What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2011 (Season 4)

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 16, running from April 11-17. We logged 2505 minutes of eligible play, playing 29 games on a total of 12 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 499

2. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 428

3. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 389

4. Kirby Super Star (SNES) - 227

5. Gex: Enter the Gecko (PlayStation) - 183

6. Montezuma's Return (Game Boy Color) - 135

7. Final Fight (SNES) - 122

8. Final Fantasy (NES/Famicom) - 119

9. Dragon Warrior II (NES/Famicom) - 61

10. Toy Commander (Dreamcast) - 57

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 428

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 389

3. AD&D: Cloudy Mountain (Intellivision) - 40

4. Bank Heist (Atari 2600) - 30

4. Venture (Intellivision) - 30

6. Centipede (Atari 8-bit) - 25

7. Final Approach (Atari 2600) - 20

7. Utopia (Intellivision) - 20

9. Beef Drop (Atari 8-bit) - 15

9. Centipede (Atari 2600) - 15

9. Power Lords (Atari 2600) - 15

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Game Boy (527)

2. Intellivision (518)

3. Atari 2600 (474)

4. SNES (349)

5. PlayStation (183)

6. NES/Famicom (180)

7. Game Boy Color (135)

8. Dreamcast (57)

9. Atari 8-bit (45)

10. TI-99 (27)

 

Pokemon Red takes the top spot for the fourth consecutive week, while the Game Boy just barely edges out the Intellivision on the overall system charts.

 

Meanwhile, Championship Tennis sneaks past Kaboom on the pre-NES charts, and with this week's gameplay, is now exactly 100 minutes short of joining the 1000-minute club.

 

By the way, unless there's something in 2009 (I don't have full records for that year yet), before this week we'd never had a single Atari ST game on our tracker! Its chief rival, the Amiga, only has two games listed in all my records.

[zylon]

I'm running behind this week. Here's my times through Sunday 4/17.

2600:

Missile Command 1.25 hrs

Kaboom 15min

5200:

Centipede 2.5 hrs

Gyruss 2 hrs

Castle Blast 30min

C64:

Gyruss 45min

[StanJr]

VCS

 

Pete Rose Baseball 35 mins.

King Kong 25 mins.

Lock n' Chase 15 mins.

Stargunner 10 mins.

Demolition Herby 10 mins.

[StanJr]

VCS

 

Sir Lancelot 20 mins. (sorely under-appreciated)

Lock n' Chase 10 mins.

Air Raiders 35 mins. (best dog fight game on the VCS)

King Kong 50 mins. (I'm learning to love it)

[GKC]

Hadn't been able to play any games for about the last week but I got some in today.

 

SNES:

 

Jurassic Park - 15 min

Out of this World - 45 min

 

Dreamcast:

 

NFL 2k - 30 min

 

I forgot how impossibly difficult Out of this World is. Slow controls and one hit deaths = frustrating.

[GKC]

Leaving for a week and the last taste in my mouth will be Jurassic Park.

 

SNES:

 

Jurassic Park - 100 min

 

The game is fun but the indoor-doom imitation parts hurt my head. Such slow movements and slow frame rates If you don't make it through a door exactly you have to sit and wait for it to slowly close and then open again. However, the out door slaying of raptors and electrocution of the little ones is sure enjoyable.

Edited April 21, 2011 by GKC

[+thegoldenband]

My times for Monday - Wednesday:

 

Atari 2600:

General Retreat - 2 min.

 

Intellivision:

AD&D: Cloudy Mountain - 29 min.

Championship Tennis - 185 min.

Frog Bog - 6 min.

Thin Ice - 21 min.

USCF Chess - 477 min.

 

SNES:

Super Return of the Jedi - 3 min.

 

Sega CD:

Wonder Dog - 105 min.

 

Dreamcast:

Toy Commander - 46 min.

 

I'm on vacation this week so I have some extra gaming time, most of which I've dedicated to the Intellivision so far. As I posted elsewhere, I finally beat Championship Tennis, defeating the computer at Roland Garros on the hardest difficulty, 7-5 6-2 6-3. Very, very satisfying, and since all three types of court seem to play the same way, I'm considering this one done. Somehow it pleases me that my winning match was also the one that put Championship Tennis into the 1000-minute club.

