What have you PLAYED weekly tracker 2024 (ALL GENERATIONS)

[agb]

Atari 2600

 

Solar Fox 396

Turmoil 17 HSC

 

both fun. 

[CapitanClassic]

April 1-7: Didn’t even get around to playing Android/RB college. Just estimates of the time spent playing for the 2600 HSC. 

Atari 2600 (Stella 6.7.1)

Crossbow - 15 min 

Red Sea Crossing -  15 min

Turmoil-  15 min

[TheGameCollector]

This past week I played:

 

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse for PS2 - 758 minutes

 

Progress:

 

I completed the game on Easy mode and have unlocked Iron Man and Deadpool. Sometime I will need to play again on Normal to unlock Dark Phoenix. 

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Crossbow - 68 minutes

Cross Force - 222 minutes

Kaboom! - 15 minutes

Red Sea Crossing - 44 minutes

Solar Fox - 86 minutes

 

I played one game of Solar Fox.  I scored 7,487,400.  Rack 1-255 and 1-98  My thumb kept slipping off the fire button.  I lost 4 or 5 lives due to that at the end of my game.

 

I know you can put it on difficulty A, but I am used to holding the fire button down to go fast.

[TampaBay]

For week ending April 7:

 

Atari XEGS

* One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird   30 mins

 

Atari 2600

* Asteroids   30 mins

* Quadrun   30 mins

* Yars' Revenge   30 mins

 

Atari 800

* Caverns of Mars   30 mins

 

Arcade

* Space Harrier   30 mins

* Tron   30 mins

 

SNES:

Top Racer 2   30 mins

 

Edited April 8 by TampaBay

[Hwlngmad]

On 4/6/2024 at 12:55 PM, jgkspsx said:

Tang Tang is a great deep cut! Infiltrator is the good isometric one, right? I have not heard of the third.

Tang Tang reminded me of Solomon's Key or Solomon's Club.  It is a good game, but just not for me.  Infiltrator is a overhead game a la Commando or Ikari Warriors.  It is fun and has some variety of gameplay in it, but it not easy.  Gem Smasher is a fun little puzzler that I enjoyed the most out of the three.  Definitely worthy of a go if one is a puzzle fan.

[Hwlngmad]

Totals from 4/5 to 4/7.  My times were:

 

Android

1) Retro Bowl - 45 minutes

2) Retro Bowl College - 10 minutes

 

N64

1) Off Road Challenge - 15 minutes

 

PC Modern

1) Breachway (demo) - 60 minutes

 

3DS

1) Undead Bowling - 40 minutes

[+wongojack]

Intellivision 
Antarctic Tales Enhanced Edition 27 

Ghostbusters Ultimate Edition 87 

 

NES 

Balloon Fight 25 

RC Pro-Am 68 

 

PC 
Battle Zone (2017) 89 

Malzbie's Pinball Collection 60 

Slinger VR 93 

 

SMS 

Thunder Blade 70 

[+jgkspsx]

Apple iOS:

Pinball Breaker - 31 min

Circa Infinity - 29 min

Space Miner - 8 min

Suika Game - 21 min

 

Atari Lynx:

Eggsavier's Cackleberry Rescue - 65 min

This is the 2020 final version. Pretty sure that is the only version tracked yet.

 

Pac-Land - 45 min

 

Commodore 64:

Winter Games - 261 minutes

 

Commodore Amiga:

Qwak! - 35 min

Nintendo Entertainment System:

Doodle World Redrawn - 12 min

Motor Rally - 10 min

Famiclone bootleg-type rudimentary racer. Not sure if it is a bootleg or homebrew.

 

Nintendo Game Boy:

The Little Tales of Alexandria - 26 min

 

Nintendo Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

Alien Cat 2 Enhanced Edition - 65 min

 

Tiger R-Zone:

Independence Day - 15 min

[+wongojack]

2 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

 

 

Commodore 64:

Winter Games - 261 minutes

I never got the hang of those skating events.  Even getting a 6.0 seemed hard bitd, or you'd get it from pure luck just wagging the joystick around.  Always felt awesome to get a 10.0 in "Hot Dog" though.

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (4/8) totals:

 

Android

1) Retro Bowl - 35 minutes

 

PC Modern

1) Balatro - 35 minutes

2) What the Golf? - 5 minutes

[+jgkspsx]

6 hours ago, wongojack said:

I never got the hang of those skating events.  Even getting a 6.0 seemed hard bitd, or you'd get it from pure luck just wagging the joystick around.  Always felt awesome to get a 10.0 in "Hot Dog" though.

I never understood it back in the day either, but it's simple enough. You have to do either one of each trick (figure skating) or three of each (free skate). Just press one of the joystick directions and press the button. Top counter-clockwise to bottom you have to face backwards, right up and right down you have to face forward. The real challenge is getting the exact timing of the spins and landing the triple lutz. Easy enough in figure skating, but really hard to pull off three times in a row. I think they're my favorite events now!

