What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2017 (Season 10)

[+Ksarul]

I've been hibernating this week (literally, as I slept for about 80 hours between Monday and Thursday--and the eight hours that I was awake were mostly in little bits and pieces). I did get to play some today though (while troubleshooting the piece of hardware that scragged my test box a few weeks ago).

 

TI-99/4A

 

Super Demon Attack: 90 minutes

 

I ended up spending a lot more time playing than troubleshooting--the game is nice and addictive on the TI, especially when the speech works.

[+thegoldenband]

I actually bid on a gamate but got sniped

 

Would these count as arcade?

 

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I'm not sure! The Pac-Man looks like an LCD game from here (is it?), but the Centipede and Q*bert look like they might not be, and I can't find images of them online. Are they LCD games or something else?

[Iwantgames:)]

I'm not sure! The Pac-Man looks like an LCD game from here (is it?), but the Centipede and Q*bert look like they might not be, and I can't find images of them online. Are they LCD games or something else?

Yea after playing them, Pacman and space invaders are LCD games. Qbert is the NES ROM and Centipede is the 7800 ROM

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

Hili Ball (aka Racquetball): 1 min

Im Schutz der Drachen (aka Arena Fight aka Dragon Defender): 5 min

Kampf im Asteroidengürtel (aka Astrowar aka Meteor Defense): 10 min

Moon Patrol: 41 min

Raumpatrouille (aka X’Mission aka Ufo Patrol): 7 min

Spider (aka Space Master X7): 7 min

 

PC (DOS)

Silent Hunter: 45 min

 

Some more Silent Hunting, which was actually pretty fun. Most of those 45 minutes were spent playing cat and mouse with a three-boat flotilla of enemy submarines. Submarine encounters are a feature of the extended "Commander's Edition" (which I'm playing) - happening very rarely, but challenging. Submarine AI is surprisingly advanced compared to the other enemy units. They detect you much better than destroyers do, can dive (of course) and before you know it, you are at the receiving end of a torpedo yourself.

 

The 2600 playtime went mostly into Moon Patrol, the game of the week in the HSC. Also, I received a nice package of CIB Quelle games in good condition, some of which I tested. These are all hacks/clones sold by Quelle, a huge German mailorder company. Nothing spectacular in any of the gameplay, but the covers are hilariously bad and the manuals are so minimalistic, they are almost nonexistent.

[BillyHW]

(Super) Game Boy

 

Donkey Kong (1994, 90 min). Made it to the Ship world (#3). There was one stage in the Forest world (#2) that was tricky. So far though the puzzles aren't too difficult. I'm hoping they get more challenging, but I figure this game is targeted toward kids. Still a great game.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

(Super) Game Boy

 

Donkey Kong (1994, 90 min). Made it to the Ship world (#3). There was one stage in the Forest world (#2) that was tricky. So far though the puzzles aren't too difficult. I'm hoping they get more challenging, but I figure this game is targeted toward kids. Still a great game.

 

 

Very nice! I've always loved Donkey Kong '94 and think it's a wonderful game, though if I had to make one complaint about the game it would be that it's way too easy. Even the first time I played it when I was 10 years old I managed to make it to the last level with 100+ lives in reserve, and have done so every time since then as well. It's an awesome action puzzle game but sadly it doesn't offer much in the way of challenge even in the later levels.

[Iwantgames:)]

Most of my time was spent on the Supervision this week and playing my lil' arcade machines of which 2 use a 7800 and NES ROM so I've gone ahead and listed them. I also purchased a CoCo SDC and Supervision Flashcart so expect to see more game time from those systems in the near future

 

Atari 7800

 

Centipede - 85min

 

Total - 85min

 

 

NES

 

Q-Bert - 45min

 

Total - 45min

 

 

Odyssey 2

 

Freedom Fighters - 5min

 

Pachinko - 5min

 

Total - 10min

 

 

Watara Supervision

 

Crystball - 25min

 

Fatal Craft - 70min

 

P52 Sea Battle - 30min

 

Police Bust - 150min

 

Total - 275min

 

 

Overall Total - 415min(6.92hrs)

Edited February 12, 2017 by Iwantgames:)

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:

Mr. Robot - 31 min.

Only HSC this week, and this is on game I no longer have the patience to advance far into.

