What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2018 (Season 11)

[+Ksarul]

We didn't play a lot this week, but we did get some time in. Almost all of the eligible time was put in by Turtles at the beginning of this week, before he switched over to his 3DS for the rest of it.

 

TI-99/4A

 

4A Flyer 3 minutes

Alex Kidd on Miracle Island 11 minutes

Break Thru! 14 minutes

Centipede 8 minutes

Eric in Monsterland 6 minutes

Giving 11 minutes

Henhouse 9 minutes

Jet Set Willy 16 minutes

Parsec 10 minutes

[Eltigro]

I have a soft spot for Sonic 2- it's one of a few games that i have the level layouts memorized and can blow through the game. Sonic 3 is really cool (I love the graphics and music), but I just didn't play it as much.

 

Heh, after the first Sonic, the one that I've probably played the most is Spinball. lol

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 50, running from December 10 - 16. We logged 6001 minutes of eligible play, playing 74 games on a total of 17 systems.

Top 10:

1. Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (PC (DOS)) - 1380

2. Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar (Apple II) - 540

3. Tomb Raider (PlayStation) - 507

4. Last Hope (Neo Geo CD) - 396

5. Breakout 2000 (Atari Jaguar) - 268

6. Megamania (Atari 2600) - 238

7. Baby Pac-Man [homebrew] (Atari 7800) - 216

8. H.E.R.O. (Atari 2600) - 213

9. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 198

10. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 177

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar (Apple II) - 540

2. Megamania (Atari 2600) - 238

3. Baby Pac-Man [homebrew] (Atari 7800) - 216

4. H.E.R.O. (Atari 2600) - 213

5. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 198

6. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 177

7. M.U.L.E. (Atari 8-bit) - 137

8. Chopper Hunt (Atari 8-bit) - 101

9. Gopher (Atari 2600) - 84

10. Ultra SCSIcide (Atari 2600) - 67

Top 10 systems:

1. PC (DOS) (1452)

2. Atari 2600 (1272)

3. Apple II (540)

4. PlayStation (507)

5. Atari Jaguar (401)

6. Neo Geo CD (396)

7. Atari 7800 (322)

8. Atari 8-bit (300)

9. Arcade (237)

10. Neo Geo AES/MVS (232)

Another week at #1 for Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, which also leads DOS to the top of the system charts, with the Atari 2600 not far behind at #2.

However the week's top pre-NES game isn't a VCS title, but Ultima IV on the Apple II.

(Well, it's technically the IIe, but we treat all those II-series machines as one thing, for better or worse. The game could apparently run on a II+ with the right upgrades. If we ever had a IIgs game, though, we'd probably give that its own category.)

[DragonGrafx-16]

Daggerfall won't be #1 again for the next week as I'm going to be visiting family for Christmas for the next 12 days and I'm not lugging my DOS tower with me, but I'll be bringing some consoles with me so expect the PC-Engine and NES to start showing up more.

[Opry99er]

23 hours on Daggerfall in a week. That's heavy gaming there!

 

I remember putting 30 in one week on Morrowind---Daggerfall's successor... but that was pre-kids.

Edited December 19, 2018 by Opry99er

[digdugnate]

23 hours on Daggerfall in a week. That's heavy gaming there!

 

I remember putting 30 in one week on Morrowind---Daggerfall's successor... but that was pre-kids.

ha! i caught this before you edited it. made me do a doubletake for sure

[Opry99er]

Yeah, how the hell is Moorepenis even a accepted replacement for Morrowind?!?!? Auto-correct trying to get me killed.....

[digdugnate]

lol- that one i can't speak to. although... i guess there could be a burgeoning market for those kind of mods.....

[carlsson]

I don't have the numbers, but somehow it doesn't seem like 23 hours on a single game is a record. Over at the modern tracker, one player recorded 43 hours and 59 minutes on a single game in one week which possibly could be a record. Then we have somebody who clocked 39 hours on Fallout 4 in one week.

[+thegoldenband]

I once put over 60 hours into a single game (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) in a week. (I still can't believe I did that!)

[digdugnate]

I don't have the numbers, but somehow it doesn't seem like 23 hours on a single game is a record. Over at the modern tracker, one player recorded 43 hours and 59 minutes on a single game in one week which possibly could be a record. Then we have somebody who clocked 39 hours on Fallout 4 in one week.

Edit because i was pretty sure @carlsson was talking about my wife and I, haha. A few weeks back we hit the 39 hours combined for Fallout 4

Edited December 20, 2018 by digdugnate

[carlsson]

Yup. I don't know how much time you spent in front of her computer that week or if she on her own logged all those hours.

