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

[digdugnate]

 

*raises hand sheepishly*

 

NES: Final Fantasy 148 minutes

 

Finally made time for the 9th session of our Final Fantasy quest. We hadn't played since mid March so it took a little while just to recall where we were and what we needed to do. The whole party died a couple of times after running into a pack of 4 ankylos. Most of the non-wasted time was a grind through the desert fighting, gaining experience and leveling up. We do think we're ready to go back and hopefully finish it up in Session 10 this coming weekend.

 

TI-99/4A

 

Dragon's Lair - 30 minutes

The Attack - 30 minutes - interesting game. I don't really know if I like it or not but I guess it was captivating enough for me to play for 30 minutes

TI Invaders - 8 minutes

Football - 4 minutes (yawn)

Hopper - 8 minutes

Moon Mine - 12 minutes

Super Demon Attack - 11 minutes (I still like the 2600 version best)

Video Games 1 - 20 minutes (I found the pinball game strangely addicting)

i feel you, lol- TI 99 4A Football was super disappointing BITD.

[+cvga]

i feel you, lol- TI 99 4A Football was super disappointing BITD.

 

I am planning on giving it another shot at some time in the future. I bought a bunch of TI-99 games and had a great time just plugging them in and trying them. I didn't realize that it was going to be more of a simulation. I need to read the instructions and give it another spin.

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600

Roc N Rope (for HSC Losers Paper Medal Knockout Tournament) - 55 minutes

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

Air Sea Battle: 9 min

Fatal Run: 3 min

Marauder: 3 min

Mission 3,000: 2 min

Space Invaders: 5 min

Toyshop Trouble: 15 min

 

Played Toyshop Trouble for the finals, and some other games together with my son.

[oyamafamily]

TIME TO ADD: Atari 2600 - Roc N Rope - 115 minutes

My highest score for the 2600 NEW HSC Season 8 Losers Paper Medal Tournament - 70,910

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:

Deflektor - 29 min.

The past weekend I went on a retro computing hack, but I had other errands to undertake first so I missed half the hack. Alas I put all the time into development and no additional game play.

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (May 6th through 12th) on classic systems...

 

Arcade:

Burger Time - 12 min.

Jr. Pac-Man - 135 min. in 5 sessions.

Ms. Pac-Man - 18 min.

Puzzle Bobble - 17 min.

 

Atari 7800:

Pac-320 Pokey - 12 min.

 

Channel F:

Pac-Man - 14 min.

 

This week started out by considering which games might be feasible for the Gigatron systems. I found that Puzzle Bobble should be possible, and it has actually got surprisingly few demakes... nobody attempted to port it to the Channel F or to the Atari 2600 or 7800. I played that one in its original form for a bit after also reading about the Neo Geo hardware it was using.

 

Also possible should be Pac-Man, but the sprites would have to be scaled down due to the low resolution. To that end, I played some Pac-Man variations, starting with that of the Channel F, then going to Ms. Pac-Man and Jr. Pac-Man both in its original form and finally the homebrew Pac-320 Pokey on the Atari 7800 (don't know if that's its exact name though). Here, back in 2011, Bob hacked Ms. Pac-Man into Pac-Man (or, rather, Hangly Man? The maze is a bit strange) in high resolution. Somehow I like Jr. Pac-Man because of its wide mazes. I also played Burger Time since that's another game I consider possible on the Gigatron.

Edited May 12, 2019 by Kurt_Woloch

[agb]

Times for the week. All Atari 2600:

Asteroids 22 mins.

Eggomania 165 mins

Galaxian 101 mins

Phoenix 23 mins

Solar Fox 166 mins

All fun.

[+thegoldenband]

My time for the week:

 

NES:

Rush ’n Attack - 52 min.

[Iwantgames:)]

Haven't posted here in awhile. I've gotten a few new systems recently but not played much aside from function testing them but this weekend I finally had time for a few games

 

MS-DOS -

 

Commander Keen - 15min

Duke Nukem I - 60min

(It's been over 20yrs but I still managed to beat Episode I Shrapnel City in one go )

Ken's Labyrinth - 30min

Ratillary - 15min

Terminator Rampage - 20min

 

Everything played on my new 486 PC except Ratillary which I played on the Amstrad PPC640

[+wongojack]

Arcade

Arabian 8

Asteroids 14

Baby Pac Man 35

Centipede 15

Defender 18

Donkey Kong 77

Donkey Kong Jr 20

Dragon's Lair 9

Galaga 4

Granny and the Gators 27

Gyruss 16

Jump Coaster 15

Quantum 24

Satan's Hollow 9

Star Wars 22

Star wars Trilogy 3

Track & Field 3

Vindicators 10

Zoo Keeper 9

 

Most of these games were played on original machines. I went to 4 different arcade type places this week and played a ton of stuff. Most of the arcade games were played at Regeneration and Free Play in Richardson (the same place Eltigro went not too long ago). It was awesome.

