What have you PLAYED weekly tracker 2024 (ALL GENERATIONS)

[agb]

Atari 2600

 

Eggomania 59

SolR Fox 71

 

all good. 

[+wongojack]

Another week with a single game with triple digit time

 

C64

Blue Max 277

 

I've been trying to accomplish 2 things here.

1) Figure out the conditions when the game crashes when played in NTSC

2) Win on "Expert" difficulty

 

I've gotten a pretty stable repro for #1, and I came very close to #2 last night.  Should only need a few more runs to finish up.

 

Wrote a blog entry on this here (haven't done one of those in years):  Blue Max for C64 crashing - wongojack's Blog - AtariAge Forums

 

[CapitanClassic]

Oct 7-13: just a small amount of gaming.

 

Android: 

RB College - 6 min.

Retro Bowl - 6 min.

 

Finished up the no star player season of RB College. Since I had 1-2 losing seasons in a row, there were no offers from other colleges. Decided to switch over to regular Retro Bowl. Just finished up the first game, and fast forwarded to the NFL Draft.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Big week for gaming for me this week! I put my new RG556 to good use doing a full playthrough of the original Fatal Frame for the PS2, which I just finished last night, and played quite a bit of Star Fox Adventures for the GameCube too! I really love the comfy ergonomics on this thing, and the big bright 5.5" 1080p AMOLED screen is just gorgeous! Having enough power under the hood to run GameCube and PS2 games well is a really nice bonus too

 

 

GameCube

Star Fox Adventures - 257 minutes

 

PlayStation 2

Fatal Frame - 1,087 minutes

 

[+jgkspsx]

Got my new Atari Super Pocket from the Evercade folks!

Testing that out, playtesting Microvaders, and getting ready for the next season of the Lynx High Score Club dominated my gaming for this week.

 

Apple iOS:

Tomb of the Mask - 25 min

Arcade:

Centipede - 6 min

Crystal Castles - 5 min

Liquid Kids - 70 min

Lost Tomb - 10 min

Missile Command - 5 min

Mizbak's Adventure - 20 min (could group with Liquid Kids)

Night Driver - 10 min 

 

Atari 2600:

Aquaventure - 10 min

Save Mary - 15 min

Yars' Revenge - 10 min

 

Atari 5200:

Miner 2049er - 10 min

 

Atari Lynx:

Checkered Flag - 5 min

Dirty Larry Renegade Cop - 7 min

Fruit'y - 20 min

Geoduel - 10 min
Kung Food - 20 min

Microvaders - 220 min

Ninja Nerd - 15 min

Odynexus - 40 min

Robo-Squash - 20 min

 

Blaze Evercade/Super Pocket:

Pong (2024 version) - 15 min

The version included on the Atari Arcade Collection 1 cartridge was an atrocity. This has been remade from the ground up and plays a lot better, if not faithfully to the arcade. Who knew a good pong was so hard to make?
 

Commodore 64:

Cyberdyne Warrior - 5 min

Heavy Metal Paradroid - 10 min

Netherworld - 65 min

NEC TurboGrafx 16:

Soldier Blade - 5 min

Nintendo Entertainment System:

Super Pinball - 15 min

Nintendo Game Boy Color:

Racin' Ratz - 20 min

Tarzan - 15 min

 

Nintendo Game Boy Advance:

IK+ - 20 min

Nintendo Switch:

A Little to The Left - 20 min

Nintendo World Championships - 105 min 

Super Impulse TinyArcade/MicroArcade:

MicroArcade Centipede - 7 min

MicroArcade Pong - 5 min

 

Sony PlayStation Vita:

Ys VIII: Lacrymosa of DANA - 15 min

You never want to be on a ship with this guy, I tell ya. And I know, because I was born on a pirate ship with Adol.

I have no recollection what game this is, haha. Anybody recognize it?

