Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 I would like to tell all participants about my greatest conquest: The official competition at HighScore.com ended on April 3, 2016. During this contest period (Jan 30 2016 - Apr 3 2016), I played a lot of Atari 5200 and 7800 games, via emulator in all sessions. Now, I'm going to share the final numbers on my favorite category: contest.png For quick reference: http://www.highscore.com/discussions/topic/jan-30-2016-new-contests-pc-ios-atari-consoles-top-voters/691 The winner of Atari 5200 / 7800 Trophy Cracking Contest is.... ME - OYAMAFAMILY! With 151 worldwide trophies (away from the 2nd place Deteacher, with 116 trophies), I won a composite modded Atari 7800 Prosystem Console. When my 7800 Console arrives safely at my home, I will take and post my photos which will show my console, and I will have fun much more and increase my experience with Atari games! Huge congratulations Oyamafamily! Your scores in almost every game you play are always amazing and you definitely earned that victory! I hope that you have tons of fun with your new composite modded Atari 7800 and that it brings you more enjoyment than ever from your gaming hobby! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Atari 8 Bit: AtariNet - 31m Keystone Kapers - 14m Kid Grid - 22m Miner 2049er - 17m Pac-Man - 16m Vanguard - 8m 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Atari 8 Bit: Kid Grid - 26m 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Well I had a pretty good week when it comes to gaming. I went to the National Videogame Museum in Frisco and played a bunch of games. Also I found a retro arcade just about a mile from my residence that opened this past December and has 80 machines, and they arevplanning to have 100 total. $10 all you can play for as long as you wish. Also did some gaming at home as well. Intellivision: Brickout: 5 Minutes Astrosmash: 20 Minutes Atari 2600: Tax Avoiders: 10 Minutes Colecovision: Donkey Kong Jr. 9 Minutes Vectrex: Berzerk: 5 Minutes Atari 8 Bit: Donkey Kong: 10 Minutes NES: Super Mario Bros: 20 Minutes Castlevania: 25 Minutes Game Boy: Super Mario Land: 30 Minutes MAME/Arcade: Zoo Keeper: 7 Minutes Mario Bros: 15 Minutes Donkey Kong: 5 Minutes Donkey Kong Jr: 4 Minutes Pac-Man: 8 Minutes Ms. Pac-Man: 10 Minutes Tron: 14 Minutes Space Firebird: 5 Minutes Lucky and Wild: 20 Minutes Q*Bert: 3 Minutes Phoenix: 4 Minutes Turbo: 5 Minutes Missle Command: 8 Minutes Pole Position: 25 Minutes Tapper: 5 Minutes Centipede: 12 Minutes Millipede: 8 Minutes Lunar Rescue: 11 Minutes Dig Dug: 4 Minutes Tempest: 6 Minutes Robotron 2084: 5 Minutes Asteroids: 15 Minutes Gorf: 7 Minutes Mr. Do: 9 Minutes Asteroids Deluxe: 4 Minutes Space Duel: 3 Minutes Race Drivin': 35 Minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 TI-99/4A Donkey Kong - 25 minutes Snake Plissken - 130 minutesArcadesDark Tower, 1992, Game Room - 15 minutesSimpsons, 1991, Konami - 50 minutesTower of Druaga, 1984, Namco - 25 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Sorry this week I should collected them all and posted at once, rather than several posts for single days. The last couple of days follow. Atari 8 Bit: Donkey Kong - 19m Donkey Kong Arcade - 7m Kid Grid - 39m Mario Brothers - 8m Moon Patrol - 6m Zaxxon - 9m 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 ATARI 2600: 1) GORF Arcade [hack of GORF] - 13 minutes 2) Venture - 45 minutes, for 2600 NEW High Score Club ATARI 7800: Caterpillar / Cat-Man [Hack of Pac-Man] - 105 minutes in several sessions Highest score: 164,390 points 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Atari 2600 Gorf: 71 min PC (DOS) Silent Hunter: 383 min Yeah, I know... I sound like a broken record... