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

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 50, running from December 11 - 17. We logged 3078 minutes of eligible play, playing 86 games on a total of 13 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) - 943 min.
2. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 224 min.
3. Super Arabian (NES/Famicom) - 218 min. (#10)
4. Ms. Pac-Man (Sega Master System) - 150 min.
5. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (NES/Famicom) - 136 min.
6. Terranigma (SNES) - 131 min. (#4)
7. Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 120 min. (#6)
8. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 107 min. (#7)
9. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 105 min. (#2)
10. Ultimate Doom, The (PC DOS) - 102 min. (#1)

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 224 min.
2. Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 120 min. (PN#3)
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 107 min. (PN#4)
4. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 105 min. (PN#1)
5. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 50 min.
6. Ikki (Arcade) - 28 min.
7. Arabian (Sun Electronics/Japan) (Arcade) - 25 min.
7. Super Pac-Man (Arcade) - 25 min.
9. Blockbuster (Microvision) - 15 min.
9. Hangman (Atari 2600) - 15 min.
9. Maze Craze (Atari 2600) - 15 min.
9. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 15 min.
9. River Raid Cold Winter (Atari 5200) - 15 min.
9. River Raid Cold Winter (Atari 8-bit) - 15 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. N64 (1 game) - 943 min.
2. Atari 2600 (31 games) - 567 min. (#2)
3. NES/Famicom (19 games) - 549 min. (#6)
4. Arcade (8 games) - 290 min. (#1)
5. SNES (2 games) - 151 min. (#3)
6. Sega Master System (1 game) - 150 min.
7. PC DOS (2 games) - 111 min. (#4)
8. Genesis (3 games) - 104 min. (#5)
9. Atari 8-bit (7 games) - 61 min. (#9)
10. Atari 7800 (1 game) - 50 min.

 

Late to the party, Zelda crashes straight into first place both on the individual and systems (N64) list. A number of Pac-Man games follow, in particular on the pre-NES list.

 

Terranigma (SNES) becomes member #544 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1026 minutes played.

 

As noted elsewhere, there have been thoughts about merging the classic and modern trackers for 2024, so everyone only have one place to post. I would probably run an overall top 20 list, a pre-NES top 10 list and a systems top 20 list in that tracker. I don't know what do with the "clubs", as only the pre-2000 systems really make sense to count to 1000 minutes (17 hours), most modern games you fly past that in a week or two, but it is a minor matter. If anyone thinks merging the trackers sounds like a very bad thing to do (or opposite, if you want to express your acknowledgement for doing it), let me know as I haven't begun the merging yet. Also in which sub forum we'll hang around remains to be seen, perhaps the relatively new and less used Gaming General.

Edited December 19, 2023 by carlsson

[neogeo1982]

I'm either extremely late or early this week. A bout with COVID kept me off work and the Internet for awhile. But I did hide under the covers and broke out the Neo Geo.

 

Neo Geo

Blazing Star - 180min so glad for continues

Robo Army - 60min

 

[+thegoldenband]

Missed posting last week's times, so here's last week plus the first four days of this week:

 

Intellivision:
Flapee Bird - 1 min.
Frog Bog - 1 min.
Gosub - 31 min.
Minehunter - 129 min.
Ms. Pac-Man - 3 min.
Pac-Man - 10 min.

 

MSX1:
Bosconian - 3 min.
Death Wish III - 4 min.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - 2 min.

 

Made it to the 46-mine level of Minehunter, and cleared the original mode of Gosub.
 

[+wongojack]

On 12/19/2023 at 4:55 PM, carlsson said:

 

As noted elsewhere, there have been thoughts about merging the classic and modern trackers for 2024, so everyone only have one place to post. I would probably run an overall top 20 list, a pre-NES top 10 list and a systems top 20 list in that tracker. I don't know what do with the "clubs", as only the pre-2000 systems really make sense to count to 1000 minutes (17 hours), most modern games you fly past that in a week or two, but it is a minor matter. If anyone thinks merging the trackers sounds like a very bad thing to do (or opposite, if you want to express your acknowledgement for doing it), let me know as I haven't begun the merging yet. Also in which sub forum we'll hang around remains to be seen, perhaps the relatively new and less used Gaming General.