 

[Hwlngmad]

My times from 10/10 to 10/14 were:

 

PC Modern

1) Loop Hero - 25 minutes

2) UFO 50 - 15 minutes

 

TurboGrafx-16 / PCE

1) Geisha Boy - 15 minutes

 

TurboGrafx-16 CD / PCE CD

1) Renny Blaster - 15 minutes

[+jgkspsx]

32 minutes ago, Hwlngmad said:

TurboGrafx-16 / PCE

1) Geisha Boy - 15 minutes

 

TurboGrafx-16 CD / PCE CD

1) Renny Blaster - 15 minutes

That's Gekisha Boy, haha.

 

Never heard of Renny Blaster!

[Hwlngmad]

6 minutes ago, jgkspsx said:

That's Gekisha Boy, haha.

 

Never heard of Renny Blaster!

Oh!  Yes, you are right, lol.  That is a snafu, for sure.

 

Also, yes, Renny Blaster is a beat'em up that was a very late release.

[carlsson]

Apparently Geisha Boy is a movie from 1958 with Jerry Lewis!

[carlsson]

7 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Nintendo Switch:

Nintendo World Championships - 

Number missing on this entry. I'll add 78 min (?), and you can compensate for next week unless you're super fast at replying.

Edited October 15 by carlsson

[+jgkspsx]

1 hour ago, carlsson said:

Number missing on this entry. I'll add 78 min (?), and you can compensate for next week unless you're super fast at replying.

105 minutes!

 

Also 20 minutes for (Nintendo Switch) A Little to the Left if it's not too late.

[carlsson]

Saved by the bell!

[carlsson]

Week 41 Summary

 

For the week October 7 - 13, we logged 3304 minutes of gaming, playing 71 games (of which 16 new) on a total of 21 systems.

 

Individual Top 20

 

1. Fatal Frame (PS2) - 1087 min.
2. Blue Max (Commodore 64) - 277 min. (#5)
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 266 min. (#3)
4. Star Fox Adventures (Gamecube) - 257 min.
5. Microvaders  (Atari Lynx) - 220 min. (#6)
6. Loop Hero (PC Modern) - 115 min.

7. Nintendo World Championships (Switch) - 105 min.
8. Liquid Kids (Mizbak's Adventure, Mizubaku Daibouken) (Arcade) - 90 min.
9. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 65 min. (#15)
9. Netherworld (Commodore 64) - 65 min.
9. UFO 50 (PC Modern) - 65 min. (#1)
12. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 59 min.
13. Odynexus (Atari Lynx) - 40 min.
14. Gyruss (Atari 5200) - 37 min.
15. Tomb of the Mask (Apple iOS) - 25 min.
16. Megaman Starforce 1: Dragon (Nintendo DS) - 21 min.
17. Fruit'y (Atari Lynx) - 20 min.
17. IK+ (Game Boy Advance) - 20 min.
17. Kung Food (Atari Lynx) - 20 min.
17. Racin' Ratz (Game Boy Color) - 20 min.
17. Robo-Squash (Atari Lynx) - 20 min.

17. A Little to the Left (Switch) - 20 min.

 

Pre-NES Top 10

 

1. Blue Max (Commodore 64) - 277 min. (PN#2)
2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 266 min. (PN#1)
3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 65 min. (PN#4)
3. Netherworld (Commodore 64) - 65 min.
5. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 59 min.
6. Gyruss (Atari 5200) - 37 min.
7. Save Mary (Atari 2600) - 15 min.
8. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Atari 2600) - 11 min.
9. Aquaventure (Atari 2600) - 10 min.
9. Heavy Metal Paradroid (Commodore 64) - 10 min.
9. Lost Tomb (Arcade) - 10 min.
9. Miner 2049er (Atari 5200) - 10 min.
9. Night Driver (Arcade) - 10 min.
9. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) - 10 min.