 

I also tried to beat USCF Chess, but I ran into an obscure bug that caused the computer to essentially stop thinking and throw up an error after thinking for 30 minutes. I'm still not sure what caused it, but I spent some time looking into it and found that it was consistent and reproducible, even in emulation.

 

I may try again with a different opening, as it seems like the exact sequence of moves has something to do with the problem, but I might just do it in emulation so that I can speed up the waiting time. Almost all of those 477 minutes were spent waiting for the computer to move, though obviously I wasn't just sitting idly in front of the TV!

 

Finally, I beat Wonder Dog for Sega CD, and did so more or less on my first try -- I'd played it once before for a few minutes. Really easy platformer that reminds me of Chuck Rock, but with more appealing visuals and catchier music. Still, I can't imagine paying 50 bucks for this and then beating it in one sitting.

Edited April 21, 2011 by thegoldenband

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!-468 minutes

 

 

 

High score of the week: 55,265

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this week (April 17th through 24th)...

 

Arcade:

Do! Run Run - 34 minutes

Side Track - 29 minutes

 

Online game (non-eligible):

Funny Pizza - 717 minutes in 11 sessions

 

Total gaming time: 780 minutes (111 minutes per day)

 

I played two classic arcade games this week... "Do! Run Run" is a bit similar to Dig Dug II (not really surprisingly since Mr. Do! is already a heavy knock-off of Dig Dug). And it has got surprisingly good music for a 1984 arcade game... including arpeggio, a feature that was one year later first used in the music for C-64 games by composers like Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway.

 

"Side Track" is from 1979 and somewhere between "Head on" (which was ported to the TI-99 as "Car Wars" and to the Atari 2600 as "Dodge 'em") and "Pac Man". You are guiding a train running on tracks that are at the start laid out in concentric circles. Basically, you can switch the direction on each junction, but each time your train changes directions, you jump forward a bit and usually cannot change the direction of the next junction you pass. This makes it somewhat hard to steer, thus hard to escape the enemy train even though there is only one. Instead of picking up dots in the maze or on the road, you pick up passengers at the side of the track. If you've picked up all the passengers in the maze, a second round starts with an incredibly fast speed compared to the first one, but on losing a life, you return to the starting speed of the first round (and all progress in the maze is lost). This is a black-and-white game, and I actually became aware of it by watching a video of a Colecovision prototype of it (don't know if that one got completed and released or not).

 

Other than that, I heavily played the browser game "Funny Pizza", which seems to be more time-intensive than Cityville, although it doesn't have as many game elements, so it gets somewhat boring after a time. A special feature of the game is that as part of completing the tutorial, you get premium privileges for 5 days, making the game somewhat easier to play for that period of time.

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the last part of the week:

 

Atari 2600:

Indentures at an Exhibition - 7 min.

UFO Patrol (aka X'Mission) - 7 min.

 

Sega Master System:

ALF - 20 min.

 

Genesis:

Ranger X - 15 min.

 

Sega CD:

Stellar Fire - 14 min.

Wolfchild - 124 min.

 

Sega 32X:

Mortal Kombat II - 115 min.

Motocross - 77 min.

 

Beat Wolfchild on its easiest settings, and completed the 125cc races in Motocross in Amateur mode. I was hoping to also beat Mortal Kombat II for 32X on Easy, but the computer has a habit of suddenly upping its level of play, unleashing nasty combos after being a pushover for many rounds in a row. Still don't understand why so many people rate this port -- I think it's lousy.

[TheGameCollector]

Here are my times:

 

Game Boy:

Pokemon Red Version - 506 minutes

 

Playstation:

Tekken - 170 minutes

Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 - 113 minutes

Bust-A-Move 2 - 100 minutes

 

I now have 103 Pokemon and beat Gary. Still a bit of Pokemon raising and catching to do... Only 3 more of the pokemon are earned from level raising. Rhydon, Dragonaire and Dragonite.

 

Tekken 1 is beaten with Kazuya. that was hard.

 

Dragon Ball Z was beaten as Goku in that normal mode and is now going through Build Up mode. 1st block is done as Goku.

 

Bust-A-Move 2 I beat Vs CPU on normal mode and beat 1 run of puzzle mode on easy setting.

[zylon]

Through Sunday 4/24:

Had the family playing TI99 this holiday weekend.