[+cvga]

NES:

 

Baseball Stars - 180 minutes

Bird vs Jordan: One on one - 20 minutes

 

Vic-20:

Ms. Pac-man - 5 minutes

Donkey Kong - 10 minutes

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600:

Bobby is Going Home - 15 minutes

California Games - 5 minutes

Chase the Chuckwagon - 15 minutes

Combat - 10 minutes

Dragster - 1 minute

Gas Hog - 95 minutes

Ghost Manor - 20 minutes

Mines of Minos - 5 minutes

Moon Patrol - 95 minutes

Pole Position - 10 minutes

 

ATARI 5200:

Moon Patrol - 10 minutes

 

ATARI 7800:

Pole Position II - 4 minutes

Scammer Brawler - 25 minutes

Edited February 12, 2017 by oyamafamily

[oyamafamily]

EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK:

 

1) 2600 Moon Patrol, Medium Skill and Right Difficulty A (3 moving speeds), for 2600 NEW HSC Season 6, Week 3 (Main Game with new TOP score of 97,050 points)

 

2) 2600 Gas Hog, Default Settings, for 2600 NEW HSC Season 6, Week 3 (Bonus Game, score 22,190 points)

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (February 6th through 12th)...

 

Arcade:

Space Panic - 32 min.

Amidar - 11 min.

 

Casio PV-1000:

Amidar - 253 min. in 11 sessions

Pooyan - 9 min.

 

Commodore 64:

Crystals of Zong - 62 min. in 4 sessions

 

Intellivision:

Tutankham - 6 min.

 

Online (non-eligible):

Jigsaw Planet - 29 min. in 2 sessions

 

TI-99:

Break free - 14

Tetris - 18

 

Last week's session of "Cheeky Mouse" reminded me of "Space Panic" which I played this week. I didn't ever give this game a serious try before, actually, or maybe I did, but found it frustratingly hard... not so this time. Actually I also tried it after playing the TI-99 games "Break free", sort of a clone of Arkanoid, and "Tetris", a smooth variant which I'm not entirely sure if it's really licensed. Another TI-99 game would have been TI-Runner, but I didn't get it to work, but it's somewhat similar to Space Panic.

 

Then I replayed Crystals of Zong on the C-64, which I'm still in the process of disassembling and commenting. There also was a brief, frustrating replay of the Intellivision version of Tutankham. If they only had managed to polish the controls a bit...

 

Then I played two puzzles on Jigsaw planet.

 

And then, a system I've never played before, the Casio PV-1000. I tried its versions of Pooyan and Amidar. They tried hard to make the games look and sound roughly like the arcade originals, which is facilitated by the full resolution in 8 colors, but the games are still severely stripped down, partly due to memory, partly due to the system's limited capabilities, which actually doesn't have sprites! Still its version of Amidar is somewhat challenging. My goal there is to reach 100,000 points, at which point the score would roll, but I didn't manage to reach them yet. I came close at 99,xxx though. I also played the arcade orginal for a bit for a comparison. Actually I would have liked to try the PV-1000 versions of Tutankham and Turtles, but I can't find the ROM files for those games anywhere.

 

A bit related to gaming is also the fact that one of my former classmates, Edmund Herzig, died two weeks ago, and his funeral will be on Thursday. I remember having played many a video and computer game together with him in 1984-1985. He died at the age of only 45, however he's been in a waking coma for nearly 27 years before he finally died.

[Eltigro]

 

Dragster - 1 minute

 

 

This one made me laugh. Got tired of it pretty fast, eh? lol

[Eltigro]

Going on a little road trip tomorrow, so here's this week's times...

 

Was in a kinda TG frame of mind this week...

 

TurboGrafx-16

 

Final Soldier (emulated) - 48 minutes (Actually did pretty well on this one, I think. Either it's an easy shmup or I was in a zone.)

Legendary Axe - 118 minutes (Was playing through trying to beat this again. I did it long ago. Used a trick to get some extra lives built up... then lost them all on the next level... )

Super Star Soldier (emulated) - 27 minutes (Did not do nearly as well in this one as in Final Soldier...)

Tatsujin (emulated) - 10 minutes (Wow... this seemed a LOT harder than Truxton on the Genesis... this ten minutes was probably about 8 games from start to Game Over. First one was just under a minute.)