 

 

One approach would be to change as little as possible.  We just post all our times in the same place.  So we still have a pre-2000 list and a post 2000 list.  We still have a top 10 list for each and a top systems list for each.  

 

It could of course get more complicated. Things that we COULD change would be the pre and post NES cutoff.  We could instead have a year-based break 2x or 3x or more if we want.  So, a break at 1990, 2000, 2010, etc.  Perhaps this would be easier for the stat keeper and perhaps not.  But if it was organized like that, we could designate thresholds for each break for things like the ### minute club.

 

I have normally been on the side of keeping things as-is in the past, but time really does roll on.  If we consider the real beginning of home "video" gaming to be about 1977 then 46 years have passed.  That's really not that many years compared to something like comics or music, but it is enough that including 50% of it as "modern" definitely doesn't seem quite right.  Time for some kind of change.

[carlsson]

I suppose ordering by "video game generation" is an alternative, though the introduction of the NES really was the beginning of a new era, just like the millennium change feels like. Possibly Dreamcast should be considered post Y2K though it was released earlier. (Sega being ahead of the market meant the end for them as hardware manufacturers?)

[+thegoldenband]

"Pre-crash", "post-crash 20th-century", and "21st-century" system categories all in one tracker is where my intuition goes...which, I guess, is close to the status quo. I'll admit that it'd be nice to see the pre-crash category preserved, as I do perceive some kind of unity among the systems released before July 15, 1983, but I'm grateful above all for the continuance of the tracker thanks to @carlsson!

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Der Schränker 3 - 23 min.
Double - 5 min.
Night Knight - 11 min.

 

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (December 18th through 24th) on classic systems:

 

Arcade:

Boggy '84 - 89 min. in 2 sessions

Bogey Manor - 48 min.

Bomber (Clone of Scramble) - 2 min.

Bomber Man (Japan) - 25 min.

Bombjack Twin - 15 min.

Bongo - 18 min.

 

I continued the quest of checking out all available games in alphabetical order, starting wih Boggy '84. which is similar to Donkey Kong, but you have to either "destroy" 8 donkeys or get all 7 keys that are scattered around the screen. I didn't manage to go through all 4 initial rounds, but I saw that someone at Youtube did. This also uses the parallax scrolling inherent to the Scramble hardware used to display a stream carrying a boat on Level 2.

Then, Bogey Manor is a game about a man running in a haunted house having to destroy all glasses, or else he gets defeated by several ghosts.

Bomber (Clone of Scramble) is really that... the only differenc to Scramble I could make out is slightly different text on the title screen. Maybe the colors are wrong too, but I didn't learn those by heart. Other than that, I only played one game (reaching the asteroid stage).

So I continued with "Bomber Man (Japan)" which is a different beast with more modern hardware and sample-based music. I didn't manage to beat even the pre-entered high score, but I got quite far, just not far enough.

 

Bombjack Twin ist pretty closely based on the original Bomb Jack arcade game, but with more colorful and modern graphics, but it's also faster, reminding me of "Bomb Jack" on the Commodore 64 by Elite Systems. 

 

Finally, Bongo is a game I already had on the Commodore 64 by the name of "Quari", but it's by the same company, Jetsoft. The conversion is pretty close though the game itself is not too bright, it rather reminds of a bad C64 game thatn a proper arcade one.

 

[+wongojack]

NES 

Mike Tyson's Punch Out 522

River City Ransom 438

 

Big NES times this week as I continue my attempt to beat Mike Tyson.  Not there yet, but I did get to see "The End" credits on River City Ransom.  Cute little game with lots of promise, but I'm not sure it was worth going back for.  I have an original cart, so I'm glad that I got the filthy contacts clean and working though.

 

RCR write-up:  https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345832-games-beaten-in-2023/?do=findComment&comment=5373552

 

[oyamafamily]

Happy Christmas to all!

