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

[+jgkspsx]

4 hours ago, wongojack said:

DOS 

Bubble Ghost 24 

 

What a great, frustrating game!! Love it on the Game Boy.

[Eltigro]

Barnstorming must be in a HSC or something.  lol

 

Is it gonna beat Kaboom!?

[+wongojack]

1 hour ago, jgkspsx said:

What a great, frustrating game!! Love it on the Game Boy.

I had never heard of it until I got some free Steam keys recently.  I quit before it got frustrating - LOL

[Skippy B. Coyote]

No classic gaming for me this week, though I did play a few more hours of Alien: Isolation on the Switch for the modern tracker

 

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 05, running from January 30 - February 5. We logged 3773 minutes of eligible play, playing 90 games on a total of 16 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Barnstorming (Atari 2600) - 630 min.
2. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PlayStation) - 449 min. (#2)
3. Asteroids (Atari 7800) - 270 min.
4. Phantasie (Commodore 64) - 230 min. (#4)
5. Tatsujin Ou (Arcade) - 207 min.
6. Slap Fight / Slap Fight MD (Genesis) - 125 min. (#8)
7. Out Zone (Arcade) - 91 min.
8. Ms. Pac-Man (Tengen) (NES/Famicom) - 80 min. (#5)
9. Hoops (NES/Famicom) - 72 min. (#10)
10. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 69 min. (#7)

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Barnstorming (Atari 2600) - 630 min.
2. Asteroids (Atari 7800) - 270 min.
3. Phantasie (Commodore 64) - 230 min. (PN#2)
4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 69 min. (PN#3)
5. Keystone Kapers (Atari 8-bit) - 65 min.
6. Ataritris (Atari 8-bit) - 50 min.
6. River Raid (Intellivision) - 50 min.
8. Jumpman (Commodore 64) - 45 min.
9. Buzz Bombers (Intellivision) - 35 min.
9. Marauder (Atari 8-bit) - 35 min.
9. Tron: Deadly Discs (Intellivision) - 35 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (15 games) - 810 min. (#1)
2. Arcade (14 games) - 565 min. (#7)
3. PlayStation (1 game) - 449 min. (#2)
4. Commodore 64 (9 games) - 400 min. (#3)
5. NES/Famicom (8 games) - 291 min. (#4)
6. Atari 7800 (1 game) - 270 min.
7. Genesis (8 games) - 220 min. (#6)
8. Atari 8-bit (7 games) - 198 min. (#8)
9. Intellivision (5 games) - 160 min.
10. Handheld/Tabletop (6 games) - 110 min.

 

Once again, the Atari 2600 HSC impacts the tracker as Barnstorming storms into first place, with Castlevania SotN still in second place. Five versions of Ms. Pac-Man and one Pac-Man were played, but only Tengen's NES version makes an impact on the top lists. Systems wise, the Atari 2600 again has both most minutes and number of different games. The Commodore 128 makes it debut on the tracker, likely because all other games played have been C64 titles (and historically there were very few C128 only games).

 

Tatsujin Ou (Arcade) becomes member #519 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1200 minutes.

Edited February 7, 2023 by carlsson

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (2/7/2023) totals:

 

TI99/4a

1) A-MAZE-ING - 15 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Today's (2/9/2023) totals:

 

Game Boy

1) Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge - 20 minutes

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 5200:

Ms. Pac-Man - 60 minutes

Pac-Man Plus - 150 minutes

 

ATARI 8-BIT:

Ms. Pac-Man (for HSC) - 150 minutes

 

EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK:

1) My Ms. Pac-Man full gameplay for Atari 8-BIT HSC Season 20, Round 2 - Score 160,830

 

 

2) 5200 Pac-Man Plus full gameplay video - Score 67,190 (pancake start)

 

[TheGameCollector]

This week I played:

 

Final Fantasy VII for Playstation: 237 minutes

 

Progress:

 

After a 2 week break of no gaming while working on another project, I made it from the exit of Midgar over to the Junon area, recruited Yuffie and defended the condor nest once. I'm not quite ready to take on the dragon at Junon's beach quite yet so I figure grinding for gil for a while to fund more battles at the condor nest would be good timing to gain a few more character levels and AP for materia to level up.

