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NES 

Mike Tyson's Punch Out 114 

Tecmo Bowl 2 

 

PC 

Half Life Alyx 225 

 

Xbox Series S/X 

Broforce 90 

CATAN: Console Edition 77 

Lara Croft Temple Osiris 120 

Pinball FX3 86 

Plate Up 373

 

A big week full of co-op gaming.  Actually, most of the co-op is from the holiday last Monday when my niece and nephew were staying with us.  They are getting older, but they still like to come over and play games.

 

I'm making progress in Half Life: Alyx, but I'm playing with an Oculus 2 wired up to my PC.  Playing the game this way makes you constantly aware that the game was intended to be played on a different device.  The configuration alone is fairly complicated with a specialized cable that I had to purchase and at least 3 different apps that have to be running on the PC to make everything work.  I also think that yesterday something was not quite right with one of the USB ports on my Laptop, as I was getting some extra disconnections.  Then after I resumed play after a break - the sound didn't work.  Took multiple restarts and reconnections - using a different USB port . . .  On top of that, the game will just crash sometimes when loading a new level (or when it feels like it).  It certainly feels more like an experiment than a tested user experience.  I'm glad I bought the game on sale (although I did have to buy a specific cable) and am only borrowing the Oculus.  I think if I owned it, I'd stick to the native Meta games vs trying to force it to play on Steam.  Although, there is apparently another option to use Steam Link and stream to the headset.  Maybe I'll try that if this thing kills all my USB ports.

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For week leading up to Tuesday February 27:

 

 

Arcade:

* Star Wars Trilogy: 120 mins

* Daytona USA 2: 30 mins

 

* Afterburner II: 30 mins

* Firefox: 45 mins

* Jungle Hunt: 10 mins

* Out Run: 60 mins

* Pole Position: 30 mins

* Star Wars (1983 arcade): 45 mins

* TRON: 45 mins

 

Atari 2600:

* Adventure: 20 mins

* Asteroids: 15 mins

* Demon Attack: 10 mins

* Kaboom!: 20 mins

* Warlords: 10 mins

 

Nintendo 64:

* Star Wars Rogue Squadron: 20 mins

 

 

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I'm a little late to the party this week and I don't have a ton of time to contribute, but hey, at least I beat Klonoa Beach Volleyball :lol:

 

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Game Boy Advance

Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament - 141 minutes

 

Neo Geo AES/MVS

The Last Blade 2 - 20 minutes

 

Sega Genesis

Golden Axe - 61 minutes

 

Sony PlayStation

Klonoa Beach Volleyball - 53 minutes

Thrasher: Skate and Destroy - 52 minutes

 

 

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A smörgåsbord.

 

Arcade:

Gaplus - 20 min
 

Minky Monkey - 15 min

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Mysterious Stones - 195 min

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I learned a ton about the game even though I thought I knew it all! For instance, how to choose which treasure to pick if you don't know.

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Truxton - 108 min


Atari Lynx:

Blue Lightning - 65 min

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Blaze Evercade:

Bubble Seahorse Adventures - 10 min

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Donut Dodo - 10 min

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Sadly the controls are messed up on the Super Pocket so until they patch it my dream is deferred.

 

Browser:

Paku Paku - 69 min

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Go ahead and try to beat THAT score.

 

Suika Game - 7 min

 

Nintendo 3DS:

The Alliance Alive - 25 min

Flying is fun but I forgot what I was supposed to do.

 

Nintendo 64:

Blast Corps - 25 min

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Great game on Nintendo Switch Online.


Nintendo Entertainment System:

Donkey Kong Jr - 12 min

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Mr. Gimmick - 25 min

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Skate Cat - 14 min

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Nintendo Game Boy:

Blaster Master Boy - 31 min

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Nintendo Switch:

Picross S - 35 min

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Love the features but nonograms without a theme just don't make me stick around.

 

Snakebird Complete - 90 min

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Finished the prologue.

 

Tetris 99 - 30 min

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Zanac - 50 min

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I bet you say that to all the gals.

 

Sony PlayStation:

DarkStone - 75 min

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Finding out that there was an in-game appearance by a real life French recording artist with a pretty catchy song was a very pleasant surprise.

