What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2010 (Season 3)

[StanJr]

Final Fantasy (NES) 1 hour (Temple of Fiends proving to be harder than expected...)

Guardian Legend (NES) 1.5 hours (cannot beat boss of Corridor 2)

Blues Brothers (NES) 15 mins.

Spider-man: Return of Sinister Six (NES) 30 mins.

Dig Dug II (NES) 30 mins.

 

 

more FF tonight before bedsies

[+thegoldenband]

Here are my times for the last part of the week:

 

Sega Genesis:

Sword of Vermilion - 250 min.

 

Intellivision:

Utopia - 8 min.

 

Dreamcast:

Worms World Party - 495 min. (gulp!)

 

Vectrex:

Art Master - 30 min.

Melody Master - 15 min.

Space Wars - 12 min.

 

Brief notes:

 

I'm kind of astonished at how much time my girlfriend and I spent playing Worms World Party over the past few days. It's the first Dreamcast game to really grab me, though as I understand it, the port is basically unchanged from the PC version she used to play some years back. An average matchup takes about 30-45 minutes, and when you combine our epic battles with the time I spent on my own beforehand learning the game, I guess it all adds up. (OTOH, most people watch a couple hours of TV per night, so there it is.)

 

I don't know if the first two Vectrex titles should count since they're not really "games" per se, though Melody Master does incorporate a game element. Either way, I had good fun with my new lightpen from Recycled Gamer. Meanwhile, my game of Space Wars ended in a bizarre stalemate at 9-8, in which neither I nor my opponent could move, and both of us could only wait for an asteroid to finish the job. After three minutes or so, none of the rocks came close, so I hit reset.

 

I've probably put Sword of Vermilion into the 1000-minute club by now. It doesn't really deserve it, though it's not quite as bad as I make it sound. Still, when I turned the sound up on my Nomad, my girlfriend commented on how many random encounters I was getting hit with -- the overworld music can barely go two bars before it gets interrupted. Too much, too much.

Edited March 8, 2010 by thegoldenband

[Ransom]

I played Cosmic Avenger for a total of 50 minutes, mostly while testing my Genesis CV Controller.

[StanJr]

HOLY SHNIKIES! I took Chaos down last night solely on the back of my Black Belt. Dude was doing like 600 points of DMG per hit, no one else was effective so I just used them to keep him alive. Never expected to make it to Chaos, much less take him out. Wow!

 

Final Fantasy (NES) 1 hour

 

Next RPG for me, Dragon Warrior!

[Kris Snyder]

Genesis -

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons - 87 min.

 

G'ah, it takes forever to get a new ship built! And I'm only two-thirds the way there!

[Taskmaster99]

Turbo Grafx 16

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Vigilante - 10 min.

Alien Crush - 15 min.

[VectorGamer]

Arcade

Sea Wolf 20 mins <<<--- This week's HSC

Tail Gunner 3 mins

[Kris Snyder]

Genesis -

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons - 111 min.

 

I'm starting to get the hang of it (I think)...

[+cvga]

120 games for 5,604 minutes this week. Lots of NES and Genesis titles making the Top Ten. This week I'm going to do an overall Top Ten as usual plus a pre-NES Top Ten.

Here is the Top Ten for Week #9, Season #3.

 

Overall:

1. Final Fantasy (NES) 585 minutes

2. Sword of Vermilion (Genesis) 522

3. Worms World Party (Dreamcast) 495

4. Mikie High School Grafiti (Arcade) 231

5. X-men (NES) 210

6. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) 202

7. Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (Genesis) 164

8. Shamus (TI-99) 161

9. Guardian Legend (NES) 135

10. World of Illusion (Genesis) 102

 

 

Pre-NES Top Ten:

1. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) 202 minutes

2. Shamus (TI-99) 161

3. Ladybug (Intellivision) 75

4. Spider Fighter (Atari 2600) 60

5. Cosmic Avenger (Colecovision) 50

5. Burgertime (Colecovision) 50

5. Asteroids (Atari 2600) 50

5. Burgertime (TI-99) 50

9. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) 45

10. Bombs Away (Atari 2600) 35

[+cvga]

I've probably put Sword of Vermilion into the 1000-minute club by now. It doesn't really deserve it, though it's not quite as bad as I make it sound. Still, when I turned the sound up on my Nomad, my girlfriend commented on how many random encounters I was getting hit with -- the overworld music can barely go two bars before it gets interrupted. Too much, too much.

