What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2022 (Season 15)

[digdugnate]

no Classic Game time tracked.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

No classic gaming time for me either this week, though I'll be getting back into the Atari 2600 High Score Club next week

 

[agb]

14 hours ago, Atarian7 said:

 

 

I had a good game on Solar Fox.  I scored 3,178,500 and made it to Rack 152.

Atarian 7, great Solar Fox score.  The game gets interesting at level 256.  Getting close.

 

Times for the week:

 

Atari 2600

Solar Fox 115

 

Arcade using my ps one:

Asteroids 22

Centipede 13

 

[+jgkspsx]

Very different mix of systems this week!

 

Arcade:

I got my Astro City Mini V and tried out a few games. Beefy power supply and I didn't notice a huge lag, but I suck anyway.

Same! Same! Same! 1P - 25 minutes

 

 

Tatsujin - 15 minutes

 

 

Atari 7800:

Asteroids - 35 minutes for HSC

 

 

Atari Lynx:

Critter Championship - 20 minutes for HSC

 

 

Nintendo Entertaiment System:

Crystal Mines - 15 minutes

Low G Man: The Low Gravity Man - 45 minutes

Such a great game and barely remembered.

 

Nintendo Game Boy:

The main focus of the week. Almost all homebrew!

Black Castle - 25 minutes

 

 

Castelian - 15 minutes

Gelatinous: Humanity Lost - 200 minutes

 

 

Beat the game, started nightmare mode.

Gunship - 10 minutes

G-Zero - 20 minutes

 

Nintendo Game Boy Color:

Petris - 15 minutes

 

Sega Genesis:

Trouble Shooter - 45 minutes

 

 

To my dismay, I realized this doesn't work on a Nomad. The start button and C button are mapped together and the A button doesn't work. Boo! I played it a lot on my real Genesis, though.

 

Tiger R-Zone:

Star Wars: Rebel Forces - 15 minutes

It seemed much harder than usual. Weird.

 

Tiger Sega Pocket Arcade:

Sonic 3D Blast - 10 minutes

Just playing around.

 

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 32, running from August 8 - 14. We logged 2978 minutes of eligible play, playing 99 games on a total of 21 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 257 min. (#2)
2. Gelatinous: Humanity Lost (Game Boy) - 200 min.
3. Jr. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 194 min. (#3)
4. Dr. Mario (Game Boy) - 179 min.
5. Defender of the Crown (Atari ST) - 168 min.
6. Pac-Man Arcade (tep392) (Atari 8-bit) - 120 min.
7. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 8-bit) - 100 min.
8. Slap Fight MD (Genesis) - 96 min.
9. Hostages: Rescue Mission (Sinclair ZX Spectrum) - 87 min.
10. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 86 min. (#5)

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 257 min. (PN#1)
2. Jr. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 194 min. (PN#2)
3. Pac-Man Arcade (tep392) (Atari 8-bit) - 120 min.
4. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 8-bit) - 100 min.
5. Hostages: Rescue Mission (Sinclair ZX Spectrum) - 87 min.
6. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 86 min. (PN#3)
7. Food War (CoCo 1 & 2) - 50 min.
8. War of the Worlds (Arcade) - 45 min.
9. Tenebra (Commodore 64) - 40 min.
10. Asteroids (Atari 7800) - 35 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Arcade - 667 min. (#3)
2. Game Boy - 449 min. (#8)
3. Atari 2600 - 407 min. (#2)
4. Atari 8-bit - 285 min.
5. Atari ST - 280 min.
6. Genesis - 256 min.
7. Sinclair ZX Spectrum - 97 min.
8. NES/Famicom - 86 min. (#1)
9. PC DOS - 85 min.
10. Commodore 64 - 72 min.
 

Solar Fox climbs back into first place both on the overall and pre-NES lists, in front of overall #2 Gelantinous: Humanity Lost and #3 Jr. Pac-Man. The later game leads the Arcade into a system win, with Game Boy ahead of the Atari 2600.

