What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2015 (Season 8)

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Time for my weekly report!

I played a few less games this week, but spent about the same amount of time I usually do (around 20 hours, give or take) playing. It's too bad there isn't anyone who would pay me to play old games, since I spend enough time doing it that it could probably be a part time job.

 

 

 

Atari 2600

Centipede - 18 minutes

Crystal Castles - 133 minutes

Dig Dug - 58 minutes

Gorf - 35 minutes

Millipede - 83 minutes

Ms. Pac-Man - 48 minutes

Sentinel - 18 minutes

Game Boy

Mortal Kombat II - 31 minutes

The Sword of Hope - 10 minutes

Game Boy Color

Harvest Moon 2 GBC - 656 minutes

Ms. Pac-Man: Special Color Edition - 35 minutes

Sega Genesis

Zero Tolerance - 52 minutes

Total Play Time This Week
1,177 minutes (19 hours 37 minutes)

Individual System Play Times This Week
Game Boy Color: 691 minutes

Atari 2600: 393 minutes

Sega Genesis: 52 minutes

Game Boy: 41 minutes

Last week I mentioned that I was a looking for a longer and more story focused game to fill large blocks of time with, and after durdling around a bit with Zero Tolerance and The Sword of Hope I ended up finding just what I was looking for in Harvest Moon 2 GBC. I logged over 11 hours in that game alone this week and I'm still less than 1/3 done with it; so as long as my interest in it holds (which it sure seems like it will) I'll probably be playing it off and on for another 3 or 4 weeks until I finish it and—with any luck—save the village farm from getting turned into an amusement park.

I didn't neglect the Atari in the name of farming and virtual hard labor though! I'm still on a major trackball game kick and spent several hours spinning the ball on my Wico Command Control trackball, setting a new personal high score of 112,362 in Crystal Castles and having a heck of a lot of fun playing Millipede too. Sadly Centipede on the Atari 2600 just doesn't work very well with a trackball controller, but pretty much every other trackball arcade game that was ported to the Atari 2600 works brilliantly with the Wico trackball. I was also pretty excited to have set a new high score of 63,050 in Ms. Pac-Man as well! I don't think I'll ever have the insanely awesome skills of Oyamafamily when it comes to Atari 2600 games, but I still get excited whenever I beat one of my old high scores. Or one of my wife's for that matter... though at this point I've pretty much given up ever trying to top her high score in Gorf. She is just crazy good at that game!

I rounded off the week with a game of Sentinel on the 2600, which was just as fun as ever. I am kind of glad that the game only takes 20 minutes to beat though, since I think my trigger finger might give out on me if it lasted much longer than that. Still a great game though, and well worth the price of that Best Electronics Atari Light Gun pictured above. Maybe next week I'll give my reproduction copy of Shooting Arcade a go. Anyway, that's all for this week!

[+thegoldenband]

(With a mouthful of gauze and two fewer teeth than I woke up with this morning...)

Here's the summary for Week 27, running from June 29 - July 5. We logged 4384 minutes of eligible playtime, playing 89 games on a total of 20 systems.

Top 10:

1. Harvest Moon 2 GBC (Game Boy Color) - 656

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 490

3. Mega Bug (CoCo 1 & 2) - 385

4. Historyline 1914-1918 (PC (DOS)) - 200

5. Itchy & Scratchy Game, The (SNES) - 158

6. Frostbite (Atari 2600) - 145

7. Crystal Castles (Atari 2600) - 133

8. Chopper Command (Atari 2600) - 115

9. Stonix (Intellivision) - 105

10. Wordtris (SNES) - 86

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 490

2. Mega Bug (CoCo 1 & 2) - 385

3. Frostbite (Atari 2600) - 145

4. Crystal Castles (Atari 2600) - 133

5. Chopper Command (Atari 2600) - 115

6. Stonix (Intellivision) - 105

7. Astroblast (Atari 2600) - 83

7. Millipede (Atari 2600) - 83

9. Seaquest (Atari 2600) - 80

10. Demolition Derby (CoCo 1 & 2) - 70

Top 10 systems:

1. Atari 2600 (1529)

2. Game Boy Color (691)

3. CoCo 1 & 2 (520)

4. SNES (444)

5. PC (DOS) (391)

6. Intellivision (190)

7. Genesis (119)

8. C64 (105)

9. Atari 7800 (79)

10. Game Boy (50)

Wow, huge numbers across the board this week, with the # of games and platforms especially strong! The Atari 2600 guards its turf on the pre-NES and system charts, but Harvest Moon 2 for Game Boy Color edges it on the Top 10 proper.

