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Here's the summary for Week 37, running from September 7 - 13. We logged 6892 minutes of eligible playtime, playing 98 games on a total of 28 systems.


Top 10:


1. Dragon Warrior III (Game Boy Color) - 1080

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 783

3. Historyline 1914-1918 (PC (DOS)) - 390

4. H.E.R.O. (Atari 2600) - 368

5. Minesweeper (TI-99/4A) - 358

6. Family Tennis (J) (NES/Famicom) - 354

7. Dividead (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 306

8. Bokosuka Wars (JPN) (NES/Famicom) - 284

9. Lost Caves of Kroz (Intellivision) - 180

10. Final Fantasy VIII (PlayStation) - 170


Pre-NES top 10:


1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 783

2. H.E.R.O. (Atari 2600) - 368

3. Minesweeper (TI-99/4A) - 358

4. Lost Caves of Kroz (Intellivision) - 180

5. Star Trek (Compucolor II) - 142

6. Phoenix (Atari 2600) - 100

7. Miner 2049'er (TI-99/4A) - 94

8. Gorf (Atari 2600) - 86

9. Bureaucracy (Apple II) - 63

10. Centipede (Arcade) - 50


Top 10 systems:


1. Atari 2600 (1783)

2. Game Boy Color (1094)

3. NES/Famicom (811)

4. TI-99/4A (527)

5. WonderSwan (486)

6. PC (Windows 95/98) (412)

7. PC (DOS) (409)

8. PlayStation (327)

9. Intellivision (180)

10. Compucolor II (142)


Another one for the books, as Week 37 joins our all-time charts in the #6 position, with a whopping 6892 minutes logged. Our top pair is the same as last week, as Dragon Warrior III holds off Kaboom for a second week at #1.


Also, holy diversity, Batman! We have an amazing 28 different platforms in play this week, more than ever before. These include the first-ever appearance of the Compucolor II, which places on 2 of 3 charts, and a strong showing from the relative newcomer WonderSwan. In addition, nearly half of our playtime came from games logging 3 hours or less, so those shorter sessions really add up.


In other news, after many weeks at the doorstep of 1K, Centipede for Atari 2600 becomes member #171 of the 1000-minute club, with 1004 minutes on its scorecard. It's the fourth version of Centipede to join, following the Atari 5200, 7800, and TI-99/4A ports; the arcade version is getting up there too, with 908 minutes logged.


Finally, another close contest is happening behind the scenes, as two games are jockeying for spots #4 and #5 on the all-time list: Pac-Man Collection for 7800, which currently has 5471 minutes, and Historyline 1914-1918, with 5458 minutes logged. Only 13 minutes between them! -- but it's a long way to #3, as third-place holder Berzerk has almost 7500 minutes in the bank.

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In other news, after many weeks at the doorstep of 1K, Centipede for Atari 2600 becomes member #171 of the 1000-minute club, with 1004 minutes on its scorecard. It's the fourth version of Centipede to join, following the Atari 5200, 7800, and TI-99/4A ports; the arcade version is getting up there too, with 908 minutes logged.

 

Woo hoo! :D I am thrilled to have helped contribute to getting one of my all time favorite Atari 2600 games into the 1000 minute club! ...Though I think it may have been my wife's play time at the very end of the week that pushed it over the 1,000 minute mark. lol In any case, party on Centipede!

 

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In related news, today was the misses and I's two year wedding anniversary and as a mutual gift to each other we both pitched in money on something very special (and very Centipede related) that should be arriving in the mail towards the end of the week. Depending on when it gets here we might just end up pushing the arcade version of Centipede over the 1,000 minute mark by Sunday. ;)

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So far this week:

 

VCS:

 

Asteroids (28 minutes)

Turmoil (129 minutes)

Winter Games (11 minutes)

Frogger (8 minutes)

Enduro (21 minutes)

Star Wars: Death Star Battle (15 minutes)

Battlezone (22 minutes)

GORF (15 minutes)

Berzerk (15 minutes)

Seaquest (35 minutes)

 

TI-99/4A:

 

TI Invaders (20 minutes)

Trek (by adamantyr) (15 minutes)

Miner2049er (45 minutes)

Honeycomb Rapture (38 minutes)

Lemonade Stand (40 minutes)

 

More forthcoming probably Sunday night. :)

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Atari 2600

Jungle Hunt: 52 min

 

PC (DOS)

Silent Hunter: 230 min

 

Game Boy Classic

Max: 24 min

 

High Score Club fun on the 2600, bus travel fun on the Game Boy, and... a change in World Wars on the PC. No idea why I keep returning to this game. I had the stupid idea (again) to try and play through the Pacific war with an old S-class sub. But man, they suck. Impossible to hurt any capital ship with those small-caliber torpedoes (even the small ones take two fish to sink...), and pretty much every depth charge attack wrecks your boat.

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Some significant additions.