 

ATARI 7800:

Pac-Man Collection - 75 minutes

 

SEGA MASTER SYSTEM:

Ms. Pac-Man - 90 minutes

 

EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK:

1) Pac-Man Collection on 7800 console: 5 Pac-Man, Plus OFF, Fast ON and KEY start

 

 

2) SMS EMU Ms. Pac-Man: Pac-Booster Always ON, Difficulty Crazy, Big Maze and Level 1 Start

 

 

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 61 minutes

Solar Fox - 172 minutes

 

I was going for a big score on Solar Fox but I ONLY got to 6,102,200.  Rack 1-255  1-37

 

 

[Keir]

Week of 12/18/23 - 12/24/23

 

Commodore 64

The Bard's Tale - 75

 

I'm not planning to play through Bard's Tale, just feeling nostalgic for the endless churning of 1st level characters who can't even survive long enough to make it to the nearest tavern.

[+thegoldenband]

No new gameplay for me since my last post, but best holiday wishes to all!

[+jgkspsx]

Idiosyncratic week this week for me.

 

Arcade:

1942 - 20 minutes

1944: The Loop Master - 25 minutes

Combatribes - 65 minutes

 

Snow Bros - 35 minutes

Neo Geo:

Real Bout Fatal Fury - 15 minutes

 

NES:

Zombie Nation - 10 minutes

 

Saturn:

Bust a Move 2: Arcade Edition - 20 minutes

Galactic Attack - 10 minutes
 

Vectrex:

Clean Sweep - 25 minutes

[Skippy B. Coyote]

A good week for gaming around here this week! Everything I played was played on my Retroid Pocket 3+, which mostly consisted of continuing to make my way through Ocarina of Time for the N64. I did get in a couple games of Monopoly for the Game Boy Color too, played a bit of what is probably the best home console port of Xevious on the PC Engine, and completed half a dozen more levels Alien Hominid for the GameCube. I was planning on finishing Alien Hominid this week but ended up getting distracted by a very long Ken Burns documentary 

 

Lastly, on Christmas morning I parked myself in front of the TV and used the HDMI out on my RP3+ to play Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams for the Sega Saturn on the big screen to commemorate the holiday! I had never played a NiGHTS game before but, once I learned the rather strange game mechanics, I really enjoyed it and think I'd like to play the full NiGHTS into Dreams game once I finish up Alien Hominid! 

 

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good NiGHTS 🎄

 

 

 

Ineligible 

Alien Hominid (GameCube) - 43 minutes

 

Game Boy Color

Monopoly - 117 minutes

 

Nintendo 64

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 438 minutes

 

PC Engine

Xevious: Fardraut Saga - 36 minutes

 

Sega Saturn

Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams... - 74 minutes

 

Edited December 26, 2023 by Skippy B. Coyote

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 51, running from December 18 - 24. We logged 2983 minutes of eligible play, playing 40 games on a total of 15 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (NES/Famicom) - 522 min. (#5)
2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) - 438 min. (#1)
2. River City Ransom (NES/Famicom) - 438 min.
4. Blazing Star (Neo Geo AES/MVS) - 180 min.
5. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 172 min. (#8)
6. Minehunter (Intellivision) - 129 min.
7. Monopoly (Game Boy Color) - 117 min.
8. Ms. Pac-Man (Sega Master System) - 90 min. (#4)
9. Boggy '84 (Arcade) - 89 min.
10. Bard's Tale (Commodore 64) - 75 min.
10. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 75 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 172 min. (PN#3)
2. Minehunter (Intellivision) - 129 min.
3. Boggy '84 (Arcade) - 89 min.
4. Bard's Tale (Commodore 64) - 75 min.
4. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 75 min. (PN#5)
6. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 61 min. (PN#4)
7. Bogey Manor (Arcade) - 48 min.
8. GoSub (Intellivision) - 31 min.
9. Clean Sweep (Vectrex) - 25 min.
10. Der Schränker 3 (Atari 8-bit) - 23 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. NES/Famicom (3 games) - 970 min. (#3)
2. N64 (1 game) - 438 min. (#1)
3. Arcade (10 games) - 342 min. (#4)
4. Neo Geo AES/MVS (3 games) - 255 min.
5. Atari 2600 (2 games) - 233 min. (#2)
6. Intellivision (6 games) - 175 min.
7. Game Boy Color (1 game) - 117 min.
8. Sega Saturn (3 games) - 104 min.
9. Sega Master System (1 game) - 90 min. (#6)
10. Commodore 64 (1 game) - 75 min.
10. Atari 7800 (1 game) - 75 min. (#10)

