Starf Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 NES: Double Dragon III: 120 mins Megaman 2: 40 mins Abadox: 60 mins Xevious: 30 mins SNES: The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past: 180 mins Super Mario Kart: 30 mins Super Mario All Stars: 40 mins Vectrex: Mindstorm: 20 mins Fortress of Narzod: 15 mins Animaction: 10 mins Spike: 25 mins 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Here's my game times for the week. I got a sd card floppy emulator and some multicarts for my TI-99 so played a bunch of games TI-99 Ambulance - 10min Arcturus - 20min Good Zaxxon clone but everytime I die it freezes :'( Bang...Bang...Sub - 10min Biplane - 5min Burger Builder - 5min This is a cheap clone of burgertime. Ok game but burgertime is way better Carfax Abbey - 15min Daffy - 5min This game won't seem to work with Atari controller and TI controller I move so slow I die lol Flappy Bird - 10min This game is annoyingly hard Kaboom! - 10min The Activision classic ported to the TI Living Tomb - 5min Micro Pinball II - 10min Pitfall! - 5min Another Activision classic faithfully ported to the TI Road Hunter - 85min This is my favorite Rasmus homebrew so far even if I can't get past track 3 yet River Rescue - 5min Saber Wulf - 10min Not yet sure the goal of this game but it is another great graphical achievement by Rasmus Solitaire - 15min Star Wars - 10min Texan Dealer - 5min Got busted by the popo and lost my stash TI Scramble - 10min My 2nd favorite Rasmus game Titanium - 5min Again another great Rasmus game I suck at :rofl: Tombstone City - 15min Tris - 5min Basic Tetris clone Warzone - 10min A fun vertical shoot em up Warzone 2 - 15min A better vertical shoot em up Win 95 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night - 175min 15min was my playtime then my old lady was like pinball and she stole the PC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 (edited) BBC Micro: Zap! - 13 min. MSX: Hyper Rally - 22 min. Actually I spent more time retro-programming than retro-gaming this week. Edited October 19, 2014 by carlsson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Here are my times for this past week (Sept. 13th through 19th)... Online (non-eligible): Children of Ur - 5 min. Firefox Browser Game (?) - 10 min. Sorry, no classic games this week... I played a bit of Children of Ur, just to see if things have improved, but there haven't been many changes lately. The "Firefox Browser Game" appears nowadays if you open Firefox before you enter the first URL. It's a mini-version of Voxatron, a game contained in the Humble Mozilla Bundle which it should advertise. The player is a block figure which is able to shoot with blocks at a blocky landscape and other characters made up of blocks. This version has got three screens, and only the last one has enemies in it. I didn't have much time for gaming because I'm still preparing for my birthday party on October 27th where I'll do Karaoke. Today I've updated the song list with some newly added discs (yes, I still use discs and even VHS tapes for Karaoke). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 MY WEEK - October 13th-19th: Atari 2600: 1) Alien - 74 minutes 2) Defender Arcade - 10 minutes 3) Pressure Cooker - 123 minutes 4) Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle - 10 minutes Atari 7800: Pole Position 2 - 27 minutes CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS: 1) 2600 Pressure Cooker - Game 1BB for HighScore.com contest - 265,990 points (with audio recorded) 2) 7800 Pole Position 2 - Track 4 Suzuka for 7800 HSC Season 7/Round 11 - 43,760 points 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 My times for the week: Atari 2600: Omicron - 3 min. NES: Hudson Hawk - 11 min. 3DO: Battlesport - 20 min. Bust-A-Move - 2 min. Chiki Chiki Machine Mou Race 2: In Space - 12 min. Flying Nightmares - 1 min. The Horde - 5 min. Moon Cradle (aka Iida Joji Nightmare Interactive: Moon Cradle - Igyou no Hanayome) - 3 min. Psychic Detective - 5 min. PlayStation: Guardian's Crusade - 154 min. Other than some time on the 3DO -- mostly research and testing a new acquisition, plus a match in Battlesport against the computer -- my main gaming this week was resuming a PlayStation RPG I hadn't touched in over a year. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoquickcapri Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 PC (Win9x):MechWarrior 4: Vengeance - 525 min.Sony Playstation:Einhander - 6 min.Tobal No. 1 - 16 min. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Here's the summary for Week 42, running from October 13 - 19. We logged 2671 minutes of eligible play, playing 65 games on a total of 14 systems. Top 10: 1. MechWarrior 4: Vengeance (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 525 2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 428 3. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) - 180 4. 3D Ultra Pinball (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 175 5. Guardian's Crusade (PlayStation) - 154 6. Pressure Cooker (Atari 2600) - 123 7. Double Dragon III (NES/Famicom) - 120 8. Mario Bros. (NES/Famicom) - 95 9. Road Hunter (TI-99) - 85 10. Alien (Atari 2600) - 74 Pre-NES top 10: 1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 428 2. Pressure Cooker (Atari 2600) - 123 3. Road Hunter (TI-99) - 85 4. Alien (Atari 2600) - 74 5. Pole Position II (Atari 7800) - 27 6. Spike (Vectrex) - 25 7. Hyper Rally (MSX) - 22 8. Arcturus (TI-99) - 20 8. Mine Storm (Vectrex) - 20 10. Carfax Abbey (TI-99) - 15 10. Solitaire (TI-99) - 15 10. Tombstone City (TI-99) - 15 10. War Zone II (TI-99) - 15 10. Fortress of Narzod (Vectrex) - 15 Top 10 systems: 1. PC (Windows 95/98) (700) 2. Atari 2600 (653) 3. NES/Famicom (371) 4. TI-99 (300) 5. SNES (250) 6. PlayStation (176) 7. Vectrex (70) 8. 3DO (48) 9. Atari 7800 (27) 10. MSX (22) It's a Windows week, as MechWarrior 4: Vengeance leads the charge for PC gaming, edging out the VCS and its Lancelot, Kaboom. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) Arcade: Gyruss - 5 min, Outrun - 5 min. Pooyan - 6 min. Road Blasters - 15 min. Scramble - 10 min. All games were played on an iCade 60-in-1 Multicade System generic cabinet, except for the two racing games played on dedicated cabinets. NES/Famicom: Gradius - 5 min. Played on an iCade 19-in-1 Beyond Arcade / Multi Williams in a generic cabinet. Since I figure out this game is a Nintendo VS / PlayChoice emulation which in its turn is based on NES hardware, I put this game in this category rather than arcade, as I understand Konami made a genuine arcade version of the game as well, and this one is not the arcade version. KLOV however lists both versions separately, so it might be splitting hairs whether the PlayChoice games should contribute to arcade games or NES games. PC Windows 95/98: Worms 2 - 72 min. Edited October 25, 2014 by carlsson 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Atari 2600 Asterix: 12 min Rampage: 6 min Trick Shot: 3 min NES Destination Earthstar: 6 min SNES Choplifter III: 10 min Gods: 5 min Master System Castle of Illusion (Mickey Mouse): 4 min Wonder Boy: 8 min Mega Drive Spot goes to Hollywood: 5 min Game Boy Classic Donkey Kong Land III: 5 min Game Boy Color Donald Duck Quack Attack: 7 min The usual bag of tricks when you have no time at all and just rush through your new acquisitions after cleaning them. Not much worth any more playtime among those games. Except for Wonder Boy and Asterix. Rampage on the 2600 is one of those games... You can see what happens when people push a system to its limits to port a successful game onto a small system. They did all they could, but the 2600 just isn't up for the job. I'm still happy to own the cart. It looks pretty cool, and I found it in an obscure game shop while I was travelling to a meeting. Nice souvenir :-). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-286 minutes High score of the week: 33,748 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 My Week. Got my monitor issue worked out in time for Extra-Life. Atari 2600: Barnstorming - 10m Demon Attack - 15m Frogger - 30m Keystone Kapers - 60m Pac-Man - 5m Pitfall - 15m River Raid - 20m Skiing - 10m Solar Fox - 15m Sssnake - 1m (yes 1) Atari 7800: Donkey Kong - 25m Donkey Kong Jr - 40m Atari 800: Alley Cat - 20m Boulderdash - 20m 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 TI-99 Arcturus - 10min Got the cartridge version now, much better than disk version. Faster load