CGQuarterly Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) This season, the NES HSC is going to participate in the AA-wide knockout competition. The cool thing about this is that the winner of each knockout tournament will enter into a grand championship tournament to crown the high score king of Atari Age! See the rules here: http://www.atariage....t-announcement/ Basically whoever gets last place gets knocked out of the competition. If you fail to submit a score, you are automatically knocked out. If you don't think that you will be able to consistently submit scores, maybe it's better for you to skip this season. The tournament will end when there is only one player left standing. Whoever gets the second-lowest score will pick the next game. If no game is picked within 24 hours, then I pick. The only rules of game picking are that the game cannot already have been played this season, and the game must keep score (duh). There are no "sign-ups" for this tournament. You sign up by submitting a score for this round. If you get knocked out, you can still compete in the NES HSC, but your score will not count towards the knockout tournament. So I'll be posting 2 sets of results for each round. Yes, we've played Contra before, but I think it's a great choice for the first round of a knockout tournament. Title: Contra Developer: Konami Publisher: Nintendo Released: 1987 (US) Rules: No Konami code! (Duh) This round will end on Sunday, January 29th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMyoNhGHbk Scores so far: 1. Austin 3,130,300 2. asponge 2,325,400 3. cparsely 1,049,800 4. Sonic R 818,800 5. bigbee99 96,300 6. LarcenTyler 77,900 7. Jibbajaba 76,200 8. roadrunner 35,500 Current standings: Edited January 31, 2012 by Jibbajaba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Welcome NES'ers to the KnockOut competition... I'll throw up the first score... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Just a heads up, the max score in this game is 6,553,500. It takes many, many loops to get there, too (10 or so, maybe?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 With 3 lives, doubt we going to have a 10 looper lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 With 3 lives, doubt we going to have a 10 looper lol You get extra lives every so often. You will rack up a ton of them along the way if you play well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 That's what got me where I got to Austin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 That's what got me where I got to Austin... Oh, you meant you. I thought you were indicating some kind of rule where we can only play three lives, but I didn't see it on the ruleset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 No, the only rule is start with 3, not 30 via the Konami code Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 824,700 Finished it once, got bored on the second loop. Got a screen via capture card footage since I was already recording another game prior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 31,500 I'll probably be the first one knocked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I've always been amazed by the guys who can loop Kanomi games over and over. I am not one of those I played this one on EMU. I think I could do better with hardware but I'm not feeling it right now. 73800 B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asponge Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Here's my first run at this: 761,900 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I wanted to try and cap out the score, but I got bored and tired on my fourth or fifth run and made myself lose all my lives. I think on a normal single playthrough, you gain something along the lines of 8 extra lives, so it even took me a while to make myself die. 3,130,300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm going to jump in on this... I'm wayyy out of practice with Contra but played it quick to get a score up... 818,800 bear the first loop, did rather sloppy! then I died just right before the first boss, lost my spread well I tried to wait out for red guys is the base, and wasted more lives doing so... and my game ended in the waterfall of the second loop... my personal best is beating 3 loops, with a score in the 2 million neighborhood... might give it another shot when I get my groove back… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Current Unofficial Scoreboard Austin 3,130,300 Sonic R 818,800 Asponge 761,900 cparsley 95,800 bigbee99 73,800 roadrunner 31,500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Okay, so I was wrong, once concentrating, it is rather easy to roll this game (the levels, not the scoreboard) Score: 1,049,800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Okay, so I was wrong, once concentrating, it is rather easy to roll this game (the levels, not the scoreboard) Score: 1,049,800 The third or fourth loop is where things start to get hairy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Was on the Alien Lair second loop when it fell apart, damn B not holding out for about a second more, combined with a cheap death that took the Spread gun from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Yeah, that massive alien head takes a ridiculous amount of hits when you get really high in the loops, and he spits out more of the tiny aliens and they take longer to kill, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asponge Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 2,325,400 Made it almost to the end of the Energy Zone on the 4th loop. Things kind of fell apart in the Snow Fields. I lost my final life to a cheap death when a solider jumped below the platform I was on and hit me. The real twist of the knife is that I went through the Energy Zone the first three times without taking a hit. Go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Small improvement 35,500 This game would be better with a health bar instead of getting killed with one shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 77,900 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 Remember, this round ends tomorrow. Roadrunner, you're in danger of being knocked out! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 76,200 Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HatefulGravey Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Are we playing through today or is this already over? I might actually have time to play tonight, been wanting to for a week. I'm not very good at this one though so it might not matter anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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