+davidcalgary29 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 March 18-25: Lynx: Shanghai, 169 minutes Hotdog, 14 minutes Dreamcast: Crazy Taxi, 49 minutes Jet Grind Radio, 41 minutes Sonic Adventure, 19 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Yeah, Mac OS Classic might benefit from splitting at least into 68K and PPC. On the other hand the PC DOS category contains everything from 1981 to 1996 or something like that, and I'd check every title individually to determine if it belongs to the pre-NES years or not. Same about arcade games obviously but perhaps it would be splitting hairs a bit too much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Agreed. I think "Classic Mac OS" is a good category. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Actually DOS games were released as late as 1999 (Tyrian 2000)... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 My family's times for the week: Classic Mac OS: Age of Empires 2 (90 minutes) Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (240 minutes) Harry Potter-Sorcerer's Stone (90 minutes) Lemmings (45 minutes) Tetris--shareware version (30 minutes) The 7th Guest (30 minutes) TI-99/4A: Dragon's Lair (30 minutes) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Here are my times for this past week (March 18th through 24th)... Arcade: Galaga - 3 min. Atari 2600: Astro Attack - 8 min. Missile War - 16 min. Oystron - 10 min. Atari 7800: Baby Pac-Man - 6 min. Channel F: Pac-Man - 6 min. I had some rather short sessions on various games this week... I played the Channel F variation of Pac-Man (AKA VES Pac-Man). Don't know if this game could be improved... I'd guess it could be given enough ROM space, but I don't know if that much ROM space would be doable. Then I replayed Baby Pac-Man on the Atari 7800, but I didn't come very far because I haven't played it for a long time. Nevertheless, the maze part is pretty smooth compared to VES Pac-Man. Then I played a short session (1 game) of Galaga and three Atari 2600 games from back in the day. Astro Attack and Missile War are the names of two of them, but they go by other names as well. To clarify, Astro Attack is this one: And Missile War is this one: I had both carts back in the day, though my Missile War cart was actually called "Sea Monster". And the ROM copy I have in Stella is called "Astro Wars", while the ROM copy of "Astro Attack" is called "Time Warp". Go figure... Then I also played Oystron which is somewhat similar to Missile War, but much more colorful. In Missile War, I beat the 50,000 points barrier, but didn't get much further. In Oystron, I think I got to Level 3 while I played Astro Attack until I had passed the first labyrinth screen. In Galaga, I think I reached Level 3, and I don't know exactly how far I got in Channel F Pac-Man, but I think it was Level 3 as well. In Baby Pac-Man it was the 2nd maze. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 ATARI 2600 Asteroids - 85 minutes (just for fun) Frogger (for HSC) - 1 minute Mario Bros. (for HSC) - 6 minutes Mario Bros. is the final game for 2600 NEW HSC Season 8 (Week 25 as announced by Vocelli). 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 Atari 8-bit: Alpha Shield - 28 min. Carnival - 9 min. Caverns of Callisto - 7 min. Collision Course - 55 min. Crab Nebula - 4 min. Escape [Gary Ryan] - 59 min. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Times for the week are Atari 2600 Frogger for HSC 129 mins Mario Bros for HSC 40 mins Solar Fox 139 mins Two HSC games are lots of fun. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 5200- Centipede- 10min XEGS- Alpha Shield- 25min Escape- 20min Carnival- 45min Collision Course- 45min Crab Nebula- 25min Looks like the A8 HSC is enjoying the little simple games I've been loving for years. it doesn't always take RAM stretching magic tricks to make a good game. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 I admire you A8 Alpha Shield devotees...I absolutely hate that game, as I was stuck with only it, Final Orbit, Fantastic Voyage, and Pitfall! for an entire winter when I was 12. I Cannot stand it to this day. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 My times for the week: NES: Krusty’s Fun House - 250 min. Star Voyager - 153 min. Watara Supervision: Cave Wonders - 2 min. John Adventure - 30 min. Tennis Pro ’92 - 39 min. Witty Cat - 2 min. Played some Watara Supervision in emulation, beating the handheld's one tennis game (which is almost OK except for a huge oversight in the game's rules) and playing around with a few others, especially the Dr. Mario clone John Adventure. Then I beat Star Voyager for the fourth time (IIRC), and cleared the second area in Krusty's Fun House, another game in the fine tradition of puzzle-platformers that artificially extend their lifespans by forcing you to beat a large number of levels between passwords. In this case, it's as many as 14 levels that need to be cleared before you get a password. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Arcade Arkanoid 11 Blaster 5* Computer Space 5 Death Race 14* Dk Jr Remix 18 Gaplus 5 Mad Planets 9 Major Havoc 10 Qbert 6 Quantum 12 Rampage World Tour 8 Star Wars 7 Stunt Cycle 4* Tron 7 Wacko 6 Atari 2600 DK Arcade (RC1) 27 Win 95/98 Microsoft Pinball Arcade 84 ***INELIGIBLE*** Pinball 24 Bowl-O (Bally) AC DC Attack from Mars Attila the Hun Austin Powers Bride of Pinbot Combat Deadpool Elvira Flash Gordon Getaway Ghostbusters Iron Maiden Jack Bot Joker Poker Monday Night Football Monster Bash Munsters Pit Stop Spinal Tap* Star Trek (Stern) Star Wars (data east) Star Wars Ep1 Terminator 2 Thunderbirds (Homepin)* World Cup Soccer 94 World Poker Tour Well, it was the Texas Pinball Festival this weekend, so as in past years, I played quite a bit of arcade and pinball games. Some highlights of the show this year were two hobbyist pinball tables Spinal Tap and Thunderbirds: There were also some pretty old and rare arcade games there including Death Race and Stunt Cycle from 1976. Blaster is an extreme rarity, but this one was likely a reproduction. Still fun to find and play such a sacred piece of vaporware in a cabinet (that's not me playing). Finally, someone bothered to make a full sized two player arcade cabinet for the SNES version of Zombies Ate My Neighbors. It looked great, but there were no neighbors around to play with me, so I just took a photo. Here's some more ineligible stuff from this week: PC An Assassin in Orlandes 184 Pinball Arcade, The 44 PS4 Astro Bot Rescue Mission 18 Persistence, The 11 Pinball Arcade, The 20 PS VR Worlds 7 Skyrim VR 50 X360 Pinball Hall of Fame 81 XOne Stern Pinball Arcade 77 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Bomberman '93 (PC-Engine/TG-16) 10 mins 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Atari 2600 Fatal Run: 5 min Frogger: 20 min Mission 3,000: 3 min Moon Patrol: 8 min Commodore 64 Bruce Lee: 8 min A shame that I had so little time that week. We played Frogger on difficulty A in the HSC, and I love that game. Only had time to squeeze one quick session in, leaving me about 2k points short of my previous personal best. The 8 minutes of Bruce Lee were played on original hardware. Even while visiting my dad over the weekend, I just had time enough to fire up the C64 for one playthrough. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 (edited) CPC464 3D Starstrike - 45min Adventures of Timmy Gun - 10min Akalabeth - 30min Baba's Palace - 10min Chuckie Egg - 30min Dawn of Kernal - 15min Donkey Kong - 10min El Tesoro Perdido De Cuauhtemoc - 15min This one requires 128k RAM upgrade Lode Runner - 15min Operation Alexandra - 50min Pac-Man Arcade - 15min R-Type Remake - 20min Sub Hunter - 20min 464 Plus Burning Rubber - 20min Pang - 30min RoboCop 2 - 15min Edited March 25, 2019 by Iwantgames:) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 (edited) It was another Switch heavy week around here this past week, but once again no picture for the week since at the moment both of my Switch Joy-Cons are at Nintendo's US repair center getting fixed up. The left one had an issue with the rumble motor not working correctly and the right one had a stuck R button. Thankfully in the meantime I've still got my 8BitDo SN30 Pro controller and the misses still has her 8BitDo GBros adapter for her Wii arcade stick, so we've still been playing