What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2019 (Season 12)

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 09, running from February 25 - March 3. We logged 2038 minutes of eligible play, playing 39 games on a total of 13 systems.

Top 10:

1. Dr. Mario (NES/Famicom) - 599 min.
2. Shanghai (Atari Lynx) - 223 min.
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 159 min.
4. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) - 123 min.
5. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 122 min.
6. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 114 min.
7. Planet Smashers (Atari 7800) - 73 min.
8. Satan's Hollow (Atari 8-bit) - 68 min.
9. Final Fantasy (NES/Famicom) - 60 min.
9. Snoopy and the Red Baron (Atari 2600) - 60 min.

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 159 min.
2. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 122 min.
3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 114 min.
4. Planet Smashers (Atari 7800) - 73 min.
5. Satan's Hollow (Atari 8-bit) - 68 min.
6. Snoopy and the Red Baron (Atari 2600) - 60 min.
7. Jr. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 54 min.
8. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 34 min.
9. Bank Heist (Atari 2600) - 30 min.
10. Jungler (Arcade) - 27 min.

Top 10 systems:

1. NES/Famicom (674)
2. Atari 2600 (568)
3. Atari Lynx (245)
4. SNES (123)
5. Arcade (89)
6. Atari 8-bit (87)
7. Atari 7800 (73)
8. TG-16/PC Engine (45)
9. Game Boy (34)
10. Game Boy Color (30)
10. PC (DOS) (30)

The doctor is in! Well, at least Dr. Mario is in with the #1 place in an unusually slow week - less than 34 hours of play time logged. While Shanghai is the most played Atari game this week, the pre-NES list is topped by Solar Fox, and in the end the NES/Famicom takes the system title thanks to Dr. Mario, Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros and Kirby's Adventure.

Shanghai (Atari Lynx) also becomes member #362 on the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1033 minutes played so far. While I may not have mentioned it before, Final Fantasy (NES/Famicom) did join the 5000 Minute Club back in week 4 and Asteroids (Atari 2600) did in week 6. Actually I'll add a second trigger in my Excel sheet for that, since I think 5000 is the next big mark.

 

Edit: By the way, the Modern tracker just set a new record with 9670 minutes. Since some post in both trackers, I suppose the slow week in classic gaming can partly be explained by the busy week in modern gaming. Actually a number like that would enter the top 10 list on the classic tracker as well, though nowhere near its record of 13011 minutes in 2015.

Edited March 5, 2019 by carlsson

[+davidcalgary29]

March 4-11 times:

 

Lynx:

 

Shanghai, 486 minutes

[Opry99er]

I was too busy playing games to post!!! Oops!

 

I'll post last week's times tonight, and this week's times on Monday.

[carlsson]

Opry99er: You're welcome to combine the times into one post, or split them on two posts. The numbers will go into the current week's stats anyway.

[Opry99er]

Thanks. I just don't want to forget my times from last week, so I'll get them down now.

[Opry99er]

This is from last week and last weekend---since we forgot to post them last week. My son's times are also included in this, as he makes up for most of the Lemmings and Age of Empires 2 minutes.

 

 

 

 

Classic Mac OS:

 

Age of Empires 2 (390 minutes)

Barbie and her Magical House (20 minutes)

Gahan Wilson's Ultimate Haunted House (40 minutes)

Lemmings (60 minutes)

Oh No! More Lemmings (45 minutes)

SimCity 2000 (180 minutes)

Tetris--OS6.0.8 shareware version (20 minutes)

The 7th Guest (60 minutes)

Wacky Jacks (40 minutes)

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (30 minutes)

 

 

TI-99/4A:

 

Parsec (30 minutes)

Edited March 7, 2019 by Opry99er

[blainelocklair]

Collectively, as a family, we played Freeway for 2600 for about 30 minutes last night.

[blainelocklair]

Played Snoopy and the Red Baron for 2600 yesterday for 435 minutes (7h, 15min). Yes, really. Went for the Twin Galaxies world record score, currently at 150,200. Scored 155,500, shot down 708 Red Barons in the process. Score will be submitted today and is pending verification. Had to break the 7h 18min video into 1hr segments to fit on their site. Uploading today.