 

Systems Top 20

 

1. PS2 (1 game) - 1087 min.
2. Atari 2600 (20 games) - 500 min. (#4)
3. Commodore 64 (4 games) - 357 min. (#6)
3. Atari Lynx (9 games) - 357 min. (#8)
5. Gamecube (1 game) - 257 min.
6. PC Modern (2 games) - 180 min. (#2)
7. Arcade (6 games) - 126 min. (#12)
8. Switch (1 game) - 125 min. (#3)
9. Atari 5200 (2 games) - 47 min. (#19)
10. NES/Famicom (5 games) - 45 min. (#11)
11. Nintendo DS (3 games) - 42 min.
12. Game Boy Color (2 games) - 35 min. (#15)
13. Apple iOS (1 game) - 25 min.
14. NEC PC Engine/TG-16 (2 games) - 20 min.
14. Game Boy Advance (1 game) - 20 min.
16. Vita (1 game) - 15 min.
16. NEC PC Engine CD/TG-CD (1 game) - 15 min.
16. Blaze Evercade (1 game) - 15 min.
19. Super Impulse Tiny/Micro Arcade (2 games) - 12 min.
19. Atari 8-bit (3 games) - 12 min.
19. Android (2 games) - 12 min.

 

Fatal Frame delivers a fatal blow, new to the tracker straight into first place and 13.5 hours ahead of second placed Blue Max, which is closely followed by Solar Fox and Star Fox Adventures. Many ties at the bottom of each list gives a lot of games listed, though none enters the 1000, 5000, 10000 Minute Clubs this week.

Edited October 15 by carlsson

[+wongojack]

On 6/30/2024 at 5:16 PM, Kurt_Woloch said:

Here are my times for this past week (June 24th through 30th)...

 

OK, this time it gets a bit messy. I did "play" some games, but it's hard to classify them. You see, there's a relatively new website called Websim.ai which creates web pages on the fly through AI prompts. This web sites are usually rather simple because the AI can only generate so much code at once... the maximum size of each page is about 11-12 kBytes. You just give it a URL that looks a recognizable topic, software or... a game. And it recognizes many of the well-known classic games, but since it's limited in what it can create, especially more advanced games usually devolve in greatly simplified, barebones versions. Still I tried to let it generate many of the classic games, some of which turned out to be unplayable or at least unrecognizable. Since they were all so simple, I only spent a few minutes with each "game" created. Here are the rough sums...

 

Lunar Lander, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Galaga, Dig Dug, Scramble, Moon Patrol, Zaxxon, Time Pilot, Gyruss... 31 minutes in total

Monaco Grand Prix, Pole Position, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Green Beret, OutRun, Marble Madness, Frogger, Popeye, Berzerk, Missile Command, Pooyan... 17 minutes in total

Tetris, Klax, Centipede, Millipede, Amidar, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Mario Bros., Enduro Racer, OutRun... 22 minutes in total

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Can you share some of the prompts you used with Websim to generate playable games.  I gave it a shot and did manage to make a Space Invaders game in like 5 prompts.  Pretty neat.

[zylon]

SNES-

Lufia & the fortress of doom- 12hrs 5min

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (10/16) totals were:

 

PC Modern

1) Karate Survivor (demo) - 15 minutes

2) Loop Hero - 30 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (10/17) totals were:

 

PC Modern

1) Loop Hero - 100 minutes

2) UFO 50 - 15 minutes

[Hwlngmad]

Yesterday's (10/17, the previous days were for 10/15 and 10/16 respectively) totals were:

 

PC Modern

1) Loop Hero - 100 minutes

2) UFO 50 - 30 minutes

[Prosystemsearch]

Here are my times for the last week:

 

Atari VCS/2600

Burgertime: 3 minutes

California games: 7 minutes

Ixion (Prototype): 6 minutes

Ms. Pac-man: 7 minutes

Jr. Pac-man: 4 minutes

Dodge 'em- Dodger Cars: 2 1/2 minutes

Dig Dug: 4 1/2 minutes

Demon Attack: 3 minutes

Chopper Command: 3 minutes

Defender: 6 minutes

Condor Attack: 3 1/2 minutes

Joust: 2 minutes

 

NES/Famicom

Aladdin (unlicensed 1995 Bootleg): 8 minutes

 

Nintendo DS

Megaman Starforce 1 Dragon Version: 21 minutes

Warioware TOUCHED!: 15 minutes

 

Modern PC

Crysis 2- Remastered(I don't have this in my Steam Library or anything, but someone I know let me play it on his Samsung Phone via Steam Mobile): 7 1/2 minutes

 

