Gabriel

Well, if you're including Ultima 1-9, then I guess I'll nominate Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior) Dragon Warrior 1 - 4 are available on the NES. Dragon Quest 5 and 6 are available on the Super Famicom and weren't brought to North America at the time. Dragon Quest 7 is available for the Playstation. Dragon Quest 8 is on the Playstation 2. Dragon Quest 9 is for the Nintendo DS. Dragon Quest 10 is a MMORPG and doesn't count. Finally, Dragon Quest 11 is for the 3DS and PS4. So, there's the problem, right there. Dragon Quest is all over the place. It's possible to get Dragon Quest 1-6 on the SNES. There are fan translated Super Famicom remakes of 1, 2, and 3. The 3DS is also a good way to play Dragon Quest. Remakes of 4, 5, and 6 have been made for the DS, which is compatible. Entries 7 and 8 have also been remade for the 3DS. So, with a 3DS it's possible to play official releases of entries 4-9 and 11 in english, making it the best bet if you are a western Dragon Quest fan. Dragon Warrior 1 through 3 are also available as Game Boy Color remakes. There was also a Japan only Dragon Quest Collection for the Wii which contained the original Dragon Quest 1 - 3 for Famicom as well as their Super Famicom remakes. And Dragon Quest is so sprawling that I'm almost certain to have gotten something wrong.

Point taken. How about all times in the time range in question end with 1, 4, or 7?

All times end with a 1, 4, or 7. This is easily observable. There's no need to work out increments.

Looks legit.

I went to college late. So mine was the PS1. I didn't buy games while I was in school, but I did buy Final Fantasy Anthology and Front Mission 3. I remember coming home from lab and sitting down to play Front Mission 3 or Final Fantasy VI for the rest of the evening. I also played a lot of Time Crisis and Need for Speed 3. Gameplay time with friends was usually tabletop RPGs, but when we played video games it was usually Soul Blade, Tekken 3, Battle Arena Toshinden 2, or Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

I'd definitely much prefer to play DS/3DS games on a TV. Other than the Etrian Odyssey games, there's nothing for either system I can think of that I consider worth playing where the touchscreen stuff is actually integral to play. Once I bought a PS-TV, I never used my Vita again.

I don't think I ever played it until I got a Harmony cart. I read about it a lot in How to Master Home Video Games.

That would be a cool hack if possible.

Oh, most definitely. Not Lynx related though. I used to be insanely good at 5200 Qix. I used to play it with default controllers on expert difficulty and score in the 500K range on an average day. I tried it on default difficulty for the 5200 HSC a few days ago, and the experience was humbling. All my skill at the game is just gone. I struggled to even complete the first level. I wasn't spectacular at 2600 Yar's Revenge, but I could reliably get to the third/grey enemy shields. Now, as soon as the shield turns purple, I'm dead. I'm pretty sure BITD I could get a score of a few hundred thousand. Now I'm lucky if I can even break 100K. Any time I pick up 5200 Defender after a long absence, I have a few games where I suck and can't even score 50K. Then I get back into the groove and can play forever. I used to be marginal at arcade Galaga, easily scoring over 100K each game. Now it's a major event if I can get to the second extra man at 70K.

Ages ago I read about how the speedrunning community had issues with TG and butted heads on a semi-regular basis. My understanding is the speedrunners didn't like TG as gatekeepers and as the face of professional gaming. Like me, they saw TG as a good ol' boy network, and that was a problem because speedrunners are forming their own good ol' boy network. TG was making rules which propped up their own celebrities while hindering the speedrunner celebs. You want specifics? I can't give them. This is just my impression of things, and may or may not be an accurate observation. Then this mess explodes, and my impression is the speedrunning community is the primary group trying to expose TG. So, it comes off like a power play to invalidate TG in the public eye as well as to shame the TG good ol' boys. Todd Rogers was the easy target in order to throw into disrepute because nearly everyone who has seen his records questions their validity. Now they've gone after the golden boy Billy Mitchell. That's not to say the investigation isn't revealing truth. I'm only questioning the motivation. Gaming is becoming professional, and there's money in it if you're the gatekeeper to the media. A motivation with that as a background rationale is a lot more believable than "the integrity and honesty of videogame high scores." Or that's what my innate paranoia and half assed observation tells me, anyway.

We could make s'mores.

Really? Maybe it was just my world, since I saw them displayed in several local stores prominently. I was fascinated by them. No, they didn't fly. They were very basic plastic kits. Do a search for 1977 Goodyear blimp model kit. There will be pictures and videos of it in operation. From the perspective of a grade-schooler in the 70s, I thought they were pretty awesome.

Obviously not an answer to the question, and completely unrelated. I had almost completely forgotten about Gibson's. Lingyi's post brought a flood of memories coming back, although the Gibson's I recall probably isn't the same chain as Lingyi's. I don't associate Gibson's with video games. I'm pretty sure they were long gone from my neck of the woods by the time I was enthralled with video games in 1981. The one I recall was on a little strip mall. It was actually next door to the previously mentioned Winn's I liked so much. The store originally had a completely different decor which I really don't clearly remember. Then there was a fire when I was very young which caused the store to have to remodel and start over. After the remodel they were much more what I'd now call Wal-Marty. I remember getting Star Wars toys there. In particular, I remember getting a Kenner Die Cast Millennium Falcon from there, and I regretted that for years, because I really wanted a Y-Wing because I thought the Y-Wing looked cool. I got numerous Goodyear blimp models. Any kid who grew up in the 70s probably knows the one I'm talking about. It had a light and motor in it, and you'd color these pixel paper things to make colored messages scroll on the blimp. I have pretty vivid memories of a Stretch Armstrong endcap display. I also remember them selling the big Shogun Warriors and Godzilla toys. And this was the age of SLIME. I don't know how many of those little plastic trash pails I got with green slime or green slime with plastic worms in it. I have a Star Wars board game story related to Gibson's, but that's long and even more off topic than I've already ventured. Maybe they sold video games. I think they had a watch/electronics counter. My age was in the single digits, and I hadn't really discovered video games yet. I only cared about the toys.

