What have you PLAYED weekly tracker 2024 (ALL GENERATIONS)

[Keir]

Week of 4/15/24 - 4/21/24

 

While I prefer to play on original hardware, emulation makes it easier to pretend I'm doing something useful! (Hence the increase in my time for last week.)

 

Atari 2600

Doggone It! - 65

Juno First - 25

Meooow! 2 - 25

 

iOS

Duolingo - 30

Jumbline 2 - 15

 

Total time = 160 minutes

[TheGameCollector]

This last week I played:

 

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance for PS2 - 445 minutes

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 for PS2 - 239 minutes

 

Zelda 2024-1 by Tim D. (Hack) for NES - 289 minutes

 

Explaining these unnamed Zelda Hacks:

I met a couple of guys on Facebook who are using various tools to make their own Zelda hacks and sharing them. They start with the Zelda Randomizer just to add a couple features, but they build most of the hack by scratch using a couple other tools. One modifies the overworld and the other modifies the dungeons. It's kind of like playing Zelda Randomizer, except it can be more challenging sometimes and you can appreciate how it is more thought out rather than fully computer generated. Since these guys are just making a lot of hacks and not naming them anything special in particular, I'll just go by their numbered labels and year created when playing them and just name whose it was. Other people may end up with the games too. I might not receive everything they ever make or have time to play all of them. So for example, for next week's tracker I started working on Zelda 2024-1 by Jim B., but I might also play Zelda 2024-3 by Tim D. (he doesn't really like his second one.) Not disclosing their full last names allows them to stay private in case Nintendo wants to go crazy with trying to ban this sort of thing (it's my idea to do that).

 

If they ever decide to fully name one of the hacks, I will let you know which year, number and author to change the title for. I don't know, I might want to try to make one myself someday.

 

When I play actual randomizer games, I just put all the time under one entry for the randomizer because it is all made by the same computer in the same process, but when it is someone's hand made work I don't think it's as respectful to lump all those together, even if they have the time to make a bunch of them.

 

Progress:

Marvel Ultimate Alliance: I finished the game on Easy mode, unlocking all the characters including Silver Surfer and Nick Fury.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: I started a new game on Easy mode, chose the anti-registration story when given the choice and have so far unlocked Cyclops, Jean Grey, Gambit, and The Thing.

Zelda hacks: I completed Tim's first hack from this year.

Edited April 22 by TheGameCollector

[agb]

Atari 2600

 

Solar Fox. 41. 
 

 

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600:

Doggone It! - 70 minutes

Juno First (for HSC) - 50 minutes

MEOOOW! 2 (for HSC) - 10 minutes

 

ATARI 5200:

Defender (for HSC) - 150 minutes

[+jgkspsx]

7 hours ago, Hwlngmad said:

GBA

3) Taxi 3 - 10 minutes

Never heard of this. What is it?

[carlsson]

Stats will have to be delayed until Thursday or the upcoming weekend. I came home after work, didn't feel that well and already slept 4.5 hours before the clock even is 11 PM.

[TampaBay]

4 minutes ago, carlsson said:

Stats will have to be delayed until Thursday or the upcoming weekend. I came home after work, didn't feel that well and already slept 4.5 hours before the clock even is 11 PM.

 

Feel better soon.

[Keir]

5 minutes ago, carlsson said:

 

Stats will have to be delayed until Thursday or the upcoming weekend. I came home after work, didn't feel that well and already slept 4.5 hours before the clock even is 11 PM.

 

Sorry to hear that. Feel better soon!

[+wongojack]

On 2/27/2024 at 9:44 AM, jgkspsx said:

Pretty much all of these are on Evercade - otherwise I was relying on @neogeo1982 for NES homebrew news and random chance and watching the Incube8 site for Game Boy homebrew.

Check out this very long list of links and rankings for NES homebrews:  The Top 500 Indie NES Games, Vol. 9 - by Seth Abramson (substack.com)

[Hwlngmad]

On 4/22/2024 at 9:33 PM, jgkspsx said:

Never heard of this. What is it?

I didn't play it too long, but it is a driving game where you play as a Taxi driving from one checkpoint to the next with a time limit you are against.  I believe it has other features, but I don't quite remember.  I definitely need to spend a little bit more time with it.