times and doesn't freeze Caverns of Khafka - 10min Very fun C64 game conversion by Kurt Woloch only thing that would be nice to see fixed is the floatyness but then again that just adds to the challenge ET in his adventures at sea - 5min Super easy game, just go to each city get clues and guess the correct city the ufo has landed then collect buoys to open ufo Miner 2049er - 5min Couldn't figure this game out, gonna have to try it again later Picnic Paranoia - 5min Swat bugs trying to steal your food. I found this game to be a little slow and dull Pizza - 10min Fun little game where you have to quickly serve pizza to 3 waiting lines, miss 3 customers and "Your Fired!" Road Hunter - 20min Finally made it through all 4 tracks and died on the 2nd pass of track 1 Submarine Battle - 20min Fun little shmup Treasure Island - 5min Strange but fun game, just not good at it yet lol Zero Zap - 10min Alot of people don't like this one but I rather enjoyed it, kinda like pinball without the flippers Win 95 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night -200min Non-Eligible: Xbox - Doom 3 - 30min Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders - 185min Obi-wan - 15min Shattered Union - 30min 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Here are my times for this past week: TI-99: Caverns of Khafka - 4 minutes Sabre Wulf - 285 min. in 4 sessions My main game this week was the new TI-99 version of Sabre Wulf after I learned about its existence in last week's Top 10. Actually, I'm not that much a fan of this game, or at least I found the Spectrum version pretty hard and I didn't know my way around the big maze. Meanwhile I've completed about 60% of it in my best game, and I'm continuing to report the crashes I get to Rasmus, the author of the game. About Caverns of Khafka... I didn't mean to list that one, but since it's going to end up in the tracker anyway, I'll list my playtime of it as well. Yes, I did that one myself... and uploaded it here after I learned that Cosmi published some of their other games on the TI-99 as well, all programmed in XBasic, so I figured my version of "Caverns of Khafka" might be up to par to their own efforts. Well, I tested it myself before posting it in order to be able to make educated guesses about what works and what doesn't. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 We played Sword of Fargoal on the Vic-20 today for about 50 minutes. We were moving along at a careful pace, clearing out gold and killing any monsters in our path while staying close to the temple and maintaining full health. Unfortunately we fell into a pit (and discovered that we dropped 3 levels in the dungeon). We cleared that level and decided to decend to the next level (I think 14) after discussing whether it made more sense to go up or down. We quickly ran into a monster we couldn't handle and died A very good game considering that it's on the Vic-20 and from 1982! I'll probably play in again sometime. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 (edited) ONLY 1 GAME FOR THIS WEEK - October 20th-26th Atari 7800 - Pac-Man Collection - 570 minutes in several sessions These sessions are for HighScore.com Official Contests, because there are a lot of settings which have added on the database. Check out my Pac-Man Collection Gameplay Videos Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZKaNnV2BMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiAhlwdTWg4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuSjlw76jmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYUTrhvfvso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuKy8cTNDpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L_5OHCjBxM Edited October 27, 2014 by oyamafamily 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 My times for the week: Intellivision: Next Street (beta) - 2 min. Game Boy: King James Bible - 427 min. 3DO: Battlesport - 68 min. Taiketsu Rumizu! - 213 min. PlayStation: Guardian's Crusade - 83 min. How do you play the Bible for 427 minutes, let alone beat it? Well, this unlicensed Game Boy title isn't just a portable copy of the KJV, but includes two minigames. One's a Hangman game that offers nothing but playing for score, but the other one is a