BurritoBeans Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 NES Ninja Gaiden II - 27 minutes I have a whole spreadsheet of times but can't post until (hopefully) the middle of tomorrow as a massive storm knocked power out everywhere up here and there's no way I'm typing it up again on a phone. I put Ninja Gaiden up as this one was silly - it's my cart and it worked fine on my NES but everyone else who brought a NES to this party couldn't get the stupid cartridge to work - past that it was fine though... I just got stuck on the third stage and called it quits, but it's always good fun. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Nothing tracked again for me this week, but I kept going with Mass Effect and Pinball FX2. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 2, 2017 Author Share Posted May 2, 2017 NES Ninja Gaiden II - 27 minutes I have a whole spreadsheet of times but can't post until (hopefully) the middle of tomorrow as a massive storm knocked power out everywhere up here and there's no way I'm typing it up again on a phone. I put Ninja Gaiden up as this one was silly - it's my cart and it worked fine on my NES but everyone else who brought a NES to this party couldn't get the stupid cartridge to work - past that it was fine though... I just got stuck on the third stage and called it quits, but it's always good fun. I can hold things open until you get power back. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 (edited) Well, turns out Penelec got power back while I was at school - I have to say, I'm impressed... usually it drops, we report the outage, and it takes a few days at least - so this was a nice change over the usual, especially with the amount of downed power lines in other nearby areas. So, here's the massive amount of times - it's not a lot of time (well not compared to my Lawnmower Man sprees...) but it's a lot of different times. Also, note - sorry that the formatting sucks, I just have no good way of doing this that I know of as I can't completely BBCode the thing, pasting it into word and then into here doesn't work, etc... System Game Playitime (Minutes) Arcade 1943 10Arcade Area 51 15Arcade Beast Busters 45Arcade Beast Busters: Second Nightmare 60Arcade Lethal Enforcers 15Arcade Moon Patrol 25Arcade Space Invaders 20Arcade Splatterhouse 115Arcade The Simpsons 20Arcade Time Crisis II 15Arcade X-Men 20Total Time: 360 Atari 8-bit Asteroids 15Atari 8-bit Ballblazer 20Atari 8-bit Montezuma’s Revenge 10Atari 8-bit MULE 10Atari 8-bit Star Raiders 10Total Time: 65 Atari 2600 Astroblast 5Atari 2600 Beamrider 5Atari 2600 Combat 5Atari 2600 Demon Attack 5Atari 2600 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 10Atari 2600 Laser Blast 11Atari 2600 Phoenix 5Atari 2600 Picnic 5Atari 2600 Pitfall 22Atari 2600 Pitfall II 30Atari 2600 River Raid 5Atari 2600 Stampede 5Atari 2600 Tennis 5Total Time: 118 Atari 5200 Bounty Bob Strikes Back 20Atari 5200 Centipede 5Atari 5200 Defender 5Atari 5200 Dig-Dug 5Atari 5200 Pac-Man 5Atari 5200 Star Raiders 20Total Time: 60 Atari 7800 Centipede 5Atari 7800 Choplifter 5Atari 7800 Donkey Kong 5Atari 7800 Food Fight 5Atari 7800 Galaga 5Atari 7800 Ninja Golf 10Atari 7800 Xevious 5Total Time: 40 Atari Lynx Batman Returns 5Atari Lynx Blue Lightning 5Atari Lynx California Games 5Atari Lynx Hard Drivin’ 5Atari Lynx Paperboy 5Atari Lynx Rampage 5Atari Lynx Xybots 5Total Time: 35 Fairchild Channel F Videocart 3 – Video Blackjack 15Fairchild Channel F Videocart 5 – Space War 15Fairchild Channel F Videocart 9 – Drag Strip 15Fairchild Channel F Videocart 15 – Memory Match 15Fairchild Channel F Videocart 21 – Bowling 15Total Time: 75 FM Towns Chase H.Q. 10FM Towns Galaxy Force 10FM Towns Loom 10FM Towns Operation Wolf 10FM Towns Puyo Puyo 15FM Towns Raiden 10FM Towns Samurai Showdown 15FM Towns Splatterhouse 106FM Towns Super Street Fighter II 10FM Towns Tale of Alltynex 10FM Towns Truxton II 10FM Towns Twin Cobra 10FM Towns Viewpoint 10Total Time: 236 Game.com Batman & Robin 5Game.com Centipede 5Game.com Duke Nukem 3D 5Game.com Fighters