What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2013 (Season 6)

[Atarian7]

I hope it doesn't take as many more minutes to get the maximum score on Kaboom!. 94574 !!!

I haven't been able to get balanced lately. I try too hard. I don't try hard enough.

I don't think I'm getting burnt out. I'm just getting frustrated.

[carlsson]

According to Wikipedia, it takes at least 2 hours 46 minutes to get the maximum score, so you should fit up to 32 perfect rounds before the total amount of time spent will exceed 100,000 minutes.

[Atarian7]

According to Wikipedia, it takes at least 2 hours 46 minutes to get the maximum score, so you should fit up to 32 perfect rounds before the total amount of time spent will exceed 100,000 minutes.

 

Wikipedia is wrong. I once got to 250,000 in one hour and I was going as fast as possible. So it would take 4 hours at that pace, which is very difficult to maintain for 4 hours.

[+thegoldenband]

I finished off one more bit of statistical bookkeeping. Here's the "official" roster of the 1000-minute club, with the season and week in which they reached the magic number.

 

The 1000-minute club, sorted by the season and week they joined:

 

2008 (Season #1)

Week 2 - Pitfall! (Atari 2600)

Week 8 - Man Goes Down (Atari 2600)

Week 9 - Kaboom! (Atari 2600)

Week 11 - Toyshop Trouble (Atari 2600)

 

2009 (Season #2)

Week 1 - Adventure (Atari 2600)

Week 2 - Jack and the Beanstalk (Atari 2600)

Week 3 - Dragster (Atari 2600)

Week 5 - Park Patrol (C64)

Week 24 - Galaxian (Atari 2600)

Week 25 - Mouse Trap (ColecoVision)

Week 25 - Donkey Kong (Atari 2600)

Week 27 - Midnight Magic (Atari 2600)

Week 29 - Pepper II (ColecoVision)

Week 30 - Galaga (Arcade)

Week 37 - Jr. Pac-man (Atari 7800)

Week 40 - Ms. Pac-man (Atari 2600)

Week 42 - Medieval Mayhem (Atari 2600)

Week 47 - Final Fantasy VIII (PlayStation)*

 

*wasn't counted at the time, but we started tracking PlayStation games not long afterward

 

2010 (Season #3)

Week 1 - Missile Command (Atari 2600)

Week 3 - MisAdventure Revised (Atari 2600)

Week 4 - Centipede (TI-99)

Week 5 - Devil's Crush (TG-16/PC Engine)

Week 7 - Reactor (Atari 2600)

Week 7 - Final Fantasy (NES)

Week 8 - Hang-On (Sega Master System)

Week 8 - Phantasy Star IV (Genesis)

Week 10 - Sword of Vermilion (Genesis)

Week 11 - Dragon Warrior (NES)

Week 11 - Millipede (Atari 2600)

Week 12 - Worms World Party (Dreamcast)

Week 14 - Pepper II (Arcade)

Week 15 - Shamus (Atari 8-bit)

Week 19 - Demon Attack (Atari 2600)

Week 23 - Klax (Atari 2600)

Week 25 - Sinistar (Arcade)

Week 26 - Gauntlet Legends (N64)

Week 33 - SteamRoller (ColecoVision)

Week 45 - Landstalker (Genesis)

Week 45 - Centipede (Atari 7800)

 

2011 (Season #4)

Week 02 - Worms (Atari Jaguar)

Week 06 - Beggar Prince (Genesis)

Week 07 - Wizball (C64)

Week 10 - Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

Week 10 - Super Mario 64 (N64)

Week 11 - Beyond the Beyond (PlayStation)

Week 12 - Suikoden (PlayStation)

Week 14 - Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy)

Week 17 - Championship Tennis (Intellivision)

Week 17 - USCF Chess (Intellivision)

Week 21 - Centipede (Atari 5200)

Week 21 - Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds (NES/Famicom)

Week 22 - Vandal-Hearts (PlayStation)

Week 23 - Zelda Challenge: Outlands (NES/Famicom)

Week 26 - Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

Week 26 - Motocross Championship (Sega 32X)

Week 28 - Star Odyssey (Genesis)

Week 29 - Astrosmash (Intellivision)

Week 30 - Burgertime (Intellivision)

Week 31 - Time Pilot (Arcade)

Week 32 - Suikoden II (PlayStation)