Also nice to see are a strong performance from the CoCo 1/2 -- whose Megabug takes the #2 spot on the pre-NES chart -- and first-ever appearances on the tracker by the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 computers, as well as a rare sighting of the ZX Spectrum, which hadn't been logged since 2013.

Finally, the game that was hanging on the edge of the 1000-minute club last week finally crosses over, as Frostbite vaults into spot #157 with 1140 minutes logged.

By the way, an odd statistical blip: cvga's playtime of Impossible Mission for Atari 7800 is that game's first-ever appearance on the tracker! Has a pack-in game ever taken that long to show up before, I wonder?

Great to see lots of folks taking part. Mid-year stats coming!

[+thegoldenband]

All right, so far in 2015 we've played:

- 854 games

- 58 systems

- 78,224 minutes, or the rough equivalent of 54.33 days

Note that in 2014 we played 78,132 minutes -- less than 100 minutes difference! I guess we're pretty consistent.

Here are the top 100 games for the year so far (all times in minutes). And if you're surprised by the #1 game? That's a paddlin'.

Games:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 15655

2. Silent Hunter (PC (DOS)) - 4556

3. Romance of the Three Kingdoms (NES/Famicom) - 4305

4. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 1932

5. Historyline 1914-1918 (PC (DOS)) - 1754

6. Destiny of an Emperor (NES/Famicom) - 1628

7. Frogger (Atari 2600) - 1050

8. Seaman (Dreamcast) - 1001

9. Planet Smashers (Atari 7800) - 865

10. Top Players' Tennis [aka Four Player Tennis] (NES/Famicom) - 741

11. Betrayal (Amiga) - 688

12. Harvest Moon 2 GBC (Game Boy Color) - 656

13. Crisis Mountain (C64) - 618

14. Marsupilami (Genesis) - 580

15. Link: Faces of Evil (Philips CD-i) - 565

16. Klax (Atari 2600) - 555

17. Kileak: The DNA Imperative (PlayStation) - 553

18. Humans, The (Genesis) - 527

19. Rampage (Atari 7800) - 517

20. MechWarrior 4: Black Knight (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 510

21. Baby Pac-Man (Arcade) - 501

22. Dino Eggs (Apple II) - 500

22. Dracula Unleashed (Sega CD) - 500

24. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (PlayStation) - 476

25. Grinch, The (Dreamcast) - 466

26. Silent Service (NES/Famicom) - 465

27. Dino Eggs (C64) - 450

28. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) - 432

29. Prehistoric Tale, A (Amiga) - 423

30. Panzer Strike (TI-99/4A) - 422

31. Crisis Mountain (Apple II) - 415

32. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (PlayStation) - 412

33. Cix (ColecoVision) - 400

34. Mega Bug (CoCo 1 & 2) - 385

35. Doom (PC (DOS)) - 357

36. Wolfenstein 3D (PC (DOS)) - 337

37. Racket Attack (NES/Famicom) - 335

