What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2018 (Season 11)

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Not the most active week for gaming around here, since the misses and I have had a mutual friend from New York visiting for much of the past week, but it was still a fun week nonetheless.




Ineligible
Dead Space: Extraction (Nintendo Wii) - 639 minutes
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Nintendo 3DS) - 127 minutes
StreetPass Mii Plaza (Nintendo 3DS) - 86 minutes

NES
Donkey Kong (Played on Donkey Kong Classics) - 25 minutes
Donkey Kong Junior (Played on Donkey Kong Classics) - 25 minutes

PlayStation
Clock Tower - 91 minutes


Total Video Game Play Time This Week
993 minutes (16 hours 33 minutes) [141 minutes eligible]

Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Wii: 639 minutes
Nintendo 3DS: 213 minutes
PlayStation: 91 minutes
NES: 50 minutes



The only game I played any substantial amount of time this week was Dead Space: Extraction, which I decided to do another play through of on Expert difficulty early in the week before our friend from out of state arrived. I only made it 3/4 or so of the way through the game before our friend got here (largely due to the fact that I kept going to back to replay previously beaten levels to find and collect all the weapon upgrades in them) but it was still a lot of fun.

Outside of Dead Space: Extraction I also spent a bit of time playing Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon on the 3DS for the first time, which I picked up locally along with Donkey Kong Classics for the NES midweek. The latter of the two the misses and I spent an hour or so playing together, since she's always been a big Donkey Kong fan and had been missing it ever since we traded off our Atari 7800 earlier in the year. Needless to say the NES versions of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior are both fantastic, though significantly easier than the Atari 7800 or original arcade versions; even on the more difficult Game Mode B that we played on.

For the spousal unit's gaming time this past week, there wasn't a lot of it. Other than a few rounds of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior on the NES the only game she played was Clock Tower on the PlayStation, which she was working on her second play through of until our friend came to visit. Looking ahead to next week there probably won't be a ton of gaming time logged by either of us, since our friend is going to be here until Sunday night and we've got a convention to go to over the weekend. That's alright though, sometimes it's good to get out of the house and socialize a bit with our free time.

Until next time, and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours!

Edited September 3, 2018 by Jin

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 35, running from August 27 - September 2. We logged 2662 minutes of eligible play, playing 66 games on a total of 11 systems.

Top 10:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 382

2. Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar) - 339

3. SteamRoller (ColecoVision) - 294

4. Fatal Rewind (Genesis) - 198

5. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 176

6. Kult (Atari 8-bit) - 92

7. Clock Tower (PlayStation) - 91

8. Arcade Classics (Genesis) - 90

9. Night Mission Pinball (Atari 8-bit) - 65

10. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 63

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 382

2. SteamRoller (ColecoVision) - 294

3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 176

4. Kult (Atari 8-bit) - 92

5. Night Mission Pinball (Atari 8-bit) - 65

6. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 63

7. Oink! (Atari 2600) - 58

8. Dragons Den (C64) - 45

9. Barnstorming (Atari 2600) - 42

10. Beamrider (C64) - 41

Top 10 systems:

1. Atari 2600 (903)

2. C64 (349)

3. Atari Jaguar (339)

4. ColecoVision (294)

5. Genesis (293)

6. Atari 8-bit (290)

7. PlayStation (91)

8. NES/Famicom (61)

9. Fairchild Channel F (17)

10. Sega Master System (15)

An emphatic return to the top for Kaboom and, especially, for the Atari 2600, which totally dominates the system chart this week. The Jaguar also makes a strong showing, taking the #2 spot on the individual charts with Tempest 2000, though it's just edged out on the system charts by a consortium of games on the C64.

[cimerians]

 

 

I'm working on selling a big C64 lot, so I got out a monitor, disk drive, and an SD2IEC that I want to sell. That led me to play some disk based games. The original Jumpman is still impressive to me today. I couldn't ever remember finishing the Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced stages before, but I easily made it through "Beginner" over the weekend. I also like Jumpman Jr, but with all the options and little touches they put into the original Jumpman, it makes you wonder which one is the sequel. I like this game format so much, I think I may finally give Wizard and Ultimate Wizard some time in the coming week.

