What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2019 (Season 12)

[S.BAZ]

...and then there may be random appearances like me sometimes. Even though I play all year round.

 

but this is it for me so far this week: Roc'n Rope (Colecovision): 10 min.

 

question on the rules: the 2000 deadline is just for when the system came out, right? Meaning for example, games released after 2000 for N64 would be acceptable?

 

I'm always amazed with this thread! It's great!

[karokoenig]

question on the rules: the 2000 deadline is just for when the system came out, right? Meaning for example, games released after 2000 for N64 would be acceptable?

 

Release date of the system. Otherwise, AA homebrews or modern C64 releases etc. wouldn't count either. We can't have that :-)

 

Also: welcome!

[Opry99er]

Missed last week. Here are those times:

 

 

 

TI-99/4A:

 

Borzork (40 minutes)

NeverLander (20 minutes)

Par Fore! (30 minutes)

Wizard's Doom (30 minutes)

 

 

Classic Mac OS:

 

Age of Empires (90 minutes)

Creepy Castle (20 minutes)

Lemmings (120 minutes)

PGA Tour Golf (40 minutes)

Sim City 2000 (45 minutes)

[carlsson]

Classic Mac OS:

Age of Empires (90 minutes)

Ia that AoE 1 or AoE 2 which you played previously?

[Opry99er]

Age of Empires 2. Sorry for the ambiguity.

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600:

Asteroids - 104 minutes

My best scores of this week, played on my console:

• Game 29-BB - 100,000+ (Rolled)
• Game 30-BB - 100,000+ (Rolled)
• Game 31-AA - 40,250
• Game 32-AA - 29,060
• Game 32-BB - 46,970

 

Roc N Rope (for my last efforts on 2600 HSC Season 8 Losers Paper Medal Knockout Tournament, Round 2) - 136 minutes

Best score: 114,610 points on Game 1

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (May 13th through 19th)...

 

Arcade:

Gauntlet - 21 min.

Galaxian - 2 min.

Super Qix - 85 min. in 3 sessions

Pang 81 min. in 4 sessions

Bank Panic - 25 min.

Pac-Mania - 38 min.

 

Non-eligible:

Rubik's Cube - 29 min.

 

This time, again, I played some different arcade games... Gauntlet was one single game in which I got pretty far... but Galaxian fell noticeably short from that. In Super Qix, I made quite a few rounds. In Pac-Mania, this time around I got the hang of it a bit. In Bank Panic, I achieved my goal of 100,000 points. I also solved Rubik's Cube for a few times with a top time of about 4-5 minutes.

Edited May 19, 2019 by Kurt_Woloch

[oyamafamily]

TO ADD: Atari 7800 - Pac-Man Collection - 55 minutes

 

My score: 236,050 (5 Ms. Pac-Man, Plus OFF, Fast ON, Cherries and 1P)

[agb]

Times for the week all Atari 2600 are;

Eggomania 112 mins

Galaxian 44 mins

Laser Blast 15 mins

Solar Fox 201 mins

All fun games.

Edited May 20, 2019 by agb

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the week:

 

TRS-80 Model I/III:

Attack of the TRS-80 - 6 min.

ICBM - 25 min.

Quest for the Key of Nightshade - 185 min.

 

NES:

Batsu & Terii - 12 min.

Bio Force Ape (ProgrammingAce fake demo) - 3 min.

Rush ’n Attack - 164 min.

FDS:

All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. - 10 min.

Finally beat Rush 'n Attack. Then I messed around with some TRS-80 Model I/III type-in games, including old nemesis Quest for the Key of Nightshade [aka Quest for the Key of Night Shade].

BTW the Bio Force Ape demo time is for a tiny, Action 52-esque game that was put together as a joke or a hoax, I don't know which, sometime prior to the release of the real Bio Force Ape ROM. It's only a few screens worth of very simplistic action and music, and then it ends.

[karokoenig]

Atari 2600

Infiltrate: 23 min

Toyshop Trouble: 20 min

 

Played these for the bronze medal in the High Score Club. It was a busy week in real life, and I hardly had any time to play and get decent scores.