38. Colossal Cave Adventure (Atari 8-bit) - 325

38. Lock N Chase (ColecoVision) - 325

40. Final Fantasy Legend (Game Boy) - 321

41. Orb-3D (NES/Famicom) - 317

42. Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Genesis) - 315

43. Hydlide (NES/Famicom) - 313

44. Jimmy Connors Tennis (NES/Famicom) - 309

45. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 290

46. David Crane's Amazing Tennis (SNES) - 287

47. Pitfall! (Atari 2600) - 265

48. Ms. Pac-Man (Tengen) (NES/Famicom) - 264

49. Wolfenstein: Spear of Destiny (PC (DOS)) - 263

50. Desert Falcon (Atari 7800) - 260

51. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 252

52. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 251

53. JetPack! (ColecoVision) - 250

54. Mr. Do! (Atari 2600) - 247

55. Sky Skipper (Atari 2600) - 244

56. Merlin's Apprentice (Philips CD-i) - 240

57. Bruce Lee II (C64) - 230

58. Itchy & Scratchy Game, The (SNES) - 228

59. Frostbite (Atari 2600) - 227

60. Millipede (Atari 2600) - 225

61. Centipede (Arcade) - 222

62. Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (SNES) - 216

63. Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge (Amiga) - 207

64. Fantastic Voyage (Atari 2600) - 205

64. Xevious (Atari 7800) - 205

66. Joust (Atari 2600) - 195

67. Impossible Mission 2 (C64) - 194

68. Centipede (Atari 2600) - 190

68. Super Pac-Man (Atari 7800) - 190

68. Chessmaster, The (SNES) - 190

71. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 7800) - 185

72. Doom II (PC (DOS)) - 180

73. Lingo (Game Boy) - 179

73. Ms. Pac-Man Special Color Edition (Game Boy Color) - 179

75. Doom (PlayStation) - 172

76. Rambo III (Genesis) - 171

77. Dig Dug (Atari 2600) - 170

78. Crisis Mountain (Atari 8-bit) - 169

79. Super Back to the Future II (SNES) - 166

80. Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Apple II) - 164

81. Short Circuit (Apple II) - 163

82. Gobbler [Pac-Man hack] (Atari 7800) - 160

83. Masked Rider: Kamen Rider ZO (Sega CD) - 158

84. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 156

85. Raiden (Atari Jaguar) - 155

86. Juno First (Atari 2600) - 150

86. Seaquest (Atari 2600) - 150

88. Mega Man 3 (NES/Famicom) - 148

89. Smash TV (NES/Famicom) - 145

90. Portable Ms. Pac-Man [Pac-Man hack] (Atari 7800) - 140

90. Cye (ColecoVision) - 140

92. Q*bert (Atari 2600) - 139

92. Tetris 2 (NES/Famicom) - 139

94. Chopper Command (Atari 2600) - 136

94. Super Mario Bros. (NES/Famicom) - 136

96. Burning Soldier (3DO) - 135

96. Joust (ColecoVision) - 135

96. Yoshi's Cookie (Game Boy) - 135

99. Guardian's Crusade (PlayStation) - 134

99. Bigfoot (TI-99/4A) - 134

And here are the top 100 games on pre-NES platforms for the first half of 2015:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 15655

2. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 1932

3. Frogger (Atari 2600) - 1050

4. Planet Smashers (Atari 7800) - 865

5. Crisis Mountain (C64) - 618

6. Klax (Atari 2600) - 555

7. Rampage (Atari 7800) - 517

8. Baby Pac-Man (Arcade) - 501

9. Dino Eggs (Apple II) - 500

10. Dino Eggs (C64) - 450

11. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) - 432

12. Panzer Strike (TI-99/4A) - 422

13. Crisis Mountain (Apple II) - 415

14. Cix (ColecoVision) - 400

15. Mega Bug (CoCo 1 & 2) - 385

16. Colossal Cave Adventure (Atari 8-bit) - 325

17. Lock N Chase (ColecoVision) - 325

18. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 290

19. Pitfall! (Atari 2600) - 265

20. Desert Falcon (Atari 7800) - 260

21. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 252

22. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 251

23. JetPack! (ColecoVision) - 250

24. Mr. Do! (Atari 2600) - 247

25. Sky Skipper (Atari 2600) - 244

26. Bruce Lee II (C64) - 230

27. Frostbite (Atari 2600) - 227

28. Millipede (Atari 2600) - 225

29. Centipede (Arcade) - 222

30. Fantastic Voyage (Atari 2600) - 205

30. Xevious (Atari 7800) - 205

32. Joust (Atari 2600) - 195

33. Impossible Mission 2 (C64) - 194

34. Centipede (Atari 2600) - 190

34. Super Pac-Man (Atari 7800) - 190

36. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 7800) - 185

37. Dig Dug (Atari 2600) - 170

38. Crisis Mountain (Atari 8-bit) - 169

39. Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Apple II) - 164

40. Short Circuit (Apple II) - 163

41. Gobbler [Pac-Man hack] (Atari 7800) - 160

42. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 156

43. Juno First (Atari 2600) - 150

43. Seaquest (Atari 2600) - 150

45. Portable Ms. Pac-Man [Pac-Man hack] (Atari 7800) - 140

45. Cye (ColecoVision) - 140

47. Q*bert (Atari 2600) - 139

48. Chopper Command (Atari 2600) - 136

49. Joust (ColecoVision) - 135

50. Bigfoot (TI-99/4A) - 134

51. Crystal Castles (Atari 2600) - 133

52. Princess Rescue (Atari 2600) - 131

52. Space Cavern (Atari 2600) - 131

54. Armor Attack (Atari 7800) - 130

54. Baby Pac-Man [hack] (Atari 7800) - 130

54. Caterpillar/Cat-Man [hack] (Atari 7800) - 130

54. Waka Waka [Pac-Man hack] (Atari 7800) - 130

58. Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns (Atari 2600) - 122

59. Artillery Duel (ColecoVision) - 120

60. Pressure Cooker (Atari 2600) - 119

61. Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 118

62. Thunderground (Atari 2600) - 115

63. Double Dragon (Atari 7800) - 109

64. Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 7800) - 105

64. Stonix (Intellivision) - 105

66. William Wobbler (C64) - 104

67. Bleach Pac-Man [hack] (Atari 7800) - 100

68. Dolphin (Atari 2600) - 95

68. Olympic Skier (C64) - 95

70. Commando Raid (Atari 2600) - 92

71. Venture (Atari 2600) - 91

72. Papa Smurf in Pac-Land [hack of Ms. Pac-Man] (Atari 7800) - 90

73. Astroblast (Atari 2600) - 88

73. Armor Attack (Vectrex) - 88

75. Grand Prix (Atari 2600) - 87

76. Wheelie Racer (Epoch Super Cassette Vision) - 86

77. Freeway (Atari 2600) - 85

77. Missile Command (Atari 5200) - 85

79. Rampage (Atari 2600) - 83

80. Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time (VIC-20) - 81

81. Robotron: 2084 (Atari 5200) - 80

81. Dark Chambers (Atari 8-bit) - 80

83. Rocket Smash (C64) - 79

84. Keystone Kapers (Atari 2600) - 78

85. Ikari Warriors (Atari 7800) - 77

86. Defender (Atari 2600) - 76

87. Activision Decathlon (Atari 2600) - 75

87. SteamRoller (ColecoVision) - 75

87. Berzerk (Vectrex) - 75

90. Mario Bros. (Atari 2600) - 70

90. Demolition Derby (CoCo 1 & 2) - 70

90. Rasmus Sports (TI-99/4A) - 70

90. Solar Quest (Vectrex) - 70

94. Tennis (Atari 2600) - 69

95. Worm War I (Atari 2600) - 68

95. Donkey Kong (Atari 7800) - 68

95. Flipull (Tandy MC-10) - 68

98. Superman (Atari 2600) - 65

98. Pengo (Atari 5200) - 65

98. Sno-Cat (VIC-20) - 65

And finally, here are the total gameplay minutes for all the systems we've played so far this year:

