carlsson Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 Yeah, I came to the same conclusion about the 2009 post, and that he hasn't been around here for eight years. I saw that Protector LE was released first in 2003, and the unlimited (haha) Protector/YASI edition a bit later in the same year. It isn't a biggie, we have far more corner cases if all 9400+ games were to be checked in detail. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 15 hours ago, carlsson said: Bomberman 2 Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 Code Name Viper Cool World Exerion Fantasy Zone Gargoyle's Quest II Steven: Not sure if any system is entirely completed, even if we disregard new homebrew games from the library. For instance the SuperGrafx so far only has three titles logged: 1941, Aldynes and Ghouls 'n Ghosts so there are several slots to fill there. Really surprised Code Name Viper wasn't in there already, same with Chip n Dale. But not too surprised about Cool World. That game was terrible. I wouldn't be surprised if it stayed at what I put up for a long time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 @Steven Pendleton I actually have Battle Ace downloaded for emulation... I may put a few minutes into it, myself! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 I decided to put together a list of all the licensed, North American-released NES games that haven't been tracked yet, and it turns out to be a bit over 200 games. No promises for accuracy, but it's probably close: Spoiler 10 Yard Fight 720° Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt, The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing Alfred Chicken Anticipation Arch Rivals: A Basket Brawl! Athletic World Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Bad News Baseball Bad Street Brawler Bandit Kings of Ancient China Base Wars - Cyber Stadium Series Baseball Simulator 1.000 Bases Loaded III Bases Loaded IV Best of the Best: Championship Karate Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure Bill Elliot's Nascar Challenge Black Bass Bo Jackson Baseball Break Time: The National Pool Tour Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, The Cabal Caesar's Palace California Games Captain Planet Casino Kid 2 Castlequest Caveman Games Championship Bowling Championship Pool Chubby Cherub Classic Concentration Cliffhanger Cobra Command Conflict Cowboy Kid Cyberball Dance Aerobics Darkman Darkwing Duck Day Dreamin' Davey Deja Vu Die Hard Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs Double Dare Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Dragon Fighter Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball Eliminator Boat Duel Empire Strikes Back, The F-117A Stealth Fighter F-15 Strike Eagle Fire 'N Ice Fisher Price: I Can Remember Fisher Price: Perfect Fit Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak, The Formula 1: Built to Win Frankenstein: The Monster Returns Fun House G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor Gemfire George Foreman's KO Boxing Ghoul School Goal! Goal! Two Gold Medal Challenge '92 Gotcha! Great Waldo Search, The Harlem Globetrotters Hollywood Squares Hook Hoops Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road Immortal, The Incredible Crash Dummies, The Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Taito version) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Ubisoft version) James Bond Jr. Jeopardy! Jr. Edition Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper, The Joe & Mac John Elway's Quarterback Jungle Book, The Jurassic Park Kick Master Kiwi Kraze Knight Rider Kung Fu Heroes Legend of Ghost Lion Lethal Weapon Little Ninja Brothers Low G-Man M.C. Kids M.U.L.E. M.U.S.C.L.E. Mafat Conspiracy: Golgo 13 II, The Magic Johnson's Fast Break Maniac Mansion Mappyland Mario is Missing Mario's Time Machine Michael Andretti's World Grand Prix Mickey's Adventures in Numberland Mickey's Safari in Letterland Might & Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum Miracle Piano Teaching System Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival NARC NES Play Action Football NFL Football Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing Nightshade Ninja Crusaders Nintendo World Cup Soccer Nobunaga's Ambition II North and South Panic Restaurant Paperboy 2 Pictionary Power Blade Power Blade 2 Power Punch II Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom Pro Sport Hockey Punisher, The Qix Rainbow Islands Rambo Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$, The Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves RoboCop Rock 'n Ball Rocketeer, The Rockin' Kats Rollerball Rollerblade Racer Rollergames Romance of the Three Kingdoms II Roundball: 2 on 2 Challenge Sesame Street: ABC Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak Sesame Street: Countdown Shadow of the Ninja Short Order/Eggsplode Side Pocket Simpsons: Bart vs. the World, The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, The Skate Or Die 2 Sky Shark Soccer Space Shuttle Project Spy vs. Spy Stack-Up Stanley and the Search for Dr. Livingston Star Trek Star Trek: The Next Generation Street Cop Strider Super Glove Ball Super Spike V'Ball Super Team Games Taboo: The Sixth Sense Tecmo Baseball Tecmo NBA Basketball Tecmo World Cup Soccer Tecmo World Wrestling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator, The Three Stooges, The Thunderbirds To the Earth Toki Tombs & Treasure Top Gun: The Second Mission Totally Rad Touchdown Fever Town & Country II: Thrilla's Surfari Treasure Master Twin Eagle Ultimate Basketball Untouchables, The Vegas Dream Videomation Volleyball Wall Street Kid Wayne Gretzky Hockey Werewolf: The Last Warrior Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition Wheel of Fortune: Featuring Vanna White Wheel of Fortune: Jr. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Widget Win, Lose or Draw Winter Games Wolverine World Champ World Championship Wrestling World Games WrestleMania Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth WWF King of the Ring WWF Wrestlemania Challenge WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge Xexyz Yoshi's Cookie Zen: Intergalactic Ninja Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II A lot of obvious choices but a few surprises to be sure: no Power Blade 1 or 2? Or -- to stick to common, often-played games -- no Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, RoboCop, Strider, or Xexyz? The funny thing is, I own a few of those like Thunderbirds and WURM, so maybe I'll move them up on my to-play list. Also I'm 90% sure I've played Alfred Chicken and Cabal sometime in the last 10 years, but I guess it was only for a moment or I didn't log the time. Also a few of these have been played as substantially different versions from other regions or prototypes, e.g. Power Punch II (played as the Mike Tyson prototype) or Castlequest (played as Castle Excellent). BTW I found a couple doubles in the list of NES games that have been played -- 100% my fault, since they date to the pre-Carlsson era: "Atlus Golf Grand Slam" and "Golf Grand Slam" should be combined, as should "Ultimate Air Combat" and "Utlimate [sic] Air Combat". On the other hand "Magic John" isn't a typo for "Magic Johnson's Fast Break" nor a mythical game about an enchanted toilet, but a Famicom exclusive that I apparently played five years ago...? No memory of it, but then again it was only 2 minutes! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Eltigro said: @Steven Pendleton I actually have Battle Ace downloaded for emulation... I may put a few minutes into it, myself! ? Don't expect too much; basically just take After Burner and make it first person, slow, and boring and you have Battle Ace. It was cool for the first 30 seconds, but then it immediately became boring. Maybe it gets better after the first 30 seconds, which is why I'm going to try it again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 But how many C64 games have yet to be played? LOL It actually might be realistic to complete the set of games published by Commodore. <Shrug> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, thegoldenband said: BTW I found a couple doubles in the list of NES games that have been played Those two games you pointed out have been merged, so currently down to 688 unique titles. 