Atarian7 Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-201 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Hmmm... not much activity there. I think I'll stop posting if I don't see anybody who has posted for a week except for myself. Anyway... here are my times for this past week: The classic games: Steamroller (Colecovision): 176 minutes in 3 sessions Monaco Grand Prix 2600 (unfinished): 1 minute (I don't know if it's actually called this way) The non-classic games (non-eligible for the Top 10): Trünkel Würstelstand (Online game): 16 minutes Space Birdz (PC): 325 minutes in 4 sessions I had 3 more sessions of Steamroller and again beat my 35.000 points mark. Monaco Grand Prix is a WIP I picked up in the forum here. There isn't too much to see there yet. Trünkel Würstelstand is an Austrian game where you work at a sausage stand and have to feed sausages to various celebrities who appear as a face caricature complete with voice imitation. It's fun for a while, but gets boring fast. Space Birdz is a game I downloaded back in 2004... a 2D space shooter with 3D models. The first five stages are very much like Phoenix, but the enemies you shoot drop extras you can pick up for more bullets, multiple shots, speed up etc. After facing the mother ship called "Psychic Saucer", you enter a wormhole and have to dodge mines. At the end of the wormhole, there's a shop where you can buy various extras, after that you have to endure three Galaga-like stages, three stages of a "Rotten Egg Swoop" and two more stages which are similar to Alpha Centuri. After that, the demo tells you that this is the end of the demo and there will be a full version with 50 stages. Problem is, that full version never emerged, and the Spacebirdz homepage has gone offline years ago. Anyway, after that message the game restarts a bit harder. Of course, you retain all the extras you gained the first time around, but you lose some of your extras each time you die. I consider this a very good game all in all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 (edited) Hmmm... not much activity there. I think I'll stop posting if I don't see anybody who has posted for a week except for myself. I plan to keep posting, though I admit it's dispiriting that cvga hasn't updated the stats in months. I sent him a PM, but he hasn't read it, or been on AA since July. Not sure what's going on there; hope he's OK. Either way, I always appreciate your detailed and informative posts. Edited September 19, 2010 by thegoldenband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Battletoads (NES) 15 mins Bird Week (NES) 10 mins I'd be happy to take over the stats if only cvga were around to give me the files... hope he comes back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 (edited) Times for the previous week. I did a lot of Everdrive-related testing. Sega SG-1000: Chack'n Pop - 30 min. Sega Master System: Alex Kidd in Hi-Tech World - 30 min. Double Dragon - 3 min. Penguin Land - 2 min. Satellite 7 - 3 min. Super Boy 4 - 10 min. Xenon 2 - 3 min. Sega Genesis: Dynamite Headdy - 3 min. King Colossus - 5 min. M.U.S.H.A. - 4 min. Pulseman - 3 min. Tetris - 3 min. Twinkle Tale - 3 min. Undead Line - 3 min. Xenon 2 - 3 min. Sega 32X: Brutal - 4 min. Knuckles' Chaotix - 5 min. Primal Rage - 5 min. T-Mek - 5 min. Edited September 21, 2010 by thegoldenband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 2600: Omega Race 5min Kaboom! 20min Target Fun 5min Tank Plus 5min Dark Cavern 5min Star Strike 10min 5200: Kaboom! 1hr 5min Super Breakout 10min Ms Pacman 5min A8: Missile Command 5min Kaboom! 30min SMS: Wonder Boy 10min TI99: Centipede 15min TI Invaders 20min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Slaughterhouse (Turbografx) - 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psquare75 Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Aquarius: AD&D.. 1.5 hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Here are my times for this past week (September 20th through 26th)... This week I only played modern games, no classic ones, so all of the following are not eligible for the Top 10: Global Player (Online game) 239 minutes in 3 sessions Mazda Burning Gears (PC) 72 minutes in 2 sessions Cursed Treasure (Online game) 55 minutes Space birdz (Online game) 34 minutes Gaddy's Castle Defense (Online game) 17 minutes Cellular Defense (Online game) 14 minutes The apprentice (Online game) 11 minutes Freeway Fury (Online game) 9 minutes Ant City (Online game) 6 minutes Doodle Jump (Online game) 3 minutes Car Chaos (Online game) 1 minute The game I played the most (by far) was Global Player. This is a German game where you have to do logistics. Each level consists of a system of conveyor belts leading to up to 9 vehicles (airplanes, trucks and ships). Boxes of different color come in unloaded from a truck, and you have to guide them to their destination (a vehicle marked with the same color) by