1. Atari 2600 (24809)

2. NES/Famicom (10685)

3. PC (DOS) (7948)

4. Atari 7800 (5970)

5. Genesis (2769)

6. C64 (2113)

7. PlayStation (2068)

8. ColecoVision (2014)

9. SNES (1815)

10. Amiga (1576)

11. Dreamcast (1573)

12. Arcade (1454)

13. Apple II (1402)

14. Game Boy Color (1109)

15. Philips CD-i (1108)

16. Game Boy (1068)

17. Sega CD (944)

18. TI-99/4A (796)

19. PC (Windows 95/98) (749)

20. Atari 8-bit (721)

21. Atari Jaguar (534)

22. CoCo 1 & 2 (525)

23. Vectrex (463)

24. 3DO (445)

25. Atari 5200 (385)

26. VIC-20 (354)

27. Intellivision (292)

28. N64 (253)

29. Commodore PET (205)

30. Sega Master System (186)

31. Sega 32X (167)

32. Tandy MC-10 (158)

33. Commodore 16 & Plus/4 (137)

34. Sord M5 (129)

35. Epoch Super Cassette Vision (127)

36. Game Gear (116)

37. Neo Geo AES/MVS (115)

38. TG-CD/PC Engine CD (110)

39. MSX2 (101)

40. TG-16/PC Engine (94)

41. MSX (75)

42. Sega Saturn (65)

43. Sinclair ZX Spectrum (60)

44. Neo Geo CD (55)

45. Atari ST (50)

46. SG-1000 (49)

47. Interton VC-4000 (48)

48. Fairchild Channel F (45)

48. SuperGrafx (45)

50. Amstrad CPC (29)

51. Creativision (24)

52. Acorn Electron (22)

53. Sinclair ZX 80 (20)

54. TRS-80 Model III (15)

55. Odyssey^2 (12)

56. FM Towns Marty (10)

57. Sinclair ZX 81 (9)

58. RCA Studio II (4)

[carlsson]

Wow! Last year we had 60 different systems on an entire season. This year we're already up to 58, so with a bit of creative finding some lesser played ones, we should easily exceed the figure from last year.

 

2010: 49 systems

2011: 51 systems

2012: 46 systems

2013: 60 systems

2014: 60 systems

2015: 58 systems and counting

Edited July 7, 2015 by carlsson

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

Crossbow: 5 min

Dolphin: 3 min

Kampf um die Schatzinsel (aka Treasure Island): 4 min

Robin Hood (not the Xonox one; it's a clone of Save our Ship): 3 min

Robot Tank: 3 min

Smurf: 18 min

Springer: 5 min

 

Played all of these for the High Score Club, looking for a game that has a sun in it. Yeah, weird bonus time again.

 

PC (DOS)

Historyline 1914-18: 1007

 

Four maps played his week. Had some time off :-). Seven maps left to beat.

 

Game Boy Classic

The Pagemaster: 3 min

 

Supershovelware. Stay away. Wasted two bucks on it.

[WispFollower]

NES

 

Smash TV - 55 minutes

 

I have been working a lot lately, and I have been distracted by some good modern games which came out recently.. However, I'll be playing a good amount of classic games soon. I can't stay away too long. Plus, I've got an RGB modded Intellivision on the way! So, that makes three RGB modded classic systems for me now- with Colecovision and N64 being the others. What a time to be alive!

Edited July 12, 2015 by WispFollower

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!- 595 minutes

 

 

High score of the week: 387,837

[carlsson]

PET:

Titrator - 4 min.

Toker - 17 min.

Torpedeo - 2 min. (sic!)

Wipeout - 5 min.

Not much play time, but at least I finished my first round of PET games A-Z (I know I'm missing/leaving out a few of the old ones, so it isn't entirely conclusive). I also dreamed about playing games, but I can't count that, can I?