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600:

Asteroids - 82 minutes (just for fun)

Super Breakout - 4 minutes (for HSC)

Tac-Scan - 4 minutes (for HSC)

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

Bank Heist: 8 min

Centipede: 1 min

Gangster Alley: 10 min

Millipede: 2 min

Missile Command: 12 min

Outlaw: 4 min

Star Wars – Jedi Arena: 3 min

Super Breakout: 35 min

 

A little more above detection limit this time. I played Missile Command, Centipede and Millipede to test the trackball controller I scored in an ebay lot recently. Predictably, it doesn't work all that well, even if it works. Mine has one direction broken. It seems like one of the magnetic clicky switches triggered by the rotating magnets is kaput. The longer playtime for Missile Command is a result of me plugging in the Joystick after testing the trackball and playing a decent round just for fun.

 

Most played: Super Breakout for the current Paddle Weeks in the HSC. We are playing Game 7, which I love. Here's hoping that I find some more time to play. I am still around 300 points short of my previous highscore for that game variant.

[oyamafamily]

Times to add:

Atari 2600 - Sadistroids [Asteroids Hack] - 25 minutes

Atari 7800 - Planet Smashers - 58 minutes

Infos about Sadistroids: http://atariage.com/hack_page.php?SystemID=2600&SoftwareHackID=160

 

Evicence of the week: Planet Smashers Fastest Completion in Hard Mode

Fire button pressed on Options Screen (after choosing skill level and 1 player) at 00:03 mark

Final blow on the final boss is laid at 31:07 mark, therefore defeating all the galaxy squadrons and saving the Earth

Fastest time: 31:07 - 00:03 = 31 minutes and 04 seconds

 

Edited March 10, 2019 by oyamafamily

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (March 4th through 10th)...

 

Arcade:

Jr. Pac-Man - 47 min. in 4 sessions

 

This week I played a bit of Jr. Pac-Man again, set to 5 lives for longer games. I managed to beat the 4th maze once, but not the 5th.

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:

Alpha Shield - 12 min.

Carnival - 6 min.

Collision Course - 13 min.

Crab Nebula - 4 min.

Satan's Hollow - 114 min.

One round of HSC ended, a new round began. Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

[+cvga]

 

We haven't had time to get back to this until last night. Session 7 consisted of trying to figure out where we left off last time lol. After that, we purchased new spells such as the ability to exit a dungeon and more powerful cure and lightning spells. That, along with some other purchases, nearly exhausted our funds, which were closing in on 200,000 gold so we spent some time in the desert battling to earn enough cash to buy the bottle at the Oasis. We didn't quite earn enough before calling it a night.

 

NES:

 

Final Fantasy - 60 minutes

 

In today's 8th session of Final Fantasy, we battled enough to earn the gold to purchase the bottle at the Oasis, found the fairy who gave us the OXYALE needed to pilot the submarine and obtained our 3rd orb by defeating the WaterFiend. One more orb to go!

 

NES:

 

Final Fantasy - 105 minutes

[digdugnate]

what is this? what is this? time on the Classic Tracker!

 

NES:

 

Legend of Zelda -- 127 minutes

[+thegoldenband]

Nothing for me this past week, sadly, but I'm hoping to get some playtime in this coming week.

[zylon]

XEGS-

 

Crab Nebula 28min

Alpha Shield- 35min

Callisto- 10min

Carnival- 45min

[agb]

Times for the week are:

All Atari 2600

Bank Heist for HSC 36 mins. Lousy scores

Eggomania 121 minutes. High score of 55,924

Kaboom 7 mins

Solar Fox 142 mins

Super Breakout for HSC 124 mins, score of 1,818

All good games.

Edited March 11, 2019 by agb

[+thegoldenband]

Correction -- I did find some time tonight!

 

NES:

Dr. Mario - 113 min.

 

Cleared Levels 10-16 (maybe 17 too, I don't remember) on High speed. I think I'm better prepared now to clear Level 20.

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 136 minutes

Bank Heist - 75 minutes

Gangster Alley - 15 minutes

 

The HSC games were fun. I wish I had started playing them sooner than I did.

 

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I really wanted to do my usual picture and writeup today since I've got some gaming stuff that I'm pretty excited to talk about, mainly how much I adore the 8BitDo SN30 Pro controller I got this past week. It's the single best controller I've ever used in my entire life and even tops the original GameCube controller and official 6-button Genesis controller on my list of all time favorite controllers, but unfortunately my stomach problems have been flaring up again today so I haven't been feeling up to doing much writing or picture taking.

