+thegoldenband #551 Posted August 29, 2011 "Kicker" is basically the same as "Shao-Lin's road", which was another name for the game I love that game, largely because of the bizarre end-of-round celebration: 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #552 Posted August 31, 2011 Monday's TImes Atari 2600 Berzerk - 120 minutes Frantic (Homebrew in Dev) - 15 minutes Berzerk Voice Enhanced - 10 minutes Tuesdays Game times Atari 2600 Berzerk - 60 minutes Frantic (Homebrew in Dev) - 15 minutes Cosmic Creeps - 10 minutes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atarian7 #553 Posted September 4, 2011 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-222 minutes High score of the week: 88,594 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #554 Posted September 4, 2011 Wednesday Atari 2600 Berzerk - 200 minutes Frantic 10 minutes Friday Atari 2600 Berzerk - 10 minutes Saturday Atari 2600 Berzerk - 30 minutes Dr. Do's Castle - 15 minutes Frogger - 10 minutes Wizard of Woz - 15 minutes Donkey Kong - 20 minutes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atarian7 #555 Posted September 4, 2011 Looks like Kaboom! has a new challenger: berzerk. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kurt_Woloch #556 Posted September 4, 2011 Here are my times for this past week (August 29th through September 4th): Arcade: Mr. TNT - 63 min. Colecovision: SteamRoller - 32 min. Most of the week, there was still nice weather here, but I got some gaming in on two days where our swimming session unexpectedly was ended by rain... there was another short session of SteamRoller (containing two games), and on the other day, I actually was going to play SteamRoller again, but then the Windows wallpaper on my PC (an Amsler net) reminded me of a game that initially looks much like an Amsler net, Mr. TNT. I've extensively played it on the C-64 back in the day, and now I tried the arcade original. The game itself is pretty good and fluid, but graphics and sound aren't too well for a 1983 game. From the specs I figure that this actually runs on Pac-Man hardware, which was done in 1980, and it utilizes it in fact even worse than Pac-Man itself. There only seems to be a single 4-color scheme for the whole background graphics where, in fact, most of the tiles are monochrome although 4 colors per tile would be allowed, and the game seems to use the same color PROM as Pac-Man, which means the same color combinations for background and sprites. Also it seems they didn't quite figure out all of the features of Namco's sound chip... there's only monophonic music even though the chip has 2 voices, and all sounds use the same waveform, although different waveforms are selectable. This reminds me of the Amiga version of Marble Madness by EA, which also only uses one single sample for all sounds... actually, that sample (guitar) sounds similar to the waveform used in Mr. TNT. It also occured to me that Mr. TNT scores rather generously... you typically make about 100,000 points per minute where you make only 10,000 in Pac Man, and extra lives are generously awarded every 75,000 points, but only up to the 300,000 mark, after which no more extra lives get awarded. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #557 Posted September 4, 2011 Sunday Atari 2600 Berzerk - 120 minutes <-- trying to break 100,000 again . . . I just can't seem to get into the rhythm of it again I think I'm going to have to check out Kaboom . . . Atarian7 seems to be playing a bunch of it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #558 Posted September 5, 2011 Atari 2600 Berzerk - 60 minutes again Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JayWI #559 Posted September 5, 2011 Arcade Battle Toads - 20 minutes Dig Dug - 5 minutes Donkey Kong - 15 minutes Gorf - 5 minutes Popeye - 20 minutes Q*Bert - 15 minutes Spy Hunter - 5 minutes Atari 2600 Infiltrate - 5 minutes Keystone Kapers - 20 minutes Mario Bros. - 25 minutes Mountain King - 10 minutes Pac-man - 55 minutes Q*Bert - 20 minutes Solaris - 10 minutes Game Gear Jungle Book - 5 minutes World Series Baseball - 15 minutes Intellivision AD&D Cloudy Mountain - 95 minutes Atlantis - 10 minutes Super Pro Football - 15 minutes Tron Deadly Discs - 40 minutes World Championship Baseball - 45 minutes NES Batman - 15 minutes Bionic Commando - 25 minutes Mike Tyson's Punch Out - 15 minutes Ninja Gaiden - 25 minutes Q*Bert - 30 minutes Shadowgate - 30 minutes Sega Master System Golvellius - 45 minutes Been having to take it easy the last few days as I get ready for my arrhythmia procedure so I've been playing a few more games than usual. Started out the week on an Intellivision kick. Really played a lot of Cloudy Mountain on the hardest level. Only wiped on one