Megamix 5Game.com Mortal Kombat Trilogy 5Game.com Resident Evil 2 5Total Time: 30 MSX Alien 2 15MSX Vampire Killer 55 Total Time: 70 MSX2 Aleste 10MSX2 Comic Bakery 10MSX2 Dix 10MSX2 Dynamite Bowl 10MSX2 Metal Gear 30MSX2 Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake 45Total Time: 115 NES Castlevania 25NES Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest 25NES Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse 25NES Double Dragon 10NES Double Dragon II: The Revenge 10NES Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones 10NES Duck Hunt 10NES Hogan’s Alley 10NES Super Mario. Bros 3 10NES Super Off Road 20NES The Magic of Scheherazade 10Total Time: 165 PC-8000 Deep Scan 20PC-8000 Flicky 20PC-8000 Soko-Ban 20Total Time: 60 PC-88 177 10PC-88 Alice: Adventures in Wonderland 10PC-88 Hydlide 25PC-88 Ice Climber 10PC-88 Lode Runner 10PC-88 Night Life 10PC-88 Snatcher 25PC-88 Tenshitaci no Gogo 10PC-88 Thexder 10PC-88 Xanadu 10Total Time: 130 PC-98 Brandish 20PC-98 Brandish 3: Spirit of Balcan 40PC-98 Desire 15PC-98 Pac-Man 10PC-98 Policenauts 20PC-98 Popful Mail 10PC-98 Steam-Heart’s 10PC-98 YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World 45Total Time: 170 SNES ActRaiser 20SNES ActRaiser II 20SNES Mega Man X 5SNES The Lawnmower Man 212Total Time: 257 Vectrex Armor Attack 15Vectrex Berzerk 15Vectrex Mine Storm 15Vectrex Pole Position 15Vectrex Rip-Off 15Vectrex Star Castle 15Total Time: 90 X1 177 10X1 3-D Bomberman 10X1 Battle City 10X1 Door Door 10X1 Elevator Action 10X1 Mappy 10X1 Spy vs. Spy 10X1 Super Mario Bros. Special 20X1 Xevious 10Total Time: 100 X68000 Akumajō Dracula 70X68000 Alien Syndrome 10X68000 Bubble Bobble 10X68000 Cameltry 10X68000 Daimakaimura 84X68000 Fantasy Zone 10X68000 Gradius 10X68000 Gradius II 10X68000 R-Type 10X68000 Salamander 10X68000 Sol-Feace 10X68000 Space Harrier 10X68000 Strider 10 Total Time: 264 Overall Time: 40.6666666666667hrs So how'd I get so many times? Well, there's two reasons: I didn't really have school last week... it was more "just go to work for the eight hours school takes and then stick after a bit because the co-op program thing and all my teachers were out" We had a bunch of parties at work so I brought some crap in alongside coworkers to mess with And I don't want to type for a million more words because I did it right before power went out and this is the 2nd time I've typed this. So, for thoughts on random stuff: The Japanese PCs were big hits with people, be it coworkers or random people walking around the arcade I still suck at 3/4s of NES games Vectrex is a good bit of fun - the controllers were kinda dying on the stick but past that the games were a lot of fun... I just love the graphics And past that I don't remember crap, it was a few days ago at least this all happened, so that's it. Next week will be some Game.com and SNES - I'm taking the Game.com to school and Lawnmower Man may have a new skip we found, so I'll see what happens. Edited May 3, 2017 by BurritoBeans 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 That's a bunch of games... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 10 minutes of M.U.L.E. is like playing two rounds and then giving up the game. I suppose at beginner level (6 rounds) one might be able to squeeze down a full game in 20-25 mins, given there are no land auctions or crystite mining going on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 10 minutes of M.U.L.E. is like playing two rounds and then giving up the game. I suppose at beginner level (6 rounds) one might be able to squeeze down a full game in 20-25 mins, given there are no land auctions or crystite mining going on. Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head of "Playing two rounds and giving up" - I don't exactly know what to do in the game and didn't read the manual. Maybe some other day I'll figure it out if I ever get my own copy, but for now it was just to see what the game looked like as I've never really played it before. A good few of the games, especially on any of the stuff I brought, I just didn't put a ton of time into - I guess the big example is that some of the PC games were just RPGs that people brought because they have nice graphics or sound or whatever to show off the system. When there's so much stuff and not a ton of time anyways, it's hard to get too into the things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Is that more games than last week? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 Very, very busy week for me, but I'll try to get things posted sometime tomorrow. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 With apologies for the delay, here's the summary for Week 17, running from April 24 - 30. We logged 8352 minutes of eligible play, playing 218 games on a total of 30 systems. Top 10: 1. Lemmings (Mac OS Classic) - 450 2. Popeye (Atari 2600) - 356 3. Smurfs Rescue in Gargamel's Castle (Atari 2600) - 307 4. Xevious (Atari 7800) - 303 5. Tunnels of Doom [Quest of the King] (TI-99/4A) - 290 6. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 262 7. Sim City 2000 (Mac OS Classic) - 240 8. Lawnmower Man, The (SNES) - 212 9. Shadowgate (Game Boy Color) - 211 10. Oregon Trail (Mac OS Classic) - 200 Pre-NES top 10: 1. Popeye (Atari 2600) - 356 2. Smurfs Rescue in Gargamel's Castle (Atari 2600) - 307 3. Xevious (Atari 7800) - 303 4. Tunnels of Doom [Quest of the King] (TI-99/4A) - 290 5. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 262 6. Legends II (TI-99/4A) - 180 6. Sparkdrummer's Challenge: Rescue at AtariAge (TI-99/4A) - 180 8. Masters of the Universe: He-Man (Atari 2600) - 154 9. Dig Dug (Atari 7800) - 123 9. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 123 Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 (1448) 2. Mac OS Classic (1240) 3. Atari 7800 (1033) 4. TI-99/4A (945) 5. SNES (496) 6. Arcade (456) 7. Sega CD (320) 8. Sharp X68000 (264) 9. FM Towns (236) 10. NES/Famicom (225) Week 17 cracks our all-time Top 10, just sneaking into the #10 spot. But the biggest news is that it sets a new all-time record for the most games played in a single week, with 218 games exceeding the old mark of 213 games set in Week 42 of 2015. Wow! With 30 different systems played, Week 17 also ties the record -- set in the final week of 2016 -- for the most platforms seen in a single week. And what better game to lead us to these heights than Lemmings, a game that's all about being led places? It takes the #1 spot and almost brings Mac OS to the top, but ultimately it's the Atari 2600 and Popeye that rule the other two charts. Finally, who's new to the 1000-minute club? How about International Tennis Tour on the SNES (1010 min. logged), which serves and volleys its way into spot #281. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 Also, I meant to address this: I began by playing some Atari 2600 games on my iMac G3 in the "Action Pack" packages... I dont know whether to call these Mac ports of the 2600 games, or whether they are truly emulated. The gameplay was spot on, graphics and sound were excellent. Played the dog piss out of these games. [snip] I will post full times tomorrow, but I wanted to get a ruling on the Action packs on the Macintosh... whether to call them ports or emulation. From a quick glance at a YouTube video of the Windows version of the Atari Action Pack (the Mac OS version isn't on there), the sound in Enduro, Crackpots, etc. seems like it's not using the Atari routines at all, but something different (maybe a FM synth?). That suggests to me that it's been reprogrammed for the new platform (even if only slightly), and so should count as a Mac OS game -- unless the Mac OS version has totally different and superior sound? That said, don't let these questions deter you from posting times. At the same time, though, anything you can do to give me a strong basis for classifying these is helpful. Usually you folks know the games you play better than I do, after all. In truth, these edge-cases are the ones that tend to be most time-consuming -- as are things like variant titles, different versions of homebrews, etc. -- because they interrupt the flow of my data entry and can take a fair bit of research. Also, I often don't have time to look at the thread until I compile the stats, so I may miss questions until it's already the due date and can't really ask for clarification without delaying the weekly post. So anything you can do to guide my work and anticipate ambiguous situations is helpful, and also gives other posters a chance to disagree if necessary, so everyone can hash it out and I can simply follow the consensus. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 (edited) 10-4. The sound seemed a bit off to me as well, as well as a few gameplay mechanics on SeaQuest. Initially I thought they were Atari ROMs wrapped with an executable emulator, but the more I played, the more I believed otherwise, hence why I posted them in the Mac category. Thanks again for updating!!! Great week, all! Edited May 6, 2017 by Opry99er 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 Atari 2600 Popeye: 10 min Smurf: 15 min High Score Club. Not a lot more to say about this... Commodore 64 Card Sharks: 175 min I finally won the table. Gorbatchev was the last and toughest opponent. He does bluff now and then, which makes it annoying. He IS kind of predictable, in that in 5-card draw you do have a good idea of what his initial hand is. So in the end it was just a slugmatch with mostly small pots to bring him down. Nice game. SNES Doom: 25 min Inindo: 20 min Road Riot 4WD: 3 min Well, what can I say... Doom on the SNES isn't all that great, at least for my taste. I played the first two levels and don't feel like I want to return to this game anytime soon. The blood-red cartridge does look badass, though. Inindo looks like a decent game. I only fiddled around with it and saw the role-playing part. According to the interwebs, it also has strategy parts. Anyone played through this yet and can tell me if it's worth playing? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 6, 2017 Author Share Posted May 6, 2017 Inindo looks like a decent game. I only fiddled around with it and saw the role-playing part. According to the interwebs, it also has strategy parts. Anyone played through this yet and can tell me if it's worth playing? Zenic Reverie, aka The RPG Consoler, played through Inindo recently but didn't like it. (Probable spoilers there, BTW.) I'd imagine one's pre-existing fondness for -- or distaste for -- the Koei house style might be predictive here? To me, it looked like a game I might enjoy. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 Arcade: World Rally (Championship?) - 15 min. Well, one of those "barely a blip" weeks. I didn't even enter the Atari 8-bit HSC yet, due to being tired and having lots of other things to get done. The sole reason I played this arcade game was that it is parked in our computer club's headquarters, and since I was the last person to leave after our Saturday morning meeting, I decided to turn it on and play a little before going back home. To be honest I don't know if the game installed is the Atari Games release or the Gaelco release, as screenshots on The International Arcade Museum look quite the same. Next time I'll read the title screen more closely, though in practise perhaps it doesn't matter all that much. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Not too many retro games this week but I did play quite a bit of Puzzle Bobble finally broke 2mil Sega CD The Misadventures of Flink - 25min Wonderswan Ganzo Jajamaru Kun - 10min Puzzle Bobble - 246min Space Invaders - 7min 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Emerson Arcadia 2001 : 1. Alien Invaders - 25 min 2. Astro Invaders - 30 min 3. Breakaway - 20 min 4. Cat Trax - 35 min 5. Crazy Climber - 25 min 6. Crazy Gobbler - 10 min 7. Funky Fish - 15 min 8. Escape - 45 min 9. Hobo - 10 min 10. Jungler - 35 min 11. Missle War - 40 min 12. Mobile Suit Gundam - 15 min 13. Nibbleman - 30 min 14. Pleiades - 30 min 15. Parashooter - 20 min 16. Red Clash - 20 min 17. Robot Killer - 70 min Bally Astrocade : 1. Astro Battle - 25 min 2. Ballypin - 30 min 3. Brickyard - 15 min 4. Candyman - 40 min 5. The Incredible Wizard - 75 min 6. Galactic Invasion - 35 min 7. Muncher - 55 min 8. Space Fortress - 25 min TurboGrafx-16 : 1. Aero Blaster - 75 min 2. Detana!! TwinBee - 120min 3. Devil`s Crush - 50 min 4. Dropoff - 15 min 5. Drop Rock Hora Hora - 25 min 6. Final Blaster - 25 min 7. Galaga `88 - 45 min 8. Galaga `90 - 65 min 9. Gokuraku Chuka Taisen - 35 min 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Here are my times for this past week (May 1st through 7th)... Arcade: Q*bert - 77 min. in 2 sessions Q*bert's Qubes - 157 min. in several sessions Commodore 64: Juice - 43 min. Online (non-eligible): Reach the core - 29 min. Zak - 25 min. This week I continued playing Q*Bert and variants. There were two more games of Q*bert in which I reached Levels 8 and 9, respectively, and several games of Q*bert's Qubes in which I didn't reach my goal of 300,000 points. I also played the C-64 game Juice which is a variation on Q*bert. Here you have unlimited "flying discs", but there's a time limit for each level, and not making the level in time means Game Over. Then I tried two online games. Zak is a jump'n'run (and shoot) game in the veins of Super Mario Bros., but at 25 min. it's not very long, especially given the fact that you have unlimited lives. In Reach the core you control a drill which is drilling towards the "core" but usually breaks or runs out of energy before it reaches it. But you can improve that situation by slowly applying the funds you get for drilling towards upgrades. I haven't reached the core yet through... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 126 minutes Masters of the Universe The Power of He-Man - 104 minutes Popeye - 72 minutes Smurf Rescue in Gargamel's Castle - 189 minutes Kaboom! High score of the week: 145,291 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 ATARI 2600: Chase the Chuckwagon - 45 minutes Crystal Castles - 5 minutes Defender - 190 minutes Kangaroo - 10 minutes Missile Command - 65 minutes Popeye - 95 minutes COLECOVISION: Beamrider - 50 minutes Dac-Man - 15 minutes H.E.R.O. - 10 minutes Mr. Do! - 20 minutes Q*Bert - 45 minutes NES / FAMICOM: Mario Bros. - 40 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 (edited) EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK: 1) ColecoVision Beamrider emulated, Skills 1, 2 and 3 in sequence 2) ColecoVision Dac-Man emulated, score 26,750 3) 2600 Defender on real console, score 1,055,000 (Game 1-BB) 4) 2600 Defender emulated, score 1,055,050 (Game 1-BB) 5) 2600 Missile Command on real console, score 966,270 (Game 1-BB) 6) 2600 Popeye emulated, score 167,450 for NEW HSC Season 6, Weeks 14-15 (Cartoon Contests) Edited May 8, 2017 by oyamafamily 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 My times for the week: Genesis: Action 52 - 2 min. Asterix and the Power of the Gods - 3 min. Bloodshot - 1 min. SNES: Aero the Acrobat - 55 min. International Tennis Tour - 90 min. Sküljagger - 138 min. Beat Sküljagger (for the second time), won a couple more tournaments to continue my very slow progress through International Tennis Tour, and was reminded of how much I dislike Aero the Acrobat. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Not much for me.. TI-99/4A: St. Nick (360 minutes) Tunnels of Doom (70 minutes) VCS: Asteroids (60 minutes) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 It was a big week for the Atari 7800 around here this past week, which is no surprise considering some of the gems that showed up in the mail! Ineligible Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Game Boy Advance) - 82 minutes Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Game Boy Advance) - 29 minutes Arcade Ms. Pac-Man (played on Namco Museum for Game Boy Advance) - 9 minutes Xevious (played on Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary for GameCube) - 22 minutes Atari 2600 Crystal Castles - 39 minutes Popeye - 11 minutes Space Rocks - 5 minutes Atari 7800 Asteroids - 125 minutes Centipede - 64 minutes