zylon Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 INTV: Bump 'n Jump 15min 2600: Keystone Kapers 20min Infiltrate 10min 5200: Jungle Hunt 1hr Millipede 15min Xevious 10min Popeye 20min Ms Pacman 5min Robotron 5min (tried a 1-controller game. didn't work out too well) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 times for the past few days… July 20, 2010: NES Bubble Bobble - 2 hours 30 minutes Sega Genesis Thunder Force II - 40 minutes July 21, 2010: NES Bubble Bobble - 1 hour Arkanoid - 30 minutes City Connection - 15 minutes spending alot of time playing Bubble Bobble for score… having alot of fun doing so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Laird Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 My playlist for yesterday: Atari 7800 Centipede - 30 minutes Beefdrop - 15 minutes Wasp! - 15 minutes Worm! - 10 minutes Galaga - 15 minutes Atari 2600 Boing! - 5 Minutes Solaris - 25 minutes Atari Jaguar Raiden - 45 minutes Breakout 2000 - 20 minutes Aircars - 20 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 NES Barbie 20 mins. (yes I played Barbie, shut up) Peter Pan and the Pirates 15 mins. Arkanoid 30 mins. Ninja Gaiden III 30 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Looping (2600) - 15 minutes Sinistar (2600) - 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-197 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 for July 23, 2010/ NES Bubble Bobble - 1 hour 15 minutes Sega Master System Aerial Assult - 1 hour 35 minutes Atari Lynx Klax - 20 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmountainslim Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Atari 2600 games Adventure 1K 20 minutes Ms. Pac-Man 15 minutes L.E.M. 30 minutes Pac-Man Arcade 20 minutes Solar Plexus 15 minutes Sci-Fi Quest 25 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 NES Peter Pan and the Pirates 30 mins (beat it) Arkanoid 60 mins Ninja Gaiden III 45 mins. I sure miss cvga and the stats:sad: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Holey Moley (2600) - 35 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Here are my times for the past week (July 19th through 25th). Again, there are no times to report for classic games since I didn't play any, but I briefly tried some modern games... or ports of old games for modern systems (which are all not eligible for the Top 10)... Transformice (Online)... 8 minutes Donkey Kong (Uzebox)... 5 minutes Frogger (Uzebox)... 2 minutes Space Invaders (Uzebox)... 4 minutes Transformice is a multiplayer game, kind of a one-screen jump'n'run where each player has a mouse and has to fetch cheese and bring it back to the hole. But it isn't easy in that the environment, in nearly each level, prevents you from doing this successfully. Only one out of, I think, 20 players is allowed to place additional objects which enable the players to accomplish their goal, but usually most of the other players have bitten the dust before this is done successfully. Then I tried some ports of classic games to the Uzebox. The Uzebox is sort of a mini game console built with only two chips (one of them being an Atmel microcontroller) and some other minor parts like resistors. The microcontroller runs at 28 MHz and runs the game code as well as the code which generates the video output pretty much on the fly. It provides 64 K of flashable ROM and 4K of RAM and is able to put out a fixed pallette of 256 colors. From what it is able to do, I would put the Uzebox roughly below the Sega Master System, but above the 7800 and the NES. This, however, is a hobbyist system, not a professional one, and the video modes which are there are implemented in software. As for the games I played, Donkey Kong is a pretty good conversion graphics-wise, although most objects like Donkey Kong and the barrels have been somewhat shrinked down in order to fit the Uzebox's lower resolution, only Mario has stayed the same size, so now he looks a bit out of place. Some of the enemies move a bit too fast (most notably, the barrels), and the collision detection sometimes seems to register when in the original version there would still some pixels of room. But you can't see where the collision was since all enemies disappear instantly on Mario's death. Frogger is nicely converted too, but your frog moves a bit slowly. Also, it's been converted from the less colorful C-64 version, not from the arcade one. Space Invaders... well, yes, it looks like Space Invaders, but there have been some mistakes made in the enemies' movements. They enemies don't get faster as you shoot more and more of them, so the last enemy of a round will still move in the same slow speed as the whole fleet at the start. On the other hand, the enemies always move left and right as if the whole fleet would still be there. So if you destroy the whole right half of the fleet, the remaining fleet will not run all the way to the right before reversing, but rather it will already reverse halfway through its run. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Bump 'n Jump (NES) -- 20 mins Battletoads (NES) -- 30 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 for July 25, 2010: NES Bubble Bobble - 30 minutes Sega Master System Aerial Assult - 25 minutes Atari Lynx Klax - 40 minutes Turbo Grafx-16 Cadash - 2 hours 45 minutes Klax - 30 minutes I'm getting real close to 1 million points in Klax on the Lynx… played through Cadash and conquered it with the priest… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Laird Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Atari Jaguar Worms - 2 Hours Shut Up & Jam - 10 Minutes Sensible Soccer - 30 Minutes Tempest 2000 - 30 Minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari181 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 xbox 360- left for dead- 2 1/2 hrs and i'm done WTF such a short game. great , but short Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segataritensoftii Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Psychonauts