Kurt_Woloch Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Here are my times for this week (August 31st through September 6th) on classic systems... sorry, again no gaming this week, and I think it will stay this way for at least the next two weeks. Instead my actual current "game" is refactoring code, which is actually nearly as challenging as playing computer and video games. In two weeks I'll have one of my rare gigs as a keyboarder which will pretty much occupy a whole day, and until then I should record some Karaoke playbacks for someone, so I'm pretty busy at this time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 23 minutes Solar Fox - 14 minutes Spider-man - 10 minutes Spiderdroid - 20 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 I put in a little more time over the weekend: Atari 2600: Entombed - 7 minutes California Games - 5 minutes Donkey Kong Jr. - 8 minutes Fishing Derby - 8 minutes The Earth Dies Screaming - 10 minutes Dodger Cars - 4 minutes Fast Food - 5 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Here it is fore me: Atari 2600: Missile command: 9 1/2 minutes Burgertime: 7 minutes Fast Food: 5 1/2 minutes Frogger: 5 minutes. Kaboom!: 2 minutes Colecovision: Bump n' Jump: 1 minute Burgertime[prototype]: 6 minutes Pacman[prototype]: 7 minutes Centipede: 6 minutes NES: Castlevania III-Dracula's Curse: 5 minutes Toobin': 10 1/2 minutes Burgertime: 8 minutes Probotector: 2 minutes Double Dragon: 8 minutes Double dragon 2: 2 minutes New ghostbusters 2: 3 minutes The Simpsons-Bart vs. the World: 7 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 My times for the week: NES: Batsu & Terry (JPN) - 60 min. Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu - 81 min. Beat Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 12 hours ago, thegoldenband said: 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. Yeah, I never know with European games what I should be doing with refresh rates. My primary Genesis/MD is the Nomad, which can't change refresh rates, but I do also have the Mega Sg, which can be changed to 50Hz in the options. There is actually a PAL Mega Drive 2 for sale over in Super Potato, but I think they want some ridiculous price for it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 A2600 Stay Frosty 2 24 A7800 Baby Pac-Man 299 Ms. Pac-Man 40 Robotron 2084 86 T:me Salvo 147 As promised, I put some fairly heavy time into some homebrews this week. It truly is amazing to be able to play Baby Pac-Man at home. The game is just as brutal and unforgiving as the original - LOL Time Salvo is a nice homebrew too. I'll have to play one of the games it's based on at some point. (Crossfire, Targ, etc). I also went ahead and ordered a copy of Rikki and Vicki. Long live the 7800! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Times for the week Atari 2600 Eggomania 22 mins Solar Fox 82 mins Spider Man for HSC 6 mins Spiderdroid 114 mins for HSC. First time playing and really liked it. Squish’em 15 mins 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 It was a super tiny week for gaming in my household this week, with the only games played being some Atari 2600 High Score Club games. Still, it was good to get in some Atari time Atari 2600 City Defence - 25 minutes Doggone It! - 17 minutes Ms. Galactopus - 36 minutes Spider-Man - 55 minutes Spiderdroid - 32 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 165 minutes (2 hours 45 minutes) [165 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Atari 2600: 165 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 Here's the summary for Week 36, running from August 31 - September 6. We logged 2077 minutes of eligible play, playing 77 games on a total of 9 systems. Top 10: 1. Baby Pac-Man [Bob Decrescenzo] (Atari 7800) - 299 min. 2. Spiderdroid [aka Im Reich der Spinne] (Atari 2600) - 166 min. 3. T:me Salvo (Atari 7800) - 147 min. 4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 104 min. (#3) 5. Doggone It! (Atari 2600) - 99 min. 6. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 90 min. 7. Robotron: 2084 (Atari 7800) - 86 min. 8. Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu (NES/Famicom) - 81 min. 9. Ms. Galactopus (Atari 2600) - 76 min. 10. Spider-Man (Atari 2600) - 71 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Baby Pac-Man [Bob Decrescenzo] (Atari 7800) - 299 min. 2. Spiderdroid [aka Im Reich der Spinne] (Atari 2600) - 166 min. (PN#9) 3. T:me Salvo (Atari 7800) - 147 min. 4. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 104 min. (PN#1) 5. Doggone It! (Atari 2600) - 99 min. 6. