RickR

So after 1 year and 4 months later (and me forgetting about this thread 😖),  here's the current setup in the gameroom! 
 





 

Congratulations btbfilms76!
 
Congratulations @btbfilms76 on your high score! I hope you guys enjoyed checking out Ninja Spirit on TurboGrafx-16! How does this ninja game compare with Shinobi on Sega MasterSystem? @Atari Creep and @atarilbc likened Ninja Spirit to a shmup, I've never thought of it that way but that's a great point. There's a ton of action and a ton moving around the screen at the same time, especially once you get some powerups and body doubles. You guys posted some seriously impressive scores on a very challenging Single Life Run. @btbfilms76 topped out at 264,200, I came in 2nd with 244,800, @Control Issues had 156,700, @atarilbc with 128,900, @RickR with 105,500, and @Atari Creep rounds things out with 104,500. Congrats to everyone who played! I'd like to encourage @btbfilms76 to post his new high score on the Scoreboard, and maybe this Challenge can continue on! 
Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be for the Atari 7800!
 
 
NINJA SPIRIT
SINGLE LIFE RUN FINAL STANDINGS
 
1   BTBFILMS76                         264,200
2   JUSTIN                                   244,800
3   CONTROL ISSUES                156,700
4   ATARILBC                              128,900
5   RICKR                                     105,500
6   ATARI CREEP                        104,500
 
 

Damn, sons!  Those are great scores. Share tips please. 

Hey guys, glad to see so much participation in a TurboGrafx challenge! This is a really great game and I was hoping you guys would like it.
I spent hours playing and this is the best I could do. I've been meaning to do a livestream but it didn't work out. I may go back and play this game live on Instagram and YouTube later in the week.
My High Score: 244,800
Played the real game on real hardware using real Duo Pad controllers

Yeah, that threw me the first time too (that's why my picture came out a little blurry).  I don't know if you can pause at that screen with the "Run" button or not.  I will try next time. 

105,500.
This is an awesome game!  It's one of those "I just have to see what's next" type of games.  Different weapons, different enemies.  Just pure old-school fun. 

I finally have some free time tonight.  I'm going to give this a try on real hardware.  I've never played it before either.  Looks like fun.
 

What you eat in Vegas
Stays in Vegas. 
 

You think the caution label scares you? There used to be a shop at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas that sold all kinds of hot sauces. For certain sauces, you'd actually have to sign a release for the State of Nevada before they'd allow you to purchase!

I've seen this brand and sauce at my grocery store, but the "CAUTION" on the label scares me away.  Next time it's on sale, I'll give it a shot. 

I was tagged by a friend of mine that lives in Dallas. He first found out about it from a completely different FB group he is a member of that features pics people take of crazy stuff they find or see in Thrift stores. Anyway, once that original group posted that it was a salvation army in Tulsa (where the ITC exists..), he tagged me and other collects in this area about it. Since the nearest SA was literally only 1.5 miles from my work office, I went there after work and sure enough there they both were. 20min later one of them was loaded up in my little work S10 and headed home with me. 
The story of the one you see posted doesn't quite end there. It met with a horrible accident when the wife came home. I spent the rest of Friday night and all day Saturday getting some lumber and channeling my inner carpenter skills to fix it hehe!
 

Depends on the sauce, really. There's a thai restaurant near where I work (in fact, I had dinner with TrekMD there once ) -- I'll use any and all hot sauces they have there. But I'm not one of those hot sauce people who has to look for the hottest of the hot. I like a little pick-me-up.

So, Dad and I were out in town running an errand, when we spotted a thrift store we'd never seen before. (I'm assuming it must be fairly new.)
Went in, didn't find much at first. I was looking for video games, only found a couple PS2 titles, some old PC games, and one single PSP game. Also found a USB floppy disk drive from Sony, which I snapped up.
Anyway, we were about to leave, and I'd brought everything to the counter, when I suddenly remembered I hadn't checked the toy section. I go over to the toy shelf, spotted FIVE Easy Bake Ovens (jeez), and was about to go back to the counter, when I looked down at the floor.
There it was... A NINTENDO 64. I couldn't believe my eyes! I grabbed it up, ran to the two cashiers, who was ringing up my other stuff, and said, "This, too! I gotta have it!" The younger cashier and I talked about Goldeneye and Mario Kart.
The N64 cost a grand total of $4, included the power brick, AND IT WORKS.
Now I just need a controller.

Here we go.  I got a used GPU from ebay that's a few steps above my old one.  It was inexpensive, about $35 shipped.  Pretty good bang for the buck for an old cheapo such as myself. 
UserBenchmarks: Game 51%, Desk 93%, Work 58%
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 93%
GPU: AMD R9 285 - 45.7%
SSD: Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB - 125.8%
HDD: WD Green 1TB (2009) - 50.4%
RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C12 4x8GB - 75.9%
MBD: Asus STRIX H270F GAMING
 

15400  Real hardware and game.  Got to third boss.
 

No hot sauce for me thanks !!! anything hotter than a bar-b-Que potato chip is WAY to spicy for me !
Every once in a while I will do a tiny dip of salsa if available eating tortilla chips from a mexican resturant. mild is ok and will try a bigger scoop if not to spicy.

Yea I used to eat that stuff alot. I got tired of it though. I change up sauces alot. I like to try all different kinds. There are some sauces that are a little weak on the heat but have amazing flavors

I finally have some free time tonight.  I'm going to give this a try on real hardware.  I've never played it before either.  Looks like fun.
 

105,500.
This is an awesome game!  It's one of those "I just have to see what's next" type of games.  Different weapons, different enemies.  Just pure old-school fun. 

I gotta say I love the creative labeling with bombs, skulls, and flames. 

I know a lot of people like you that love the hot sauces.  But sadly, I'm what you'd call a wuss-mouth.  The hottest I'll go is the old standard Rooster Sriracha.  At my age, the hot stuff almost always causes pain a few hours after consumption  
 

Can't say I do.  I've never been much of a fan of adding hot sauces to my food.  But I don't like food to hot or spicy either.  

So I'm just curious does everyone here enjoy hot sauces? If so what is your go to hot sauce that you need to always have a bottle of? 
Mine has to be valentina (black label) but lately I've really enjoyed El Yucateco's green habanero sauce. 
Now when it comes to other hot sauces. How hot do you like them? Long story short I think I have been eating too much hot sauce lately and I cant feel any heat from the normal hot sauces or even the "XXX" hot sauces. So I have been watching "Hot Ones" on youtube (great show if you havent seen it) 
And I just bought a couple of the really insane hot sauces that I saw on the show off amazon. DA' Bomb came first in the mail and I had to get some friends over.  DA' Bomb has a scoville level of 135,600. In comparison a regular bottle of Tabasco is 700 scoville units. So we grilled up some chicken and tried it out. This is definitely not your normal hot sauce! My tongue was on fire! It was hot but still I wasnt screaming and running around like all my friends were. So I felt I needed more. 
So today in the mail I got Blair's Mega Death Sauce with Liquid Rage. This one comes in at 500,000 Scoville units and maybe this one will give me the sting I need. Probably gonna get everyone together again this weekend to try it out. I'm gonna have some milk on the side ready to be used!
 
So again this is one of my things i love and I'm just curious about everyone here. Do you like hot sauce? Do you not? If so how hot have you gone before?

Yeah man, that complete set is really cool.  PS - I still haven't found my Laser Blast patch
 

105,500.
This is an awesome game!  It's one of those "I just have to see what's next" type of games.  Different weapons, different enemies.  Just pure old-school fun.