agb Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 13 hours ago, Atarian7 said: @agb I got to rack 256 on Solar Fox. It took me to rack 1 but it said rack 0. There were a few extra cells (or whatever they're called) on the bottom. I cleared the rack and then nothing happened. It was my last life so losing a life didn't do anything. Does the game continue somehow? When you get to rack 255, you have to skip rack 256, then it will go to rack 1 and continue. When you skip rack 256, your score will drop a little, around 100,000 but the game continues. You keep all your extra lives and the score continues to go up. When you are at rack 254, you cannot skip a rack or you go to 256 and the game will end. According to TG, high score is 15-16 million so you are on your way. I'm too old to sit on the floor too long so I usually end at rack 256 but made it to around 8.6 mil with all seven lives left. When you beat my 8.6 mil, it will motivate me to get higher scores. Good luck. Great score. Congrats. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 Atari 8-BIT Missile Command - 25 minutes Ms. Pac-Man - 140 minutes Time Pilot - 10 minutes EVIDENCE OF THE WEEK: My new high score on Atari 8-BIT Ms. Pac-Man, Cherries variation - 193210 points 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 So I go to Mikado relatively regularly, and since near the end of 2021, every Wednesday without fail there is a Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Pazurudama tournament there. I finally played it, but... Arcade Hishouzame - 92 Out Zone - 66 Slap Fight - 6 Vimana - 34 Saturn Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Pazurudama - 335 "Let's make one of those VS. mode puzzle games. We have all of those cute girls from our game Tokimeki Memorial, and everyone loves that game and the aforementioned cute girls, so let's have said cute girls as the playable characters and make the game REALLY REALLY REALLY FUCKING DIFFICULT in single player!" - Konami, apparently. This is easily one of the hardest games I've ever played, somehow. This is about as difficult as Tatsujin Ou, so if you hate yourself or just enjoy pain, you should play both this game and Tatsujin Ou, but unlike Tatsujin Ou, this game is actually very well designed and not a completely broken piece of garbage! I still like Tatsujin Ou even though it's a horrible game, though. G/MD Daisenpuu - 34 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 26, 2023 Author Share Posted February 26, 2023 Microbee 32: Hopper - 5 min. Ineligible: Advanced Civilization board game - 600 min. So another week passed by, with barely any time/energy to play video games. As part of my testing duties, I loaded Hopper on the Microbee though. Also I spent the entire Saturday playing Adv Civ at a friend's house, which is a yearly tradition since 2016, I think. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 Here are my times for this past week (February 20th through 26th) on classic games.... MS-DOS: Pac-Man - 16 min. MSX: Chuckie Egg - 16 min. This week I revisited the MS-DOS version of Pac-Man, in which I reached over 33.000 points. Then I got inspired by a version of Chuckie Egg by Arlasoft for Pac-Man arcade hardware, but I played the MSX version instead. Although the original is on the ZX Spectrum, they enhanced the game graphically in different ways for each port, for instance, in the MSX version the main character is multicolored, and so are the bricks he walks on. For a platformer this is pretty well made, including the physics. It's in the same vein as "The mine" for the TI-99 or "Miner 2049er", but it's a bit better playable due to the more advanced physics. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Here are my times: Atari 2600: Time pilot- 3 1/2 minutes Spiderman- 3 minutes Vanguard- 4 minutes Wizard of WOR- 6 minutes Dodgem: Dodger cars- 6 minutes Space Invaders Deluxe (homebrew Hack)- 5 minutes IBM MS-DOS: Alley Cat- 4 minutes NES: Abadox- 6 minutes Klax (unlicensed)- 11 1/2 minutes Tetris (licensed Nintendo version)- 11 minutes NARC- 8 minutes Shooting Range- 5 minutes Dig Dug- 4 1/2 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Atari 2600 Asteroids 53 Eggomania 48 Kaboom 7 Lady Bug 14 Solar Fox 57 All fun. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyinajeep Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 CoCo3 Lift (inufuto) - 12 min Popstar Pilot - 193 min Dragon32 Lucifer's Kingdom - 87 min 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 This week I played: 007: The World Is Not Enough for Nintendo 64 - 211 minutes Bust-a-Move for Game Gear - 141 minutes Final Fantasy VII for Playstation - 330 minutes Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast - 193 minutes Sonic Blast for Game Gear - 73 minutes Star Fox for Super Nintendo - 36 minutes Progress: 007: TWINE - I started and completed Agent mode Bust-a-Move - I completed all 100 levels of 1P Play mode on Easy. Final Fantasy VII - I finished the game easily by just having a very good materia setup and plenty of Turbo Ethers. Sonic Adventure - completed Sonic's story, then probably a little over half of Tails' story. Sonic Blast - completed the game with all emeralds as Sonic. Star Fox - completed difficulty level 1. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Atari 2600 Hunchy 2 - 35 minutes Kaboom! - 111 minutes Solar Fox - 125 minutes High score on Solar Fox : 5,607,100 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Week of 2/20/23 - 2/26/23 Atari 2600 Miner 2049er - 15 Miner 2049er Vol. II - 20 Solar Fox - 15 Commodore 64 Phantasie II - 50 Total time = 100 minutes School vacation week so I didn't have a lot of time for gaming. The Atari 2600 version of the Miner 2049er games are definitely the worst I've played and frustratingly difficult. Is it even possible to jump over the aliens? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 DOS Tex Murphy: Mean Streets 257 Intellivision Demon Attack 20 Ice Trek 51 Popeye 175 Some Inty HSC time, and I achieved adventure game stuck-ed-ness in Mean Streets. UHS does not have it, so now to figure out how to get a hint without ruining the game. