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

[doomwaves]

SNES

Super Street Fighter II - 30 minutes

 

Genesis

Truxton - 20 minutes

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 6, running from February 2 - 8. We logged 2124 minutes of eligible playtime, playing 36 games on a total of 11 systems.

Top 10:

1. Top Players' Tennis [aka Four Player Tennis] (NES/Famicom) - 481

2. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 250

3. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 236

4. Armor Attack (Atari 7800) - 130

5. Mr. Do! (Atari 2600) - 115

6. Silent Service (NES/Famicom) - 100

7. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (PlayStation) - 98

8. Racket Attack (NES/Famicom) - 95

9. Joust (Atari 2600) - 70

9. Zool 2 (Atari Jaguar) - 70

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 250

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 236

3. Armor Attack (Atari 7800) - 130

4. Mr. Do! (Atari 2600) - 115

5. Joust (Atari 2600) - 70

6. Donkey Kong (Atari 7800) - 40

7. Donkey Kong Jr. (Atari 7800) - 35

8. Gyruss (Arcade) - 30

9. Asteroids Deluxe (Atari 7800) - 25

10. Dig Dug (Atari 8-bit) - 20

Top 10 systems:

1. NES/Famicom (894)

2. Atari 7800 (480)

3. Atari 2600 (430)

4. PlayStation (98)

5. Atari Jaguar (70)

6. Atari 8-bit (45)

7. Arcade (40)

8. SNES (30)

9. Genesis (20)

10. Odyssey^2 (12)

It mispronounces the first name of the celebrity who endorsed it, but Top Players' Tennis featuring Chris Evert & "Eye-Ven" Lendl is our top game for the week nonetheless, and leads a consortium of NES titles to the top of the charts.

And speaking of the NES: though it just missed the top 10 for the week, Super Mario Bros. is now the 145th member of the 1000-minute club, with 1041 minutes logged to date. It might seem surprising that such a popular game hadn't joined the club yet, and in fact it's been on the edge for some time, but Iwantgames's 60 minutes pushed it over the boundary at last.

[+thegoldenband]

BTW, @Iwantgames:

NES -

Defender of The Crown - 5min
Silent Service - 100min

Both of these games are still unbeaten over at the NintendoAge effort. I know they'd be grateful for the help, especially with Silent Service -- having someone who enjoys the game is perfect. They're doing very well so far, with almost 550 NES games done (!), but every bit of help counts.

 

I beat Hydlide and Top Players' Tennis for them, among other games, and Racket Attack is soon to fall...

[carlsson]

I bet everyone who play Super Mario Bros take all the shortcuts through the game so they finish it within minutes, so it never amounts to a lot of play time. For similar reasons, I strongly doubt The Last V8 on the C64 ever would reach the 1000 minute club.

[karokoenig]

especially with Silent Service

 

Well, how do you "beat" this game, really? There is no campaign mode, just single war patrols. Back in the days, I played the hell out of Silent Service on the C64. My way of "beating" the game was to play all war patrols in chronological order and write down the types and tonnage of ships I sunk. But that doesn't make historical sense either, since the patrols are all by different commanders in different subs.

Also, what criteria for "beating" the game would you apply? There are a ton of realism settings from "3-year-old" to utterly impossible.

 

And anyway: the NES version is sooo bad compared to basically every other version of this game. If you don't know any other port, it might seem playable. But if you ever played the C64 version, you will never accept the clunky and utterly unrealistic, tactics-free gameplay on the NES.

[+thegoldenband]

Well, how do you "beat" this game, really? There is no campaign mode, just single war patrols.

 

For a lot of games with no clear win condition, they've had to come up with something that seems to make sense: topping the high score table, looping the stages, etc. In the case of Silent Service, it's "Finish all convoy missions and war scenarios". So it's along the same lines as what you did BITD, I guess.

 

I've never played the C64 version, but I did have some fun with the NES port a long, long time ago.

[Iwantgames:)]

Im ex Navy Sub mechanic so really enjoy playing silent service and other sub simulators

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

Mr. Do!: 32 min

 

Mega Drive

Greendog the beached Surfer Dude: 39 min

 

A few attempts at bettering my score for this wek's 2600 HSC, which failed miserably. Definetly not my game.

