What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2023 (Season 16)

[+jgkspsx]

9 hours ago, Keir said:

That is interesting to see broken down like that. Next week my kids are going away on vacation with their mom so maybe I'll dig out some unplayed systems to add to this year's tracker!

I got at least a couple coming this week.

[TheGameCollector]

This week I played:

 

Super Mario Bros.: Level-Headed (v0.3.8) for NES - 231 minutes

 

progress: I played 11 games while livestreaming to Youtube. I cleared some and gave up during some. The difficulty levels were completely random.

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Mr. Do - 35 min.
Mr. Do's Castle - 11 min.

 

Yup, new HSC round. On the topic of systems, I do own a few of the lesser seen ones but I haven't had an opportunity to bring out either of those this week, maybe later in the summer.

 

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (July 3rd through 9th) on classic systems...

 

Commodore 64:

Centipede - 5 min.

 

This time, to also test the fire button of my joysticjs, I played "Centipede" by Atarisoft, which seems to be based on the earlier 8-bit version, NOT the far superior 5200 version. 

 

 

[neogeo1982]

Played many games this week between lots of outside time while on vacation.

 

NES

Alwa's Awakening - 205min

The Legend of Zelda - 180min

Dragon Power - 45min

Millipede - 30min

Super Pitfall - 30min

Bad Dudes - 25min

Double Dragon - 25min

Ninja Gaiden - 30min

Ninja Gaiden 2 - 30min

Burger time - 40min

Super Mario Bros 2 - 40min

Zelda 2 adv of link - 15min, dead save battery irritated me so I stopped playing 🙄.

 

Dreamcast

Dead or Alive 2 - 30min

[+jgkspsx]

The classic tracker bites back. No Virtual Boy this week but I will fit it in this month sometime.

 

Arcade:

Hellfire - 35 minutes

 

Atari 2600:

Encounter at L-5 - 10 minutes

Atari Lynx:

APB - 25 minutes 

Dance Bro - 20 minutes

 

Game Boy Color:

Time Knights: Magic and Legend - 45 minutes

Beat it twice, the second time without losing a life. Still haven’t perfect cleared it but I doubt there is a different ending.
 

Master System:

Bubble Bobble - 40 minutes

Moonwalker - 25 minutes

Rampart - 25 minutes

 

Microvision:

Sea Duel - 15 minutes

 

NES:

Super Dodge Ball - 125 minutes

Beat the game and Bean Ball mode.

 

Supervision:

Galactic Crusader - 15 minutes

Meant to play Galaxy Fighter but selected wrong in the flashcart menu.

 

Galaxy Fighter - 60 minutes

This is probably the game Galactic Crusader was trying to be. It’s very fun despite being trivially easy to a certain point, and quite fast and fluid. The levels just go on and on and on. I got to almost 500k points and I wasn’t to the third boss yet. I died on one of the most unrelenting meteor waves I’ve ever seen in a shooter, and after being sent back to the beginning of the 15+ minute long level I decided to hang it up.

Tiger game.com:

Centipede - 15 minutes

 

William Arcade Classics - 20 minutes

All Joust.

Tiger R-Zone:

Apollo 13 - 10 minutes

Area 51 - 5 minutes

Batman and Robin - 20 minutes

Despite the title, my favorite part is where you play as Batgirl.

 

Daytona USA - 25 minutes

Still haven’t come in first place.

 

Virtua Fighter - 20 minutes

 

And finally…

 

Vectrex!:

Armor Attack - 25 minutes

Samurai - 10 minutes

Scramble - 30 minutes

Side Games (compilation) - 25 minutes

of which I played:

Robusters - 5 minutes

Street Judges - 20 minutes

 

Starhawk - 15 minutes

 

And finally

 

Vyrzon - 60 minutes

I am not good at it, but I love it.

[+jgkspsx]

Lol, the meteor field in Galaxy Fighter was the last boss. I’m calling it beaten. 

