karokoenig Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Atari 2600 Bank Heist: 54 min NES Boulder Dash: 12 min Chip ‘n Dale 1: 3 min Duck Tales: 5 min Super Mario Bros: 5 min Sega Mega Drive Bio Hazard Battle: 8 min The Flintstones: 3 min Wolverine Adamantium Rage: 5 min Tried out some new Mega Drive games I found on a recent flea market, played some NES with my son, and finally worked out how Bank Heist works. We will see tomorrow if my score was good enough :-) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 I've already finished out my Classic time for the week- i beat my playthrough for FFVII so I'm on to other things till I get my Switch copy of X/X-2 NES: Star Soldier -- 30 minutes Super Mario Bros. -- 64 minutes PS1: Final Fantasy VII -- 673 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 I've already finished out my Classic time for the week- i beat my playthrough for FFVII so I'm on to other things till I get my Switch copy of X/X-2 NES: Star Soldier -- 30 minutes Super Mario Bros. -- 64 minutes PS1: Final Fantasy VII -- 673 minutes I appreciate that Star Soldier was the start of one of my favorite game series of all time... but it's just too basic. Especially when compared to other NES shmups like Gun-Nac... I can't really stand to play the original Star Solider for more than about 10 mins. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chue Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Played this week for the AA TI High Score competition: TI-99/4A Blasto - 60 mins 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 Atari 8-bit: Bomber [savetz] - 12 min. Hubbub [Eric Henneke] - 26 min. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Here are my times for this past week (April 8th through 14th)... Arcade: Splash - 28 min. Atari 7800: T:Me Salvo - 78 min. in 3 sessions I've continued to play T:Me Salvo for a few shorter sessions, and I've revisited "Splash", an arcade game from 1992 which I liked to play back in the day. The purpose is to fill an area of color (actually, to remove the color in it to reveal the underlying picture) while fighting against bubbles and picking up bonus items and extras. As the game progresses, more and more bubbles appear, making the game harder and harder. I think this one has been developed on an Amiga because I recognize the character sets used from there. It also has the same main processor (a 68000). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 170 minutes Super Breakout - 277 minutes Hunchy 2 - 8 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 My times for the week: NES: Adventures in the Magic Kingdom - 117 min. Dragon’s Lair - 272 min. Dragon’s Lair (PAL version) - 5 min. Genesis: SeaQuest DSV - 2 min. Beat Dragon's Lair (at last) and Adventures in the Magic Kingdom. I also tried the PAL version of Dragon's Lair, which is substantially different, including a much faster gameplay speed, new enemies and bosses, and an extra death animation. I don't plan to take it on anytime soon, though. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 ATARI 2600 Aardvark (Demo) - 25 minutes Asteroids - 85 minutes Galaxian - 5 minutes Mario Bros. - 20 minutes Moon Patrol - 5 minutes Pac-Man 2600 8K [WIP Homebrew] - 25 minutes Space Game - 5 minutes Mario Bros. was the first game which I played for 2600 NEW HSC Season 8 Silver Medal Bracket. With a 20-minute single attempt, I scored 140,600 points, which was enough to win and advance to next round - my opponent Lord Innit scored 95,600 points (best personal score), but he couldn't improve his score in the subsequent attempts. I tried new 2600 games which are available in the link provided by Dan Iacovelli at the starting of 2019 Harmony Games Round 1: Aardvark, Pac-Man 2600 8K [WIP Homebrew] and Space Game. EVIDENCE OF THE WEEK: My Pac-Man 2600 8K WIP Homebrew gameplay footage, after 1 month without playing Atari games with video capture. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamon Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Atari 2600 River Raid (9 min) Solar Fox (8 min) NES Gradius (6 min) Gyruss (16 min) Popeye (6 min) While I loved many of the Atari arcade ports as a little kid, when I was a teen, I kinda looked down on the arcade ports for the NES, preferring the platformers and RPGs. These days I like the pick up and play nature of the ports. I kinda suck at shooters, but they're fun. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 5200- Popeye- 15min 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Override (PC-Engine/TG-16) 30 minsSoldier Blade (PC-Engine/TG-16) 45 minsWeird how I prefer to play Override at max speed (how fast the player ship moves) but prefer to play Soldier Blade at low speed. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Arcade Area 51 19 Arkanoid 12 Crossed Swords 3 Defender 12 Dig dug 16 Donkey Kong 253 (New Personal Best 79,100) Donkey Kong Christmas Remix 8 Frogger 28 Frog Feast 5 Gauntlet II 7 Gorf 21 Heavy Barrel 6 Hook 12 Jonas Indiana and the Temple of Ra 5 Knights of Valor 4 Major Havok 4 Pole Position 11 Popeye 22 Return of the Invaders 2 Space Gun 4 SQIJ! 12 Atari 2600 DK Arcade (RC1) 24 DK VCS 5 Fix it Felix 15 Miner 2049er (Faster & Sprite Hack) 36 C64 Bounty Bob Strikes Back 16 Manic Miner 12 Miner 2049er 131 Hunter's Moon 3 Well, I did a bit of emulation and a bit of arcade hopping to get these numbers. I downloaded hombrew MAME and dinked around with it. Also, we're having an arcade explosion in Dallas, and I visited 2 of them this weekend. I'm afraid this renaissance won't last, but I took advantage of it in the short term. Look for more arcade times from me in weeks to come. I also played these physical pinball tables: Aerosmith F14 Tomcat Hobbit Mata Hari Metallica Popeye Star Wars Ep1 Sinbad Taxi 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Just one game this week: Genesis Castlevania Bloodlines - 49 min (Still not very good at this game, but got further than I had before... I think.) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Arcade Area 51 19 Arkanoid 12 Crossed Swords 3 Defender 12 Dig dug 16 Donkey Kong 253 (New Personal Best 79,100) Donkey Kong Christmas Remix 8 Frogger 28 Frog Feast 5 Gauntlet II 7 Gorf 21 Heavy Barrel 6 Hook 12 Jonas Indiana and the Temple of Ra 5 Knights of Valor 4 Major Havok 4 Pole Position 11 Popeye 22 Return of the Invaders 2 Space Gun 4 SQIJ! 12 Atari 2600 DK Arcade (RC1) 24 DK VCS 5 Fix it Felix 15 Miner 2049er (Faster & Sprite Hack) 36 C64 Bounty Bob Strikes Back 16 Manic Miner 12 Miner 2049er 131 Hunter's Moon 3 Well, I did a bit of emulation and a bit of arcade hopping to get these numbers. I downloaded hombrew MAME and dinked around with it. Also, we're having an arcade explosion in Dallas, and I visited 2 of them this weekend. I'm afraid this renaissance won't last, but I took advantage of it in the short term. Look for more arcade times from me in weeks to come. I also played these physical pinball tables: Aerosmith F14 Tomcat Hobbit Mata Hari Metallica Popeye Star Wars Ep1 Sinbad Taxi Wow, you were a busy bee in the arcade! hehe. I grew up in Sherman, so it's always interesting to hear someone talk about my old home turf. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Sounds like I need to get to Dallas to visit some arcades. I live a couple hours East of the Metroplex, but every time I go there it's for some specific purpose and not much time to go around and do my own thing. (Maybe I'll sneak off some Saturday...) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 Arcade Frog Feast 5 Jonas Indiana and the Temple of Ra 5 SQIJ! 12 I understand those are recent homebrews for various arcade hardware? I didn't find them on KLOV but I did find them on Google, both in arcade versions and different home ports. At first I was almost certain that Jonas Indiana and the Temple of Ra was a misspelling of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but then I looked it up and saw it really exists under that name. SQIJ! of course is known as one of the worst games on the ZX Spectrum (somewhat better in the original C64 verison) so quite interesting that someone decided to port it for Taito arcade hardware last year. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Dreamcast: Sonic Adventure, 67 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 Also this forest of 8K Pac-Man games for the Atari 2600 confuses me a lot. The tracker had like a half dozen entries for Pac-Man 8K in various forms and versions, dating back to 2009. After some research and educated guesses, I'm down to 2 entries, one Pac-Man 8K game/hack that dates back to Nukey Shay in 2004, and the New Pac-Man 8K by DINTAR816 first posted in 2014. Based on the video posted by oyamafamily, he must have played the latter this week. Kurt twice this year played Pac-Man 8K, most recently two weeks ago, but I don't know if it was the new or the old one. Same goes for minutes posted in the last few years: 2008: Pac-Man 8K (DINTAR816) 0 + Pac-Man 8K (Nukey Shay) 0 2009: 0 + 210 2010: 0 + 35 2011: 0 + 41 2012: 0 + 15 2013: 0 + 12 2014: 21 + 0 <- DINTAR816 version arrives 2015: 49 + 15 2016: 194 + 120 2017: 176 + 97 2018: 38 + 0 2019: 25 + 39 Total 503 + 584 Probably not a biggie, but I strongly think it would be a good idea for programmers making new versions of games already existing on the same system, to give those unique names even though I fully understand the excitement to call your game Pac-Man which is exactly what it is and plays like. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Wow, you were a busy bee in the arcade! hehe. I grew up in Sherman, so it's always interesting to hear someone talk about my old home turf. Sounds like I need to get to Dallas to visit some arcades. I live a couple hours East of the Metroplex, but every time I go there it's for some specific purpose and not much time to go around and do my own thing. (Maybe I'll sneak off some Saturday...) Yesterday I went to the Quarter Lounge in Bedford and Regeneration arcade and bar in far North Dallas. The Quarter Lounge is in an old retail space, so the ceilings are low and arcade machines take up several rooms in what could have been some sort of office space years ago. They also had an area for consoles and PC games. You pay $3 to get in and then the classic machines are a quarter. Pinball machines are .50. I had the most fun playing Frogger and the Mata Hari pinball machine, but I also pumped a few dollars into Pole Position. Stuff was well maintained there for sure and it was somewhat busy. They don't sell food, but I carried a flask with Bourbon in it with me and drank from it while I played - no one seemed to care. There is also a game and toy resale shop in the same building. I assumed it was run by the same owner, but I didn't ask. I bought 4 used Wii games from their shop. Regeneration is a place where you pay $10 and all the games are free. They