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 90 min. 7. Robotron: 2084 (Atari 7800) - 86 min. 8. Ms. Galactopus (Atari 2600) - 76 min. 9. Spider-Man (Atari 2600) - 71 min. 10. City Defence (Atari 2600) - 45 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 (992) (#1) 2. Atari 7800 (588) (#6) 3. NES/Famicom (187) (#5) 4. Sega Saturn (115) 5. VIC-20 (89) 6. Genesis (45) 7. Arcade (27) 8. ColecoVision (20) (#8) 9. Atari 8-bit (14) (#7) I don't know if Bob's someones uncle (ping @PacManPlus) but his Baby Pac-Man game wins both the overall and pre-NES titles this week, ahead of the Amidar hack named Spiderdroid. Except for Jackie Chan on the NES, the entire top list consists of Atari 2600 & 7800 games which also shows in the systems top list. Despite the big number of 77 games played, none hits the 1000, 5000 or 10000 minute clubs this week. Some games are getting very close to the 1000 minute mark though. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 Neo Geo time. Neo Geo AES/MVS Andro Dunos - 8 Baseball Stars 2 - 32 Blazing Star - 8 Crossed Swords - 5 Garou Densetsu - 9 Ghost Pilots - 5 Choutetsu Brikin'ger - 10 ^This is a prototype of a game that was developed for MVS/AES but got cancelled and released on the CD instead. Not sure how complete this prototype is, but it exists. Apparently it has a localized title, Ironclad, which shows up if you put it in a non-Japanese Neo Geo CD, but it only got released in Japan. Metal Slug - 78 Metal Slug 2 - 7 Metal Slug 3 - 11 Metal Slug 4 - 10 Metal Slug 5 - 4 Metal Slug X - 22 NAM-1975 - 5 Neo Turf Masters - 350 Shock Troopers - 166 Shock Troopers Second Squad - 5 Sengoku - 3 Sonic Wings 2 - 43 Sonic Wings 3 - 18 Strikers 1945 Plus - 7 Twinkle Star Sprites - 23 Viewpoint - 5 Windjammers - 22 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 My time Atari 2600: The Smurfs: rescue at Gargamel's Castle- 4 minutes Mr. DO!- 3 1/2 minutes Super breakout- 4 minutes MS-DOS: Ultimate Doom- 9 minutes Duke Nukem 3D- 8 minutes. NES: Bubble bath babes 2 1/2 minutes Toobin' [unlicensed]- 8 minutes Ninja Gaiden 1- 7 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 13, 2020 Author Share Posted September 13, 2020 Atari 2600: Bowling - 7 min. Atari 8-bit: Desert Falcon - 4 min. King Tut's Tomb - 7 min. Revenge of the Mutant Camels - 5 min. I'm still digging through all the games in the A8 HSC and have now tested all except those that wouldn't run on my computer and the text adventures. Now it remains to replay those I want to give it a shot at improving my score until the end of September. On the Flashback Portable, I finally managed to score 289 points in a bowling game at the default, easiest setting. I doubt I'll ever be able to reach that again, although the maximum of course is 300 points. I'm sure the really pro players have no difficulty obtaining maximum score on the easiest game, but I'm not one of those. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 Times for the week: Atari 2600: This week I had no HSC games to play. I own 178 different atari cartridges mostly bought in large lots or $1-$2 each. I have played 95, haven't played 83 prior to this week. Some of the 83 are great games I haven't got to yet. So this week I figured I would give some a try. Amidar 10 mins -great game, very similar to Spiderdroid which I played the last two weeks. Backgammon 45 mins - had a lot of fun playing Blackjack 8 mins. Got bored quickly Casino 70 wasted minutes which I enjoyed a lot Hangman 44 mins - Another game I really enjoyed playing. Midnight Madness 26 mins - Not as good as Video Pinball Solar Fox which I have played previous;y - 41 mins. I am down to 77 I haven't played yet but hope to play some this week. Fun week of retro gaming. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 Wow, what an honor to see Baby Pac-Man at the top of last week's list! Seems like Wongojack really likes my pinball logic there. Actually, a baby always has two parents... in this case this would be Bob and me. And I admit that I still like coding very much, so this probably won't be the last retro game I've participated in... but at the moment I've got other things to do. Anyway, here are my times for this past week (September 7th through 13th) on classic systems... Atari 2600: Balloon trip - 3 min. Well, I promised you I wouldn't have much time for gaming this week and next week, but I did manage to sneak in one game of "Balloon trip", a homebrew game a bit similar to Flappy Bird or Joust, but pretty simple... you've got mines and the occasional balloon coming at you at increasing speeds, and you have to avoid the mines and catch the balloons. After a number of balloons you get bonus time where there's only balloons on screen before the game reverts to normal. And that's pretty much it... one game was enough to see it all. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 ATARI 2600: Asteroids - 111 minutes Doggone It! (for HSC) - 25 minutes Draconian - 14 minutes Ms. Galactopus (for HSC) - 30 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 My times for the week: Sega SG-1000: Chack’n Pop - 104 min. Mahjong Solitaire - 93 min. Beat the homebrew Mahjong Solitaire, a nice implementation of Shanghai-style gameplay. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 A2600 Frostbite 45 Star Wars ESB 39 A7800 Asteroids 13 Baby Pac-Man 55 Commando 61 Desert Falcon 13 Ms. Pac-Man 21 Pole Position II 52 (top score on Fuji 65,550) Rikki & Vikki 519 Robotron: 2084 35 Scrapyard Dog 45 T:me Salvo 11 Touchdown Football 35 I continued my tour of my 7800 library and a couple 2600 games. These were all played on actual carts. Rikki & Vikki took over once it arrived. What a great game, and a fantastic addition to the 7800 library. If you've been on the fence about buying one, they are (finally) running out. I got #513 of 550. The team at PenguinNet says there are no plans to make more. Of course in this case, you can purchase the game for Windows too. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 16 hours ago, Kurt_Woloch said: Wow, what an honor to see Baby Pac-Man at the top of last week's list! Seems like Wongojack really likes my pinball logic there. Actually, a baby always has two parents... in this case this would be Bob and me. And I admit that I still like coding very much, so this probably won't be the last retro game I've participated in... but at the moment I've got other things to do. Anyway, here are my times for this past week (September 7th through 13th) on classic systems... Atari 2600: Balloon trip - 3 min. Well, I promised you I wouldn't have much time for gaming this week and next week, but I did manage to sneak in one game of "Balloon trip", a homebrew game a bit similar to Flappy Bird or Joust, but pretty simple... you've got mines and the occasional balloon coming at you at increasing speeds, and you have to avoid the mines and catch the balloons. After a number of balloons you get bonus time where there's only balloons on screen before the game reverts to normal. And that's pretty much it... one game was enough to see it all. The pinball parts of BPM are excellent Kurt. Thank you for the effort you put in to help make it a reality. I'm actually not really that big a fan of Pac-Man in general, but the hybrid cabinet was always intriguing, and in recent years, I've had a chance to play it in real life a few times. On this version, I do find that when the captive ball is in the position above the left flipper it seems much more difficult to hit than when above the right flipper. Sometimes I will play an entire game and even earn an extra ball before I dislodge it from the left position. Although, I will say that I spent most of my time playing with a CX40 and when I switched to a Proline or gamepad the result was slightly different. Whatever, I'm not complaining. The game is great. Regarding Balloon trip. I downloaded it once and played it about as long as you. I believe it is inspired by the often overlooked Balloon Fight for NES. Balloon Fight is one of those NES games that somehow missed its window for popularity (at least in the USA). It is clearly a new take on Joust, but has a few different modes and offers a great high score challenge. I think if it came out in 1984 it would have been a huge hit, but it didn't reach much of the world until gaming had sort of moved on from wanting to challenge for high scores. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Atari 2600 City Defence - 5 minutes Doggone it - 45 minutes Ms Galactopus - 65 minutes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 (edited) A little more gaming time logged this week, with some more Atari 2600 HSC time logged, an hour or so of Alien 3 on the Game Boy (I didn't beat it but got pretty far into it), and a nice leisurely bit of time with the newest expansion for Doom II on the Switch. Ineligible Doom II: Back to Saturn X (Nintendo Switch) - 335 minutes Atari 2600 Doggone It! - 102 minutes Ms. Galactopus - 40 minutes Game Boy Alien 3 - 69 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 546 minutes (9 hours 6 minutes) [211 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Nintendo