twoquickcapri Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Sony PlayStation: Final Fantasy VIII - 170 min. Nintendo 64:Mario Kart 64 - 10 min. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 Weekly totals will be delayed until tomorrow (Tuesday) evening, so if any posters have game time for the past week (i.e. before Monday 9/14) that hasn't been posted yet, go for it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 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. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 The diversity is one of the things I like best about this tracker, an active proof there is more to retro gaming than NES and Atari 2600. Actually I just function tested a Microbee 32 so expect yet one more system for this week's stats. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 (edited) 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! 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! 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. Edited September 16, 2015 by Jin 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 I really need to hook my TI back up. Lotta great looking games being made right now and I haven't played in awhile 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Atari 2600Adventure - 25 minutesTapeworm - 20Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - 15Defender - 10Skiing - 5Asteroids - 3Alien - 2TI-99/4AMiner 2049'er - 40ArcadesGorf - 10 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 I played Marine Fox v1.3 on Vectrex - 25 minutes, new PB 25,212 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Famicom: F1 Race - 10 min. Microbee 32: Hopper - 16 min. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 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. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Atari 2600 Kaboom!- 784 minutes Jungle Hunt- 11 minutes High score of the week: 319,965 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 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? :-) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 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. NES / FAMICOM: Pacmania - 27 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 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 Space Battleship Yamato - 25min Not sure if this counts, its a WS color game but plays on original WS without color. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 SMS- Casino Games- 25min Columns- 50min GBC- Dragon Warrior III- 17hrs 30min Have completed the "upper or surface" world part and am now in the inner world of darkness, or Alefgard in pre-DW1 times. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoquickcapri Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Sega Mega Drive: Outrun (Japanese Version) - 25 min. SNK Neo Geo MVS:Metal Slug - 45 minNeo Drift Out - 45 min. Sony PlayStation:Final Fantasy VIII - 45 min. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 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. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 BTW BurritoBeans, a quick question: Sega Genesis: 6-Pak - 12 minutes 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) 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. Edited September 21, 2015 by BurritoBeans 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) 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. Ah well, I'll still include it in the spoiler tag below for my personal reference at the end of the year I suppose. IneligibleDoom (Game Boy Advance) - 198 minutesThe Pinball Arcade (Android) - 405 minutesArcadeBattlezone (played on Atari Anniversary Advance for Game Boy Advance) - 30 minutesBattlezone (played on Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 for PlayStation) - 26 minutesCentipede (played on Atari Anniversary Advance for Game Boy Advance) - 16 minutesCentipede (played on Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 for PlayStation) - 33 minutesMs. Pac-Man (played on Namco Museum for Game Boy Advance) - 34 minutesSuper Breakout (played on Atari Anniversary Advance for Game Boy Advance) - 15 minutesSuper Breakout (played on Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 for PlayStation) - 19 minutesAtari 2600Adventure (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 50 minutesAdventure II (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 23 minutesCentipede (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 99 minutesMillipede (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 27 minutesMissile Command (played on Atari Flashback 2) - 16 minutesPressure Cooker (played on Activision Anthology for GBA) - 34 minutesPlayStationFinal Doom - 129 minutesTotal Play Time This Week 1,154 minutes (19 hours 14 minutes)Individual System Play Times This WeekAndroid: 405 minutesAtari 2600: 249 minutesGame Boy Advance: 198 minutesArcade: 173 minutesPlayStation: 129 minutes Great stuff this week everyone, and sorry for missing the boat. Edited September 21, 2015 by Jin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 ^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! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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