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

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 111 minutes

Solar Fox - 93 minutes

 

 

[agb]

Atari 2600

 

Bowling 14 HS of 234 my highest ever I think

Breakout 18

Dodge'em 9

Eggomania 89

Kaboom 11

Red Sea Crossing 26 for FB HSC

Taz 7

Turmoil 9

Solar Fox 119

 

Played some of my favorite cartridges I haven't played in a while.

I especially liked the paddle games.  Very surprised with my Bowling score.

All fun games.

 

 

Edited December 5, 2023 by agb
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[Atarian7]

@agbIs that the floor you sit on with no carpeting?

[agb]

2 hours ago, Atarian7 said:

@agbIs that the floor you sit on with no carpeting?

yes, for hours at a time, crossed legged, at an advanced age.

Hurts getting up.

[Keir]

Week of 11/27/23 - 12/3/23

 

Arcade

Ice Climber - 40

 

Just a little this week as I focus on finishing Deltarune Chapter 2.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

This week I just played a whole bunch of games on my Powkiddy V90, which is funny since I have several vastly more powerful and capable emulation handhelds with better screens and better controls, but I just kind of have a soft spot for this dinky little thing.

 

 

Game Boy
Solar Striker - 16 minutes 

Game Boy Color
Monopoly - 385 minutes

Neo Geo
The Last Blade 2 - 80 minutes

PC-DOS
The Ultimate Doom - 106 minutes

Sega 32X
Kolibri - 12 minutes

 

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 48, running from November 27 - December 3. We logged 3298 minutes of eligible play, playing 80 games on a total of 18 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Monopoly (Game Boy Color) - 385 min. (#1)
2. Terranigma (SNES) - 304 min. (#2)
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 212 min. (#3)
4. Coryoon: Child of Dragon (TG-16/PC Engine) - 122 min.
4. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 122 min. (#5)
6. Ultimate Doom, The (PC DOS) - 106 min.
7. Arabian (Arcade) - 96 min.
8. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 89 min.
9. Flying Shark (Arcade) - 80 min. (#7)
9. Last Blade 2 (Neo Geo AES/MVS) - 80 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 212 min. (PN#1)
2. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 122 min. (PN#2)
3. Arabian (Arcade) - 96 min.
4. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 89 min.
5. Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe (Intellivision) - 70 min.
6. Night Stalker (Intellivision) - 45 min.
6. P.T. Barnum's Acrobats (Odyssey^2) - 45 min.
8. Princess Quest (Intellivision) - 42 min.
9. Ice Climber (Arcade) - 40 min.
10. Breakout (Atari 2600) - 33 min.
 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (19 games) - 666 min. (#1)
2. TG-16/PC Engine (19 games) - 571 min.
3. Game Boy Color (8 games) - 495 min. (#3)
4. Arcade (9 games) - 386 min. (#4)
5. SNES (3 games) - 319 min. (#2)
6. Intellivision (4 games) - 171 min. (#8)
7. Neo Geo AES/MVS (2 games) - 145 min. (#7)
8. PlayStation (3 games) - 115 min.
9. PC DOS (1 game) - 106 min.
10. Odyssey^2 (3 games) - 80 min.

 

While the total participation increases by 80% from last week, a lot of the lists are status quo at the top: Monopoly, Terranigma, Solar Fox, Kaboom! A bit more variation on the systems list, with the PC Engine challenging the Atari 2600. No changes to the 1000, 5000, 10000 Minute Clubs.

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (12/5) totals:

 

Genesis / Mega Drive

1) Bishoujo: Senshi Sailor Moon - 25 minutes

2) Ms. Pac Man - 10 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (12/6) totals:

 

SNES / Super Famicom

1) Mecarobot Golf - 70 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (12/7) totals:

 

Genesis / Mega Drive

1) Ms. Pac-Man - 30 minutes

[carlsson]

Arcade:
Exerion - 5 min.

 

Atari 8-bit:
Aquatron - 16 min.
Q-Bert - 8 min.

 

PC DOS:
Stunts / 4D Sports - 48 min.

 

SG-1000:
Exerion - 5 min.

 

The A8 games of course are part of the HSC, though I didn't spend as much time on those as I may have intended. I played two versions of Exerion to compare how much is different in terms of attack waves, sounds, controls etc between the arcade and one of the home versions. Apparently the Famicom version is in between the two, and most likely the MSX version is a conversion of the SG-1000 one. While looking for more systems to play, I didn't find suitable power or antenna cables for my Channel F so that will have to wait for another week. Instead I powered up my FleaFPGA with Next186 core and leisurely played with Stunts again.

