zylon Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 2600: Solaris 1hr A8: Missile Command 1.5 hrs SMS: Aerial Assault 20min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-296 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmountainslim Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 90 more minutes of Halo 2600 40 minutes of Home Run 30 minutes of Othello 45 minutes of L.E.M. All for the Atari 2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 Is there still a point in posting this? The number of contributors to this thread seems to be diminishing. Well, anyway, here are my times for this past week (August 2nd through 8th): The classic games (egligible for the Top 10): SteamRoller (Colecovision): 620 minutes in 12 sessions Halo 2600 (Atari 2600): 67 minutes in 2 sessions The non-classic games (non-eligible for the Top 10): Hey Taxi (Online): 54 minutes Yummy Burgers 2 (Online): 3 minutes I love Burgers (Online): 1 minute Dinner at Romeos (Online): 7 minutes Railway Valley (Online): 42 minutes Youda Camper (Online): 45 minutes I've played quite a lot of SteamRoller (which I misspelled last week) this week. I think it's a fun game. By now each game takes about 15-25 minutes, and my high score is about 23000 points. My goal would be the Activision Standard Patch Score of 35000 points, but I don't know if I'll be able to make it. It's a shame that this game only appeared for the Colecovision (and in fact, not even that). Activision shot it down in 1984 because the Colecovision was dead when the game was ready, but they could have issued it for MSX computers or the Sega SG-1000 instead, which wouldn't have taken too much time to rewrite. And they could have made versions for the Commodore 64 or the Atari 8-bit computers which they still supported back then. But maybe they also wanted to have more elaborate games like "Ghostbusters"... similar to how they shot down Kaboober for the Atari 2600 because it was only a 4K game. The gaming motion is absolutely fluid, something you probably wouldn't see in games made by Coleco themselves on their system. Other than that, I also tried Ed Fries' Halo 2600, but not for too long. The sounds are a bit too "basic" for me, sounding like very old 2600 cartridges. As for the online games, I played some restaurant simulations - Yummy Burgers 2, I love Burgers and Dinner at Romeos, but couldn't really get into any of them. Dinner at Romeos is a bit confusing and hard to get into, and it's easy to miss serving a customer to the point that it disappears and you have to trash the wasted food. Hey Taxi is a taxi game in the vain of Crazy Taxi which I revisited, but I didn't play it for that long this time. Railway Valley is sort of a mini railway simulation on a small, non-scrolling map where you have to lay tracks between up to five facilities and guide the trains between them without crashing. You start with $200000, and your main goal is to survive a period from year 1900 to 2020, where the game ends. You even win the game if you didn't make your money back, but didn't get completely broke. Youda camper is actually a demo for a commercial game, and the objective is to run a camping site by offering various tent sizes along with extras like parking space, trashcans, electric lamps and the like. The game ends after you have served 75 parties of campers, referring to the version that's up for sale where you can play for much longer than that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 (edited) Is there still a point in posting this? The number of contributors to this thread seems to be diminishing. Please do keep posting! FWIW, I'm back after a month away from home, and I suspect others might be/have been on vacation too. I usually post one big list at the end of each week, rather than steady updates -- I've got one coming at the end of today. Obviously, though, it'll be a nice morale booster once cvga is able to do the stats again. (hint, hint) Edited August 8, 2010 by thegoldenband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 River Raid (2600) - 5 minutes Wonder Boy (SMS) - 10 minutes Time Soldiers (SMS) - 15 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 Times for the week: Atari 2600: Halo 2600 - 30 min. Lady in Wading - 12 min. Intellivision: Bowling - 46 min. Demon Attack - 5 min. Donkey Kong - 2 min. Frog Bog - 8 min. Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack - 7 min. Popeye - 15 min. Sewer Sam - 8 min. Slap Shot Super Pro Hockey - 3 min. Venture - 4 min. Sega Master System: Dr. Hello - 268 min. Ninja Boy - 5 min. Outrun - 3 min. Safari Hunt - 7 min. Super Boy 2 - 3 min. Game Gear: Fantasy Zone - 5 min. Master of Darkness - 3 min. Wonder Boy - 5 min. "Dr. Hello", by the way, is an unlicensed/pirate version of Dr. Mario from Korea. I beat the highest level (Level 20) on Low and Medium speeds, but can't quite pull off High just yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry_kaplan Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 I thought I did this within the past couple of weeks but here's an update through today... Atari 2600 - Kaboom! (#1 alltime) Perhaps you did and I missed it. Thanks for listing them! Larry Kaplan should be proud that his game is still so popular. Yes, I am proud. And thanks for the recognition. I hope it is fun and not too frustrating. Larry 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 I thought I did this within the past couple of weeks but here's an update through today... Atari 2600 - Kaboom! (#1 alltime) Perhaps you did and I missed it. Thanks for listing them! Larry Kaplan should be proud that his game is still so popular. Yes, I am proud. And thanks for the recognition. I hope it is fun and not too frustrating. Larry Given the fact that it is one of the three most favorite Activision games ever, I think you did all right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Air Sea Battle (2600) - 10 minutes Canyon Bomber (2600) - 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Times for Monday - Tuesday: Odyssey^2: Smithereens - 41 min. Blackjack - 10 min. UFO - 12 min. Sega SG-1000: Champion Tennis - 15 min. NES: Dr. Mario - 8 min. Sega Master System: Dr. Hello - 187 min. Notes: Finally took down the Dr. Mario clone, Dr. Hello, on the highest difficulty. I think I prefer this version to the original! It's one of those games where as soon as you lose, you can hit a button to