MattTheSpratt

We haven't had one of these in forever.

There's not really an embargo, I just want in on the fad.

GETTING ANTSY HERE

REEEEEEEEAL ANTSY

Now you too can be baffled by the easy-ass puzzle that somehow sent hundreds of contestants crying home to their sarcophagii! [/announcervoice]

So yeah, nostalgic papercraft of shit-easy puzzle ahoy.

Here's the current standings for Shooting Game King 2011.

1. Bobz [21]

2. MattTheSpratt [15]

3. LoafSKZ [2]

4. Frozenwinters [1]

=  Francis [1]

6. Slim [0]

= Raveraze [0]

Beginning to see a pattern here? That's 'cause I've themed the month - Capcom shmups for the NES.

Get in scores by the 28th, bluh bluh you know the drill.

Good Luck and safe flying!

Took me a while to find another good Capcom shooter on NES. Good being subjective here, though.

Watch out though - your score is also your money so don't spash out too much unless you intend to lag behind.

Screenies in by the 28th as per usual. Good luck!

This game is an interesting curio mainly because it went unreleased for twenty years, thanks to NOAs' "six-games-a-year" policy.

Game's available here, along with ten other unreleased oddities: http://www.lostlevels.org/wordpress/2007/11/08/virtual-console-alternatives/

Post scores by the 28th and I wish you all the best of luck!

You know the drill, take a screenshot of your highest scores and get them in before the 6th.

Use the US version of the game, but if you can't be arsed looking it out, play it on vNES: 

http://www.virtualnes.com/play/?id=NES-LE&s=6

Good Luck!

Edit: TIME EXTEND

Deadline pushed back to 28th, and all four games are available for postings.

Yes, I'm chasing this unholy cluster*crag* behemoth again.

Let's face it, this year's competition was frankly a bit shit, and by a bit I mean "everyone quit". As a consequence, I'm revamping the whole damn thing: scoring system, game choices, everything.

I guess this is also the signup topic, then. If you want in then post, I dunno, a picture of sunglasses below. The games start in February and end in November, so this'll be a pretty gruelling contest. To all entering, good luck.

Four games will be played each month of the competition, all ending on the 28th. I choose the first four, then the person in last place gets to pick four games for the subsequent month.

For each game chosen, whoever picked it must post the options that the other players must use. For a score to be accepted, a screenshot must be provided. It's only fair after all.

Scoring:

Each month will have different point values for the games:

• February = 6
• March = 8
• April = 10
• May = 12
• June = 14
• July = 16
• August = 18
• September = 20
• October = 30
• November = 50

Highest score wins the full points,  second place gets half points, third place a quarter, fourth and fifth receive one point, everyone else gets nil.

Players who miss a game receive nothing.

AND BY ROBOT I MEAN "CHRISTMAS SWAG"

*obligatory Slim magnet thread*

http://cutstuff.net/blog/?p=2369

GO GO GO

Also the return of Bytejacker.

It's always every other day that the Government shits out another bill needing to be opposed.

Got on the train from Cambridgeshire 
Moved down to an East London flat 
Got a moustache and a low cut vest
Some purple leggings 
and a sailor tat 
Just one gear on my fixie bike
got a plus one here for my gig tonight 
I play synth...
We all play synth 
20-20 vision just a pair of empty frames 
Dressing like a nerd although i never got the grades
I remember when the kids at school would call me names 
Now were taking over their estates 
woah ho

(chorus)
I love my life as a dickhead 
All my friends are dickheads too 
come with me lets be dickheads 
(havent you heard?) 
being a dickhead's cool 
being a dickhead's cool 
being a dickhead's cool 
being a dickhead's cool cool cooooool

Polaroid app on my iphone 
taking pictures on London Fields
up on the blog so everyone knows 
were having new age fun, with a vintage feel 
coolest kids at a warehouse rave 
exclusive list look theres my name 
I got in...
You couldn't get in 

never bought a pack of fags i only roll my own 
plugging in my laptop at the starbucks down the road 
say i work in media im really on the dole 
im the coolest guy you'll ever know 
woah ho


(chorus)
I love my life as a dickhead 
All my friends are dickheads too 
come with me lets be dickheads 
(havent you heard?) 
being a dickhead's cool 
being a dickhead's cool 
being a dickhead's cool 
being a dickhead's cool cool cooooool

Loafers with no socks
Electropop meets southern hip hop
Indeterminate sexual preference
Something retro on my necklace