 

 

I also played these pinball machines at those two spots as well as Nickelrama and BOS Pinball Lounge:

 

Pinball

Aerosmith

Atlantis (em)

Batman '66

Black Knight Sword of Rage

Cybernaut

Deadpool

F14 Tomcat

Flash

Flash Gordon

Iron Maiden

Monopoly

Munsters

Night Moves

Royal Guard (em)

Sinbad (em)

Spiderman

Taxi

Total Nuclear Annihilation

Twilight Zone

Walking Dead

Xmen

[carlsson]

Arcade

Baby Pac Man 35

Granny and the Gators 27

 

Nice, two pinball/video game hybrids in the same week, of which Granny was not tracked before. Curiously KLOV is buggy here as it lists those under the same subtype, but if you click on the link for the subtype neither is listed.

Edited May 13, 2019 by carlsson

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 186 minutes

Roc 'N Rope - 19 minutes

 

 

 

[digdugnate]

Not much Classic Gaming this week.

 

TI 99-4/A:

 

Borzork -- 63 minutes

[Eltigro]

 

(the same place Eltigro went not too long ago).

 

 

 

lol... scrolling down I thought, "Hey, that looks familiar..."

[+wongojack]

 

Nice, two pinball/video game hybrids in the same week, of which Granny was not tracked before. Curiously KLOV is buggy here as it lists those under the same subtype, but if you click on the link for the subtype neither is listed.

 

Yeah, I had never heard of Granny and the Gators before that place publicized it on their website. It was fun and a lot less reliant on good pinball play than Baby Pac Man.

[Agamon]

Atari 2600

 

Robot Tank (8 min)

Seaquest (8 min)

Solaris (10 min)

Tutankham (8 min)

 

Got the 2600 out this weekend, but didn't get as much play in as I'd wanted. Long weekend up here next weekend, so hopefully I can fix that!

[Eltigro]

Classic times this week...

 

Jaguar

Raiden - 17 min (Just a few minutes on some Raiden. Watched a video on YT that went through the series and spinoffs... but didn't have all the different versions. Seemed to mostly go through the arcade versions, but also had at least one PC version... and also had Raiden IV and V in there, but I wasn't sure if they were arcade or what. I know it did not have any of the older console versions... so no Jag, no TG, no Playstation... So I went ahead and played a little. My trigger thumb has gotten rusty, though. I got pretty good when we did this on the Jaguar HSC, but I haven't really played it since.)

 

TurboGrafx

Bonk's Adventure - 96 min (Was looking at scores for this game on another forum and thought I'd give it a go. I died on the final boss and about 2000 points below the target score. I don't know if the final boss gives points or not, but I didn't get to see. I was trying to go through and find and do as many of the bonus rooms as I could and actually play through the stages, killing enemies and scoring points instead of just turning on the turbofire for the head bonk and flying over most of some of the stages. Which is probably why I had fewer lives to spend on fighting King Drool.)

Raiden - 10 min (See above, really. This one has always been harder than the Jag version. I liken it to the second loop on the Jag version as far as speed and such goes. It has the advantage of having turbo fire, though, and if it were the same as the Jag version with turbo fire, it'd be too easy... at least that first loop would be.)

 

Genesis

Crusader of Centy - 166 min (Saw a snippet of this on a YT video and thought, "Hey, I think I downloaded that game..." Sure enough, there it is. I kinda got sucked in and have had a good bit of fun playing it. Don't know if I'll finish it or not, but I played it for longer than I figured I would. It reminds me a lot of Alundra for the Playstation.)

 

Saturn

Panzer Dragoon - 55 min (If you didn't know, May 11th was the 24th anniversary of the Saturn's launch in North America. I played some Panzer Dragoon on Saturnday morning to celebrate. I played at first just normally, and died on the second boss. I've never been that good at this game. But hey, that's one reason why I got a Pro Action Replay + card! Played again with cheats on (infinite energy) and beat it. I don't consider it a true beating, because of the cheating, of course, but I like to do it sometimes just to see the game and watch the ending.)

 

One thing I noticed typing this up... I realised that I rarely seem to have Nintendo games on here. It's usually TurboGrafx or some Sega console. I didn't own any Sega systems when they were new, so maybe that's the draw there. And I've had my Turbo since it was new and have always had a fondness for it, so there's that. But I wonder why I don't play as much of the Nintendo systems. I mean, I do on occasion, but it's not nearly as much as the others. Dunno... just a thought... anyone else ever come to some revelation about their gaming habits from the "What Have You Actually Played" tracker?

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Ineligible
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Game Boy Advance) - 113 minutes
Fe (Nintendo Switch) - 295 minutes
Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance) - 223 minutes

Sega 32X
Doom - 67 minutes
Golf Magazine Presents: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples - 130 minutes
Virtua Fighter - 26 minutes
Virtua Racing Deluxe - 54 minutes

Sega Genesis
Columns III - 30 minutes
OutRun - 116 minutes
PGA Tour Golf III - 319 minutes


Total Video Game Play Time This Week
1,373 minutes (22 hours 53 minutes) [742 minutes eligible]

Individual System Play Times This Week
Sega Genesis: 465 minutes
Game Boy Advance: 336 minutes
Nintendo Switch: 295 minutes
Sega 32X: 277 minutes

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 19, running from May 6 - 12. We logged 3110 minutes of eligible play, playing 71 games on a total of 13 systems.

