41,742,750

I collected 8 extra balls on this run, 5 of which were on my first ball.  By the time I lost all of those balls and actually moved on to ball 2, I had over 25 million points.  I collected the jackpot a bunch of times, at least 3 times it was well over 1 million.  I even collected the 1 million point UFO bonus from playing the mini games (racing and cannon shooting).  That's the only time I've ever collected the UFO bonus.  Last couple of balls went a little quicker than I hoped, but I was still able to collect a few points with them.  I would have to say, this is my favorite pinball game on the NES and I had a lot of fun with this contest.  It is a difficult game the first time you play it, but the more you get used to it, the easier it gets.  For those who had trouble with the tumbleweeds, the way to escape them is to repeatedly hit B and Select at the same time.  You will escape them every time (you want to be careful you don't tilt the table, although I've never done this while trying to escape a tumbleweed).  And just for fun, here's the high score table from the game with my score.

Not right now.  Benihana has the lead with a little over 20 million.  Just when I thought I would be able to take the night off from this game   It's all cool, though.  His score is very impressive.  Gonna give it another try and see what I can do.

Hope to see you in next week's contest, Christian.  We missed you the last two weeks.