Week 34 - Sol-Feace (Sega CD)

Week 36 - Berzerk (Atari 2600)

Week 39 - Alundra (PlayStation)

Week 40 - Missile Command (Atari 5200)

Week 43 - Candy Catcher (Atari 2600)

Week 43 - Toy Commander (Dreamcast)

Week 44 - Shining in the Darkness (Genesis)

Week 47 - King's Field II (PlayStation)

Week 50 - Pokemon Blue Version (Game Boy)

Week 50 - Q*Bert's Qubes (Arcade)

Week 52 - Pole Position (Atari 5200)

Week 53 - Catrap (Game Boy)

 

2012 (Season #5)

Week 01 - Pac-Man (Arcade)

Week 01 - Asteroids (Atari 7800)

Week 01 - WarpSpeed (Genesis)

Week 04 - Berzerk (Arcade)

Week 04 - Diner (Intellivision)

Week 12 - Galaxian (Atari 5200)

Week 12 - Legend of Wukong (Genesis)

Week 14 - Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach (NES)

Week 15 - Qbillion (Game Boy)

Week 16 - Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade)

Week 17 - Super Hydlide (Genesis)

Week 18 - Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean (Sega Saturn)

Week 18 - Lock 'n' Chase (Intellivision)

Week 19 - Berzerk (Atari 5200)

Week 19 - Pilotwings (N64)

Week 25 - Video Chess (Atari 2600)

Week 29 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

Week 31 - Dr. Mario (Atari 8-bit)

Week 32 - Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar)

Week 42 - Baseball Stars (NES)

Week 42 - Dragon Warrior II (NES)

Week 49 - AD&D: Cloudy Mountain (Intellivision)

Week 50 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Atari 7800)

Week 50 - Battle Chess (3DO)

 

2013 (Season #6) to date:

Week 5 - Turtles (Arcade)

Week 7 - Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1 (SNES)

Week 8 - Heart Break [beta] (Atari 2600)

Week 9 - Andre Agassi Tennis (Genesis)

Week 10 - Frogger (PlayStation)

Week 10 - Warrior of Rome II (Genesis)

Week 20 - Asteroids (Atari 2600)

Week 25 - Escape from Monster Manor (3DO)

Week 26 - ATP Tour Championship Tennis (Genesis)

Week 26 - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (PlayStation)

Week 28 - Dragon Force (Saturn)

[Atarian7]

Was someone else playing Kaboom! in 2008? I don't think I've been participating for 5 years.

[+thegoldenband]

Other folks logged times for it, but you were indeed there from the start. This is how it all began:

 

I played Kaboom! this past week. I don't know how long.

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!-197 minutes

 

 

High score of the week: 55,923

[carlsson]

VIC-20

Dodgecars: 26 min

Jungle Hunt: 21 min

Metagalactic Llamas: 159 min

Sword of Fargoal: 154 min

VIC-Splatform: 33 min

 

Atari 8-bit

M.U.L.E.: 140 min

Pole Position: 68 min

Strip Poker: 17 min

 

Creativision

Air/Sea Attack: 2 min

Crazy Chicky: 3 min

Sonic Invaders: 7 min

Tennis: 3 min

 

Acorn Electron

Microball: 7 min

Mr. Wiz: 18 min

 

Sord M5

Dig Dug: 12 min

Guttang Gottong: 5 min

Pooyan: 24 min

 

MSX

Hyper Rally: 48 min

 

Genesis

Truxton / Tatsujin: 20 min

Thunder Force IV: 10 min

 

SG-1000

Safari Race: 23 min

 

This week I set two new personal bests on Metagalactic Llamas, first 78340 pts and then 83862 pts. Safari Race was actually played on a SC-3000, but as it actually is a SG-1000 with built-in keyboard, I suppose they count as the same system. As for Thunder Force IV on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive, it is technically brilliant and one of few games that I play with my mouth agape at the visual effects. Not sure about playability for beginners though, it is known to be rather difficult.

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (July 22nd through 28th)...

 

Arcade:

Pacmania - 26 min.

Super Burger Time - 46 min.

 

Atari 8-bit:

Spare Change - 25 min.

 

Colecovision:

Moon Patrol (Back-hack of Matt Patrol) - 34 min.

 

MSX:

Burger Time - 181 min. in 4 sessions

 

PC (non-eligible):

BurgerTimes - 43 min.

