+Gemintronic Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 This week? Mostly rummaging through my backups to find genesis co-op games for date night. Gain Ground Vapor Trail Altered Beast Gauntlet IV Gunstar Heroes Ms. Pac Man Zombies Ate My Neighbors Golden Axe 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 ATARI 2600 (All 3 games for HSC, Tigervision Weeks): Jawbreaker - 20 minutes River Patrol - 40 minutes Threshold - 25 minutes ATARI 5200: Super Pac-Man - 120 minutes ATARI 8-BIT COMPUTERS: Donkey Kong - 25 minutes Donkey Kong Junior - 20 minutes Marinus - 60 minutes Mario Bros. - 25 minutes Space Invaders - 115 minutes Super Pac-Man - 70 minutes Threshold - 20 minutes Worm War I - 10 minutes GAME BOY Defender - 70 minutes Joust - 5 minutes Millipede - 100 minutes Space Invaders - 15 minutes NES / FAMICOM: Millipede - 70 minutes 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 (edited) Pretty light on playing again this week. Still working on my pico-8 game, so just the regular phone games and Atari HSC. Android RB College - 76 min. Finished off season 24. Overall my point differential per season have been going down, not even breaking 300 this season. The average OF/DF stars has been relatively the same, so I must just be playing worse. Most likely this is due to my shorter average yardage (15-18yd), mostly to passes near center field, resulting in the clock running out faster. Interceptions we're very high this season (15). I clearly need to throw more passes out of bounds (82% completion) rather than lose possession. Passing YD were amazing 5000, which makes sense with no RB to hand off to (usually pulling in 500 Rushing YDs). Going to try to pull so good numbers this season. Going to really concentrate and attempt to get no interceptions. My QB is almost maxed out, Throw Acc, Arm Str, Speed, Stamina (7,8,4,10), with good stats for my WR and TE TE 8,5,5,7 WR 6,4,9,8 WR 8,3,7,7 Just missing a RB, with no decent incoming freshman to recruit, so going to be down a star player. Atari 2600 (Stella-Keyboard) Jaw Breaker - 28 min River Patrol - 15 min Threshold - 13 min Threshold wasn't nearly as good as the Atari 8-bit version, missing the over-heat gauge and dock sequence. It wasn't bad for what it was though. It would be cool to see a homebrew take on the game. Edited March 18 by CapitanClassic 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TampaBay Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 (edited) It was pretty much all driving / racing games for me this week. I can't believe I waited this long to get a racing wheel controller. The games are so fun to play with it. I didn't keep close track, but I'm sure I played each for at least a couple of hours. Playstation 2 * OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, 180 minutes (this is quickly becoming one of my all-time favorite driving games) Arcade, 120 minutes for each of the following: * Cruis'n USA * Daytona USA 2 * Out Run * Pole Position Edited March 18 by TampaBay 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Atari 2600 Jawbreaker 48 River Patrol 21 Solar Fox 122 Threshold 37 all fun. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 PC Battle Zone (2017) 118 Half Life Alyx 835 SMS Ghostbusters 79 Ninja, The 42 Rambo 225 Rambo III 52 Xbox Series S/X Control 140 Ping Redux 30 Stardew Valley 72 Some SMS HSC, and I kept playing Half Life Alyx for all the community generated content. There is some really amazing stuff out there. I also started playing Battle Zone from 2017 in VR. A very cool little game that includes a version of the arcade classic as well. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Unusual week for me and I mean really. Arcade: Baraduke - 20 min Bosconian - 10 min Contra - 5 min Ms. Pac Man - 5 min Pole Position II - 10 min Browser: Paku Paku - 18 min Microsoft Xbox 360: Mr. Driller Live - 75 min Such a beautiful game. Novadrome - 5 min Robo Blitz - 35 min I appreciate what it was going for but it just isn't very fun. Milton Bradley Microvision: Blockbuster - 5 min Bowling - 5 min Blitz/Alien Raiders - 10 min Nintendo 3DS: Kirby Planet Robobot - 11 min Just played the minigames, not the real game. Nintendo Game Boy: Super Hunchback - 12 min Nintendo Game Boy Advance: Racing Fever - 31 min Finished the game. Nintendo Super NES: Top Gear 2/Top Racer 2 - 301 min Played the first track over and over again for a challenge then played the first third of the game. Really superb and highly recommended. I think in the course of the challenge (in which I am currently tied for first) we have set the world record for the first track, Australiasia - Auckland, at 2'34"42. It may be the physical limit on the fastest the track can be run. PC: Logiart Grimoire - 66 min I sponsored a puzzle - here it is if you want to try it! Solution: Spoiler Sega Genesis: Winter Challenge - 15 min I still enjoy this fixture of my childhood a good deal. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Atari 2600 Jawbreaker - 18 minutes Kaboom! - 19 minutes River Patrol - 78 minutes Threshold - 146 minutes I kind of liked River Patrol once I got used to it, but it would take me more than 2 weeks to learn all the courses. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Here are my times from 3/15 to 3/17. They were: Android 1) Retro Bowl - 45 minutes PC 1) Balatro - 80 minutes PCE / TG-16 1) Volfied - 15 minutes Game Boy 1) Bill and Ted's Excellent Gameboy Adventure - 25 minutes 2) Burai Fighter Deluxe - 5 minutes 3) Lunar Lander - 5 minutes GBC 1) Qix Adventure - 15 minutes 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 18 Author Share Posted March 18 11 hours ago, jgkspsx said: I need to look up some times before you tally them. Please let me know when you have final numbers. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 6 hours ago, carlsson said: Please let me know when you have final numbers. Oops, finalized them but didn't remove this! It's good now. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 A fun little week for gaming this week! I spent the whole week just kinda dinking around on my RG353V, playing several games of Monopoly and doing a full playthrough of Pooh and Tigger's Hunny Safari for the GBC, then put those two analog sticks at the bottom to good use playing a few games of Robotron 2084 for the 7800. I also decided to try out the Bluetooth and 720p HDMI out features to consolize the handheld and play Die Hard Arcade for the Saturn on the big screen modern TV with my 8BitDo SN30 Pro controller. It worked pretty dang seamlessly and was a lot of fun, and I really like that now that my SN30 Pro controller is paired with the device and configured anytime I turn on the controller it automatically switches to the SN30 Pro as the default player 1 input. Smart programming! I may have to pick up a 8BitDo M30 controller next week to pair with it as well for all my Sega gaming needs on the big screen. Atari 7800 Robotron 2084 - 24 minutes Game Boy Color Monopoly - 324 minutes Pooh and Tigger's Hunny Safari - 93 minutes Nintendo DS Alpha and Omega - 22 minutes Sega Saturn Die Hard Arcade - 82 minutes 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 NES/Famicom: Twinbee 3 12mins Terra Cresta 5 mins Was testing a new My Arcade Famicom adapter and it works quite well! Twinbee 3 used to crash with the Hyperkin adapter (a pin it needed must not been making good contact) but no crashes with the new adapter. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 This last week I played: Atari 2600 Asteroids - 11 minutes Centipede - 9 minutes Dodge 'Em - 2 minutes Freeway - 10 minutes Laser Blast - 1 minute Missile Command - 23 minutes Space Invaders - 50 minutes Spacechase - 8 minutes Stampede - 9 minutes Video Pinball - 6 minutes Zelda Randomizer for NES - 454 minutes X-Men Legends for PS2 - 446 minutes Progress: Atari games - I just played and streamed for fun Zelda - I played the last 2 games from my 2nd set. I was able to complete game 9, but game 10 seemed to lack arrows, including silver arrows. Because of this I couldn't defeat the final boss who in this situation ended up being Zelda because my character was an enemy rescuing Ganon. X-Men Legends - I played until defeating Juggernaut on Muir Island. Psylocke is now on the team, meaning I've unlocked all the characters. I forgot how you could level up and gain healing items and money in the Danger Room courses so that makes the game as good as I remember. It helps to purposefully not complete at least one course until you're near the end of the game. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Week of 3/11/24 - 3/17/24 I had so little time for gaming last week that I almost forgot to post! Commodore 64 Lode Runner - 5 Might and Magic - 10 iOS Duolingo - 33 Jumbline 2 - 43 Total time = 91 minutes 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Yesterday's (3/18) totals were: Android 1) Retro Bowl - 15 minutes PC 1) Bang Bang Racing - 5 minutes 2) Castle Crashers (demo) - 15 minutes 3) Darkest Dungeon - 70 minutes 4) What the Golf? - 5 minutes 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 Week 11 Summary For the week March 11 - 17, we logged 7375 minutes of gaming, playing 128 games (of which 19 new) on a total of 26 systems. Individual Top 20 1. Half-Life: Alyx (PC Modern) - 835 min. (#1) 2. Zelda Randomizer (NES/Famicom) - 454 min. (#5) 3. X-Men Legends (PS2) - 446 min. (#9) 4. Monopoly (Game Boy Color) - 324 min. (#20) 5. Rambo: First Blood Part II (aka Secret Command) (Sega Master System) - 305 min. 6. Top Gear 2 (JP: Top Racer 2) (SNES) - 301 min. 7. Cave Story (Dreamcast) - 250 min. (#14) 8. Threshold (Atari 2600) - 221 min. 9. OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (PS2) - 180 min. 10. River Patrol (Atari 2600) - 154 min. 11. Control (Xbox Series S/X) - 140 min. 12. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 122 min. (#10) 13. Cruis'n USA (Arcade) - 120 min. 13. Daytona USA 2 (Arcade) - 120 min. 13. Marvel vs. Capcom (Dreamcast) - 120 min. 13. Out Run (Arcade) - 120 min. 13. Pole Position (Arcade) - 120 min. 13. Super Pac-Man (Atari 5200) - 120 min. 19. Battle Zone (2017) (PC Modern) - 118 min. 20. Space Invaders (Atari 8-bit) - 115 min. Pre-NES Top 10 1. Threshold (Atari 2600) - 221 min. (PN#1) 2. River Patrol (Atari 2600) - 154 min. 3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 122 min. (PN#2) 4. Pole Position (Arcade) - 120 min. 5. Super Pac-Man (Atari 5200) - 120 min. 6. Space Invaders (Atari 8-bit) - 115 min. 7. Jawbreaker (Atari 2600) - 114 min. (PN#9) 8. Elevator Action (Arcade) - 79 min. (PN#4) 9. Super Pac-Man (Atari 8-bit) - 70 min. 10. Marinus (Atari 8-bit) - 60 min. Systems Top 20 1. PC Modern (9 games) - 1249 min. (#1) 2. Atari 2600 (29 games) - 875 min. (#3) 3. PS2 (2 games) - 626 min. (#11) 4. Arcade (10 games) - 609 min. (#4) 5. Dreamcast (8 games) - 590 min. (#2) 6. NES/Famicom (8 games) - 563 min. (#5) 7. Sega Master System (4 games) - 478 min. (#6) 8. Game Boy Color (3 games) - 432 min. (#19) 9. Atari 8-bit (9 games) - 347 min. 10. SNES (1 game) - 301 min. 11. Game Boy (9 games) - 265 min. (#14) 12. Xbox Series S/X (3 games) - 242 min. (#20) 13. Android (2 games) - 146 min. (#10) 14. Atari 5200 (1 game) - 120 min. 15. Xbox 360 (3 games) - 115 min. (#7) 16. Sega Saturn (1 game) - 82 min. 17. Apple iOS (2 games) - 76 min. (#12) 18. Genesis (9 games) - 55 min. (#8) 19. Nintendo DS (4 games) - 52 min. 20. Game Boy Advance (2 games) - 49 min. Half-Life: Alyx retains first position ahead of Zelda and the X-Men (now, that is a band name worth considering unless it infringes trademarks). A little further down we find the Atari 2600 games Threshold, River Patrol, Solar Fox etc who are heading the pre-NES list. A few systems shuffle places but the modern PC remains as the most played one. Out Run (Arcade) becomes game 5-56... I mean #556 to enter the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1036 min. 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Yesterday's (3/20) totals: Android 1) Retro Bowl - 25 minutes PC 1) Darkest Dungeon - 20 minutes 2) What the Golf? - 5 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 (edited) VIC-20: Dodgem Docker [a.k.a. Defense, Defend It!] - 28 min. Another week of barely any gaming, except for those lazy solitaire games I don't count and a few rounds of Bubbles in Emacs. Instead of giving the A8 HSC another try, I dug into Dodgem Docker, a mysterious VIC-20 game from my youth, which I remembered as having broken graphics but nice gameplay. It turned out to be a listing from Commodore Computing International, Vol 2 No 3 (July 1983) by one of the magazine's editors, Kevin Bergin. It was published as a supplement to a four pages long article on How to write a top selling arcade game. Dodgem Docker is a side scrolling shooter in BASIC with machine code additions to speed up the scrolling. You steer a ship shooting through solid blocks that repeat over and over until you have cleared them all. There is one bomb on the screen that you must not shoot. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a winning condition so the only way to get to the next "level" is to shoot this bomb, lose a life and a new set of blocks are drawn. The game was later re-published as Defense in the book VIC Games by Kevin himself, and Defend It! in the magazine Which Micro? April 1984. The differences seem to be that Defense uses joystick instead of keys and have multiple bombs on the screen. Defend It! however reverts back to the same keyboard controls as in the original listing, but possibly scrolls a tad bit faster. It makes me curious and want to compare the listings, perhaps add a winning condition and release it as Dodgem Docker Redux... Edit: Upon reading the source code (or of course I could have read the game instructions), I realized what I thought was a bomb, is the station you should dock into, not shoot so by running head first into this pattern, the level is cleared successfully so no need for a different winning combination. That goes to say that even for the simplest of games, you need to read the instructions to play them. Obviously it means for the re-released versions, the number of stations increase by a lot, though the game in principle is the same. Edited March 24 by carlsson 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 (edited) Here are my times for this past week (March 18th through 24th, 2024)... Arcade: Elevator Action - 116 min. in 13 sessions I don't feel the urge to play any other games than "Elevator Action" at the moment... well, I did, but "Lunar Rescue" wasn't available to play online, at least I didn't find it. One session is usually only one game though. I got to the third building in many of my sessions, but I didn't manage to complete building 3 and go to the next one. Edited March 24 by Kurt_Woloch failed to mention it's arcade 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Apple iOS: Kumome - 30 min Beta testing. Arcade: Chain Reaction/Magical Drop - 135 min Worked at it, beat it, still hate it. Everyone else seems to love it so I guess it's just me. Lock'n'Chase - 35 min Such a hard game. Sly Spy/Secret Agent - 115 min Beat it with credit feeding, tried to get further on one credit. And all I got for it was this silly thread. XX Mission - 15 min Not a Women's History Month special but rather an unremarkable Xevious pastiche that doesn't get how Xevious works. Browser: Paku Paku - 25 min Still got it... once in a while. Nintendo 3DS: Kirby Planet Robobot - 11 min Puzzler World 2012 3D - 23 min Puzzler World 2013 - 68 min Often mistaken for shovelware, the Puzzler series for DS and 3DS is one of the best collections of stylus-based puzzles you will find, with many hundreds of puzzles to solve per volume. Sure, you could do these with pencil and paper too, but that's not as fun. Nintendo DS: Logic Machines - 11 min Nintendo SNES: Top Gear/Racer 2 - 135 min Put a bunch more time in and have only gotten halfway through the 64 tracks. Really great game but man is it long. Nintendo Switch: Boreal Tenebrae - 135 min "Finished" the "game". I both hate and love this and I don't know if I hope it gets finished or not. It just stops without any resolution. I don't mean it's an ambiguous ending, I mean it just stops like a demo that ran out. City of Beats - 30 min Tetris 99 - 5 min SNK Neo Geo Pocket/Color: Fatal Fury: First Strike - 25 min Beaten. SNK fighters are just my thing, I guess. Sonic Pocket Adventure - 20 min I don't like the physics in this but they could be worse. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Times for Mar 18-24: Android RB College - 126 min Atari 2600 (LegendsFB) Solaris - 90 min 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 188 minutes Red Sea Crossing - 38 minutes Solar Fox - 17 minutes Solaris - 99 minutes 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Here are my times from 3/21 to 3/24. They were: PC 1) Castle Crashers - 25 minutes 2) Lunar Lander Beyond (demo) - 30 minutes 3) Mutant Football League - 30 minutes 4) Super Woden GP II - 10 minutes 5) What the Golf? - 5 minutes Android 1) Retro Bowl - 80 minutes GBC 1) Qix Adventure - 15 minutes Game Boy 1) Donkey Kong - 20 minutes GBA 1) Boulder Dash EX - 45 minutes 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+neogeo1982 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Sega Dreamcast Marvel Vs Capcom - 100min PS5 Fortnite - 820min 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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