controlling the junctions that bind the belts together. Two or three belts are going away from each junction, and you can toggle an arrow between the possible directions by clicking on the arrow so that boxes entering the junction will leave it on the correct belt. The levels get more complex over time, and in later levels you have to deliver more than one box per vehicle, while after receiving a parcel, the destination color of the vehicle changes to another one. Each fully loaded vehicle will leave. You can make mistakes by misguiding boxes to a vehicle with a wrong color, or a vehicle which has already left, and you can win a level by filling up all vehicles during the alotted time. All this is shown in an isometric perspective similar to Zaxxon and Marble Madness. I thought about how this could be implemented on classic systems. I think you can do a simplified (2D, not isometric) version of it on nearly all systems that support tiled or hi-res graphics and sprites. That is, the Odyssey^2 won't make it, but the Odyssey^3 should be able to do it (since you could display the box sprites by the built-in box character... and that system can display a lot of them!), as well as the Intellivision, Colecovision, Atari 8-bit, Atari 7800 etc. It could get a bit hard on the Atari 8-bit with the number of sprites required, though. The full isometric view probably only would make sense on systems supporting full multicolor, such as the Atari 7800, the Atari 8-bit, the Amstrad CPC and the C-64, because the graphics needs that amount of colors to be properly displayed. The Atari 2600 probably couldn't display the movements of the belts, so I doubt this game could be implemented on it. Mazda Burning Gears is a free racing game by the Austrian company Greentube with a multiplayer option. Right now, there's only one track built-in which leads you through the center of Vienna and shows pretty detailed views of the buildings there. At least I could make out quite a few places I've already been to in reality, so the map used here is pretty much correct, but probably simplified concerning the level of detail. Cursed Treasure is another Tower Defense game (as far as I can remember), as is Cellular Defense, only that in Cellular Defense, you shoot at cells instead of men. I think I already told you about Space Birdz last week. I didn't play too much of it this week. Gaddy's castle defense is a defense game which looks a bit like Rampart, but in an isometric perspective. You can buy walls and soldiers and upgrade each of them, then start an attack wave where your army will fight the oncoming enemy which tries to take over your castle. From that you earn money which you can spend on more or upgraded soldiers and walls. The apprentice is another restaurant simulation, but the free version only has a few levels and was pretty quick to finish. Freeway Fury is a car racing game similar to Spy Hunter where you can earn points by crashing into other cars. But, similar to Grand Theft Auto, eventually your car starts to burn, and at that time, you (the driver) have to climb out onto the roof and jump onto another nearby car which you then can take over and continue to play with. In "Ant City" you control a magnifying glass and look at people, dogs and cars from bird's eye view. You can concentrate the sunlight with that glass and burn away the people, dogs and cars... but you don't get any points for that, so I didn't get what's the actual purpose in this game. Doodle Jump is a web version of the Iphone game. I don't know how similar the two versions are, though, since I don't know the iPhone version. I can't remember what Car Chaos is, but apparently I didn't like it because I only played it for one minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-151 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitachi Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 I'll try this out. I'm going off of memory so it might not be exact but this is what i played for the week of the 20-26th(even though today isn't over) NES: 1942 20 minutes gradius 45 minutes Clu Clu Land 20 minutes Dreamcast: Sonic Adventure 60 minutes PS2: Red Faction 60 minutes Guitar Hero 25 minutes TG16: Tennis 15 minutes Keith Courage in alpha zones 15 minutes PC: Star Wars Battlefront II 780 minutes Altitude 45 minutes DS: Mario Kart 30 minutess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 Times for the week: Odyssey^2: Attack of the Timelord - 3 min. Breakdown/Blockout - 6 min. Frogger - 3 min. Gunfighter - 4 min. Killer Bees - 5 min. Loony Balloon - 3 min. Mr. Roboto - 8 min. P.T. Barnum's Acrobats - 3 min. Pachinko - 5 min. Popeye - 2 min. Turtles - 4 min. Sega SG-1000: Chack'n Pop - 45 min. Ninja Princess - 120 min. Sega Master System: Alex Kidd in Hi-Tech World - 105 min. Back to the Future II - 3 min. High School! Kimengumi - 5 min. Hoshi wo Sagasite - 7 min. Rastan - 4 min. Smurfs - 7 min. Super Tennis - 