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

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 49, running from December 4 - 10. We logged 1906 minutes of eligible play, playing 40 games on a total of 13 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Ultimate Doom, The (PC DOS) - 249 min. (#6)
2. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 230 min. (#4)
3. Arabian (Atari version) (Arcade) - 201 min. (probably not #7)
4. Terranigma (SNES) - 186 min. (#2)
5. Super Earth Defense Force (SNES) - 125 min.
6. Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 120 min.
7. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 119 min. (#3)
8. Mecarobot Golf (SNES) - 70 min.
9. Winter Games (Atari 2600) - 55 min.
10. Super Arabian (NES/Famicom) - 54 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 230 min. (PN#2)
2. Arabian (Atari version) (Arcade) - 201 min. (probably not PN#3)
3. Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 120 min.
4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 119 min. (PN#1)
5. Winter Games (Atari 2600) - 55 min.
6. Galaga (Arcade) - 30 min.
7. Sky Skipper (Atari 2600) - 25 min.
8. Aquatron (Atari 8-bit) - 16 min.
9. Turmoil (Atari 2600) - 12 min.
10. Asteroids (Arcade) - 10 min.
10. Phoenix (Atari 2600) - 10 min.
10. Qwak! (Arcade) - 10 min.
10. Sky Skipper (Arcade) - 10 min.
10. Tyre Trax (Atari 2600) - 10 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Arcade (14 games) - 477 min. (#4)
2. Atari 2600 (9 games) - 475 min. (#1)
3. SNES (4 games) - 409 min. (#5)
4. PC DOS (2 games) - 297 min. (#9)
5. Genesis (2 games) - 65 min.
6. NES/Famicom (1 game) - 54 min.
7. TG-16/PC Engine (1 game) - 43 min. (#2)
8. Amiga (1 game) - 25 min.
9. Atari 8-bit (2 games) - 24 min.
10. Tiger R-Zone (1 game) - 20 min.

 

This week we make room for Ultimate Doom and Kaboom! in the top of the list. While the totals cool down a bit from last week, it is a tight battle for the most played system with arcade only two minutes ahead of the 2600, and another 66 min ahead of the SNES.

[+wongojack]

4 hours ago, carlsson said:

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?

Looking at screenshots and they seem to be the same game.  They have the same screens anyway.  Maybe different colors? The title screen displays Sun Electronics for both
KLOV (says by Atari, but screenshot has Sun): Arabian - Videogame by Atari (arcade-museum.com)

Arcade-history:  Arabian, Arcade Video game by Sun Electronics Corp. (1983) (arcade-history.com)

[+jgkspsx]

4 hours ago, carlsson said:

7. Sky Skipper (Atari 2600) - 25 min.

Arcade!

[carlsson]

3 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Arcade!

No, Hwlingmad played the 2600 version 2.5 times as long as you played the arcade version.

[Kurt_Woloch]

11 hours ago, carlsson said:

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?

Yes, all that was not marked as Arabian (Atari) was the Sun Electronics version. I don't know what version Wongojack played though.

 

By the way, I unfortunately just realized I forgot to count yet another session from Sunday with 25 more minutes on Super Arabian (NES) which happened before the 36 minutes session I did count, so that would bring the NES version Super Arabian (which was also done by Sun Electronics, but strangely reminds me of the arcade game Sky Skipper) up to 18 + 25 + 36 = 79 minutes for last week. Sorry for the sloppiness lately, but there has been much going on with the flat of my deceased father last week, so I didn't count my times as carefully as usual, at least not on Sunday.

[carlsson]

I'll add the extra minutes for next week. Since the two versions seem hard to distinguish visually, I'll assume the previous times were for the Sun version and the Atari version is new from this week.

[+jgkspsx]

7 hours ago, carlsson said:

No, Hwlingmad played the 2600 version 2.5 times as long as you played the arcade version.

Oh wow, I totally missed that! What an odd coincidence.

[carlsson]

Add to the coincidence that Kurt mentioned that Super Arabian on the NES reminds him about Sky Skipper!