Donkey Kong (emulated on Nintendo Wii) - 20 minutes Donkey Kong Junior - 37 minutes Donkey Kong PK - 178 minutes Double Dragon - 190 minutes Joust - 68 minutes Ms. Pac-Man - 12 minutes Pac-Man Collection! - 218 minutes PlayStation Tomb Raider - 84 minutes Total Play Time This Week1,193 minutes (19 hours 53 minutes) [1,082 minutes eligible]Individual System Play Times This Week Atari 7800: 912 minutes Game Boy Advance: 111 minutes PlayStation: 84 minutes Atari 2600: 55 minutes Arcade: 31 minutes This week was quite possibly the biggest week my household has ever had when it comes to the Atari 7800 platform, with very little else played on any other systems. I did spend a little time playing some Game Boy Advance fighting games as I debated whether or not to sell them (the answer for both ended up being "yes") and the misses got in around an hour and a half of Tomb Raider on the PlayStation mid-week, but other than that it was pretty much an "all Atari" week for us. The week started off with my wife doing her usual morning games of Joust or Pac-Man Collection! over breakfast, accounting for most of the times for those games, but I also spent a bit of time playing my old favorites Asteroids, Centipede, and Donkey Kong Junior here and there. When things got really exciting though was when the spousal unit surprised me by snagging an absolutely pristine condition copy of Double Dragon for the Atari 7800 on eBay, and while I had never enjoyed the game very much when I played it via emulation I was still pretty stoked to try playing it with my other half. It arrived in the mail a couple days later and we spent quite a bit of time playing it together, and as I had hoped it was a lot more fun playing it with her on real hardware than it was playing by myself via emulation; though I'll admit that I never managed to get terribly good at it in spite of learning the most effective moves and strategies. The spousal unit on the other hand pretty much mastered the game in 2 days and ended up beating it on her own with an ending high score of 114,220! Not to be outdone in the rare game department, this week I finally got the copy of Donkey Kong PK that I had been on the waiting list for since last December! I could go on and on about what an amazing job tep392 did on every single aspect of the game, but I think it can all be summed up in one sentence by simply saying "It's arcade perfect". From the sound and animations to the enemy and barrel AI, it seems that the original source code for nearly everything was lifted straight from the arcade game and ported to a pokey equipped Atari 7800 cartridge. It wasn't a cheap addition to our Atari 7800 library by any means, but for any fan of the original Donkey Kong arcade game it is a game that's well worth getting on the waiting list and paying the high price of admission for. Wrapping things up for the week, I was absolutely thrilled to find out this afternoon that Crystal Castles is the game being played in the Atari 2600 High Score Club for the coming week so I had to get in a game or two of it. I ended up just doing one game because I actually topped my all time high score of 123,893 with a new high score of 138,560 on my first try, which I'm pretty pleased with and think should carry me into the Top 5 for the coming week even if I don't improve any further after that. And there's a pretty good chance that I might not improve my score, since this coming Thursday (May 11th) I will be going into the hospital for a total thyroidectomy surgery and may not feel like playing much in the way of games for a while after that. I'll only be in the hospital for a day or so after the surgery, but I've heard the recovery can be pretty rough going so who knows whether or not I'll do any gaming for the rest of the week after that. Ah well, I guess misses will just have to make up the lost time for me! She does still have quite a ways left to go in Tomb Raider I think. Until next time, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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