 

[neogeo1982]

6 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

APB - 25 minutes 

Is that a scratch on that screen? 😜

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (07/09) totals:

 

Atari 2600

1) Stargate - 10 minutes

2) Stellar Track - 20 minutes

[Keir]

Week of 7/3/23 - 7/9/23

 

Atari 2600

Lost Luggage - 25

Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes - 50

Tapper - 15

 

Commodore 64

Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom - 85

Miner 2049'er - 25

 

Total time = 200 minutes

 

Indiana Jones is the latest in my quest to finish games that I played as a kid and never beat. I don't know why I put so much time and energy into this awful, ugly game back then. Perhaps it was the challenge of figuring out what the heck I was supposed to do, since the manual does not explain anything. I've been using save states to make it more bearable (unfair/surprise deaths abound) and have been able to beat 5 of the 6 screens so hopefully it will be over soon!

[+thegoldenband]

My time for the week:

 

PlayStation:

Klonoa - Door to Phantomile - 2 min.

 

Mostly played a modern plug-'n-play system this week, but did play a tiny bit of Klonoa in the context of testing out some new acquisitions.

[+thegoldenband]

20 minutes ago, Keir said:

Commodore 64

Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom - 85

 

Indiana Jones is the latest in my quest to finish games that I played as a kid and never beat. I don't know why I put so much time and energy into this awful, ugly game back then. Perhaps it was the challenge of figuring out what the heck I was supposed to do, since the manual does not explain anything. I've been using save states to make it more bearable (unfair/surprise deaths abound) and have been able to beat 5 of the 6 screens so hopefully it will be over soon!

I remember reading a positively savage review of that game in either Electronic Games or Computer Entertainment! They were normally on the tolerant side of the spectrum, but this one they absolutely blasted.

 

I love these "games you never beat as a kid" quests, by the way. I've got a list of my own going, in a text file called "unfinished business".

[Keir]

1 minute ago, thegoldenband said:

I love these "games you never beat as a kid" quests, by the way. I've got a list of my own going, in a text file called "unfinished business".

Cool. It's a lot easier to beat them now with walkthroughs available for just about every game and save states. I try to avoid using them when I can though I also know that if they had been available in my youth I wouldn't have hesitated to use them.

[agb]

Atari 2600

 

Solar Fox 30

 

 

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Hunchy 2 - 8 minutes

Kaboom! - 65 minutes

Lost Luggage - 140 minutes

Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes - 3 minutes

Solar Fox - 223 minutes

Tapper - 9 minutes

 

I got to around Rack 24? on Solar Fox and screwed up.  I was not happy with that.  I had already had a few close calls with no extra lives left, so I was on high alert but still lost.

[+wongojack]

Dreamcast 

San Francisco Rush 2049 101 

Tokyo Extreme Racer 2 25

 

Some Dreamcast racing this week.  I am really just not experienced with the genre at all from like 1998 forward, so I had never played any "Rush" game.  I had fun with San Francisco Rush 2049 and enjoyed the different game modes very much.  Lots of fun little secrets to find on the map etc.  I would have played Tokyo Extreme Racer 2, but the GD-ROM emu that I have was crashing.  It could be the SD card that I am using tho play this specific game, but I got into it enough to see that it is very similar to the original Tokyo Highway Challenge with some nice improvements.  Would like to play it more.

[Hwlngmad]

Today's (07/10) totals:

 

Gameboy

1) Roadster - 30 minutes

[zylon]

SNES-

Raiden Trad- 25min stuck to the blue weapon this time, only other choice you get... Didn't do as well, due to having to time getting the powerup at right color

Ninja Warriors- 10min I wanted to like this one, but it just ain't there.

 

NES- 

1942- 2hrs 55min rebuilt my old worn Beeshu Zipper, gave it a spin. Got my NES Max working as well, but rate of fire on turbo, is worse than I can do just firing manually.

Mario Bros- 20min

Spartan X (Kung Fu)- 10min 

[Hwlngmad]

41 minutes ago, zylon said:

SNES-

Ninja Warriors- 10min I wanted to like this one, but it just ain't there.

Yeah, there are a lot better brawlers / beat 'em ups on the SFC / SNES than this imo.

[zylon]

NES -

Crystalis - 5hrs 10 min, completed. I hope Mom enjoyed that.  It was on her "someday list" for decades.