Crash Time Plumber - 29 min.

Supermarket Management 2 - 60 min.

 

Since I had this week off (as well as the next two), there was more time for gaming than usual, and I played a diverse selection of games on various systems. In alphabetical order, I tried Pacmania in order to see how far I'd get with my Pac-Man playing skills. Not very far, it turned out. Then I replayed Super Burger Time and made the 2nd boss after several tries.

 

On the Atari 8-bit, I replayed Spare Change, but only for one game.

 

On the Colecovision, I tried Moon Patrol which is actually a hack of the leaked "Matt Patrol" which in turn was created at Atarisoft while porting Moon Patrol to the Colecovision. This version of the game misses some features of the arcade original (the hills with rocks and the geysyrs) although it's 32K long. Those features are present in the only 16K long C-64 version.

 

On the PC; I replayed two fan-made games. Crash Time Plumber is a variant of Donkey Kong, mixed with some elements of other games... before getting to the top, you have to collect the flying hearts which seem to be borrowed from Popeye.

 

BurgerTimes on the PC is heavily borrowed from the Intellivision version of BurgerTime, but it contains the arcade levels as well.

 

Supermarket Management 2 is a professional-made time management game. I played through the "free trial" period of one hour.

 

But the game I spent the most time on is the MSX version of Burger Time, which has got more levels than the arcade version (at least 10 vs. 6), but those are simpler constructed. Also, the animation is a bit jerky, and I've lost many lives because the pepper didn't register in time. This game is 32K in size as well, and I wonder if all of this is actually filled.

 

Aside from this, I've been thinking about how Puzzle Bobble might be ported to earlier systems. Since it came out in the arcade in 1995, only current systems of that time got an official port, with the earliest ones being the Game Gear and the SNES. However, there are inofficial versions of the game for the C-64 and the ZX-Spectrum, and since the ZX-Spectrum is able to do it, it should also be doable on other tile-based systems like the TI-99, Colecovision, MSX, or bitmap multicolor systems like the Bally Astrocade and even the Channel-F, with some limitations. It would be hard to do on the Intellivision because of the crude color resolution, however. The Odyssey^3 could probably do it, but I'm not sure about the Odyssey^2 and, in fact, even the NES, although it should be possible on its competitor, the SMS, because there's already a Game Gear version which should be fairly easy to port. Well, to be exact, you could probably do it on the NES, but not in full color.

[zylon]

A8-

Kaboom!-1hr 35min

Super Breakout- 2hrs 10min

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the week:

 

Genesis:

Blaster Master 2: Blasting Again - 2 min.

Block Out - 51 min.

IMG International Tour Tennis - 2 min.

Incredible Crash Test Dummies - 6 min.

Ishido: The Way of Stones - 26 min.

Junction - 99 min.

Pac-Mania - 26 min.

RBI Baseball 4 - 74 min.

Shove It! The Warehouse Game - 5 min.

Wardner - 119 min.

Wayne's World - 9 min.

 

Game Boy:

Mysterium - 17 min.

The Smurfs - 37 min.

 

PlayStation:

Gauntlet Legends - 171 min.

 

Beat Wardner, a nifty, well-crafted little action-platformer which I'm told is very faithful to the arcade version.

 

I also "beat" Block Out and Ishido for the beat-'em-all effort at Sega-16, though I won't be counting those towards my personal list. For Block Out, since the game has no ending or high score, I simply cleared one level of blocks at the fastest speed for each of the three default modes. (And that's easier said than done, I can assure you!) For Ishido, I emptied my pouch of stones (which is good) and got one 4-way combination (which is also good).

 

Otherwise I cleared a few more levels in the inferior PS1 port of Gauntlet Legends with my fiancée; played a couple Game Boy games while I waited for my laundry at the laundromat; won a couple more games in the season mode of RBI Baseball 4; and reached the final set of ten levels in Junction.