 

Picked up Greendog earlier today on a flea market for € 1,50. A simple platformer that began promising enough Controls ok, nice relaxing music, hot 16-bit bikini babe in the intro... But the second level on the third island made me lose patience. Underwater level. The character moves slower as slow as molasse. Not too hard actually, but soooo tedious.

Edited February 14, 2015 by karokoenig

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Mr. Do!: 32 min

 

Mega Drive

Greendog the beached Surfer Dude: 39 min

 

A few attempts at bettering my score for this wek's 2600 HSC, which failed miserably. Definetly not my game.

 

Picked up Greendog earlier today on a flea market for € 1,50. A simple platformer that began promising enough Controls ok, nice relaxing music, hot 16-bit bikini babe in the intro... But the second level on the third island made me lose patience. Underwater level. The character moves slower as slow as molasse. Not too hard actually, but soooo tedious.

Is there any surfing in that game?

[karokoenig]

Is there any surfing in that game?

 

Not as far as I got into the game before I quit. The closest thing to surfing was a short Skateboarding level.

[karokoenig]

Please add another 25 minutes of Mr. Do! on the 2600 to my bill. I managed to get some more attempts in.

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600:

1) Frogger - 1 minute

Score obtained for 2600 NEW HSC Season 4, Week 5 (Game 1A): 10 points. Frogger is not my favorite game on all platforms!

 

2) Missile Command - 75 minutes. Score obtained: 1,000,000+ (Rolled The Score) in Game 1BB.

Check out my gameplay video and statistical tables (details of my gameplay presented in the video above).

 

3) Mr. Do! - 75 minutes.

Highest Score: 81,950 points for 2600 NEW HSC Season 4, Week 4 (Game 1BB).

 

ATARI 7800:

1) Kung-Fu Master - 15 minutes. Score 19,700 points for 7800 HSC Season 7, Game 17.

2) Papa Smurf in Pacland (Hack of Ms. Pac-Man) - 90 minutes in several sessions.

GAME BOY:

Mr. Do! - 50 minutes in several sessions. I was experimenting the non-Atari version of Mr. Do!, and learning the mechanics of this game!

Highest Score: 100,000 points.

[oyamafamily]

I would like to share my campaign on 7800 HSC Season 7, until Round 16.

 

Round 1 - Galaga - 1st place Regular

Round 2 - Robotron 2084 - 6th place Regular / 4th place Bonus Scores

Round 3 - Ms. Pac-Man - 1st place Regular

Round 4 - Asteroids - 2nd place Regular / 4th place Bonus Scores

Round 5 - Desert Falcon - 1st place Regular and Bonus Scores

Round 6 - Dark Chambers - 1st place Regular

Round 7 - Moon Cresta - 1st place Regular / 4th place Bonus Scores

Round 8 - Frenzy - 1st place Regular / 4th place Bonus Scores

Round 9 - Food Fight - 2nd place Regular

Round 10 - Mario Bros. - 1st place Regular

Round 11 - Pole Position II - 2nd place Regular

Round 12 - Donkey Kong - 2nd place Regular

Round 13 - Space Invaders - 1st place Regular and Bonus Scores

Round 14 - Commando - 3rd place Regular / 2nd place Bonus Scores

Round 15 - Xevious - 1st place Regular and Bonus Scores

Round 16 - Armor Attack II - 1st place Regular

Considering Regular Scores, I have 10 wins until now. It ties the number of wins which I obtained on 7800 HSC Season 6.

[Atarian7]

oyama Impressive Missile Command score

 

I bet you could reach 999,999 on Kaboom! in less than a week.

Edited February 15, 2015 by Atarian7

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!- 321 minutes

 

 

High score of the week: 14,600

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

Kaboom!- 321 minutes

 

 

High score of the week: 14,600

 

...ouch... Maybe take a week off Kaboom, get back to it with a fresh mind?

[oyamafamily]

oyama Impressive Missile Command score

 

I bet you could reach 999,999 on Kaboom! in less than a week.

Thanks very much, Atarian7. You know I'm NOT good at Kaboom, and I'm NOT able to score 999,999 points in one week.