I left out the time I just sat there with the song playing.

 

Sheep - 45 min

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Fun game, but the disk is screwed up. I did figure out how to get a perfect on the first training level, something the Internet didn't seem to know.

 

Sorcerer's Maze - 150 min

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Back when shovelware could be a pleasant surprise. A really great Arkanoid homage. Highly recommended!

 

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Sony PlayStation 3:

Afrika - 141 min

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iNaturalist: The Videogame. I am peeved I can't send in photos of bugs or plants.

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This week I played:

 

Zelda Randomizer for NES - 1,464 minutes

 

A randomizer for The Legend of Zelda. Not to be confused with Zelda Reloaded Randomizer which came later, this version that began in 2015 and was last updated in 2019 is the version I used to make all the roms in these first four sets.

 

Progress: First I completed all 6 games in Set 1 which were just item locations being randomized. It was still very interesting because I never knew where to expect to find what I needed so it had me exiting levels, entering others and going back to earlier levels. Sometimes I even had to skip levels and do them later because an item needed to access the level was not available yet, such as the raft, either candle or the recorder. It took quite a bit of strategy and remembering what was left unfinished. I tried the second quest of the first game and found out that it is unbeatable because some of the levels are inaccessible due to some key items not being in stores where they need to be. It seemed with these 6 games' store item selections, none of the second quests would have been beatable so I didn't bother to try any others. The one second quest did give me a bunch of random glitched sword pickups and kept cycling through the sword designs.

 

Set 2 is more random with a higher difficulty. Even the level locations, enemy locations, item locations and shapes of rooms inside dungeons are different. Sometimes even the playable character is random. In game 1 I controlled Link with different colors than usual, in the 2nd game I controlled a green Ghini and saved Ganon from the final boss, Zelda and fought Link in place of every Ghini. In the 3rd game I played as a red Gibdo and as before, Link took the place of all enemy Gibdos. In this second set I completed games 1 and 2, but got stuck in game 3. I could not find the recorder within any levels. If level 8 is in the pond/lake I can't use the recorder on, then I could be stuck. I am saving my file for later just in case I want to look harder. These games actually don't even have second quests upon completion.

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7 minutes ago, wongojack said:

@jgkspsx - I see the NES and Gameboy homebrews.  Where do you go to keep up with those?  Is there some (English lang) place online that is active for NES and Gameboy development?

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.

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2 minutes ago, 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.

Gotcha - I do pick up stuff here and there as well - VideoGameSage attracts some of that.  I've always thought it was funny how AtariAge tends to gather homebrewers for many classic systems in a nice tight little community, and yet, for other systems that community is a bit harder to find.  It would be awesome to browse 20+ years of NES homebrew notes and revisions in one place, but even Nintendo Age didn't really do that when it was running.

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11 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

You may want to leave it there. This is a dramatic representation of what it is doing to the other gaming communities I am in:

 

 

It is a pretty good game.  Though, I have way too many other games that are on my (various) lists to play and/or try to keep hammering away it.  Still, the PSA is greatly appreciated.

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Week 08 Summary

 

For the week February 19 -25, we logged 8151 minutes of gaming, playing 93 games (of which 21 new) on a total of 23 systems.

 

Individual Top 20

 

1. Zelda Randomizer (NES/Famicom) - 1464 min.
2. Phantasy Star Online (ver 1 & 2) (Dreamcast) - 1320 min.
3. Plate Up (Xbox Series S/X) - 373 min. (#6)
4. Tutankham (Atari 2600) - 338 min.
5. Balatro (PC Modern) - 260 min. (#19)
6. Half-Life: Alyx (PC Modern) - 225 min. (#12)
7. Mysterious Stones (Dr Kick / Dr. John's Adventure) (Arcade) - 195 min.
8. Sorcerer's Maze (PlayStation) - 150 min.
9. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 145 min. (#8)
10. Afrika (PS3) - 141 min.
10. Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament (Game Boy Advance) - 141 min.
12. Dark Cavern (Atari 2600) - 130 min. (#20)
13. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (Xbox Series S/X) - 120 min. (#7)
13. Star Wars Trilogy Arcade (Arcade) - 120 min.
15. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (NES/Famicom) - 114 min.
16. Robot Tank (Atari 2600) - 110 min.
17. Truxton (Arcade) - 108 min.
18. GG Aleste II (Power Strike II) (Game Gear) - 105 min. (#15)
19. Retro Bowl College (Android) - 93 min. (#10)
20. Broforce (Xbox Series S/X) - 90 min.
20. Snakebird Complete (Switch) - 90 min.