PS Vita

Welcome Park minigames: 3 1/2 minutes

Undertale: 7 minutes

Edited Sunday at 07:35 PM by Prosystemsearch
cleanup

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (October 14th through 20th, 2024):

 

TI-99/4A:

Q*bert - 99 min. in 7 sessions

 

This week I revisited the "Q*bert" game on the TI-99/4A. Somehow, I now got the hang on the fault that on the start of each level, Coily comes down immediately, so I wait for her to pass by before I decend from the top of the pyramid. This helped me boost my scores massively. On one particular good game, I collected up to 8 extra lives, but then, in Level 5, I got into a situation with the remaining cubes which wasn't easily solvable, and lost all of my lives.

 

Contrary to "Frogger", this one is playable over only the keyboard.

Edited Sunday at 09:26 PM by Kurt_Woloch

[+thegoldenband]

Just a bit this week:

 

Intellivision:
Dragonfire - 3 min.
Ms. Pac-Man - 10 min.

[+jgkspsx]

Whee!

 

Arcade:

Crystal Castles - 10 min

Major Havoc - 20 min

Outrunners - 25 min

Super Breakout - 15 min

Atari 2600:

Adventure - 10 min

Dark Cavern - 10 min

Tempest - 5 min

Blech! Blech! Blech! Whyyyyyyyyyyy

 

Atari 5200:

Bounty Bob Strikes Back! - 20 min 

Final Legacy - 30 min

Miner 2049er - 15 min

 

Atari 7800:

Dark Chambers - 35 min

Food Fight - 20 min

 

Atari Lynx:

Microvaders - 360 min

If there are any bugs left, sorry! But I tried!

 

LCD Handheld/Tabletop:

Tandy Zap! - 15 min

 

Nintendo Game Boy:

The Fidgetts - 20 min

 

Nintendo Switch:

Nintendo World Championships - 105 min

 

Sega Genesis:

Adventurous Boy - 10 min

As if you can't tell from the art, it's a clone (hack?) of Fantasy Zone

 

AWORG - 20 min

Truly a wacky game. It's not a great game but it's sure a fun one.

 

Dahna - 20 min

[CapitanClassic]

Oct 14-20: I got a decent amount of gaming in this week. In the coming weeks though it will likely be mostly 2600 HSC  All games emulated, except Android 

 

Android

Retro Bowl - 15 min

Soccer Stars -  15 min

Got a couple games of RB in for my starting season. Don't have a good QB, but was able to pickup a 4.5 star RB and TE. Haven't hit max dynamic difficulty, so most games have been a breeze.

 

NES / Famicom (emu)

Castlevania - 30 min: rewound my way to Dracula. I probably should get good at beating this game like Contra, but a lot of the muscle memory is gone  Also the birds that drop the hunch backs are very annoying in the clocktower.

 

Pico-8

Ascent - 14 min

Solais - 5 min

Ascent was a fun little 1/4 size Pico-8 game (only 64x64 pixels). It is amazing how much can be done with so few pixels.

 

PSX - (emu)

Battle Arena Toshinden - 20 min

Strider - 14 min

My muscle memory for Strider is bad too. Although I really played the Genesis version, it plays almost identically to the Arcade. Played a few rounds of BAT, but didn't remember hardly any of the moves. Also, the Legends Flashback 6-button Genesis pad isn't optimal for this game 

 

Sega Genesis -(emu)

Beyond Oasis - 38 min 

I have a copy of this game with a bad battery, so I never really played far into it.  I know Crusader of Centy gets called Sega's LoZ:aLttP, but I can see this one being a decent take on the genre. I think I might enjoy it, like Alunda [PSX]

 

Sega 32x - (Emu)

Space Harrier - 11 min

The 32x version feels very close to the arcade. I used to love playing this.

 

[+wongojack]

Atari 8bit

Blue Max 272

 

C64
Blue Max 14

 

DOS

Lords of Conquest 28

 

I posted my thoughts about the 2 most popular versions of Blue Max here:  https://forums.atariage.com/topic/358971-games-beaten-in-2024/?do=findComment&comment=5552299

 

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 61 minutes

Solar Fox - 162 minutes