also feature ALL Texas beers there which was interesting, and I ended up drinking a lot more alcohol than a typical Sunday. It felt like being in the dream business of a very specific 40/50 year old person who adapted what he likes to attract millenials. They also had consoles set up, and it was fun to watch someone play the first hour or so of L2tP since I just recently played it myself. I met a friend, and we had the most fun playing Gorf and the Popeye pinball machine together. I stuck around after he left and played a handful of other games including F14 Tomcat (pinball). It is super close to my house, so I may just end up going there again some night to play 10 games of pinball and leave or something. I'm very concerned that both places won't make it very long. Perhaps that is irrational, but there's no way that arcades can just come back right? I have more plans to visit some other local places including Realms of Arcadia near Lake Lewisville, Free Play arcade in Richardson, the BOS pinball lounge in Garland, Cidercade in Oak Cliff, and the Texas Pinball Museum down in Midlothian. There are even some others that have popped up that I want to go to as well. Truly an explosion. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I have a friend that lives in Mansfield- he was talking about one of those places just like a month ago but darned if I remember which one now (I'd have to look back at my Facebook posts from him to see). Usually if I'm in the area I'm either in Sherman visiting my dad, or in Farmer's Branch working at one of our offices, or in Mansfield doing something with my friend so hopefully they're still around when I make it down that way I'm thinking I'll end up on a Texas trip in the fall. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I understand those are recent homebrews for various arcade hardware? I didn't find them on KLOV but I did find them on Google, both in arcade versions and different home ports. At first I was almost certain that Jonas Indiana and the Temple of Ra was a misspelling of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but then I looked it up and saw it really exists under that name. SQIJ! of course is known as one of the worst games on the ZX Spectrum (somewhat better in the original C64 verison) so quite interesting that someone decided to port it for Taito arcade hardware last year. Yes they are! I was browsing ROM downloads at pleasuredome.org.uk and saw the collection for HBMAME (Homebrew MAME). I had recently used Misfit MAME to play those Donkey Kong hacks, so I was interested in what I would find in a romset dedicated to homebrew arcade games. I downloaded the romset and spent a few hours trying various games. The three you mentioned stood out to me as I don't think any of them were based on an existing parent rom. They are unique games. I could be wrong though because I tried a bunch. It is also possible that some of those are Neo Geo games, and I didn't categorize them as that. I'm fairly certain Crossed Swords is a Neo Geo game for example. Regarding SQIJ!, I had never heard of it. I played it for a few minutes and then did a search to discover it gets itself onto the "worst games for X system list." I have no idea how it compares to the ZXS version, but It did feel like a homebrew for sure, so if I purchased it as a full retail game, I could see how I might be disappointed. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I have a friend that lives in Mansfield- he was talking about one of those places just like a month ago but darned if I remember which one now (I'd have to look back at my Facebook posts from him to see). Usually if I'm in the area I'm either in Sherman visiting my dad, or in Farmer's Branch working at one of our offices, or in Mansfield doing something with my friend so hopefully they're still around when I make it down that way I'm thinking I'll end up on a Texas trip in the fall. FYI that another place that I've gone to locally is called PinStack. It is a bowling alley that has a Dave and Buster's type arcade. However, they have a whole wall of a dozen modern pinball machines too. I've gone to that place at lunch before just to walk in and play a few pinball games. They have multiple locations too, so you might find that to be an easy place to just fit in while visiting the area. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I lived on Coit road close to Campbell for about five or six years. So that area is pretty well known to me. Might have to try out Regeneration next time I'm up there. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 Regarding SQIJ! [...] if I purchased it as a full retail game, I could see how I might be disappointed. It appears that The Power House released SQIJ! as part of a compilation of 8 rather mediocre games in 1987 at the price £9.99: Cyrox 4.06 / 10 Tomb of Syrinx 4.05 / 10 SQIJ! 1.65 / 10 Odd Ball 3.73 / 10 Time Flight 3.94 / 10 Hercules 4.44 / 10 Sword and Shield 4.71 / 10 Slingshot 3.79 / 10 Lemon64 doesn't even list SQIJ! though Gamebase 64 does of course and suggests it even was re-released at one point though it doesn't have to mean it was popular, just that the software house needed new shovelware to fill the shelves. Then again you could never buy a full arcade game cabinet for £10 anyway, most probably nowhere near a loose JAMMA board even. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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