TI99/4A:

Ms Pacman 1.25hrs

Jungle Hunt 20min

Pole Position 15min

TI Invaders: 50min

Super Demon Attack 30min

Burgertime 15min

 

Times would've been higher if I'd remembered to bring the wico adaptor instead of the TI supplied sticks.

2600:

Missile Command 1.25hrs

A8:

Joust 2hrs

SMS:

Space Harrier 1.5hrs

5200:

Xevious 25min

Kaboom 1.75 hrs.

Edited April 25, 2011 by zylon

[StanJr]

NES

 

Crystalis 125 mins.

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 17, running from April 18-24. We logged 4143 minutes of eligible play, playing 49 games on a total of 14 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 506

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 483

3. USCF Chess (Intellivision) - 477

4. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 185

5. Tekken (PlayStation) - 170

6. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 165

7. Centipede (Atari 5200) - 150

8. Wolfchild (Sega CD) - 124

9. Gyruss (Atari 5200) - 120

9. Joust (Atari 8-bit) - 120

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 483

2. USCF Chess (Intellivision) - 477

3. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 185

4. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 165

5. Centipede (Atari 5200) - 150

6. Gyruss (Atari 5200) - 120

6. Joust (Atari 8-bit) - 120

8. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 105

9. King Kong (Atari 2600) - 75

9. Ms. Pac-man (TI-99) - 75

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (874)

2. Intellivision (718)

3. Game Boy (506)

4. Atari 5200 (430)

5. PlayStation (383)

6. Sega CD (243)

7. TI-99 (205)

8. Sega 32X (192)

9. SNES (163)

10. Atari 8-bit (120)

 

Pokemon Red stays at the top for a fifth consecutive week, despite a strong challenge from Kaboom and USCF Chess. The systems to which those titles belong (Atari 2600 and Intellivision) dominate the Top 10 system charts completely, and pre-crash consoles in general had a very strong showing.

 

Intellivision games USCF Chess and Championship Tennis both crossed into the 1000-minute club this week. As soon as I get the updated 2009 stats, I'll post an updated roster for that elite group, and those beyond it...will a game on our tracker someday reach 100,000 minutes?

Edited April 26, 2011 by thegoldenband

[TheGameCollector]

Here's the summary for Week 17, running from April 18-24. We logged 4143 minutes of eligible play, playing 49 games on a total of 14 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 506

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 483

3. USCF Chess (Intellivision) - 477

4. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 185

5. Tekken (PlayStation) - 170

6. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 165

7. Centipede (Atari 5200) - 150

8. Wolfchild (Sega CD) - 124

9. Gyruss (Atari 5200) - 120

9. Joust (Atari 8-bit) - 120

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 483

2. USCF Chess (Intellivision) - 477

3. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 185

4. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 165

5. Centipede (Atari 5200) - 150

6. Gyruss (Atari 5200) - 120

6. Joust (Atari 8-bit) - 120

8. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 105

9. King Kong (Atari 2600) - 75

9. Ms. Pac-man (TI-99) - 75

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (874)

2. Intellivision (718)

3. Game Boy (506)

4. Atari 5200 (430)

5. PlayStation (383)

6. Sega CD (243)

7. TI-99 (205)

8. Sega 32X (192)

9. SNES (163)

10. Atari 8-bit (120)

 

Pokemon Red stays at the top for a fifth consecutive week, despite a strong challenge from Kaboom and USCF Chess. The systems to which those titles belong (Atari 2600 and Intellivision) dominate the Top 10 system charts completely, and pre-crash consoles in general had a very strong showing.

 

Intellivision games USCF Chess and Championship Tennis both crossed into the 1000-minute club this week. As soon as I get the updated 2009 stats, I'll post an updated roster for that elite group, and those beyond it...will a game on our tracker someday reach 100,000 minutes?

 

 

Probably someday. When it happens who knows what it will be. If the Kaboom guy gets tired of Kaboom and starts playing Space Invaders instead for example, then it might or might not be it. If you look at things though, that is the one game that is constantly played here. It is pretty good. It's one of the only four Atari 2600 games I have CIB.

 

And for example I may be playing a lot of Pokemon Red currently so it's getting a lot of minutes in the tracker, but when I'm done I'll be switching to Pokemon Blue and then eventually Pokemon Yellow, Gold, Silver and Crystal one by one till that series is brought up to the more modern games. I wouldn't expect any of those games to be the first to break 100,000 minutes. I expect somewhere in between there I will get sick of the game and focus more on the Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior series because I am wayyyy behind the times in those series. I've just barely gotten started.