It can only be accepted with video proof or verification by a ref.

I've always thought the first shield color was orange.

My Atari 2600 was from Woolco. I think I also got Adventure from there. It was also the only place I've ever seen a real-live Astrocade. My aunt bought me Pitfall II from Target. At that time they had the games in individual security boxes on hanger racks on a wall. It was very odd at the time. But long before that, my aunt had bought me Othello from Target for Christmas. However, I had been playing with the difficulty switches on my 2600 and since I was a moron, I thought the Othello game was defective. We spent one of the days after Christmas waiting in line at Target to exchange the game for another copy. Mainly what I liked about Target was their Intellivision demo unit. I'd sit and play Tank Battle on that with other kids while my family shopped. When I got my copy of Pac-Man, my aunt and I went to Sears. It turns out it wasn't the street date for the game yet. It was a Saturday and I think the street date was the following Monday. However, one of the clerks thought my aunt was cute and said he'd sell us a copy from the back if she'd go out with him. She agreed. We played Pac-Man all weekend. The date was probably a bad one, though. She refuses to speak about it to this day. Sears was also my first exposure to the 2600. They had the console in the garden center demoing Target Fun. I picked up the controller to play and one of the employees snatched it out of my hand and told me it wasn't for children. I bought Swordquest: Earthworld with some birthday money from K-Mart. I returned it and exchanged it for E.T. the same day. I was much happier with E.T. There was this one shop on the local mall called The Game Peddler. They sold videogames and tabletop games. I liked going there for the 1 or 2 years it existed. One of the first things I got from there was Star Voyager. My mom had bought it for me, but what she had really wanted me to get was Demon Attack. She liked Demon Attack better. I managed to play that into going back a couple of weeks later and getting Demon Attack as well, so I got both games I wanted. I think a couple of my games were from Service Merchandise. I have some firm memories of getting Space Invaders from there, but I can't recall any others. I got my copy of Asteroids from Circus World. I was pretty excited about it at the time. Then I got the game home and saw that it wasn't Asteroids and was instead a game about shooting globs of sherbet. My recollection is that Circus World was a really good place for games, but I can't recall any other 2600 games I got from there. Kay-Bee Toys is another one I have memories of thinking was really good for 2600 games, but I can't recall ever buying anything there until the post crash bargain bin period. I got Stargate from there. Stargate blew me away. It was a 2600 game that could compete with a 5200 game. I got Empire Strikes Back from Toys R Us. This was in the early 90s. Yes, Toys R Us still had huge numbers of brand new ESB carts well into the 16 bit era. I'm almost certain I got at least a game or two from Montgomery Ward, but I can't recall a single one. The only thing I can recall is my mom buying a Coleco ADAM from there. Despite always hanging out in Dillards and watching their demo Odyssey 2 running Quest for the Rings, I can't recall ever getting a game from there either. I did often play their Atari 2600 which they had running Dodge 'Em most of the time. JC Penney had a gaming section, but they were more of a Colecovision place. I can't recall ever getting any 2600 games from there, but it's possible. Edit: Crap. I forgot some more. Winns was the store where I bought my very first Atari game with my own money. I bought Night Driver. It was priced at 24.95. It was my first realization that not all video games were great. Winns was one of my favorite stores when I was little. They had a great toy section for the time. I also got a lot of model kits and Choose Your Own Adventure books from there. There was also an Eckerd's near me. I remember they had 2600 games. I'm not sure if I ever bought one from there, but I used to be there all the time, so I'd be surprised if at least one of my games didn't come from there. Now that I think of it, I think my copy of Yars Revenge was bought there.

Because the high score wasn't on arcade Centipede. The 58,078 is on Atari 5200 Centipede. This is how many of his high scores were. They were on games that few people care about because of lack of popularity or simply oddball ports. I imagine there are many people here on the forums which can easily beat a 58,078 on Atari 5200 Centipede, but who is going to go through the effort of a video filmed in front of a TG judge (one of the good ol boy network), and all to come in second to a fake score of eleven quintillion. And getting those fake scores removed takes a lot of people complaining for months. Who is going to bother?

Super Robot Wars V (PS Vita) Soul Calibur II HD (PS3) Dead or Alive Last Round (PS3)

I'd probably go with my Genesis. If my 32X and Sega CD were included in the deal then that would just make it a better choice.

N64. I loathe the controllers. I loathe the vaseline smear look so many of the games have. And even after playing a wider assortment of the game library, there isn't anything for the system I'd care to spend much time with or which hasn't been surpassed by a game on a later system.

Maybe it has already been mentioned, but I discovered today that Harmony Gold has licensed Robotech to Coleco to make old school style tabletop mini-arcades. It looks like the only thing Coleco has to show is a drawing of the side panel of the mini-arcade. And they have a link to a video of the GBA Macross Saga game. So, yeah. Harmony Gold and Coleco. Birds of a feather.