3 hours ago, wongojack said: But how many C64 games have yet to be played? LOL There are only 466 games on the C64, a far cry from the 26900 entries in GameBase64 and I'm sure that one doesn't include the latest homebrew titles and newly found lost gems. Sure, a lot of those 26900 are duplicates and hacks (endless amounts of Boulder Dash level hacks for instance) but I usually take the GB64 number and divide by 2, perhaps even divide by 3 to get a reasonable figure of how many unique games the C64 has. That would put it somewhere in the range of 9000 - 13000 different games, so somewhere between 3-5% of the C64 library has been tracked. 1942 2048 (Act-Otl) 2048 (Triad) Adventures of Big Mac Age of Heroes Aggression Alien Syndrome Alleykat Altered Beast Antiriad Apple Cider Spider Arcadia64 Archon Ardok the Barbarian Arkanoid Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh Asteroids (Norbert Kehrer emulator) Attack of the Mutant Camels Australopithecus Robustus Avenger Aviator Arcade 2 Aztec Challenge B.C.'s Quest For Tires Bac Pac Banana Drama Barbarian Bard's Tale Battle Ships Battle Through Time Battlezone Beach Head Beach Head 2 Beaky and the Eggsnatchers Beamrider Bear Essentials Big Deal, The Big Mac Bill da Snowman Blasteroids Blockbuster Blue Max Blue Print Bombjack Boss Disc, The [hack of The Boss/Soccer Boss] Boulder Dash Bounty Bob Strikes Back Breakthru Bruce Lee Bruce Lee II Bubble Bobble Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom Buggy Boy Bunny Chase Bunny Hop [Adam Cybanski] Bunny Hop, The [UpTime] Bunny Zap Burger Builder Burger Chase Burger Time 1997 Burgertime Burnin' Rubber C64anabalt Calhoon's Chicken Challenge Camelot Warriors Car Game (Demo) Card Sharks Castle Wolfenstein Caverns of Khafka Centipede Chicken Chase [Nibbles & Bits] Chickin Chase [Firebird] Chilly Willy Choplifter Chopper+ Chuckie Egg Civilization [Demo] Clowns Cobra Colossus Chess Commando Conan Congo Bongo Cosmic Convoy Cosmic Tunnels Cosmos Crazy Kng (Supersoft) Crazy Kong (Interceptor) Creatures Creatures 2: Torture Trouble Crisis Mountain Crossfire (Sierra) Crystals of Zong Cybotron David's Midnight Magic David's Midnight Magic II Decathlon Deceptor Defender Defender of the Crown Deflektor Delta (Delta Patrol) Demon Attack Dig Dug Dino Eggs Di's Baby Donald Duck's Playground Donkey Kong (Atarisoft) Donkey Kong (Ocean) Donkey Kong Jr. Donkey Kong Jr. (WIP) Doomtunnel, The Double Dragon (1988 Melbourne House version) Double Dragon (1991 Ocean version) Double Dragon II Downing Street Dragon Breed Dragon Castle Dragon Spirit Dragons Den Dreadnought 2 Drelbs Driller Drol Eagle Empire Elite Gold Elite Gramophone Company Emlyn Hughes International Soccer Enduro Racer V1 Esprit Turbo Excaliba F1 (SEUCK game) Falcon Patrol 2 Fallout [Addison-Wesley] Fickle Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun Fire Galaxy Fist II: The Legend Continues Fist II: Tournament Flappy Bird Flimbo's Quest Flip & Flop Flying Feathers Forbidden Forest Fort Apocalypse Fort Apocalypse II Foxx Fights Back Fraction Fever Frankie Goes to Hollywood Frantic Freddie Frantic Freddie II Friday the 13th Frogger Frogger Arcade Frogger II: Threedeep! Frostbite G.I. Joe Galaga (H. Wening 1982) Galaxian Galaxian Artillery Galaxions Galaxy Galencia Gaplus Gauntlet Get 'Em [Georg Rottensteiner] Ghosts 'n' Goblins Ghosts 'n' Goblins Arcade Ghouls 'n' Ghosts Gorf Gradius Grand Prix Great American Cross-Country Race Great Courts / Pro Tennis Tour Great Giana Sisters Gremlins (Atarisoft) Gridder Gridrunner Gwendolyn Gyroscope Gyroscope Construction Set Gyroscope II Gyroscope III Gyruss H.E.R.O. Hagar the Horrible [aka Hägar der Schreckliche] Hard And Heavy Hard Drivin' Hard Hat Mack Hat Trick Hawaii Hero 2020 High Flyer [Dave Rotor & Peter Wood] High Noon Hover Bovver Hunter's Moon Hypa