Top 10:

1. PGA Tour Golf III (Genesis) - 319 min.
2. Roc 'n' Rope (Atari 2600) - 189 min.
3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 186 min.
4. Crusader of Centy (Genesis) - 166 min.
4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 166 min.
6. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 165 min.
7. Final Fantasy (NES/Famicom) - 148 min.
8. Jr. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 135 min.
9. 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples (Sega 32X) - 130 min.
10. Outrun (Genesis) - 116 min.

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Roc 'n' Rope (Atari 2600) - 189 min.
2. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 186 min.
3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 166 min.
4. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 165 min.
5. Jr. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 135 min.
6. Galaxian (Atari 2600) - 101 min.
7. Donkey Kong (Arcade) - 77 min.
8. Borzork (TI-99/4A) - 63 min.
9. Baby Pac-Man (Arcade) - 35 min.
10. Attack, The (TI-99/4A) - 30 min.

Top 10 systems:

1. Atari 2600 (923)
2. Genesis (631)
3. Arcade (520)
4. Sega 32X (277)
5. NES/Famicom (200)
6. TI-99/4A (186)
7. PC (DOS) (140)
8. TG-16/PC Engine (106)
9. Sega Saturn (55)
10. Atari 8-bit (29)

Golf fore the win! Not one but two golf games in the top 10, which also sees a few really tight battles for the minutes between #2 Roc 'n' Rope and #3 Kaboom! and even tighter with 1 minute between places #4 and #6. Systems wise it is another week for the 2600.

Jr. Pac-Man (Arcade) becomes #371 on the 1000 Minute Club with a nice total of 1001 minutes so far, and that concludes the results of the Swedish jury. (*)

If anyone (including, but not limited to cvga) forgot to post their times for this week, please add them and we'll include them with next week.

(*) Yes, it is Eurovision Song Contest week starting tonight with the first semi-final. The songs may be so-so but the voting on Saturday is what one looks forwards to.

AND YES! I ALMOST FORGOT! WE REACHED THE MILESTONE I HINTED ABOUT LAST WEEK.

 

We are now up to a total of 2,000,121 minutes played through all time, of which Kaboom! (Atari 2600) makes up for 216,101 minutes or 10.8%.

Edited May 14, 2019 by carlsson

[Atarian7]

Do the times typically decrease this time of year?

[carlsson]

Perhaps, here are some numbers to crunch:

 

Week 2014   2015   2016   2017   2018   2019
--------------------------------------------
 1   2813   1994   3314   9996   4215   5515
 2   3624   3738   5860   8042   4421   4235
 3   4211   2983   5833  10622   5691   5178
 4   2126   5526   2752  10157   7529   3763
 5   1847   2208   4580   8291   4934   3153
 6   1463   2124  10079   7383   5088   4375
 7   2311   2323   3976   8665   4991   3257
 8   3170   3307   5259   4719   4355   3420
 9   3038   2787   5261   6969   4012   2038
10   3695   2005   4543   8014   3426   3621
11   3820   2227   6533   8049   2531   5218
12   3918   2271   3459   8499   3947   3050
13   2745   1639   2809   7881   2171   7312
14   2900   3501   6686   6863   3776   4796
15   3239   2549   6224   6721   4490   4639
16   2746   2428   4823   7293   4622   4596
17   2931   2851   3826   8352   4265   3109
18   2823   2469   4830   7920   3794   3287
19   3850   1974   4295   4996   3886   3110

They claim an image says more than 1000 words, but in this case it mostly brings headache:

 

[+thegoldenband]

^It definitely looks like Week 19 has the lowest average gameplay time of the first 19:

 

Average times, 2014-2019, by week (rounded to the nearest digit):

Week 1: 4641

Week 2: 4987

Week 3: 5753

Week 4: 5309

Week 5: 4169

Week 6: 5085

Week 7: 4254

Week 8: 4038

Week 9: 4018

Week 10: 4217

Week 11: 4730

Week 12: 4191

Week 13: 4093

Week 14: 4754

Week 15: 4644

Week 16: 4418

Week 17: 4222

Week 18: 4187

Week 19: 3685

Interesting that Week 3 is so high. People trying to get their gameplay time in before school starts back up? Or is it folks who are done recovering from the holidays and are now settling back into their daily life? Or a sample size too small for any of these generalizations?

[carlsson]

Oh yes, I forgot to include the average. For the coming seven weeks, we've been around 3300 - 4400 minutes per week on average in the last five years, then a sudden jump in week 27 (July 1-7) up to 5400 minutes followed by another five weeks above 5000 minutes before the summer vacations are over and we return to slightly lower amounts again until the Christmas season.

[Atarian7]

Thank you for all those stats. It looks like there are no consistent patterns.