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If there is a Golden Age of games and a Platinum Age of games, right now is certainly the Crumpled Tinfoil Age.

 

I think it's fine the way it is; besides, with things like officially licensed Neo Geo games being released from 1990 to 2004 and modern games being released on Genesis/MD, Dreamcast, Neo Geo, Game Boy, and sometimes PC Engine, it would turn into something of a confusing mess if we changed it too much.

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New games for older systems should not be an issue unless those contain massive amounts of custom hardware. The ARM enabled Atari 2600 games still count towards classic, but I suppose a system that accepts external video through the cartridge port could offer even more.

 

Does Neo Geo have custom hardware inside each game rather than just code which runs on original hardware? I understand it is a borderline case.

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Hey time tracking friends!  There's a thread on VideoGameSage where the users rank all the games they played in a year by tier, so I went through and figured out all the games I played more than 200 mins and tiered them.  I don't have an 'S' tier because I've had a long career of being asked to differentiate . . . things, and I've made up my mind that we really only need 5 categories of differentiation.  Everything else is fart smelling.  Although, I did pick a 1, 2, 3 from the A-tier, so I guess I'm a hypocrite.  Note that I participated in a NES and Intellivision high score club in 2022, so those systems are fairly heavily represented.

 

#1 - Horizon Zero Dawn <- I loved this game

#2 - Pinball Arcade (World Cup '94 Table) <- Took me years to finally win the World Cup on this table

#3 - TMNT III: The Manhattan Project <- Total shock at how impressed I was with this game

Note - My wife's vote for #1 as a backseat gamer was Return to Monkey Island

 

A

  • 1943 - NES
  • Beamrider - Intellivision
  • Beauty and the Beast - Intellivision
  • Defender of the Crown - Atari ST
  • Dreadnaught Factor, The - Intellivision
  • Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4
  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition - XOne
  • Overcooked 2 - XOne
  • Pinball Arcade, The - PC
  • RC Pro AM - NES
  • Return to Monkey Island - PC
  • RBI Baseball - NES
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Wii
  • TMNT III: The Manhattan Project - NES

B

  • Bionic Commando Rearmed - X360
  • Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 - X360
  • Dicey Dungeons - PC
  • Guerrilla War - NES
  • Hostages (aka Hostages - Rescue Mission) - Various
  • Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories - GBA
  • Pinball - Intellivision
  • Return of the Jedi - Arcade
  • Sensible World of Soccer 2020 - Amiga
  • Shark Shark - Intellivision
  • Spacelines from the Far Out - Xone
  • Space Spartans - Intellivision
  • Sub Hunt - Intellivision
  • Tetris - NES
  • The Last of us Part II - PS4

C

  • Assassin's Creed Black Flag:  Freedom Cry DLC - XOne
  • Blood Stone 007 - X360
  • Demon's Souls - PS3
  • God of War: Ghost of Sparta - PS3
  • (PGA) Golf - Intellivision
  • Life Force - NES
  • Malzbie's Pinball Collection - PC
  • Masters of the Universe: The Power of He-Man
  • Rebel Galaxy - PC
  • Retro Bowl - Browser
  • Sensible World of Soccer - X360
  • Spellspire - PC
  • Tharsis - PC

D

  • 11-11 Memories Retold - PC
  • Burgertime - Intellivision
  • Undertale - PC

F

  • Donkey Kong - Intellivision
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18 minutes ago, jgkspsx said:

Aw, I am curious why Undertale turned you off so much. Too meta? Or just not fun enough?

I think it was a combo of a few things.  First, I've had it on my radar from 2015 when it was at the top of many GOTY lists.  I had VERY high expectations for it that I think weren't really warranted.  Second, it exists mostly in reference to some source material that just isn't my thing.  I'm not really into Earthbound, Pokemon, Anime, or JRPGs in general, so I see this game as a reaction to 'something' and the 'something' isn't even anything I'm that interested in.  Because of the high reviews, I expected it to transcend a bit, and it didn't do that.

 

Also - it was too meta.  Right from the start, I felt like I was being experimented on.  Here I posted more on it on this thread:  https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346329-modern-games-beaten-in-2023/

 

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On 3/14/2022 at 4:23 AM, jgkspsx said:

Not a great week for gaming, with real life getting the better of me…


Arcade:

Battle Lane Vol 5 - 25 minutes. It’s hard to tell if this is too hard or if I’m playing it wrong. (Nb. I am not aware of Vol 1-4 existing.)

 

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Blockout - 35 minutes. Definitely an upgrade from the Lynx version in many ways yet it feels less fun.

 

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Atari 2600:

Human Cannonball - 35 minutes. For reasons I cannot explain I became determined to figure out to play this. I can finish games 1-3 perfectly every time on easy, have a little challenge on game 4, and cannot get anywhere on games 5-7. Still, it’s something.

 

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Raptor - 35 min for HSC. Homebrew weeks are awesome.

 

Atari 7800:

Donkey Kong (retail) - 15 minutes

Donkey Kong PK/XM - 25 minutes

 

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Atari Jaguar:

Raiden - 30 minutes for HSC

 

Atari Lynx:

Lexis - 40 minutes. About 25 minutes of the real game and 15 minutes of the Microvaders easter egg.

 

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Unseen - 150 minutes, many deaths and some progress.

 

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LCD/Handheld:

1943 (Acclaim) - 20 minutes

 

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Kosmichyeskiy Polyet [Spaceflight] (Elektronika) - 25 minutes. I imported this Soviet relic from Ukraine. It is a game of peaceful flight control.

 

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Star Trek Generations - 20 minutes.

 

Nintendo Virtual Boy:

Space Squash - 35 minutes. Even better than Robo Squash on the Lynx, which is a darn good game.

V-Tetris - 30 minutes. Seems ludicrously easy and is very plain but I sure enjoyed it.

 

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Sega SG-1000:Champion Billiards - 45 minutes. This game is better known as Lunar Pool on the NES or as the only good Champion series game. Pretty sure this version is harder than Lunar Pool.

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Zoom 909 - 60 minutes. Getting good at this takes some work and watching other people who know what they’re doing in the third phase. Pretty great and an entirely different game from Buck Rogers on the Planet of Zoom which it is ostensibly a port of. I do miss the slalom part, though.

 

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Love BlockOut.

 

I am master of it in sweden on level out of control  

and is global ranked as number 25 on version blockout2.

Here is a nice  online version that have a global scoreboard.

blockout.nu

 

Regards 

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