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (12/12) totals:

 

Arcade

1) Pac-Man - 15 minutes

2) Super Pac-Man - 10 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (12/14) totals:

 

Arcade

1) Super Pac-Man - 15 minutes

[Prosystemsearch]

Here are my totals for the preceding week:

 

Atari 2600-

Halo 2600 (homebrew): 3 minutes

Keystone Kapers: 3 1/2 minutes

Flash Gordon: 2 minutes

Laser Blast: 3 minutes

Millipede: 5 minutes

Klax (NTSC prototype): 7 1/2 minutes

Missile Command: 6 minutes

Jr. Pacman: 8 1/2 minutes

Frogger: 2 minutes

Montezuma's Revenge: 3 minutes

Amidar: 6 minutes

Demon Attack: 4 minutes

Gravitar: 3 /12 minutes

Flappo (homebrew): 2 1/2 minutes

Fast Food: 3 minutes

Dragonfire: 4 1/2 minutes

Donkey Kong: 4 minutes

Communist Mutants from Space (Supercharger game): 3 1/2 minutes

Dig Dug: 2 1/2 minutes

Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom: 2 1/2 minutes

California games: 2 minutes

Burgertime: 4 minutes

Fireball: 2 minutes

Star Trek- Strategic Operations Simulator: 3 minutes

 

Atari 5200-

Congo Bongo: 2 minutes

Centipede: 6 minutes

Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom: 4 minutes

Castle Crisis: 2 1/2 minutes

Miner 2049er: 3 minutes

Berzerk: 3 minutes

BallBlazer: 2 minutes

Pac-man: 2 1/2 minutes

 

PC MS-DOS-

Doom: TNT Evilution- 9 minutes

 

NES/Famicom-

Arkanoid: 4 minutes

Baby Boomer (unlicensed): 8 minutes

Dudes with Attitude (unlicensed): 8 minutes

Millipede: 5 1/2 minutes

Afterburner (unlicensed): 3 1/2 minutes

Batman- The Video game: 3 minutes

Big Nose the Caveman (unlicensed): 5 minutes

Pac-man (unlicensed Tengen version): 3 minutes

Stakk-M aka Poke Block (unlicensed): 13 minutes

Mega Man 1: 4 minutes

Megaman- The New Lands (ROM hack): 9 minutes

Stunt Kids (unlicensed): 2 1/2 minutes

NARC: 6 minutes

 

 

[Kurt_Woloch]

On 12/13/2023 at 3:39 AM, wongojack said:

The title screen displays Sun Electronics for both
KLOV (says by Atari, but screenshot has Sun): Arabian - Videogame by Atari (arcade-museum.com)

Arcade-history:  Arabian, Arcade Video game by Sun Electronics Corp. (1983) (arcade-history.com)

Well, that's not what I experienced... here's screenshots from both versions:

Atari version:

Sun version:

So at least in the title screen they look a bit different. But you're right in that the game screens are basically nearly undistinguishable. The difference is really in the spawning behaviour of various enemies, in the music and in what happens if the player falls.

 

Anyway, here are my times for this past week (December 11th through 17th) on classic systems (again I didn't play any modern games this week):

 

Arcade:

Arabian (Sun) - 25 min.

Black Panther - 22 min.

Ikki - 28 min.

 

NES:

Super Arabian - 193 min. in 4 sessions

 

I continued playing "Super Arabian" on the NES for more than 3 hours, but finally I managed to get through all 4 rounds of a level. After that I replayed the original Sun version where I struggled a bit on the first attempt, but on the second attempt I managed to complete the 4 rounds again.

Apart from that, I played Ikki, which reminds me a bit of Rally-X in that you run around as a farmer on fields and try to collect some things which are displayed on a radar in the same style as in Rally-X. Other people run and shoot after you and you shouldn't let them get you, but fortunately, you can shoot back. You can complete extra tasks like picking up a key and freeing the farmer sitting in  cage. However, soon you get attacked by Ninja fighters who move and shoot much faster than the other people.