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 (edited) Famicom: Magic Jewelry - 38 min. Quarth - 46 min. Super Mario Bros 1 - 12 min. The Famicom version of Quarth may look alike the MSX2 game, but they have quite a bunch of differences. For instance, the number of structures cleared at once are counted and reported at the end of the level in the tradition of Tengen Tetris. Also it seems to build up booster functions that I haven't investigated further, much because I don't read Japanese. The blocks to clear a part of the display only work that way if the booster has reached high enough levels. Another detail is that you get a number of lives, so if you fail to clear the blocks, you just lose a life instead of instant game over, which is a big change. Finally some levels are full screen width and some are more narrow, unlike the MSX2 that uses the same width all the time. Whether those small but significant differences were made to Nintendo-fy the game, or exactly how the original arcade game Block Hole plays, I don't know, but it is an interesting example of how one company - Konami - made versions of the same game for different systems without them being identical. I seem to recall that Metal Gear displays similar differences. Nowadays when games are ported, whether they're modern AAA titles or retro homebrews, a lot of the time people expect and demand that different versions as close as possible should the same, which here clearly Konami took the option of doing things different. I haven't tried the Game Boy version, but I'd expect it to be closer to the Famicom than the MSX2 version, plus any additional official versions that existed of Quarth. Edited April 10, 2016 by carlsson 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Atari 8 Bit: AtariNet - 56m Boulderdash - 12m Kid Grid - 29m Pitstop! - 10m Pole Position - 11m Yoomp! - 8m Zeppelin - 9m 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Here are my times for this past week (April 4th through 10th)... Atari 2600: 2048 - 24 min. Game Boy: Sliders (Clone of 2048) - 139 min. Commodore 64: 2048 (Act-Otl) - 163 min. in 2 sessions 2048 (Triad) - 27 min. NES: 2048 - 124 min. in 2 sessions Online (non-eligible): diverse variants of 2048 - 16 min. 20 Euros - 23 min. 16384 - 117 min. As promised, I played some versions of 2048 for older systems this week... the one on the Atari 2600 (which, fittingly, is 2048 bytes long), both that exist on the Commodore 64 (one being silent, the other having music), the NES version and the Gameboy clone called Sliders. As expected, they all play pretty much the same. The Atari 2600 and the first C-64 versions got pretty short playtime because I managed to beat them on the first game while I didn't succeed in that on the other version. I haven't beat "Sliders" yet, maybe because it's all black-and-white, so it's harder to make out what the tiles are. Then I played some variants of 2048. Most of them didn't hold my attention for too long, but I beat 16384 which is actually pretty easy, but still a lengthy process because you have to go through at least 7447 moves to beat the game. Also remarkable is 20 Euros, which despite having expanded the playfield to 5x5 is harder because in order to build the 5 cents, 50 cents and 5 Euro tiles, you have to combine three tiles in a row... a 2, a 2 and a 1. I didn't beat that one... the highest coin I got was a 2 Euro coin. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfitzenr Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Hey all, missed ya! Been working way too hard recently with work and school... since I enjoy my job that's a good problem to have but my video gaming time has been pathetic! Got some free time this past week though. Woo. SNES: Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past - ~300 Mins. Street Fighter Alpha 2 : ~45 Mins Super Castlevania IV: ~60 Mins NES: Baseball Stars - ~360 mins Atari 2600: Combat: ~100 Mins Maze Craze: ~30 Mins Space Invaders: ~40 Mins Was a fun one actually. I'm getting hooked on Baseball Stars again, which is easy given the levelling up/power up nature of it. Decided to randomly sit down and beat Link to the Past again, which I seem to do almost yearly. Such a classic. The most fun was that I had to babysit my 6 year old twin nephews, and we spent hours upon hours playing on the ol' Atari Flashback. They could not get enough of Combat! Damn games are timeless. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 178 minutes Gorf - 550 minutes Kaboom! High score of the week: 248,890 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 TIMES TO ADD: Atari 2600 Acid Drop - 5 minutes Assault - 5 minutes Condor Attack - 5 minutes Defender Arcade - 3 minutes Frogger, The Official - 3 minutes Xevious - 15 minutes Atari 7800 Caterpillar / Cat-Man [Pac-Man Hack] - 34 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 5200- Beef Drop- 30min 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 A combination of being busy and not feeling well means I didn't play much this week: Game Boy: Shisenshou: Match Mania - 24 min. Beat Rounds 28-30, so there are now twenty left. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Not much for me Arcade Star Wars 5 Empire Strikes Back 45 1943 10 Zero Wing 5 I also ended up finally beating Golden Sun for the GBA - meh 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) Sneaking in a little late this week due to oversleeping this morning, but it looks like I'm still in time to contribute! Ineligible Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS) - 382 minutes Arcade 1942 - 4 minutes Centipede - 7 minutes Donkey Kong - 7 minutes Galaga - 8 minutes Jr. Pac-Man - 6 minutes Millipede - 4 minutes Ms. Pac-Man - 38 minutes Ms. Pac-Man (Speed-Up Version) - 4 minutes Pac-Man - 2 minutes Super Breakout - 3 minutes Game Boy Alien vs Predator: The Last of His Clan - 65 minutes Battle Unit Zeoth - 32 minutes Game & Watch Gallery - 41 minutes Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - 35 minutes Game Boy Color 1942 - 112 minutes Centipede - 93 minutes Monopoly - 79 minutes Ms. Pac-Man: Special Color Edition - 100 minutes Resident Evil: Gaiden - 237 minutes NES (All emulated on FCE Ultra GX for Wii) 1942 - 23 minutes Donkey Kong - 4 minutes Donkey Kong Junior - 7 minutes Twin Cobra - 8 minutes PlayStation Doom - 169 minutes Total Play Time This Week 1,470 minutes (24 hours 30 minutes) [1,088 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Game Boy Color: 621 minutes Nintendo DS: 382 minutes Game Boy: 173 minutes PlayStation: 169 minutes Arcade: 83 minutes NES: 42 minutes It was a pretty big week for gaming in my household, with the Game Boy Color finally usurping the Nintendo DS as the top system for the week! Since I started contributing to the Nintendo Age forum's effort to beat every Game Boy and Game Boy Color game in 2016 (or at least as many of them as possible) I've been playing through and beating a ton of Game Boy / Color games. I could go on about it at pretty great length, since that's what made up the bulk of my gaming time this week, but rather than clog up this thread with long game descriptions and mountains of pictures I'll just provide links to my two posts on the subject in the Games Beaten in 2016 thread here and here. Suffice it to say that I had a ton of fun with my Game Boy Color this week! I also took some time to give the household multicade some love, plaything a game or two of several arcade favorites, and the misses got in on the action as well with some games of Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. As far as her play time for the week goes, she finally finished off Doom II on the PS1 Doom compilation on Ultra Violence difficulty, and from what I gather it sounds like she's going to be starting in on Riven: The Sequel to Myst next week. To wrap things up, I've continued to mess around with the NES emulator on my Wii a little here and there to get an idea of what it might be like having an EverDrive for our NES and being able to select any game I want to play from a menu screen, but not being able to play the games with an original NES controller has made the Wii emulation option a little less than appealing to me. Still, it has been kinda neat getting to check out some NES games that I've never played before without having to run out and buy a physical copy. I think that about covers it for this week! Edited April 11, 2016 by Jin 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoBeans Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 