[Hwlngmad]

Totals from 4/22 and 4/23:

 

PC Modern

1) Bang Bang Racing - 50 minutes

2) What the Golf? - 5 minutes

 

Android

1) Retro Bowl - 30 minutes

2) Retro Bowl College - 20 minutes

3) Snood - 10 minutes

[CapitanClassic]

47 minutes ago, Hwlngmad said:

I didn't play it too long, but it is a driving game where you play as a Taxi driving from one checkpoint to the next with a time limit you are against.  I believe it has other features, but I don't quite remember.  I definitely need to spend a little bit more time with it.

Likely Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride

 

[+jgkspsx]

I looked into this and it actually is a separate game that seems to use the Blue Rose Engine:

 

 

Only released in France. It is a licensed game for the film Taxi 3 - there weren't Taxi 1 or 2 games on the GBA at least.

 

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (4/24) totals:

 

Android

1) Retro Bowl College - 10 minutes

2) Snood - 10 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

On 4/23/2024 at 3:57 PM, carlsson said:

Stats will have to be delayed until Thursday or the upcoming weekend. I came home after work, didn't feel that well and already slept 4.5 hours before the clock even is 11 PM.

No worries.  Take care and hope that you are feeling lots better now.

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (4/25) totals:

 

PC Modern

1) Bang Bang Racing - 20 minutes

2) What the Golf? - 5 minutes

 

Android

1) Horse Racing Hero - 10 minutes

2) Retro Bowl College - 45 minutes

3) Snood - 10 minutes

Edited April 26 by Hwlngmad
Had to add one additional item.

[carlsson]

Week 16 Summary

 

For the week April 15 - 21, we logged 3913 minutes of gaming, playing 74 games (of which 20 new) on a total of 23 systems.

 

Individual Top 20

 

1. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (PS2) - 445 min. (#1)
2. Zelda Tim D. 2024-1 (hack) (NES/Famicom) - 289 min.
3. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (PS2) - 239 min.
4. Columns (Sega Master System) - 190 min. (#13)
5. Doggone It! (Atari 2600) - 170 min.
6. Circus Convoy (Atari 2600) - 152 min.
7. Defender (Atari 5200) - 150 min.
8. Retro Bowl College (Android) - 140 min. (#20)
9. Meooow! 2 (Atari 2600) - 135 min.
10. Slinger VR (PC Modern) - 117 min.
11. Juno First (Atari 2600) - 114 min. (#9)
12. Oregon Trail, The (Nintendo 3DS) - 105 min.
12. Retro Bowl (Android) - 105 min. (#8)
14. Inkulnati (Xbox Series S/X) - 96 min. (#6)
15. Log Jammers (NES/Famicom) - 95 min.
16. Battle Zone (2017) (PC Modern) - 93 min.
17. Pac-Land (Atari Lynx) - 90 min. (#18)
18. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 69 min.
19. ALCOR (Atari ST) - 65 min.
19. Eggsavier's Cackleberry Rescue (Atari Lynx) - 65 min.

 

Pre-NES Top 10

 

1. Doggone It! (Atari 2600) - 170 min. (PN#6)
2. Circus Convoy (Atari 2600) - 152 min.
3. Defender (Atari 5200) - 150 min.
4. Meooow! 2 (Atari 2600) - 135 min. (PN#10)
5. Juno First (Atari 2600) - 114 min. (PN#2)
6. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 69 min. (PN#5)
7. Star Castle (Arcade) - 60 min.
8. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 41 min. (PN#7)
9. Akka Arrh (Arcade) - 40 min.
10. H.E.R.O. II (Atari 2600) - 35 min.