Black Panther, on the other hand, is basically a beat-em-up game but with a panther as the main player. It's a bit more modern than "Arabian" and was made in 1987 if I remember correctly, thus already having FM music,

 

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Caverns of Eris - 10 min.
Der Schränker 3 - 5 min.
Double - 4 min.
Night Knight - 7 min.
Time Wizard - 12 min.

Zauberball '23 - 8 min.

 

Those were the top 6 games in this year's ABBUC contest (though alphabetically rather than in winning order).

 

[oyamafamily]

Hello guys, I am back to post my times after many weeks dedicated to my work activities/projects and personal tasks at home.

I hope all of participants are happy with my presence in this thread.

 

ATARI 2600:

Jr. Pac-Man - 215 minutes

Pitfall - 5 minutes

 

SEGA MASTER SYSTEM:

Ms. Pac-Man - 150 minutes

 

ATARI 7800:

Pac-Man Collection - 50 minutes

[+jgkspsx]

Welcome back @oyamafamily!!!

 

My times:

 

Arcade:

Combatribes - 35 minutes

Really great beat em up, much better than the Double Dragon arcade games Technos is famous for. Neat Block Out cameo there too!

 

Microvision:

I seem to have mislaid my nice backlit Microvision...

 

Block Buster - 15 minutes

NES:

Devil World - 10 minutes

One of the least fun iterations on the concept of Squish! that I have played, but not bad. We didn't miss much by not having it in the US.

 

Gradius - 25 minutes

Finished the first loop... thanks to a save that started me at the last level fully powered up, lol.

 

NNNNN (Evercade version) - 75 minutes

It is amazing how much time a game whose average length is about 3 seconds can soak up, hahah.
 

Yoshi - 10 minutes

Tried to play it with an open mind, still hate it.
 

SNES:

Rushing Beat (JP original of Rival Turf!) - 20 minutes

The Evercade Jaleco home collection recently got a patch to replace the seriously mangled US game with the wholly superior JP original. Fun game!

 

I expect less time this week but more classic time.

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (12/18) totals:

 

2600

1) Maze Craze - 15 minutes

2) Outlaw - 5 minutes

3) Quadrun - 10 minutes

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 105 minutes

Solar Fox - 46 minutes

 

 

[agb]

Atari 2600

Hangman 15

Solar Fox 61

 

Waiting for HSCs to start again.

[+Cafeman]

Ms Pac-Man , arcade version, 2 hours. 
 

River Raid Cold Winter Atari 8bit line, 15 minutes. 
River Raid Cold Winter Atari 5200, 15 minutes. 

[+wongojack]

NES 

Mike Tyson's Punch Out 136

 

Giving it another shot with MTPO.  Maybe I'll beat the champ this time.

[Wayler]

 

Pace slowing down a bit but still keeping on with this. 

 

SNES

Terranigma - 131 min

[carlsson]

20 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

NNNNN (Evercade version) - 75 minutes

Are you suggesting that the hidden bonus game NNNNNN on the Evercade differs from the 4K ROM released in 2019, thus worthy of an own entry in the tracker?

[+jgkspsx]

1 hour ago, carlsson said:

Are you suggesting that the hidden bonus game NNNNNN on the Evercade differs from the 4K ROM released in 2019, thus worthy of an own entry in the tracker?

Well, it replaces the VVVVVV sprite man with Evercade's mascot Cadey, and presumably adjusts the hitbox accordingly, but I leave it to your discretion!

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (12/18) totals:

 

Arcade

1) Pac-Mania - 20 minutes

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Coming in late to the party this week, but with a good bit of time to contribute!

 

 

 

Game Boy Color

Monopoly - 47 minutes

 

Nintendo 64

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 943 minutes

 

PC-DOS

The Ultimate Doom - 102 minutes

 

Sega Genesis

Mortal Kombat - 60 minutes 

Mortal Kombat II - 16 minutes

Street Fighter II': Special Champion Edition - 28 minutes