 

VCS:

 

Asteroids (190 additional minutes)

Space Rocks (35 minutes)

Beat Em and Eat Em (18 minutes)

 

TI-994A:

 

Miner2049er (35 additional minutes)

Minesweeper (25 minutes)

Nonogram (20 minutes)

DarkStar (30 minutes)

 

 

This will likely conclude our times for the week... Tomorrow is a day of building my desk and fixing random stuff around the house. :)

 

Good week--I rolled the score 3 times on Asteroids and shut it off with several ships in reserve. Made me feel like a gamer. ;)

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Here are my times for this past week (September 14th through 20th)...

 

Online (non-eligible):

Nonograms - 205 minutes in 3 sessions

Nonogram solver - 22 minutes

 

TI-99:

Nonogram - 163 minutes in 3 sessions

 

This week I dealt exclusively with Nonograms, which is some kind of puzzle where you get a grid and on its left and top side you get numbers denoting strips of filled cells which run down or to the right, but aren't allowed to overlap or even touch (at least one blank field must be in between). Sometimes99er, the author of TI-99 Minesweeper, also has made a TI-99 version of this game, and basically I solved all the puzzles in his version. I also tried some nonograms on an online site, but the best thing I get are 15x15 grids. On larger grids, I didn't manage to actually solve one. I tried a "puzzle of the week" which is 30x30, and after 86 minutes, I had the majority of it solved, but I had thrown in a mistake somewhere, so it didn't work out, and I gave up and left it to an online Nonogram solver. However, I also attempted to do a Nonogram of my own which is 14x14 and shown below (without the solution!), Can you find out what it is? :-)

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ATARI 2600:

Jungle Hunt - 38 minutes. High Score: 35,990 points on Game 2, for the new High Score Club Season 4, Week 35.

 

 

ATARI 7800:

Pac-Man Collection - 10 minutes

 

Plutos - 35 minutes. Highest Score: 188,250 points

 

 

Mario Bros. - 318 minutes. I got my new High Score on Standard Difficulty - 1,286,970 points - and it took me several attempts to reach this feat.

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NES / FAMICOM:

Pacmania - 27 minutes

 

 

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Numbers!

 

Apple II:

Prince of Persia - 43 minutes

Zork II - 51 minutes

 

Atari 2600:

Space Attack - 5 minutes

Super Breakout - 12 minutes

Space Cavern - 32 minutes

Picnic - 26 minutes

 

BBC Micro:

Elite - 67 minutes

Snapper - 16 minutes

 

Commodore VIC-20:

Gorf - 16 minutes

Radar Rat Race - 47 minutes

 

Compucolor II:

Star Trek - 122 minutes

 

NEC PC-9801:

Policenauts - 230 minutes

EVE Burst Error - 210 minutes

Last Armageddon - 54 minutes

 

NES:

Uncharted Waters - 14 minutes

The Legend of Zelda - 26 mintues

Rolling Thunder - 21 minutes

 

Neo Geo Pocket Color:

Metal Slug 1st Mission - 73 minutes

 

PC (DOS):

Prince of Persia 2 - 142 minutes

Xargon - 31 minutes

 

PC (Windows):

Battlezone - 126 minutes

DiviDead - 104 minutes

 

PC Engine:

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - 63 minutes

 

PS1:

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - 71 minutes

 

Sega Genesis:

6-Pak - 12 minutes

Decapattack - 73 minutes

Shaq-Fu - 42 minutes

 

Sharp X68000:

Cameltry - 15 minutes

R-Type - 21 minutes

Gradius - 12 minutes

Baraduke - 32 minutes

 

Super NES:

Ys 3 - 73 minutes

 

Virtual Boy:

Mario Tennis - 60 minutes

 

ZX Spectrum:

Jetpac - 50 minutes

Renegade - 16 minutes

 

Total Time - 2008 minutes / 33.467ish hours

 

This week was a good week for games for me. I played games on some systems I own yet never play often, I played some new stuff, and I played lots of random crap in general. I really don't know what else to say, oh well.

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Neo Geo Pocket Color -

 

Bust A Move Pocket - 45min

Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 - 12min

Dive Alert: Becky's Version - 40min

Magical Drop Pocket - 75min

Pac-Man - 15min

 

 

SNES -

 

Super Noah's Ark 3D - 20min

 

 

Wonderswan -

 

Engacho! - 145min

Fun puzzle game :) with the added bonus of having the enemies cover you in boogers, poo, or smothering you in their armpits if the catch you :P

 

Space Battleship Yamato - 25min

Not sure if this counts, its a WS color game but plays on original WS without color.

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My times for the week:


NES:

Bokosuka Wars - 183 min.

Felix the Cat - 5 min.

Super Monkey Adventure - 2 min.


Genesis:

Andre Agassi Tennis - 276 min.

Blaster Master 2 - 32 min.

Ms. Pac-Man - 7 min.



SNES:

Family Feud - 315 min.



N64:

Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr. - 7 min.


Beat Bokosuka Wars at last! After a bunch of attempts I made it to the final boss, and then it only took a couple more tries to defeat him (albeit by the skin of my teeth). "BRAVO! YOU WIN!" trumpeted the victory screen, and it was welcome indeed.