 

Systems Top 20

 

1. Atari 2600 (17 games) - 773 min. (#2)
2. PS2 (2 games) - 684 min. (#1)
3. NES/Famicom (12 games) - 456 min. (#14)
4. Android (6 games) - 331 min. (#7)
5. PC Modern (2 games) - 210 min. (#8)
6. Arcade (5 games) - 205 min.
7. Atari ST (4 games) - 195 min.
8. Sega Master System (1 game) - 190 min. (#11)
9. Atari Lynx (2 games) - 155 min. (#3)
10. Atari 5200 (1 game) - 150 min.
11. Xbox Series S/X (2 games) - 106 min. (#4)
12. Nintendo 3DS (1 game) - 105 min.
13. Game Boy Advance (3 games) - 75 min. (#18)
14. Apple iOS (3 games) - 58 min. (#12)
15. Genesis (1 game) - 45 min. (#5)
16. Jakks Pacific TV Games (2 games) - 35 min.
17. Atari Jaguar (1 game) - 33 min.
18. PlayStation (1 game) - 30 min.
18. NEC PC Engine/TG-16 (3 games) - 30 min.
20. Game Boy (2 games) - 20 min. (#18)

After a week of working, coughing and feeling somewhat under the weather in the evenings, I'm on my way back. This week is headed by two instances of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance for the PS2 and a Zelda hack for the NES. The HSC game Doggone It! takes the pre-NES title, on a list as often dominated by the Atari 2600, which also shows as it becomes the most played system.

 

Defender (Atari 5200) becomes member #558 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1028 minutes. At the same time, Duolingo (Apple iOS) enters the 10000 minute club with a total of 10006 minutes of language games (or how it should be referenced).

Edited April 27 by carlsson

[+neogeo1982]

Dreamcast

Bomberman Online - 45min

 

PS5

Fortnite - 720min

 

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Pinhead - 15 min.

 

Well, that would be my 15 minutes of fame for this week.

 

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this week (April 22th through 28th).

 

Like in the previous week, I didn't actually play anything, rather, I'm still at renovatiny my deceased father's flat, and there's enough to do there.

Edited April 28 by Kurt_Woloch

[CapitanClassic]

This week's times, almost nothing.

Android 

RB College - 15 min

[TampaBay]

For the week ending April 28:

 

Arcade:

* Sega Super GT     30 mins     (a.k.a. Scud Race)

* Space Dungeon     30 mins

* Star Castle     30 mins

 

Atari 800:

* Caverns of Mars     30 mins

 

Sega Dreamcast:

* Test Drive Le Mans     30 mins     (a.k.a. Le Mans 24 hours)

[Keir]

Week of 4/22/24 - 4/28/24

 

Essentially no gaming since last Monday.

 

Atari 2600

Doggone It! - 15

Meooow! 2 - 5

 

iOS

Duolingo - 37

 

Total time = 57 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Here are my times from 4/26 to 4/28.  They were:

 

Android:

1) EVAC - 20 minutes

2) Iron Marines - 15 minutes

3) PPKP - 10 minutes

4) Pinball Deluxe: Reloaded - 15 minutes

5) Retro Bowl - 35 minutes

6) Snood - 25 minutes

 

N64

1) Penny Racers - 15 minutes

2) War Gods - 10 minutes

 

3DS

1) Pocket Card Jockey - 30 minutes

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Heya folks, I'm not dead! I've been gone for about a month on account of not really playing much games lately, but I'm back with some time to contribute this week.

 

I was trying to convince myself to do a playthrough of Ocarina of Time but it felt like a bit more of a time commitment than I was up for, so instead I finally got around to setting up and configuring the PS2 emulator on my Retroid Pocket 4 Pro and did a full playthrough of Way of the Samurai this week. I also dinked around a bit on the Miyoo Mini Plus and played through Solar Striker for Game Boy, and realized that the Miyoo Mini Plus has a really cool play time tracker feature so I don't have to manually track the times for the games I play on it!

 

Since it plays everything from Atari 2600 up through and including original PlayStation I'll probably start using it a lot more, cause that's a super handy feature for me. Nifty stuff!

 

 

Game Boy 

Solar Striker - 29 minutes

 

Game Boy Color

Monopoly - 57 minutes

 

GameCube

Ikaruga - 35 minutes

 

Nintendo 64

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 106 minutes

 

PlayStation

Tomb Raider - 32 minutes

 

PlayStation 2

Way of the Samurai - 206 minutes

 

Sega Master System

Alex Kidd in Miracle World - 25 minutes

 

Edited April 29 by Skippy B. Coyote