Hello everyone and welcome to the latest installment of the Weekly Contests!  Hey, guys, it's me, Bimmy.  What...were you expecting some kind of clever or stupid nickname?  Well, you shouldn't have.  It's just plain old Bimmy this week.  Not Chef Boy-ar-Bimmy, not Bimmy Allen Poe, not Bimmystein, not Bimmnar the Brawny, not Bimmy Abdul-Jabbar, not even Bimm-Bert Bartholomew Bertram Barnaby (aka Bimm-Bert).  Just Bimmy.  B-I-M-M-Y, Bimmy.  Yes, of course Bimmy is a real name.  Didn't you watch the AVGN Berenstein Bears video?  He proves Bimmy is a real name in that video!  Anyway, did everyone check their mailbox on Saturday?  I sure hope you did, because you would have gotten a very important letter from your Uncle Steve, aside from all the retro video games you bought off Ebay or NintendoAge or whatever online website you use to add to your vidya game collection.  Wait, what do you mean you don't have an Uncle Steve?  He sent you a letter!  You should show him some respect and read it.  After all, he could have sent it to the Marx Brothers instead!  I'll just wait until you all read it...waiting...waiting...waiting...waiting...still waiting...playing with myself while waiting, I mean, playing Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em while I'm waiting...yeah, that sounds like a good cover story...waiting...waiting...getting gray hairs...getting wrinkles...playing with myself again...I mean, playing Custer's Revenge while I'm waiting...waiting some more...damn, you read slow...this isn't War and Peace you are reading, it's a simple ONE PAGE LETTER...waiting...  Wha...wha...what are you DOING!?  You're not supposed to eat that!  It says right at the bottom of the letter “Do not taste, eat or otherwise consume this paper.”  Check the NintendoAge entry for Star Tropics if you don't believe me.  The letter said it was very important and should be saved until the completion of the game!  Can't you read????  Oh, wait, you probably can't since it took you an ETERNITY to read the letter!  Well, you're lucky that I read the letter and know exactly what to do.  You need to pack your bags and head to C-Island, all the way down in the Southern Pacific.  What, you don't know how to get there?  Oh geez, this is going to be more difficult than I thought.  Okay, first of all, DON'T take that left at Albuquerque.  You'll likely end up in China or somehow on Mars or Melmack or some other crazy foreign place.  Second, DON'T take the right at Neo City or you're gonna end up right under the toilet of Bo Abobo!  Trust me, you don't want to be there, especially after he's visited an all-you-can-eat Mexican buffet!  Lastly, if you reach Skull Island, then you have gone WAAAAAAAY too far.  If for some reason you do pop up there, do history a favor and DON'T interfere with Fay Wray and King Kong or you might destroy the universe!  What might happen you say?  Well, any actions could mean that the world will be headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.  What do I mean by “biblical?”  What I mean is Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff.  Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies!  Rivers and seas boiling!  Forty years of darkness!  Earthquakes, volcanoes...the dead rising from the grave!  Human sacrifice, Bimmys and Abobos living together...mass hysteria!  I think I've made myself clear...don't mess with history...oh, and...don't eat too many hotdogs!  What, that could mess with the timeline, too!  Why do you think Jerbilly says that all the time?  It's a prophecy, that's why.  He may be a moof milker, but he knows what he is talking about!  Anyway, your target destination is Coralcola Island and...no, I said “Coralcola” not “Coca Cola.”  Okay, you know what, I'm just going to give you the rules since you're not paying much attention to what I'm saying.  Here's what you need to know to succeed at Star Tropics:

• You must create a New Game
• You can use the save feature as you want, meaning that you can lose as many lives as you want, and you can reset to replay a dungeon as you want. You can even copy your save file to have a backup or even two.
• Highest score wins!
• Participation: 15,000
• GENRE: Action/Platformer

What you need to know about the scoring system of Star Tropics: Every dungeon has a maximum points reward set at 7650 (30 x 255). But you lose points in dungeons for killing enemies. You lose 30 points for X number of enemies killed, and all enemies count (some dungeons subtract 30 for each 2 enemies killed, some others it is for each 3 enemies, 4 enemies, 5 enemies... you'll have to figure this out on your own). So, in order to get the highest score possible in Star Tropics, you need to find the best way to beat each dungeon while killing fewer enemies.  Doesn't this make you think about a set of rules we sometimes use for the contests? Yes, we haven't created the furthest progression/low score combination, Star Tropics has a scoring system that tweaks the formula into a high score contest. How cool is that? Radicola cool!


The contest ends Sunday, 6/25/17 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	91,290	tablew/chairs
2nd	91,260	scaryice	*New this week
3rd	91,020	Richardhead
4th	90,930	arnpoly
5th	90,390	Gloves
6th	90,210	Bea_Iank
7th	89,700	Stryphos
8th	88,440	Brock Landers
so close ...	87,840	Yoshi
not as close ...	86,970	SuperJimtendo
	65,910	barrelsAndRivets
	59,880	JamesRobot
	48,660	Murray
	29,880	mbd39
	28,440	dirk12121212
	22,440	Seppatoni
LAST	20,940	skinnygrinny

This is madness.  
And to make matters worse, there is an octopus boss in this game!
I foresee not performing very well in this.

Fixed that for you  

There is 12 chances out of 10 that I will get stuck at the octopus boss till the end of the week.  
 

Score: 87,840

I could of done better. I farmed those things Zoda spat out to full health and I was a little overzealous with the magic potion, but it worked out in the end.



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When I was a kid, I thought the only way to defeat the octopus was to knock the ink balls back at it with the baseball bat. Whoops. I died a lot in the game before I knew what was going on.

Saved.

I LOVED this game when I played for Survivor, but I'm not sure I'll have time this week for another go at it. Indeed, now that FFXIV: Stormblood's main story questline is fixed an I am able to progress, I'm not sure I'll be doing much aside!

Excited to give this a whirl as I never even played past the first dungeon before!

**89,700



Startropics was a cool experience.  Definitely not what I was expecting, especially the second half or so of the game.

Man it was such a fun game! I was surprised, as I'd passed the game up about a billion times in the wild. The cover really doesn't do well on selling the game lol.

This game is fairly fun, but I have a long, LONG way to go with it.
I didn't even make past the 1st dungeon yet.
Hopefully by next weekend I will be able to post a decent score.

This is another one that I'd never played. How difficult is it?

Not very difficult at all, especially considering you can save as you go. The last "dungeon" is a bit of a spike in difficulty, and one in a graveyard can be particularly confusing (hidden doors in walls), but aside from that, pretty straightforward.
 

Never knew about the scoring system, interesting!

This is going to be a blast! We get to play the game as the game intended!

Radicola cool, lol ... nice Bimmy, nice.

Why did they make the controls like this instead of having normal controls?

91,020




I've always wanted to visit Melmack!

because that's how the game is designed. It's a little stiff at first but once you get used to it, it makes perfect sense for the game, with how the puzzles work. The sequel Zodas Revenge changed it to more traditional controls, and the game suffers because of it.

Is the boss one skip allowed?

With the points gain being negligible and non-repeatable, I'd imagine so.

I never paid attention to how it affected the score   just since I was pressed for time playing it in survivor, I figured that was better to progress a bit more

Haha, I have to plead guilty for that one, Bimmy hasn't played through the game yet  

I got 7,170 in dungeon one. Is it possible to get 15,000 there alone?

After completing the first dungeon I'm starting to get into this game. It's not bad.