 

At the moment, however, I am more concerned about my opponent than about my scores. Jin, how are you doing?

[+wongojack]

Arcade

Quantum 196

Return of the Jedi 29

 

 

Back to MAME for my arcade times this week.

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
Last Starfighter, The - 8 min.
Metagalactic Llamas - 22 min.

Was busy doing laundry late yesterday.. not so busy playing video games though.

Edited May 20, 2019 by carlsson

[Iwantgames:)]

Blade of Darkness - 60min

Nox - 240min

 

Both on my new Win98 machine

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 343 minutes

Roc 'N Rope - 15 minutes

 

 

 

[digdugnate]

I got some much-needed beat 'em up time this last weekend. I freaking love Final Fight and finally played an English version of Battle Circuit (which is a weird game in and of itself).

 

Arcade:

 

Battle Circuit -- 166 minutes

Captain Commando -- 53 minutes

Final Fight -- 243 minutes

King of Dragons -- 130 minutes

Knights of the Round -- 127 minutes

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Ineligible

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Game Boy Advance) - 213 minutes

Fe (Nintendo Switch) - 375 minutes

Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance) - 23 minutes

 

Sega 32X

Doom - 247 minutes

Virtua Racing Deluxe - 185 minutes

 

 

Total Video Game Play Time This Week

1,043 minutes (17 hours 23 minutes) [432 minutes eligible]

 

Individual System Play Times This Week

Sega 32X: 432 minutes

Nintendo Switch: 375 minutes

Game Boy Advance: 236 minutes

[Agamon]

Atari 2600

 

H.E.R.O. (15 min)

Pole Position (10 min)

Pressure Cooker (12 min)

 

I did not get more 2600 play this week, as planned, thanks to a "one more turn" modern game....

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Ineligible

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Game Boy Advance) - 213 minutes

Fe (Nintendo Switch) - 375 minutes

Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance) - 23 minutes

 

Sega 32X

Doom - 247 minutes

Virtua Racing Deluxe - 185 minutes

 

 

Total Video Game Play Time This Week

1,043 minutes (17 hours 23 minutes) [432 minutes eligible]

 

Individual System Play Times This Week

Sega 32X: 432 minutes

Nintendo Switch: 375 minutes

Game Boy Advance: 236 minutes

For anyone who's curious about the thing that happened a few weeks back where my arms and legs all went numb for a couple days and I couldn't play games for a while, I thought I'd take a few minutes to fill you all in on what happened. Apparently I had serious bout of hypoglycemia (which I had no idea I even had before this) where my blood sugar was down in the 50's for a couple days and it caused some nerve damage in my hands and feet. The nerves should mostly recover with time and I can at least hold a controller and play games again now, but definitely not on any serious competitive level.

 

I spent a good bit of time this past week working on retraining my hands with some old favorites (Doom and Virtua Racing Deluxe on the 32X) and I'm noticing an improvement in my fine motor coordination already, and I'm also testing my blood sugar before and after every meal now to make sure it doesn't go out of whack again.

 

I was pretty bummed out that this all happened during the Atari 2600 HSC finals, so there was no way I could have competed for the Bronze medal title this season, but major congratulations to karokoenig on his win and hopefully by next season my hands will be in good shape to compete again!

[digdugnate]

For anyone who's curious about the thing that happened a few weeks back where my arms and legs all went numb for a couple days and I couldn't play games for a while, I thought I'd take a few minutes to fill you all in on what happened. Apparently I had serious bout of hypoglycemia (which I had no idea I even had before this) where my blood sugar was down in the 50's for a couple days and it caused some nerve damage in my hands and feet. The nerves should mostly recover with time and I can at least hold a controller and play games again now, but definitely not on any serious competitive level.

 

I spent a good bit of time this past week working on retraining my hands with some old favorites (Doom and Virtua Racing Deluxe on the 32X) and I'm noticing an improvement in my fine motor coordination already, and I'm also testing my blood sugar before and after every meal now to make sure it doesn't go out of whack again.

