+wongojack Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Amiga Sensible World of Soccer 2020 632 Intellivision Beauty and the Beast 469 Golf (aka PGA Golf) 52 Last week, I sorta hinted that I wouldn't be playing the Amiga version of SWOS as much . . . well I got compelled to continue my single player career and wound up playing a lot more. Also played a couple games in the Intellivision HSC 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Another week of mostly portable gaming. Atari 2600: Venture Reloaded - 45 minutes Sadness: Atari Lynx: Hard Drivin' - 150 minutes for HSC On Duty - 180 minutes for HSC Cleared in "pacifist" mode! Ouragan - 30 minutes A promising beginning to a 3D Tempest clone. It's a darn shame it wiped out. LCD/Tabletop: Tiger Stix Meeba - 25 minutes I've played it a bunch more and it is my considered opinion that the contacts on my copy need to be cleaned. A lot of the time the controls just stop responding. Nintendo Game Boy: Pocahontas - 45 minutes It's a really impressive recreation of the Genesis game but it really runs glacially. Sega Genesis: The Cursed Knight - 55 minutes Amazing new homebrew, played on the Nomad. Early reports were middling but it seems like the feedback was taken into account and the finished game is extremely hard to put down. Tiger Sega Pocket Arcade: Indy 500/Sega Raceway - 45 minutes. It's a really great feeling when you're doing well, but one mistake and you are at the back of the pack. Streets of Rage - 20 minutes. It's another in a long line of Tiger run-and-die games. I was kind of hoping it would be more of a real beat em up. Oh well. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 This week I played a lot: Alundra for Playstation - 1,009 minutes Battlezone for Atari 2600 - 2 minutes Breakout for Atari 2600 - 2 minutes Centipede for Atari 2600 - 4 minutes Defender for Atari 2600 - 16 minutes Demon Attack for Atari 2600 - 7 minutes Dig Dug for Atari 2600 - 12 minutes Donkey Kong for Atari 2600 - 4 minutes Donkey Kong for NES - 23 minutes Donkey Kong 3 for NES - 6 minutes Donkey Kong Jr. for NES - 19 minutes Mario Bros. for Atari 2600 - 7 minutes Mario Bros. for NES - 12 minutes Missile Command for Atari 2600 - 5 minutes Pac-Man for Atari 2600 - 9 minutes Pokemon Blue Version for Game Boy - 49 minutes Pokemon Red Version for Game Boy - 42 minutes Pokemon Yellow Version for Game Boy - 542 minutes Video Pinball for Atari 2600 - 5 minutes Progress: Alundra - I resumed the game from Giles' Nightmare chapter and finished the game Atari 2600 and NES games - I played one game of each title listed, except with NES Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr I also played a second game of each through Donkey Kong Classics. Pokemon Red and Blue - I played these to catch missing Pokemon to trade over to Yellow version. Pokemon Yellow - I finished the game with all 151 Pokemon as a Living Dex, getting Mew from the Red version distribution cartridge save file. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Atari 2600 Crazy Balloon - 5 minutes Kaboom! - 13 minutes Pengo - 8 minutes Solar Fox - 53 minutes Venture Reloaded - 88 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 I played a Slew of Superlative Sega Saturn Selections: Saturn: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete -- 180 minutes Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter -- 60 minutes Sexy Parodius -- 45 minutes MSHvSF was a tougher go than I remembered originally. 😅 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 (edited) Alright, I'm going to post the stuff that I played on Sunday now instead of waiting, mostly because I played some really cool and rare stuff. Arcade Dash Yarou - 25 AKA Rally Bike. This instantly became one of my favourite Toaplan games. It's really damn awesome, and it's metal as fuck, too! The enemy motorcyclists and cars don't just crash into stuff, they EXPLODE when they crash! Hell yes. Death and destruction! That's how you know it's a Toaplan game, and it also means Dash Yarou > all other motorcycle racing games where your opponents do not explode. I am absolutely going to try to get the PCB for this, especially since it's apparently not that expensive, but it should eventually be getting a PS4/Switch release, which I will play the hell out of (and so should you!!!!). Ghox - 40 Toaplan's weird spinner controller game. The second half of this game is quite difficult, but in a frustrating way. I honestly don't really care for this game that much. River Patrol - 5 Tatsujin Ou - 70 So... I got to play stage 6. I hate stage 6. The reason why is that it has POTATOES OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. Seriously, those potatoes are WAY more difficult than the final