Yeah man! Drop by and post a score whenever you get a chance! Play one contest a year, every week, or every other week. Whatever ya want. 

Ah crap, I usually score 170-190k and not much higher (193k?), somebody already passed 200k. I guess I may give it a try this week anyway It's been awhile since I've participated in one of these.

Doug's 200k score doesn't count toward the final scores for the week since he's a contest moderator, which means as of now, the highest score so far is only 159k.  Give it a shot and go for that 190k

This one should be fun. I have a tabletop DK Jr...First time playing the NES version, I'm surprised at how much easier it is. Specifically the birds level, they scale up the difficulty one bird at a time here, but on my tabletop its all of the birds and klaptraps from the get-go.

I'll have to get used to the sparks on a loop level which isn't present on my tabletop as well, but it's not too tough at least on the early stages.

59,700
74,200
130,500
152,700
166,500
173,700
213,100
223,400
274,400

Quick update: 149,000

Another barely-an-update update. 


 

I think I forgot to put the disclaimer with my original score, so I made sure to add it with my update.

 

Those awards are awesome.

 

Yeah, is it only the winners of tier 1 that get those?

If not I kinda want to play my way into tier 3

Due to the cost of the carts, we have decided that Tier 1 would be the only ones eligible for them in the event we award them.  It was fun to do it for all three tiers the one time, but incredibly draining on the bank account

I've never played this one much, so I'm a n00b at this game too. Those second stage birds are the worst enemies in the game. The stage 4 bird and red snapper combination actually the most annoying enemies in the game.

I got a score of around 30,000 that I'm not even going to bother posting. I want at least 40,000.

142,400
128,100
115,200
112,800
75,500
42,700



 

It took all of about a week before I tore mine out of the plastic  
 

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Boom! Tied on the nose for first barrelsandrivets!

edit: new score below, old score 159,400

Awesome drawing this week Krunch! Keep going on with this.

As I was practicing, I realized I get more than one life this time  

That's why I was disappointed in my score. I was able to score 225k on 1 life during the tournament and the most I could get with the three extra lives this time was only another 9000 points. This game seems to have the same effect on me as Kung Fu where once I lose a life it completely throws me off and ruins the rest of my run. I tried playing Kung Fu one last time Sunday evening and I had 963k and 3 lives going into that fourth floor again and the stupid magician got me all three times in a row.

 

I played a decent amount of Donkey Kong but never really Donkey Kong Jr. ... how different is this one than the original?

Regardless I plan to get a score in this week!

They're completely different games. I personally prefer Donkey Kong, but this one is a lot of fun too. It also has four stages (instead of three like DK), so it doesn't get as repetitive.

I don't own this one, gotta sit out for the week

Goddammit, I had a great run, and then blew all my lives on 5.1 for some reason. Complete meltdown

"Donkey Kong Jr." is one of those old school arcade games that will remind you of how challenging platformers used to be, before "Super Mario Bros." came along and made the physics much more forgiving. You'll fall from what seems like a reasonable height and it will kill you. At first I had a rough time even reaching participation score because I kept dying on the second stage.

For anyone playing this on PC on an emulator, I recommend using the keyboard instead of a gamepad because of the precision required. The directional buttons on PC gamepads aren't always the best for this kind of game.

Yeah, I've been practicing on a keyboard at work and doing my real runs at home on my Powerpak. This is definitely a game that works well with a keyboard.
 

That's no good! Do you not have any way of playing on an emulator ?