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

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 34, running from August 21 - 27. We logged 3004 minutes of eligible play, playing 98 games on a total of 15 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Pokémon Gold (Game Boy Color) - 509 min. (#4)
2. Reknum Souls Adventure (NES/Famicom) - 460 min.
3. Sword of Fargoal (Commodore 64) - 128 min.
4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 124 min. (#3)
5. Swords and Serpents (NES/Famicom) - 120 min.
6. Sky Diver (Atari 2600) - 101 min.
7. Record of Lodoss War (SNES) - 95 min.
8. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 74 min.
9. Destiny of an Emperor (NES/Famicom) - 60 min.
9. Treasure Hunter G (SNES) - 60 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Sword of Fargoal (Commodore 64) - 128 min.
2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 124 min. (PN#2)
3. Sky Diver (Atari 2600) - 101 min.
4. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 74 min. (PN#8)
5. J-Bird (PC DOS) - 49 min.
6. Centipede (Atari 2600) - 30 min.
6. Go Fish! (Atari 2600) - 30 min.
8. Air-Sea Battle (Atari 2600) - 29 min.
9. H.E.R.O. II (Atari 2600) - 27 min.
10. Asteroids Attack (Atari 2600) - 25 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. NES/Famicom (23 games) - 856 min. (#2)
2. Game Boy Color (8 games) - 679 min. (#6)
3. Atari 2600 (23 games) - 538 min. (#1)
4. SNES (5 games) - 225 min. (#7)
5. Game Boy (10 games) - 190 min.
6. Commodore 64 (2 games) - 143 min. (#4)
7. PC DOS (3 games) - 93 min. (#8)
8. Genesis (5 games) - 60 min.
9. Arcade (4 games) - 57 min.
10. Game Gear (4 games) - 55 min.

 

Pokémon Gold (Game Boy Color) celebrates its entry into the 5000 Minute Club (total 5432 min) by becoming the overall most played game this week, ahead of newcomer Rectum ... I mean Reknum Souls Adventure. On the pre-NES list, Solar Fox is just outnumbered by Sword of Fargoal. Both the NES and Atari 2600 sport 23 different games each this week, of which the NES is played on average 13.8 minutes more on each game.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Ever had one of those weeks when you completely forgot it was Monday yesterday? I know I sure did >_>

 

Guess this will go on next week's tracker!

 

PlayStation

Resident Evil: Survivor - 118 minutes

 

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Skippy B. Coyote

[Hwlngmad]

Today's (08/30) totals:

 

SNES / Super Famicom

1) Kamen Rider SD: Shutsugeki!! Rider Machine - 20 minutes

[Keir]

Oh dear, I forgot to post my times!

 

Week of 8/21/23 - 8/27/23

 

Atari 2600

Air-Sea Battle - 20

Escape from the Mindmaster - 15

Sky Diver - 40

 

Commodore 64

King's Bounty - 270

Might and Magic - 75

 

Total time = 420 minutes

 

Would have brought the C64 up to 4th place, and put the 2600 in 1st for # of games!

[zylon]

5200-

Blueprint- 15min

 

Genesis-

Sagaia- 20min

Darius II- 45min

 

SNES-

Wizardry V- 2hrs rolling characters up

[Hwlngmad]

Today's (08/31) totals:

 

Game Gear

1) Daffy Duck in Hollywood - 15 minutes

2) Joe Montana Football - 30 minutes

3) Kishin Douji Zenki - 10 minutes

 

GBC

1) Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory - 35 minutes

[+jgkspsx]

1 hour ago, Hwlngmad said:

Today's (08/31) totals:

 

Game Gear

1) Daffy Duck in Hollywood - 15 minutes

2) Joe Montana Football - 30 minutes

3) Kishin Douji Zenki - 10 minutes

 

GBC

1) Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory - 35 minutes

Daffy is another game that looks better than it plays, but it looks really good. Joe Montana remains a great portable pigskin title. Zenki is a remarkably beautiful game for the Game Gear, one of the nicest to not come over along with Coca Cola Kid.

 

What did you think of Hexcite? It is one of my favorite GBC titles. It’s such a dastardly game - you are forced to really try to screw over the opponent to win, and once you can do that reliably it’s savagely rewarding.

[Hwlngmad]

17 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Daffy is another game that looks better than it plays, but it looks really good. Joe Montana remains a great portable pigskin title. Zenki is a remarkably beautiful game for the Game Gear, one of the nicest to not come over along with Coca Cola Kid.

