Opry99er Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Really cool. Thanks for the tracker update. 26 minutes more of posted playtime and the TI would have unseated the VCS. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Goldenband... I know you keep a large spreadsheet (or several) for these trackers... Any chance I could get a peek at it? I am a nerd for numbers and statistics (why I love baseball) and I would find it fascinating to review your work. If not, no big deal. Thanks again for doing this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 13, 2015 Author Share Posted October 13, 2015 Sure! I've been meaning to post it anyway. Here's the most recent one: WHYP 2015 wk41.xls If there are any aspects of the design that seem inelegant, keep in mind that it began as a reconstruction effort. If I had it to do over agaiin I might use a database format, but that has its own hassles. Also, individual weeks are only listed for the current year, since when I start the new year, I only keep the overall 52-week sums of the previous years (for each game). I have week-by-week totals for 2011-2014 in their respective end-of-year spreadsheets, but 2008-2010 are spottier. I have every week itemized for 2009, but the top 10 games don't have week-by-week records; 2008 is only the aggregate total for the year, and 2010 is a mixture (Weeks 1-22 are summed, Weeks 23-52 are individually itemized). Any of these can be uploaded if folks want 'em. BTW one thing I need to add is a data column for pre-NES vs. post-NES. Right now I do that all manually, and it can be a hassle when arcade games fall near the dividing line. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Sweeeeeeet 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoquickcapri Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Atari 2600:H.E.R.O. - 25 min.Pac-man 4k - 35 min.Pitfall - 5 min.Taz - 15 min. Atari Jaguar:Tempest 2000 - 90 min.SNK Neo Geo MVS:Metal Slug - 30 min.NEC PC Engine:Popful Mail: Magical Fantasy Adventure - 20 min.NEC TurboGrafx 16:Raiden - 10 min.NEC TurboGrafx 16 CD:Ys Book I - 10 min.NES:Crystalis - 10 min. Over the last few weeks I RGB modded my NES, 2600 and Super CD-ROM^2. 2600 games have never looked so good and now I can put my harmony cart to good use. I also just finish a full recap on the Super CD-ROM^2 which lead to a CD-ROM adjustment which lead to the use of most of my free time this week. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 TI-99/4A: Minesweeper—90 min. ...lee 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Mega Drive D&D - Warriors of the Eternal Sun: 10 min PC (DOS) Historyline: 150 min Silent Hunter: 439 min Not much to say about my week of gaming. Mostly hunting silently, plus one more Historyline map finished. The D&D game was just a playtest. I so wish I had time to sink my teeth into classical RPGs like that, but it'll have to wait till Real Life offers some more opportunities. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Nowhere near done yet, but need to get these posted before my weekend gluttony. VCS: GORF (20 minutes) TI-99/4A: Henhouse (30 minutes) Alpiner (20 minutes) Tunnels of Doom (75 minutes) Micro Pinball (40 minutes) Minesweeper (30 minutes) Scramble (20 minutes) Gravity Run (15 minutes) Fly Guy (20 minutes) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 ColecoVision: Tapper ~ 45 minutes Popeye ~ 20 minutes Nintendo New3DS: Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (Master Quest) ~ 4 hours 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Atari 2600 - Tutankham 103 minutes 2600 NEW High Score Club Season 4 Gold Medal Tournament, Round 2, with my opponent darthkur. I tried to do my best in Tutankham (another game which I DIDN'T played on the regular weeks of NEW HSC Season 4) and set my personal score as the initial goal: 2,424 points obtained in June 2011, for 2600 OLD HSC Season 9, Round 14 (Variety Pack 5). Highest score obtained by me until now: 2,476 points - if I win this round, I will go to the finals, and the powerful player Northcoastgamer can be my opponent. