Kurt_Woloch Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Here are my times for this past week (November 18th through 24th) on classic systems... Arcade: Missile Command - 3 min. Atari 7800: Baby Pac-Man - 7 min. Channel F: Pac-Man - 11 min. in 2 sessions Commodore 64: Jr. Pac-Man - 9 min. This week I only played short sessions of 4 classic games for half an hour in total... mostly variants of Pac-Man. The most unusual of the bunch is probably Jr. Pac-Man on the C-64 which isn't nearly as good as the arcade original. The mazes don't scroll and have been shrinked considerably, being only a bit wider than those on Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man. And it doesn't play particularly well either... I often missed a junction I was meaning to take, and in the end the game just crashed, and I gave up. In Missile Command, I only played a single game and that was fueled by a certain similarity to a game I'm envisioning. There doesn't seem to be a game anywhere where you play the operator of a scooter company. This would in part be strategy and action... You decide a scooter model and pricing, and then there's a map screen where you set the locations where scooters should be deployed and pulled for charging and maintenance. And this would work similarly to Missile Command in that you click on the locations, and then the delivery van goes to the locations consecutively (and in its speed) and brings out and collects the scooters. Actually, it would also be a bit similar to Dino Eggs. When the van enters the headquarters, you get the number of scooters in the van and their charge and maintenance level and then put them into the depot, on the charger and in the maintenance bay and put freshly charged and repaired scooters in the van to deploy. As I said, such a game doesn't exist yet, neither on the web nor for classic systems. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Times for the week. Atari 2600 Defender 5 mins Ladybug 7 mins Sky Diver for HSC 55 mins solar Fox 181 mins spitfire for HSC 59 mins thunder ground for HSC 23 mins Tutankham 13 mins Played most of the above on new flashback 9 with a sd card. NES mario Bros for HSC 62 mins all fun. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 ATARI 2600: Bermuda Triangle - 10 minutes Sky Diver - 20 minutes Spitfire Attack - 10 minutes Thunderground - 26 minutes ATARI 7800: Choplifter - 9 minutes Commando - 10 minutes All of these games played for High Score Club EVIDENCE OF THE WEEK: My Thunderground gameplay footage recorded via camera and presented for 2600 NEW HSC Season 9, Week 14/15/16 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Not too much from me this week: NES: Battle Tank - 15 min. Game Boy: Nangoku Shounen Papuwa-Kun - 23 min. The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Juggernauts - 2 min. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I got a few new "light" Genesis games in the mail this week, one of which I put a whole lotta hours into until I eventually beat it earlier this evening! Ineligible New Super Lucky's Tale (Nintendo Switch) - 590 minutes Sega Genesis Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar - 409 minutes Super Nintendo (Played on Super Nintendo Classic Edition) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 162 minutes Super Metroid - 199 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 1,360 minutes (22 hours 40 minutes) [770 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Nintendo Switch: 590 minutes Sega Genesis: 409 minutes Super Nintendo: 361 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 89 minutes Sky Diver - 9 minutes Hunchy 2 - 8 minutes Bermuda Triangle - 4 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Colecovision Buck Rogers Super Game 5 Ghosts and Zombies 14 JETPAC 3 Knightmare 11 Light Grid Racing 7 Mecha 9 6 Mr Turtle 2 Sydney Hunter a.t. Sacred Tribe 24 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Missed a week or two... so here's all those times... Arcade MsPac-Man - 5 min (Just played a couple games on a MsPac-Man/Galaga machine in a bar I went to. It was the speed hacked one, which all of them seem to be these days. I did okay, but was still only at about a third of the way to the top score. Oh well. Still had fun.) In The Hunt - 20 min (Played via MAME. Seems really close to the Saturn version.) Genesis Phantasy Star III - 330 min (Played this on stream for a while. I beat it once... about 15 years ago. I haven't played it since and really don't remember much. I know it's not one of the more highly regarded PS games, but it's not bad.) NES Metal Gear - 60 min (Played this for a while after watching someone play the MSX version. It was one of the first NES games I ever owned, and I beat it back then. I remember having a map, but can't remember where the map came from. Maybe Nintendo Power?) Playstation Diablo - 120 min (Another game I played because I saw someone play it online. Well, the weren't playing this version, but they were playing Diablo. An interesting game. Deeper than I originally thought it might be.) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 27, 2019 Author Share Posted November 27, 2019 (edited) On 11/25/2019 at 8:27 PM, wongojack said: JETPAC 3 I presume this is Team Pixelboy's release J.E.T.P.A.C., coded by Nanochess? I found that 5-11under once made JETP4K which was expanded as JetPack! and published by Collectorvision, which makes three homebrew games with nearly the same name... Edited November 27, 2019 by carlsson 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 27, 2019 Author Share Posted November 27, 2019 Here's the summary for Week 47, running from November 18 - 24. We logged 2912 minutes of eligible play, playing 56 games on a total of 13 systems. Top 10: 1. Realms of Antiquity (TI-99/4A) - 690 min. 2. Thunder Force IV / Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar (Genesis) - 409 min. 3. Phantasy Star III (Genesis) - 330 min. 4. Super Metroid (SNES) - 199 min. 5. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 181 min. 6. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) - 162 min. 7. Diablo (PlayStation) - 120 min. 8. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 89 min. 9. Sky Diver (Atari 2600) - 84 min. 10. Spitfire Attack (Atari 2600) - 69 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Realms of Antiquity (TI-99/4A) - 690 min. 2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 181 min. 3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 89 min. 4. Sky Diver (Atari 2600) - 84 min. 5. Spitfire Attack (Atari 2600) - 69 min. 6. Thunderground (Atari 2600) - 49 min. 7. Indoor Soccer (TI-99/4A) - 45 min. 8. Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe (ColecoVision) - 24 min. 9. Bermuda Triangle (Atari 2600) - 14 min. 9. Ghost N Zombies (ColecoVision) - 14 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Genesis (739) 2. TI-99/4A (735) 3. Atari 2600 (519) 4. SNES (361) 5. NES/Famicom (137) 6. Atari 8-bit (130) 7. PlayStation (120) 8. ColecoVision (72) 9. Arcade (28) 10. Atari 7800 (26) Realms of Antiquity on the TI-99/4A remains #1 from last week, and at the same time becomes #390 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1230 minutes in two weeks! Two Genesis games battle for second place where Thunder Force IV, in America known as Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar, is ahead of Phantasy Star III which probably is known under that name in most of the world. These two games also are enough to beat the TI-99/4A by a mere 4 minutes on the systems list. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 9 hours ago, carlsson said: I presume this is Team Pixelboy's release J.E.T.P.A.C., coded by Nanochess? I found that 5-11under once made JETP4K which was expanded as JetPack! and published by Collectorvision, which makes three homebrew games with nearly the same name... Yes that is correct, Pixelboy's J.E.T.P.A.C, and I have played those other games as well. I think I even once logged time for JETP4K in this tracker. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 28, 2019 Author Share Posted November 28, 2019 Yes, all three games I mentioned are present in the weekly tracker. Most of the time developers come up with unique names of their projects, but every now and then they seem to prefer a reused or generic name, not sure if it is on purpose to fly below the radar. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 TI-99/4A: Henhouse (20 minutes) Micro Pinball II (25 minutes) Midnight Mason (10 minutes) Realms of Antiquity (390 minutes) Riding for the Brand (15 minutes) TI-REX (10 minutes) TI Trek (15 minutes) Classic Mac OS: Age of Empires 2 (90 minutes) Barbie Beauty Styler (90 minutes) Barbie Mermaid Adventure (60 minutes) Gahan Wilson's Ultimate Haunted House (20) Holidays bring many people around the computers in my house. This week we all shared in the fun (though my playtesting time suffered a bit for it) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 (edited) Only 1 game - Atari 7800 - Pac-Man Collection - 92 minutes EVIDENCE OF THE WEEK: My new PMC gameplay footages Pac-Man, Plus OFF, Fast OFF, 3 lives and KEY Hangly-Man (man, this game is very difficult!) Edited December 1, 2019 by oyamafamily 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Here are my times for this past week (November 25th through December 1st)... Odyssey^2: Turtles - 95 min. in 2 sessions This week the only game I played was "Turtles" on the Odyssey^2. This is probably one of the best arcade ports on the system (given that it's a relatively simple game) and the only one done by Philips / Magnavox under its original name. I reached the 7th floor out of 8, with the layout of the first 4 floors being relatively similar to the arcade original, but floors 5-8 differing considerably from it with dead ends and other nasty parts, so that you have to devise a different strategy to complete those stages. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 1, 2019 Author Share Posted December 1, 2019 Unfortunately the past week I didn't play any games at all. I'll get my kick out of compiling the stats later. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Not a whole lot this week. Haven't been streaming much because we're trying to sell the house and move and such. Already got a new job in the Dallas area, and once we get up there and settled in, my times should climb again. Until then, just messing around with a game here and there. TurboGrafx-16/PCE Daisenpu (Twin Hawk) - 10 min (This is one I keep coming back to and never get any better at. I need to make a more concentrated effort on it some day.) Gradius - 15 min (Played "speed runner style" lol. I reset every time I died. Wanted to see how far I could get on one man. Got to the third level once before I quit.) KyuuKyoku Tiger (Twin Cobra) - 5 min (Very similar to Daisenpu, but I don't know that I like it as much. Haven't played it as much I know that.) Genesis/Mega Drive Twin Hawk - 5 min (Played for a bit to compare to the TurboGrafx version. The Genesis version has a border along the right with game information (the TG version is full screen) and has slightly smaller sprites but they seem to play the same. There are other differences... the TurboGrafx has a silent title screen while the Genesis has a crashing sound when the game's title comes on the screen... the Genesis demo mode is silent while the TurboGrafx one has sound... they're really pretty close I think.) Valis - 45 min (I wasn't a fan of the control in this one... seemed to move too slow. Also seemed to be some cheap hits that are annoying. But I think I ended up playing this more than any other game this week. Go figure.) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 My time for the week: SNES/Super Famicom: Donald Duck no Mahou no Boushi (Donald Duck and the Magical Hat) - 149 min. Beat this (very pretty and very easy) Japanese-exclusive game on Easy and Medium, thanks to a fan translation. I'm planning to do Hard soon, perhaps this week. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Override (PC Engine) 40 mins Coryoon: Child of Dragon (15 mins) 1943 Kai (PC Engine) 45 mins Sorcer Striker (arcade) 50 mins Aleste (Sega Master System) 15 mins Power Strike 2 (Sega Master System) 25 mins Smash TV (arcade) 65 mins Played to the end... a real quarter eater if I was playing a real machine (I was not). Hotdog Storm (arcade) 55 mins Dragon Blaze (arcade) 40 mins On the arcade shmups played each for the first loop. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Times for the week all Atari 2600 asteroids 8 mins asteroids deluxe 4 mins bermuda Triangle 8 mins HSC defender 6 mins lady bug 12 mins pepsi invaders 37 mins polaris 8 mins squish em 146 mins spitfire 3 mins HSC solar Fox 155 mins thunderground 101 mins HSC all fun 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 75 minutes Sky Diver - 34 minutes Spitfire Attack - 25 minutes Thunderground - 13 minutes Bermuda Triangle - 2 minutes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 smattering here and there while i get times in at the last minute. Arcade: Dig Dug - 17 minutes Sega Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 62 minutes Streets of Rage 2 -- 124 minutes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 This week we played a fair bit of Super Nintendo, with me working on Super Metroid and the misses revisiting The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It's been a lot of fun playing SNES lately, though it might be a little bit before I get back to Super Metroid since I picked up copies of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey for the Switch from Target when they were on sale for $30 each on Black Friday. I scored a couple new games for my Genesis collection as well, though I haven't quite gotten around to playing them yet. Ineligible The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo Switch) - 310 minutes Super Nintendo (Played on Super Nintendo Classic Edition) Super Metroid - 578 minutes The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 218 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 1,106 minutes (796 minutes eligible) Individual System Play Times This Week Super Nintendo: 796 minutes Nintendo Switch: 310 minutes After sinking about 6 hours into Breath of the Wild I'm starting to think that it might be not only my favorite Zelda game, but one of the finest games I've ever played period. I can easily see this game consuming 100 to 200 hours of my life, and I'm not complaining about that one bit! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 On 12/1/2019 at 8:35 PM, DragonGrafx-16 said: Override (PC Engine) 40 mins Coryoon: Child of Dragon (15 mins) 1943 Kai (PC Engine) 45 mins Sorcer Striker (arcade) 50 mins Aleste (Sega Master System) 15 mins Power Strike 2 (Sega Master System) 25 mins Smash TV (arcade) 65 mins Played to the end... a real quarter eater if I was playing a real machine (I was not). Hotdog Storm (arcade) 55 mins Dragon Blaze (arcade) 40 mins On the arcade shmups played each for the first loop. Coryoon: Child of Dragon was on PC Engine...sorry I forgot to mention that... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 Here's the summary for Week 48, running from November 25 - December 1. We logged 3147 minutes of eligible play, playing 46 games on a total of 10 systems. Top 10: 1. Super Metroid (SNES) - 578 min. 2. Realms of Antiquity (TI-99/4A) - 390 min. 3. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) - 218 min. 4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 155 min. 5. Donald Duck no Mahou no Boushi (Donald Duck and the Magical Hat) (SNES) - 149 min. 6. Squish 'em (Atari 2600) - 146 min. 7. Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis) - 124 min. 8. Thunderground (Atari 2600) - 114 min. 9. Turtles (Odyssey^2) - 95 min. 10. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 92 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Realms of Antiquity (TI-99/4A) - 390 min. 2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 155 min. 3. Squish 'em (Atari 2600) - 146 min. 4. Thunderground (Atari 2600) - 114 min. 5. Turtles (Odyssey^2) - 95 min. 6. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 92 min. 7. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 75 min. 8. Pepsi Invaders/Coke Wins (Atari 2600) - 37 min. 9. Sky Diver (Atari 2600) - 34 min. 10. Spitfire Attack (Atari 2600) - 28 min. Top 10 systems: 1. SNES (945) 2. Atari 2600 (637) 3. TI-99/4A (485) 4. Mac OS Classic (260) 5. Genesis (236) 6. Arcade (227) 7. TG-16/PC Engine (130) 8. Odyssey^2 (95) 9. Atari 7800 (92) 10. Sega Master System (40) It is a Super Nintendo week as the system dominates the system chart and individually holds places 1, 3, 5 with Super Metroid, A Link to the Past and Donald Duck and the Magical Hat. Pre-NES wise, Realms of Antiquity again becomes the most played game. No new entries to the 1000 or 5000 Minute Clubs. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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