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600:

 

Berzerk: 20 min

Skiing: 12 min

Sky Jinks: 10 min

Time Warp: 15 min

[WispFollower]

Intellivision

Ice Trek - 15 minutes

 

NES

Crisis Force - 8 minutes

Guardian Legend - 10 minutes

Gunsmoke - 10 minutes

Summer Carnival 92 - Recca - 20 minutes

Zombie Nation - 15 minutes

Tetris - 30 minutes

Tengen Tetris - 25 minutes

 

Playstation

Chrono Trigger - 30 minutes

 

Very little time for retro gaming this week, as life has been getting a bit too serious for my taste lately. I've been so busy, I even bowed out of the Intellivision Knockout Tournament, which was unfortunate. After that, I decided to play some NES! Sleep was traded to make sure at least some games were played. It's important to have one's priorities straight, after all. Anyway, back to being a cog in a big machine. Bye for now.

[twoquickcapri]

Atari Jaguar:

Missile Command 3D - 25 min.

Soccer Kid - 10 min.

Val d'Isere Skiing and Snowboarding - 10 min.

 

NEC PC Engine :

Popful Mail: Magical Fantasy Adventure - 300 min.

 

Nintendo Famicom:

Super Mario Bros 3 - 180 min.

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 30, running from July 22 - 28. We logged 2923 minutes of eligible play, playing 61 games on a total of 17 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Popful Mail: Magical Fantasy Adventure (TG-16/PC Engine) - 300

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 197

3. Burger Time (MSX) - 181

4. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES/Famicom) - 180

5. Gauntlet Legends (PlayStation) - 171

6. Metagalactic Llamas (VIC-20) - 159

7. Sword of Fargoal (VIC-20) - 154

8. M.U.L.E. (Atari 8-bit) - 140

9. Super Breakout (Atari 8-bit) - 130

10. Wardner (Genesis) - 119

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 197

2. Burger Time (MSX) - 181

3. Metagalactic Llamas (VIC-20) - 159

4. Sword of Fargoal (VIC-20) - 154

5. M.U.L.E. (Atari 8-bit) - 140

6. Super Breakout (Atari 8-bit) - 130

7. Kaboom (Atari 8-bit) - 95

8. Pole Position (Atari 8-bit) - 68

9. Hyper Rally (MSX) - 48

10. Super Burgertime (Arcade) - 46

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 8-bit (475)

2. Genesis (449)

3. VIC-20 (393)

4. TG-16/PC Engine (300)

5. NES/Famicom (298)

6. Atari 2600 (254)

7. MSX (229)

8. PlayStation (201)

9. Arcade (72)

10. Game Boy (54)

 

An unexpected victory this week for the Atari 8-bit, which has no games in the top 5 but manages to edge out the Genesis for the top spot on the system charts, thanks to contributions from three different players.

 

Meanwhile Popful Mail takes the individual charts, Kaboom regains the pre-NES crown, the Acorn Electron and Sord M5 appear on the tracker for the first time, and we see the Creativision for the first time since 2011. Nice diversity indeed!

[carlsson]

Didn't Kurt play 22 mins of Crazy Chicky on the Creativision in week 9 this season?

[+thegoldenband]

^Oops, you're quite right!

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!- 448 minutes

 

High score of the week: 161,451

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit

RealSports Tennis: 21 min

 

BBC Micro

Paperboy: 9 min

Tennis: 3 min

 

Commodore 64

Donald Duck's Playground: 17 min

Great Courts / Pro Tennis Tour: 18 min

International Tennis (Commodore): 41 min

International Tennis (Zeppelin): 15 min

On Court Tennis: 8 min

Pro Tennis Simulator: 23 min

 

Creativision

Tennis: 41 min

 

Interton VC-4000

Black Jack: 35 min

 

MSX

Konami's Tennis: 59 min

 

Nintendo Famicom

Galaga: 2 min

Quarth: 3 min

Super Mario Bros 3: 5 min

 

Sord M5

Real Tennis: 8 min

 

ZX Spectrum

Match Point: 29 min

 

The main theme this week was tennis games for various machines. The C64 in particular (but also the ZX as it turned out) has plenty to choose from, ranging from early 1984'ish titles to 3D ones made in 1992. However it seems the prettier the game is, the harder it is to play, even on the easiest level. Bug-Byte's Tennis for the Acorn Electron/BBC Micro looked worse than I remember it, entirely unplayable.

 

The VC-4000 belongs to the category of 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System, which technically is something of a predecessor to the Arcadia 2001. It doesn't seem to have entered the tracker before, and while cartridges physically are not cross-compatible in the 1292 group, the software is.

