.  From there, Billy must jump in his jeep and drive past the French Quarter (sorry, he will have to miss Mardi Gras and all the sexy, French girls.  And those babes DO shave their pits.  Oh-la-la!) and all the way to the heart of the Big Easy to get his lovely girl back.  So, arm yourselves with the sharpest Bowie Knife you can find, throw on your Crocodile Dundee vest and hat, eat a bowl of spicy jambalaya, and get ready to experience the Adventures of Bayou Billy.  Here are the rules:

• Play on Mode B (no Zapper)
• You may not play any of the Practice stages to boost your stats in the main game
• No point racking allowed
• Play until Game Over   UPDATE : We highly encourage anyone to pause the game immediately after losing their last life to take their picture in order to see the progression. This unfortunately can't be done for the driving stages.
• Looping of the game will be allowed
• Highest scores wins
• Please note that only the NTSC version of the game will be allowed this week.  Anyone suspected of using a foreign version (the difficulty on the NTSC version is different) will have their score disqualified.
• Participation: 10,000
• GENRE: Beat 'Em Up

The contest ends Sunday, 4/23/17 at 11 PM NA time.  Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid.  The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid.  No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted.  No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed.  You must take a picture of your computer monitor.  There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers.  Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator.  Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests.  The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed.  Good luck everyone and have fun  

 

1st	572,220	Bea_Iank
2nd	343,740	arnpoly
3rd	307,780	tablew/chairs
4th	202,820	gutsman004
5th	188,600	mbd39
6th	106,250	Richardhead
7th	97,050	Stryphos
8th	94,040	the tall guy
so close ...	87,910	skinnygrinny
not as close ...	68,080	ninjistar
	54,240	JerToxieRules
	42,300	kamakaze_ekun
	37,570	Seppatoni
	35,300	Brock Landers
	32,720	Krunch
	27,700	NESking80
	25,130	Murray
	21,310	SuperJimtendo
	16,880	dirk12121212
LAST	14,310	barrelsAndRivets

Play till game over means looping is allowed?

Looping will be allowed.  However, we will forbid it if we feel it could create problems.

Oh gods, my poor fingers will suffer quite a bit then.
Let's see what the dawn of a new contest week brings upon us.
 

Checking in. Emulator, keyboard, US ROM. Do not expect great results, here just for the fun.

Already?  

This should be fun to watch. I'm betting that there will be some seriously amazing scores this week!

572,220 - Loop 5, stage 6
236,840
118,740

I got too freaking tired of punching freaking crocodiles and that lead to freaking ton of freaking rookie mistakes at stages 4 and 5 that took me 7 freaking lives.
Then I just freaking gave up at freaking stage 6. FREAK!
Trying to keep my cursing PG-13. IT SUCKS!
I swear, if I have to punch another freaking crocodile, I will kill someone here.

My poor useless fingers.
Looped the game twice and died to the rock throwing guys at stage 1.
The driving stages cost me a good 5 lives on the second loop. And another 2 or so lives were lost on the second shooting stage due to lack of bullets.
I will try to improve this tomorrow...

Good grief, my fingers need a break.
Looped the game but died at the start of the first shooting stage.  
Might try again later today.

I was hoping it would just be one loop.

I was hoping so as well, because by Odin's beard, doing 2 to 3 loops of this will be a pain on one's fingers.
 

Even one loop is a pain on the fingers.

Tom Votava looped the game for hours to get a million points. That is a super human feat of endurance.

That was freaking insane, yes.
I am curious of how this will go.
I know I just can't go more than 2 loops. I get tired of the game, despite enjoying it a lot and usually give up at that point.

I'm probably just going to get participation this week as I really don't like this game.

I'm already loving this game, Bayou Billy is a gator fighting badass. I really want to beat this

Great Write up Bimmy! Whoo boy this week is going to be fun I garontee!  

The second driving stage sucks. The final boss fight sucks. Otherwise this is a great game.

I should be able to loop it at least once this week.


 

I honestly don't think I've played this unless I rented it as a kid and just don't remember it. Is it Track & Field or 1943 painful? 1943 didn't seem to bother me too much, but my thumbs were sore for a week after the last Track & Field contest.
 

For the final boss fight you have to keep moving in circles around them for a LONG time with the NES dpad. The driving stages where you have to keep holding up are also bad. Worse than 1943. Probably not worse than Track & Field.
 

I am absolutely awful at this game. I've been trying for months and can't beat the first stage. Guess after work today I'll get wasted on multicolored eggs. Take my pants off. Fly to space. Then ill put up a 9999 points score.

I LOVE your new sig!

Damn, it's a real thing.

http://bayoubillypopcorn.com/...

 

Oh shit...

I discovered a much faster way of beating the final boss from the internet involving jump kicks. I don't know how difficult it is to do, but anything is better than the circle around and whip method.

168,300
202,820(2nd loop,stage 6)

The first loop went great! No deathed it up to the stage 7 boss. Screwed that up. Also died a careless death in stage 8 to those guys that can body slam you. After that I didn't die again. Guess I got a little tired because my second loop run was sloppy.

Died in stages 1 (really?! Ugh) 2 (to the boss) 4 (twice,BS deaths) once in stage 5 (another one that shouldn't have happened) and to this whip wielding bastard in 6. The enemies just take so many more hits to kill I recommend a brief pause session every stage or two. The gators take 19 hits to kill with punches in loop 2. 19!

Oh and you can pause right when you die,so I took my picture there to show progress.