Edited April 26, 2011 by TheGameCollector

[Atarian7]

Here's the summary for Week 17, running from April 18-24. We logged 4143 minutes of eligible play, playing 49 games on a total of 14 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 506

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 483

3. USCF Chess (Intellivision) - 477

4. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 185

5. Tekken (PlayStation) - 170

6. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 165

7. Centipede (Atari 5200) - 150

8. Wolfchild (Sega CD) - 124

9. Gyruss (Atari 5200) - 120

9. Joust (Atari 8-bit) - 120

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 483

2. USCF Chess (Intellivision) - 477

3. Championship Tennis (Intellivision) - 185

4. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 165

5. Centipede (Atari 5200) - 150

6. Gyruss (Atari 5200) - 120

6. Joust (Atari 8-bit) - 120

8. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 105

9. King Kong (Atari 2600) - 75

9. Ms. Pac-man (TI-99) - 75

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (874)

2. Intellivision (718)

3. Game Boy (506)

4. Atari 5200 (430)

5. PlayStation (383)

6. Sega CD (243)

7. TI-99 (205)

8. Sega 32X (192)

9. SNES (163)

10. Atari 8-bit (120)

 

Pokemon Red stays at the top for a fifth consecutive week, despite a strong challenge from Kaboom and USCF Chess. The systems to which those titles belong (Atari 2600 and Intellivision) dominate the Top 10 system charts completely, and pre-crash consoles in general had a very strong showing.

 

Intellivision games USCF Chess and Championship Tennis both crossed into the 1000-minute club this week. As soon as I get the updated 2009 stats, I'll post an updated roster for that elite group, and those beyond it...will a game on our tracker someday reach 100,000 minutes?

 

 

Probably someday. When it happens who knows what it will be. If the Kaboom guy gets tired of Kaboom and starts playing Space Invaders instead for example, then it might or might not be it. If you look at things though, that is the one game that is constantly played here. It is pretty good. It's one of the only four Atari 2600 games I have CIB.

 

And for example I may be playing a lot of Pokemon Red currently so it's getting a lot of minutes in the tracker, but when I'm done I'll be switching to Pokemon Blue and then eventually Pokemon Yellow, Gold, Silver and Crystal one by one till that series is brought up to the more modern games. I wouldn't expect any of those games to be the first to break 100,000 minutes. I expect somewhere in between there I will get sick of the game and focus more on the Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior series because I am wayyyy behind the times in those series. I've just barely gotten started.

 

 

LOL I'm the "Kaboom guy" and I will play it until I reach the maximum score of 999,999 probably. I'm starting to get

frustrated though. The past couple of weeks I have regressed so maybe a break would help.

[StanJr]

VCS

 

King Kong 20 mins.

Shark Attack 30 mins.

Sir Lancelot 25 mins.

Air Raiders 10 mins.

Infiltrate 15 mins.

 

 

NES

 

Crystalis 79 mins.

[zylon]

Through 4/30

2600:

Kaboom 45min

Missile Command 1hr

Ms Pacman 25min

Enduro 20min

Robot Tank 30min

Superman 10min

Porky's 5min

5200:

Kaboom 3hrs

Sears Pinball/Breakaway console 20min

Gamegear:

Sonic Drift 2 30min

SMS:

Zaxxon 3D 1hr

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!-507 minutes

 

 

 

High score of the week: 115,743

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (April 25th through May 1st):

 

Colecovision:

Destructor - 266 min. in 5 sessions

 

Intellivision:

Burgertime - 23 min.

Diner - 152 min. in 3 sessions

 

Browser game (non-eligible):

Funny Pizza - 81 min. in 2 sessions

 

Total gaming time: 522 minutes (75 minutes per day)

 

This week, I played a lot of "Destructor". Actually I only played it for that long because I've been mapping out the game. I found out that the map basically consists of a grid of 32x24 tiles where each tile is made up of 8x8 characters (which are itself 8x8 pixels), but the characters mostly are laid out in a grid of 4x4 so that 4 characters next to each other are the same. Most of the map only consists of 3 different characters - road, grass and water - with very few high-resolution objects thrown in. Some tiles aren't always the same... there are rivers crossing the whole map, and some roadways which are bridges over the river in one round end up being cut off by the river in the next round. Basically, the game is pretty frustrating because of the bad steering - you only get 8 directions in which your car can go, and still it often doesn't go into the direction you want it to go, which leads to some unintended deaths.