 

Despite nearly 100 games this week (phew!), none of them exceed the 1000, 5000 or 10000 cutoffs. I don't recall last time I checked, but we're up to 10979 entries now, so within a week or two we'll exceed 11000 different games. Of those, 1562 (14.2%) have been played this year.

[Steven Pendleton]

14 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Same! Same! Same! 1P

This game is really stupid, isn't it? I really love this game, partially because of how stupid it is, but also because of everything else. Everything wants you dead the instant you start the game and it only gets harder. I've only made it to about the halfway point of stage 6 (of 10... this game is like 40 minutes of torture, and that's if you no miss the whole game. Good luck with that...), but I don't remember exactly. I could go check my replay, though.

 

You've got 30Hz autofire on the Astro City Mini V, so abuse the shit out of that to insta-kill bosses. You don't even have to fight the stage 1 bosses at all because of this.

 

Anyway, yeah, play the Mega Drive version or the arcade 2P version or arcade Fire Shark if you want a version of this game that's actually playable by normal humans... or I guess play the arcade 1P version if you want to play one of the hardest games ever made.

 

And I just realized I'm wearing my Same! Same! Same! t-shirt. This guy: https://www.beep-shop.com/ec/products/detail/F-1--500

Edited August 17, 2022 by Steven Pendleton

[Steven Pendleton]

Nothing but Toaplan and a random Thunder Dragon 2. Play Out Zone.

 

Arcade
Hellfire - 8
Out Zone - 25
Out Zone (Zero Wing conversion) - 8
Thunder Dragon 2 - 9
Tatsujin Ou - 95
Zero Wing - 35

 

G/MD
Hellfire - 54
Same! Same! Same! - 38
Slap Fight MD - 21
Zero Wing - 43

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Dropzone - 49 min.

 

I didn't manage to beat my personal best from two weeks ago. Quite enjoyable game but very hard!

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week on classic systems: 

 

Arcade:

Burger Time - 18 min.

Jr. Pac-Man - 13 min.

Pepper II - 61 min.

 

This time, aside from the usual Jr. Pac-Man (which was only one game though) I tried two other games I didn't play recently, Burger Time and Pepper II. In Burger Time, I reached the 6th pattern, but didn't clear it. In Pepper II, I played a long session of about an hour after which I got the hang of the game at least so I could complete one set of 4 mazes.

 

[+thegoldenband]

My time for the week:

 

NES:

Ultimate Stuntman - 41 min.

 

I suppose this will be the next game I aim to beat. I just wish it were a bit more...something.

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 8-BIT

Chomper - 45 minutes

Jawbreaker II (Jaw Breaker by Chuckles) - 45 minutes

Ms. Pac-Man - 55 minutes

 

ATARI 5200

Ms. Pac-Man - 55 minutes

 

EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK:

1) 8-BIT Chomper gameplay footage - 33260 points

 

2) 8-BIT Jawbreaker II gameplay footage - 35700 points

 

3) 8-BIT Ms. Pac-Man gameplay footage - New high score: 189530 (Banana level)

 

I incentivate all the participants of this topic to eat more vegetables and fruits.

My favorite fruits are apple, pear, banana, papaya, melon, watermelon and ponkan.

Edited August 22, 2022 by oyamafamily

[onlyinajeep]

 

Atari 2600

Aardvark  - 35 minutes

Kaboom - 20 minutes

Keystone Kapers - 25 minutes

Turmoil - 30 minutes

 

CoCo2 

Lift - 50 minutes

 

Coco3

Lift - 15 minutes

 

Commodore 64

Knights and Slimes - 20 minutes

 

IBM PCjr

Oil's Well - 45 minutes

 

TRS-80 MC-10

Lift - 30 minutes

 

ZX Spectrum

Lift - 10 minutes

[+wongojack]

1 hour ago, onlyinajeep said:

 

Atari 2600

Aardvark  - 35 minutes

Kaboom - 20 minutes

Keystone Kapers - 25 minutes

Turmoil - 30 minutes

 

CoCo2 

Lift - 50 minutes

 

Coco3

Lift - 15 minutes

 

Commodore 64

Knights and Slimes - 20 minutes

 

IBM PCjr

Oil's Well - 45 minutes

 

TRS-80 MC-10

Lift - 30 minutes

 

ZX Spectrum

Lift - 10 minutes

Looks like we should check out Lift.  I might do that next week.

