StanJr Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 VCS Time Pilot 15 mins. Picnic 10 mins. Piece o' Cake 10 mins. Raft Rider 10 mins. (people trash this game but it isn't all bad...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Genesis - Dragon's Fury: 38 min. Because when my three-year-old niece pretends to play video games with an unplugged controller from another system, she demands that there actually be something on the screen, dangit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 VCS Time Pilot 15 mins. Raft Rider 30 mins. Squeeze Box 15 mins. Towering Inferno 30 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Cosmic Ark (2600) - 5 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psquare75 Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Coleco: Venture - 25 minutes. I WILL beat level 9 on skill 1 one of these days.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I am currently seeking this game! I am understanding that Line of Fire also has a 3D mode compatible with the SegaScope 3D I'm actually playing it via emulation, but if you track it down, do let me know what the manual says about the differences between difficulty modes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 VCS: Alien 25 mins. Beany Bopper 30 mins. (does this game ever end or get difficult? ugh) Crypts of Chaos 10 mins. (without looking at the manual...) Gameboy: Amazing Spider-man 10 mins. CastlevaniaII: Belmont's Revenge 20 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 A8: Robotron 20min A8: Pengo 30min SMS: Shinobi 1hr Arcade: Robotron 15min (on N64 collection) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 Stay Frosty (2600) - 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 for 6-16-10 Lynx Klax - 30 minutes Jaguar Defender 2000 - 45 minutes Sega Master System Shinobi - 1 hour I'm getting to the 3rd stage boss in Shinobi everytime with one life, then I loose them all as I cannot defeat it… the only way I'll beat it is on my first life while I have the gun… it's the only way I'm able to even pass the first part then I get kill on the next part… Jaguar is still my current enjoyment… maybe more Defender tonight or possibly some Trevor McFur… and Lynx while at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 Impossible Mission II (C64) 30 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psquare75 Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 NES: Zelda 1: 45 mins SMB1: 20 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 NES: Dragon's Lair 30 mins. Starship Hector 30 mins. Klax 30 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Genesis - Outrun: 52 min. Dragon's Fury: 17 min. Sonic the Hedgehog 2: 40 min. You know, I'd play Dragon's Fury for longer stretches of time - but at just seventeen minutes, I've already got blisters... Is there some trick to becoming good at the side-scrolling Sonic games? I have always been terrible at them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Here are my times for this week (June 14th through 20th): I've only played classic games this week: Loco-Motion (Arcade) 29 minutes Loco-Motion (Tomy Tutor) 17 minutes Loco-Motion (Intellivision) 90 minutes Happy Trails (Intellivision) 194 minutes in 3 sessions Q*bert (Intellivision) 42 minutes As you can see, I've played all available versions of Loco-Motion this week... at least I think there aren't any others. The Tomy Tutor version seems to be the only one where each station you have visited closes down instantly... in the other versions those stations can still be run through. Other than that, they adapted the playfield size to the limits of the given system... I think on the arcade version the maximum playfield size is 6x7 tiles, on the Tomy Tutor it's 5x5 and on the Intellivision it's 8x4. After that, I played Happy Trails, which is a variant of Loco-Motion with altered rules... you can reverse the running character, and you also have to pick up things laying around in the maze, not only on the side paths. Also, you can pick up a "sheriff star" which enables your character to eliminate the enemy on colliding with it. I think this game is different enough to Loco-Motion to warrant its existence... it would have been a pity if Konami or Mattel would have sued Activision in order to eliminate this game from the market as they initially planned. With the differences in place, the game is about as similar to Loco-Motion as two 3D racing games are... for instance, as similar as Crazy Taxi is to Need For Speed, or Wonderboy to Super Mario Brothers. Or, for that matter, Lock'n'Chase to Pac Man, Lock'n'Chase being a game which Mattel put out for the Intellivision. After that, I checked out one other Intellivision game... Q*bert, which I've already played in numerous other versions, and probably the game which I own the most versions of. The Intellivision version shares some sounds with the other versions (TI-99 and C-64), but some of the sounds have been altered. In my opinion, Q*bert looks worse than he does on the Atari 2600, although he has two colors on the Intellivision. And Slick and Sam (the purple creatures jumping on the cube's sides) are surprisingly hard to avoid in this version. The animation, however, is very choppy... probably the choppiest of all versions I know. I think a jump from cube to cube is divided in only 3 or 4 intermediate frames... but that doesn't really disturb the playability of the game. The scoring has also been altered... apart from the fact that there are only 21 instead of 28 cubes (due to the Intellivision's graphics limitations), the bonuses for completed rounds count up in 125 point increments instead of 250 points, and you get extra lives for each 10000 points... a scheme which I haven't seen in any other version of this game. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Genesis - Sonic 2: 40 min. It's just going to take some good ol' fashion practicing, it seems... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-165 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Genesis - Streets of Rage: 28 min. Streets of Rage 2: 52 min. My first time playing either - heck, my first experience with the series at all! I think I'm in love. The first game, especially - it's like, you feel like you're the on actually out there, kicking butt... Someday, I'm going to have to order the uncensored English version of Bare Knuckles 3... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Genesis - Streets of Rage: 55 min. It's a wonder I can still use my hands! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 VCS: Crypts of Chaos (15 mins.) tried hard, but this game is a mess. Deadly Duck (10 mins.) Fantastic Voyage (20 mins) Fast Eddie (5 mins) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Times for the week: Vectrex: Minestorm - 6 min. Sega Master System: Rambo: First Blood Part II - 20 min. Game Boy: Donkey Kong Land - 5 min. Metroid 2 - 20 min. Super Mario Land 2 - 10 min. Tetris - 15 min. SNES: Super Castlevania IV - 6 min. Super Metroid - 10 min. N64: Gauntlet Legends - 363 min. Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero - 230 min. Dreamcast: Worms World Party - 55 min. Spent a few evenings this week whittling away at Gauntlet Legends with my girlfriend. Since the N64 was already set up, I also worked on MK Mythologies which, years ago, I'd played briefly and enjoyed. Despite the terrible reviews online, I think it's a perfectly fine game, and its mix of platforming and MK-style fighting works surprisingly well. Yeah, the separate button for turning around is a hassle, but anyone who's played Defender (or Sword of Sodan!) should be able to handle that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Genesis - Streets of Rage 2: 60 min. It's a good thing I'm going to be too busy this week with exams and essays to do much game playing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Impossible Mission II (C64) 75 minutes I'm getting better at this... I used to win fairly often, but I haven't played it nearly as much as the first one in recent years, and I had gotten very rusty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 A8: Pengo 1hr SMS: Shinobi 30min Outrun 30min Tandyvision: Night Stalker 1hr TI99: The Attack 30min GBA: Midway greatest hits- Joust 20min, Robotron 45min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic R Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 times for past few days… 6-19-10: Jaguar Wolfenstein 3D - 1 hour 45 minutes Trevor McFur - 20 minutes 6-20-10: Jaguar Wolfenstein 3D - 45 minutes NESMickey Mousecapade - 1 hour Arkanoid - 20 minutes 6-21-10: NES Solstice - 30 minutes Sega Master System Astro Warrior - 45 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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