Xevious (emulated) - 12 minutes (Yep... no matter the system, I suck at Xevious. But I think it's because I keep looking at the cross hairs for bombing and don't see the bullet headed for my ship.)

 

SNES

 

Breath of Fire II (emulated)- 93 minutes (It took a few minutes of playing to realise that I have this one for the GBA, but I think they changed some minor things in it... like I think you get money easier in the GBA version...)

Super Mario RPG (emulated) - 97 minutes (Not bad so far... but got to a boss that wiped me and just kinda stopped. Guess I need to grind some more or something... may come back to it.)

 

Saturn

 

Albert Odyssey (emulated) - 13 minutes (I played this for a bit... emulation was a bit off... music at time sounded off... I saved my game and came back to it later and I was controlling a guard... then went into a door and got stuck on the next screen and couldn't do anything but open and close my menu. I think Saturn emulation still has a long ways to go... lol)

 

Playstation

 

Suikoden II (emulated) - 915 minutes (Finished this one up early this morning... I think it was a little after 2AM? Anyway, excellent game, but without a walkthrough, there's no way I would have gotten all 108 characters and the good ending. Final save shows 61 hours, 14 minutes. Hero was level 62 and most others around 44.)

 

I played several other games briefly, but forgot to write down times. Nothing significant. Considering my next big game to tackle. I think I figured out how to play multi-disc games on Retroarch, so my next one may be Final Fantasy VII. Was kinda wanting to play Panzer Dragoon Saga, but based on how Albert Odyssey went, I'm not even gonna download it.

[zylon]

5200-

Frogger II- 25min

 

2600- via xbox comp disc (which actually sucks, but got it cheap)

Missile Command- 40min

 

Gamecube-

Timesplitters 2- 3hrs 10min (not eligible, but still enjoying it)

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the week:

NES:

Altered Beast (Jyuuooki) - 99 min.

Chessmaster - 2 min.

Flappy - 339 min.

Nuts & Milk - 53 min.

Beat 30 more "Sides" in Flappy, so I've now got 40 levels left to go.

@Kurt_Woloch: 27 years in a coma?! Wow, that's quite a sad story. Was he in an accident, or did he have some other kind of brain injury?

[+wongojack]

Gameboy Color

Game n Watch Gallery III 29

 

Windows 95/98

Baldur's Gate 140

 

Well, more than nothing this week which is an improvement. My wife and I also played all the way through the Telltale Batman series.

[oyamafamily]

 

This one made me laugh. Got tired of it pretty fast, eh? lol

I just played Game 2 on 2600 Dragster (Emulator) and finished run slowly - 12.42 seconds. Then I posted this time at HighScore.com

This time will result on winning my FIRST trophy (first person who posted a score / time). You also made me laugh!

[carlsson]

In the past four months, I've tried to play both Motocross/Dragster on the Interton VC-4000 and Drag Race on the Fairchild Channel F. Both games, I was unable to play other than having the engine stall or causing a false start. I haven't tried the Atari 2600 game, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is equally difficult/unplayable. A bit remarkable actually if one kind of game across several platforms pans out to be equally difficult to play, when the others on respective system are not terribly hard to figure out and get at least a few minutes of joy from.

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 298 minutes

Moon Patrol - 425 minutes

 

 

Kaboom! High score of the week: 100,903

 

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

It seems like this was a pretty slow week for a lot of the tracker regulars, and my household was no exception.

 

 

 

Ineligible

Doom (Game Boy Advance) - 224 minutes

Star Fox Adventures (GameCube) - 198 minutes

Atari 2600

Gas Hog - 37 minutes

Moon Patrol - 41 minutes

Game Boy Color

Pac-Man: Special Color Edition - 9 minutes

PlayStation

Final Fantasy Chronicles: Final Fantasy IV - 116 minutes

Total Play Time This Week
625 minutes (10 hours 25 minutes) [203 minutes eligible]