[+jgkspsx]

7 minutes ago, wongojack said:

Looks like we should check out Lift.  I might do that next week.

There's so much lift that Jeep is going to take to the friendly skies!

[+wongojack]

Amiga

Attack of Petscii Robots 3*

Return of the Jedi 17

River Raid Reloaded 82

 

Amiga AGA

Jet Hunt 33

 

Arcade

1942 107

BurgerTime 8

House of Dead 2 20

Mad Planets 5

Return of the Jedi 68

Silent Scope 2

Spy Hunter 6

Stun Runner 10

 

Atari 7800

1942 (wip) 75

 

Atari ST

Defender of the Crown 234

Return of the Jedi 29

 

C64

1942 14

1942 and 1/2 18

 

Intellivision

Aardvark 3

BurgerTime 120

H.E.L.I. 30

Maria 1

Pinball 380

Snafu 107

Super Chef Burger time 16

 

NES

1942 17

 

ZX Spectrum

1942 11

Hostages 4

Flying Shark 24

 

 

I was a bit all over the place this week, and I ended up with more time to focus on classic gaming than expected.  I started off the week planning to finish DOTC on the Atari ST, and I got that done.  Then I got caught up in the Intellivision HSC which is playing 3 games simultaneously.  Pinball is what drew me in because I love that game, and I spent a lot of time on it, but I played a few more Inty games as well.  At some point I was browsing around and discovered a so-called sequel to River Raid for the Amiga called River Raid Reloaded.  It has some distinctly non-RR stuff going on at times, but the core gameplay is there.  It has an ending, so I may play a bit more and try to get to the end.  Over the weekend, I took the time to play an early version of 1942 for the 7800 that was shared with me here on these boards.  It is great and I'm sure 7800 fans will love it.  That also motivated me to try versions of 1942 on a few other platforms, and I got sucked into playing it in MAME.  Also, this weekend I got a surprise invite to go to the Electric Starship Arcade near Ft Worth, so I happily went and played a handful of arcade games there.  I got the bug to play Return of the Jedi while I was there, so I came home and played in MAME and on some computers too.

 

And finally, retro-gaming pseudo celebrity "The 8-Bit Guy" released his latest game not too long ago (at least I think it is his latest).  I stumbled across this arcade version at the Electric Starship Arcade.  I have not played any of the home versions, but it made me want to.  I downloaded a "shareware" version that I found he posted somewhere with 2 levels.  Perhaps I will try that next week.  As for the arcade game.  I couldn't make sense of it - lots of buttons, and I'm not sure it was working 100%.

 

 

*Note for  @carlsson Attack of the Petsci Robots runs on an Amiga 500.  Details here:  PETSCII Robots Arcade Cabinet Build - The Geek Pub

[neogeo1982]

Atari Lynx:

Jelly Jump - 25min

 

 

 

Dreamcast 

NFL 2K1 - 180min

New season means a new 2k franchise mode for this year. 

[digdugnate]

no time tracked for last week nor will there be for this week.

[DragonGrafx-16]

Zeta Wing (C64) 12 mins

 

Mostly just to test this little TV I bought to use as a monitor for my C64.

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 46 minutes

Solar Fox - 62 minutes

Vanguard - 38 minutes

 

 

[agb]

Arcade using psone

Asteroids 13 high score of 1970 which is good for me.

 

Atari 2600

Solar Fox 118 HS over 5 mil.

 

I think I need more variety.

 

 

[onlyinajeep]

10 hours ago, wongojack said:

Looks like we should check out Lift.  I might do that next week.