Switch: 335 minutes Atari 2600: 142 minutes Game Boy: 69 minutes Edited September 15, 2020 by Skippy B. Coyote 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Coin-op versions: Ms Pac-man 60 mins Pac-Man 60 mins Dig Dug 30 mins Tower of Druaga 60 minutes Pole Position II 60 minutes Atari 5200: Ms Pac-Man 60 minutes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 (edited) Another long list of NES games for me... Did another "Until I die" stream like I did before. Essentially, I just play the game until my first death and then change to the next game. A lot of these games I'm not familiar with at all... so in the video, you can hear me trying to figure out the game as I'm playing... and that's part of the reason some of the times are so short. Times are somewhat approximate. NES Gauntlet II - 20 min Ghost n Goblins - 2 min Golf - 7 min (For the golf games, I was counting a hole over par as a "life". I never got past the first hole on any golf game. For this one, hole one, 20 over par. TWENTY!) Golgo 13 - 5 min Goonies II - 7 min Gradius - 1 min Greg Norman's Power Golf - 6 min Guardian Legend - 20 min (Got farther than I thought I would...) Gun.Smoke - 9 min Gun-Nac - 10 min Gyruss - 5 min Heavy Barrel - 3 min Ice Climber - 5 min Ice Hockey - 12 min (Played one game, lost 11-3.) Ikari Warriors - 3 min The Immortal - 4 min Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 2 min Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 3 min Iron Tank - 5 min Ironsword - 1 min (I so should have lasted longer in this one...) Ivan Stewart's Off-Road - 30 min (I thought at some point you would lose enough that it wouldn't let you continue... instead I just finished the game... in 7th place I think.) Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf - 12 min (Man... could we get a longer name...) Jackal - 2 min Joe & Mac - 2 min Journey to Silius - 3 min Joust - 4 min Kabuki Quantum Fighter - 5 min Karnov - 5 min Kid Icarus - 1 min Kirby's Adventure - 9 min Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf - 6 min Legend of Kage - 5 min Legend of Zelda - 4 min Legendary Wings - 1 min (I always think I have this game. I don't.) LifeForce - 2 min Little Nemo - 2 min Little Samson - 3 min Low G Man - 1 min Lunar Pool - 10 min (After it was all over, I should have stopped after I lost my first ball. Instead, I played until game over.) MC Kids - 6 min (I wasn't even sure you could die in a McDonald's game. You can.) Mafat Conspiracy - 5 min And here's a vid of my death's. Not sure if you'd call it a "highlight" reel or not... lol (Oh yeah... I also review a couple sodas... NuGrape and Goody Blue Pop.) Edited September 15, 2020 by Eltigro 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendo64 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 (edited) Just want to thank wongojack for introducing me to this thread, it should be fun tracking my individual game times in the future. Here is a small list for the week, hopefully next week I'll be able to get in some more time for retro gaming. NES Castlevania - 20 Minutes This is a classic game i used to play when I was a kid, always one of my favorites Castlevania 3 - 25 Minutes Castlevania 3 returns to the original Castlevania style of gameplay, although I also enjoy the RPG style of Castlevania 2 as well. Nintendo 64 Destruction Derby - 10 Minutes This is a different style of game, you ride around the city and get in first place by hitting cars coming in the opposite direction, overall its not a bad game Sega Genesis Super Monaco GP - 25 Minutes This is a very good racing game for the sega Genesis, I actually enjoyed playing this one Nightmare Circus - 4 Minutes It is pretty comical how bad this game is to play. Its a funny idea for a game, but the controls are bad which makes it not fun to play. PS1 Castlevania SOTN - 10 Minutes I need to get into playing this more. One day I will complete this game Edited September 15, 2020 by Nintendo64 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 15, 2020 Author Share Posted September 15, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Nintendo64 said: Nightmare Circus - 4 Minutes Welcome to the tracker! Out of curiosity, did you mean Nightmare Creatures? I see there is a Nightmare Circus for the Genesis/Mega Drive but it appears to be Sega exclusive so not sure if it also exists on Nintendo 64. Edit: Aha, I saw you moved the listing to Genesis. Then it makes sense. Edited September 15, 2020 by carlsson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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