Individual System Play Times This Week

Game Boy Advance: 224 minutes

GameCube: 198 minutes

PlayStation: 116 minutes

Atari 2600: 78 minutes

Game Boy Color: 9 minutes

For my part in things the overall lack of gaming time this week was due to a nasty case of subacute thyroiditis, which kept me feeling pretty cruddy all week and not really wanting to do much of anything in general. I still managed to make an appearance in the Atari 2600 High Score Club with a few games of Moon Patrol and Gas Hog, but outside of those games I really just stuck to video game comfort food all week. I finished up my play through of Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube and (as with every time I play it) felt rather sad when it was over, since it is one of my all time favorite games and it's always sad when a good story comes to an end. I guess I'll just have to track down a copy of Star Fox Assault in the not too distant future to continue the story. Next up was Doom on the Game Boy Advance, which I always play through at least once a year and now seemed like a good time to start it since I've been spending a lot of time on the bus going to and from doctor's appointments lately. It's also one of those games that I can pretty much play on auto-pilot, so no matter how mentally foggy I'm feeling I can still breeze through the game and have fun playing it even on Nightmare! difficulty.

The misses' shortage of gaming time this week wasn't due to any kind illness or anything like that, in her case it was just a matter of not really knowing what she wanted to play next. She pondered it off and on for most of the week until eventually deciding on Final Fantasy IV on the PlayStation (which was originally released as Final Fantasy II on the Super Nintendo in the US then tweaked and tuned with CG cinematics and some other additions for the PlayStation release). She's only put a couple hours into it at this point and isn't sure whether or not she's going to stick with it, since she likes the story so far but is finding the turn based gameplay to be a little boring, so I guess we'll see what the future holds for that one. I remember her playing through Chrono Trigger on the same compilation a couple years back and liking it a lot, but she doesn't seem quite as enthused about Final Fantasy IV thus far.

I think that about takes care of everything for this week! Here's hoping I'll get feeling a bit better and can get in some more tracker eligible time next week, and that my other half will be able to settle on a PlayStation game to play next.

[BurritoBeans]

Atari 2600:

Kaboom - 35 minutes

Warlords - 70 minutes

 

SNES:

The Lawnmower Man - 2000 minutes

 

PC88:

Hot Milk - 50 minutes

Jesus - 200 minutes

Tenshi-tachi no Gogo - 100 minutes

 

PC98:

Rusty - 200 minutes

 

X68000:

Neural Gear - 70 minutes

 

Well, I got more variety in this week which was cool to see. Again with The Lawnmower Man as the main thing, this week was just straight runthroughs. My "partner in crap" (as we've been calling each-other) decided that he wants to stick with doing the co-op run instead of me just doing a singleplayer one so we're getting serious - just practicing over and over and over. I think we're getting fairly alright at this point so we may slow down a little bit on playtime to fit in more stuff like our usual CS:GO practice or maybe a bit more random stuff for me. One big roadblock with two people that we had was the game crashing... maybe it's the whole sprites overflowing thing causing the system to softlock? I don't exactly know but we kept having softlocks - either it's us doing something wrong, maybe my cart isn't great (only like $10 loose so I may buy an extra) or my system is being funny.

 

I ended up sitting down with the PC88, which is a rarity but still really enjoyable. All the games I played were Visual Novels, and none were all that good. Hot Milk really set my bar low at first, but it's a Fairytale game - what could I really expect? This is just a straight-up eroge title, no fluff or silly plot, and while it does good at being what it was made to it's not exactly anything entertaining to look at low-quality stills. Tenshi-tachi no Gogo was second up for me, a game from a dev I don't see often (JAST) and this is (again) an eroge. This game has more of a plot to it, which is that you want to get with the top person in a tennis club by seducing her friends to get her attention - funnily enough I found a MS-DOS 10-year re-release of the title which is all of the games in the series (yep it's a series) which is kinda cool if you ask me. Finally, there was Jesus. Jesus is a break from all the crap eroge titles, and revolves around a plot where Halley's Comet is coming towards earth gradually and scientists found lifeforms inside of the thing so you alongside your girlfriend and some others have to go investigate - this is an old Enix title which is cool to see, and I found that a sequel exists for it too. I liked this one enough, but I didn't beat it yet - maybe for next week? Who knows.

 

The PC98 got taken as I wanted to play Rusty again. I really wanted to play Castlevania at first but I couldn't find any of my Castlevania cartridges so I just played this which is pretty much a clone of CV. I think I've talked enough about this title in the past so I'm not going to make a giant post about it, but I think hardcoregamer has an article on it if you want to check it out - it's a solid PC98 title, and I think a DOS version exists too if you want to play it a bit easier.

