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

[Atarian7]

Correction:  Kaboom! should be 234 minutes

 

 

[agb]

22 hours ago, Atarian7 said:

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 182 minutes

Solar Fox - 341 minutes

 

I scored 10,311,600 on Solar Fox.  Rack 1-255 and Rack 1-230     I was so close but choked before I got the chance to roll it twice.

 

It took me about 1 hour and 52 minutes.

Wow.

That is a big Solar Fox score.  I have to go find my high score.  I know I never rolled twice.  I know I broke 8 mil at least once.

Now I am motivated to roll twice.

Congrats.  Great score.

 

Atari 2600 Solar Fox 167

Arcade Asteroids 42

[+jgkspsx]

Mostly Evercade this week. 
 

Amiga:

Future Wars: Time Travelers - 100 minutes

 

Arcade:

Halley’s Comet - 30 minutes

 

Genesis:

Magic Girl - 89 minutes

 

NES:

Karate Champ - 26 minutes

Silkworm - 16 minutes

I played it on the equator and look what happened. (Not really)

 

 

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (10/16) totals:

 

2600

1) Centipede - 10 minutes

2) Checkers - 10 minutes

3) Stellar Track - 15 minutes

4) Video Checkers - 20 minutes

 

I played hooky yesterday from work in order to go to a luncheon with my wife, so that lead to some opportunities to get some gaming in

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 41, running from October 9 - 15. We logged 2469 minutes of eligible play, playing 33 games on a total of 14 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 508 min. (#2)
2. Dragon Crystal (Game Gear) - 250 min. (#6)
2. Might and Magic (Commodore 64) - 250 min. (#1)
4. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 234 min. (#3)
5. Crystal Warriors (Game Gear) - 120 min.
6. Future Wars: Time Travellers (Amiga) - 100 min. (#9)
7. Pokemon Silver (Game Boy Color) - 96 min. (#4)
8. Magic Girl (Genesis) - 89 min.
9. Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (PlayStation) - 80 min. (#7)
10. Q*bert (TI-99/4A) - 79 min. (#5)

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 508 min. (PN#2)
2. Might and Magic (Commodore 64) - 250 min. (PN#1)
3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 234 min. (PN#3)
4. Q*bert (TI-99/4A) - 79 min. (PN#4)
5. Amoeba Jump (Atari 2600) - 60 min.
6. Asteroids (Arcade) - 42 min.
6. Q*Bert (Arcade) - 42 min.
8. Zdendazuma II (Zdenda's Montezuma II) (Atari 8-bit) - 41 min.
9. J-Bird (PC DOS) - 27 min.
10. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 20 min.
10. Video Checkers (Atari 2600) - 20 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (9 games) - 887 min. (#1)
2. Game Gear (4 games) - 430 min. (#3)
3. Commodore 64 (1 game) - 250 min. (#2)
4. NES/Famicom (6 games) - 160 min.
5. Arcade (3 games) - 114 min. (#9)
6. Amiga (1 game) - 100 min. (#8)
7. Game Boy Color (1 game) - 96 min. (#4)
8. Genesis (1 game) - 89 min. (#6)
9. PlayStation (1 game) - 80 min. (#7)
10. TI-99/4A (1 game) - 79 min. (#5)

 

With more than twice as many minutes as the runner-up, Solar Fox returns to both overall and pre-NES #1. On the overall list, a whopping 8/10 games retain their positions from last week, while only 4/10 remain on the pre-NES list. Speaking twice as many minutes, the Atari 2600 remains the most played system, again with 9/10 systems from last week's list.

 

Again, no changes to the 1000, 5000, 10000 Minute lists.

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (10/19) totals:

 

Game Boy

1) Dr. Franken - 30 minutes

[TheGameCollector]

This week I played:

 

Pokemon Silver Version for Game Boy Color - 267 minutes

 

progress:

 

I kicked Team Rocket out of the Radio Tower in Goldenrod City, made it through the Ice Path and gathered more Pokemon along the way. Now my Pokedex count is 80.

[neogeo1982]

 

Sega Game Gear

 

Last Bible - 750min

Columns - 180min

G Loc - 20min

Joe Montana Football - 30min

Samurai Showdown - 30min

 

Last Bible is way better than I anticipated and consumed most of my time this week. And columns I wanted to high score challenge myself.

 

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week of October 16th through 22nd on classic systems:

 

Commodore 64:

Traffix - 60 min.

 

Well, I didn't manage to stop gaming completely for this week, but I did stop playng the games I played last week (Taonga: Island Farm and Mergest Kingdom). I discovered "Traffix" yesterday while playing with FotoR, a site that "improves" pictures in various styles. For instance, I feed it a screenshot of "Safecracker" on the Intellivision, and here's what I got out:

This looks a bit distorted, but definitely more hi-res than the original version. However, as similar pictures, Google or Bing showed me a screenshot of the original Dutch version of Taffix, but I didn't use that to create an actual game since it would be much work to design a game which actually uses these recouces

 

Traffix is an early open-world game on the Commodore 64 which has the map of a city in a pretty complex fashion, contrary to Safecracker where the map is simpler than one sees at first glance. In Traffix, there seem to be meta-tiles in the size of 64x32 pixel (multicolor), and the map consists of about 128x64 metatiles, with the goal being to find six transmitters which are somewhat hard to find. There are strange devices scattered around the city... Sonars telling you how close the next transmitter is, Signal signs giving the general direction to the next transmitter, "Puzzles" which give you a small section of the map containing the next transmitter and Sonars giving you the distance to the next transmitter. I give a rough estimate of 60 minutes which I actually played that game because several more hours went into mapping out the city before I got to solve the game, which I made after a few attempts (some of which, unfortunately, ended in crashes).