Edited July 12, 2015 by carlsson

[oyamafamily]

ONLY ATARI 2600

1) Atlantis - 80 minutes. Highest score: 1,394,730 points on Game 1 (video and statistical table to check out)

 

2) Beamrider - 25 minutes. Score: 101,940 points on Difficulty BB (Starting Sector 01)

 

3) Cosmic Commuter - 7 minutes

 

4) Crackpots - 7 minutes

 

5) Freeway - 3 minutes

 

6) Frontline - 10 minutes

 

7) Gorf - 10 minutes

 

8 ) H.E.R.O. - 60 minutes. Highest score: 1,000,000 points on Game 5 (video and statistical table to check out)

 

9) Ice Hockey - 5 minutes

 

10) Juno First (homebrew) - 6 minutes

 

11) Keystone Kapers - 11 minutes

 

12) Lady Bug (homebrew) - 10 minutes

 

13) Laser Blast - 1 minute

 

14) Megamania - 12 minutes

 

15) Oink - 9 minutes

 

16) Plaque Attack - 15 minutes

 

17) Pressure Cooker - 14 minutes

 

18) River Raid - 110 minutes. Highest score: 150,000 points on Game 1-BB

 

19) Spider Fighter - 16 minutes

 

20) Suicide Mission - 19 minutes

Edited July 12, 2015 by oyamafamily

[Iwantgames:)]

TRS-80 Color Computer 2

 

 

Canyon Climber - 10min

 

Castle Guard - 5min

Collision detection kinda sucks

 

Chess - 100min

One little screw up n I lost lol

 

Dungeons of Daggorath - 10min

 

Pinball - 10min

 

Polaris - 30min

 

Project Nebula - 5min

 

Quasar Commander - 5min

 

Rebound - 5min

 

Shooting Gallery - 5min

 

Skiing - 10min

 

Spidercide - 15min

 

Temple of Rom - 15min

 

Wildcatting -10

Finally figured it out and made 15,300points definitely be more fun with an opponent or 2

[zylon]

5200-

 

Space Dungeon- 10 min

 

2600-

 

Dark Chambers- 55min

 

Genesis-

 

Madden Football '93- 2hrs, 10min

Altered Beast- 20min

Streets of Rage- 40min

Super Hang-On- 25min

Mortal Kombat 3- 45min

Mortal Kombat 2- 10min

 

Genesis collection disc for xbox360 (this may or may not count so I separated them. Got as gift and was playing to compare to originals)

 

Alien Storm- 40min

Altered Beast- 20min

Altered Beast Arcade- 15min

Sonic 2- 15min

 

The 360 disc isn't bad, but I have found things missing from each game tried so far.

Edited July 13, 2015 by zylon

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the week:

Intellivision:

Boulder Dash - 12 min.

Copter Command - 2 min.

Flapee Bird - 12 min.

Princess Quest - 21 min.

Tower of Doom - 109 min.

Started getting back into the Intellivision but was derailed by a malfunctioning controller with a shorting pin #6. Fortunately I have a couple spare broken consoles, so after swapping out the Mylar controller sheet from one of them, I was back in business.

After trying out some new homebrews (all of which look quite good), I returned to Tower of Doom for the first time in ages. Playing as the weakest character (the Waif), I beat two more adventures, Fortress/6 Levels and Fortress/12 Levels. I've now completed 6 out of 14 adventures as the Waif, who starts out armed with nothing more than a boot.

I almost beat Fortress/6 on my first try, as the game handed me a wealth of powerful items including multiple Grails, but my character got killed right next to the tower exit.

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for the past week (July 6th through 12th)...

 

Colecovision:

Steam Roller - 495 min. in 8 sessions

 

Commodore 64:

Insect Defense - 3 min.

 

Online (non-eligible):

Zoo Haul - 45 min.

 

The birthday party is over now, so I got back into gaming. I revisited Steam Roller on the Colecovision and played it until I reached the usual Activision patch score of 35,000 points which isn't too easy to do with this game. I also played an online game called Zoo Haul where you play a zookeeper and have to haul various animals to their cages, to the doctor and for a wash, rendered in 3D graphics. Finally I briefly played Insect Defense, which is a type-in game from Happy Computer, because I've now started to backup all the important data from my old C-64 disks, which would be everything I've written. The version of Insect Defense I played was actually a hack done by me back then, but I still count it as the original version because I can't remember what aspect of the game I've hacked and if the hack worked or not.

[twoquickcapri]

PC (Win9x):
MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries - 520 min.