 

Not quite the 1,000 minute club yet but definitely getting closer.

[+cvga]

Here's the breakdown by system for the week:

 

1. NES - 1,660 minutes

2. Genesis - 1,282

3. Atari 2600 - 649

4. Arcade - 592

5. Dreamcast - 495

6. TI-99 - 298

7. Neo Geo - 135

8. Intellivision - 114

9. Colecovision - 110

10. Game Gear - 90

11. Vectrex - 57

12. Atari 8-bit - 38

13. GameBoy - 23

14. Atari 7800 - 20

15. PC Engine - 16

16. Super Grafx - 16

17. Nintendo 64 - 8

18. NGPC - 1

[StanJr]

Any chance of finding out how many of those Final Fantasy minutes are mine?

 

Spider-man: Return of the Sinister Six (NES): 45 mins.

Captain America and the Avengers (NES): 30 mins.

Dragon Warrior (NES): 1 hour (let the grinding begin...)

[4Ks]

Todays times.

 

Atari 8-bit

Blue Max 3 mins

 

Lynx

Xybots 10 mins (I was testing)

 

Nintendo 64

Quake II 80 mins

[+cvga]

Any chance of finding out how many of those Final Fantasy minutes are mine?

 

 

Final Fantasy (NES)

 

2,370 minutes StanJr

0,000 minutes everyone else

[+cvga]

Here's an update to show which games have been played by the greatest number of people.

 

1. Pitfall (Atari 2600) listed by 28 people

2. Adventure (Atari 2600) 24

2. Missile Command (Atari 2600) 24

4. Space Invaders (Atari 2600) 23

5. Pac-man (Atari 2600) 20

6. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) 19

7. Asteroids (Atari 2600) 18

8. Berzerk (Atari 2600) 17

9. Defender (Atari 2600) 16

9. Phoenix (Atari 2600) 16

 

River Raid, Yars' Revenge, Galaxian, Ms. Pac-man (each 15)

Donkey Kong, Deomon Attack (each 14)

Crystal Castles, Millipede, Jr. Pac-man (each 13)

 

 

other systems:

36(t). Super Mario Brothers (NES) 9

43(t). Burgertime (Intellivision) 8

54(t). Food Fight, Jr. Pac-man (Atari 7800) 7

86(t). Space Invaders (Atari 5200), Ms. Pac-man (Arcade), Mr. Do! (Colecovision), Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar) 5

117(t). Fantasy Zone, Hang-On (Sega Master System); Galaga '90 (Turbo Grafx) 4

 

We need to hold a membership drive to get more people posting!

[+cvga]

Here are the titles that have been listed on the most systems...

 

1. Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Centipede (10 unique systems)

4. Burgertime, Ms. Pac-man, Frogger (8 unique systems)

7. Popeye, Defender, Gyruss, Donkey Kong Jr., Pole Position, Q*bert (7 unique systems)

[accousticguitar]

Any chance of listing the most played game by system? I'm guessing Kaboom for the 2600.

[Taskmaster99]

Neo Geo AES

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SVC Chaos - 20 min.

Metal Slug - 15 min.

[+cvga]

Intellivision:

 

Beauty and the Beast - 18 minutes

[zylon]

SMS: Hang-on 2 hrs

R-type 20min

2600: Crash dive 30min

[JayWI]

Intellivision

 

Beauty and the Beast - 32 minutes

[StanJr]

Any chance of finding out how many of those Final Fantasy minutes are mine?

 

 

Final Fantasy (NES)

 

2,370 minutes StanJr

0,000 minutes everyone else

 

 

Are you serious. That's like 40 hours of FF. It takes me that long to beat that game? Jeez, I suck. Ah well, it was fun. Thanks for the info. I know all of those X-men minutes are mine! Ha!

 

Dragon Warrior (NES) 1 hour (grind, grind, grind...) (looks like my next 40 hour gig...)

[Kris Snyder]

Genesis -

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons - 156 min.

 

Not just obsessed - but sick, and distracting myself from the same with this game...

[Taskmaster99]

Genesis

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Vectorman - 20 min.

[StanJr]

Dragon Warrior (NES) 1 hour (grind, grind, grind, looking for Princess)

Spider-man: Return of the Sinister Six (NES): 30 mins (finally got to Hobgoblin!!)

Section Z (NES): 15 mins.