Edited July 11, 2023 by zylon

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 27, running from July 3 - 9. We logged 3523 minutes of eligible play, playing 71 games on a total of 18 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Crystalis (NES/Famicom) - 465 min.
2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 253 min. (#3)
3. Super Mario Bros: Level-Headed v0.3.8 (NES/Famicom) - 231 min.
4. Alwa's Awakening: The 8-bit Edition (NES/Famicom) - 205 min.
5. Legend of Zelda, The (NES/Famicom) - 180 min.
6. 1942  (NES/Famicom) - 175 min.
7. Lost Luggage (Atari 2600) - 165 min.
8. Super Dodge Ball (NES/Famicom) - 125 min.
9. San Francisco Rush 2049 (Dreamcast) - 101 min.
10. Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom (Commodore 64) - 85 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 253 min. (PN#2)
2. Lost Luggage (Atari 2600) - 165 min. (PN#5)
3. Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom (Commodore 64) - 85 min.
4. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 65 min.
5. Vyrzon: Asteroid Belt (Vectrex) - 60 min.
6. Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes (Atari 2600) - 53 min. (PN#4)
7. Stargate / Defender II (Atari 2600) - 45 min.
8. Mr. Do! (Atari 8-bit) - 35 min.
9. Scramble (Vectrex) - 30 min.
10. Armor Attack (Vectrex) - 25 min.
10. Defender (Atari 2600) - 25 min.
10. Miner 2049er (Commodore 64) - 25 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. NES/Famicom (21 games) - 1776 min. (#2)
2. Atari 2600 (10 games) - 668 min. (#1)
3. Vectrex (7 games) - 165 min.
4. Dreamcast (3 games) - 156 min. (#7)
5. Commodore 64 (3 games) - 115 min.
6. SNES (4 games) - 95 min. (#3)
7. Sega Master System (3 games) - 90 min.
8. Tiger R-Zone (5 games) - 80 min.
9. Watara SuperVision (2 games) - 75 min.
10. Game Boy (2 games) - 70 min. (#10)

 

The post-apocalyptic Crystalis, which I misread on Wikipedia begins with a young magician awakening in a cryogenic sheep 😬, becomes the most played this week, with pre-NES favorite Solar Fox (which reaches all-time exact 53000 minutes) in second place. System wise, the 21 NES games secure that title.

 

Alwa's Awakening: The 8-bit Edition (NES/Famicom) becomes member #538 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1145 min.

[+jgkspsx]

13 hours ago, zylon said:

Ninja Warriors- 10min I wanted to like this one, but it just ain't there.

As a game it is not great but as a soundtrack it is unbeatable. D-d-d-d-daddy MULK!

 

 

[+jgkspsx]

Just a small correction: Asteroid Belt was a cut down minigame that was released separately, Vyrzon is the full game. That could be rolled into this but it plays somewhat differently. That rom is freely available and this full game is only available on cartridge.

6 hours ago, carlsson said:

5. Vyrzon: Asteroid Belt (Vectrex) - 60 min.

[neogeo1982]

More variety as I had a Konami day one day.

NES

Metal Gear - 65min

Castlevania - 60min

Full Quiet - 140min

 

SNES 

Sunset Riders - 45min

Gradius 3 - 60min

Axelay - 30min

Contra 3 - 20min

TMNT: Turtles in Time - 60min

Castlevania 4 - 75min

 

Dreamcast

Dead or Alive 2 - 20min

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Mr. Do - 22 min.
Mr. Do's Castle - 2 min.

 

NES/Famicom:
Galaga - 14 min.
Lot Lot - 5 min.
Pooyan - 3 min.
Road Fighter - 9 min.
Super Mario Bros 1 - 13 min.
Tetris (Bullet Proof Software) - 6 min.
Xevious - 9 min.

 

The A8 session was due to the HSC as usual. The Famicom session was due to the system celebrated 40 years since its launch yesterday (Saturday), together with the Sega SG-1000 and SC-3000 but since I no longer own those systems, I focused on playing some Famicom games. Out of those, I knew all but Lot Lot from before and to be honest, I need to read up on that game to figure out how to properly play it.