game most of the other I finished with 2 or all of my lives. I really enjoy trying to find the shortest route and going in the final mountain with the minimum amount of arrows and hope I only find the winged dragons. Spent a bit of time playing Tron Deadly Discs. I get to about 60k and then the computer kicks my butt. I have decided I must add Q*Bert to my Intellivision collection. I played the arcade, 2600 and NES versions and loved 'em all. In fact I think I'll try to find a copy of Q*Bert for every system I currently own. I know Battle Toads is an internet meme, which I admit I don't fully understand, so I had to try the game out. Pretty decent beat 'em up. Now how do I ask clerks if they have Battle Toads without them thinking I'm just trollin'? Maybe I'll stick to ebay for that one. I got 2600 Pac-man to glitch out. I popped the game in and powered on the console and immediately heard the Pac-man dying sound. Then I started with 3000 points and three lives. No idea how it happened or if I could repro it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zylon #560 Posted September 5, 2011 Times for last 2 weeks as I've been rather busy. 5200: Pole Position 4.5 hrs SMS: Ghostbusters 15min C64: Threshold 1.5 hrs Crossfire 20 min VIC-20: Threshold 2hrs Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #561 Posted September 5, 2011 Geez . . . Atari 2600 Berzerk - another 40 minutes (Hi . . . my name is Disjaukifa . . . and I'm an addict ) Seawolf - 10 minutes Marauder - 15 minutes Room of Doom - 3 minutes Mr. Do!'s Castle - 10 minutes <-- The music is fantastic . . . can't say that much about anything else in the game Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+thegoldenband #562 Posted September 5, 2011 (edited) My times for the week: Atari 2600: Journey Escape - 5 min. Intellivision: Burgertime - 30 min. Donkey Kong - 3 min. Donkey Kong Arcade - 25 min. Atari 7800: Asteroids - 3 min. Ballblazer - 6 min. Mario Bros. - 5 min. Title Match Pro Wrestling - 4 min. Tower Toppler - 8 min. Genesis: Bonanza Bros. - 3 min. Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls - 3 min. Final Zone - 21 min. Lotus Turbo Challenge - 3 min. Primal Rage - 32 min. Shadow of the Beast - 370 min. Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition - 3 min. Thunder Force II - 30 min. Virtua Racing - 5 min. Beat two Genesis games this week, Shadow of the Beast and Thunder Force II (on Hard/5 Lives). I'd never really played Shadow of the Beast before this week, but I quite liked it; despite its reputation for brutal difficulty (and for being a flawed port that runs too fast), it's actually very fun once you get the hang of it, and wasn't too fast for me at all. I was less keen on Thunder Force II, though, which has some design flaws that keep it from being more than OK. I also tried to get into Final Zone, with no luck -- the choppy animation and erratic framerate are hard to overlook -- and played through Primal Rage on a higher, but still low, difficulty level (5). On the pre-NES front, I spent some time trying out the new Donkey Kong Arcade homebrew -- good port with some cool additions -- and I joined the 7800 club at last when my power adapter arrived this week. I don't have a two-button controller so I can't play some of the games, but my girlfriend and I had a fun match of Ballblazer, and she liked Tower Toppler too. Asteroids was a bust, though, at least in competitive mode. Edited September 5, 2011 by thegoldenband 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheGameCollector #563 Posted September 5, 2011 Atari 2600: Pac-Man - 8 minutes Space Invaders - 21 minutes Commodore 64: Centipede - 10 minutes Donkey Kong - 16 minutes Pac-Man - 23 minutes Atari 5200: Defender - 11 minutes Dig Dug - 10 minutes Galaxian - 13 minutes Pac-Man - 22 minutes Pole Position - 8 minutes NES: Final Fantasy - 288 minutes Extra Mario Bros. [HACK] - 59 minutes And some modern games... I took a week long break from Alundra to work more on Final Fantasy. I'm getting better at it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+thegoldenband #564 Posted September 5, 2011 Genesis:Thunder Force II - 30 min. Whoops, this should be 80 minutes. Zee mistake, it is mine. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+thegoldenband #565 Posted September 5, 2011 Here's the summary for Week 36, running from August 29 - September 4. We logged 3368 minutes of eligible play, playing 75 games on a total of 12 systems. Top 10: 1. Berzerk (Atari 2600) - 640 2. Shadow of the Beast (Genesis) - 370 3. Final Fantasy (NES/Famicom) - 288 4. Pole Position (Atari 5200) - 278 5. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 222 6. Threshold (VIC-20) - 120 7. AD&D: Cloudy Mountain (Intellivision) - 95 8. Threshold (C64) - 90 9. Thunder Force II (Genesis) - 80 10. Mr. TNT (Arcade) - 63 10. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 63 Pre-NES top 10: 1. Berzerk (Atari 2600) - 640 2. Pole Position (Atari 5200) - 278 3. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 222 4. Threshold (VIC-20) - 120 5. AD&D: Cloudy Mountain (Intellivision) - 95 6. Threshold (C64) - 90 7. Mr. TNT (Arcade) - 63 8. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 63 9. World Championship Baseball (Intellivision) - 45 10. Frantic (Atari 2600) - 40 10. Tron: Deadly Discs (Intellivision) - 40 Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 (1199) 2. Genesis (520) 3. NES/Famicom (487) 4. Atari 5200 (334) 5. Intellivision (263) 6. C64 (159) 7. Arcade (148) 8. VIC-20 (120) 9. Sega Master System (60) 10. ColecoVision (32) Huge week for the VCS, with Berzerk arriving out of nowhere to take the top spot! Between that and Kaboom, the 2600 has more minutes than its nearest two competitors combined. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #566 Posted September 5, 2011 What can I say I like Berzerk . I'll update this post at the end of the day with my times! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #567 Posted September 5, 2011 (edited) Forgot about the 1 hour edit limit . . . Atari 2600 Berzerk - 180 minutes (I got like 38,020, 47,890, and my final run was 65,350) Mr. Do's Castle - 30 minutes (I really want to like this game, but I just can't seem to figure it out, I don't know how to get the freaking creatures under me) Edited September 5, 2011 by disjaukifa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #568 Posted September 6, 2011 Atari 2600 Berzerk - 15 minutes Mr. Do!'s Castle - 180 minutes (I finally kind of figured out what the heck is going on, I can consistently now get about 80K, but that seems to be my limit) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #569 Posted September 6, 2011 (edited) Atari 2600 Mr. Do!'s Castle - 60 minutes (Finally broke 100K) Edited September 6, 2011 by disjaukifa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zylon #570 Posted September 11, 2011 SMS: Action Fighter 10 min A8: QIX 30 min 5200: Pole Position 1.25 hrs Popeye 10 min 2600: Kaboom 20min Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
disjaukifa #571 Posted September 11, 2011 Wow I forgot to update this . . . going to take a while Wednesday Atari 2600 My Do!'s Castle - 90 minutes Solar Storm - 30 minutes Berzerk - 30 minutes LEM - 10 minutes Thursday Atari 2600 Solar Storm - 30 minutes Infiltrate - 5 minutes Stargate - 5 minutes Donkey Kong - 10 minutes Milipede - 5 minutes Desert Falcon - 5 minutes Berzerk - 30 minutes Friday Atari 2600 Solar Storm - 5 minutes Frantic - 20 minutes Berzerk - 40 minutes LEM - 30 minutes Saturday Atari 2600 Berzerk 90 minutes Off The Wall - 20 minutes Dark Chambers - 15 minutes Donkey Kong Junior - 3 minutes Battlezone - 10 minutes Space Shuttle - 5 minutes Demon Attack - 5 minutes Midnight Magic - 10 minutes Gravitar - 3 minutes Xenophobe - 3 minutes Realsports Boxing - 15 minutes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atarian7 #572 Posted September 11, 2011 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-188 minutes High score of the week: ??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the.golden.ax #573 Posted September 11, 2011 I don't think I can always say how long, but it may be fun to try and participate in this thread more. I like hearing about things that I may never have otherwise, or be reminded of neglected items. Spent allot of time with Super Tempo on Saturn over the past week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vlSCTQXiRQ Great game. Some levels require Japanese reading skills, but you can blunder through. No freaking Save, so I've had to leave my Saturn on. AX Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cparsley #574 Posted September 11, 2011 INTV BurgerTime! - 275 minutes (wonder if that chef is an evil genius or someone on ADD (flapping hands at end of each level) Diner! - 30 minutes (yes, the hatchet job of Masters II into BT! II) King of the Mountain - 45 minutes (still a neat 'lil game, too bad it never got released) Lock 'n Chase - 40 minutes (run Lupin, RUN!!!!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+thegoldenband #575 Posted September 11, 2011 I don't think I can always say how long, but it may be fun to try and participate in this thread more. Hey, that'd be great! You don't have to stopwatch it -- estimates are OK if exact numbers aren't available. What should I put down as a ballpark for Super Tempo -- three hours? Four? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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