Edited August 4, 2013 by carlsson

[zylon]

5200-

Space Dungeon- 12min

 

A8-

Super Breakout- 3hrs 10min

Kaboom!- 20min

[karokoenig]

A short and quick one again. I'm still on the road...

 

Atari 2600:

Skiing - 5 min

Sky Jinks - 10 min

 

Game Boy Classic:

Chase HQ - 22 min

T2 Judgement Day - 30 min

[Kurt_Woloch]

I'm sorry, I forgot to post my times for the past week at the time I usually do. But here they are... my times for the past week (July 29th through August 4th)...

 

Amstrad CPC:

Burgertime - 10 min.

 

Arcade:

Amidar - 40 min.

Burgertime - 111 min. in 4 sessions

Manhattan (DECO Cassette) - 79 min. in 2 sessions

Pleiads - 6 min.

 

Colecovision:

Donkey Kong Jr. - 12 min.

 

MSX:

Burgertime - 65 min.

 

NES:

Donkey Kong Jr. - 11 min.

Mario Bros. - 5 min.

 

Online (non-eligible):

Coin-op boy - 10 min.

 

PC (non-eligible):

Mario Bros. (simulated Game & Watch handheld) - 15 min.

 

I started off the week with some more MSX Burgertime. I think I reached Level 12, and until then the levels don't repeat, but the enemies seem to get a bit tougher. This game differs from the arcade version since the AI of the enemy types is notably different... the sausages favor horizontal movement over vertical one, while the onions like to climb ladders, i.e. they favor vertical movement over horizontal one. Then I played the Amstrad CPC version which is AWFUL! It's horribly slow, you and the enemies move very slowly, flicker without moving, and move at inconsistent speed! It happened to me multiple times that some enemy caught up and ate me because my player character didn't do one more step while the enemy made three. Some French guy must have programmed this in BASIC.

And then I played the arcade version, which seemed a bit like a Turbo version compared to the MSX one at first, and it's so much smoother! It's remarkeable how some programmers manage to destroy games by doing low framerates. Anyway... my goal on the arcade version was to make all the 6 patterns and then try to get as far as i can while they repeat... which is not that easy because as soon as the patterns repeat, the enemies speed up pretty fast, so I didn't manage to exceed Level 8.

 

In between that, I played an online game called Coin-op boy which is a jump'n'run game with a Super Mario-like stage and, I think, 4 subgames like Pinball and Breakout. Each subgame is actually on its own HTML page, and the whole thing was done in HTML5.

 

Then, in keeping with Data East games, I noticed that Manhattan is now supported in MAME. This is a game I know from back in 1981, and I didn't think I'd get to play it again. Well, now I did. Actually, it's not that great, and it pales in comparison with "Burgertime" running on the same hardware. This was followed by a short session of "Pleiads" running on Phoenix hardware and also sporting pretty similar gameplay.

 

Then I downloaded a simulator of the Game & Watch game "Mario Bros." by Luca Antignano, which seems to be pretty true to the original, but I can't really judge it because I don't have the original. I only played one game which lasted about 15 minutes.

 

Then I remembered "Amidar" and played it a bit. In fact, I still do this week, so some more Amidar times will be upcoming for the now-current week. I consider this to be some kind of a sibling to "Turtles"... back in early 1982, those two games appeared in the arcade side-by-side at the same time, they are both by Konami, came in very similar cabinets and also have a nice selection of in-game tunes which sound similarly. Until now, I managed to beat Level 4 on Amidar.

 

Then I played the Colecovision version of Donkey Kong Jr. While the graphics are somewhat true to the arcade, the animation is, like in MSX Burgertime, pretty jerky. I managed to die multiple times because I didn't time my jumps right, which work noticeably different than in the arcade.

 

For a comparison, I tried the NES version of Donkey Kong Jr. What a difference! This one has all 4 stages of the arcade version and as someone who's played the arcade version for a long time, I feel right at home because it's as close to the arcade as you get... within the limits of the NES. It's silky-smooth as in the arcade, the jumps work the same, and even most of the graphics are exactly the same, pixel-by-pixel, only in slightly different colors. And the sound had to be adapted a bit because it relies on analog circuitry in the arcade. Nintendo's NES version is vastly superior to the Coleco one, that's for sure. I think other companies like Activision and Atarisoft have shown what you can do if you really push the Colecovision to the limits.