 

That'll have to wait until either later in the week when I'm feeling better or next week, so for now here's my household's gaming times for the week so at least I won't be holding up Carlsson from doing the weekly statistics:

Ineligible (All Nintendo Switch)
DOOM - 1,035 minutes
Sonic Mania Plus - 675 minutes
Tetris 99 - 5 minutes

PlayStation
Doom - 185 minutes
Quake II - 7 minutes


Total Video Game Play Time This Week
1,907 minutes (31 hours 47 minutes) [192 minutes eligible]

Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Switch: 1,715 minutes
PlayStation: 192 minutes

[+wongojack]

Played Snoopy and the Red Baron for 2600 yesterday for 435 minutes (7h, 15min). Yes, really. Went for the Twin Galaxies world record score, currently at 150,200. Scored 155,500, shot down 708 Red Barons in the process. Score will be submitted today and is pending verification. Had to break the 7h 18min video into 1hr segments to fit on their site. Uploading today.

 

Excellent work!

 

If the vid is 7:15, didn't you play it even more while practicing?

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 10, running from March 4 - 10. We logged 3621 minutes of eligible play, playing 41 games on a total of 9 systems.

Top 10:

1. Shanghai (Atari Lynx) - 486 min.
2. Snoopy and the Red Baron (Atari 2600) - 435 min.
3. Age of Empires 2 (Mac OS Classic) - 390 min.
4. Doom (PlayStation) - 185 min.
5. Sim City 2000 (Mac OS Classic) - 180 min.
6. Super Breakout (Atari 2600) - 163 min.
7. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 143 min.
8. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 142 min.
9. Legend of Zelda, The (NES/Famicom) - 127 min.
10. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 121 min.

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Snoopy and the Red Baron (Atari 2600) - 435 min.
2. Super Breakout (Atari 2600) - 163 min.
3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 143 min.
4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 142 min.
5. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 121 min.
6. Bank Heist (Atari 2600) - 119 min.
7. Satan's Hollow (Atari 8-bit) - 114 min.
8. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 82 min.
9. Planet Smashers (Atari 7800) - 58 min.
10. Carnival (Atari 8-bit) - 51 min.

Top 10 9 systems:

1. Atari 2600 (1311)
2. Mac OS Classic (885)
3. Atari Lynx (486)
4. NES/Famicom (345)
5. Atari 8-bit (267)
6. PlayStation (192)
7. Atari 7800 (58)
8. Arcade (47)
9. TI-99/4A (30)

This week the battle for the title is between Shanghai and Snoopy... well, I suppose a Red Baron is involved somewhere too. The pre-NES list is entirely Atari, though divided between 2600, 8-bit/XEGS and 7800. Finally the systems list doesn't quite reach 10 systems this week but unlike my predecessor I post the full list anyway.

We have two new entries to the 1000 Minute Club in form of #363 Snoopy and the Red Baron (Atari 2600) with 1058 minutes and #364 Dr. Mario (NES/Famicom) with 1093 minutes.

[blainelocklair]

 

Excellent work!

 

If the vid is 7:15, didn't you play it even more while practicing?

 

 

 

Thank you! I did play it for an hour last week. That time was recorded on the prior week's summary. I had played it many times in my childhood, and it came right back to me. I just figured that if I could play for an hour and not run out of lives that I could play for as long as it might take to get the top score. It took me forever, it felt like. The player with the previous (current) high score did 150,200 in around 4.5 hours. I took a few quick breaks along the way, but with the exception of a few quick bathroom breaks, a five minute bowl of Cheerios, and some one minute stretch breaks, I played that one game the rest of the time. He is better at this game than I am. I just happened to sit in front of the camera and play longer. If he goes back and plays it again, I'll get creamed. That's the way it should be. The best player deserves to fight back and take the title back.

 

Here's the video, just in case there's nothing on Netflix and you're a glutton for punishment.

 

https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/200786-Atari-2600-VCS-Snoopy-vs-The-Red-Baron-NTSC-Pilot-First-Class-(Points)-155-500

[+davidcalgary29]

March 11-18:

 

Lynx:

 

Shanghai, 162 minutes (still working on "Fish" and "Bear")

 

7800:

 

Rikki and Vikki, 42 minutes