It's a pretty decent game. It has an Ed Averett-ish Odyssey2 look and feel to it. This Inufuto guy has a few games, http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/ , that he ports to a boatload of different systems. And it looks like lift was ported to the ZX81 just a few hours ago.  If ya search for Inufuto on here, you'll find a number of threads.

 

[+jgkspsx]

My playing was more restricted last week and will be even more this week.

 

Arcade:

Galaga ‘88 - 45 minutes

 

 

Xevious - 20 minutes
 

 

Atari 2600:

It’s HSC again!

Carnival - 20 minutes

 

Q*Bert - 40 minutes

 

 

Vanguard - 108 minutes

 

 

Atari 7800:

Asteroids - 15 minutes

 

Atari Lynx:

Awesome Golf - 35 minutes

Critter Championship - 20 minutes

 

GCE Vectrex:

Polar Rescue - 25 minutes

 

 

Spinball/Flipper Pinball - 15 minutes

 

Star Castle - 15 minutes

 

 

LCD handheld:

Meteorox (GCE Space-n-Counter) - 25 minutes

Phaser Attack (GCE Space-n-Counter) - 60 minutes

Star Sweep (GCE Space-n-Counter) - 35 minutes

 

 

Nintendo Game Boy:

 

Burning Paper - 10 minutes
Kitchen Panic - 25 minutes 

Soldam - 20 minutes

 

 

Sega Game Gear:

 

Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine - 20 minutes

 

 

Wonder Boy/Revenge of Drancon - 10 minutes

Tiger R-Zone:

 

Batman & Robin - 25 minutes

 

 

Got further than I have before. Still haven’t figured this one out yet. It is very similar to the Judge Dredd handheld that was ported to R-Zone.

 

Tiger Sega Pocket Arcade:

 

Amazing Sonic - 10 minutes

[Skippy B. Coyote]

The high score club returns! 

 

 

Atari 2600

Vanguard - 65 minutes

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 33, running from August 15 - 21. We logged 3579 minutes of eligible play, playing 82 games on a total of 25 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Pinball (Intellivision) - 380 min.
2. Defender of the Crown (Atari ST) - 234 min. (#5)
3. Vanguard (Atari 2600) - 211 min.
4. NFL 2K1 (Dreamcast) - 180 min.
4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 180 min. (#1)
6. BurgerTime (Intellivision) - 120 min.
7. 1942  (Arcade) - 107 min.
7. Snafu (Intellivision) - 107 min.
9. Tatsujin Ou (Arcade) - 95 min.
10. River Raid Reloaded (Amiga) - 82 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Pinball (Intellivision) - 380 min.
2. Vanguard (Atari 2600) - 211 min.
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 180 min. (PN#1)
4. BurgerTime (Intellivision) - 120 min.
5. 1942  (Arcade) - 107 min.
5. Snafu (Intellivision) - 107 min.
7. 1942 (WIP) (Atari 7800) - 75 min.
8. Return of the Jedi (Arcade) - 68 min.
9. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 66 min. (PN#6)
10. Pepper II (Arcade) - 61 min.
 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Intellivision - 657 min.
2. Atari 2600 - 607 min. (#3)
3. Arcade - 576 min. (#1)
4. Atari ST - 263 min. (#5)
5. Atari 8-bit - 194 min. (#4)
6. Dreamcast - 180 min.
7. Genesis - 156 min. (#6)
8. Amiga - 102 min.
9. Handheld/Tabletop - 100 min.
10. Atari 7800 - 90 min.

 

For a change, the Intellivision makes a major impact on the list with Pinball both overall and pre-NES #1. On the overall list, it is followed by Defender of the Crown for the Atari ST, also a less commonly seen system over here (or at least it used to be). Solar Fox is #4 and #3, seeing the HSC game Vanguard sneak past.

 

Vanguard (Atari 2600) also becomes member #497 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1160 minutes. Additionally, the tracker is now up to 11003 different entries so +24 this week if my numbers and math are correct.

[Steven Pendleton]

Out Zone. Play it.

 

Arcade
Out Zone - 23