 

 

Jumpman and Jumpman Junior are great I still like them, a hidden gem on the c64 is Ultimate Wizard. It had a construction set and was an improvement on Jumpman in a lot of ways. I remember getting those in the mid-80s from Toys R Us. Toys R Us had a really good section of c64 games.

[cimerians]

Atari 2600

Asteroids 18

C64

Oils Well 8

Pogo Joe 13

Colecovision

BC's Quest for Tires 10

[zylon]

Almost forgot one, TGB, I rolled C64 Threshold on last Tuesday. Time, about 90min

[+thegoldenband]

Atari 2600

Asteroids 18

C64

Oils Well 8

Pogo Joe 13

Colecovision

BC's Quest for Tires 10

 

Almost forgot one, TGB, I rolled C64 Threshold on last Tuesday. Time, about 90min

 

Wow, simultaneous posts! I'll count these with this (current) week's times.

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Choplifter - 14 min.
Galactic Patrol - 4 min.
Inter Galleon Battle - 8 min.
Hard Hat Mack - 16 min.
Jawbreaker 1 - 5 min.
Kult - 37 min.
Malpass the Asteroid Mines - 34 min.
Lunar Leeper - 6 min.
Marauder - 17 min.
Night Mission Pinball - 62 min.
Threshold - 32 min.

 

Still HSC after some of the extra games were weeded out so this looks to be the final lineup for rest of September.

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600

Galaxian - 24 minutes

Kangaroo - 10 minutes

Lady Bug - 74 minutes

Missile Command - 170 minutes

The Activision Decathlon - 10 minutes

The Music Machine - 90 minutes

Yars' Revenge - 24 minutes

 

EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK:

1) My recent Missile Command scores on games 22-BB and 23-BB, played in my last sessions on ProSystem console.

 

2) 2600 Lady Bug gameplay footage, for 2018 Homebrew Tournament (Round 4).

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (September 3rd through 9th)...

 

Atari 7800:

Baby Pac-Man (WIP) - 27 min. in 2 sessions

 

I played two more sessions of Baby Pac-Man this week... one after Bob (Pacmanplus) abandoned the game and posted its source code. In the 2nd session I played a newer version of it which is contained in the ZIP file with the source code. After that, I started making changes to it myself and contacted Bob about it after they were successful, and now he's relying to me to implement some things he can't wrap his head around.

[Eltigro]

An all Atari week for me...

 

2600 (via Flashback Portable)

2005 Minigame Multicart Jet Man - 5 min (A pretty fun little game that I probably would have played more of if I hadn't been sitting outside. The screen on the portable is a little reflective and the lasers in this game were a little hard to see. A higher contrast color would have been better.)

2048 2600 Puzzle - 5 min (This is the sliding number puzzle game 2048. It was on mobile devices recently. You slide the puzzle in the four directions to slide tiles with the same number into each other. They then become a new tile with a new number equal to the two previous ones added together. For example, slide two 2 blocks together and they become a 4 block. Anyway, I just played for a bit while waiting on laundry. Wanted to see what it was.)

21 Blue - 5 min (A blackjack game. A picture of a woman up top is the dealer and she "says" things after each game. "I can't lose!" "You're hot tonight!" Things like that. You can bet and get insurance and everything, but it's really a pretty basic blackjack game, but nicer visually than the original 2600 Blackjack. The picture of the woman would have surely wowed gamers if this had come out in 1980 or something.)

Keystone Kapers - 15 min (Probably one of my favorite 2600 games. But as soon as those shopping carts start flying about four or five levels in, I start losing quick. I've got this emulated on both my computer and my Flashback Portable. Guess I need to pick up the actual cart at some point...)

Trump Invaders - 5 min (C'mon... you see a game called that and you've gotta try it. It's a Space Invaders clone/hack with the aliens replaced with a Trump's face, and the letters T, R, U, M, P. The laser cannon you control has been changed to a dollar sign. It's good for a grin, but after that, it's just Space Invaders.)

