Nice score, arn. You almost doubled your score from the 2015 contest.

 

That was the week my daughter was born, so I really only had time for one attempt.   

Made a dumb mistake this run, otherwise I could have kept going for quite some time.
 

NOOOOOOO!
Not Kickle.

Also, I will update the leaderboard after I have some coffee.

You might also want to fix the two second place spots on the leaderboard.  

 

Done. The macro on the excel spreadsheet was picking the information wrong for that specific line.
Thanks for pointing out.
 

My money is on Ricky.

I just spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to earn crazy combos, and managed to get to 10k lower than my current score with 3 levels less. Then THIS happened...




Yaaaaay.

I'll take that bet

That sucks bud.  

Looks like the speed makes a difference, so just a monkey, not an idiot monkey  

Interesting info that a combo of more than 6 virus is still worth the same amount as of a 6 virus combo.
That should lead to people optimizing their combos more since destroying more than 6 at once is leaving points on the table.

All right, well here's my maiden voyage submission for 2018.  I actually got pretty close to my 2015 score of ~324K which got me 6th place back then.  This was my first real attempt where I didn't peter out/get bored early on.  Unfortunately I was given a Double Blue pill when there were no Blues on the top level and it put me behind right out of the gate on level 19.


This won't be my last attempt, but FWIW my money's on GameboyRicky too

((new score below, old score 308200))

Well, no, that's not true.  It is poorly worded in the manual, what it actually means is that you score the points cumulatively.  So the first virus is 200 for a total of (200), then 400 (600), then 800 (1400), then 1600 (3000), then 3200 (6200), then 6400 (12600) ---- and after you continue adding 6400 to the cumulative total. 

Like how jumping on Koopas works in Super Mario games, except it caps at 6400 instead of capping at 1UPs.

The actual optimal points for every level is to simply clear all the viruses in one shot every time (obviously this becomes impossible once you reach a certain level).

Here is a video to prove it, except it's on Hi Speed so the numbers are different than what this contest is working with:




 

Interesting. I wonder what the furthest someone got in real time doing one-combos on each level.

Also, that TAS is a really fun watch
 

This game would be way easier if we could just choose which pill we wanted  

I received an anonymous transmission with an important message.

Please refer to the weekly leaderboard post to read the message.
The fate of NA, maybe the world or even the universe is in your hands, contestants!

Same here, and since I can’t beat Gameboyricky, I’m making a public declaration that my goal for this week is to beat you.  I know you can do better than 400,000
 

Krunch called out the champ! It a brotown throw down!

Oh boy, oh boy. There will be fistcuffs!
Krunch calling the champ out like that!

Wow. 40 pieces went by until I got a double red. This game has to be working against you. I spent about a good 10- 15minutes tryng to dig out during level 9 later on as well as the game would not give me the colors I needed. This game...

Yeah. The rng seems designed to waste your time so that games take forever. It sucks.

Tetris >>>>> Dr. Mario


 

Agreed. I prefer Tetris. It feels easier to see possible combos as you get more games in. I have connected with 3 virus combos easier. I doubt I will put up a top 10 score, but at least I have improved some.

I am currently being beaten by a fucking towel? That's not gonna happen! Not this week, not any week. Back to stupid Dr Mario after work I guess!

And where the hell is tables ? He's gonna be the new captain N or whatever !