 

What did you think of Hexcite? It is one of my favorite GBC titles. It’s such a dastardly game - you are forced to really try to screw over the opponent to win, and once you can do that reliably it’s savagely rewarding.

Daffy was a good looking game, but play wise with some of the cheap deaths and blind jumps it was a bit of a pass for me.  Joe Montana really surprised me.  I really enjoyed it and is a good little portable football title.  I just wish they would have incorporated team colors instead of any and all teams being red or blue.  Oh well.  Zenki was a great looking game, I just couldn't figure out what to do after the first couple of screens and gave up on it.  My gaming time is limited and I prefer to play titles that immediately grab me.

 

Regarding Hexcite, it is a damn fun puzzler.  I stumbled my way through the first few rounds before I figured out exactly how to play.  Naturally, my ass was kicked by the computer.  But, I had a really good time with it and is down on my favorites list for sure. 

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Jungle Boy - 12 min.
Jungle Hunt - 21 min.

 

As usual, late Sunday evening gaming for me. Only HSC stuff, but as the retro expo season is quickly approaching, I'll likely catch a number of systems in the next few weeks.

[TheGameCollector]

This week I played:

 

Pokemon Gold Version for Game Boy Color - 1,043 minutes

 

Progress:

 

I started by leveling up all of the remaining Pokemon who needed to evolve via level up, then I added Golbat and Chansey to my party to help raise their friendship level, I bred all Pokemon needed to get baby Pokemon Pokedex entries, then self traded extra copies of evolutionary items and stones with a clone of my save file. Then I self traded all Pokemon that I had that could evolve via trade. After this I continued raising Golbat and Chansey's friendship level while searching for an catching Raikou, Entei and Suicune with the extra master balls.

 

Next time I play I still don't have enough coins to buy Porygon or more Eevee so next on my agenda will probably be self trading a bunch of nuggets to sell and clones of Togepi and Tyrogue to breed. Plus maybe more starter Pokemon from new files.

[neogeo1982]

NES

Faxanadu - 190min

Shingen the Ruler - 80min

Gauntlet 2 - 40min

Tetris - 20min

 

SNES 

Super R-Type - 30min

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this week (August 29th through September 4th) on classic games:

 

Arcade:

Q*bert - 52 min. in 3 sessions

 

MS-DOS:

J-Bird - 48 min. in 2 sessions

 

I continued to play J-Bird until I got fer enough into Level 5 and also made a score of over 100.000 points. After that I started playing the original Q*bert for a bit to compare it to the other versions... and it won hands down. It was a bit hard to get going on it, but on the 3rd sessions, I made 100.000 points there as well, together with a sufficient progress to Level 5.

[CapitanClassic]

Shingen the Ruler is a fun game, but not the best cover art for a cart.

 

 

I suppose that if you picked the game up for a rental it might be useful to know what all the abbreviations mean on the domestic administration interface. Then there's the unfortunate matter of the toaster NES obscuring the cover art, so you would have to write all that information down before inserting the cart,

[agb]

Atari 2600

 

Killer Satellites 16 HSC

Pitfall 44 FB HSC - did bad

Solar Fox 101

 

 

[Lord_of_Sipan]

Atari 2600:

Dragon’s Descent 20

 

Atari 7800:

Donkey Kong Jr 35

Donkey Kong 20

Scramble 15

Alien Brigade 30

Dig Dug 10

Ikari Warriors 35

Food Fight 20

Galaga 5

Xevious 15

Dragons’ Havoc 15

[Keir]

Week of 8/28/23 - 9/3/23

 

Atari 2600

Escape from the Mindmaster - 40

Killer Satellites - 30

Suicide Mission - 10

 

Commodore 64

Might and Magic - 120

 

Total time =200 minutes

 

I finished King's Bounty last week, and in the process learned that it was the predecessor to the Heroes of Might and Magic games. I haven't ever played those but I loved the original M&M as a kid and M&M2 is on my list of games I never beat. I had been putting that one off because I don't really have time for a long, involved RPG. However, I started playing M&M and now I'm hooked. The kids are off to school this week so maybe I'll have time after all!

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 124 minutes

Killer Satellites - 5 minutes

Solar Fox - 175 minutes

Suicide Mission - 41 minutes

 

 

[+wongojack]

Atari 2600 
Asteroids Attack 18 

 

NES 

1942 4 

Rad Racer 10 

Tiger-Heli 10 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

No gaming at all for me this week, I ended up passing my free time in the evenings smoking a pipe and reading instead. I'll probably be back with some time to contribute next weekend though! 