boss, or maybe it's because the difficulty of the final boss increases greatly depending on how powered up you are, but those potatoes are completely ridiculous and I have no idea how to deal with them at all, especially on checkpoint recovery. Vimana - 25 One of Toaplan's 2 most obscure shooting games, with the other being FixEight. FixEight is now the only Toaplan STG that I have not played, and FixEight and Tiger-Heli are the only Toaplan STGs that I have not played on a real PCB. Edited October 10, 2022 by Steven Pendleton 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 No classic gaming for me this week, all I played was (yet again) Alien: Isolation for the modern tracker 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyinajeep Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 Arcade Gorodki - 15 minutes Lunar Rescue - 30 minutes Atari 2600 Turmoil - 35 minutes Color Computer 2 Ghost Rush - 15 minutes Robot Nightmare - 30 minutes TRS-80 Model III 13 Ghosts - 25 minutes Donut Dilemma - 40 minutes Gem Hunter - 15 minutes Meteor Mission 2 - 25 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 11, 2022 Author Share Posted October 11, 2022 Here's the summary for Week 40, running from October 3 - 9. We logged 5422 minutes of eligible play, playing 89 games on a total of 17 systems. Top 10: 1. Alundra (PlayStation) - 1009 min. 2. Sensible World of Soccer 2020 (Amiga) - 632 min. (#2) 3. Pokemon Yellow Version (Game Boy) - 542 min. (#1) 4. Beauty and the Beast (Intellivision) - 469 min. 5. Slap Fight (Arcade) - 429 min. 6. Lunar: Silver Start Story Complete (Sega Saturn) - 180 min. 6. On Duty (Atari Lynx) - 180 min. 8. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 165 min. (#4) 9. Hard Drivin' (Atari Lynx) - 150 min. 10. Venture Reloaded (Atari 2600) - 133 min. (#6) Pre-NES top 10: 1. Beauty and the Beast (Intellivision) - 469 min. (PN#7) 2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 165 min. (PN#1) 3. Venture Reloaded (Atari 2600) - 133 min. (PN#3) 4. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 126 min. 5. PGA Golf (Intellivision) - 52 min. 6. Donut Dilemma (TRS-80 Model I/III) - 40 min. 7. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 39 min. 8. Turmoil (Atari 2600) - 35 min. 9. Lunar Rescue (Arcade) - 30 min. 9. Robot Nightmare (CoCo 1 & 2) - 30 min. Top 10 systems: 1. PlayStation - 1009 min. 2. Arcade - 739 min. (#4) 3. Game Boy - 678 min. (#1) 4. Atari 2600 - 674 min. (#2) 5. Amiga - 636 min. (#5) 6. Intellivision - 521 min. (#9) 7. Atari Lynx - 360 min. 8. Sega Saturn - 285 min. 9. NES/Famicom - 153 min. (#3) 10. TRS-80 Model I/III - 105 min. The dream walker Alundra becomes the most played game this week with a decent margin to SWoS 2020 and Pokemon Yellow. For a change, Solar Fox only is the second most played pre-NES game, as Beauty and the Beast jumps up in the ranking. The systems list is particularly close this week; after the PlayStation in #1, there is just over 100 minutes difference between the Arcade in second place and the Amiga in fifth. Beauty and the Beast also joins the 1000 Minute Club as member #501 with a total of 1078 minutes. It is the 17th Intellivision game to enter this club, and the third one this season. Actually that top list of games to break 1000 minutes this season consists of 4 games for the Atari 2600, 3 games each for Genesis, Intellivision, NES/Famicom and SNES, 2 games for Dreamcast and one each for Amiga, Arcade, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, CoCo 3, ColecoVision, Neo Geo AES/MVS and TI-99/4A. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Some for next week's list. NES 1) Conquest of the Crystal Palace - 10 minutes 2) Cowboy Kid - 20 minutes 3) Jongbou - 10 minutes 4) Puzznic - 10 minutes 5) Mini Putt - 10 minutes SNES 1) F1 ROC: Race of Champions II - 2 hours 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 Atari 8-bit: Canyon Climber - 16 min. VIC-20: H.E.R.O. - 5 min. New round of the A8 HSC + brief testing of the new VIC-20 game, this time testing on my NTSC machine. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Arcade using ps one Namco Museum mostly: Asteroids 21 (still getting bad scores) Gaplus 8 Mappy 28 NES using the NES mini: Galaga 5 Pac-man 8 Atari 2600 Eggomania 102 (broke 100,000 a few times) Kaboom 13 ( earned patch a couple of times) Solar Fox 113 Squish'em 14 (my favorite homebrew) All fun. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Sakura Taisen is finally back; I ended up putting it away when I got the Astro City during my playthrough and never got back to it until now. Dreamcast Hanagumi Taisen Columns - 12 Sakura Taisen - 88 Arcade 1941 Counter Attack - 10 Darius II - 5 Dogyuun!! - 5 Image Fight - 7 R-Type - 20 R-Type II (Japan) - 12 Slap Fight - 437 Tatsujin - 32 Thunder Dragon 2 - 5 X Multiply - 6 Saturn Soukyuugurentai - 36 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 This was a big week for gaming for me, but mostly on the modern side. Arcade: Psycho Soldier - 15 minutes World Rally (Gaelco) - 30 minutes Atari 2600: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - 95 minutes Raft Rider - 60 minutes Atari Jaguar: Defender 2000 - 115 minutes mostly Defender 2000 mode for high score challenge, but also a few rounds of Plasma Pong… Mr Heli - 40 minutes LCD/Handheld: Tiger Stix Meebo - 20 minutes Tandy Cobra Super Copter (not to be confused with Super Cobra, no sirree) - 25 minutes Nintendo Game Boy: Adventures of Star Saver - 20 minutes Sega Genesis: Wonder Boy in Monster World - 20 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyinajeep Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 CoCo2 Fangman - 170 minutes (Video below) Ghost Rush Halloween Edition - 20 minutes Commodore 64 Knights and Slimes Dragon 32 Ghost Rush Halloween Edition - 40 minutes TRS-80 Model I Frogger - 10 minutes Outhouse - 30 minutes TRS-80 Model III Donut Dilemma - 20 minutes Gem Hunter - 10 minutes Fangman, CoCo2 You control a Vampyr, with help of your idiot bats you round up humans for harvest. capturing a human turns him into a bat. humans try to avoid ya, when they cross paths with other humans a cross is dropped in the maze. Vampires will die if they touch a cross and bats cannot move past them. Once per level a vampire can power up and eliminate three crosses. There is also a sun moving about the maze. It will eliminate crosses and vampires. Really enjoyed this game, never heard of it until a week ago. A hidden gem! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Here are my times for the past week (October 10th through 16th) on classic systems: Commodore 64: Q*bert - 27 min. This week I replayed Q*bert on the C-64, looking to see if I've improved in that game, but it doesn't seem I really have. It's been a few years that I've extensively played the arcade original, and I got really good at it, reaching Level 10 and more. On the C-64, however, I didn't manage to beat Level 3, although I did apply some of the tactics I learned on the arcade original. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 This week I played: Gex for Playstation - 221 minutes Vandal-Hearts for Playstation - 493 minutes Progress: Gex is 100% finished Vandal-Hearts I'm near the end of chapter 2 and have also completed two of the hidden challenge levels. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Atari 2600 Hunchy II - 15 minutes Kaboom! - 18 minutes Raft Rider - 22 minutes Solar Fox - 152 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I got distracted with Switch games last week, so only a little time with Classic tracker. Saturn: Lode Runner: The Legend Returns - 120 minutes Street Fighter Alpha 2 - 60 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuxon86 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 MAME - 1943 +/- 1hrs I'm presently testing out the software side of my soon to be bar top arcade cabinet (I've a new CNC set up and I was looking for a nice project to do with it). Works like a charm with Launchbox. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I guess I should add 2 minutes for E.T. All I did was fall into a pit about 5 times and then gave up after a minute. I also had played about a minute earlier and was able to move around without falling into a pit. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Atarian7 said: I guess I should add 2 minutes for E.T. All I did was fall into a pit about 5 times and then gave up after a minute. I also had played about a minute earlier and was able to move around without falling into a pit. If any part of ET touches the pit, he falls in (not just the feet). That's not immediately obvious when you start playing and has helped other players in the past. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Amiga Sensible World of Soccer 2020 100 Intellivision Beauty & the Beast 9 Donkey Kong 237 Golf (aka PGA Golf) 105 NES RC Pro AM II 40 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 17 hours ago, onlyinajeep said: Commodore 64 Knights and Slimes It appears like you missed an estimate on times there? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Additional stuff from this week: NES 1) Snake, Rattle, and Roll - 15 minutes 2) Racer Mini Yonku: Japan Cup - 5 minutes 3) Little League Baseball - 10 minutes Genesis / Mega Drive 1) Exo Squad - 15 minutes 2) Heavy Nova - 10 minutes 3) Star Cruiser - 5 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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