for about 8 hours this week, with a little bit of Bubsy 1 for about 45 minutes. I'm trying to finish at least one game this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 INTV: Lock 'N Chase 30min Game Gear: Aerial Assault 1hr SMS: Aerial Assault 3hrs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Ks Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Atari 8-bit Blue Max 5 mins Pac-Man 25 mins Donkey Kong 20 mins Intellivision Donkey Kong 20 mins Genesis Ms. Pac-Man 30 mins Zoop 35 mins Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine 10 mins Master System Astro Warrior 20 mins Out Run 25 mins Alex Kidd in Miracle World 20 mins Alex Kidd in Hi-Tech World 10 mins Altered Beast 10 mins Golden Axe 10 mins Sonic Triple Trouble 10 mins Arcade Ms. Pac-Man 8 mins Pac-Man 5 mins Mappy 5 mins NES Defender II 10 mins Super Mario Bros. 10 mins Game Boy Balloon Kid 1 hour Boomer's Adventure 20 mins Game Boy Color Tony Hawk 2 45 mins Neo Geo Pocket Color Pac-Man 45 mins (and GameSpot gave this a 4.9/10?) Sonic Pocket Adventure 35 mins Metal Slug: 1st Mission 25 mins Game Gear Sonic the Hedgehog 20 mins Sonic the Hedgehog 2 20 mins Super Columns 15 mins Tails' Skypatrol 30 mins (shame this was a Japan-only release) Nintendo 64 Defender 8 mins Robotron: 2084 5 mins Joust 8 mins Root Beer Tapper 10 mins Spy Hunter 5 mins Super Mario 64 3 hours 30 mins Banjo-Tooie 3 hours Lynx Xybots 1 hour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Adventure Island (NES) - 10 minutes Time Soldiers (SMS) - 10 minutes Wonder Boy (SMS) - 5 minutes Wonder Boy (SG 1000) - 5 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Time Soldiers (SMS) - 40 minutes Wonder Boy (SMS) - 40 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-133 minutes Still haven't reached 999,999. I did get up to 200,000 this week which is good because I had been in a slump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 (edited) Times for this week: Atari 2600: Armor Ambush - 7 min. Bowling - 7 min. Boxing - 8 min. Combat - 12 min. Ice Hockey - 3 min. MAME: Mad Planets - 3 min. Phoenix - 4 min. Sega Master System: X-Men - Mojo World - 7 min. Super NES: Actraiser - 20 min. Lord of the Rings Vol. 1 - 14 min. MSX: Alien 8 - 5 min. I hadn't done much gaming at all in July, but finally got back in the saddle this week. Edited August 2, 2010 by thegoldenband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Robotron 64 (N64) 60 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Here are my times for the past week (July 26th through August 1st)... I know it's a bit late for that again, but I've been on vacation from Friday through Sunday and didn't have time to post earlier... The classic game (eligible for the Top 10): Steam Roller (Colecovision) 36 minutes The non-classic games: Cellcraft (Online) 432 minutes in 2 sessions Burger Restaurant 4 (Online) 131 minutes in 2 sessions Jersey Joyride (Online) 88 minutes Rosie's Restaurants (Online) 75 minutes Grosse Freiheit (Online) 4 minutes Corrida Nebososa (Uzebox) 3 minutes Steam Roller is a pretty unknown, but fun game from Activision where you have to control a steamroller and have to annihilate a number of smilies per level before going to the next one. Cellcraft is kind of a defense game dealing in a cell, but a pretty complicated one... you have to take care of various ressources needed for defending different kinds of "enemies" which are adapted from their natural counterparts (viruses etc.). The first five levels are kind of a lengthy turorial with some action sequences thrown in, then from Level 6 on, it jumps to being pretty hard... it took me a long time to beat Level 6 while I beat levels 1 through 5 on the first try each. Burger Restaurant 4 is the latest installment in the Burger Restaurant series out of which I already completed number 1 and 2. Number 4 is actually very easy if you mastered 1 and 2... you get many extras you didn't have in 1 and 2, and they power you up so much that you can complete nearly any level with a 80-100% surplus over the goal you have to achieve. It doesn't even get much harder on the last levels. Rosie's Restaurants, on the other hand, does get harder and harder... I don't think it even has got an end. And, in that only your surplus counts for purchasing extras, you may end up at Game Over without having bought all the extras. On the other hand, there's much repetition in that game. Jersey Joyride is actually an advertisement game for the new Barnyard movie, but it's still pretty good. Your aim is to drive around as an animal and pick up various other animal friends before returning to the barn. You only have 60 seconds time at the start, but you get 15 extra seconds each time you make it to jump a ramp and catch the hourglass hanging in the air at the end of it. I like this game in that it shows a pretty detailed scenery, and you are able to drive around more or less freely in the given area... not bad for a free game. Various objects (animals and barns) match their movie counterparts pretty closely as well. Grosse Freiheit is a German adventure game going with the release of the group Unheilig's latest album. It's somewhat innovative in that you actually play on Google Maps, being presented with arial maps of parts of actual cities with some of the items flagged. If you click on a flagged item, you usually get a dialog with a person, and if it's the right person, you get one more hint and are able to advance in the game. Finally, Corrida Nebososa is a simple top-down racing game on the Uzebox, similar to Super Sprint, but with much less detailed graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmountainslim Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Atari 2600 Halo 2600 120 minutes L.E.M. 55 minutes Pac-Man 30 minutes Missile Command 30 minutes Pole Position 20 minutes Keystone Kapers 20 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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