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

[Hwlngmad]

Today's (08/14) totals:

 

Game Gear

1) F1 - 20 minutes

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the week:

 

Intellivision:

Championship Tennis - 50 min.

 

PlayStation:

Army Men: Air Attack 2 - 115 min.

[+cvga]

Atari 2600:

 

Blocks - 152 minutes. I want to play other games but can't put this one down. Broke 2 million points this week for a new high score!

[+jgkspsx]

Arcade:

Burglar X - 15 minutes

Diver Boy - 35 minutes

Tumble Pop - 20 minutes

 

Atari Lynx:

Checkered Flag - 150 minutes

Ishido - 90 minutes

Commodore 64:

Rogue64 - 45 minutes

Game Boy:

Got this bootleg from a friend for free: 

Can you guess what games it contained?

 

Battle City - 20 minutes

Dr Mario - 20 minutes

Super Mario Land - 10 minutes

Sailor Moon - 5 minutes

T2: The Arcade Game - 10 minutes

Genesis:

Risky Woods - 15 minutes

 

Intellivision:

Sydney Hunter and the Shrines of Peril - 30 minutes 

Master System:

Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe - 10 minutes

NES:

Jester - 30 minutes

 

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

This week I finished up the second scenario in Resident Evil 2 with Claire then went on a bit of a werewolf kick! I tried out a few different games prominently featuring werewolves before settling on and doing a full playthrough of Nightmare Creatures for the original PlayStation. It's a darn tough beat-em-up type game, even on easy difficulty, but still a ton of fun and definitely has some of the coolest looking video game werewolves ever!

 

 

 

 

NES
Werewolf: The Last Warrior - 11 minutes 

Nintendo 64
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness - 43 minutes

PlayStation
Nightmare Creatures - 465 minutes
Resident Evil 2 - 441 minutes

 

[Hwlngmad]

Today's (08/15) totals:

 

Sega Master System / Sega Mark III

1) Dynamite Dux - 10 minutes

 

Game Gear

1) Berlin no Kabe - 15 minutes

2) Double Dragon: The Revenge of Billy Lee - 15 minutes

 

GBC

1) Evel Knievel - 10 minutes

 

SNES / Super Famicom

1) SOS - 10 minutes

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 32, running from August 7 - 13. We logged 4073 minutes of eligible play, playing 104 games on a total of 17 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Nightmare Creatures (PlayStation) - 465 min.
2. Resident Evil 2 (PlayStation) - 441 min. (#2)
3. Pokémon Gold (Game Boy Color) - 396 min.
4. Roniu's Tale (NES/Famicom) - 360 min.
5. Elevators Amiss (Atari 2600) - 291 min.
6. Blocks (Atari 2600) - 152 min.
7. Checkered Flag (Atari Lynx) - 150 min.
8. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 141 min. (#1)
9. Amoeba Jump (Atari 2600) - 135 min.
10. Army Men: Air Attack 2 (PlayStation) - 115 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Elevators Amiss (Atari 2600) - 291 min.
2. Blocks (Atari 2600) - 152 min.
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 141 min. (PN#1)
4. Amoeba Jump (Atari 2600) - 135 min.
5. Lucky Chase (Atari 2600) - 85 min.
6. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 84 min. (PN#3)
7. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 50 min.
8. Rogue 64 (Commodore 64) - 45 min.
9. Pac-Man Arcade (Atari 2600) - 38 min.
10. Scramble (Atari 7800) - 35 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (33 games) - 1075 min. (#1)
2. PlayStation (3 games) - 1021 min. (#2)
3. NES/Famicom (24 games) - 616 min. (#3)
4. Game Boy Color (5 games) - 441 min.
5. Atari Lynx (2 games) - 240 min. (#5)
6. Atari 7800 (8 games) - 125 min.
7. Game Gear (6 games) - 100 min. (#10)
8. Intellivision (2 games) - 80 min.
9. Game Boy (6 games) - 75 min.
10. Arcade (3 games) - 70 min. (#4)

 

Nightmare Creatures takes the overall title by a margin of three screams (24 minutes) over Resident Evil 2. On the pre-NES side, Elevators Amiss has almost twice as much play time as the subsequent Blocks, Solar Fox or Amoeba Jump. Together the 33 different Atari 2600 games by a margin of almost one hour yet again are ahead of the PlayStation. Actually we've had the same top three systems for at least three weeks now.

 

No changes to the 1000, 5000, 10000 Minute Clubs.

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (08/16) totals:

 

Gameboy

1) Blaster Master Boy - 25 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (08/17) totals:

 

Gameboy

1) Catrap - 25 minutes

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Maniac Miner - 11 min.
Manic Miner - 18 min.
O'Riley's Mine - 9 min.

 

[TheGameCollector]

This week I played:

 

Pokemon Gold Version for Game Boy Color - 228 minutes

 

Progress:

I leveled up my main team some more, gathered the missing evolution items except the thunder stone which requires having a Pichu, started leveling up the Pokemon I caught for the purpose of evolving them and gained a few more Pokedex entries that way.

[Lord_of_Sipan]

All 7800 as usual for me

 

Atari 7800:

Scramble 45

Kung Fu Master 30

Dragon’s Havoc 30

Pac Man Collection 5

KC Munchkin 5

Galaga 15

Galaxian 10

Ikari Warriors 10

 

I beat/cycled Kung Fu Master for the first time this week and beat/cycled Scramble once again. Got further than ever in Ikari Warriors too.

