{"id":12530,"date":"2018-02-09T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/community_strap_in_pilots_were_looking_for_shmup_top_guns"},"modified":"2018-02-09T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:45:00","slug":"community-strap-in-pilots-were-looking-for-shmup-top-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/community-strap-in-pilots-were-looking-for-shmup-top-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Community: Strap In Pilots, We&#8217;re Looking For Shmup Top Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Strap in!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/community_we_are_looking_for_top_guns\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/community_we_are_looking_for_top_guns\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Strap in!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You might have noticed that besides many other things, the Nintendo Switch is becoming quite a treasure trove for shmups both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/strikers_1945_ii\">old<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/rxn_-raijin-\">new<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully it seems we&#8217;re not likely to run out of aliens or evil dictators to shoot down any time soon on Nintendo&#8217;s current console, so to spice things up Nintendo Life community member\u00a0<a class=\"accent username\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/OorWullie\">OorWullie<\/a>\u00a0has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/forums\/nintendo-switch\/arcade_shmup_high_score_thread\">organise a community event<\/a> based around the timed high score challenge modes (also known as &#8216;caravan&#8217;) &#8211; something we&#8217;re keen to support officially.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let the man himself explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With all the great arcade classic shoot-em-ups we have on Switch I thought it would be fun to have a place to show off our high scores and try to beat each others. I was thinking we could have a weekly challenge too, where we pick a specific game and whoever has the highest score on it at the end of the week gets to choose the next one. I&#8217;ve thought up some loose rules to get us started and we&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>For the weekly challenge, I think we should keep it limited to Caravan Mode only, where we have 5 minutes to set as high a score as possible. This should keep things pretty tight and give us all a chance of winning. I&#8217;ll choose the first game to get things started and whoever is in first place in 7 days from now gets to select the next game. Obviously we won&#8217;t all have the same games but I&#8217;ll keep a record of the weekly challenge top scores and include the link on this post, so they are still there to be beaten if you do buy that game in future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For all time high scores, we can use High Score Mode with the Hamster games. The Psikyo shooters unfortunately don&#8217;t have a similar mode so it&#8217;ll just have to be taken from normal play. No shenanigans please.<\/p>\n<p>To have your high score registered it should be accompanied with a screenshot of your place on the Hamster leaderboard. For Psikyo shooters a screenshot of the in-game leaderboard. Try and remember to put your initials or whatever you use instead of AAA like I always do. Also give me a mention when posting your score and screenshot so I know to edit it in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you think you got what it takes to be the best of the Nintendo Life best, head on over to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/forums\/nintendo-switch\/arcade_shmup_high_score_thread\">forum<\/a> and submit your finest score! This week the challenge is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/neogeo\/pulstar\"><strong>Pulstar&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> Caravan Mode from stage 1. Also note that we don&#8217;t take any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/billy_mitchell_reacts_to_accusations_of_fake_donkey_kong_high_score\">Billy Mitchell style VHS shenanigans<\/a> here, so play fair.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we&#8217;re not saying you <em>have<\/em> to play to the sound of Kenny Loggins &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yK0P1Bk8Cx4\">Danger Zone<\/a>&#8220;&#8230; but we&#8217;re not expressly forbidding it, either. Good luck, pilots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that besides many other things, the Nintendo Switch is becoming quite a treasure trove for shmups both old and new.\u00a0 Thankfully it seems we&#8217;re not likely to run out of aliens or evil dictators to shoot down any time soon on Nintendo&#8217;s current console, so to spice things up Nintendo Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}