Justin Posted July 16, 2022 Report Share Posted July 16, 2022 Pinball Nintendo Entertainment System Controller: CONTROL PAD / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Game A Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST July 31st, 2022 Nominated by @Justin Objective Play for the highest 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 July 15th through July 31st, 2022. 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 Pinball using Game A. Simply Press Start to Play. 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 131st Squad Challenge, the third and final Squad Challenge for this year's Pizza Party Summer! Atari I/O Summer Pizza Party is now PIZZA PARTY SUMMER and runs from June 15th through July 31st! For this Squad Challenge we're playing one of my first "favorite Nintendo games" and one of the earliest releases for the NES: Pinball! This is truly the best pinball video game of that era. Pinball was created for the Nintendo Famicom in 1983 and brought over to the United States in 1985/1986. It's simple graphics are closer to ColecoVision than anything, and are easily outshined by games such as Pole Position II on the Atari 7800, however its simplicity lends itself to a game that is very fun to play for great lengths of time, and reminiscent of early Atari 2600 games in concept. Easy to learn, difficult to master. Score just right and you'll unlock a hidden Bonus Level staring Mario! It's surprising this game wasn't called "Mario Pinball" as he is featured in the game and on the cartridge label. This Squad Challenge will run through July 31st, 2022. Instruction Manual is provided below. Good luck!! NES Pinball.pdf RickR, btbfilms76 and greenween 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted July 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2022 Please remember to TYPE OUT YOUR HIGH SCORE when posting to High Score Squad! We want to get your score right, and prevent mistakes. Scores can be blurry in photos, tricky on the eyes, or hidden deep within play-through videos. Claiming your score 100% prevents confusion. btbfilms76 and RickR 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted July 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2022 Classic Game Room has an excellent overview of Nintendo's Pinball for the NES. It's a great place to start if you're new to the game! Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 16, 2022 Report Share Posted July 16, 2022 @greenween here's your reason to try your pinball game! 😉 Sabertooth, greenween and Justin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 16, 2022 Report Share Posted July 16, 2022 I just bought this off Ebay for $8 a couple weeks ago! I'll get on it soon. RickR, Justin and Sabertooth 3 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 17, 2022 Report Share Posted July 17, 2022 107,150 Either my game glitched, or the flippers turn invisible at 100k! Gianna, Justin, greenween and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 18, 2022 Report Share Posted July 18, 2022 The flippers turn invisible. It's not a glitch that I'm aware of. RickR, Justin and greenween 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 18, 2022 Report Share Posted July 18, 2022 14 minutes ago, Atari 5200 Guy said: The flippers turn invisible. It's not a glitch that I'm aware of. OK, good. I just looked at the manual and they disappear at 100k and come back at 150k. It's a little jarring when it happens! Atari 5200 Guy and Justin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 18, 2022 Report Share Posted July 18, 2022 26 minutes ago, RickR said: OK, good. I just looked at the manual and they disappear at 100k and come back at 150k. It's a little jarring when it happens! It is when you don't expect it to happen. Justin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco1019 Posted July 18, 2022 Report Share Posted July 18, 2022 I'm slowly getting back to these challenges; EverythingC64 just restarted their High Score Challenge this week. NES is always a challenge for me since I never owned one as a kid. But I managed 137,260 via OpenEmu. RickR, greenween, Justin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 18, 2022 Report Share Posted July 18, 2022 Ill be dragging my NES out tonight. I'm definitely participating in this game. I love video pinball games. In a weird way they are relaxing to me. MaximumRD, Justin and greenween 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 I got 68,000. Marco1019, greenween, Justin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 Haha. Not having a good start! Tomorrow is Friday for me and I have 3 days off. I'll get better. 🙂 Justin, RickR and Atari 5200 Guy 3 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 Just post what you have man. We work on this together. COWABUNGA!!! Justin, greenween and Marco1019 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted July 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2022 My High Score: 80,340 Marco1019 and greenween 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 20, 2022 Report Share Posted July 20, 2022 Slow start. 18,250 on real hardware. Marco1019 and Justin 2 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 20, 2022 Report Share Posted July 20, 2022 61,820. Justin, RickR, Atari 5200 Guy and 1 other 4 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 Much better! 🙂 132,360 Justin, RickR, btbfilms76 and 1 other 4 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted July 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 Somebody please beat this score, I don't want to have to be the one who wins this. Going to give this another shot just for fun. Looking for someone here to break one million. My New High Score: 736,650 RickR, Gianna, btbfilms76 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco1019 Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 47 minutes ago, Justin said: Somebody please beat this score, I don't want to have to be the one who wins this. Going to give this another shot just for fun. Looking for someone here to break one million. My New High Score: 736,650 Yeah, I won't surpass that score. I nominate @greenween! Go get 'em! *runs away* Justin, Atari 5200 Guy and greenween 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Marco1019 said: Yeah, I won't surpass that score. I nominate @greenween! Go get 'em! *runs away* I second this. Go @greenween! We'll be right behind you. Edited July 24, 2022 by Atari 5200 Guy greenween and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted July 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 Once you get past 150,000 it feels like the game gets easier. The paddles come back from being invisible and you get into a flow. It feels hard to get to 50,000. Once you break past a certain point you just keep going. greenween 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 3 hours ago, Justin said: Once you get past 150,000 it feels like the game gets easier. The paddles come back from being invisible and you get into a flow. It feels hard to get to 50,000. Once you break past a certain point you just keep going. I'll have whatever you are having because it gave you some sort of super power. I can't get close to beating my little score. My 68,000 so far seems like a miracle happened for me. Justin and greenween 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 153,390 on a retron 3. Marco1019, Justin and greenween 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 25, 2022 Report Share Posted July 25, 2022 I'm putting my money on Rick! It's not looking good over here. Justin, Marco1019, Atari 5200 Guy and 1 other 1 3 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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