Edited October 22, 2023 by Kurt_Woloch
corrected misspelled "Intellivision"

[carlsson]

^^ I know Traffix under its original Dutch name, Verkeersrally. Catchy music, though I never got anywhere in the game, partly because my Dutch is a bit rusty.

 

Alas, I didn't score any minutes of classic (or modern) gaming this week again. Too much to do and in the weekend I tend to recoup lost sleep (though technically you can't).

[+Cafeman]

Atari 2600: 

- Pigs in Space  (10 min)

- Crackpots (10 min) 

- Phoenix (10 min) 

 

XBOX: 

- NFL 2K5 (30 min) 

- NFS Underground 2 (120 min) 

- NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (30 min) 

 

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 216 minutes

 

 

[agb]

Arcade
Asteroids 13

 

Atari 2600

Amidar 28 for FB HSC

Solar Fox 108

 

All fun.

[+jgkspsx]

Odd week but I got some good gaming in.

 

Arcade:

Vulgus - 35 minutes

Capcom's rarely collected first game is a real banger.

 

Game Boy:

Solomon's Key - 35 minutes

Nothing like some mindbending block conjuring to pass a little time.

 

Game Gear:

Power Strike II/GG Aleste 2 - 19 minutes

I really need to fix up one of my Game Gears that has a decent screen.

 

LCD/VFD Handheld/Tabletop:

Radio Shack/Epoch Astro Command - 25 minutes

I had been slacking off in my tabletop gaming and this challenging and inventive fusion of Scramble with Space Invaders really presages the modern horizontal scrolling shoot em up.

 

NES:

Goal! - 45 minutes

An entire season of heartbreaking defeat for Uruguay in which I scored only one goal.

 

Karate Champ - 94 minutes

I was really shooting for 50000 for the high score challenge but only made it to 40000. I don't think I will play it again.

 

Orebody: Binder's Adventure - 18 minutes

The free game of the month on Evercade. Feels very solid so far.

 

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (10/22) totals:

 

2600

1) Solar Fox - 25 minutes

2) Star Fox - 10 minutes

3) Starmaster - 20 minutes

[Keir]

Week of 10/16/23 - 10/22/23

 

Atari 2600

Amoeba Jump - 90

Ms. Pac-Man - 90

Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes - 90

 

Total time = 270 minutes

 

No Might and Magic this week! Instead I focused on trying to stay in the HSC finals, only to get an X in all 3 games. Oh well.

[+thegoldenband]

My ridiculously paltry time for the week:

 

Intellivision:

Frog Bog - 2 min.

 

Play Frog Bog with a toddler for a minute until she loses interest; when she regains interest, repeat the process once more. 1+1=2, after all.

[+wongojack]

On 10/22/2023 at 7:30 PM, Cafeman said:

 

 

XBOX: 

- NFL 2K5 (30 min) 

- NFS Underground 2 (120 min) 

- NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (30 min) 

 

@carlsson - I've seen you mention this, but it is probably time to just post all times in the same thread.  Makes it easier for posters and then you can just share results from all eras in the same thread.  Perhaps Jan 2024 would be a good time to merge?

 

I have no classic time this week, but I find myself playing lots of modern games that are based on games that would be in this thread - example:  I am currently playing Escape from Monkey Island on PS2.  I kinda feel like I miss out on some of the community interactions by posting in that other thread that not everyone here reads.

[Atarian7]

My week off from Solar Fox left me very rusty.  I made it to Rack 49 yesterday. 

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (10/23) totals:

 

Game Gear

1) Psychic World - 5 minutes

[agb]

On 10/24/2023 at 7:50 AM, Atarian7 said:

My week off from Solar Fox left me very rusty.  I made it to Rack 49 yesterday. 

I haven’t taken a week off from solar fox in 28 years. 2-3 days maybe one in a while. 

[Atarian7]

Did you never take a vacation?  Or did you take it with you when you went on vacation?

[agb]

My vacations are normally six days or less. I usually play Solar Fox on both travel days. I play to relax before a long trip and play to rewind after a long trip. 

[Atarian7]

Did something happen to carlsson?  Still no post of the weekly totals.

[+wongojack]

1 hour ago, Atarian7 said:

Did something happen to carlsson?  Still no post of the weekly totals.

I think he warned us that he's been unusually busy.  I've seen him post in at least one other thread this week, so I know he's around.

 

I (think) I have the experience/ability to be a backup tracker.  Perhaps it is time to team up if he is really slammed.