 

NES:
Wizards & Warriors - 90 min.

 

Colecovision:
H.E.R.O. - 10 min.
Mario Bros. - 15 min.
Donkey Kong - 5 min.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Before I get to my play time for the week I just wanted to say that you did amazing work with those statistical lists last week thegoldenband! I had a lot of fun reading through them and seeing what the group as a whole has been playing so far this year, and I think it'll be really interesting to continue taking part in this fun little community research project and seeing what the game and system rankings look like by the end of the year.

 

This week I'm reporting in from my tablet, and for some reason the underline function doesn't seem to work on the forum when posting from a mobile device, so forgive me if this week's list doesn't look quite as clean as usual. Anyhoo...

 

 

Arcade

Centipede (Atari Anniversary Advance for GBA) - 24 minutes

 

Atari 2600

Astroblast - 16 minutes

Bloody Human Freeway (Activision Anthology for GBA) - 8 minutes

Centipede - 13 minutes

Donkey Kong - 22 minutes

Donkey Kong Junior - 11 minutes

G.I. Joe: Cobra Strike - 41 minutes

Gravitar - 36 minutes

Lock 'N' Chase - 45 minutes

Millipede - 36 minutes

Ms. Pac-Man - 20 minutes

Robot Tank - 114 minutes

Seaquest - 21 minutes

Sentinel - 33 minutes

Shooting Arcade - 43 minutes

Stampede - 12 minutes

Super Breakout - 22 minutes

Venture - 84 minutes

Venture II: The Abysmal Abyss (Stella emulator on Wii) - 31 minutes

Venture 3 (Stella emulator on Wii) - 38 minutes

Wolfenstein VCS: The Next Mission - 56 minutes

 

ColecoVision

Venture (ColecoVision Flashback) - 52 minutes

 

Game Boy

Missile Command - 46 minutes

Space Invaders - 68 minutes

 

Game Boy Color

Frogger - 38 minutes

Harvest Moon 2 GBC - 51 minutes

Ms. Pac-Man: Special Color Edition - 49 minutes

 

Sega Genesis

Mortal Kombat II - 36 minutes

 

 

 

 

Total Play Time This Week

1,066 minutes (17 hours 46 minutes)

 

 

Individual System Play Times This Week

Atari 2600: 702 minutes

Game Boy Color: 138 minutes

Game Boy: 114 minutes

ColecoVision: 52 minutes

Sega Genesis: 36 minutes

Arcade: 24 minutes

Edited July 13, 2015 by Jin

[BurritoBeans]

Here are my times:

 

Atari 2600:

Frogs 'n Flies - 4 minutes

Fast Eddie - 13 minutes

Moon Patrol - 26 minutes

 

Apple II:

Time Zone - 79 minutes

Wizard and the Princess - 103 minutes

 

Commodore 64:

IK+ - 14 minutes

Knight Games - 22 minutes

 

Game Boy:

Super Mario Land - 25 minutes

Super Mario Land 2 - 43 minutes

 

PC (DOS):

Starflight 2 - 35 minutes

 

Sinclair ZX Spectrum:

Target: Renegade - 23 minutes

Manic Miner - 16 minutes

Jet Set Willy - 42 minutes

Jet Set Willy 2 - 37 minutes

[+thegoldenband]

Before I get to my play time for the week I just wanted to say that you did amazing work with those statistical lists last week thegoldenband! I had a lot of fun reading through them and seeing what the group as a whole has been playing so far this year, and I think it'll be really interesting to continue taking part in this fun little community research project and seeing what the game and system rankings look like by the end of the year.

 

Hey, thanks very much, and thanks as well for your continued participation! I think we've reached a nice critical mass of participants lately, with lots of activity and different systems represented, which in turn makes the stats more interesting and harder to predict. Should be a fun second half of 2015.

[BillyHW]

Edit - Sorry, wrong thread.

Edited July 14, 2015 by BillyHW

[+cvga]

I am hooked on Stonix. What a great game!

 

Intellivision:

Stonix - 240 minutes

[+thegoldenband]

I am hooked on Stonix. What a great game!