Ball Hyper Sports Ikari Warriors Impossible Game, The Impossible Mission Impossible Mission 2 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Insect Defense Intensity International Karate International Karate+ International Soccer International Tennis (Commodore) International Tennis (Zeppelin) Invade-a-Load Jack Attack Jam It Jammin' Jars Revenge Jawbreaker Jordan vs. Bird: One-on-One Basketball Joust (prototype) Jouste Jr. Pac-Man Juice Jumping Fallout [Ballantine Books] Jumpman Jumpman Jr. Jungle Hunt Juno First Jupiter Lander Kaiser Karnov Katakis Kickman Kikstart Kill the Alien Klax Knight Games Knight 'n' Grail Krakout III Kung Fu Master Kwixx Laser Squad Last V8, The Lawn (Kathy Higby) Lawn Job (Michael Buhidar) Lazerforce (Codemasters) Lazy Jones Leaderboard Golf Legend of Sinbad Legend of the Amazon Women Lemans Lemonade Stand Life Force Little Sara Sister 2 Lode Runner Lost Eggs of Gertie Goose, The Lucky Egg Game, The Lunar Leeper M.O.O.D. M.U.L.E. Mad Doctor Mail Order Monsters Mancopter Maniac Mansion Manic Miner Marble (homebrew) Marble Madness Mario Bros. (Atarisoft) Mario Bros. (Ocean) Mario's Brewery Mayhem in Monsterland Medieval Adventure Mega Apocalypse Micro Hexagon Microprose Soccer 2010 Miner 2049er Minestorm Mission Asteroid Mollusk Redux Monster Buster Monty on the Run Moon Cresta Moon Patrol Moonspire Moonwalker Motocross (Tronix) Motor Mania Mountain King Movie Business Mr. Robot Ms. Pac-Man Munch Man 64 Munchy N.O.M.A.D. Nebulus Neutral Zone Night Driver Ninja Oil's Well Olympic Skier Omega Race On Court Tennis Operation Wolf Organism Out Run Pac-Man Pac-Mania Paku Paku Paperboy Park Patrol Peanut Butter Panic Pinball Dreams (Preview) Pinball Spectacular Pirates Pitfall Pitstop Pitstop II Poc-Man Pogo Joe Pole Position Pole Position II Popeye Power at Sea Prime Time Pro Tennis Simulator Project Firestart Protector II Q*bert Q*bert's Qubes Questron Racing Destruction Set Radar Rat Race Radius Raid on Bungeling Bay Rampage Rescuing Orc Revenge of Defender Revenge of the Mutant Camels Ricochet Rigels’s Revenge (Bulldog) River Raid River Raid 64 R-Nest Robocop Robotron: 2084 Rock n' Bolt Rocket Ranger Rocket Smash Roland's Rat Race Salamander Sam's Journey Santa Claus' Helper Satan's Hollow Save New York Schatzinsel Scramble [2015 homebrew] Scrambled Eggs Sea Wolf Seafox Serpentine SEUCK Shamus Shamus Case II Shinobi Shredz 64 Side Pac-Man Silkworm Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon Skool Daze Sky Shark Slamball Smurfs [C.A.W & M. Brand] Snake Pit Snapman Snowstorm Software Hit Software House Solar Fox Solo Flight Space Action Space Pilot Space Pilot II Space Taxi Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom Spare Change Speedball Spiderdroid Spy Hunter Spy's Demise Star Post Steel Ranger Street Sports Basketball Stunt Track Racer Sub Hunt 20 Sub Hunter Summer Games Summer Games 2 Super Bunny Super Cycle Super Mario Bros 64 [2019] Super Pipeline Super Smash Sword of Fargoal Tales of the Arabian Nights Talladega Tank Tapper Temple of Apshai Terra Cresta Terrain (Arcade 64) Tetris (Mirrorsoft) Thing on a Spring Threshold Thrust Thundercats Thunderforce (Hewson) Titanic Toki Tour de France Towering Inferno (Pioneer Software) Towering Inferno Fire (a.k.a. New York) Toy Bizarre Track & Field Trailblazer Trains Transformers, The Transylvania Trantor The Last Stormtrooper Trashman Trolls & Tribulations Turmoil Turrican 2 Txt.Racer U-Boat Ultima IV Remastered Ultimate Wizard Up 'N' Down Uridium Utopia (1984, HPBooks) Utopia [Preview] (1998) War of Wizards Wavy Navy Way of the Exploding Fist West Bank Wheel of Fortune Who Dares Wins II Victory Road Viduzzles William Wobbler Winter Games Wizard and the Princess, The Wizard of Wor Wizard of Wor (MAX) Wizball Wonder Boy Wonderland [Georg Rottensteiner] World Games World Karate Championship Xenophobe X-Out Yellow Submarine Yie Ar Kung-Fu Zaxxon (cart version) Zaxxon (disk version) Zenji Zoom! Zork Zynaps Åke III: Åke Gets Mediaeval Edited August 28, 2020 by carlsson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, thegoldenband