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this week (December 4th through 10th, 2023) on classic systems...

 

Arcade:

Arabian - 8 min.

Arabian (Atari) - 201 min. in 6 sessions

 

Commodore 64:

Tales of the Arabian nights - 6 min.

 

NES:

Super Arabian - 18 min.

 

All my gaming this week revolved around the arcade game "Arabian" and its decendants. I tried the Atari version of Arabian instead of the original Japanese version, and the Atari version has got remarkable differences. This version is generally harder although the birds don't respawn until the 4th round. But to make up for this, the genie in the bottle appears from the first round. Also, the player isn't allow to fall more than about one floor. However, you already get an extra life at 20,00 points while the Sun original doesn't give one until the 30,000 point mark. The music has also changed, now playing the "Scheherezade" by Rimsky-Korsakovv instead of the William Tell Overture and the Can-Can.

 

Then there is "Tales of the Arabian nights" by Interceptor Software which was inspired by "Arabian". The first screen is pretty similar in that you have to collect sacks with letters on them on a boat. But the level design is a bit different, and so are the enemies, and the player can't fight nor climb. You have to think how to actually solve the first level because there's only one possibility... falling down on the last sack to collect after having collected all others. In this case you will win the round. If you fall down there while not having collected all sacks before the last one, you die from your fall being too high! I don't like such quirks in games...

 

Finally, Super Arabian is the NES version of Arabian, and it has changed again! It's much faster than the arcade version, and some of the rules and enemy behavior is different as well, as is (again) the background music. The gameplay is very smooth, but you have to be quick. The collision detection also doesn't seem to be as forgiving as in the arcade version.

[+jgkspsx]

Weird week here. Got some Antstream time in. Latency seems better.

 

 

Amiga:

Pinball Fantasies - 25 minutes

 

Arcade:

Bubble Bobble - 20 minutes

Continental Circus - 18 minutes

Cool arcade F1 game.

Night Slashers - 20 minutes

Super fun stupid game.

Qwak! - 10 minutes

Senjo no Okami II (aka Mercs 2) - 5 minutes

Sky Skipper - 10 minutes

Tatakai no Banka - 5 minutes

Thunder Dragon - 15 minutes

Atari 2600:

Tyre Trax - 10 minutes

 

SNES:

Super Earth Defense Force - 125 minutes

 

Tiger R-Zone:

Virtua Fighter - 20 minutes

[+Cafeman]

(via PS4) 

 

Ms. Pac-man (arcade) - 2 hours. 

Galaga (arcade) - 30 mins. 

[Kurt_Woloch]

Sorry, I forgot to count the last session I played yesterday...

 

NES:

Super Arabian - another 36 min. for a total of 54 min.

Edited December 11, 2023 by Kurt_Woloch

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (12/10) totals:

 

2600

1) Dukes of Hazzard - 5 minutes

2) Phoenix - 10 minutes

3) Sky Skipper - 25 minutes

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 230 minutes

Solar Fox - 9 minutes

 

 

[Atarian7]

12 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Atari 2600:

Tyre Trax - 10 minutes

Is that a homebrew or a PAL game?

 

[+jgkspsx]

23 minutes ago, Atarian7 said:

Is that a homebrew or a PAL game?

 

Homebrew from Muddyvision, played on the VCS.

[+thegoldenband]

And we're back to this:

 

Intellivision:

Frog Bog - 6 min.

[Wayler]

Almost forgot, still on my adventures through the world. Also tried my skills at vanilla Axelay, got much further this time. 

 

SNES

Axelay - 28 min

Terranigma - 186 min

[DragonGrafx-16]

PC Engine:

Neutopia - 43 mins (at the second dungeon in the subterranean area).

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Decided to just play through the classic Ultimate Doom this past week. I'm three levels into the fourth and final episode at this point so I should finish it at some point within the next few days I think

 

PC-DOS

The Ultimate Doom - 249 minutes

 

[agb]

Arcade

Asteroids 10

 

Atari 2600

Dodge'en 9

Solar Fox 110

Turmoil 12

Winter Games 55 - FB HSC - more addictive than I would have thought.

[carlsson]

On 12/11/2023 at 12:17 AM, Kurt_Woloch said:

I tried the Atari version of Arabian instead of the original Japanese version

Does this mean out of the previous 18 + 96 minutes you played this year, you played the Sun Electronics version? It was previously tracked in 2019 by @wongojack and perhaps he played the Atari version of the same game?