DragonGrafx-16 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 (edited) TwinBee 3 (Famicom/NES) 135 mins Super Mario Bros. (NES) 10 mins Kirby's Adventure (NES) 10 mins Soldier Blade (PC-Engine/TG-16) 40 mins Tyrian 2000 (PC (DOS)) 240 mins Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (PC (DOS)) 65 mins Edited December 24, 2018 by TravisHuckins 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 not much this week. St Nick (994A) -- 30 minutes Mega Man 2 (NES) -- 60 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 A2600 HERO 82 Seaquest 33 Toyshop Trouble 85 It had been a few years since I played straight through level 20 on HERO. Level 20 tends to kick my a$$, but I managed to get through it during those 82 mins. I also made it to Christmas day in Toyshop trouble. I think I had only done that once before. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 (edited) Posting a little later than usual on account of my family celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve every year, but here's my household's stats for the week. Ineligible Karous: The Beast of Re:Eden (Nintendo 3DS) - 19 minutesThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (Nintendo 3DS) - 17 minutesStar Fox 64 3D (Nintendo 3DS) - 150 minutesPlayStationTomb Raider - 332 minutesTomb Raider II - 61 minutesSega GenesisContra: Hard Corps - 313 minutesRocket Knight Adventures - 178 minutesTotal Video Game Play Time This Week1,070 minutes (17 hours 50 minutes) [884 minutes eligible]Individual System Play Times This WeekSega Genesis: 491 minutesPlayStation: 393 minutesNintendo 3DS: 186 minutes For the second to last week of the year we didn't get in quite as much gaming as usual, but it was still a fun week with a good number of games played and a few new ones arriving in the mail. I had intended to finish up The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time 3D Master Quest this week before Christmas, since I figured I'd probably get a new game or two for the holidays that I'd want to start in on, but I ended up getting a little distracted by a couple new Sega Genesis games that showed up in the mail and that didn't quite happen. After doing a play through of Star Fox 64 3D and beating the hard route on the original N64 difficulty setting for the first time the majority of my week was spent playing Contra: Hard Corps on the Sega Genesis, which arrived in the mail early in the week and certainly lives up to it's name. Any game that let's you play as a cyborg werewolf with a combination machine gun / flamethrower arm and sunglasses is awesome in my book, but holy hell is Contra: Hard Corps ever hard! After 5 hours of practice I still can't get more than halfway through the 4th level, but it's still been a lot of fun and I'm sure I'll play it many more times in the future. The other game that showed up in the mail this past week was Rocket Knight Adventures (also for the Genesis) and the misses and I sat down together last night and spent a few hours playing it, trading off the controller between levels. It's a pretty amazing and fun game, but just like Contra it gets crazy difficult in the later stages. Konami definitely seemed to have this weird fixation with making all their Sega Genesis games insanely hard, because out of the 6 Konami games I own for the system the only one I've ever managed to beat was Castlevania: Bloodlines; and even that took a lot of practice. That was pretty much it for me this past week, but the misses did accomplish her goal of beating the original Tomb Raider on the PlayStation then starting in on the second game in the series. She's planning on continuing Tomb Raider II next week and hoping to beat it by the end of the year, but I'm not so sure she'll be sticking to that plan after Christmas presents are opened later this evening. There may be a new game coming her way that I have a feeling might distract her from Tomb Raider II for a good long while. I think that covers everything for this week, so until next time, Merry Christmas and happy gaming to you and yours! Edited December 24, 2018 by Jin 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 The only things I'm sure Turtles played this week on his TI-99/4A are: Donkey Kong 10 minutes Snake Plissken 40 minutes Centipede 10 minutes 4A Flyer 5 minutes St Nick 10 minutes I know he played more than that, but the list has somehow lost itself in the holiday madness. . .Cthulhu rules in this house. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted December 26, 2018 Author Share Posted December 26, 2018 Here's the summary for Week 51, running from December 17 - 24. We logged 4142 minutes of eligible play, playing 39 games on a total of 13 systems. Top 10: 1. Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar (Apple II) - 840 2. Tomb Raider (PlayStation) - 332 3. Contra: Hard Corps (Genesis) - 313 4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 287 5. Tyrian 2000 (PC (DOS)) - 240 6. Stay Frosty 2: Stay Frostier (Atari 2600) - 220 7. M.U.L.E. (Atari 8-bit) - 210 8. Rocket Knight Adventures (Genesis) - 178 9. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 164 10. Twinbee 3 (NES/Famicom) - 135 Pre-NES top 10: 1. Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar (Apple II) - 840 2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 287 3. Stay Frosty 2: Stay Frostier (Atari 2600) - 220 4. M.U.L.E. (Atari 8-bit) - 210 5. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 164 6. St. Nick (TI-99/4A) - 130 7. Ultra SCSIcide (Atari 2600) - 106 8. Toyshop Trouble (Atari 2600) - 85 9. H.E.R.O. (Atari 2600) - 82 10. Baby Pac-Man [homebrew] (Atari 7800) - 54 Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 (1115) 2. Apple II (840) 3. Genesis (491) 4. PlayStation (393) 5. PC (DOS) (305) 6. TI-99/4A (275) 7. NES/Famicom (235) 8. Atari 8-bit (225) 9. Sega Master System (111) 10. Atari 7800 (54) I'll practice the virtue of Honesty when I note that Ultima IV on the Apple II has the Honor of being the week's top game. And with such high numbers for the week, it's only Justice that Ultima IV reaches the 1000-minute club in spot #349, with 1640 minutes logged up until now. However, a single game's Valor isn't enough to earn the #1 system title for the Apple II. That goes to the Atari VCS and a consortium of games, including the holiday-themed Stay Frosty 2. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Totally forgot to post my times. I'll add them into this week's. It wasn't much, but it was some. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 A solid recap.... I know you are master of Humility, so you won't sing your own praises, but I know it is no small Sacrifice to make sure the tracker is updated every week... You show great Compassion for the community. ((Damn, couldn't find an appropriate spot in there for Spirituality)) 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 By the way, do we run this last week extended as 8 days until Monday? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I think that is a good idea, sir. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamchevy Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 (edited) Yes, thanks for running this thread!! I love posting my playtimes. Somehow it validates my happiness in gaming.(no sarcasm intended) Sincerely, thank you! Intellivision(Happy to post some times for this console once again!) I think this will be the year of Intellivision for me. Carnival 20 min Frogger 20 min Edited December 28, 2018 by adamchevy 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I just compiled some personal stats. Over the past 65 months, I have played 938 games on 55 different formats released before year 2000 for a total of 34275 mins, or about 2 hours per week. My top three games so far obviously are Premier Manager 1 for the Amiga at 2656 min, M.U.L.E. for the Atari 8-bit at 2001 min and Stunts / 4D Sports for PC DOS at 1062 min. That can be put into perspective with the other numbers we discussed last week, that my most played game over a period of nearly 5.5 years pales compared to what others manage to cram out in 1 week. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 That can be put into perspective with the other numbers we discussed last week, that my most played game over a period of nearly 5.5 years pales compared to what others manage to cram out in 1 week. Welcome to the "Mostly below detection limit" Club :-). Apart from some spikes (Historyline, Silent Hunter and some others), I hardly make any dent in the weekly stats. Still fun. Also, here are my playtimes for this week, as I will be travelling from tomorrow on: Atari 2600 Toyshop Trouble: 25 min Played it for the HSC, and played it on real hardware. The cart was a gift from my AtariAge Secret Santa and it arrived just today! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 A solid recap.... I know you are master of Humility, so you won't sing your own praises, but I know it is no small Sacrifice to make sure the tracker is updated every week... You show great Compassion for the community. ((Damn, couldn't find an appropriate spot in there for Spirituality)) Hey, thank you very much! And as for Spirituality, that's OK -- Lord British (aka Albert) has a "no politics or religion" policy anyway, and he's the only one that can grant me new levels. By the way, do we run this last week extended as 8 days until Monday? Yes please! Everyone can feel free to post their times ad lib as always, but definitely include your times for 12/31 as well. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 It's almost the end of the year so I'll thank you in advance for all the yearly stats you will be posting. THANK YOU thegoldenband! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 I'll be mad busy tomorrow, so I want to get this in now, lest I forget. This week featured a bunch of "me" time. We also had some family in from out of town who were curious about some of the systems we were messing with, so we broke out some of the classics. Apple II: The Bard's Tale (30 minutes) Ultima IV (360 minutes) NES: Faxanadu (60 minutes) TI-99/4A: Aperture (20 minutes) Henhouse (30 minutes) Hunt the Wunpus (20 minutes) Legends II (210 minutes) Old Dark Cave (30 minutes) Parsec (15 minutes) St. Nick (30 minutes) Tunnels of Doom (90 minutes) Wizard's Doom (180 minutes) Wizard's Lair (20 minutes) It's been a great year. Thanks once again to thegoldenband for keeping us afloat! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 (edited) Atari 2600: Gingerbread Man - 10 minutes (for HSC) Reindeer Rescue - 177 minutes (for HSC) Stay Frosty 2: Stay Frostier [Demo Version] - 10 minutes (just for fun) Toyshop Trouble - 53 minutes (for HSC) Speaking in Stay Frosty 2, a small correction: the 3rd character rescued at the completion of Level 96 (Full Version) is HOLLY from Elf Dash Mrs. Claus appears at the completion of Level 7 in the Demo Version. EVIDENCE OF THE WEEK: My Stay Frosty 2 Demo Version gameplay footage, with Fastest Completions - with and without collecting presents Edited December 30, 2018 by oyamafamily 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chue Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Once again playing for the TI high score competition on AA TI-99/4a: St. Nick 90 Minutes 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Here are my times for this past week (December 24th through 30th)... if I play something tomorrow, I'll post it seperately, but I'm not sure if I'll get to it tomorrow, so I do it today as usual... Atari 7800: Baby Pac-Man (WIP) - 102 minutes in 4 sessions As in the last week, again Baby Pac-Man on the Atari 7800 was the only game I played due to the fact that it's still in development and I'm now helping Bob testing it. I also helped doing a routine for it which transforms the mazes into different colors so that the necessary definitions shrink greatly in size and more room is left for sound. Other than that, I'm busy catching up on my household chores which I've neglected for months while developing Baby Pac-Man, that's why even though I have two weeks off work, I'm still not playing much. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Yeah, it is quite unlikely I'll get any video games played on New Years Eve so I'll post as well:Atari 8-bit:Capital! - 34 min.Green Fingers - 6 min.Santa's Revenge - 25 min.Snowball - 41 min.Trains - 5 min.Yoomp! - 37 min.Channel F:Pinball - 22 min.Video Whizball - 11 min.RCA Studio II:Pinball - 39 min.Scramble - 13 min.Super Cassette Vision:Comic Circus - 17 min. This week we're having a penultimate round in the Atari 8-bit HSC with not so interesting Snowball and Santa's Revenge. To compensate, I decided to try a few Atari games unknown to me plus that I revisited Yoomp! for the first time since May 2016. Also my latest SCV game arrived this week, after being held just one month (!) in customs - yes, it took one week to be sent from Japan to Sweden but four weeks to be released from the customs. Finally I rounded out the week by playing the two ROM based systems that actually predated the 2600, of which I hadn't used my Luxor VES (Channel F) for more than two years. Happy New Year to everyone who observe it! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 I'm hoping to play some more tomorrow, so I'm waiting. =) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 I'm hoping to play some more tomorrow, so I'm waiting. =) Same here, I'm rushing like crazy to try and finish The Master Quest in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D by the end of the year and I'm down to just Ganon's castle left to beat so I should get it done in time. Probably won't post my household's weekly times until tomorrow night or early in the morning on January 1st though. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Atari Lynx I got a couple new homebrews so tried them out Unseen is a really neat text adventure and Xmassacre is a really fun thumb destroying arcade game Unseen - 60min Xmassacre - 100min I also received a Amstrad CPC 464 this week, which unfortunately won't load original tapes as I need to find a new rubber wheel. But it will load off a Cassette adapter (some games copy protection doesn't work) so I've been playing a few games that way until I can fix the wheel Boulderdash - 15min Chuckie Egg - 80min Galactic Tomb - 20min Galaxians - 30min This one is actually a type in game. Not sure if I can count the time it took to type it in? It took 140min to type in lol R-Type - 10min 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 TO ADD - Atari 2600 Galaxian - 44 minutes Space Invaders - 18 minutes I played these 2 games in my last session of 2018 with my ProSystem console, just to use it periodically. In this session I got my new high score on Galaxian, surpassing 100K points (Skill 9). HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 just one game in for the Classic boards this week- Mighty BombJack for the NES. I'm not even sure what makes this game so appealing to me, other than I'm kind of lousy at it and i keep wanting to get further than I did the previous game. NES Mighty BombJack -- 240 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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