Kris Snyder Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Genesis - Dragon's Fury: 48 min. I now have a big blister on the tip of my right index finger... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 2600 MissAdventure Revised - 58 min River Raid - 16 min Miniature golf - 26 min Evil Magician Returns - 12 min Millipede - 15 min Intellivision Demon Attack - 10 min Shark Shark - 10 min 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 The rest of my day: Gilligan's Island (NES) 1 hour 15 mins. (still cannot beat the final boss!) Adventures of Bayou Billy (NES) 30 mins. Atlus Grand Slam Golf (NES) 30 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Genesis - Dragon's Fury: 43 min. Three blisters now, across both hands - and working on a fourth... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Last night before bed, I squeezed in: Snake Rattle and Roll (NES) 30 mins. Gyruss (NES) 15 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Genesis - Strider: 10 min. Thunder Force II: 68 min. Man, Level 5 in Thunder Force II just seems impossible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Here are my times for this past week (April 5th through 11th)... The classic games (eligible for the Top 10): Shamus (Atari 8-bit) 259 minutes in 6 sessions Vanguard Prototype (TI-99) 2 minutes (not much to play here) The non-classic games (not eligible for the Top 10): Pizza Connection 2 439 minutes in 3 sessions Missile Command (Online) 10 minutes Crystal Castles (Online) 3 minutes As you can see, I've played "Pizza Connection 2" heavily, but now I'm somehow through with it. I'm stuck in Mission 2, where one of the goals is to stock all restaurants through warehouses. To do that, you obviously need to build a warehouse (which I've done), but then you have to assign a warehouse to a restaurant, and I haven't got any clue how to do that (in which menu this option is hidden, that is). Then I've returned to the Atari 8-bit version of Shamus, but I don't play it as heavily as I did before. I'm regularly making 25000 or more points, getting through to the blue level, sometimes up to the start of the red level, but not much farther. Other than that, I've tried the prototype of "Vanguard" for the TI-99 and two online games on Atari.com - Crystal Castles and Missile Command. I think I told you about Crystal Castles earlier... Missile Command, however, is a multiplayer variant where 4 players play at once, and each player has its base (but no cities to defend). It's pretty chaotic, but you are only allowed to play 3 times before you have to sign up with the gaming site. Other than that, I've worked on completing my entry for the Short and Sweet Gaming Contest over at the TI-99 programming forum. My entry is called SSGC racer, and of course, I heavily playtested it, but I guess that doesn't count. I also didn't record the exact times of playtesting anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Lots of games today! Bandai Golf Pebble Beach (NES) 2.5 hours Snake Rattle and Roll (NES0 1 hour Gyruss (NES) 45 mins. Adventures of Bayou Billy (NES) 1.5 hours Made some serious progress in all of these games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Arcade Missile Command 20 mins Eagle 45 mins Crystal Castles 5 mins Pepper II 15 mins Gyruss 5 mins Sinistar 7 mins Galaxian 10 mins Mario Bros. 7 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Am I still the all-time leader in minutes played? I'm starting to hear footsteps... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Genesis - Thunder Force II: 52 min. Got past Level 5 with a single continue left. Should've known that Level 6 would be equally impossible - if not moreso... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 (edited) Just one title this weekend: Sega Master System: Smurfs Travel The World (Les Schtroumpfs Autour du Monde), aka Smurfs 2 - 170 min. This exceedingly rare game came out in 1996 and was apparently the last European release for the SMS, with only a few dozen copies known to still exist (if that). I played it via emulation on my Dreamcast, and suspect that the ROM I played was actually a prototype that allegedly differs from the released version by two bytes (one of which is just a checksum byte). Either way it's a pretty good platformer that's one of the better games I've played on the SMS. It gets demanding towards the end, and at times can be frustrating, but it's generally not cheap or unfair (outside of some screen-clipping issues that make it hard to see enemies coming from above). I beat it on Easy tonight -- which was certainly far from easy! -- and look forward to tackling it on Hard. The game likely was running 20% faster than intended since I'm on a NTSC system and it's a Euro-only release, but nothing seemed inappropriately fast; the gameplay was quite crisp, actually. I'll have to compare it to the SNES and/or Genesis versions. Paradoxically enough, the fact that the emulator I'm using doesn't support savestates (or at least I don't know how to trigger them) was kind of nice, since it removed the temptation of taking the easy way out and forced me to deal "honestly" with the tricky succession of jumps in the last levels. Just like the old days, playing through the last levels of Castlevania or Ninja Gaiden or Adventure Island and trying to survive... Edited April 12, 2010 by thegoldenband 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 INTV: shark, shark 1hr SMS: Columns 30min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Hatris (NES) 120 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tr3vor Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Metroid NES for around 2 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Gyruss (NES) 45 mins. Bandai Golf Championship Pebble Beach (NES) 1 hour Adventures of Bayou Billy (NES) 45 mins. Snake Rattle and Roll (NES) 30 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 got in a few more games last night: Kung Fu Master (VCS) 15 mins. (broker personal 7 year record in first try! Cannot beat javelin guy) Megamania (VCS) 10 mins.(another personal record broken) Oink! (VCS) 10 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 More from today: Bandai Championship Golf: Pebble Beach (NES) 2 hours Adventures of Bayou Billy (NES) 1 hour Snake Rattle and Roll (NES) 30 mins. Gyruss (NES) 15 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Bandai Golf Championship: Pebble Beach (NES) 2 hours Gyruss (NES) 10 mins. Snake Rattle and Roll (NES) 15 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Toy Bizarre (C64) 30 mins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 2600: gran prix 15min 5200: missile command 20min after rebuilding another controller for a spare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Times for Monday - Wednesday: Vectrex: Art Master - 15 min. Pitchers Duel - 5 min. Sega Genesis: Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - 8 min. Taz-Mania - 8 min. Sega 32X: Cosmic Carnage - 20 min. Kolibri - 30 min. NBA Jam TE - 14 min. Dreamcast: Super Magnetic Neo - 15 min. Toy Commander - 55 min. Worms World Party - 135 min. The more we try to make it work, the clearer it becomes that Kolibri's two-player mode is borderline unplayable. Meanwhile, we had a blast with Cosmic Carnage, throttling and kicking the crap out of each other. Who knew? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Bandai Golf Challenge Pebble Beach (NES) 1.5 hours (I will shoot under par on this game or die trying) I realize I have botched the name just about every time I have posted, but they are all the game above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 I haven't been too active on the forums lately… and working long hours has cut into game playing time… as well as playing some current generation stuff but I logged some time this evening. for April 15: Sega Master System Power Strike - 2 hours Global Defense - 25 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach (NES) 1 hour. Finally shot par, I think this one is going back into the stack. Can't wait to see the minutes I racked up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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