carlsson Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 The "What have you ACTUALLY played" gameplay tracker was started by cvga in the 2600 forum back in October 2008, ran with excellence for many years by thegoldenband and since the beginning of this year is maintained by me. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/286737-what-have-you-actually-played-tracker-for-2019-season-12/ In March 2014, it was highlighted on the AtariAge news that the Activision game Kaboom! had reached a total of 100,000 minutes of recorded gameplay, which itself was amazing. Five years later, it has doubled its figure and currently sits around 215,000 minutes! http://atariage.com/forums/topic/222827-100000-minutes-of-kaboom/ In the current week, which will be summarized early next week, we are looking to reach another milestone: we will have logged a total of 2 million minutes of gameplay since the beginning! Of course anyone is welcome to enter, either measure your gameplay down to the exact minute or give estimates rounded by 5 or 10 minutes. You don't have to be a regular, though it clearly shows that if you make it a habit to log your times and your scores, you will want to play more as not only do you have highscores to beat but also become the biggest contributor of gameplay... or do you? For those who think 20th century games are dull and only serve as collector's items, there is an equivalent modern tracker (also ran by me, coincidentally) which handles all systems from year 2000 and onwards. For a long while it was dominated by Xbox One until everyone started to buy Nintendo Switch. Systems from Sony are also represented, but less regularly. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/286735-what-have-you-actually-played-tracker-modern-edition-2019/ Happy gaming! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 To be precise, the classic tracker is now up to 2,000,121 minutes after summarizing the past week. It was a close call, but we made it as announced. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 The tracker may have slowed down a little recently, but for next week we'll exceed 2,200,000 minutes so it took about 14 months to get the last 200,000 minutes. Anyone is welcome to enter at any time, for a single week or for several years to come. Exact measurements or rough estimates, as long as you include system, games and times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 13, 2020 Author Share Posted October 13, 2020 On Monday, October 19 the Classic tracker celebrates its 12th birthday! Feel free to join the fun by tracking some minutes of gameplay and post those! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 @carlsson Say, I was just curious. Have you ever compiled, (using this info of course) a Top 10 list of the Most played Classic games? It sounds like Kaboom! is Number 1. I was just wondering. Also I don't know if that is something that can easily be done. BTW, I'm not suggesting you go back and put forth some gargantuan effort, but if it's something that's easy to look up, I'd be curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 6, 2020 Author Share Posted November 6, 2020 Yes, it happens yearly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted May 13, 2021 Author Share Posted May 13, 2021 As a small bump, the classic tracker last week exceeded 9,900 different games listed. Some are hacks of others but a good majority are unique titles. While this number grows slower than the number of minutes played, it isn't unthinkable that it will reach 10,000 games before 2021 is finished. That would be an average of 3-5 previously unlisted titles every week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 6, 2021 Author Share Posted July 6, 2021 Retro gaming in 2021 is at its strongest for many years! Which is the most played game this year? Have a guess or check the report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 6, 2022 Author Share Posted January 6, 2022 The yearly stats have been posted! Click here for the classic tracker (195X - 1999) or here for the modern tracker (2000 - 2021). 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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