 

Finally, the X68000 got taken out for a bit of Neural Gear which is a solid title like Space Harrier. It's completely mouse-controlled which is a little different apart from like Cameltry. The plot involves a soldier who has a suit which can go back in time to destroy time-traveling robots that are trying to make stuff worse... remind anyone of Timesplitters? I got a little Timesplitters vibe off of that bit of the plot. As mentioned the game plays like Space Harrier in a similar over-the-shoulder 3D whatever where you can run/fly and take out enemies, but it's cool as you have a health bar. The timer on the stage is also refillable which is neat, as after you take down a good few enemies you end up getting 200 more onto the time. Overall I really enjoyed this one, and I think I may pull it out for next week or something just so that I can mess with it even more and maybe beat it.

 

So, yeah the Lawnmower Man playtime will go on as we're going to be doing the run. Turns out there's a local speedrunning event that people are trying to make which I found through Facebook (I swear I hate Facebook 99% of the time but occasionally there's some good stuff on there) so I brought up the idea to the shop owner since we have space to host stuff and he said he'd be willing to clean out a good space - we may actually have a venue to show the run in two months if this happens so I'm super excited. The other thing which I'm super excited over is my new keyboard, I dropped $265 on a Topre Realforce RGB for gaming and typing as Topre switches are a dream to work on - I may buy a better set of MX-based keycaps since this thing can take both Topre and Cherry MX caps, but I think my PC gaming time both classic and modern will be going up here due to getting something that isn't a stupid Razer membrane keyboard to work on for the first time in two years. Finally, I may be picking up a Flashback Portable to play 2600 on the go... I don't know yet but it looks like a good $50 investment to keep playing my Atari games so I may go for it.

 

So yeah, that was the week, Lawnmower Man and pornography - excitement? Maybe not. Entertaining? Yep.

[Eltigro]

Several Kaboom times. Perhaps it's back in the top ten??

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 6, running from February 6 - 12. We logged 7383 minutes of eligible play, playing 69 games on a total of 24 systems.

Top 10:

1. Lawnmower Man, The (SNES) - 2000

2. Suikoden II (PlayStation) - 915

3. Moon Patrol (Atari 2600) - 602

4. Flappy (NES/Famicom) - 339

5. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 333

6. Amidar (Casio PV-1000) - 253

7. Jesus (NEC PC-8801) - 200

7. Rusty (NEC PC-9801) - 200

9. Baseball Stars (NES/Famicom) - 180

10. Police Bust (Watara SuperVision) - 150

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Moon Patrol (Atari 2600) - 602

2. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 333

3. Amidar (Casio PV-1000) - 253

4. Jesus (NEC PC-8801) - 200

5. Gas Hog (Atari 2600) - 132

6. Tenshi-tachi no Gogo (NEC PC-8801) - 100

7. Super Demon Attack (TI-99/4A) - 90

8. Centipede (Atari 7800) - 85

9. Warlords (Atari 2600) - 70

10. Crystals of Zong (C64) - 62

Top 10 systems:

1. SNES (2190)

2. Atari 2600 (1288)

3. PlayStation (1031)

4. NES/Famicom (738)

5. NEC PC-8801 (350)

6. Watara SuperVision (275)

7. Casio PV-1000 (262)

8. TG-16/PC Engine (215)

9. NEC PC-9801 (200)

10. PC (Windows 95/98) (140)

Week 6 would have been a record-breaking week in past years, and it's still a very strong one, as the Lawnmower Man leads the charge into the 7000+ minute range and takes the top spot for a second week.

Meanwhile, VCS Moon Patrol buggy-hops its way to the top of the pre-NES charts (and #3 in the Top 10), and the Watara SuperVision now cracks the Top 10 on both charts for which it's eligible.

And speaking of Moon Patrol, its 1179 minutes logged to date means it gains access to the 1000-minute club, along with early Famicom game Flappy (1180 min. to date), in spots #257 and #258.

[Iwantgames:)]

Ok, so I've acquired this new system this week. Its a older vr system with 1 built in game. There's actually a few of these each with a different game in it, I have another coming next week. It's a MGA VR3D system that came out in 2000. Would this qualify for tracker? I know the one that's coming next week won't qualify as it's the second iteration of the VR3D line that started in 2001 but not sure about this as it is in the timeframe.