 

I'm able to reach 999,999 in one week on the following 2600 games (I will mention 10 of them) - Buck Rogers, Defender, H.E.R.O., Joust, Laser Blast, Megamania, Missile Command, Millipede, Phoenix and Yars' Revenge.

 

And on Atari 7800, I rolled the score (1,000,000 points) in one week on 2 games: Dark Chambers and Mario Bros.

Edited February 15, 2015 by oyamafamily

[+thegoldenband]

Atarian7 and oyamafamily, have you ever tried Bugs? Most people hate it, I've always liked it. It's a twitch game with a much lower time commitment than most, especially since the score is only three digits.

 

(Not that I've rolled it -- that's still on my to-do list. Actually the only game I think I've maxed out the score on is Gunsmoke for NES, unless you count Pitfall.)

[carlsson]

Another week of barely a blip, this time I even didn't bring out any real hardware but resorted to emulation.

Intellivision:

Stack' Em - 26 min.

Zombie Marbles - 3 min.

[oyamafamily]

Atarian7 and oyamafamily, have you ever tried Bugs? Most people hate it, I've always liked it. It's a twitch game with a much lower time commitment than most, especially since the score is only three digits.

 

(Not that I've rolled it -- that's still on my to-do list. Actually the only game I think I've maxed out the score on is Gunsmoke for NES, unless you count Pitfall.)

No, I've never tried Bugs.

Edited February 15, 2015 by oyamafamily

[oyamafamily]

One more time to add: Pac-Man (Gameboy Platform) - 60 minutes in several attempts to reach more than 100,000 points.

 

Edited February 15, 2015 by oyamafamily

[Atarian7]

Atarian7 and oyamafamily, have you ever tried Bugs? Most people hate it, I've always liked it. It's a twitch game with a much lower time commitment than most, especially since the score is only three digits.

 

(Not that I've rolled it -- that's still on my to-do list. Actually the only game I think I've maxed out the score on is Gunsmoke for NES, unless you count Pitfall.)

No I haven't played it either. I do remember seeing it in my collection so I could try it.

[Atarian7]

Thanks very much, Atarian7. You know I'm NOT good at Kaboom, and I'm NOT able to score 999,999 points in one week.

 

I'm able to reach 999,999 in one week on the following 2600 games (I will mention 10 of them) - Buck Rogers, Defender, H.E.R.O., Joust, Laser Blast, Megamania, Missile Command, Millipede, Phoenix and Yars' Revenge.

 

And on Atari 7800, I rolled the score (1,000,000 points) in one week on 2 games: Dark Chambers and Mario Bros.

LOL Are you the one who told me you couldn't play level 8 no matter how hard you tried? Sorry I don't remember.

[Iwantgames:)]

Arcade -

 

Knights of the Round - 25min

 

Star Wars - 5min

 

 

Atari 2600 -

 

Princess Rescue - 31min

 

 

Atari 5200 -

 

Missile Command - 5min

 

 

Coleco -

 

Quest for the Golden Chalice - 4min

 

 

NES -

 

Commando - 5min

 

Gyromite - 2min

 

Rad Racer - 5min

 

Silent Service - 279min

Finished all the Patrols, now to finish convoy actions

 

Snakes Revenge - 7min

 

Super Mario Bros. - 45min

 

Sqoon - 15min

 

 

SNES -

 

Super Mario Kart - 7min

 

Super Mario World - 30min

The wife surprised me by using the Wii for the first time in a year to play this

 

 

Vectrex -

 

Armor Attack - 3min

[oyamafamily]

LOL Are you the one who told me you couldn't play level 8 no matter how hard you tried? Sorry I don't remember.

Yes, I am. I didn't made to Level 8 on Kaboom!

I obtained the following scores on 2600 High Score Club:

1. 810 during the Atari 2600 Knockout Tournament in 2012 (Round 15)
2. 1287 on 2600 OLD HSC Season 8, Week 5 (Variety Pack 1)

On HighScore.com, I posted the following scores on Kaboom:

1. 10 inside Activision Anthology (Gameboy Advance Emulated)
2. 111 on Atari 2600 Emulated Difficulty B/Novice
3. 165 on Atari 2600 Emulated Difficulty A/Expert

Edited February 15, 2015 by oyamafamily