[Steven Pendleton]

Arcade only this time once again.

 

Arcade
Batsugun - 39
Dogyuun!! (Japan) - 2
Lei Shen Zhuan Thunder Deity Biography - 5

^ I am not entirely sure what this is, but it has nothing to do with thunder deities or biographies. It's either a ROM hack of Battle Garegga or a bootleg of Battle Garegga. Either way, it plays rather differently from Garegga in a super strange fashion.
Out Zone - 79
Raiden (Japan) - 88
Raiden (International) - 22

Tatsujin Ou - 45

Zero Team (early revision) - 4
Zero Team (late revision) - 11

I think these might actually be the Japanese version and the international version, respectively, but on Arcade Archives they are labeled as early and late version, respectively, so that's how I'm doing it.

[Prosystemsearch]

Here are my times:

 

Atari 2600:

Official Frogger (Supercharger game)- 6 mintues

Missile Command- 11 minutes

Spiderman- 2 minutes

Ms. Pacman- 7 minutes

Taz- 8 minutes

Out of control- 2 minutes

Space invaders- 5 1/2 minutes

 

NES: 

Alien Syndrome (Unlicensed)- 4 minutes

Batman, the video game- 3/12 minutes

 

Arcade:

Klax- 3 minutes

Joust- 5 minutes

Robotron 2084- 6 minutes

 

That's what I can recollect of what I've played during the previous week retro-wise.

 

Edited February 12, 2023 by Prosystemsearch

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Ms. Pac-Man - 25 min.

 

For once, I didn't play late on Sunday afternoon ... because I was at work then.

[Kurt_Woloch]

I haven't actually played anything this week, but there is one game I played last Sunday I forgot...

 

MSX:

Ghosts 'n' Goblins - 3 min.

 

Last Sunday I also tried the MSX version of Ghosts 'n' Goblins, but didn't play it for long. I had difficulties with the fact that jumping and shooting is mapped to two different buttons, so I didn't get very far and gave up quickly. The MSX version is, however, no great advancement over the Spectrum version anyway.

[+jgkspsx]

Atari 2600:

Aquaventure - 45 minutes

 

Atari Lynx:

Microvaders Beta - 65 minutes

Robotron 2084 - 15 minutes

 

Game & Watch:

Pinball - 10 minutes

Squish - 15 minutes

 

Game Boy Color:

Game & Watch Gallery 3 - 20 minutes

 

Genesis:

Pirates of Dark Water - 35 minutes

Shinobi III - 20 minutes

 

Handheld/Tabletop:

Tiger Miniature Golf - 30 minutes

I kinda figured it out.

Tiger Electronic Football - 20 minutes

The big game is every night.

Tiger Stix Meeba - 20 minutes

I got another unit and... yeah, my original one is really messed up. I scored way higher on the new one first try.

 

NES:

Donkey Kong - 15 minutes

Double Dragon - 90 minutes

 

Supervision: 

Brain Power - 15 minutes

Chinese Checkers - 25 minutes

Happy Pairs - 10 minutes

Hash Block - 20 minutes

Journey to the West Reborn - 45 minutes

Played the new release from Bulgaria on a custom PCB that makes it playable on a normal Supervision. This playthrough gets exactly as far as I did except with fewer continues and less dying and retrying:

 

 

I did not figure out you could throw your staff so maybe I can get further next time.