 

This week, the Ocarina of Time is caught between two NES games of which Mike Tyson punches his way into first place. Solar Fox moves back into the most played pre-NES game, though with only two recorded games the Atari 2600 is remarkably low on the systems list.

 

I believe a few posters were late this week so your minutes will count towards next week, which will conclude the tracker for 2023.

[agb]

Little late. 
Atari 2600

Solar Fox 91

Turmoil 6. 
 

 

[carlsson]

@jgkspsx asked for a list of played systems, to know which ones to put some extra love into for the final week of the year.

 

The classic tracker covers 135 systems, of which 68 have been played this year and the other 67 not played.

 

These systems have been represented in the tracker so far:

 

Amiga (all-time total 126 games)
Amiga AGA/ECS (14 games)
Amstrad CPC (55 games)
Apple II (91 games)
Arcade (795 games)
Atari 2600 (1020 games)
Atari 5200 (115 games)
Atari 7800 (161 games)
Atari 8-bit (651 games)
Atari Jaguar (115 games)
Atari Lynx (139 games)
Atari ST (40 games)
Atari Video Pinball (3 games)
BBC Micro (33 games)
CoCo 1 & 2 (123 games)
CoCo 3 (34 games)
ColecoVision (242 games)
Commodore 128 (2 games)
Commodore 16 & Plus/4 (40 games)
Commodore 64 (589 games)
Commodore PET (51 games)
Dragon 32 (8 games)
Dreamcast (136 games)
Emerson Arcadia 2001 (34 games)
Fairchild Channel F (36 games)
Game & Watch (16 games)
Game Boy (426 games)
Game Boy Color (180 games)
Game Gear (217 games)
Game.com (21 games)
Genesis (679 games)
Handheld/Tabletop (96 games)
Intellivision (220 games)
Jupiter Ace (3 games)
LaserActive (2 games)
MSX (139 games)
MSX2 (19 games)
Mattel Aquarius (7 games)
Microbee 32 (4 games)
Microvision (12 games)
N64 (136 games)
NES/Famicom (927 games)
Neo Geo AES/MVS (109 games)
Neo Geo Pocket Color (19 games)
Odyssey^2 (115 games)
PC DOS (178 games)
PC Windows 95/98 (116 games)
PlayStation (415 games)
SG-1000 (56 games)
SNES (477 games)
Sega 32X (40 games)
Sega CD (116 games)
Sega Master System (230 games)
Sega Saturn (210 games)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (84 games)
TG-16/PC Engine (200 games)
TG-CD/PC Engine CD (60 games)
TI-99/4A (326 games)
TRS-80 MC-10 (32 games)
TRS-80 Model I/III (23 games)
Thomson MO5 (2 games)
Tiger R-Zone (27 games)
Tiger/Sega Pocket Arcade (13 games)
VIC-20 (192 games)
Vectrex (102 games)
Vtech Laser 500 (9 games)
Watara SuperVision (54 games)
WonderSwan (18 games)

 

The following systems haven't been played during 2023, for those who want to try something different:

 