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 There is a beautiful copy of Tutankham at my local game store... They want $15 for it though, so I have passed up to this point. Looks like a very good game 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 I normally don't spend a whole lot of time on games. but this looks like fun. I have two days off (in a row) next week and I promised to get a score uploaded for the TI Pinball contest... and I want to play a little Alex KIDD and I'll probably also get in a little Road Hunter... so, with any luck I'll be good for at least 26 minutes. Maybe us TI'ers will give the VCS a beat down! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Kev, I usually post my times on here every week.... Last week we came close to the top, but didn't quite get there. Be sure to post your play times for this past week by tomorrow night... I know you played some Alex Kidd and Pinball. Post em up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) Got a big list of stuff! EDIT: Excel lists don't translate over well (derrrp) so I made it into a text file... let's see if this works. Yeah I know it's not neat but whatever System Game Playtime (In Minutes)PC-9801 177 4PC-9801 Adventure of Liena 7PC-9801 AD&D - Heroes of the Lance 26PC-9801 Adventureland 4PC-9801 Aiko GOLD 3PC-9801 Air Duel 5PC-9801 Aiza New Generation 5PC-9801 Akemi 3PC-9801 Aki to Tsukasa no Fushigi no Kabe 5PC-9801 Alone in the Dark 20PC-9801 Angel Army 5PC-9801 Another Genesis 21PC-9801 Aoi Kajitsu no Sanka 8PC-9801 Arabesque Shoujotachi no Orinasu Ai no Monogatari 2PC-9801 Arcus II Silent Symphony 154PC-9801 Asche 4PC-9801 Ash 12PC-9801 Atlantia 6PC-9801 Bacta 10PC-9801 Beast Breeders 3PC-9801 Be-Yond 6PC-9801 Black Rainbow 7PC-9801 Black Rainbow 2 8PC-9801 Block Quest V 12PC-9801 Brah 5PC-9801 Brandia 98 5PC-9801 Burai Joukan 4PC-9801 Chaos Angels 8PC-9801 Cherry Bomb - Chou Ojousama Sayaka-chan Nanpa Daisakusen 11PC-9801 Chiemi 5PC-9801 Chou Bangai Seifuku Zukan Plus 9PC-9801 City Knights 5PC-9801 Crystal Rinal Ouma no Meikyuu 2PC-9801 Cyber Block Metal Orange 15PC-9801 Dark Seraphim 97PC-9801 Dead of the Brain 15PC-9801 Dead of the Brain 2 15PC-9801 Diver's 5PC-9801 Donnu Garou 5PC-9801 Doop 16PC-9801 Dracula Hakushaku 16PC-9801 Dragon City X Sitei 4PC-9801 Dragon Knight 10PC-9801 Dragon Knight 2 10PC-9801 Dragon Knight 3 10PC-9801 Dream Theater 5PC-9801 Drop 13PC-9801 Dungeon Buster 2 12PC-9801 Dungeon Buster Ex-Plores 19PC-9801 Edge 9PC-9801 Fairytale Kaizokuban 9PC-9801 Firearms 10PC-9801 Gage 9PC-9801 Gal Pani 2PC-9801 Galaga 18PC-9801 Geo-Slave 15PC-9801 Giniro no Takaramono 4PC-9801 Gokuraku Mandara 3PC-9801 Grand Masters 5PC-9801 Half-Pipe 32PC-9801 Ikenie 4PC-9801 Ininduo Datou Nobunaga 14PC-9801 Intruder 9PC-9801 Jankirou 6PC-9801 Jinn Eien no Yuushi 3PC-9801 Jotunn 5PC-9801 Kemesis 5PC-9801 Kinbaku Jinmon Densetsu 5PC-9801 Konya mo Asamade Powerful Majhong 9PC-9801 Lam-Mal 7PC-9801 Lemon Angel 7PC-9801 Lixus 7PC-9801 Mai 4PC-9801 Marble Cooking 12PC-9801 Marine Philt 10PC-9801 Metal Eye 8PC-9801 Metal Eye 2 2PC-9801 Mighty Head 8PC-9801 Mime 2PC-9801 Mobile Suit Gundam: Return of Zion 5PC-9801 Moon Gate 7PC-9801 Mugen no Shinzou 2 5PC-9801 Naomi 5PC-9801 Neko Ex 8PC-9801 Neogal Fight 3PC-9801 Niko 2 4PC-9801 Ooinaru Hell in the Dark 2PC-9801 Paipai Ojanko 4PC-9801 Panic in Cobra City - Cobra Mission 21PC-9801 Pentium 2 5PC-9801 Policenauts 72PC-9801 Pretty Agent 3PC-9801 Queen's Club 6PC-9801 Quiz Bancho 11PC-9801 Rusty 51PC-9801 Sengoku Tsuwamono Emaki Ranze 7PC-9801 Shikinji 12PC-9801 Starfire 6PC-9801 Strawberry Daisenryaku 4PC-9801 The Red 9PC-9801 Touhou Fuumaroku 10PC-9801 Touhou Gensoukyou 10PC-9801 Touhou Reiiden 10PC-9801 Tumokki 5PC-9801 Urban Soldier 17PC-9801 Usagina Panic 2 4PC-9801 Vectors 6PC-9801 Woom 2PC-9801 XIX 2PC-9801 X-Na 11PC-9801 Ys 62PC-9801 Ys II 179PC-9801 Ys III 126PC-9801 Yume No Sei 4PC-9801 Yu-No 