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (August 14th through 20th, 2023) on classic systems:

 

MS-DOS:

Q*Bert - 155 minutes in 6 sessions

 

The only classic game I played this week is the MS-DOS version of Q*bert by Parker Brothers which was converted in 1984 sporting CGA graphics and beeper sound. While the beeper does limit what sounds are possible, it isn't an excuse for butchering the music the way they did. Also, they apparently managed the sound to always be playing at the correct speed regardless of how fast the machine is, but sadly this isn't true for the gameplay. The game already runs way too fast on my old 25 MHz 386 on which I tried it. I know some early games who did that right, for instance you can even play Dig Dug by Atarisoft on a 486 and it will still run at the correct speed. Also, Q*bert has the nasty habit of registering some direction changes late (probably due to the key repetitions registering). And Q*bert is bigger than he should be. Actually, many of the sprites are off, they could have been much closer despite the limited pallette. Also the collision detection is sometimes questionable with Q*bert being killed by an object he clearly does not collide with. Also, unlike the arcade (but like in other versions by Parker Brothers, like the TI-99/4A version) the player doesn't get even get a short break after Coily has been defeated, rather it can occur that coily and the red ball are respawning on the pyramid before Q*bert has even landed from the flying disc. And there are massive slowdowns as soon as multiple enemies are on screen. At that time sometimes they even get confused and don't move at all. So, clearly, this isn't the best version of Q*Bert, but still an interesting early version by a company which I wasn't even aware of having posted games to MS-DOS.

 

 

[agb]

Atari 2600

 

Amoebo Jump 125 Lots of minutes but last place on HSC

Circus Atari 17

Defender 10

Eggomania 9

Elevator Amiss HSC 8

Lucky Chase 31 HSC

Kaboom 26

Solar Fox 120 FB HSC Doing well so far

Super Breakout 17

 

All fun.

 

[neogeo1982]

NES

Roniu's Tale - 90min. Stuck at the final levels

Operation Wolf - 15min

Shingen the Ruler - 70min

Millipede - 15min

 

Dreamcast

Dead or Alive 2 - 35min

[+cvga]

Atari 2600:

 

Blocks - 207 minutes (is anyone else still playing this game?)

GORF Arcade - 20 minutes

Qyx - 25 minutes

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Amoeba Jump - 63 minutes

Elevators Amiss - 193 minutes

Kaboom! - 20 minutes

Lucky Chase - 8 minutes

Solar Fox - 122 minutes

 

I scored 6,631,400 on Solar Fox.  Rack 1 to 255 and 1 to 59

I got a little further than my previous best.  I was trying to get a score for you to go after since you are playing it in a HSC, agb.

[+wongojack]

It's not much, but I actually have some classic time to report this week!

 

Atari 2600

Asteroids Attack (demo) 10

 

 

[Keir]

Week of 8/14/23 - 8/20/23

 

Atari 2600

Amoeba Jump - 25

Elevators Amiss - 20

Lucky Chase - 10

 

Commodore 64

King's Bounty - 330

 

Total time = 385 minutes

 

I wasn't planning to play King's Bounty (it wasn't even on my list of games I played as a kid but never beat, though it should have been). However, I had a photocopy of the manual in a stack of scrap paper and one of my kids found it which sparked a whole discussion that led me to replay it. It's quite fun actually so I'm not sure why it had slipped from my memory.

[agb]

5 hours ago, Atarian7 said:

Atari 2600

 

I scored 6,631,400 on Solar Fox.  Rack 1 to 255 and 1 to 59

I got a little further than my previous best.  I was trying to get a score for you to go after since you are playing it in a HSC, agb.

Very nice score. On FB HSC, I stopped after rolling rack 255. If you join the Facebook Atari age site and post that score, I would need to play again. 

[Hwlngmad]

Today's (08/21) totals:

 

N64

1) Aerogauge - 10 minutes

2) Pilotwings 64 - 20 minutes

3) Robotron 64 - 25 minutes

[+jgkspsx]

On 8/20/2023 at 3:45 PM, carlsson said:

Atari 8-bit:
Maniac Miner - 11 min.
Manic Miner - 18 min.
O'Riley's Mine - 9 min.

 

It’s just another M(ani[a]*c\|ine) Monday.

[+jgkspsx]

Not a great week for classic gaming but it was a big week for life.

 

Atari Lynx:

Ishido - 400 minutes

This is an undercount but I don’t know by how much.

 

SNES:

Donkey Kong Country - 10 minutes

Just earnings spacebux for

the My Nintendo store

 

Supervision:

Brain Power - 15 minutes

Majong - 10 minutes

 

 

Some words of wisdom from the Oracle:

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I wasn't too sure what I wanted to play this week, so I just dinked around in a bunch of different games until I eventually settled on playing Powerslave and Resident Evil: Survivor for the original PlayStation. I've always loved RE: Survivor for it's classically schlocky story and unique first-person gameplay, and Powerslave is a surprisingly great Doom inspired 90's first-person shooter set in Egypt. It's got a lot more storytelling and voice acting than any other FPS game of the time that I can recall, and I've been really enjoying it so far!

 

PlayStation

Centipede - 5 minutes

Nightmare Creatures II - 28 minutes 

Powerslave - 53 minutes

Resident Evil: Survivor - 215 minutes

 

Sega Genesis

Bram Stoker's Dracula - 10 minutes

 

[zylon]

SNES-

Illusion of Gaia- 3hrs made it past the Incan stuff, and yes, I am that bad. The crap on the raft afterwards, has gotta be the most boring waste ever.

 

NES-

1943- 2hrs 13min

Galg- 20min 

1942- 1hr for added difficulty, try playing this long with a feather covered bird on your foot, that digs the claws in, each time you move, lol