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 13 minutes ago, Keir said: Week of 2/20/23 - 2/26/23 Atari 2600 Miner 2049er - 15 Miner 2049er Vol. II - 20 Solar Fox - 15 Commodore 64 Phantasie II - 50 Total time = 100 minutes School vacation week so I didn't have a lot of time for gaming. The Atari 2600 version of the Miner 2049er games are definitely the worst I've played and frustratingly difficult. Is it even possible to jump over the aliens? Some good hacks have been done to those games: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 2 hours ago, Keir said: Is it even possible to jump over the aliens? It is but you have to be almost perfect to do it. I made it to the 6th screen once but couldn't complete it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Today's (2/27/2023) totals: Game Boy 1) Jurassic Park Part Two: The Chaos Continues - 25 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Lots of classic gaming for me this week! I did a full playthrough of my all time favorite Castlevania game, Super Castlevania IV on the SNES, then did a one credit clear run of Operation C on the Game Boy and played a few other games as well Arcade Space Invaders DX - 11 minutes Twin Cobra - 7 minutes Game Boy Operation C - 48 minutes Sega Genesis Castlevania: Bloodlines - 20 minutes Super Nintendo Super Castlevania IV - 295 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 13 hours ago, Keir said: The Atari 2600 version of the Miner 2049er games are definitely the worst I've played and frustratingly difficult. Is it even possible to jump over the aliens? Have you tried the Game Boy version? I feel like that’s harder than the 2600 version, or maybe it’s me. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Unusual week. Atari Jaguar: Missile Command 3D - 45 minutes Atari Lynx: Robotron 2084 - 20 minutes Game & Watch: Donkey Kong Jr - 10 minutes Fire - 10 minutes Mario’s Cement Factory - 15 minutes Octopus - 25 minutes Parachute - 10 minutes Super Mario Bros - 15 minutes Genesis: Slap Fight MD - 20 minutes Tänzer - 90 minutes Supervision: Classic Casino - 20 minutes Journey to the West - 25 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 8 hours ago, jgkspsx said: Have you tried the Game Boy version? I feel like that’s harder than the 2600 version, or maybe it’s me. No, I actually wasn't aware there was one! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 28, 2023 Author Share Posted February 28, 2023 Here's the summary for Week 08, running from February 20 - 26. We logged 3897 minutes of eligible play, playing 65 games on a total of 23 systems. Top 10: 1. Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Puzzle-Dama (Sega Saturn) - 335 min. 2. Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) - 330 min. (#1) 3. Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - 295 min. 4. Tex Murphy: Mean Streets (PC DOS) - 257 min. (#9) 5. 007: The World is Not Enough (N64) - 211 min. 6. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 197 min. (#3) 7. Pop Star Pilot (CoCo 3) - 193 min. (#6) 7. Sonic Adventure (World & Jap versions) (Dreamcast) - 193 min. 9. Popeye (Intellivision) - 175 min. 10. Bust-a-Move (Puzzle Bobble) (Game Gear) - 141 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 197 min. (PN#2) 2. Popeye (Intellivision) - 175 min. 3. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 8-bit) - 140 min. (PN#6) 4. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 118 min. (PN#5) 5. Lucifer's Kingdom (Dragon 32) - 87 min. 6. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 53 min. (PN#10) 7. Ice Trek (Intellivision) - 51 min. 8. Phantasie II (Commodore 64) - 50 min. (PN#3) 9. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 48 min. 10. Hunchy II (Atari 2600) - 35 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 (14 games) - 528 min. (#4) 2. Sega Saturn (1 game) - 335 min. 3. SNES (2 games) - 331 min. (#8) 4. PlayStation (1 game) - 330 min. (#1) 5. PC DOS (3 games) - 277 min. (#9) 6. Intellivision (3 games) - 246 min. 7. Arcade (6 games) - 216 min. (#2) 8. Game Gear (2 games) - 214 min. 9. N64 (1 game) - 211 min. 10. CoCo 3 (2 games) - 205 min. (#7) By a mere 5 minutes, Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Puzzle-Dama grabs the overall #1 ahead of Final Fantasy VII. On the pre-NES side, Solar Fox is back into first place and helps the Atari 2600 back into first place on the systems list as well. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 8-bit) becomes game #520 to enter the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1018 minutes. At the same time, Kaboom! exceeds 236,000 minutes and Solar Fox exceeds 48,000 minutes. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Wow, C64 didn’t even crack top 10 this week! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Today's (03/01/203) total: GBC 1) Golf Ou: The King of Golf - 20 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 Today's (03/02/2023) totals: Neo Geo 1) Eight Man - 15 minutes GBC 1) Golf Ou: The King of Golf - 20 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+neogeo1982 Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 Went on an Nes spending spree recently and thought I should get back into posting times again. Nes Alwa's Awakening - 535 minutes Dragon Warrior - 120min Destiny of an Emperor 2 - 180min Millipede - 20min Championship Bowling - 40min Gradius - 20min Ninja Gaiden - 20min Metal Gear - 40min Marble Madness - 20min Deadly Towers - 10min Iron Sword - 10min Atari 2600 Centipede - 45min 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 Not much here. Still have not been able to make any progress in Memodama. What a ridiculous game. Arcade Space Harrier - 3 Saturn Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Pazurudama - 37 G/MD Zero Wing - 18 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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