25Time Total Minutes Played: 1627Time Total Hours Played: 27.11666667 Sharp X68000 Akumajo Dracula 73Sharp X68000 Cameltry 38Time Total Minutes Played: 111Time Total Hours Played: 1.85 Atari 2600 Picnic 52Time Total Minutes Played: 52Time Total Hours Played: 0.866666667 So yeah, overall a good week. I got some big boxes 'o goodies in from Japan that took two months to get here full of PC-9801 software, so I spent a few days testing them and playing with them. I may squeeze in more time, but at this point I have two parties and MGSV: The Phantom Pain is just too much fun to drop. Edited October 17, 2015 by BurritoBeans 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) Got a big list of stuff! EDIT: Excel lists don't translate over well (derrrp) so I made it into a text file... let's see if this works. Yeah I know it's not neat but whatever *snipped* Woah! And here I thought I was going to make thegoldenband's life miserable with the enormous list of games that I played a few minutes here and a few minutes there this week! Suddenly I feel aa little better about the size of the list that I'll be posting Monday morning, though something tells me that we may be waiting until Tuesday or Wednesday for this week's statistics post. I think our friendly record keeper might have his work cut out for him this week. Edited October 17, 2015 by Jin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 After two weeks of zero gaming, and another week before that which mostly was play testing, finally I feel like I'm getting back on track. However unlike the people posting above me, I'll start off light and hopefully gradually extend my play time again. VIC-20: Fourth Encounter - 3 min. Metagalactic Llamas - 36 min. My new highscore on Metagalactic Llamas is 118581 pts, which means my progress since I entered the tracker looks something like this: January 1, 2014: 81420 pts - which back then I considered a great score, as I had not been beyond 65K before May 24, 2015: 93868 pts - change of tactic, sloppy played May 31, 2015: 115524 pts - tactic improved, more careful playing August 1, 2015: 117317 pts October 17, 2015: 118581 pts Apparently my next personal goal will be to exceed 120K. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Woah! And here I thought I was going to make thegoldenband's life miserable with the enormous list of games that I played a few minutes here and a few minutes there this week! Suddenly I feel aa little better about the size of the list that I'll be posting Monday morning, though something tells me that we may be waiting until Tuesday or Wednesday for this week's statistics post. I think our friendly record keeper might have his work cut out for him this week. heh, I guess my timing was right then? I dunno, boxes of games are boxes of fun. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 17, 2015 Author Share Posted October 17, 2015 Believe it or not, huge lists of new games are actually very easy to input if the poster formats them consistently, since once I do a bit of pre-processing (replacing certain characters or strings with tabs, basically), it's a simple copy-and-paste job. BurritoBeans's list should be a snap, since we have so few PC-9801 games logged to date. I'll just need to delete any of the games that are already in the spreadsheet (after inputting their times, of course), and then dump the rest of the list directly into the Excel file. It's even alphabetized already, which I appreciate! BTW I use the program TextWrangler to make a lot of this stuff much easier than it would be otherwise. It has commands to automatically prefix a list with characters, or automatically number a list, or replace any string with any others (including invisible characters). My big trick is to copy each week's games into a new spreadsheet, move the system column after the game column, add a blank column separating the system from the time, and then copy the Top 10 into Textwrangler. Since it's a tab-delimited text file, there