20 min. PC Engine: Photo Kid - 3 min. Yo Bro - 5 min. Sega Genesis: Hardwired (prototype of Red Zone) - 7 min. Heavy Nova - 4 min. Lawnmower Man - 8 min. Legend of Galahad - 5 min. Sword of Sodan - 10 min. Sega Dreamcast: Worms World Party - 35 min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psquare75 Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 N64: GoldenEye - 50 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 I have not posted in a while, but I have not play much, and been busy, but put in some time this weekend for September 25: Atari 2600 (played on the 7800): Kaboom! - 1 hour 30 minutes NES: Captain Skyhawk - 1 hour for September 26: Atari 2600 (played on the 7800): Kaboom! - 1 hour 45 minutes Atari 7800: Motor Psycho - 30 minutes Crossbow - 30 minutes Sega Master System: Wonder Boy - 1 hour 30 minutes I've discovered the addiction that is Kaboom! - I tried it a few weeks ago on Xbox 360 game room, but the controls were not well, I've had some paddle controllers laying around so I sought a real cartridge, and made the purchase… I've been hooked since! it's a game that I say to myself, just one more time, I can do better! and so that one more time turns to 20 more times, and then over an hour passes by! wow! it's a fun and addicting game and I am able to see why folks play and enjoy it so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry_kaplan Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 Thanks for the comments. Between you and Atarian7 I expect someone to achieve nirvana! If you play Kaboom! long enough, keep the paddle steady, keep your eyes on the bombs, don't blink and never let the bomber smile, you will attain true enlightenment and discover the four noble truths: playing the game is suffering, we suffer because we want a better score, we suffer more because it seems unattainable, to eliminate suffering we must get a higher score, therefore, the path is to keep playing games and never stop. Play on grasshopper! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechanicoid Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 NES Arkanoid - 30 min Recca - 1 hr SNES Arkanoid Revenge of Doh - 30 min Mr. Do! - 20 min GBA Activision Anthology - 2 hrs Boundish - 30 min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukie Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 ok this is my first post in here anyway --- LYNX robotron2084-----34 min 2600 Vanguard-----27 min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 The game I played the most (by far) was Global Player. Your description made me go check this one out and I've really been enjoying it. What's the highest level you've gotten to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 (edited) A8: Megamania 10min Moon Patrol 15min 5200: Moon Patrol 30min 2600: Room Of Doom 1hr Demon Attack 30min Moonsweeper 5min (and also a waste of $5) Kaboom: 20min INTV: Beamrider 20min Sears Video Pinball System: Breakout 15min Pinball 30min Lynx: Blockout 30min Checkered Flag 5min Edited September 30, 2010 by zylon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Times for Monday - Thursday: Odyssey^2: Air Battle - 4 min. Alpine Skiing - 3 min. Amok - 2 min. Atlantis - 3 min. Blobbers - 3 min. Bowling/Basketball - 3 min. Casino Slot Machine - 3 min. Kinder Im Verkehr - 5 min. NES: Mike Tyson's Intergalactic Power Punch - 12 min. Sega Genesis: Ristar - 17 min. Sega Dreamcast: Worms World Party - 30 min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 The game I played the most (by far) was Global Player. Your description made me go check this one out and I've really been enjoying it. What's the highest level you've gotten to? At the time you wrote that post, I got to Level 9, which looks like a big checkerboard pattern, but didn't make it. I've now completed all 10 levels of Global Player, as well as the sequel, Global Player Reloaded, which will appear in this weeks' times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Odyssey^2: Kinder Im Verkehr - 5 min. Kinder im Verkehr? How do you play that game? Is there an instruction manual somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Kinder im Verkehr? How do you play that game? Is there an instruction manual somewhere? I only have it via the O^2 multicart, and was bemused by its almost Videlectrix-like quality -- totally obtuse and bizarre. Apparently there is a way to get that kid across the road, but I wasn't able to find it! I remember reading someone's post at videopac.nl about it, so I've registered to try to find out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Atari 2600 Defender-15 minutes Defender II-20 minutes Phoenix-10 minutes Atari 800 Preppie-10 minutes Donkey Kong-12 minutes Pharaoh's Curse-25 minutes Centipede-5 minutes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-196 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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