My new hobby: abusing systems for comically easy 1-credit-clears.  Not “easy” games, rather, games that offer plenty of challenge when played respectably but allow some leeway for craven strategy.  The newest entry: Raiden Fighters Jet.  ALL1 clear with a miniscule score of 13M.  Thanks go mostly to Twiddle and ycw for details on managing the stage selection.

The salient bits: suicide against the sim15 boss to force sim20, then avoided medals in sim20.  I also let various tanks leave the screen unharmed in 20, but I think the medal dodging would have been sufficient.  That gave me sim35 as a final stage with one life and a respectable bomb stock, without having faced anything like a challenge.  I had never learned sim35 at all, so I still managed to die, then reached the boss with 6 or 7 bombs, subsequently spammed.

If anyone ever tries to suggest that there’s some inherent merit in 1CCs, pee on their shoes.  Anyone could do this.

Jet actually has a few awesome stages, so I’ll aim for a manlier route. Tolerance is waning for the whole hidden bonus system, so I don’t know that I’ll actually try scoring well.