[Keir]

Week of 4/1/24 - 4/7/24

 

Atari 2600

Cross Force - 10

Crossbow - 25

Red Sea Crossing - 5

Turmoil - 15

 

iOS

Duolingo - 23

Jumbline 2 - 34

 

Total time = 112 minutes

[carlsson]

Week 14 Summary

 

For the week April 1 - 7, we logged 4180 minutes of gaming, playing 62 games (of which 15 new) on a total of 19 systems.

 

Individual Top 20

 

1. X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (PS2) - 758 min. (#3)
2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 482 min. (#8)
3. Cross Force (Atari 2600) - 282 min.
4. Winter Games (Commodore 64) - 261 min.
5. Crossbow (Atari 2600) - 168 min.
6. Retro Bowl (Android) - 155 min. (#7)
7. Gremlins (Atarisoft) (Commodore 64) - 125 min.
8. Red Sea Crossing (Atari 2600) - 104 min. (#2)
9. Laser Hawk (Atari 8-bit) - 100 min.
10. Slinger VR (PC Modern) - 93 min. (#10)
11. Battle Zone (2017) (PC Modern) - 89 min.
12. Ghostbusters Ultimate Edition (Intellivision) - 87 min.
13. Balatro (PC Modern) - 70 min. (#4)
13. Thunder Blade (Sega Master System) - 70 min. (#6)
15. R.C. Pro-Am (NES/Famicom) - 68 min.
16. Alien Cat 2 Enhanced Edition (SNES) - 65 min.
16. Carnival (Atari 8-bit) - 65 min.
16. Eggsaviers Cackleberry Rescue (Atari Lynx) - 65 min.
19. Breachway (demo) (PC Modern) - 60 min.
19. Malzbie's Pinball Collection (PC Modern) - 60 min.

 

Pre-NES Top 10

 

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 482 min. (PN#2)
2. Cross Force (Atari 2600) - 282 min. (#8)
3. Winter Games (Commodore 64) - 261 min.
4. Crossbow (Atari 2600) - 168 min.
5. Gremlins (Atarisoft) (Commodore 64) - 125 min.
6. Red Sea Crossing (Atari 2600) - 104 min. (PN#1)
7. Laser Hawk (Atari 8-bit) - 100 min.
8. Ghostbusters Ultimate Edition (Intellivision) - 87 min.
9. Carnival (Atari 8-bit) - 65 min.
10. Turmoil (Atari 2600) - 47 min.

 

Systems Top 20

 

1. Atari 2600 (9 games) - 1188 min. (#2)
2. PS2 (1 game) - 758 min.
3. PC Modern (7 games) - 387 min. (#3)
4. Commodore 64 (2 games) - 386 min. (#15)
5. Atari 8-bit (13 games) - 380 min. (#9)
6. Android (2 games) - 165 min. (#4)
7. Apple iOS (6 games) - 146 min. (#7)
8. NES/Famicom (4 games) - 115 min. (#18)
9. Intellivision (2 games) - 114 min. (#21)
10. Atari Lynx (2 games) - 110 min.
11. SNES (2 games) - 95 min.
12. Game Boy Advance (4 games) - 75 min. (#12)
13. Sega Master System (1 game) - 70 min. (#6)
14. Arcade (2 games) - 60 min. (#5)
15. Nintendo 3DS (1 game) - 40 min. (#19)
16. Amiga (1 game) - 35 min. (#12)
17. Game Boy (1 game) - 26 min.
18. Tiger R-Zone (1 game) - 15 min.
18. Nintendo 64 (1 game) - 15 min.

 

While only one of the two X-Men Legends remain on the top list this week, the sequel in the series takes the overall win by a margin of 4.6 hours ahead of a bunch of pre-NES games with Solar Fox as the first runner up. It brings the Atari 2600 as the most played system again, in a week where neither of the Xboxes, PS3/4/5, Switch/Wii are present. If it wasn't for modern PC gaming and the smartphones, the systems list would almost look semi-retro overall.

 

No new entries to the 1000/5000/10000 Minute Clubs, and no, I haven't migrated to either of my two new computers: firstly the desktop which is scheduled to arrive by Thursday (so I can't use it just yet) and secondly a friend of mine sold an affordable laptop that will replace the 10+ year old one I'm sometimes using.

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (4/9) totals:

 

Android

1) Retro Bowl - 15 minutes

 

PC Modern

1) Super Woden GP II - 20 minutes

2) What the Golf? - 5 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (4/10) totals:

 

Android

1) Pinball Deluxe: Reloaded - 10 minutes

2) Retro Bowl - 10 minutes

3) Retro Bowl College - 15 minutes

 

PC Modern

1) What the Golf? - 5 minutes

 

Dreamcast

1) Hydro Thunder - 10 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (4/11) totals:

 

Android

1) Retro Bowl - 60 minutes

 

PC Modern

1) Breachway (demo) - 25 minutes

2) What the Golf? - 5 minutes

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
River Raid - 18 min.

 

SNES:
Cool Spot - 5 min.
Fever Pitch - 8 min.
Nigel Mansell's World Championship - 12 min.
PGA Tour Golf - 29 min.
Super R-Type - 12 min.

