Prosystemsearch Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 4 hours ago, Prosystemsearch said: Here are my times: Atari 2600: Ms. Pacman- 7 minutes Jr. Pacman- 6 1/2 miutes Dodge 'em: dodger cars- 5 minutes Tapper- 8 minutes Berzerk- 2 1/2 minutes Fast Eddie- 1 1/2 minutes Fast food- 3 minutes Dig Dug- 8 minutes Lock N' Chase- 11 minutes Milliepede- 5 1/2 minutes Phoenix- 2 minutes Time Pilot- 4 minutes Commodore Vic 20: Bug crushers- 1 1/2 minutes Amazing Maze- 9 minutes Choplifter- 7 minutes NES: Baby Boomer (Unlicensed)- 8 minutes Choplifter- 4 minutes (Damn, NES/Famicom Choplifter is quite different from the 5200, Atari 8-bit and Commodore Vic 20 versions especially sound-wise!) Kart Fighter (unlicensed)- 2 minutes Tetris- 10 minutes OOPS! forgot to add: NES Tengen KLAX- 6 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Only one game this week. atari 2600 Solar Fox 71 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 My time for the week: Game Boy: Dr. Mario - 28 min. Cleared the game on Low speed by beating Level 20 and getting an ending. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 More time in the early days of gaming. Atari 2600: A very Imagic week. Dragonfire - 15 minutes Laser Gates - 45 minutes a sample: No Escape - 15 minutes Subterranea - 35 minutes Atari 7800: Super Skateboardin' - 60 minutes A very short game but fun to keep trying to improve in. Or not. Atari Lynx: Alpine Games - 45 minutes partly for HSC Someday I'll learn how to play more of these events. Shanghai - 95 minutes for HSC I am really bad at this. I swear I had figured out a sort of working strategy but apparently I forgot it. Fairchild Channel F: Videocart 6: Math Quiz Addition/Subtraction - 45 minutes I rolled the score on subtraction. Yeah, the multiplication one is the only really fun one. But addition and subtraction are more fun than division, which is just way too easy. Videocart 16: Memory Match - 35 minutes Played both 40 square modes. Surprisingly challenging, or I was just being dumb. Videocart 25: Casino Poker - 45 minutes I eventually lost all my money. It's a shame because they were 1980 dollars, worth a lot more now! LCD/Handheld: Epoch Galaxy II - 15 minutes Judge Dredd - 20 minutes Radio Shack Astro Thunder - 20 minutes Tiger Stix Klobber - 10 minutes Tiger Stix Plugger - 25 minutes Tiger Stix Pogoman - 10 minutes Tiger Stix Shark Bite - 10 minutes @carlsson I incorrectly reported this before as "Tiger Stix Shark Attack" - apologies. Tiger Stix Wheelz - 10 minutes Milton Bradley Microvision: Sea Duel (Bataille Navale) - 10 minutes Nintendo Game Boy: Spanky's Quest - 20 minutes Nintendo Game Boy Color: Ballistic - 20 minutes Sega Game Gear: Junction - 15 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 113 minutes Solar Fox - 127 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Amiga Hostages (aka Hostages - Rescue Mission) 100 C64 Hostages (aka Hostages - Rescue Mission) 50 NES 1943 21 Guerrilla War 214 (p.b. 1,010,900) Montezuma's Revenge 79 Rescue - The Embassy Mission 73 The NES HSC was playing Guerrilla War which is an excellent Commando-style vertical run and gun. I think it is better on an emulator though as the sprite flicker is pretty bad on original hardware. I also got my kickstarter reward for the NES version of Montezuma's Revenge, so I played the NES version and the modern reboot a bit. The biggest change in the NES version is the addition of a bat that comes and kills you if you spend too much time on one screen. Thanks, I hate it I also dipped into 3 versions of Hostages. I posted about the Amiga version a bit here. There are differences with each one that add and detract from the overall experience. The NES version with its screen-driven menus is the easiest to quickly play and get into, but the rooftop sections where you rappel down the side are the worst in that version to the point of being almost pointless. The Amiga version looks good, but the controls inside the embassy are quite strange. If the game had been designed today, that section would have almost assuredly been an FPS with the controls we've all come to expect. Meanwhile, the C64 version at first appears to be putting too many elements on the screen during the rooftop section, but it ends up making that segment