said: Aha, got it. It looks like the number of tracked 32X games hasn't changed since the end of 2018, so here's the word: Officially-released games untracked on the 32X (cartridge format): FIFA '96 (European exclusive), NFL Quarterback Club, RBI Baseball '95, Sangokushi IV (Japanese exclusive), Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Officially-released games untracked on the 32X CD: Slam City with Scottie Pippen, Surgical Strike (Brazilian exclusive) Unsurprising that it's mostly sports, plus a language barrier game, a super-rare Brazilian release, and the Star Trek game. On the Vectrex front, it looks like only three original releases are left, and equally unsurprising that they're all 3D games: Officially-released games untracked on the Vectrex: 3D Crazy Coaster, 3D Mine Storm, 3D Narrow Escape If I ever get the 3D imager or an equivalent replacement, I'll give them a whirl! Regarding the Protector/YASI thing, I actually found the post in question, which dates from 2009 when the tracker was young and spring was in the air: Unfortunately grandcross has under 50 posts, so I assume that poster is long gone, and probably wouldn't remember which game was played back in 2009 anyway. I'm guessing Protector, based on the difficulty. You know, it's funny because I tried to play Star Trek last year on my 32X, but I can't because of the region lock. Surgical Strike is insanely rare and expensive (and also apparently terrible), so it's no surprise that nobody has played that one. I have never seen Sangokushi IV for sale anywhere in town, and there are no copies on ebay edit: or on Amazon Japan or Yahoo Auctions! so I'm guessing that one is probably highly likely to be pretty rare, as well. I think I have the entire 32X library on my MegaSD minus a few that I think I may have deleted because of the region lock, so if I really REALLY wanted to, I could play it. I'm not too familiar with military kanji, though, and I'm assuming that it uses a lot of it. It's kind of interesting to see the games that people have not played for some reason. I guess it's kind of like a way of learning about new games so I can try them myself. Edited August 28, 2020 by Steven Pendleton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 With this, I have completed the SuperGrafx in the tracker. Don't mind Aldynes being here even though I didn't play it this week~ SuperGrafx Battle Ace 10 Madou King Granzort 13 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 Atari 8-bit: King Tut's Tomb - 9 min. Lorien's Tomb - 6 min. Lost Tomb - 4 min. Pharaoh's Curse - 6 min. Pharaoh's Pyramid - 7 min. Super Zaxxon - 10 min. Zaxxon - 12 min. As usual, no time/motivation for gaming during the work week, so I had to compensate a little in the weekend. The two Zaxxon games were part of the previous HSC round, and today (Sunday) a new round themed on tombs, crypts, Egypt opened. Currently it features 21 games including bonus games that may give participation points towards the HSC season. To allow everyone to play as many games as they want, this round will run for the entire month of September which means I'll log a lot of Pharaoh's, Pyramids, Tomb's etc in the next few weeks. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Here are my times for this week (August 24th through 30th) on classic systems... sorry, still no gaming, as last week.. I was busy collecting coordinates of Bird scooters, trying to figure out where they could enhance their service area in Vienna. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 ATARI 2600: Adventures of Tron (for HSC) - 20 minutes Missile Command - 60 minutes Space Invaders - 33 minutes Spiderdroid (for HSC) - 16 minutes Spider-Man (for HSC) - 2 minutes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Here's mine, as much as I can remember: Atari 2600: Burgertime: 6 minutes Fast food: 6 minutes Amidar: 5 minutes Frogger: 5 minutes Joust: 3 minutes Missile Command: 8 minutes Colecovision: Burgertime: 6 minutes Bump n' Jump: 2 1/2 minutes Pacman[prototype]: 8 minutes Centipede: 7 minutes Sega Master system: Sonic Chaos: 4 minutes Aladdin: 2 1/1 minutes The Terminator: 2 minutes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Atari 2600 Adventures of Tron for HSC 119 minutes Eggomania 21 minutes Snoopy and the Red Baron for FB HSC 8 mins Solar Fox 137 mins 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 My times for the week: Sega Master System: Great Baseball - 10 min. Phantasy Star - 366 min. Quartet - 80 min. Beat Phantasy Star and Quartet. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Atari 2600 Adventures of Tron - 16 minutes Hunchy 2 - 12 minutes Kaboom! - 130 minutes Solar Fox - 47 minutes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 A very small week for gaming around here this past week, mostly because I took a bit of a break from video games to focus on other hobbies for the last half the week. After 7 years or so away from the hobby I got back into Nerf blaster collecting this week, and spent much of the week researching all the new blaster models that have come out in the past 7 years since I was last active in the hobby. That took up all the time I would have usually spent gaming, but I did still get in some gaming time earlier in the week. All I played this week was SNES games via Nintendo Switch Online, but it was a really good time. I started off by checking out Donkey Kong Country for the very first time and thought it was pretty fun, though frustration set in after a few hours when the game started getting crazy difficult so I ended up just playing Star Fox instead. I did a complete play through of Star Fox on the Level 1 path and did a few attempts at trying to get through the Level 2 path but kept getting stuck on Sector Y. As far as the spousal unit's gaming time for the week went, she joined in on the SNES gaming and played a couple hours of Kirby's Dream Land 3 but that was it for her too. Anyway, here's my household's times for the week! Until next time, and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours. Super Nintendo (All played on Nintendo Switch Online) Donkey Kong Country - 166 minutes Kirby's Dream Land 3 - 119 minutes Star Fox - 237 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 522 minutes (8 hours 42 minutes) [522 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Super Nintendo: 522 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Classic times for me... I had my usual Tuesday stream on Twitch, and was planning on playing Broken Sword, a point and click adventure style game for the Playstation, but the controls were messed up. (Found out later that there's some kind of issue with my PS2 controller and Retroarch it turns out. Broken Sword works perfectly using the keyboard.) So I ended up just playing a bunch of random stuff. 2600 Donkey Kong - 5 min (Out of all the different variations of Donkey Kong, I'm best at this one. And I still suck at it.) Dragster - 18 min (Best time was 6.51 seconds (see pic below). Still about a full second off world record pace. LOTS of blown engines.) Keystone Kapers - 7 min Missile Command - 7 min Ms Pacman - 4 min Pac Man 8k - 8 min River Raid - 5 min Tapper - 5 min 7800 Mean 18 - 49 min (Got a couple nice chip ins and a hole in one. See vid below.) Ms Pac Man - 3 min Scrapyard Dog - 3 min TurboGrafx 16 Bonk's Adventure - 75 min (Beat it again. Such a fun game.) Blazing Lazers - 40 min Power Golf - 33 min (I had never played this one... and may never again...) NES Castlevania - 68 min (Cheated with save states, but beat Dracula.) Playstation Shipwreckers! - 10 min (I think the exclamation point is actually part of the title.) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 No classic time for me this week. I also took a break from mult-day .ISO sorting projects and 2tb file copy operations . . . put some time in on the Modern Tracker but nothing special. I actually did receive some Atari 7800 homebrews from Al this past week, so I'll probably fire them up soon. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 Here's the summary for Week 35, running from August 24 - 30. We logged 2082 minutes of eligible play, playing 52 games on a total of 10 systems. Top 10: 1. Phantasy Star (Sega Master System) - 366 min. (#1) 2. Star Fox [aka Starwing] (SNES) - 237 min. 3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 184 min. 4. Donkey Kong Country (SNES) - 166 min. 5. Adventures of Tron (Atari 2600) - 155 min. (#7) 6. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 130 min. 7. Kirby's Dream Land 3 [Hoshi No Kirby 3] (SNES) - 119 min. 8. Quartet (Sega Master System) - 80 min. 9. Bonk's Adventure (TG-16/PC Engine) - 75 min. 9. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 75 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 184 min. (PN#10) 2. Adventures of Tron (Atari 2600) - 155 min. (PN#3) 3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 130 min. (PN#5) 4. Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 75 min. 5. Mean 18 Ultimate Golf (Atari 7800) - 49 min. 6. Space Invaders (Atari 2600) - 33 min. 7. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 21 min. (PN#6) 8. Dragster (Atari 2600) - 18 min. 9. Spiderdroid [aka Im Reich der Spinne] (Atari 2600) - 16 min. 10. Hunchy II (Atari 2600) - 12 min. 10. Zaxxon (Atari 8-bit) - 12 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 (713) (#1) 2. SNES (522) (#5) 3. Sega Master System (465) (#2) 4. TG-16/PC Engine (148) 5. NES/Famicom (68) (#4) 6. Atari 7800 (55) 7. Atari 8-bit (54) 8. ColecoVision (24) 9. SuperGrafx (23) (#10) 10. PlayStation (10) Three different stars are the top games this week: Phantasy Star ahead of the two foxy games Star Fox and Solar Fox. The latter qualifies for #1 on the pre-NES list ahead of HSC game Adventures of Tron. On the systems list, the Atari 2600 remains the most played, with SNES just ahead of SMS. Star Fox (SNES) becomes member #417 in the 1000 Minute Club with 1102 minutes. Also the SuperGrafx becomes one of supposedly few systems which had the compete (classic) library represented in the tracker. We do think there may be a few more matching this criteria though extensive looking up hasn't been conducted to know for sure. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Mid-week gaming goodness so far: Atari 2600: GORF - 15 minutes Video Pinball - 35 minutes (I forgot how much I used to like this game although I could play one game forever back in the 80s) River Raid - 12 minutes Popeye - 10 minutes Tutankham - 8 minutes Venture - 15 minutes Dragonfire - 5 minutes Mountain King - 10 minutes Solar Fox - 8 minutes Space Invaders - 4 minutes Berzerk - 5 minutes Asteroids - 8 minutes Pacman - 8 minutes Vic-20: Cannonball Blitz - 5 minutes Jupiter Lander - 6 minutes Cosmic Cruncher - 10 minutes Gridrunner - 8 minutes Aggressor - 5 minutes Avenger - 7 minutes Omega Race - 10 minutes Poker - 4 minutes Congo Bongo - 7 minutes Video Vermin - 15 minutes (I was impressed with how good of a centipede clone this is) Frogger - 12 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) (Intentionally) Played a really REALLY terrible game this time. I also played lots of Thunder Force games because I like Thunder Force and so do you. Arcade Akumajou Dracula - 7 Slightly better than its international version (Haunted Castle), but still incredibly terrible. I did beat this game last year, but I wouldn't recommend that you play it unless you hate yourself. In that case, play the US version instead. Scramble - 6 I typically don't go beyond 1987 for old games because I lack the hardware to do so and dislike emulation in general, but I do enjoy Scramble and want to start playing it more often. Salamander - 14 Saturn Cotton 2 - 3 For some reason sometimes the voice acting doesn't work in this game. How odd. Anyway, that's why I only played it for 3 minutes. Thunder Force AC - 11 I played this in the arcade on the 1st of August, but I've had it on the Saturn for some time. I played Thunder Force III a lot this week and then tried AC again on the Saturn and I think III is a much more responsive game. Movement in AC feels