 

Pre-NES Top 10

 

1. Tutankham (Atari 2600) - 338 min. (PN#6)
2. Mysterious Stones (Dr Kick / Dr. John's Adventure) (Arcade) - 195 min.
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 145 min. (PN#2)
4. Dark Cavern (Atari 2600) - 130 min. (PN#5)
5. Robot Tank (Atari 2600) - 110 min.
6. Subterranea (Atari 2600) - 56 min.
7. Elevator Action (Arcade) - 49 min.
8. Desert Falcon (Atari 8-bit) - 45 min.
8. Fire Fox (Arcade) - 45 min.
8. Star Wars: The Arcade Game (Arcade) - 45 min.
8. TRON (Arcade) - 45 min.
8. Yar's Strike (Atari 8-bit) - 45 min.

 

Systems Top 20

 

1. NES/Famicom (6 games) - 1631 min. (#7)
2. Dreamcast (4 games) - 1425 min. (#2)
3. Atari 2600 (12 games) - 879 min. (#4)
4. Arcade (14 games) - 802 min. (#12)
5. Xbox Series S/X (5 games) - 746 min. (#5)
6. PC Modern (5 games) - 685 min. (#6)
7. PlayStation (5 games) - 375 min. (#3)
8. Switch (4 games) - 205 min. (#1)
9. Game Gear (4 games) - 185 min. (#8)
10. Android (2 games) - 163 min. (#11)
11. Atari 8-bit (5 games) - 155 min. (#16)
12. PS3 (1 game) - 141 min.
12. Game Boy Advance (1 game) - 141 min.
14. Apple iOS (2 games) - 118 min. (#15)
15. Game Boy (6 games) - 116 min. (#9)
16. Browser based (2 games) - 76 min. (#13)
17. Intellivision (7 games) - 72 min. (#18)
18. Atari Lynx (1 game) - 65 min.
19. Genesis (1 game) - 61 min. (#10)
20. Nintendo 64 (2 games) - 45 min.

 

Zelda Randomizer enters the tracker and instantly becomes #1 for the week, as well as member #553 in the 1000 Minute Club. Phantasy Star Online is in strong second place while Tutankham steals the pre-NES title. A decent shuffle of systems puts the NES and Dreamcast in the top.

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On 2/27/2024 at 1:08 AM, TampaBay said:

Star Wars Trilogy: 120 mins

My favorite arcade game. I won a tournament at a local Aladdins Castle in 2000 with an almost perfect game of 2.5 mill. Good but not score shattering or anything. A pile of Namco tokens doesn't seem like a very good prize looking back on it now. 

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2 hours ago, neogeo1982 said:

My favorite arcade game. I won a tournament at a local Aladdins Castle in 2000 with an almost perfect game of 2.5 mill. Good but not score shattering or anything. A pile of Namco tokens doesn't seem like a very good prize looking back on it now. 

 That's awesome that you won, though!  That's funny about the Namco tokens.  Yeah it's such a great game, I can play it for hours.  Even today, 25+ years after it was created, it's still incredible.

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4 hours ago, neogeo1982 said:

My favorite arcade game. I won a tournament at a local Aladdins Castle in 2000 with an almost perfect game of 2.5 mill. Good but not score shattering or anything. A pile of Namco tokens doesn't seem like a very good prize looking back on it now. 

 

1 hour ago, TampaBay said:

 That's awesome that you won, though!  That's funny about the Namco tokens.  Yeah it's such a great game, I can play it for hours.  Even today, 25+ years after it was created, it's still incredible.