more fun than any of the other platforms. Once inside the embassy, it also abandons any attempt at over-the-shoulder gaming and throws you right into one of the only examples of FPS gaming on the C64 that I can think of. I'd like to try the ST and Spectrum versions, but I need a couple emulator crash courses first. ----- Ineligible <- I included to show my retro-ness extended into modern gaming this week with both Monty and Pac-Man ----- PC Montezuma's Revenge (Modern Reboot) 78 Pac-Man 256 66 Spellspire 252 NES Montezuma's Revenge! by Normal Distribution LLC — Kickstarter 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamchevy Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Arcade: Computer Space 20 min Gorf 20 min Gyruss 40 min Sinistar 45 min Street Fighter Zero 3 30 min Berzerk(I acted like a Chicken again) 30’minutes Sega CD: Shining Force CD 60 min Popful Mail 20 min Atari 5200: Hero 30 min Jungle Hunt 20 min Colecovision: GhostNZombies 30 min I like this game more than any other version of the game. It’s a bit floaty, which I love. It’s also easy enough for me to master, which all of the other versions are to hard for me to beat. Jungle Hunt 20 min Intellivision: Christmas Carol Vs the Ghost of Christmas Presents 30 min My favorite Christmas game, a close second is the Vectrex Xmas cart. And a very close 3rd is Stay Frosty 2. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 Cool, the first 77 games have been recorded. As I wrote, I'll delay the stats until Wednesday evening European time if the server migration has went well, or will wait one more day if complications arose that prevented people from entering their times. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyinajeep Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Slow week... CoCo2 Food War - 30 Planet Raiders - 70 TI99/4a Aperture - 50 ZX Spectrum Thrust - 40 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyinajeep Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 oh yeah, I think this goes here... Arcade Neo Turf Masters (via Nintendo Switch) - 110 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 No classic gaming for me this week, though I did do a full playthrough of Dead Space 2 for the modern tracker 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Here is what I have been playing lately. It goes: Gameboy 1) Batman: The Animated Series - 10 to 15 min. 2) Double Dragon - 10 min. 3) The King of Fighters '96 - 10 min. 4) Super RC Pro Am - 20 to 25 min. I really like this and is now on my favorites list GBC 1) Deer Hunter - 15 min. 2) NBA In the Zone - 10 to 15 min. 3) Wario Land II DX - 25 to 30 min. Will try and revisit this as I did enjoy my time with it. GBA 1) Driven - 10 min. Really enjoyed what I played. Will be revisiting this and have (preliminarily) put this on my favorites list. Android/Mobile 1) Retro Bowl - 2 hours or more. One of the greatest (American) football games ever imo. Just so damn addictive. All of these (apart from Retro Bowl) were played on my Anbernic RG351MP (just an FYI). 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 3 hours ago, Hwlngmad said: GBA 1) Driven - 10 min. Really enjoyed what I played. Will be revisiting this and have (preliminarily) put this on my favorites list. Android/Mobile 1) Retro Bowl - 2 hours or more. One of the greatest (American) football games ever imo. Just so damn addictive. All of these (apart from Retro Bowl) were played on my Anbernic RG351MP (just an FYI). These are modern, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 Yup, I'm adding the GBA and Android times to the sister tracker. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 41 minutes ago, jgkspsx said: These are modern, though. Whoops! Yeah, should have read the rules a bit further. My apologies. Will make sure to keep the things separate from now on. Much appreciated. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 Here's the summary for Week 31, running from August 1 - 7. We logged 2896 minutes of eligible play, playing 89 games on a total of 25 systems. Top 10: 1. Guerrilla War (NES/Famicom) - 214 min. 2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 198 min. 3. Jr. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 194 min. (#7) 4. Mr. Happyface [hack of Ms. Pac-Man Tengen] (NES/Famicom) - 120 min. 5. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 113 min. 6. Neo Turf Masters (Neo Geo AES/MVS) - 110 min. 7. Hostages: Rescue Mission (Amiga) - 100 min. 8. Shanghai (Atari Lynx) - 95 min. 9. Montezuma's Revenge (NES/Famicom) - 79 min. 10. Rescue: The Embassy Mission (NES/Famicom) - 73 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 198 min. (PN#6) 2. Jr. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 194 min. (PN#3) 3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 113 min. (PN#7) 4. Planet Raider(s) (CoCo 1 & 2) - 70 min. 5. Super Skateboardin' (Atari 7800) - 60 min. 6. Aperture (TI-99/4A) - 50 min. (PN#8) 6. Hostages: Rescue Mission (Commodore 64) - 50 min. 8. Casino Poker (Fairchild Channel F) - 45 min. 8. Laser Gates (Atari 2600) - 45 min. 8. Math Quiz I (Addition & Subtraction) (Fairchild Channel F) - 45 min. 8. Sinistar (Arcade) - 45 min. Top 10 systems: 1. NES/Famicom - 542 min. (#7) 2. Atari 2600 - 485 min. (#3) 3. Arcade - 409 min. (#2) 4. Atari Lynx - 140 min. 5. Fairchild Channel F - 125 min. 6. Handheld/Tabletop - 120 min. 7. Neo Geo AES/MVS - 110 min. 8. Game Boy - 108 min. (#1) 9. Amiga - 100 min. 9. CoCo 1 & 2 - 100 min. The first game to become the most played in a week after the forum move is Guerrilla War, though with only a margin of 16 minutes ahead of pre-NES star Solar Fox, which in its turn is a mere 4 minutes ahead of Jr. Pac-Man. We're seeing a good amount of diversity this week with 25 different systems, with the NES/Famicom in the top, almost an hour ahead of the Atari 2600. Actually all systems except for the Genesis enjoy at least 10 minutes each this week. No changes to the 1000, 5000 or 10000 Minute Clubs. In case someone missed to post due to the downtime yesterday, please do so and I'll include your times with next week. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 Literally nothing but arcade games and Mega Drive ports of arcade games this time. Arcade Dogyuun - 17 Hellfire - 5 Tatsujin - 14 Tatsujin Ou - 19 USAAF Mustang - 9 Zero Wing - 18 Neo Geo AES/MVS Neo Turf Masters - 16 G/MD Hellfire - 43 Same! Same! Same! - 15 Slap Fight MD - 96 Zero Wing - 57 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted August 14, 2022 Author Share Posted August 14, 2022 Atari 8-bit: Dropzone - 25 min. I'm back to just above detection level again. The lone retro gaming session just ended, late Sunday afternoon. And now other activities start up again, which will leave me even less time to play games. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 Here are my times for this past week (August 8th-14th, 2022): Arcade: Jr. Pac-Man - 194 min. in 5 sessions Commodore 64: Al-bert (from Reset64 4kb 'Craptastic' Game Compo) - 11 min. Marble Boy - 15 min. This week I continued to play Jr. Pac-man. The higher average time per session is due to the last session where I completed the game in MAME using state saves. Then I tried 2 Commodore 64 games: Al-bert is a 4K game from a competition held in 2020, and it's another take on Q*Bert. While the graphics are pretty nice, the gameplay has been greatly simplified. The only creatures in the game are the player, the snake and some balls you have to avoid, which change color with each round. Also, there's no level/round structure, and you have to hop on each cube only once, even in later levels. Note: This is not the same game as "Albert" which has been released on May 3rd, 1985 with Hebodogiciel No. 081, and also somewhat based on Q*Bert... but the one I played seems to be the better take. Marble Boy is a cross between Marble Madness and Buggy Boy, but viewed in 2D top-down. It plays on one screen (out of 4 selectable) on which you roll around with your marble and try to clear the gates that appear as fast as possible. There doesn't seem to be an end to a level, or at least I didn't reach one. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 (edited) Here are my times for the last week: Atari 2600: Fast Eddie- 4 minutes Donkey Kong- 3 minutes Venture- 2 minutes Vanguard- 5 1/2 minutes Time Pilot- 7 minutes Missile Command- 7 minutes Ms. Pac-man- 6 minutes Jr. Pac-man 3 minutes Official Frogger (Starparth Supercharger version)- 5 minutes NES: Alien Syndrome (unlicensed): 2 1/2 minutes The Lion King (Unlicensed Super Game version): 5 minutes Millipede-6 1/2 minutes Klax (unlicensed)- 5 1/2 minutes Bee 52 (unlicensed)- 7 minutes Commodore 64: Arkanoid- 6 minutes Commodore Vic 20: Choplifter- 4 1/2 minutes Pacman- 7 minutes Dragonfire- 4 minutes Edited August 14, 2022 by Prosystemsearch 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 ATARI 8-BIT Chomper - 16 minutes Dropzone - 4 minutes Jawbreaker - 10 minutes Jr. Pac-Man - 10 minutes Ms. Pac-Man - 100 minutes Pac-Man Arcade [tep392] - 120 minutes EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK: 1) New score on Jr. Pac-Man for Atari 8-BIT - 50,250 (Train start with 4 ghosts) 2) Best score on 8-BIT Ms. Pac-Man - 160,890 on Pear start 3) Best score on 8-BIT Pac-Man Arcade - 161510 (Apple Start) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyinajeep Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 (edited) Arcade - All played at Starcade in Roseville, MN. Pics-> https://ibb.co/album/0KJpFX Anti-Aircraft - 3 min Assault - 5 min Asteroids - 5 min BattleZone - 10 min Black Tiger - 2 min Black Widow - 10 min Blasted - 5 min Blue Print - 2 min Bubbles - 20 min Burgertime - 15 min Centipede - 5 min Circus - 5 min Crazy Climber - 1 min Demolition Derby - 3 min Joust 2 - 5 min Jungle King - 10 min Lost Tomb - 10 min Midway's Road Runner - 5 min Midway's Shuffleboard - 30 min (This one was a surprise, I really enjoyed playing this one.) Mr. Do!'s Castle - 5 min (My least favorite Mr. Do!) Mystic Marathon - 20 min (Rare!) Pac-Man - 20 min Piranha - 8 min Pot Of Gold - 5 min Punch-Out - 15 min Super Breakout - 2 min Super Pac-Man - 10 min Tazz-Mania - 5 min Toobin' - 5 min Tron - 20 min Tutankham - 10 min War of the Worlds - 45 min (This game is super rare! Like less than twenty known to exist. It's also pretty fun!)CoCo2 Food War - 50 min Commodore 64 Tenebra - 40 min Edited August 15, 2022 by onlyinajeep 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 My times for the week: Game Boy: Dr. Mario - 179 min. Game Boy Color: NBA 3 on 3 Featuring Kobe Bryant - 8 min. Beat Dr. Mario by clearing virus level 20 on Med and Hi speeds. Thoughts about that game, as well as Marble Madness and Joy Mech Fight, here. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 Amiga Hostages (aka Hostages - Rescue Mission) 34 Amiga CD32 Defender of the Crown II 44 Apple ][gs Hostage (aka Hostage - Rescue Mission) 31 Atari ST Defender of the Crown 168 Hostages (aka Hostages - Rescue Mission) 40 Nitro 72 DOS Hostage (aka Hostage - Rescue Mission) 85 ZX Spectrum Great Escape, The 10 Hostages 87 Ok . . . I played a lot of versions of the game often known as "Hostages" although it is sometimes known as just "Hostage" and in North America seems to have had "Rescue Mission" added. It was fun to play so many versions of the same game, and I continued to post about it in the Amiga forum. The ST and the Amiga are probably the best versions, but they suffer from some odd control choices that subsequent releases don't have. That gives the DOS port some room to punch above its weight and earn my vote for the best version (unless I change my mind in 5 mins). Be warned, if you play the DOS version it has all the problems of DOS games with mediocre EGA graphics and beepy boopy sound. Neither the Dos nor Spectrum version have the weird controls of the 16bits, and if you play the Spectrum version in 128 mode, you get a nice soundtrack that puts the DOS PC speaker to shame. As for the Apple ][gs, I had never emulated that computer before this little experiment, and it wasn't a good experience. The emulator I chose (GSPlus) is supposed to be the easiest one, but it was rough. I was able to start the game but could never get it to advance to the second stage. Since I was in an emulating mood, I played a few other games. Neither version of DOTC was all that impressive (gameplay wise), and I continue to point to the C64 as my favorite version of that game. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 Atari 2600 Hunchy II - 17 minutes Kaboom! - 86 minutes Solar Fox - 142 minutes Vanguard - 5 minutes I had a good game on Solar Fox. I scored 3,178,500 and made it to Rack 152. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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