Kitchen War - 5 minutes

Recycle Design - 5 minutes

 

Tiger Sega Pocket Arcade:

Streets of Rage - 25 minutes

[onlyinajeep]

CoCo2

Dunkey Munkey - 84

Jumping Joey - 54 min

 

CoCo3 

Treasure Island Defense - 15 min

 

Commodore 64

1985 - 26 min

Bruce Lee: Return of Fury - 5 min

Caim - 85 min

Gold Quest V - 13 min

Gold Quest VI Extended Version - 321 min

Linking Logic - 17 min

Solar Fox - 11 min

Tutankahm Returns - 8 min

 

Sega SG-1000

H.E.R.O. - 25 min

Puznic - 39 min

 

ZX Spectrum

Tenebra - 59 min

Thrust - 4 min

 

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Beamrider - 355 minutes

 

 

[Keir]

9 hours ago, onlyinajeep said:

Bruce Lee: Return of Fury - 5 min

I'm going to have to check this out! Wasn't there also a Bruce Lee II, or is this the same thing?

 

Week of 2/6/23 - 2/12/23

 

Atari 2600

Beamrider - 20

 

Commodore 64

Phantasie - 300 (finished!)

Phantasie II - 80

 

Total time = 400 minutes

[agb]

NES

 

Super Mario Brothers 18

 

Atari 2600

Asteroids 20

Beamrider 12

Solar Fox 124

 

all fun

 

[+wongojack]

DOS

Master of Orion 93

 

I'm continuing a cycle where I'm playing games <120mb from my Steam library, so I gave the DOS version of Master of Orion a shot.  I have played this game before, but I've spent much more time in its cousin "Master of Magic."  Anyway, it was nice to play a 4x game that really didn't require much of a tutorial.  I didn't finish my introductory game, but I could have.  Great series.

[+wongojack]

11 hours ago, onlyinajeep said:

 

 

Commodore 64

Gold Quest VI Extended Version - 321 min

 

 

I've seen some reviews of this - looks fun.  I guess you enjoyed it as well with more than 5 hours played?

[Skippy B. Coyote]

For the first time in awhile I actually did quite a bit of retro gaming this past week! I got a 1 week free trial of Nintendo Switch Online and decided to put it to use playing through Star Fox and then Super Metroid! I was getting pretty close to the end of Super Metroid when I realized that I wasn't far off from collecting 100% of the items in the game, which is something I had never done before, so I ended up playing a couple hours more and searching around until I had found every item and achieved 100% completion in Super Metroid for the first time ever! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Game Boy
Metroid II: Samus Returns - 45 minutes

 

Super Nintendo
Star Fox - 99 minutes 
Super Castlevania IV - 11 minutes
Super Metroid - 926 minutes

 

 

[Hwlngmad]

Today's (2/13/2023) totals:

 

Game Boy

1) Metroid II: Samus Returns - 35 minutes

 

GBC

1) San Francisco Rush 2049 - 30 minutes

 

TI99/4a

1) Blasto - 10 minutes

2) The Attack - 15 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

2 hours ago, Skippy B. Coyote said:

Game Boy

Metroid II: Samus Returns - 45 minutes

Checked this out myself today for the first time ever.  The only other time I played a Metroid game was the OG back in 1987 or so.  Should I keep at after just doing 35 minutes, or should I come back to it some other time?  Just wondering as I haven't checked out any other Metroid game, except Metroid Pinball.  Appreciate any recommendations.

[+wongojack]

2 hours ago, Hwlngmad said:

Checked this out myself today for the first time ever.  The only other time I played a Metroid game was the OG back in 1987 or so.  Should I keep at after just doing 35 minutes, or should I come back to it some other time?  Just wondering as I haven't checked out any other Metroid game, except Metroid Pinball.  Appreciate any recommendations.

Super Metroid is the greatest (2d) Metroid of them all IMO.  You would do yourself a favor to make that the first Metroid game you've played since '87.  If you like Metroid-style games, it is a Legendary 10/10 or 5/5.  Whatever your scale, it is right at the top.

[Eltigro]

Only one retro game for me this week....

 

Playstation

Castlevania:  Symphony of the Night (353 min) -  Still working on that achievement to get every rare drop from every monster.  I've got a list going and have about 22 more monsters to farm.  I'll get there.  It'll just take some persistence.