 

Intellivision:

Stonix - 240 minutes

 

It's terrific, isn't it! BTW should I count that time for last week or this (coming) one? I probably won't do the stats until sometime tomorrow.

 

EDIT: Counting it with this past week, but it's easy enough to correct that if I'm wrong.

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 28, running from July 6 - 12. We logged 5901 minutes of eligible playtime, playing 113 games on a total of 16 systems.

Top 10:

1. Historyline 1914-1918 (PC (DOS)) - 1007

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 595

3. MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 520

4. SteamRoller (ColecoVision) - 495

5. Stonix (Intellivision) - 240

6. John Madden Football '93 (Genesis) - 130

7. Robot Tank (Atari 2600) - 117

8. River Raid (Atari 2600) - 110

9. Tower of Doom (Intellivision) - 109

10. Wizard and the Princess, The (Apple II) - 103

(If Stonix turns out to be from Week 29, then Chess -- listed below -- would be #11. Or, uh, #10. You get the idea.)

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 595

2. SteamRoller (ColecoVision) - 495

3. Stonix (Intellivision) - 240

4. Robot Tank (Atari 2600) - 117

5. River Raid (Atari 2600) - 110

6. Tower of Doom (Intellivision) - 109

7. Wizard and the Princess, The (Apple II) - 103

8. Chess (CoCo 1 & 2) - 100

9. Venture (Atari 2600) - 84

10. Atlantis (Atari 2600) - 80

Top 10 systems:

1. Atari 2600 (1866)

2. PC (DOS) (1042)

3. ColecoVision (577)

4. PC (Windows 95/98) (520)

5. Intellivision (396)

6. Genesis (381)

7. CoCo 1 & 2 (235)

8. Game Boy (185)

9. Apple II (182)

10. NES/Famicom (145)

Even bigger numbers than last week! In fact I'm quite sure our 5901 minutes of gameplay will make the Top 10 busiest weeks of all time, though I'll have to double-check to see exactly where it falls.

Most impressively, a huge diversity of games contributed to the total. While there were certainly some heavy hitters, there were also a lot of smaller contributors as well. Not sure when the last time we had over 100 games was, but I'll check on that too.

Anyway, speaking of heavy hitters, it's Historyline 1914-1918 on the overall charts, while the Atari-Kaboom duumvirate takes the other top tens. Finally, we have the first-ever appearance of Springer on the tracker -- the number of unplayed classic-era VCS games from NTSC regions is slowly diminishing!

[+thegoldenband]

Here are the ten busiest weeks we've had in the tracker to date, with this week popping in at #7:

 

1. 2010, Week 6 (7157)

2. 2012, Week 18 (6762)

3. 2010, Week 8 (6473)

4. 2012, Week 1 (6451)

5. 2010, Week 5 (6230)

6. 2010, Week 10 (6198)

7. 2015, Week 28 (5901)

8. 2014, Week 27 (5780)

9. 2010, Week 7 (5644)

10. 2010, Week 9 (5604)

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!- 719 minutes

 

 

High score of the week: 268,453

 

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

Stay Frosty 2: 29 min

 

NES

Bigfoot: 5 min

Clu Clu Land: 4 min

Mari Bros.: 6 min

Probotector: 12 min

 

SNES

Donkey Kong Country 2: 8 min

Lufia: 18 min

Star Wars Return of the Jedi: 4 min

Street Fighter Alpha 2: 10 min

Super Mario Kart: 10 min

World League Basketball: 1 min

 

PC (DOS)

Historyline 1914-18: 515 min

 

Finally found the time to test some stuff that was piled up in a corner. Plus some new acquisitions from last sunday's flea market, plus some Stay Frosty in the 2600 High Score Club. Awesome game.

 

Oh, and plus two more maps in Historyline. Getting there...

[karokoenig]

Add two more items:

 

- Atari 2600:

Mangia: 10 minutes

 

- Gameboy Classic:

The Lost World (Jurassic Park): 5 min