What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2014 (Season 7)

[+thegoldenband]

 

Can't remember now, but I know it's from the EU. I got it with a bunch of tapes purchased from the UK. Also the signboards in the background are different than in US.

 

Here are pages with some screenshots of the Melbourne House and Ocean versions. I'm guessing from your comment that it was probably the Ocean one, since that doesn't have the "English Tear" sign.

[S.BAZ]

I started keeping track of my times to post here but i forgot to do it by sunday. oh well here they are for last week just in case you can use 'em!!

 

Tapper (2600) 180 min.

Gravitar (2600) 30 min.

Robotron 2084 (7800) 55 min.

Space Invaders (Arcade) 3 min.

Frogger (Arcade) 15 min.

Ms. Pac-Man (2600) 20 min.

Tetris Attack (Game Boy) 60 min.

Tetris (Game Boy) 15 min.

PMC Ms. Pac-Man (ColecoVision) 6 min.

Wonder Boy in Monsterland (SMS) 60 min.

Go Fish! (2600) 90 min.

J.O.R.G.E.N. (2600) 15 min.

Choplifter (7800) 20 min.

Advance Wars 2 (GBA) 220 min.

 

I don't think you're keeping track of whether it is emulated or not, or difficulty settings, game selections, etc. just which game. but if so I can specify those.

 

cool page!

Edited May 14, 2014 by S.BAZ

[+thegoldenband]

Awesome, welcome aboard! We'll count those with this week's stats. And yep, we don't care whether it's emulated or not.

 

Note that GBA games aren't counted in the weekly stats since we have a "pre-2000 consoles" cutoff, but you're still welcome to mention them.

[zylon]

 

Here are pages with some screenshots of the Melbourne House and Ocean versions. I'm guessing from your comment that it was probably the Ocean one, since that doesn't have the "English Tear" sign.

Yep. Ocean it is.

[carlsson]

Famicom:

F1 Race - 10 min.

Road Fighter - 13 min.

Tengen Tetris - 6 min.

VIC-20:

Jewels Deluxe - 3 min.

Rat Hotel - 46 min. (5030 pts)

[Rhomaios]

PC Engine

 

Dragon Spirit (3 hours)

Galaga 88 (1 1/2 hours)

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!-684 minutes

 

 

High score of the week: around 60,000

 

 

[Kurt_Woloch]

Sorry, I didn't play anything this week. I've got the flu and go to bed early, and still got many things to do for other people, so gaming was an absolute non-priority for me this week.

 

However, yesterday, we found a huge bag with old PC games on CD-ROM's, mostly game compilations, so I may try some of these later on. The question, however, is if I actually get them to run on a modern PC since they are designed for Pentium 166's or even 486DX33's (or however they were called), running Windows 95. This, however, means that if I get them to run, they may actually be eligible for inclusion in the Top 10. We'll see. Trying them out is not on my to-do list for the near future, however. I also ceased working on the Pole Position games for now.

[oyamafamily]

MY WEEK (May 12th-18th) - I played Ms. Pac-Man in this entire week:

 

Atari 2600 - Ms. Pac-Man - 300 minutes in several sessions, for 2600 NEW HSC Season 3

Atari 7800 - Ms. Pac-Man - 210 minutes, also in several sessions, for 7800 HSC Season 7

Atari 7800 - Pac-Man Collection! - Ms. Pac-Man (Fast and Normal Speed) - 58 minutes

 

CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS:

 

1) 2600 Ms Pac-Man - 207,290 points

 

2) 7800 Ms Pac-Man Banana Start - 207,290 points

 

3) Pac-Man Collection: Ms. Pac-Man - 2 gameplays in ONE video - Fast and Normal Speed, Plus OFF, 3 lives, Cherries and Single Player

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the week:

NES:

Dragon Knife - 9 min.

PlayStation:

Krazy Ivan - 29 min.

Steel Harbinger - 136 min.

N64:

All-Star Tennis '99 - 178 min.

Beat Steel Harbinger, whose last few stages were shorter/went more quickly than I expected. After that I futzed around with Krazy Ivan, a mech game/FPS with FMV cutscenes, but lost interest when I couldn't figure out how to complete the first level.