A few years ago, they finally got this working well in MAME, but I think I've had my best results using Supermodel.  I started a thread on it - will go find it and link.
 

 

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32 minutes ago, wongojack said:

 

A few years ago, they finally got this working well in MAME, but I think I've had my best results using Supermodel.  I started a thread on it - will go find it and link.
 

 

Yes!  I'm running it on Supermodel 3 on Linux / Botacera on a dedicated gaming PC console, and it's absolutely perfect.  I think I saw that thread from Google search which started me on my path with Supermodel 3!

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I have picked up a few new-to-me games this past week. I got Strategy X, XONOX double ended Spikes Peak with Ghost Manor, and Midnight Magic for the Atari 2600. Also found Claymates for the SNES.  I had never heard of Konami making Atari 2600 games, so that was a fun surprise. Amazes me that I keep coming across new-to-me Atari games after playing the console for decades. It's a kinda tough blend of River Raid and Combat. 

The XONOX cartridges are funky looking things but kind of a neat idea. Both games on it are rather confusing so I had to look up the manuals to figure them out. Impressive graphics on Spikes Peak there, especially the mountain. Kinda weird that you have to play 'tag' with the ghost or skeleton and intentionally tap him rather than the usual case of needing to avoid or shoot other characters on screen. I kept trying to avoid those monsters on the first screen until I read in the manual about this twist. 

Midnight Magic is pretty awesome! A very good pinball simulator for the 2600. Only thing I wish was different was that the main color on the screen was a bit brighter. I sometimes had trouble keeping track of the 'ball' as it's a rather dark red against the black background.  

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I made it down to the arcade yesterday, February 29, for a little time with the cabinets.  (This is Replay arcade in Tarpon Springs, FL, and is mostly 80s arcade cabinets).

 

I didn't track exactly how long I played each game, but please put 20 mins for each.  All games are on free-play so you can play as much as you want.

 

* Asteroids Deluxe
* Out Run
* Robotron:2084
* Star Wars Arcade (1983)
* Tempest
* TRON
 
I played a few other games, but not enough time to warrant adding to the tracker.  This place is a ton of fun.
 
Photos from yesterday:
 
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Here's some other photos I've taken previously and posted in the Arcade section:

 

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Yesterday's (2/29) totals:

 

Android

1) Retro Bowl - 15 minutes

 

PC

1) Balatro - 20 minutes

2) Mutant Football League - 30 minutes

3) What the Golf - 40 minutes

 

* Will see how much more PC gaming I do now that my Steam Deck OLED is on the fritz

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4 hours ago, TampaBay said:

I made it down to the arcade yesterday, February 29, for a little time with the cabinets.  (This is Replay arcade in Tarpon Springs, FL, and is mostly 80s arcade cabinets).

 

I didn't track exactly how long I played each game, but please put 20 mins for each.  All games are on free-play so you can play as much as you want.

That place sounds awesome!

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5 hours ago, TampaBay said:

I made it down to the arcade yesterday, February 29, for a little time with the cabinets.  (This is Replay arcade in Tarpon Springs, FL, and is mostly 80s arcade cabinets).

 

I didn't track exactly how long I played each game, but please put 20 mins for each.  All games are on free-play so you can play as much as you want.

 

* Asteroids Deluxe
* Out Run
* Robotron:2084
* Star Wars Arcade (1983)
* Tempest
* TRON
 
I played a few other games, but not enough time to warrant adding to the tracker.  This place is a ton of fun.
 
Photos from yesterday:
 
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Here's some other photos I've taken previously and posted in the Arcade section:

 

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Wow! That's a big arcade for having freeplay games! I've seen freeplay cabinets in hobby stores where I live, but not this many. Does this place charge any kind of admission or at the door fee? There used to be a high-end bar/restaurant here where you could have somewhat expensive, but quite good, drinks and gourmet level bar food (excellent bison burgers for example). But the upside was that they had a lot of freeplay arcade cabinets, pool tables, darts, etc. Not nearly this many though. I think the arcade side of the place was maybe a fourth the size of this one, but it was still a great place to hang out and to have parties. Covid killed it off unfortunately. It never came back.  

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