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NES Open Tournament Golf Nintendo Entertainment System Controller: CONTROL PAD / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Stroke Play > US Course Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST March 31, 2021 Objective Play for the best (lowest) possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between March 15th through March 31st, 2021. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor! Eligibility Anyone can join in. All players are welcome! Play Rules Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback / Mini console, or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following all rules and game settings defined in the challenge. Choosing between real hardware or emulation, and choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level We are playing STROKE PLAY, then select the US COURSE. This will begin a game with Mario playing a standard round of 18 holes of golf. All other options are Player's Choice, left open for you to play using any golf clubs, etc. you'd like. Is there a reliable strategy you can pin down for NES Open? Fair Play Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage. Everybody hates a cheater. More To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: Message Welcome to our 100th Squad Challenge!!! 🎉🥳 Can you believe we've made it this far? We're celebrating The Masters golf tournament coming up with one of the most fun 8-Bit golf games of all time, NES Open! Join Mario, Luigi and the gang for 18 holes of golf! We're playing STROKE PLAY on the US COURSE. All other options are open for you to choose. ROM and PDF Instruction Manual are provided below. I hope you all have fun, and good luck to everybody participating! NOTE: We have a supreme lineup of games coming your way for High Score Squad in 2021! Expect a nice mix of classic Atari home console games in the rotation along with games from other classic systems! Here's a look at some upcoming events: April: National Pac-Man Day! June: 2021 Pole Position II Grand Prix, plus get ready for our Summer Pizza Party! July: A Sega Master System game, HSW Day Ultimate Yars' Challenge, plus a game chosen by our Instagram followers! September: An Atari Lynx game November: A Sega Genesis game December: 2021 F-ZERO Championship, plus a game for Atari Jaguar! Plus many more great games! (Schedule subject to change) NES Open Tournament Golf.nes NES Open Tournament Golf.pdf

Congratulations btbfilms76! Congratulations to @btbfilms76 on a masterful score! BTB knocked it out of the park with his score of 653,490 points, claiming the top spot in our TurboGrafx-16 Air Zonk Challenge! I took 2nd Place with a score of 431,700 points. @Dinobot711 came through with a stellar score to take 3rd Place on our Final Standings with a score of 230,290 points! @nosweargamer @RickR @Atari Creep and @Gianna all joined in on our 99th Squad Challenge and posted incredible scores. Great to see you guys coming out for TurboGrafx and posting such good scores, you are all legends. Congratulations to @btbfilms76 on his big win in becoming Atari I/O’s Air Zonk Champion, and a huge THANK YOU to BTB and everyone else whose been getting the word out about our community and inviting others to join us in High Score Squad. As always I'd like to encourage BTB to post his new high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! And a big congratulations to our community for being such a great group to spend time with, I hope everybody had fun checking out TurboGrafx-16 with this game! NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge is for the NES! Be there!

My Final Score: 431,700 Great job everyone!

Here's a shot of this beast:

I'm looking at this right now. I've never heard of Zaccaria Pinball before. Appears they were a bespoke Italian pinball manufacturer from 1974-1990. These are awesome little tables. I don't know how I've never seen these before. I'm looking at the Legends Pinball on Sam's Club right now, I'm going to order one from my Club when they become available: https://www.samsclub.com/p/legends-pinball-home-arcade-2021/prod25380329?searchTerm=Atgames legends pinball Here's more on Zaccaria Pinball, I've never heard of them until now, it's pretty fascinating and they built some amazing pinball tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaccaria_(company)

That is so right on. I find this to be true everywhere I go. Remember we are all "ambassadors" for the things and hobbies we love.

This is incredible news! How great to see original programmers coming together to release physical media, real Atari 2600 games on real Atari 2600 cartridges. I hope they are able to avoid the pitfalls that have arisen with crowdfunded game system projects such as RetroVGS / Coleco Chameleon, Atari VCS and Intellivision Amico (no pun intended). I wish the guys all the best!

Millie and Molly on the Atari 7800 looks superb!!!

Of course 👍

Thank you! 😎 I need to create a 3-D Glasses Emoji for the Forums, I think that would be neat! Imgur and Flickr are two good options. It's been a quite some time since I've looked at new alternatives, I'd be curious to hear suggestions as well!

Didn't mean to be so late to the game! I'm excited to play this one. Trying to get @Gianna in on the fun too! My High Score: 214,040

What kind of mad sorcery is this?

Welcome to the Forums @Airshack‼️ It's great to have you join us

Loving these taste tests @Control Issues I've always had an interest in unique and regional beverages

Beautiful packaging! 83 Megs running on the TI-99/4A? That's insanely incredible! Just mind-blowing to think Dragon's Lair is being done on a TI.

That Berzerk port looks terrific! I'll need to give this a closer look, especially if it uses the speech synthesizer!

I agree! I voted for "Reasons for a newbie to get into the TI-99/4A" because I think that will be an excellent starter video which will attract new people and help them get their start in the TI hobby. "The most bang for your buck" could be the 2nd video, but I would incorporate the basic points into the "Reasons for a newbie to get into the TI-99/4A" video, with the "bang for your buck" video as a more detailed follow up.

That does look good! A nice clean fit with sturdy construction. I wonder what @Atari Creep would think of this? He has a new 3D printer and has been getting into this stuff recently. I can imagine him really appreciating a design like this.

This looks promising! It's great to see this kind of development happening in the TI-sphere. Loved the music in that last demo!