More 3DO. 3DO: Escape from Monster Manor - 200 minutes Immercanary - 150 minutes Theme Park - 300 minutes Sharp X1: Ys I - 60 minutes Yeah, nothing really exciting. I finally got around to learning how to exactly play Immercanary, and while I haven't beat it yet, I think I should be able to for next week. Escape from Monster Manor got a few more stages played, fun little game, but man those spiders are tricky. Theme Park is always fun, so yeah, I gave that a bit of time. Finally, the Sharp X1 got some time, 'cause Ys I is always a fun game. Nothing crazy but it was an enjoyable week. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoquickcapri Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Sorry a little late. Super Famicom: Star Ocean - 138 min. Sega Genesis: Lotus Turbo Challenge - 44 min. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted April 12, 2016 Author Share Posted April 12, 2016 ^No worries, I'm traveling today and probably won't be able to do the stats until this evening. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 Here's the summary for Week 15, running from April 4 - 10. We logged 6224 minutes of eligible play, playing 121 games on a total of 20 systems. Top 10: 1. GORF (Atari 2600) - 634 2. Silent Hunter (PC (DOS)) - 383 3. Baseball Stars (NES/Famicom) - 360 4. Theme Park (3DO) - 300 4. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) - 300 6. Resident Evil: Gaiden (Game Boy Color) - 237 7. Escape from Monster Manor (3DO) - 200 8. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 178 9. Doom (PlayStation) - 169 10. 2048 (Act-Otl) (C64) - 163 Pre-NES top 10: 1. GORF (Atari 2600) - 634 2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 178 3. 2048 (Act-Otl) (C64) - 163 4. Kid Grid (Atari 8-bit) - 141 5. Caterpillar/Cat-Man [hack] (Atari 7800) - 139 6. Snake Plissken (TI-99/4A) - 130 7. AtariNet (Atari 8-bit) - 119 8. Combat (Atari 2600) - 100 9. Ys I (Sharp X1) - 60 10. Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) - 48 Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 (1097) 2. 3DO (650) 3. Game Boy Color (621) 4. Atari 8-bit (576) 5. NES/Famicom (543) 5. SNES (543) 7. Arcade (495) 8. PC (DOS) (383) 9. Game Boy (366) 10. C64 (190) In a week with a whole lot of different games played, what's our #1? Let's ask this guy: Not only does it take the top spot on all charts, but GORF for the Atari 2600 becomes the 209th member of the 1000-minute club, with 1611 minutes logged to date. (No word on GROF or FORG, though.) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 haven't had much time for gaming as I just moved. but almost have my game room setup and played alittle TI-99/4A Bouncy - 15min Centipede - 5min Pac-man - 5min Titanium - 10min 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Here is what I have done so far. It's great living a mile away from a big retro arcade as well!! Atari 2600: Venture: 25 Minutes Odyssey 2: Alien Invaders Plus: 5 Minutes K.C. Munchkin: 7 Minutes Atlantis: 5 Minutes Atari 7800: Galaga: 15 Minutes NES: Super Mario Bros: 80 Minutes Castlevania: 20 Minutes Kung Fu: 10 Minutes Super Nintendo: Super Adventure Island: 95 Minutes MAME/Arcade: Stratovox: 5 Minutes Galaga: 6 Minutes Mario Bros: 25 Minutes Donkey Kong: 10 Minutes Donkey Kong 2: Jumpman Returns: 10 Minutes Donkey Kong Jr: 6 Minutes Donkey Kong 3: 3 Minutes Ms. Pac-Man: 20 Minutes Super Pac-Man: 5 Minutes Tron: 7 Minutes Space Firebird: 8 Minutes Lucky and Wild: 30 Minutes Pole Position: 15 Minutes Lunar Rescue: 3 Minutes Tempest: 4 Minutes Star Wars The Arcade Game: 15 Minutes Robotron 2084: 5 Minutes Asteroids: 5 Minutes Speed Buggy: 7 Minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Atari 2600 Venture: 29 min PC (DOS) Silent Hunter: 60 min A very annoying game in this week's HSC, and just enough time to squeeze in one (also annoying) patrol under the Sea. Man, you guys had some crappy torpedoes early in the Pacific War... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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