 

Then I revisited Diner for quite a long time for a revisit, but that revisit already has been completed today with a game lasting about 28 minutes, reaching Level 13. There are some levels where your way gets blocked by an enemy if you want to go to one of the boulders you still have to eliminate.

 

Lastly, I played the Intellivision version of "Burger Time" in order to compare it to the sequel "Diner" a bit, and of course to the arcade version. What struck me in this version is that you can't turn around immediately, rather, if you try to go the other way, Peter Pepper continues his journey up to a pre-defined point (seems to work in half-character steps) and then turns around, which may cause him running into an enemy even though you tried to avoid that. Anyway, I reached Level 7, which is the last pattern before the patterns start to repeat, but I didn't manage to finish that level.

[TheGameCollector]

This week I was too burned out from other things in life to play as many video games. Here are my times:

 

Game Boy:

Pokemon Red Version - 334 minutes

 

Playstation:

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - 266 minutes

Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 - 49 minutes

Bust-A-Move 2 - 34 minutes

 

I think this week I had the most fun with Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus.

 

Pokemon Red is just starting to get old. I have had 109 out of 122 Pokemon that you can possibly find within a single playthrough of the game without trading for the missing ones. I just need some evolution stones, Safari Zone only Pokemon, and some legendaries.

[+thegoldenband]

All I played this week was:

 

ColecoVision:

Sewer Sam - 5 min.

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 18, running from April 25 - May 1. We logged 2425 minutes of eligible play, playing 25 games on a total of 10 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 552

2. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 334

3. Destructor (ColecoVision) - 266

3. Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (PlayStation) - 266

5. Crystalis (NES/Famicom) - 204

6. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 180

7. Diner (Intellivision) - 152

8. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 60

9. Zaxxon 3-D (Sega Master System) - 60

10. Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (PlayStation) - 49

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 552

2. Destructor (ColecoVision) - 266

3. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 180

4. Diner (Intellivision) - 152

5. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 60

6. Robot Tank (Atari 2600) - 30

6. Shark Attack (Atari 2600) - 30

8. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 25

8. Sir Lancelot (Atari 2600) - 25

10. Burgertime (Intellivision) - 23

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (802)

2. PlayStation (349)

3. Game Boy (334)

4. ColecoVision (271)

5. NES/Famicom (204)

6. Atari 5200 (180)

7. Intellivision (175)

8. Sega Master System (60)

9. Game Gear (30)

10. Sears Video Pinball System (20)

 

Kaboom and the Atari 2600 return to the top of the charts! Quiet-ish week overall, but that's not surprising at this time of year.

Edited May 2, 2011 by thegoldenband

[+thegoldenband]

BTW I'm assuming that the Sears Pinball/Breakaway dedicated console is the same as the Sears Video Pinball System which I already had in the database. If that's incorrect, please let me know.

[TheGameCollector]

Here's the summary for Week 18, running from April 25 - May 1. We logged 2425 minutes of eligible play, playing 25 games on a total of 10 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 552

2. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 334

3. Destructor (ColecoVision) - 266

3. Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (PlayStation) - 266

5. Crystalis (NES/Famicom) - 204

6. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 180

7. Diner (Intellivision) - 152

8. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 60

9. Zaxxon 3-D (Sega Master System) - 60

10. Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (PlayStation) - 49

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 552

2. Destructor (ColecoVision) - 266

3. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 180

4. Diner (Intellivision) - 152

5. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 60

6. Robot Tank (Atari 2600) - 30

6. Shark Attack (Atari 2600) - 30

8. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 25

8. Sir Lancelot (Atari 2600) - 25

10. Burgertime (Intellivision) - 23

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (802)

2. PlayStation (349)

3. Game Boy (334)

4. ColecoVision (271)

5. NES/Famicom (204)

6. Atari 5200 (180)

7. Intellivision (175)

8. Sega Master System (60)

9. Game Gear (30)

10. Sears Video Pinball System (20)

 

Kaboom and the Atari 2600 return to the top of the charts! Quiet-ish week overall, but that's not surprising at this time of year.

 

Grrr, you gave the wrong Oddworld game credit. I said Oddworld Abe's Exoddus. You know, Oddworld 2 on Playstation.