Switch games on the TV in docked mode and in tabletop mode while I wait for my Joy-Cons to get fixed. Ineligible Dust: An Elysian Tail (Nintendo Switch) - 585 minutesNight in the Woods (Nintendo Switch) - 585 minutes Resident Evil: Revelations (Nintendo 3DS) - 281 minutesResident Evil: Revelations 2 (Nintendo Switch) - 85 minutesSonic Mania Plus (Nintendo Switch) - 80 minutes Arcade (Played on Namco Musuem Arcade Pac for Nintendo Switch)Galaga '88 - 10 minutesPac-Man - 13 minutesSky Kid - 4 minutesSplatterhouse - 4 minutesTank Force - 9 minutes Sega GenesisSplatterhouse 2 - 98 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week1,754 minutes (29 hours 14 minutes) [138 minutes eligible]Individual System Play Times This WeekNintendo Switch: 1,335 minutesNintendo 3DS: 281 minutesSega Genesis: 98 minutesArcade: 40 minutes We finished a lot of Switch games that we started over the last month or so this past week. First I beat Resident Evil: Revelations 2, then the misses finished off her play through of Sonic Mania Plus. Both were absolutely awesome games and well worth the price of admission, as was the following game we played together over the course of the next few days. That game was Night in the Woods, and holy moly did this game ever have the most personally impactful story that I've ever encountered in a video game. It wasn't the happiest of stories, dealing with deeply personal subjects like anxiety, depression, and failing out of college for mental health reasons; but I'll be darned if it wasn't the best story I've ever experienced in a game. In spite of the heavy subject matter it was actually lot of fun to play, consisting mostly of light platforming and exploration interspersed with some rhythm mini-games and chalked to the brim shockingly hilarious dialog presented through a Choose Your Own Adventure style format. I'd definitely recommend Night in the Woods to anyone who's dealt with the aforementioned issues. It's a strikingly relatable game with a story that'll really stick with you. With those games in the bag I did a quick play through of Splatterhouse 2 on the Genesis (which is definitely my favorite game in the whole series) then decided to go back and replay the original Resident Evil: Revelations on the 3DS, since I think I actually liked the original a bit more than Revelations 2, but it wasn't long before I got totally distracted by Dust: An Elysian Tail on the Switch. Being a furry it's no surprise that Dust captivated me pretty much instantly, but it's also got some fantastic gameplay and storytelling that will appeal to anyone who enjoys a good Metroidvania style hack 'n slash game. Anyone who has played Muramasa: The Demon Blade will feel right at home in Dust, as it plays very similarly and looks just as beautiful. Looking ahead to next week I plan to continue my play throughs of Dust: An Elysian Tail and Resident Evil: Revelations, and the misses just got back to her game of Doom on the PlayStation this morning so it looks like that's what'll be occupying her gaming time next week. Hopefully I'll get my repaired Joy-Cons back from Nintendo in a week or two, but until then I don't mind just playing the Switch docked on the TV and sticking to my trusty 3DS for portable gaming. As always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours! Edited March 25, 2019 by Jin 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 135 minutes Frogger - 23 minutes Hunchy 2 - 8 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 26, 2019 Author Share Posted March 26, 2019 (edited) Here's the summary for Week 12, running from March 18 - 24. We logged 3050 minutes of eligible play, playing 81 games on a total of 18 systems.Top 10:1. Krusty's Fun House (NES/Famicom) - 250 min.2. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (Mac OS Classic) - 240 min.3. Frogger (Atari 2600) - 173 min.4. Shanghai (Atari Lynx) - 169 min.5. Star Voyager (NES/Famicom) - 153 min.6. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 139 min.7. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 135 min.8. Collision Course (Atari 8-bit) - 100 min.9. Splatterhouse 2 (Genesis) - 98 min.10. Age of Empires 2 (Mac OS Classic) - 90 min.10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Mac OS Classic) - 90 min.Pre-NES top 10:1. Frogger (Atari 2600) - 173 min.2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 139 min.3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 135 min.4. Collision Course (Atari 8-bit) - 100 min.5. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 85 min.6. Escape [Gary Ryan] (Atari 8-bit) - 79 min.7. Carnival (Atari 8-bit) - 54 min.8. Alpha Shield (Atari 8-bit) - 53 min.9. Operation Alexandra (Amstrad CPC) - 50 min.10. Mario Bros. (Atari 2600) - 46 min.Top 10 systems:1. Atari 2600 (663)2. Mac OS Classic (525)3. NES/Famicom (403)4. Atari 8-bit/XEGS (322)5. Amstrad CPC (285)6. Atari Lynx (183)7. Arcade (170)8. Dreamcast (109)9. Genesis (98)10. PC (Windows 95/98) (84)Krusty & Chuck, sounds like a dynamic duo - perhaps comedians? Those two take the top spots this week, while Frogger on the 2600 is the most played pre-NES game. Also a new system entered this week as we now list the Amstrad CPC 464 Plus and 6128 Plus separate from the previous CPC models.No minute club barriers exceeded this week, though we're just two games short of having 8800 more or less unique games in the tracker. Edited March 26, 2019 by carlsson 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 March 25-April 1: Lynx: Shanghai, 156 minutes Dreamcast: Crazy Taxi, 47 minutes Propeller Arena, 10 minutes Rez, 15 minutes Sonic Adventure, 126 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 TO JIN, ONLY 1 week to end the 2600 NEW High Score Club Season 8. Week 25 (Final Round) is in progress with one of more popular Arcade games - MARIO BROS. Your current ranking after Week 24 (Frogger): Current Bronze Medal Bracket 815 Gtype 788 AGB 785 Darthkur 739 Atarian7 719 Scrabbler 684 JIN 676 RedMiller 657 Leto Remember: you are in the TOP 24 - Bronze Medal Zone at the moment. The TOP 24 will qualify for the Medal Bracket Challenge! By qualifying for the Medal Bracket Challenge you will automatically be entered into a drawing for PRIZES! Bronze Medal Bracket (Top 17-24 Players) Random Drawing for $25 Gift Certificate for the AtariAge store 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I've played a pretty significant amount of Final Fantasy 7 this week- it just squeaks by as definition of 'classic' (I looked it up on the first page, lol)! Since it's now the weekend I'm not sure the total time yet- I'll make sure I post tomorrow evening or Monday morning. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Override arrived a few days ago! I was surprised how much heavier repro HuCards are than the originals. Override (PC-Engine/TG-16) 100minsPsycho Chaser (PC-Engine/TG-16) 15 mins 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Amstrad/Schneider CPC Bruce Lee: 30 min VIC 20 Avenger: 7 min Rat Race: 5 min Vectrex Mine Storm: 5 min Armor Attack: 7 min Vector Pilot: 10 min Sharp 68000 Chourensha: 10 min Philips G7000 Gunfighter (#14): 3 min Atari 2600 Frogger: 10 min Mario Bros: 10 min Atari 800 Mashed Turtles: 6 min A ton of variety this week. The reason is that yesterday, I was at the DoReCo in the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn/Germany. Lots of geeks soldering, lots of systems ready to play, lots of fun conversations. Noteworthy among the games are Mashed Turtles on the Atari 8-bit (a Freeway-like game for 8 players - simultaneously) and Vector Pilot (an excellent and very hard port of Space Pilot) for the Vectrex. I also had the opportunity to play through the Bruce Lee port for the CPC twice, which is one of my all-time favourite games on the C64. Took me a while to get used to the slightly different mechanics. It was very helpful that the guy who had set up the CPC had hacked 99 lives into the game :-). 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 override.jpg Override arrived a few days ago! I was surprised how much heavier repro HuCards are than the originals. Override (PC-Engine/TG-16) 100mins Psycho Chaser (PC-Engine/TG-16) 15 mins Forgot to add that I played: Earth Defense Force (SNES) 15 mins 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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