 

Then I also tried the NES version of "Mario Bros." (the arcade game), which is silky-smooth as well. One notable difference to the arcade version is that you can turn around in mid-air, which isn't possible in the arcade. Otherwise, it plays much the same as in the arcade, and I think it would make a good base for a conversion to other 6502-based systems such as the Creativision.

[WispFollower]

Playstation

Chrono Trigger - 210 minutes

 

Colecovision

Pac-man Collection - 10 minutes

 

NES

Super C - 20 minutes

Gunsmoke - 20 minutes

[+thegoldenband]

Just got back from Las Vegas, hence the late post! I'll do the Week 31 standings tomorrow, but for the moment here are my times from the past week:

 

Arcade:

Altered Beast - 6 min.

Asteroids - 6 min.

Centipede - 7 min.

Frogger - 7 min.

Gun.Smoke - 2 min.

Mad Planets - 4 min.

Marble Madness - 4 min.

Mortal Kombat II - 3 min.

Paddle Battle - 4 min.

Phoenix - 6 min.

The Simpsons - 40 min.

Space Invaders - 5 min.

Street Fighter II: Championship Edition - 2 min.

Tapper - 10 min.

Tron - 8 min.

 

Sharp MZ-700:

Space Blaster FX - 25 min.

 

Genesis:

Art of Fighting - 97 min.

Junction - 11 min.

Sol-Deace - 40 min.

 

At the start of the week, I beat Space Blaster FX for the MZ-700 in emulation, and also beat Sol-Deace and Art of Fighting on Normal for the Sega-16 beat-'em-all. I've beaten both before on their hardest ettings, so it didn't take too long to regain some of my skills, but Art of Fighting especially is tough.

 

While in Vegas, I went to several different places with arcade machines. First was a store called Gamer's Paradise with free-play machines, including a couple of MAME cabinets, but we didn't spend much time there. The next day, we went to a club called Insert Coins, which had tons of games (mostly for 50 cents a pop), and ear-piercingly loud music. While there, my fiancée and I played through and beat The Simpsons, which was fun, and also tried out seven or eight other games. We were hoping to beat Altered Beast too, but when we tried to continue in Level 2 it ate our quarters!

 

Finally, on our last full day in Vegas, we went to the Pinball Hall of Fame, which was probably my favorite of the three places. We played several arcade games there, but unfortunately Marble Madness had a weird malfunction on my second game, and Mad Planets had a somewhat stiff fire button. However, the Pong clone Paddle Battle worked well and was surprisingly entertaining.

 

We also played a bunch of different pinball machines there, which don't count for the tracker, of course. We mostly favored older, electromechanical machines from the 1960s and 1970s (which also had the advantage of being cheaper!). Of the ones I played, my favorite was Snow Derby, an unexpectedly fun little machine that was apparently way ahead of its time. Theater of Magic was also an old favorite.

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 31, running from July 29 - August 4. We logged 1960 minutes of eligible play, playing 57 games on a total of 18 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 448

2. Chrono Trigger (PlayStation) - 210

3. Super Breakout (Atari 8-bit) - 190

4. Burgertime (Arcade) - 111

5. Art of Fighting (U) (Genesis) - 97

6. Manhattan (DECO) (Arcade) - 79

7. Burger Time (MSX) - 65

8. Konami's Tennis (MSX) - 59

9. International Tennis (Commodore) (C64) - 41

9. Tennis (Creativision) - 41

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 448

2. Super Breakout (Atari 8-bit) - 190

3. Burgertime (Arcade) - 111

4. Manhattan (DECO) (Arcade) - 79

5. Burger Time (MSX) - 65

6. Konami's Tennis (MSX) - 59

7. International Tennis (Commodore) (C64) - 41

7. Tennis (Creativision) - 41

9. Amidar (Arcade) - 40

10. Black Jack (Interton VC-4000) - 35

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 (463)

2. Arcade (350)

3. Atari 8-bit (231)

4. PlayStation (210)

5. Genesis (148)

6. MSX (124)

7. C64 (122)

8. NES/Famicom (66)

9. Game Boy (52)

10. Creativision (41)

 

This week there's no doubt who's on top, as Kaboom and the Atari 2600 take the triple crown. We also have the first appearance of the Interton VC-4000 on the tracker, and a strong showing for arcade games and pre-NES platforms.