Then, over the weekend, I started on All-Star Tennis '99, a mediocre but playable effort for the N64. After losing a couple exhibition matches, things clicked, and I won three matches against various opponents (on Easy, Normal, and Hard), by scores ranging from 6-1 to 6-4, all as real-life pro and ex-Wimbledon champ Richard Krajicek.

Next I won two tournaments on Hard: a two-round event against a field of 3 random players, and then a 3-rounder against the game's male roster (plus one female in the eighth spot). Mercifully you have the option of playing 2-game, one-set matches, which helps things move at a brisk pace. In the second tournament I never faced a marquee opponent -- somehow all the imaginary CPU players took them out -- but hey, I can only beat whoever's in front of me. For winning these, I got a brief ending screen and a credit scroll.

After that I tried Bomb Tennis mode, a silly novelty in which a bomb is planted on the court wherever and whenever the ball lands. Since Michael Chang is on the game's cover, I figured he's probably meant to be the strongest player, so I took him on. After a few failures, I ultimately won a match 6-4 (on Hard). No credit scroll for that, alas, but it's oddly satisfying to blow up Chang -- not to mention how hilariously incongruous it is when the game's umpire shouts "Quiet, please!" while bombs are exploding on the court.

All these matches were played on a grass court in London -- fake Wimbledon, basically -- but I'll surely be playing in other venues in the mode I haven't yet conquered, World Tour. I tried a few times to win the opening match, still playing on Hard, but I was getting waxed by a player I was beating easily before. Not sure whether Bomb Tennis messed me up, or World Tour takes its difficulty setting more seriously than the other modes.

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As for ineligible games, my fiancée and I finally beat Shredder on Hard in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Normally that'd be the end of it, but there's an extra battle against Shredder that can only be unlocked by completing the game four times, i.e. once for each turtle (the second turtle in 2P mode doesn't count). I was Donatello on our Easy run, Michelangelo on Normal, and Leonardo on Hard, so I thought I'd take on Hard solo as Raphael and unlock that extra battle...

...but since the number of enemies in 1P mode is unchanged, it's a real slog, especially on Hard: each level takes around an hour, and there are six total plus three bonus mini-levels. And Raphael's attacks have little range, so it's easy to get swamped. Sigh.

(Now, completing the next-to-last level with all four turtles will unlock a special weapon that'll make things easier, and I'll use it if I continue to Level 6 in 1P mode -- but I'm actually glad we beat the game without it first.)

[twoquickcapri]

Atari Jaguar:
Power Drive Rally - 15 min

Sharp X68000:
Akumajou Dracula (Castlevania Chronicles) - 10 min.
Chase H.Q. - 10 min.
Daimakaimura (Ghouls n' Ghosts) - 140 min.
Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton - 50 min.
Final Fight - 25 min.
Full Throttle - 10 min.

[karokoenig]

In case you noticed that I didn't post last week - that was because my son was born last sunday. :-D

 

Since then, I was a tad busy, as you can imagine. The list of gameplay is the total of two weeks: the majority from the week before his birth, and a little bit from last week, while mother and kid were still in the hospital. He's a week old now and so far seems to be quite a relaxed child and he's - of course - supercute.

 

Atari 2600

Football (Soccer): 1 min

Freeway: 9 min

Hangman: 7 min

Ms. Pac Man: 20 min

Tapper: 6 min

Time Warp: 3 min

 

NES

Excite Bike: 8 min

Macross: 10 min

Mappy: 5 min

Monster in my Pocket: 8 min

Sky Destroyer: 6 min

Wizards and Warriors III: 6 min

Zippy Race: 3 min

 

SNES

Crash Dummies: 6 min

Mechwarrior: 45 min

Super Soccer: 5 min

The incredible Hulk: 12 min

Yogi Bear's Cartoon Capers: 10 min

 

C64

Cosmic Tunnels: 8 min

 

Master System

G-Loc: 6 min

 

Mega Drive

Asterix - the great rescue: 5 min

Battle Frenzy: 8 min

Quackshot: 26 min

Super Hang On: 3 min

 

Game Boy Color

International Karate 2000: 10 min

[carlsson]

Karokoenig: CONGRATURATION! YOU SUCSESS!

[Slaytanic]

Forgot to take notes this week. =/

 

Been a slow week, a little C64, a little PSX, mostly A2600 (Space Invaders, Q'Bert (what a great port, even i can beat a couple levels on B setting), Asteroids) and various MAME games and i've spent some time on various shooters for the X68K..

