Except for the ice cream of course
Like i said before it is about ice cream and speed. Noting else gives you points.

Combo kills give points, but there aren't many places where it is worth doing.

To risky for me. It takes time and you can get yourself killed. I just focus on time.

I don't go out of my way for it.  But there are definitely levels where it seems to be "part of the puzzle", and if you can maximize the combos in those situations it appears to matter.  (thinking of the lines of ice wizards in a particular Stage 4 level, a time where you can stack Noggles and Clowns at the end of Stage 2, etc)

UGGGH!!!

Made it to 5.8MM on my 1st man... died a terribly stupid death, and then managed to beat the game on the next life with 6.44MM!
What an exercise in frustration!

I may give it another go tomorrow to see if I can pull through in one life, but one try was enough today!

I think some of you guys need to record your runs for submission to Twin Galaxies.

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Man, I need to illuminate my NA username.  At the very least you can make out the three ghosts and Daruma on top of my tv.

Twin gala what ? Seriously i read about the state of that site today. What a mess and shame.

I'm just interested in NA Scoreboard.

Probably 90% or more of twin galaxies records are readily beatable and are just held by the couple of people who cared enough to record it.

i would expect our weekly contest to meet or beat the record almost every time, just due to collective focus of this many good players.

Is scoreboard ready to go ?

I had the impression it was going to be built into PowerPak2 and the HDMI NES, so no, not available yet

I don't know why, but I got my ass kicked by that stupid clown and his balls! Fuck him!
I'm done with this - 3071900 (BTW I forgot to snap a pic before the boss and only did it afterwards, which shouldn't matter since beating a boss doesn't give you any points)

^^^ I actually figured out if you stay WAY to the sides in the boss battles you get multiple hits against them for each attack they throw at you.

Yup, TG is a mess.  I mostly agree with your assessment of the scores listed there.  About the only quality scores over there are from the arcade, plus those from a handful of serious console gamers (Andrew Gardekis, Scott Kessler, and Chris Knight come to mind, but there are others).

I will say this much: Most people who care enough about their scores to record them also care enough to do their best.  I would not expect just any old NES score to be beaten in the weekly contests without some real effort.

My hope is that the latest ownership group gets it right and brings things back to the point where people actually want to post to TG again.  They have a lot of hearts to win back though.

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I've been busy with work this weekend so I haven't had much time. This is it for me.

I was referring to NES/GB/etc, not arcade.  I know their old arcade scores were serious-business.

But I've seen so many laughably defeatable scores for consoles and handhelds, that I never really took those seriously with a few exceptions like Tetris.

I'm not trying to take anything away from the guys you mention, because I've seen their scores.
But they didn't hold the scores on "most games" back when I last checked (and it's been years, i admit), so a huge amount of the library was just held by whatever person felt like sitting down with a recording set up and going through the motions.


Most of us are content to know that we're really good, and enjoy the competition of these kinds of man-to-man contests without caring too much about going through the extra effort for something like Twin Galaxies (and since I know there are probably dozens of gamers as good as the best of us, obviously we're not alone in not caring too much about who "officially" holds a "record" we know we can beat handily).

Back when we first started these contests, for instance, I know we had multiple people beating TG records on a near weekly basis.  And a lot of that probably came from playing more obscure titles that didn't have a force of devotees that wanted to go through the rigamarole of video submissions.

At this point your better of starting a new site. The name twin galaxies is to damaged.
I'm suprised nobody tried to take TG's place.

6,825,400 - DOES NOT COUNT (Challenge score only)

Had a really lucky run that included 3 rings, which were countered by a few slow levels due to certain enemy movements.  Otherwise this was a really clean run.  It was tough balancing when to go for the popsicles and deciding whether to kick blocks at them or not, but I think I figured out the optimal strategies for each level.

A few people actually have tried.  None of them have really gone anywhere though.  Too many sites competing to be "THE site".

Very nice.

I was on pace for probably something in the 6.5-6.6MM range with no rings (scaling from my previous runs), but encountered yet-another-stupid-death!

Unless there is some way to manipulate getting the bonus rings, you might be approaching the functional max with a score like that.

Score from yesterday:

5,843,500




Had a couple of runs that were pacing really well today, but ultimately died in some embarrassing ways, leaving this run from yesterday as my top 1-life score...

TG is THE site,damaged or not. And yes,I think all of us could claim a record or two on TG if we really wanted. If the site does come back the way it should,I may try to submit some scores.

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man would like to play this more but my a.d.d. with the amount of time you watch cutscenes drives me nuts haha!

I agree that the unskippable cutscenes bother me...