agb Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Atari 2600 Asteroids 40 Eggomania 35 Kaboom 13 Sokar Fox 122 All fun. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 For classic gaming this weekend I played Q*Bert for the first round of the Atari 2600 High Score Club's end of season minor league tournament... and was promptly eliminated in the 1st round because Q*Bert has just never been a game I've been any good at, especially on A difficulty! Still, I did manage to beat my all time personal best high score and that's something Atari 2600 Q*Bert - 36 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 It sounds like I need to catch up with my avatar here… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Arcade: Lock’n’Chase - 10 minutes Lunar Lander - 75 minutes Zero Wing - 30 minutes I don’t know if this is brutal in some other way but the early game seems downright generous amd pleasant. I still didn’t get anywhere, but it’s a start. Atari 2600: Q*Bert - 95 minutes My personal best wasn’t good enough to not get eliminated in the first round of the minor leagues. Oh well. Atari Lynx: Awesome Golf - 35 minutes Commodore 64: Jumpman - 20 minutes Stormlord - 135 minutes I still prefer the Genesis version unequivocally but I appreciate the C64 version a lot more after being forced to play it by an Evercade HSC. Genesis: Slap Fight MD (or whatever we have tracked it as) - 150 minutes NES: Dig Dug II - 40 minutes Nintendo 64: Mario Kart 64 - 20 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 4 hours ago, onlyinajeep said: Phantasie is great. This was my first RPG style game, spent many hours back in the day playing that. I revisited it a couple years ago and still enjoyed it. I played Roadwar 2000 after finishing, it was pretty much a reskinned Phantasie, but still good. I might hafta play that again this year. It’s one of my favorites. Beat the game back in the day and am really enjoying playing again. Maybe this time I’ll play through all 3 games (I started Phantasie II a long time ago but it was so similar to the first one I moved on to something else and haven’t revisited it). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 Here's the summary for Week 04, running from January 23 - 29. We logged 4545 minutes of eligible play, playing 72 games on a total of 17 systems. Top 10: 1. Q*bert (Atari 2600) - 1031 min. 2. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PlayStation) - 776 min. 3. Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) - 277 min. (#2) 4. Phantasie (Commodore 64) - 240 min. 5. Ms. Pac-Man (Tengen) (NES/Famicom) - 210 min. 6. Ms. Pac-Man (SNES) - 200 min. 7. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 152 min. (#3) 8. Slap Fight / Slap Fight MD (Genesis) - 150 min. (#10) 9. Stormlord (Commodore 64) - 135 min. 10. Hoops (NES/Famicom) - 130 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Q*bert (Atari 2600) - 1031 min. 2. Phantasie (Commodore 64) - 240 min. 3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 152 min. (PN#1) 4. Stormlord (Commodore 64) - 135 min. 5. Lunar Lander (Arcade) - 75 min. (PN#5) 6. MegaMania (Atari 8-bit) - 70 min. 7. Millie and Molly (Commodore 64) - 69 min. 8. Buzz Worm (CoCo 1 & 2) - 46 min. (PN#8) 9. Jumpman Jr. (Commodore 64) - 42 min. (PN#5) 10. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 40 min. (PN#8) 10. Oil's Well (Commodore 64) - 40 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 (12 games) - 1309 min. (#2) 2. PlayStation (2 games) - 1053 min. (#1) 3. Commodore 64 (25 games) - 821 min. (#9) 4. NES/Famicom (6 games) - 398 min. (#4) 5. SNES (2 games) - 220 min. (#8) 6. Genesis (6 games) - 177 min. (#6) 7. Arcade (5 games) - 162 min. (#3) 8. Atari 8-bit (3 games) - 104 min. (#10) 9. TG-16/PC Engine (2 games) - 65 min. 10. Apple II (2 games) - 52 min. (#5) Q*Bert puts on an impressive effort and generates over 1000 minutes on its own, enough to take both the individual titles and lead the Atari 2600 to a system victory. To a great deal, the same can be said about Castlevania: SotN for the PlayStation in second place. Just over 1/3 of the games this week was played on the C64, which puts it in third place. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PlayStation) also enters the 5000 Minute Club with a total of 5367 minutes. 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Went to the arcade again. I also played two of the 5 Toaplan games I had never played before: Horror Story, which is now one of my absolute favourite non-shooting Toaplan games, and Toaplan's first game, the very obscure Performan. Arcade Dogyuun!! (Japan) - 41 FixEight -Jigoku no Eiyuu Densetsu- - 10 Gradius - 10 Horror Story ("Western" version) - 37 There are two versions of Horror Story. One starts you in like an American West-style place and the other starts you in Asia, and I guess the levels are different or something like that. Yeah, it's weird. Operation Thunderbolt - 20 Taito light gun game. Can't see where you are aiming, except for when you can. Also, you blow up F/A-18s (and they are Super Hornets, too, not the regular non-Super version) in this game for some reason even though Wikipedia says you are on the American side, so I'm not sure what the hell is up with that. Out Zone - 91 Performan - 6 Sennou Game Teki-Paki - 15 Tatsujin Ou - 207 Tatsujin Ou New Version (ROM hack) - 62 Thunder Dragon 2 - 15 Vimana - 17 Zero Wing - 14 G/MD Slap Fight MD - 50 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Horror Story is also known as Demon’s World and is coming to the Evercade in April with a bunch of other great games including Twin Cobra, Twin Hawk, Fire Shark, Hellfire, Rally Bike, and WARDNER. Yay! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 I've gotta get better at recording my times... I forgot until about half way through the week, and I'm terrible at guessing, so... I'm just going with what I got... Playstation Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (449min) - Still working on RetroAchievements for this. There's one that is to fill in the "Enemys" list from the Librarian, and there's apparently one enemy on the list (the Mudman) that is missable. The only time it appears is if it is summoned by a boss the first time you meet him. That same boss appears as an enemy later in the game, but it doesn't summon it then. The game I was working on didn't have Mudman... I had missed him. Luckily, I had several game saves, and one of them had him. So now I'm using that save. Another achievement, the one I'm working on now, is to get all the rare drops from every enemy. That one's gonna take a while... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeguy Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 20 minutes ago, Eltigro said: I've gotta get better at recording my times... I forgot until about half way through the week, and I'm terrible at guessing, so... I'm just going with what I got... Playstation Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (449min) - Still working on RetroAchievements for this. There's one that is to fill in the "Enemys" list from the Librarian, and there's apparently one enemy on the list (the Mudman) that is missable. The only time it appears is if it is summoned by a boss the first time you meet him. That same boss appears as an enemy later in the game, but it doesn't summon it then. The game I was working on didn't have Mudman... I had missed him. Luckily, I had several game saves, and one of them had him. So now I'm using that save. Another achievement, the one I'm working on now, is to get all the rare drops from every enemy. That one's gonna take a while... I never bothered trying to fill the bestiary thing because I had a feeling some of those monsters would be "if you miss him, you cant go back and get him again." i also missed a couple squares of the map. Ive learned not to get too hung up on only having 99% game completion. the important thing is i had fun, trying to get there. but that said, yeah if the game is easy enough, Ill go for 100% like the Donkey Kong Country games, Kirby, Banjo, Mario, etc some games I know itll never happen. Im not skilled enough to get every Chaos emerald in Sonic and beat the game. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 ATARI 2600: Plaque Attack - 10 minutes ATARI 8-BIT: Atartris - 50 minutes Beef Drop - 10 minutes Keystone Kapers - 65 minutes Marauder [Sierra On-Line] - 35 minutes Pole Position - 15 minutes Time Pilot - 5 minutes NES / FAMICOM: Ms. Pac-Man [Tengen License] - 80 minutes SEGA GENESIS: Ms. Pac-Man - 40 minutes EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK: 1) 2600 Plaque Attack full gameplay video - Score: 65,160 (Game 1-BB) 2) 8-BIT Marauder full gameplay video - Score: 133,900 (default) 3) 8-BIT Atartris full gameplay video - Score: 107,674 (Level A) 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 5, 2023 Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 Atari 8-bit: Ms. Pac-Man - 18 min. @oyamafamily now it is your time to shine in the A8 HSC since we're playing Ms. Pac-Man! Unfortunately I don't shine on that game as well. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Here are my times for this past week on classic systems (January 30th through February 5th)... MS-DOS: Pac-Man - 12 min. The only thing I played this week was the MS-DOS version of Pac-Man by Atarisoft. It's quite a nice version, and they even carried over most of the sounds though (of course) only one of them plays at a time. However, the dots are unevenly spaced and the intermissions are missing, although they probably had a lot of memory to play with. I didn't get too far in the game, I think the farthest I managed was the 3rd round. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 4 hours ago, dudeguy said: I never bothered trying to fill the bestiary thing because I had a feeling some of those monsters would be "if you miss him, you cant go back and get him again." i also missed a couple squares of the map. Ive learned not to get too hung up on only having 99% game completion. the important thing is i had fun, trying to get there. but that said, yeah if the game is easy enough, Ill go for 100% like the Donkey Kong Country games, Kirby, Banjo, Mario, etc some games I know itll never happen. Im not skilled enough to get every Chaos emerald in Sonic and beat the game. Oh I'm definitely not trying to 100% the RetroAchievments. They always have stuff in there like, "Beat X Boss with no weapons, no health, and damageless." I'll never get those. Too frustrating for me. If it's part of just playing the game, fine. If it's a bit tedious, but easy, fine. If it's tedious and hard, nope. And the only monster I think is missable is the one I mentioned, that mudman. Now, on that save, the only two I don't have are... um... the last two bosses (spoilers!). And the rare drops is in the tedious but easy category. Just gotta farm 'em. And with the Ring of Varda and a Crissaegrim, there's not much that is difficult to kill quickly. I have not 100%ed any game on RA. lol 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 I missed Mudman on my complete playthrough back in 1997 and always felt bad about it. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Here are my times for the week: Atari 2600: Dodge 'em: Dogder cars- 3 minutes Defender- 4 minutes Q*bert- 6 1/2 minutes The Official Frogger (Supercharger game)- 7 minutes Ms. Pacman- 6 minutes Missile command- 11 minutes Bump n' Jump- 2 1/2 minutes Congo Bongo- 1 1/2 minutes Killer Satellites (Supercharger game)- 4 minutes IBM MS-DOS: Burger time- 5 1/2 minutes Ms. Pacman- 5 minutes Zork 1: the Great Underground Empire- 14 minutes (I saved shortly after killing the first troll with the Elvish sword) I hope I can Reload correctly on DOSBOX without typing entire path names from front to back. NES: 720 Degrees- 2 minutes Big Nose the Caveman (Unlicensed) 6 minutes Baby Boomer (Unlicensed)- 7 1/2 minutes Alien Syndrome (Unlicensed)- 3 minutes Sega Genesis/Mega Drive: Super Street Fighter 2: the New Challengers- 5 minutes Contra Hard Corps- 4 minutes Sonic the Hedgehog 2- 3 1/2 minutes Raiden- 2 1/2 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Arcade: Crystal Castles - 20 minutes Atari 2600: Flash Gordon - 10 minutes Atari 7800: Asteroids - 270 minutes just could not crack 30k. Atari Lynx: I am now the moderator for the Atari Lynx HSC and would love to have more players! If there is anything I can do to bribeconvince you to join us, name your price! Microvaders Beta - 35 minutes Robotron 2084 - 45 minutes Commodore 64: Jumpman - 45 minutes Genesis: Psycho Pinball - 25 minutes Slap Fight MD - 75 minutes one last drive. Intellivision: Buzz Bombers - 35 minutes LCD/Tabletop: Tiger Batman Returns - 10 minutes Tiger Game Talk Tiger’s Baseball All Stars - 25 minutes This confusingly titled game is amazingly solid, with impressive voiceover and a full MLBPA license. Tiger Game Talk Snake’s Revenge - 30 minutes Simply a thing of beauty. Tiger Miniature Golf - 10 minutes I do not understand how to play this. Nobody on YouTube seems to either. Tiger Sonic 3D Blast - 15 minutes seems the same as the Sega Pocket Arcade version, as with NiGHTS, which also used the same full size case design. Tiger Wayne Gretzky Brett Hull Shootout - 20 minutes This is THE SAME GAME as the R-Zone’s soccer game. Weird! It is a lot harder, but otherwise it’s the same up to and including the mostly-invisible player character. Sheesh. NES: Tapeworm Disco Puzzle - 65 minutes Finished the game. It was smooth sailing other than one level that took the vast majority of this and the last playtime, and probably close to a third of my overall playtime. Tiger Sega Pocket Arcade: Streets of Rage - 10 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Atari 2600 Asteroids 32 Millipede13 (FB HSC) Solae Fox 62 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyinajeep Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Commodore C16 Way of the Exploding Fist - 24 min Commodore 64 Boulder Dash - 17 min Gold Quest 6 - 30 min Oil's Well - 13 min Questron - 12 min Roadwar 2000 - 32 min Rockford - 12 min The Legend of Knucker Hole - 9 min Commodore 128 Bucket Wars - 18 min KikStart 128 - 14 min ZX Spectrum Bruce Lee RX - 24 min H.E.R.O. - 27 min Killer Bees - 19 min Ramiro el Vampiro: en el Misterio del Papiro - 5 min Terrapins - 18 min 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Atari 2600 Barnstorming - 595 minutes Solar Fox - 7 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 1 hour ago, Atarian7 said: Atari 2600 Barnstorming - 595 minutes Wow! I don't even want to think about how many times you hit that reset switch. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 My times for the weel: NES: AD&D: Dragonstrike - 56 min. Hoops - 72 min. Beat Hoops and started a Hard mode playthrough of Dragonstrike. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Week of 1/30/23 - 2/5/23 Atari 2600 Barnstorming - 35 Commodore 64 Phantasie - 230 Total time = 265 minutes I was going to spend more time practicing Barnstorming for the HSC this week but it didn't seem like I stood a chance against the top 3 so I played more Phantasie instead. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 DOS Bubble Ghost 24 Intellivision Blockade Runner 29 River Raid 50 Tron Deadly Discs 35 Tron Deadly Dogs 11 I tried another DOS game in my Steam library and put some time into the Inty HSC. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Today's (2/6/2023) totals: Mega Drive/Genesis 1) Outrun 2019 - 15 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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