 

.. And Frogger for various systems. Still sucks, still wanna rule.

[karokoenig]

Karokoenig: CONGRATURATION! YOU SUCSESS!

 

I see what you did there .

 

THIS STORY IS HAPPY END. THANK YOU.

[Rhomaios]

Congrats, karo! Had a son and still had time to game!

[zylon]

Tandy 1000-

 

Gauntlet- 20min (not a great port, A8 and C64 vastly superior- rate of fire is too slow and collision detection is also very slow: enemies die 0.5 seconds after hit, but can still hit you until then)

 

Tetris- 15min

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 20, running from May 12 - 18. We logged 3032 minutes of eligible play, playing 60 games on a total of 17 systems.

Top 10:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 684

2. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 340

3. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 7800) - 210

4. Tapper (Atari 2600) - 186

5. Dragon Spirit (TG-16/PC Engine) - 180

6. All-Star Tennis '99 (N64) - 178

7. Daimakaimura (Ghouls n' Ghosts) (Sharp X68000) - 140

8. Steel Harbinger (PlayStation) - 136

9. Go Fish! (Atari 2600) - 90

9. Galaga '90 [aka Galaga '88] (TG-16/PC Engine) - 90

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 684

2. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 340

3. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 7800) - 210

4. Tapper (Atari 2600) - 186

5. Go Fish! (Atari 2600) - 90

6. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 58

7. Robotron: 2084 (Atari 7800) - 55

8. Rat Hotel (VIC-20) - 46

9. Gravitar (Atari 2600) - 30

10. Choplifter (Atari 7800) - 20

Top 10 systems:

1. Atari 2600 (1380)

2. Atari 7800 (343)

3. TG-16/PC Engine (270)

4. Sharp X68000 (245)

5. N64 (178)

6. PlayStation (165)

7. NES/Famicom (84)

8. SNES (78)

9. Game Boy (75)

10. Sega Master System (66)

It's a week of new arrivals, with new members on board, plus the first-ever appearance of the Sharp X68000 on our tracker, which makes a strong start at #4 on the system charts. And of course, our old friend Kaboom doth claim its customary seat, as does the VCS.

But the biggest news this week is karokoenig's new arrival, on the occasion of which we say: unsere herzlichen Glückwunsch!

[+Ripdubski]

Ive really got to make an effort to play this week.

[karokoenig]

 

But the biggest news this week is karokoenig's new arrival, on the occasion of which we say: unsere herzlichen Glückwunsch!

 

 

Thank you very much, or Vielen herzlichen Dank!

[carlsson]

As I don't know if I'll have any time for gaming on Sunday, I post my stats already. This week our retrogaming collective were invited to the museum to spice up the opening day of their new exhibition on Swedish made computer and video games. While we brought the Real Stuff , the permanent exhibition is run in emulated environments, e.g. the Fairchild Channel F is emulated through MAME on a Raspberry Pi.

 

Amiga:

Pinball Dreams - Nightmare - 4 min.

This was in an emulated environment at the museum, and I'm not even sure it was an Amiga emulator - might've been the PC DOS version too but as it was presented as being an Amiga, I'll count it towards the Amiga as well.

C64:

Shredz 64 - 38 min.

Space Action - 4 min.

The museum had marketed the exhibition with an image of an excited young woman playing Guitar Hero, but as the exhibition itself lacked that, I brought a C64 with the PSX64 interface and Shredz 64 by Synthetic Dreams. It doesn't exactly behave like how people once were used to with GH, but at least some stopped by to have a try.

Creativision:

Auto Chase - 2 min.

Crazy Chicky - 2 min.

Locomotive - 3 min.

Planet Defender - 5 min.

Police Jump - 3 min.

All those were played on my Laser 2001.

NES/Famicom:

Super Mario Bros 3 - 1 min.

Intellivision:

Burgertime - 5 min.

Triple Action - 4 min.

Megadrive / Genesis:

Dragon Fury - 2 min.

SNES:

Cool Spot - 14 min.

Nigel Mansell's World Championship - 12 min.

These games were played at home, as opposed to the mostly short play times above.

VIC-20:

Anirog Skramble - 13 min.