Concentration game using Bible vocabulary -- including words like "foreskin"! -- that explicitly says it has "64 levels". I assumed that meant the total number of stages, but no, it's 64 levels, each of which has four rounds. So that's 256 rounds of Concentration...but I only realized that after solving my 64th board. Ugh. Fortunately I was playing in an emulator so batteries weren't an issue, and I could multitask at times (phone calls, etc.). Still, I probably would've bailed out, except that completing the game meant this year's "beat-'em-all" effort at NintendoAge would surpass the previous year's total of Game Boy games beaten (127 vs. 126). So I took one for the team, I guess, but it was one of the dullest and most mindless gaming experiences I've ever had. Oh, and the reward for beating the 64th and final level is...a level skip code! Jeez, maybe you could've given that to me upfront, guys? I also beat a Japanese-exclusive 3DO game, and beat a few more opponents in Battlesport. EDIT: Oh, and I played some more Guardian's Crusade -- forgot about that! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Vic-20: Sword of Fargoal - another 125 minutes. Made it to Level 13 before I died this time. It gets tedious waiting for your health to recover once you get into the game. I don't know if I'll give this one another shot anytime soon. I think I've seen what it has to offer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoquickcapri Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 PC-DOS:Mechwarrior 2 - 20 min.MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries - 15 min. Metaltech: Earthsiege - 20 min.Tempest 2000 - 20 min.Tomb Raider Gold - 5 min. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 Here's the summary for Week 43, running from October 20 - 26. We logged 2968 minutes of eligible play, playing 57 games on a total of 17 systems. Top 10: 1. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 570 2. King James Bible (Game Boy) - 427 3. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 286 4. Sabre Wulf (TI-99/4A) - 285 5. Taiketsu Rumizu! (3DO) - 213 6. 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 200 7. Sword of Fargoal (VIC-20) - 175 8. Guardian's Crusade (PlayStation) - 83 9. Worms 2 (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 72 10. BattleSport (3DO) - 68 Pre-NES top 10: 1. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 570 2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 286 3. Sabre Wulf (TI-99/4A) - 285 4. Sword of Fargoal (VIC-20) - 175 5. Keystone Kapers (Atari 2600) - 60 6. Donkey Kong Jr. (Atari 7800) - 40 7. Frogger (Atari 2600) - 30 8. Donkey Kong (Atari 7800) - 25 9. River Raid (Atari 2600) - 20 9. Alleycat (Atari 8-bit) - 20 9. Boulder Dash (Atari 8-bit) - 20 9. Road Hunter (TI-99/4A) - 20 9. Submarine Battle (TI-99/4A) - 20 Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 7800 (635) 2. Atari 2600 (488) 3. Game Boy (432) 4. TI-99/4A (389) 5. 3DO (281) 6. PC (Windows 95/98) (272) 7. VIC-20 (175) 8. PlayStation (83) 9. PC (DOS) (80) 10. Arcade (41) The Atari 7800 takes it across the board, as Pac-Man Collection leads the system to #1 on all three charts! Meanwhile Kaboom holds off Sabre Wulf by a margin of a minute, and some guy plays the Bible. EDIT: Realized I left off 83 minutes of PlayStation time, so that's been added in and the charts have been adjusted accordingly. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Atari 2600 Kaboom!-151 minutes High score of the week: 21,718 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 This week: zilch. No playtime at all. Worked my ass off most of the time. On a lighter note, I also had a great time enjoying the last few brilliant late autumn days outside. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Atari 8-bit: M.U.L.E. - 65 min. PC Windows 95/98: Worms 2 - 148 min. SNES: Super R-Type - 13 min. Test Drive II - 26 min. VIC-20: Gridder - 33 min. PSP: (Not eligible) Lumines - 55 min. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Here are my times for this week (October 27th through November 2nd)... Gameboy: Qix - 2 min. MSX: Butamuru Pants - 18 min. TI-99: Caverns of Khafka - 13 min. Sabre Wulf - 218 min. in 5 sessions Astro Fighter - 10 min. Planet Hunter - 3 min. Car race - 1 min. Force-I - 1 min. Missile (Command) - 3 min. Poc Man - 1 min. Star Wars (self programmed) - 3 min. ZX-Spectrum: Sabre Wulf - 8 min. My main game this week was, again, Sabre Wulf on the TI-99, in part because I helped Rasmus track down some remaining bugs. The hardest one was the "stack overflow bug" which he couldn't reproduce himself and which also no other player got. In addition to the playing time, that bug took me about 3 hours to track down in Classic99's debugger. I managed to beat the game in the end. Apart from that, I also played my version of Caverns of Khafka in Classic99's CPU Overdrive mode in order to see roughly how it would behave if I treated it with the Extended Basic Compiler. Then I played "Astro Fighter" on the TI-99 after somebody in the TI-99 programming forum requested a similar game. But I also played "Sabre Wulf" on the ZX Spectrum (which is the original version) for a comparison, but couldn't quite wrap my head around the quirky keyboard assignment which can't be changed in this game. Planet Hunter is an Extended Basic version of Jetpac, but extremely trimmed down and pretty hard. All the other TI-99 games you see come from a cassette tape I backed up yesterday. These are some of the first programs I ever wrote back in Spring 1983 on the TI-99/4A (before I got a disk drive). I listed only those which are halfway playable games. One exception is Force-I which was a type-in. As for the others, Car race is a pretty primitive 3D car racing game, Poc-Man is a Pac-Man clone without ghosts (but pretty fast), Missile is an attempt to port Missile Command to the TI-99 using block graphics (it sets whole characters for its lines!). Star Wars is a bit special since it was designed together with my cousin Alexander back then, who knew nothing about programming, but he was a fan of the movie, and he told me what the game should be like. It actually turned out a bit similar to the first wave of the Star Wars arcade game by Atari (which I didn't know back then), but with the perspective changed from a first-person view to a horizontal scroller (actually, you don't see anything scrolling, only the stars zip by at different speeds). Then I played Butamuru Pants since someone requested a TI-99 conversion of it. This it an 8K MSX game from 1983, and I think it would make a good candidate for a game which could be loaded from tape into an unexpanded TI-99, using a newly discovered technique which allows to run assembler programs in the 256-byte CPU RAM, keeping the program in VDP RAM and paging it in for execution as needed. Finally, I played Qix on the Gameboy. Actually, it's a Gameboy Advance SP, but most of the carts I have for it are for the original Gameboy since we had that one first, it just began to suffer some pixel errors on the border so it got replaced by its younger brother. Actually, I got that unit from my mother today who got it from me as a Christmas present back in, I think, 2003, but now is too old to play it since she doesn't see that well anymore. I played Qix only briefly in order to see if the unit still works, and it does work, including the battery. As usual when I play TI-99 games I have programmed myself, I've included a disk image containing all the newly backed-up TI-99 programs to this post, so they count as being "released". KASSETTE.dsk They should all be used with Extended BASIC. Oh, since we are at the TI-99, please say a prayer for the father of one of Austria's most die-hard TI-99 fans, Gerhard "Helmi" Eichberger, whose father died today at the hospital. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 TI-99 Barrage - 5min Flappy Bird - 5min Missile Command - 10min Planets Hunter - 40min At first I thought this game sucks, but after getting used to it its not too bad, just not sure what I'm supposed to do after my rocket takes off Road Hunter - 10min Sabre Wulf - 20min Scud Busters - 10min TI Runner II - 10min TI Scramble - 10min Titanium - 15min Warzone - 5min Win95 Earthworm Jim - 5min Diablo - 45min Non Eligible Xbox - Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes - 170min 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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