I also completed Family Feud for SNES (by winning until my family reached $80K and mandatory retirement), and the dreadful Andre Agassi Tennis on the Genesis. I originally beat Agassi a couple years ago by finishing the year as #1, but I only won 3 of the game's 4 tournaments (I lost my opening match and won the rest), so I've always felt like my victory had an asterisk. This time, I went 16-0 without dropping a set, and thereby got the special extra screen that says you've built the "ultimate player" and gives you a code to unlock max stats from the start.


Most of it was pretty easy, but my last match against Cassie Nova was a nail-biter -- even though I won 6-2 6-2, she's the toughest opponent in the game, and I hadn't faced her since the beginning so I had to quickly refamiliarize myself with her patterns. Since the game has no passwords, you have to play non-stop for five hours to beat it, and I was pretty exhausted by that point. But I won!


Otherwise I spent a disappointing half-hour with Blaster Master 2, and briefly tried out a few random games.

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Here's the summary for Week 38, running from September 14 - 20. We logged 7731 minutes of eligible playtime, playing 108 games on a total of 28 systems.


Top 10:


1. Dragon Warrior III (Game Boy Color) - 1050

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 784

3. Mario Bros. (Atari 7800) - 318

4. Family Feud (SNES) - 315

5. Andre Agassi Tennis (Genesis) - 276

6. Policenauts (NEC PC-9801) - 230

6. Silent Hunter (PC (DOS)) - 230

8. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 221

9. EVE Burst Error (NEC PC-9801) - 210

10. Bokosuka Wars (JPN) (NES/Famicom) - 183

10. Nonogram (TI-99/4A) - 183


Pre-NES top 10:


1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 784

2. Mario Bros. (Atari 7800) - 318

3. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 221

4. Nonogram (TI-99/4A) - 183

5. Turmoil (Atari 2600) - 129

6. Star Trek (Compucolor II) - 122

7. Miner 2049er (TI-99/4A) - 120

8. Jungle Hunt (Atari 2600) - 101

9. Centipede (Atari 2600) - 99

10. Adventure (Atari 2600) - 75


Top 10 systems:


1. Atari 2600 (1831)

2. Game Boy Color (1050)

3. NEC PC-9801 (494)

4. TI-99/4A (471)

5. Genesis (467)

6. SNES (408)

7. PC (DOS) (403)

8. Atari 7800 (363)

9. NES/Famicom (288)

10. Neo Geo Pocket Color (260)


Yet another banner week, as Week 38 is now #4 on the all-time list! Our top pair is the same for the third week in a row, with Dragon Warrior III keeping Kaboom at bay to retain the #1 spot.


We've also matched last week's record-breaking total of 28 different platforms, with first-ever appearances of the NEC PC-9801 and Microbee 32.


Meanwhile, Mario Bros. for the Atari 7800 is now member #172 of the 1000-minute club, with 1182 minutes logged to date.

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BTW BurritoBeans, a quick question:

 

 

Do you remember which game(s) you played? If not, I can just assign 2 mins. each to the six games on the cart, but I'm guessing you probably only played one or two of them. :)

 

Revenge of Shinobi* for four minutes, Sonic the Hedgehog for about five minutes, and Columns for the other three I think.

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Shoot! I was feeling so under the weather today that I ended up over sleeping and missing the cut off time for posting my household's weekly play time! Drat. :sad:

Ah well, I'll still include it in the spoiler tag below for my personal reference at the end of the year I suppose.

 

Ineligible
Doom (Game Boy Advance) - 198 minutes
The Pinball Arcade (Android) - 405 minutes

Arcade
Battlezone (played on Atari Anniversary Advance for Game Boy Advance) - 30 minutes
Battlezone (played on Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 for PlayStation) - 26 minutes
Centipede (played on Atari Anniversary Advance for Game Boy Advance) - 16 minutes
Centipede (played on Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 for PlayStation) - 33 minutes
Ms. Pac-Man (played on Namco Museum for Game Boy Advance) - 34 minutes
Super Breakout (played on Atari Anniversary Advance for Game Boy Advance) - 15 minutes
Super Breakout (played on Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 for PlayStation) - 19 minutes

Atari 2600
Adventure (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 50 minutes
Adventure II (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 23 minutes
Centipede (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 99 minutes
Millipede (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 27 minutes
Missile Command (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 16 minutes
Pressure Cooker (played on Activision Anthology for GBA) - 34 minutes

PlayStation
Final Doom - 129 minutes




Total Play Time This Week

1,154 minutes (19 hours 14 minutes)

Individual System Play Times This Week
Android: 405 minutes
Atari 2600: 249 minutes
Game Boy Advance: 198 minutes
Arcade: 173 minutes
PlayStation: 129 minutes



Great stuff this week everyone, and sorry for missing the boat.

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^Eh, I posted somewhat earlier than usual, so you know what -- I'll edit it in. :) Shouldn't take too long at all.

 

BTW the other option when folks miss the deadline is to just count the gameplay times with the following week -- we've done that a ton of times.

 

EDIT: Done!

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