Firebird Snakebite - 4 min.

Punchy - 9 min.

Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash - 9 min.

All present on the Mega-Cart. For those owning one of those, Mount Drash is found as an Easter Egg on the F2 (Extras menu) and U for Ultima. Actually I found it better than I remember from when I tried it a few years ago, but it appears the programmer spent more effort to get a lot of tunes and jingles play on interrupt in the background than the actual gameplay. Some sites refer to the fact that the games requires at least 8K memory expansion would have hampered its sales, but given how relatively common memory expansions were on the VIC-20 and how many nice shoot'em-ups and other games were sold, I doubt that was what prevented Drash from being a blockbuster. Sword of Fargoal from Epyx comes to my mind, a dungeon crawler requiring 16K expansion, far more common and far more playable than Escape from Mount Drash is.

Oh yes, for thegoldenband's sake: I previously posted some minutes on Snakebite, which should count as Firebird Snakebite. I realized some games with the same name exist, e.g. multiple Snakebite/Snakebyte's, multiple Skramble/Scramble's and so on.

Videopac G7000 / Odyssey^2:

Frogger - 6 min.

We initially planned to put an Atari 2600jr at the museum, but it had some kind of issue with the power supply, either the supply itself or internally so after a while it would dim and die. Thus we replaced it with a G7000, much to all Atari fans despair.

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!-794 minutes

 

 

High score of the week: 128,771

 

 

[oyamafamily]

MY WEEK - MAY 19th-25th

 

Atari 2600 - Malagai - 147 minutes (for HighScore.com)

Atari 2600 - Thrust - 1 minute (for 2014 Harmony Games)

Atari 7800 - Pac-Man Collection - 165 minutes (for HighScore.com in several sessions)

 

Malagai is one of mega-rare titles for the Atari 2600. The objective is to capture a Malagai in accordance to the symbols displayed above the maze, escape from the Malagai enemy and open the airlocks. There are 3 mazes - red, green and blue in sequence. Each time you exit from the third board (Blue), you will get an extra life (Crew Member), up to a maximum of 5 in reserve, and start again with red maze. In the video which I made and presented below, you will see at 1:07:00 mark what happens if you exit from the blue maze with 5 Crew Members in reserve.

 

CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS:

 

1) 2600 Malagai - Game 1-AA (Easy Variation) - 100,000 points (Rolled The Score)

 

2) 7800 Pac-Man Collection - Pac-Man Plus in 2 gameplays (Fast and Normal Speed)

 

3) 7800 Pac-Man Collection - Ms. Pac-Man Plus in 2 gameplays (Fast and Normal Speed)

Edited May 26, 2014 by oyamafamily

[zylon]

5200-

 

Wizard of Wor- 20min

 

C64-

 

Radius- 20min

Revenge of the Mutant Camels- 25min

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the week:

Intellivision:

Tower of Doom - 93 min.

Game Boy:

Mickey's Dangerous Chase - 5 min.

Ren & Stimpy: Veediots! - 2 min.

Genesis:

Sol-Deace - 1 min.

Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf - 1 min.

Sega CD:

Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine - 88 min.

PlayStation:

Cool Boarders 3 - 2 min.

N64:

Aero Fighters Assault - 70 min.

All-Star Tennis '99 - 289 min.

Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. - 2 min.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - 2 min.

Beat All-Star Tennis '99, as well as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for GameCube. Thoughts on those, and Steel Harbinger from last week, here.

In Tower of Doom, I was able to complete the Catacombs/12 Levels adventure with the Waif character. My long-term project with Tower of Doom is to finish every scenario with the weak-as-a-kitten Waif, but I hadn't made any progress on it since 2012, when I beat the Tower/8 Levels adventure (I also beat the Novice adventure in 2010, I think). So, back in the saddle with that: three down, eleven to go.

Otherwise, besides trying out a few new acquisitions, I spent the rest of my gaming time on an aggravating pair of games. First, Aero Fighters Assault for N64, where getting behind enemy jets seems almost impossible, at least in the Practice/Vs. AI Pilot mode. Then, Loadstar, a typical Sega CD FMV rail shooter that has a few touches of polish, but uses a quintessentially irritating control scheme where you navigate and shoot with your targeting reticule, often forcing you to choose between shooting an enemy and making a turn. Ugh.