immediately start again, which is ideal (?) for addictive gameplay. I actually came quite close to beating it at one point, with only three germs left, but one of them was in an awkward place (very high up on the screen) and in trying to get at it, I messed up and blew it. Fortunately, it only took a few more attempts, and then I got to enjoy the amazing ending. BTW, I wonder if Dr. Hello is an Asian malapropism for "Dr. Hero"? Dr. Hello was ported from MSX, and uses the SG-1000 legacy video mode. That got me in a SG-1000 frame of mind, and I decided to pull out Champion Tennis...only to lose three sets, 6-0 in every case. Oof. Speaking of crushing defeats, my girlfriend absolutely obliterated me in two out of three games of Smithereens for the O^2, winning every round in gameplay variations 2 and 3. Total shutouts. In between those games we played the slower variation (#1) and I was better able to hold my own, ultimately eking out a not-fully-deserved victory (I think she won the last round, maybe even the majority of the rounds, but I won on points). It's a genius game, perfect in its simplicity, and long overdue for a VCS port with the AtariVox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Gremlins (2600) - 10 minutes A VCS Tec Challenge (2600) - 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 2600: Halo 10 min Solaris 3hrs 5200: Missile Command 1hr A8: Missile Command 5hrs (rolled "wedge-mode") SMS: Quartet 45min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmountainslim Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Atari 2600 Halo 2600 60 minutes L.E.M. 45 minutes Ms. Pac-Man 20 minutes Panky Panda 30 minutes Othello 15 minutes Adventure 15 minutes Zombie Chase 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmountainslim Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Is this even being tallied anymore? I noticed the Countmaster hasn't posted since June. Wp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Secret Quest (2600) - 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-294 minutes This week's time is very close to last week's time but I didn't plan it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchSchaft Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 (edited) Yes, I am proud. And thanks for the recognition. I hope it is fun and not too frustrating. Larry I just bought Kaboom and will be playing it for the first time when it arrives. I also watched the Atari documentary with you in it; "Once Upon Atari" this past week. Thanks for everything! Edited August 15, 2010 by MitchSchaft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Here are my times for the week of August 9th through 15th... Due to time constraints, I actually only played one game: SteamRoller (Colecovision) 150 minutes in 2 sessions There's nothing special to report on that game, other than that I played two more sessions (6 games in total) of it and reached a new high score of about 25000 points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 (edited) Times for Wednesday - Sunday: Odyssey^2: Invaders From Hyperspace - 11 min. Baseball - 24 min. Hockey/Soccer - 15 min. Armored Encounter/Sub Chase - 11 min. Speedway/Spin-Out/Crypto-Logic - 33 min. Out of This World/Helicopter Rescue - 10 min. Atari 2600: Breakout - 3 min. Super Breakout - 3 min. Night Driver - 2 min. Astroblast - 2 min. California Games - 5 min. Barnstorming - 2 min. Sega Master System: R.C. Grand Prix - 2 min. Sega Genesis: Toy Story - 11 min. Bible Adventures - 135 min. Desert Strike - 3 min. World Series Baseball - 3 min. Truxton - 9 min. Spider-man & Venom: Maximum Carnage - 16 min. Marble Madness (Tengen) - 17 min. Beat all three scenarios in Bible Adventures, a mediocre-to-terrible platformer that's not quite as bad as its reputation (but is still pretty lousy). The Noah's Ark one is especially tedious, but there are a couple interesting ideas buried in there -- they're just undermined by the poor execution. OTOH, Soccer for O^2 is one of the very worst games I've ever encountered. Literally unplayable, and absolutely inexcusable. Edited August 16, 2010 by thegoldenband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted August 18, 2010 Share Posted August 18, 2010 I thought I did this within the past couple of weeks but here's an update through today... Atari 2600 - Kaboom! (#1 alltime) Perhaps you did and I missed it. Thanks for listing them! Larry Kaplan should be proud that his game is still so popular. Yes, I am proud. And thanks for the recognition. I hope it is fun and not too frustrating. Larry Still my favorite paddle game! Every 2600 and set of paddles I fix are tested with this game, even a few 5200's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Not much played this week since the HSC's I participate in are either on vacation or playing games I don't have or like in some cases. A8: Missile Command 1.5hrs SMS: Quartet 20 min Global Defense 10 min Secret Command 5min (Rambo II in the U.S.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Did cvga go on vacation? Will he be back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Snyder Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 (edited) Genesis - Toejam & Earl: 110 min. Solo - had every spaceship part but one! Emulation - Phantasy Star (Sega Master System): 60 min. (via Phantasy Star Collection for GameBoy Advance) Edited August 19, 2010 by Kris Snyder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Ks Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Atari 2600 Ms. Pac-Man 10 mins Kangaroo 15 mins (one of my favorite games ever; can't wait to get the 5200 version as well) Halo 2600 3 mins Othello 10 mins Atari 8-bit Frogger II: Threeedeep! 40 mins Pac-Man 10 mins 5200 Frisky Tom 10 mins Hangly-Man 5 mins Intellivision Donkey Kong 15 mins Neo Geo Pocket Color Pac-Man 10 mins Sonic Pocket Adventure 15 mins Game Boy Balloon Kid 20 mins Boomer's Adventure in ASMIK World 10 mins Game Boy Color Tony Hawk 2 10 mins Nintendo 64 Defender 10 mins Robotron: 2084 12 mins Joust 10 mins Lynx Xybots 20 mins Bill & Ted 10 mins (definitely "one for the collection") Master System Hang On 10 mins Quartet 30 mins Bomber Raid 5 mins Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 15 mins Ms. Pac-Man 25 mins Zoop 30 mins Sonic & Knuckles 10 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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