are two tabs between the system and time, so it's easy to do a quick search-and-replace -- first on two tabs, then on just one -- to get the formatting you see every week. Ergo: NES | Amagon | 137 becomes Amagon | NES | [blank column] | 137 And when I copy that into TextWrangler, it's: Amagon [tab] NES [tab] [tab] 137 Since the tab character in TextWrangler is \t, I do a find/replace on: Find: \t\t Replace with: ) - Which turns it into: Amagon [tab] NES) - 137 Then another find & replace on one tab (\t), replacing it with " (", yields: Amagon (NES) - 137 From there, I just have TextWrangler preface each line with space + period and automatically add line numbers, manually tweak any ties, and that's that. It sounds complicated, but it only takes 5-10 minutes to do the formatting & prep once everything's been input, 15 at the most. It's the data entry itself that takes the most time, of course. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 723 minutes High score of the week: 289,515 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Not much gaming due to vehicular issues. Stupid truck died. But I got a new one now so next week should be better TI-99/4A - Alex Kidd - 180min 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Well, I got some additional time in so here's some extra stuff. System Game Playtime (In Minutes)3DO Alone in the Dark 113DO Gex 323DO Out of This World 453DO The Horde 22Time Total Minutes Played: 110Time Total Hours Played: 1.833333333 Atari 2600 Picnic 8Atari 2600 Stampede 21Time Total Minutes Played: 29Time Total Hours Played: 0.483333333 PC-9801 Dark Seraphim 62PC-9801 Policenauts 43Time Total Minutes Played: 105Time Total Hours Played: 1.75 PC Engine Castlevania: Rondo of Blood 12PC Engine Splatterhouse 15Time Total Minutes Played: 27Time Total Hours Played: 0.45 Sharp X68000 Akumajo Dracula 10Time Total Minutes Played: 10Time Total Hours Played: 0.166666667 Total Time - Week Minutes: 1961Total Time - Week Hours: 32.68333333 So yeah, more times. I decided I'd played enough MGSV for the day after doing six missions and ten side missions so I fired up some of the other consoles and played some of the games a bit. Nothing really special I guess. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 TO ADD: Atari 7800 - Mario Bros. 161 minutes NEW personal high score for me on Expert Mode: 1,167,780 points 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 SMS- Double dragon- 35min 5200- Millipede- 45min Genesis- Sword of Vermillion- 2hrs 10min GG- Crystal Warriors- 1hr 40min Took a week break from RPG grinding after finishing DWIII and had decided on tackling Sword Of Vermillion. After playing a couple hours, I found the save battery had failed and lost all progress. I'll start again after I repair the cart. In the meantime, I'll putter along with Crystal Warriors. I decided on SOV to see what all the negative reviews were about. I've had it in my box of geni-crap for ages and never really played it. So far, it's not terrible, but it's like playing a game made up of pieces of other games loosely thrown together. kind of like the Edsel of Sega RPG's. The storyline is basic and leaves little mystery. The in-town play is like Phantasy Star, the dungeons like Shining in the Darkness, and the surface monster combat from Hydlide. I would say that today it makes a good pick-up due to the price it goes for these days, but anyone would be better off playing the games it tries to copy instead. if you do play it, make sure you have a good C-button. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Mega Drive D&D - Warriors of the Eternal Sun: 10 min That's a good one to get into. if you like it, I would also recommend Might and Magic: Gates to Another World. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 To add: TI-99/4A: Minesweeper (additional 40 minutes) Alex Kidd (30 minutes) Aperture (180 minutes) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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