karokoenig

Atari 2600 Demon Attack: 82 min Ghost Manor: 17 min Room of Doom: 9 min Commodore 64 Battle Ships: 49 min Not much change from last week's playtime. I was wondering how many minutes of Battleships and Kaiser have been logged so far. I suspect I'm the only one who logged these two games over the last couple of years...

Ghost Manor: 14,250. Can't figure out how to get rid of Dracula. The cross doesn't seem to do anything, no matter how close I am.

Turns out I did have some time and got a good game in. Demon Attack 7AA: Rollage.

German Santa is in again. Thanks Grig for doing this.

Let's get Room of Doom out of the way first, since I have no cart. Really interesting concept, but I don't like emulation too much. Ghost Manor I actually have, will play it later. 5,475

Now, that's more like it: 54,990. I think I could roll it, but it doesn't look like I'll have enough time to sit down and find the groove. Always takes a few rounds to get one of the promising games going, which massively collides with my real life schedule.

Atari 2600 Demon Attack: 16 min Fire Fighter: 3 min Commodore 64 Battleships: 54 min Kaiser: 20 min Not much to see, really. Some HSC and two games on the C64 I am really nostalgic about. I played Kaiser with two friends countless times back in the days, and still return to it now and then.

Demon Attack 7AA: 17,870. I should be able to do much better, but I find it hard to get into a groove today. Fire Fighter 8: 0:22. Glad I made it to the required 22 second mark with little time investment. That game and I are not friends :-).

The half-time boss is level 25. Seen and beat it a few times, but usually lose a life or two on it, or lose focus afterwards and die miserably :-). Easy difficulty - as far as I can see - is just starting you with a double ship right away. In the course of the game, it doesn't make much of a difference, but it does give you quite a bit of a headstart. Great for practice and getting into a flow.

Quick question: Have you beaten it yet? Furthest I got so far was level 28 or so, on easy. I find it hard to stay focused for so long these days :-).

Atari 2600 Cosmic Ark: 15 min Just some High Score Club participation shots this week.

Not my game. Never was, never will be. My personal best is only about 13k, so I am happy with this: 1BB: 10,070 5BB: 434

Agree 100%

Rad! Thanks Spriggy!

I have checked an NTSC gameplay video of Dragonfire on Youtube, and I really can't see any difference in speed to what my PAL console with a PAL cartridge gives me. Certainly not in the order of 1/5. If anything, the NTSC fireballs on the bridge look even slower to me than I'm used to. I do know that playing NTSC carts on a PAL console leads to slower gameplay - which you can also do on an emulator. As for the real cart on a real system - it looks like a proper adaptation to me. That's my perception, which might be wrong. Does anyone know for certain that Dragonfire PAL is a lazy port?

I'm not sure if the Flashback Portable is a "real" system or if it's running on an emulator inside - too lazy to look it up. But especially with Dragonfire, any microsecond of lag would be a game breaker for me. I mentioned in the HSC thread that even changing from one Competition Pro joystick to another, almost identical one, made a huge difference. Also, any control method other than joystick would feel like hell. Keyboard, D-Pad, whatever.

Atari 2600 Dragonfire: 43 min Phoenix: 12 min NES Holy Diver: 22 min Pin Bot: 4 min TMNT II The Arcade Game: 18 min SNES Populous II: 85 min Some Dragonfire for the High Score Club, which has just started this week. Some Populous II on the SNES. Man, the SNES mouse is awkward. But still I am glad I have one. Having to play this game (which is rather fun) with a d-pad sounds like purgatory for me. On the NES, I played two games I picked up yesterday on the flea market (Pin Bot and TMNT) and the new highlight in my collection - Holy Diver. Please excuse the atrocious photos. I had to use a stone old videocamera in stillshot mode. Now, this is a collector's edition release of the former Japan-only game. It comes in a sturdy black case with golden letters, a certificate (limited to 2800 copies), some postcards, stickers, some pins, a high quality notebook - and a white cartridge. Everything is high-quality, and the attention to detail is exquisite (see sticker on the back of the cart). I knew from James & Mike Mondays and Mike's later playthrough that this is a good, but very hard game. And I'm a huge fan of Ronnie James Dio. So when I saw that it got released outside of Japan, I couldn't resist. Testplayed it and managed to beat the first boss. Yep, it's rough.

Changed from one Competition Pro to a slightly tighter one. The right controller makes a huge difference in this game. I think this is about as much as I can do. Dragonfire 1BB: 22,420.

@ Leto: 28k with keyboard controls? What are you? Superman?

You can use any controller you want, as long as you don't use dirty tricks like slowdown or so (which some controllers have).

New score, slightly better: 14,350.

Dragonfire 1BB: 13,070. I was never really good at this game, but I think I made it to about 20k back when I was younger. For now, I'm happy that I passed 10k.

I might be wrong there (too tired to fact-check), but I'm confident that the Alone in the Dark series started way earlier than Resident Evil.

Commodore 64 Galencia: 10 min Jungle Hunt: 5 min Steel Ranger: 10 min Been forced into a part-time lurker state during the last few weeks, due to crazy busy real life. At least I visited my dad this weekend, where my old C64 is set up. And I had a chance to test my new collector's piece - Steel Ranger. An awesome new homebrew. Nice graphics, smooth animation, great music. Had my 4-year-old with me, and he tried as well. We also fiddled a bit with Jungle Hunt and Galencia. I really need to get the Competition Pro Mini working :-)

Saba Videoplay Cart 1: 2 min Cart 2: 2 min Cart 3: 2 min Cart 4: 5 min Cart 5: 2 min Cart 7: 2 min Cart 8: 2 min Atari 2600 Atlantis: 3 min Circus Atari: 5 min Phoenix: 15 min Schnapp die Apfeldiebe (Quelle hack of Plaque Attack): 5 min Venture: 8 min NES Marble Madness: 8 min Sega Master System Olympic Gold: 15 min Lots of hardware testing and a good relaxing round of Phoenix afterwards. What can I say about the Saba Videoplay (Channel F for you Americans)? It's primitive alright, and I'm not yet sure how to choose game variants. None of my games has a manual with it. Sure it's more sophisticated than your average Pong, but in terms of fun gameplay, I'd go with Pong any day - or with an Interton VC4000. The Fairchild/Saba controllers are something to behold, though. And man, that thing is heavy. Feels like the circuits inside are made of bricks and concrete.