 

Jaguar

Tempest 2000 - 101 min (Playing more for the Jaguar HSC. Not as many minutes this week as last, but I did get a new personal high score of 492104. Accidentally completed a bonus level, which warps you ahead 5 levels (with according increase in difficulty) or it might have been higher.)

 

 

 

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 347 minutes

Hunchy 2 - 17 minutes

 

 

Kaboom! : 149,690

 

 

[zylon]

C64-

Threshold- 25min (additional, lol)

 

5200-

Mario Bros. 35min

 

A8-

Threshold- 1hr 20min

[agb]

Times for the week, all Atari 2600:

 

For the end of the Summer 2018 Activision Patch Quest:

 

Barnstorming 33 minutes - No Patch

Ice Hockey 12 minutes - Patch earned

Kaboom 14 minutes - No Patch

Keystone Kapers - 57 minutes - No Patch

A total of 13 patched earned this summer.

 

New games I bought this week:

 

Eggomania 15 minutes

Moon Sweeper 5 minutes

Taz 28 Minutes

 

For the Homebrew HSC:

 

Lady bug 18 minutes - last place

 

Solar Fox 211 minutes

 

Very fun week.

[+wongojack]

C64

Attack Mutant Camels 5

Clowns 3

David's Midnight Magic 92

Dig Dug 6

Donkey Kong Jr 6

Galencia 16

Jumpman 278

Knight n Grail 9

Lemans 1

Pirates! 8

Project Firestart 84

Ultimate Wizard 44

Zaxxon 3 (synapse disk)

 

 

I kept going with the C64 games. I was trying to get through all the Intermediate levels on Jumpman, but alas I could not. I had one piece left to collect on one of my runs, but I couldn't get there. Perhaps next week.

 

Side note - I think Jumpman may have taught me the meaning of the word intermediate as a kid.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Not a terribly busy week for gaming around here, but what time we did log was relatively evenly split between classic and modern games.




Ineligible
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Nintendo 3DS) - 79 minutes
StreetPass Mii Plaza (Nintendo 3DS) - 195 minutes

Arcade
Baby Pac-Man - 10 minutes

NES
Donkey Kong (played on Donkey Kong Classics) - 75 minutes
Donkey Kong Junior (played on Donkey Kong Classics) - 8 minutes

Sega Genesis
Mortal Kombat - 82 minutes
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 184 minutes


Total Video Game Play Time This Week
633 minutes (10 hours 33 minutes) [359 minutes eligible]

Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo 3DS: 274 minutes
Sega Genesis: 266 minutes
NES: 83 minutes
Arcade: 10 minutes



With a friend from New York staying with us all week and the Furry Migration convention in Minneapolis to attend over the weekend there wasn't much free time for gaming, but the misses and I still made time to sit down and play some games together for a few minutes here and there. Throughout the week we played half a dozen or so 2 player games of Donkey Kong, then one night when we were both up late after our guest had gone to bed we played through one of our old mutual favorite games: Sonic 2 on the Genesis. As usual we traded off the controller between zones but this time around we actually managed to get all 7 chaos emeralds over the course of our play through, which doesn't happen all that often. We also played a fair bit of Mortal Kombat on the Genesis together as well when we had some free time to kill.

The only other games that were played around here over the past week were a couple 3DS games that I played between panels and activities at the convention over the weekend, mostly just to clear out StreetPass hits that I got at the con since it seemed like my StreetPass plaza was filling up with visitors every half hour or so as we walked around the convention center. And oh, there was one other very cool game that I got a chance to try for the first time this past week! When we took a trip to Can-Can Wonderland to play a round of miniature golf I stumbled on a fully working Baby Pac-Man machine in their arcade, and holy guacamole did I ever adore that game!