 

After another mediocre attempt in the A8 HSC, I went through my list of systems and dug up something I hadn't touched for nearly 6 years, namely the SNES. Part of that was to try the Secret Santa gift from @Armscar Coder in form of PGA Tour Golf. Probably the default is an easy mode where the game automatically selects the most suitable club and perfect aim so you just have to control the strength and hook. There is a lot of pressing the Start button all the time to move to the next screen, and that in some occasions the button layout shifts between when you're on the fairway or green. Playable, but probably not EA Sports' most famous moment, or for that matter Rob Hubbard's as the musician. Leaderboard Golf on the C64 some seven years earlier was probably more impressive. The other SNES games were a bit troublesome to start, possibly due to my console not having been used for 6 years but eventually they all started without issues.

[Prosystemsearch]

Here are my times for the last week:

 

Gameboy

Megaman Dr. Wily's Revenge: 8 minutes

Klax: 12 minutes

 

NES

Afteburner (Unlicensed): 6 1/2 minutes

Fantasy Zone (Unlicensed): 7 minutes

Abadox: 7 minutes

Batman- The video game: 5 1/2 minutes

Burgertime: 4 1/2 minutes

Arkanoid: 11 minutes

Baby Boomer (Unlicensed): 10 minutes

Galaxian: 6 minutes

Chip n' Dale- Rescue Rangers: 10 minutes

Aladdin (Unlicensed 1995 bootleg): 9 minutes

 

Atari VCS/2600

Amidar: 5 1/2 minutes

Buck Rogers- Planet of Zoom: 6 minutes

 

Nintendo DS

YUGIOH- Nightmare Troubadour: 5 minutes

Megaman ZX: 15 minutes

 

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for classic and modern gaming of this week (June 8th through 14th)...

 

I'm afraid I didn't play anything that's meaningful for thjis tracker.  I was busy adapting my story book game "The grindy adventure" to an online format.

 

 

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600 (All games below for HSC):

Doggone It - 25 minutes

Juno First - 100 minutes

Meooow! 2 - 15 minutes

Turmoil - 25 minutes

 

ATARI 8-BIT COMPUTERS:

Juno First - 100 minutes

 

COLECOVISION:

Alphabet Zoo - 15 minutes

[CapitanClassic]

April 8-14:

Had free time, so I played my Legends Flashback. The 2600+ collecting thread on AA got me interested in Urban Strike. I had beaten Desert / Jungle, bitd. I wasn’t impressed. The “city” levels weren’t interesting. San Francisco was just covered with clouds, NYC was just a mass of skyscrapers. The Las Vegas night mission looked good though.  Each level did have iconic buildings from the cities, but gameplay wise it wasn’t an improvement over Jungle. 

 

Pilot ground missions, isometric run-n-gun sections, are boring and virtually identical. With your machine gun/rockets launcher, you usually just blast single guards at a time. With minute strategy of managing Ammo/Armor. If the missions were fun, something like Crackdown [Gen] or Metal Gear [MSX], it might be different, but I would rather be playing the helicopter missions.  I might have to go search out the Soviet / Nuclear Strike [PSX] titles so I can complete (didn’t “beat” Urban, I was abusing the rewind feature) the whole 6 game series.

 

Android

RB College - 27 min

 

Atari 2600 (LegendsFB)

Turmoil- 30 min

 

Genesis (LegendsFB)

Gunstar Heroes - 10 min

Urban Strike - 220 min

Neo-Geo (LegendsFB)

Top Players Golf - 22 min

World Heroes - 12 min

World Heroes Perfect- 45 min

I cannot say I care for Top Players Golf anymore. I used to play this and Magician Lord bitd. The timer is annoying, but I know it exists because the Arcade machine needs to get you drop quarters quickly. I would much rather be playing something like Hot Shots golf, designed for home play.

 

Sega CD (LegendsFB)

Final Fight CD - 90 min

Heart of the Alien - 41 min

 

Played through Final Fight CD, which is an excellent port of the Arcade. Got maybe a third of the way through HotA. These action puzzler games are really short when you abuse the rewind feature. I got stuck with the timing of one of the double guards, where you need to wait for one of their shields to lapse, then blast the other shield and fire a killing blow. The timing is quite difficult. Out of This World / Another World was quite impressive, fitting a well animated movie on a tiny cart, HotA is less impressive since they had hundreds of megabytes to fit the game it, but it still is fun.

[Hwlngmad]

Here are my times from 4/12 to 4/14.  They were:

 

Android

1) Retro Bowl - 10 minutes

 

PC Modern

1) Bang Bang Racing - 30 minutes

2) Breachway (demo) - 25 minutes

3) Throne of Bone (demo) - 25 minutes

4) What the Golf? - 10 minutes

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 41 minutes

Turmoil - 234 minutes

 

 

[Keir]

Week of 4/8/24 - 4/14/24

 

Atari 2600

Turmoil - 30

 

iOS

Duolingo - 23

 

Total time = 53 minutes