 

Anyway we got a couple of reference numbers here:

 

Romance of Three Kingdoms (NES) - 61 hours, 45 minutes (thegoldenband)

Galaxian (Atari 2600) - 50 hours (homerwannabee)

Destiny 2 (Xbox One) - 43 hours, 59 minutes (Major Havoc 2049)

Pokémon Ultra Sun (3DS) - 41 hours, 18 minutes (Jin)

Fallout 4 (PC) - 39 hours (digdugnate's wife)

Fallout 4 (Xbox One) - 38 hours (digdugnate, 5 weeks later)

Galaxian (Atari 2600) - 35 hours (homerwannabee)

Warrior of Rome II (Genesis) - 32 hours, 8 minutes (thegoldenband)

 

Possibly the classic tracker has had a few more memorable scores that belong on the overall top list.

[Eltigro]

I put in quite a few hours on Suikoden in one week last year... but don't remember how much. I can't imagine doing that now...

[carlsson]

Yes, you really did.

 

Week ending on January 22, 2017: 2820 min (47 hours) on Suikoden (PS1)

Week ending on January 29, 2017: 614 min (10 hours 14 min) on Suikoden (PS1) + 1222 min (20 hours 22 min) on Suikoden II (PS1)

Week ending on February 5, 2017: 1560 min (26 hours) on Suikoden II (PS1)

Week ending on February 12, 2017: 915 min (15 hours 15 min) on Suikoden II (PS1)

 

I can't recall about the other games on the top list, if either of those had any significant amount of minutes the week before or week after their record weeks, but it would seem over the course of consecutive weeks you put 57 hours on Suikoden and nearly 62 hours on Suikoden II, though split over three weeks.

[+Ksarul]

Turtles is fixated on his 99/4A this week. He had an electronics day in class today and took a nice portable TI setup to school in his backpack. He planned to connect everything up to one of the monitors in the classroom (he'd already scouted it out to make sure it had the right inputs). He's definitely got the old-school gaming bug.

Edited December 21, 2018 by Ksarul

[Opry99er]

Don't know what insanity will unfold this weekend, with the holidays upcoming, so I wanted to get this in now in case I disappear for a few days.

 

Apple II:

 

Ultima IV (600~ minutes)

 

 

 

TI-99/4A:

 

St. Nick (90 minutes)

Tunnels of Doom (40 minutes)

Video Games 1 (40 minutes)

 

 

 

Ultima IV is beginning to consume my mind, awake and asleep. Just wanted to throw that out there.

[+Ksarul]

Turtles spent about 100 minutes demonstrating a whole lot of TI games for his class today. Apparently, the teacher swooned with joy when she saw Donkey Kong on it. . .now I just have to get the records of what he played and for how long.

Edited December 21, 2018 by Ksarul

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600:

Stay Frosty 2: Stay Frostier - 220 minutes

Ultra SCSIcide - 30 minutes

 

EVIDENCE OF THE WEEK: Package of evidences presented to 2018 Homebrew Tournament Final Round to celebrate Christmas.

Stay Frosty 2 Full gameplay footage (divided in 2 parts) and stats tables (with scores, lives and marks at the ending of each stage).

 

 

 

Also, here is a screenshot which proves I practiced Levels 97 to 128 (using Level Selector) just to be prepared for the final goal in Stay Frosty 2: rescue all 4 characters without Level Selector: Christmas Elf, Santa's Reindeers, Mrs. Claus and Santa Claus.

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

ULTRA SCSIside: 10 min

 

Sega Master System

Wonder Boy III The Dragon’s Trap: 111 min

 

Almost there with Wonder Boy. In fact, I already reached the final boss once, but got beaten. Most of the play time this week was wasted, because to tackle the final boss, I need to do some farming for health potions and magical items. Tried that twice this week, but got interrupted by real life - and I'm really not comfortable with leaving such old hardware on for hours. I can finish this no problem, but I need about an hour or so.

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (December 16th through 23rd)...

 

Atari 7800:

Baby Pac-Man - 54 min. in 2 sessions

 

The only game I played this week was Baby Pac-Man on the Atari 7800. Bob posted another update where the drop targets work properly, which prompted me to send him an update to my code which should prevent the ball from "hanging" in the target area taking out multiple targets at once. Other than that, I concentrated on getting on with my goals and chores, so no further gaming than that.

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:

Chopper Hunt - 15 min.

M.U.L.E. - 210 min.

Laser 500:

Anagram - 17 min.

Matchbox - 7 min.

Say-Mon - 4 min.

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 118 minutes

Ultra SCSIcide - 30 minutes

 

 

[Opry99er]

Last update of the week. Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

 

 

Intellivision:

 

Christmas Carol (30 minutes)

 

 

 

Apple II:

 

Ultima IV (additional 240 minutes)

[+thegoldenband]

No gameplay for me this week. Merry Christmas & a happy holiday to all!

[agb]

Times for the week:

NES Tetris 20 mins

 

Atari 2600:

Breakout 41 mins. Score of 864 most games

Eggomania 42 mins. My high score of 3,320

Kaboom 46 mins. High score of 2800+

Millipede 31 mins. Fun game

Solar Fox 287 mins

Taz 24 mins

Ultra SCscide for HSC36 mins. Not too bad agame.

 

Merry Christmas to all. HappyHolidays.