I've always loved both Pac-Man and pinball, and Baby Pac-Man combines them together brilliantly. The Pac-Man portion of the game was much harder than any other Pac-Man game I've ever played, but I get why the designers made it that way since the increased difficulty makes it necessary to take frequent trips through the lower escape tunnels; which lead you to the pinball portion of the game where you can earn power pellets and extra lives that will aid you in the Pac-Man portion of the game. I only had the time to play Baby Pac-Man twice before we had to leave for dinner, but I'll definitely be going back next week to play some more if I can make the time for it. At this point I can safely say that if I ever have the cash to buy an arcade machine then there is no question in my mind that a fully restored Baby Pac-Man machine would be the one I'd get. It's just such a wonderfully unique game and probably the only way I could ever fit any kind of pinball machine in my apartment.

That's all for this week, so until next time and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours!

Edited September 10, 2018 by Jin

[+thegoldenband]

Working on times now, and realized things got so busy that I neglected to post mine:

 

Nintendo 64:

BattleTanx - 68 min.

Centre Court Tennis - 187 min.

One nice thing about tennis games: how easily they can be played in the background when you're on the phone (for business, family support, etc.).

[+thegoldenband]

Here's the summary for Week 36, running from September 3 - 9. We logged 3003 minutes of eligible play, playing 59 games on a total of 11 systems.

Top 10:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 361

2. Jumpman (C64) - 278

3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 211

4. Centre Court Tennis (N64) - 187

5. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Genesis) - 184

6. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 170

7. Threshold (C64) - 115

8. Threshold (Atari 8-bit) - 112

9. Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar) - 101

10. LadyBug (Atari 2600) - 92

10. David's Midnight Magic (C64) - 92

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 361

2. Jumpman (C64) - 278

3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 211

4. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 170

5. Threshold (C64) - 115

6. Threshold (Atari 8-bit) - 112

7. LadyBug (Atari 2600) - 92

7. David's Midnight Magic (C64) - 92

9. Music Machine, The (Atari 2600) - 90

10. Project Firestart (C64) - 84

Top 10 systems:

1. Atari 2600 (1212)

2. C64 (689)

3. Atari 8-bit (315)

4. Genesis (266)

5. N64 (255)

6. Atari Jaguar (101)

7. NES/Famicom (83)

8. Atari 5200 (35)

9. Atari 7800 (27)

10. Arcade (10)

10. ColecoVision (10)

A second week of success for Kaboom, which leads the Atari 2600 to a triple success on the charts.

[carlsson]

Also not entirely common to have two versions of the same game on the top 10 list at the same time. Last year that seem have happened thrice: two times Kaboom! for 2600 and 5200 were on the top list, once Ms. Pac-Man for VIC-20, C64 and 2600 all were on the top list at the same time. Obviously I don't count DOOM and DOOM II as the same game, just like different installments of Phantasy Star, DAIVA etc likely aren't the same game under different names for different systems.

[cimerians]

Damn that's a lot of gaming by thegoldenband no classic games for me this week too much time being spent on modern games...and a broken toilet and other house repairs ughh

[carlsson]

a broken toilet

 

If you've got a vintage web browser that still supports Adobe Flash, you might want to try out this classic game:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/computers/dd.shtml

[Spike Danton]

Damn that's a lot of gaming by thegoldenband no classic games for me this week too much time being spent on modern games...and a broken toilet and other house repairs ughh

Goldenband must be rich or something. heh.

[+thegoldenband]

Huh? I only played 4 hours this past week, and I assure you I'm not rich -- far from it! Are you mistaking my summary of everyone's times for my personal times?

[+wongojack]

Huh? I only played 4 hours this past week, and I assure you I'm not rich -- far from it! Are you mistaking my summary of everyone's times for my personal times?

 

But you do have a broken toilet right?

[+thegoldenband]

But you do have a broken toilet right?

 

Now I'm picturing that Sarah McLachlan "in the arms of an angel" ASPCA commercial, but with abused toilets instead of abused animals.

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Kult - 12 min.
Malpass the Asteroid Mines - 17 min.
Marauder - 17 min.
Threshold - 14 min.

 

One more week of HSC, and nothing else.