[+Cafeman]

Atari 2600

 

- PAC-Man 15 mins

- PAC-Man 8k 15 mins 

- Go Fish 15 mins

 

Genesis

 

- E-SWAT 20 mins

- Mean Bean Machine 30 mins

- Bonanza Bros 20 15 mins

- Biohazard Battle 30 mins

I don’t think I have ever played ESWAT on Genesis. I thought I did but the levels were all new and unfamiliar to me. I think it’s a pretty cool game, like a mix of the first shinobi and RoboCop.

[+jgkspsx]

Mostly modern this week.

 

Arcade:

 

Battle Lane Vol 5 - 135 minutes

This game went from being impossible to play to being… impossible to beat the second level. Still, another case of a high score challenge pushing me to actually understand a game!
 

Dig Dug - 15 minutes

Seemed unusually easy…

 

Atari Lynx:

 

Lexis - 60 minutes

Just a little improvement.

 

Genesis:

Sagaia - 35 minutes

For @Steven Pendleton’s HSC.

[zylon]

SNES

Wizardry V- 4hrs, 2min ☠️

 

Carts do indeed die. This one began showing all 6 characters, but having two vanish, when you'd select one. You could have either top 4, or bottom 4. Then, the puzzle screen showed up, and upon reset, 1st two characters gone, and it still only lets half of the remaining in.  RIP, it lived a good life. Taking a whif near cart edge, something baked.

Edited September 5, 2023 by zylon

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 35, running from August 28 - September 3. We logged 3984 minutes of eligible play, playing 55 games on a total of 14 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Pokémon Gold (Game Boy Color) - 1043 min. (#1)
2. Wizardry V (SNES) - 362 min.
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 276 min. (#4)
4. King's Bounty (Commodore 64) - 270 min.
5. Might and Magic (Commodore 64) - 195 min.
6. Faxanadu (NES/Famicom) - 190 min.
7. Battle Lane Vol 5 (Arcade) - 135 min.
8. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 124 min. (#8)
9. Resident Evil: Survivor (PlayStation) - 118 min.
10. Shingen the Ruler (NES/Famicom) - 80 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 276 min. (PN#2)
2. King's Bounty (Commodore 64) - 270 min.
3. Might and Magic (Commodore 64) - 195 min.
4. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 124 min. (PN#4)
5. Escape from the Mindmaster (Atari 2600) - 55 min.
6. Q*Bert (Arcade) - 52 min.
7. Killer Satellites (Atari 2600) - 51 min.
7. Suicide Mission (Atari 2600) - 51 min.
9. J-Bird (PC DOS) - 48 min. (PN#5)
10. Pitfall! (Atari 2600) - 44 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Game Boy Color (2 games) - 1078 min. (#2)
2. Atari 2600 (13 games) - 744 min. (#3)
3. Commodore 64 (2 games) - 465 min. (#6)
4. SNES (3 games) - 412 min. (#4)
5. NES/Famicom (7 games) - 354 min. (#1)
6. Arcade (3 games) - 202 min. (#9)
7. Genesis (6 games) - 200 min. (#8)
7. Atari 7800 (10 games) - 200 min.
9. PlayStation (1 game) - 118 min.
10. Atari Lynx (1 game) - 60 min.

 

Pokémon Gold takes the title for the second week in a row, with the new entry for Wizardry V (two weeks worth) in second place. Solar Fox is no newcomer, but just barely becomes the most played pre-NES game, 6 minutes ahead of King's Bounty. On the system side, all of Game Boy Color, Atari 2600, Commodore 64 and SNES jump ahead NES/Famicom this week.

 

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

[+cvga]

I didn't get my times posted either and I took advantage of the long weekend (and an Analogue Pocket) to play more games. I will accept whatever punishment Carlsson declares

 

Atari 2600:

Blocks - 235 minutes (broke my high score twice more). I'm now up to 4,134,990. 

Qyx - 20 minutes

Beamrider - 10 minutes

Dig Dug - 12 minutes

 

Atari 7800:

3-D Asteroids - 8 minutes

Astrofighter - 12 minutes

Beef Drop - 5 minutes

Donkey Kong - 10 minutes

Mean 18 Golf - 15 minutes

 

NES:

Bases Loaded - 4 minutes

Arkanoid - 13 minutes

 

Gameboy:

Solar Striker - 21 minutes

 

 

 

 

[carlsson]

No punishment, just delaying your times for next week so you have something to look forward to.