TheGameCollector Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 So yeah thegoldenband, all you have to do is subtract 266 minutes from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and add them to the Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus entry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 So yeah thegoldenband, all you have to do is subtract 266 minutes from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and add them to the Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus entry. Corrected (in my spreadsheet). My apologies for the mix-up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 (edited) BTW I'm assuming that the Sears Pinball/Breakaway dedicated console is the same as the Sears Video Pinball System which I already had in the database. If that's incorrect, please let me know. Yep. Rebadged C-380. It can be quite addictive too. Edited May 3, 2011 by zylon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 NES Crystalis 140 mins. VCS Shark Attack 15 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 6, 2011 Author Share Posted May 6, 2011 (edited) My times so far this week: Intellivision: Beamrider - 6 min. Fathom - 35 min. Frog Bog - 7 min. Pinball - 11 min. Thin Ice - 21 min. Thunder Castle - 48 min. Tron Solar Sailer - 13 min. Turbo - 32 min. I got Beamrider, Fathom, Tron Solar Sailer and Turbo in a recent trade, and enjoyed checking all four out, especially Fathom. I haven't really figured out what's going on in Solar Sailer -- I suspect it's a "faux-complex" game that's a lot simpler (shallower?) than all the jargon makes it seem. Turbo's control scheme is misguided at best, but overall it's not quite as bad as some have claimed, though once you take a hit, the inevitable series of rear-end collisions is aggravating. I also played a few games with my girlfriend: Pinball, Thin Ice, and our old standby Frog Bog. Thin Ice is starting to wear thin (ha ha), unfortunately -- the seal is just too aggressive and since your "freezes" don't affect him (which is a strange design decision), it seems more or less impossible to pull off any of the large-scale shapes that make games like Qix so satisfying. OTOH, Pinball is great! I'd never really played it before, but it's surprisingly fun. Edited May 6, 2011 by thegoldenband 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 2600: Kaboom! 35min Missile Command 1.25hrs 5200: Sinistar 40min Kaboom! 1.5hrs A8: Joust 20min I use Kaboom and Missile Command for testing 2600 systems after repairs so they get much more play than they otherwise would. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-457 minutes High score of the week: 70,709 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 (edited) Here are my times for this past week: Arcade: Puzz Loop - 7 min. Route 16 - 3 min. Tapper (Budweiser) - 21 min. Atari 2600: F40 - 2 min. Colecovision: Destructor - 32 min. Dukes of Hazzard - 2 min. Tapper - 26 min. Intellivision: Diner - 349 min. in 5 sessions Total gaming time: 442 min. (63 min. per day) I played a surprising variety of classic games this week, although it was one single game I spent the majority of playing time with... "Diner" on the Intellivision. But by now, I think I'm through with it. I reached Level 13 on multiple occasions, but never managed to beat that level. And a game up to level 13 already takes 27-28 minutes. This now violates two of my selfmade guidelines, saying that I'll abandon a game where either no further progress was achieved during 30 minutes of play, or the games start to take longer than 17 minutes each, which they already do. On the Colecovision, I played "Destructor" again. Actually, a map is not really needed for this one since it's not necessary to stray too far away from your mothership, and you can easily find its location relative to yours on the small map at the top of the screen. Then I tried "Dukes of Hazzard" again, but what one reviewer said about the steering seems to be true... I didn't manage to just stay in the middle of the road, and it's pretty unrealistic as well, although the graphics displays hills and flying over hills (apparently), at a time when Outrun and even Enduro Racer were still years away. There also seem to be no forks in the road where you would be able to decide which way to go. Then I played "Tapper" again, both on the Colecovision (here the 26 minutes were one single game on the lowest skill level) and the arcade version (where the 21 minutes were multiple games). In addition to that, I tried the arcade games "F16" (which turned out being a different game than I thought it would be) and Puzz Loop (the "original" version to Zuma and its various clones). Lastly, on the Atari 2600 I tried the still unfinished homebrew game "F40", which basically is a car race in the vein of "Monaco GP" or "Spy Hunter", but, as I said, it's unfinished. There's scrolling graphics on the left and right hand side of the road, but it clearly only depicts some binary pattern. Your car and the enemies are nicely drawn, but it still lacks a goal you have to achieve or something like that... Edited May 8, 2011 by Kurt_Woloch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 Times for the remainder of the week: Intellivision: Thunder Castle - 116 min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Wow, I'm glad to see that the tracker has survived! I need to get playing (and posting) again sometime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Here are my times for the week. I have accomplished much. I spent 1848 minutes playing video games this week! That's almost 31 hours: NES: The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy - 130 minutes Bignose the Caveman - 87 minutes Tetris - 10 minutes Game Boy: Pokemon Red Version - 93 minutes Pokemon Blue Version - 71 minutes Sega Genesis: Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge - 125 minutes Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - 59 minutes The Jungle Book - 39 minutes Sonic Spinball - 38 minutes Taz-Mania - 35 minutes Ms. Pac-Man - 34 minutes Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - 16 minutes Sega 32X: Knuckles' Chaotix - 213 minutes Playstation: Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - 603 minutes Bust-A-Move 2 - 39 minutes Nintendo 64: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 199 minutes Star Fox 64 - 57 minutes What I did NES: Dizzy and Bignose are beat. Bignose took 2 attempts. Haha the first time I died trying to fight the last boss with one life and no powerups. Tetris I got to level 9 starting at 0. Game Boy: In Pokemon Red I got sick of trying to get the last 8 elusive Pokemon after evolving the rest I needed from stones. Pokedex is 116 while it is possible to get 124 Pokemon in a single playthru of Red with no trading. I started on Pokemon Blue Version because I wanted more action rather than just grinding. Genesis: I beat all of these games in one sitting each. They're all short games, but Spider-Man/X-Men is the hardest. Thanks to an easy extra lives trick, I was able to complete it but it took me a lot more tries causing the game to take longer. 32X: Knuckles Chaotix is 100% complete. The later chaos rings took plenty of attempts before I got them so this game took a long time. Playstation: Oddworld 2: Abe's Exoddus is done. I saved all but 12 mudokons as I wasn't using a guide and probably missed them in the first half of the game. Beat another row of puzzle stages in Bust-A-Move 2. Nintendo 64: Beat Star Fox 64 on the easiest path and beat 2 levels of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Wow, I'm glad to see that the tracker has survived! I need to get playing (and posting) again sometime soon. Ahh! A ghost! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 Here's the summary for Week 19, running from May 2-8. We logged 3451 minutes of eligible play, playing 40 games on a total of 12 systems. Top 10: 1. Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (PlayStation) - 603 2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 492 3. Diner (Intellivision) - 349 4. Knuckles' Chaotix (Sega 32X) - 213 5. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) - 199 6. Thunder Castle (Intellivision) - 164 7. Crystalis (NES/Famicom) - 140 8. Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (NES/Famicom) - 130 9. Spider-man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (Genesis) - 125 10. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 93 Pre-NES top 10: 1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 492 2. Diner (Intellivision) - 349 3. Thunder Castle (Intellivision) - 164 4. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 90 5. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 75 6. Sinistar (Atari 5200) - 40 7. Fathom (Intellivision) - 35 8. Destructor (ColecoVision) - 32 8. Turbo (Intellivision) - 32 10. Tapper (ColecoVision) - 26 Top 10 systems: 1. PlayStation (642) 2. Intellivision (638) 3. Atari 2600 (584) 4. NES/Famicom (367) 5. Genesis (346) 6. N64 (256) 7. Sega 32X (213) 8. Game Boy (164) 9. Atari 5200 (130) 10. ColecoVision (60) In a pitched battle amongst the portmanteaus, the PlayStation just barely edges out the Intellivision on the system charts, as the second Oddworld game takes the top spot on the top 10. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 Great to see you back, cvga! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 2600 Worm War I 5 mins. Earth Dies Screaming 5 mins. Title Match Pro Wrestling 5 mins. Ature 20 mins. NES Uncharted Waters 30 mins. Gauntlet II 10 mins. TMNT: Manhattan Project 15 mins. Legends of the Diamond 10 mins. Wizardry II 5 mins. Got a lot of games this past weekend at TMG11, so I've been testing them out. You'll see much more of these titles in these pages soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Atari 2600 Power Lords 10 minutes Joust 15 minutes Game and Watch Donkey Kong 20 minutes Donkey Kong Jr. 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 20 min. of Pitfall for the Intellivision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKC Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 so far this week PS1: Metal Slug X - 100 min Crash Bandicoot - 90 min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKC Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Today PS1: Final Fantasy VII - 100 min I'm not usually a fan of RPGs but even I like this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 VCS Ature 30 mins. NES Wizardry II 65 mins. TMNT III 25 mins. SNES Magic Sword 60 mins. Tetris Attack 45 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 13, 2011 Author Share Posted May 13, 2011 Times for Monday - Thursday: Genesis: Goofy's Hysterical History Tour - 26 min. James Pond - 8 min. Paperboy - 11 min. Super Thunder Blade - 7 min. Wings of Wor - 43 min. SNES: F-1 ROC II: Race of Champions - 4 min. Kirby Super Star - 19 min. 32X: Cosmic Carnage - 55 min. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Wow, I'm glad to see that the tracker has survived! I need to get playing (and posting) again sometime soon. Where have you been all this time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 NES Wizardry II 140 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-471 minutes High score of the week: 74,788 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 2600: Kaboom! 1.5hrs Missile Command 1hr INV 10min Sinistar 15min 5200: Sinistar 1.25hrs SMS: Zaxxon 3D 25min(in 2D mode) Casino Games 30min GameGear: Galaga '91 35min Did more repairing and testing than playing this week. Hopefully it's the other way 'round next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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