 

I was pretty bummed out that this all happened during the Atari 2600 HSC finals, so there was no way I could have competed for the Bronze medal title this season, but major congratulations to karokoenig on his win and hopefully by next season my hands will be in good shape to compete again!

Blood sugar levels do weird freakin' things to people. My wife is type 1 diabetic and I'm hypoglycemic so there's a good match. She *hates* insulin and BS checks but it's part of the game.

 

Glad to hear that you got a diagnosis and that stuff looks like it'll be working out- we'll be thinking of you!

[karokoenig]

Well, I have to admit the final round was a little anticlimactic for me. I definetly would have preferred to fight for that bronze medal in order to feel more like I really deserve it. Also, I think it would have been a fun competition. Had you been at the top of your game, I think I would have had a very very (very!) hard time winning this.

 

But first and foremost, I am glad to hear you are recovering!

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 20, running from May 13 - 19. We logged 3913 minutes of eligible play, playing 49 games on a total of 12 systems.

Top 10:

1. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 343 min.
2. Doom (Sega 32X) - 247 min.
3. Final Fight (Arcade) - 243 min.
4. Nox (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 240 min.
5. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 201 min.
6. Quantum (Arcade) - 196 min.
7. Quest for the Key of Night Shade (TRS-80 Model I/III) - 185 min.
7. Virtua Racing Deluxe (Sega 32X) - 185 min.
9. Battle Circuit (Arcade) - 166 min.
10. Rush 'N Attack (NES/Famicom) - 164 min.

Pre-NES top 10:

1. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 343 min.
2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 201 min.
3. Quantum (Arcade) - 196 min.
4. Quest for the Key of Night Shade (TRS-80 Model I/III) - 185 min.
5. Roc 'n' Rope (Atari 2600) - 151 min.
6. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 112 min.
7. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 104 min.
8. Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) - 55 min.
9. Galaxian (Atari 2600) - 44 min.
10. Borzork (TI-99/4A) - 40 min.

Top 10 systems:

1. Arcade (1196)
2. Atari 2600 (1050)
3. Sega 32X (432)
4. Mac OS Classic (315)
5. PC (Windows 95/98) (300)
6. TRS-80 Model I/III (216)
7. NES/Famicom (179)
8. TI-99/4A (120)
9. Atari 7800 (55)
10. Atari 8-bit (30)

Our #1 game this week needs no further presentation, simply Kaboom! is back. However a good number of arcade games, mainly post-NES makes that system rise to the top in the third list.

We have two new entries to the 1000 Minute Club:

Virtua Racing Deluxe (Sega 32X) is #372 with a total of 1021 minutes.
Borzork (TI-99/4A) is #373 with a total of exactly 1000 minutes.

Again, feel free to post forgotten minutes for the past week and I'll add them next week.

[oyamafamily]

I want to tell the participants in this topic my greatest news: my 2 cartridges arrived safely in my house last Monday - Pac-Man Collection (7800) and Squish 'Em (2600).

Both items I picked up in the AtariAge Store using my $50 Gift Certificate - after the ending of 2600 NEW HSC Season 8 / regular rounds, I was drawn to win this prize.

I tested both cartridges on my 7800 ProSystem console, had much more fun, used an Edladdin Super 78 controller and made notes on my paper (scores and variations used on 7800 Pac-Man Collection).

 

TO JIN: Good luck on the Losers Paper Medal Tournament Finals. We hope you get better soon and do your best in this 2600 NEW HSC Season 8 event.

 

[Atarian7]

I like Squish 'Em. I forgot I even had It until we played it in the HSC.

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600:

Squish 'Em (just for fun) - 35 minutes

Super Breakout (for 2600 NEW HSC Season 8 Losers Paper Medal Finals) - 7 minutes

 

ATARI 7800:

Pac-Man Collection (just for fun) - 285 minutes

 

EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK:

 

1) More scores noted on my paper, for 7800 Pac-Man Collection. It was much more fun!!

 

2) My best score on 2600 Squish 'Em, also played on my console!