sluggish. I hate the music in AC as well. Thunder Force II MD - 12 Thunder Force III - 48 Lots of time here, but I didn't beat it on this system, oddly... Thunder Force IV - 22 So about the Thunder Force Gold Packs in general: both Gold Packs are good, and the extra Blast Processing in the Saturn lets them run better than the original versions of these games (especially IV), but unfortunately, extremely wimpy sound effects and music that does not loop properly prevent these otherwise awesome ports from being as good as they should have been. I wonder if they could have ported the original Thunder Force II instead of Thunder Force II MD. MD is still a good game, though. Also, in the game selection menus, they somehow misspelled EVERY instance of "Thunder Force" as "Thuder Force" instead somehow, and instead of box art for AC since it doesn't have any because it's an arcade game, they just put a picture of the arcade PCB. I'm not sure why, but I start laughing uncontrollably every time I see that little picture of the PCB. Thunder Force V - 19 I find it difficult to tell what is the background and what I actually need to avoid in this game. This is annoying and a strange design decision. Genesis/MD Lotus II - 13 I recently learned that this game was not optimized for NTSC, so it runs too fast, but since it's a game about going fast anyway and it doesn't really seem to affect it negatively, who cares? I don't, at least. This is one of about 5 Genesis games that I own and all of them came in a set with my Nomad. The rest are all Japanese MD games. Thunder Force III - 32 Somehow, I failed to beat this game on the Saturn, but then I beat it on the Nomad with almost no effort. Joe from Game Sack always talks about how this game is unbelievably easy, and now that I actually put some time into this game, I definitely agree with him. Edited September 6, 2020 by Steven Pendleton 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Steven Pendleton said: Genesis/MD Lotus II - 13 I recently learned that this game was not optimized for NTSC, so it runs too fast, but since it's a game about going fast anyway and it doesn't really seem to affect it negatively, who cares? I don't know about Lotus II, but I know someone who spent weeks and weeks trying to beat Lotus Turbo Challenge on a Japanese Mega Drive, finally did -- and only then realized that they could/should have been playing at the intended speed all along, since they live in a PAL/50Hz region. Apparently the game is significantly harder at 60Hz. There's a list going at Sega-16 of games that weren't optimized for 60Hz (a list of the opposite, i.e. games that weren't optimized for 50Hz, would be ridiculously long of course). It's not always 100% clearcut but some cases are clearly too fast, like Shadow of the Beast. The vast majority are Amiga ports. There are also some PAL exclusives that don't work properly at 60Hz; here's a list in progress. One of the most insidious is Smurfs 2, which will reliably crash a few stages into the game. I had to beat that one in an emulator. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) ATARI 2600: Asteroids - 82 minutes City Defence* - 20 minutes Doggone It!* - 82 minutes Draconian - 18 minutes Ms. Galactopus* - 40 minutes Secret Quest - 35 minutes * = Hot Homebrews for High Score Club. For more infos, check out this topic to learn the mechanics of these games. ATARI 7800: Pac-Man Collection - 16 minutes EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK: 1) My 2600 Asteroids gameplay footage - Game 4 B/B 2) My 2600 Doggone It gameplay footage for HSC Edited September 6, 2020 by oyamafamily 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 Atari 8-bit: Crypts of Egypt - 7 min. Pharaoh's Quest - 7 min. For the longest I feared there would be no games played at all this week, but at 10:30 PM on Sunday evening I decided to have a go at some of the many HSC games so at least I get a blip on the radar. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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