3DO (115 games)
ABC-80 (1 games)
Acorn Archimedes (2 games)
Acorn Electron (16 games)
Adventurevision (1 games)
Amiga CD32 (14 games)
Amstrad CPC Plus (4 games)
Apple Iigs (1 games)
Apple Lisa (1 games)
Apple Pippin (1 games)
Atari Jaguar CD (8 games)
BBS Door Games (7 games)
Bally Astrocade (16 games)
COMX-35 (6 games)
COSMAC ELF (1 games)
CP/M (10 games)
Casio PV-1000 (3 games)
Commodore CBM-II (7 games)
Compucolor 8001 (1 games)
Compucolor II (6 games)
Cougar Boy/Mega Duck (15 games)
Creativision (15 games)
Cromemco Dazzler (3 games)
DEC Alpha (1 games)
DEC PDP-1 (1 games)
DEC PDP-11 (5 games)
DEC PDP-8 (3 games)
Epoch Super Cassette Vision (21 games)
FM Towns (18 games)
FM Towns Marty (11 games)
Famicom Disk System (16 games)
Fujitsu FM-77 AV (1 games)
Gamate (6 games)
IBM PC jr (1 games)
Intellivision ECS (3 games)
Interton VC-4000/APVS 1292 (24 games)
Linux (5 games)
Mac OS Classic (58 games)
Memotech MTX-512 (2 games)
NEC PC-6001 (3 games)
NEC PC-8001 (5 games)
NEC PC-8801 (23 games)
NEC PC-9801 (241 games)
Neo Geo CD (35 games)
Odyssey^3 / Philips G-7400 (1 games)
Oric-1 & Atmos (5 games)
PC-FX (5 games)
Philips CD-i (49 games)
Pong (11 games)
RCA Studio II (21 games)
SAM Coupé (7 games)
Sega 32X CD (4 games)
Sharp MZ-700 (3 games)
Sharp MZ-80K (3 games)
Sharp X1 (21 games)
Sharp X68000 (41 games)
Sinclair ZX 80 (1 games)
Sinclair ZX 81 (3 games)
Sord M5 (16 games)
Spectravideo SVI-328 (1 games)
Super A'Can (2 games)
SuperGrafx (5 games)
Telmac 1800 (1 games)
Tomy Tutor (9 games)
Toshiba Visicom (1 games)
VG 5000 (10 games)
Virtual Boy (19 games)

[+jgkspsx]

Looks like I'll be ending the year in a red and black haze.

[carlsson]

Perhaps we should invite some Macintosh gamers next year. Does anyone know if they exist?

[Boschloo]

1 minute ago, carlsson said:

Perhaps we should invite some Macintosh gamers next year. Does anyone know if they exist?

Not since Monkey Shines.

[carlsson]

Unless I'm cross-referencing wrong, 17 of those 67 systems not played this year, were featured in 2022:

 

Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Electron, Amiga CD32, Apple Iigs, Bally Astrocade, Epoch Super Cassette Vision, FM Towns, Famicom Disk System, IBM PC jr, NEC PC-9801, Pong, RCA Studio II, SAM Coupé, Sharp MZ-80K, Sharp X68000, SuperGrafx, Virtual Boy

 

Last year we had a total of 78 systems, so 10 more than the current state.

 

Regarding classic Mac OS, last time it was seen was when @thegoldenband played Bugdom! in the end of May 2020, so well over 3.5 years ago.

Edited December 27, 2023 by carlsson

[buddpaul]

I'm getting to this a bit late....... I will jump in next year. I've played a little Pilot Wings 64 and some Ultimate Doom....... that's about it.

[Atarian7]

I don't see any reason you can't start participating this last week of 2023.

 

[+wongojack]

On 6/18/2023 at 11:09 PM, thegoldenband said:

My times for the week:

 

NES:
Tennis - 1 min.
 

Black box Tennis is a game that I have a soft spot for.  I wound up at a point when I was a kid where I would travel with my dad for an extended period of time and stay in a hotel.  I didn't have any portable video games, but one of the shops in the bottom of this (mall adjacent) hotel had a vs. cab with Tennis.  Why they had that game in the cab is a mystery to this day, but I would go down and plunk quarters in it anyway.  I had fun improving and beating the first few levels, so I ended up buying the cart.

 

I can't remember ever beating difficulty level 5 although I guess I may have done it.  Since there's no one else on the internet that I know of who is more likely to have beaten diff 5, I thought I'd dig up this comment and ask you for some tips.

 

Can you recommend any strategies for this much maligned Tennis <cough> simulation.