What have you ACTUALLY played tracker - Modern Edition (2022)

[Steven Pendleton]

4 hours ago, carlsson said:

Progear no Arashi (2001)
Progear Storm Of Progia (2001)

Those are the same game but with a weird romanization for Progear.

 

What's up with Metal Slug 3? Shouldn't that be in the other tracker as Neo Geo AES/MVS?

 

I didn't know there is a Rabbids arcade game... those things are strange.

[carlsson]

Thanks for the corrections.

 

Metal Slug 3 was tracked in 2019 and 2021, both times by @digdugnate. Usually in the classic tracker when I see arcade games that clearly are Neo Geo AES/MVS titles, I relocate them as such but these entries went past me. It gets even more confusing as e.g. Wikipedia refers to the MVS as "arcade" which of course it is, but we have a special category for that. I haven't studied the hardware, how much of upgrade chips are inside the super expensive cartridges and how much utilizes the base hardware so perhaps for fairness there should be a Neo Geo AES/MVS pre-2000 and a Neo Geo AES/MVS post-2000, depending for how long new games and hardware improvements have been released.

 

Rabbids Hollywood was also tracked in 2019 by @wongojack which I remember I looked up later to put a year marker on it.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

A good bit of Switch time logged for me this week!

 

Nintendo Switch 
Metro 2033 Redux - 500 minutes 
Resident Evil 4 - 115 minutes 

[+wongojack]

No modern time for me this week.

[digdugnate]

Switch:

Borderlands -- 960 minutes

Capcom Fighting Collection -- 810 minutes

Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics -- 210 minutes

Pac Man Museum+ -- 210 minutes

Portal 2 -- 300 minutes

Sonic Origins -- 120 minutes

Edited July 5, 2022 by digdugnate

[+jgkspsx]

My ambitions for the week were not quite met, but I've made progress in the long-postponed Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, so it's not all bad.

 

Most of my time was on the modern gaming side this week again:

 

Apple iOS:

Haven't wanted to spend much time on my phone lately.

Duolingo - 56 minutes

Pikmin Bloom - 42 minutes

Pinball Dreams - 6 minutes

 

Nintendo Switch:

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human - 150 minutes

I got stuck on the first boss the first time I played this two years ago, but it has been on my mind so I revisited it.
 

 

The first boss went down easy but I keep dying on the second boss. If I had one more health tank or faster repair time or the ability to shoot overhead I could do it, I've been on the verge twice, but I keep messing up or getting unlucky. The difficulty of this boss seems too high since they can kill you with one hit from off-screen if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

Gravitar Recharged - 45 minutes

Worked on improving some high scores.

 

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - 200 minutes

Finished the first case, well into the second. (The first case is legitimately 4 hours long based on a YT longplay. Yikes.) The second feels snappier, but the same old tropes are in play. Herlock Sholmes makes for an amusing new mechanic and the writing is more interesting. I just wish it weren't so chatty.

 

Ittle Dew 2+ - 20 minutes

Some Zelda-lite fun as a change of pace.

 

Toki - 25 minutes

A faithful-seeming remake of the arcade game with high-definition animation. I'm not sure it's what the world was waiting for, and given the thudding reception it seems to not have been, but it's not bad and if you like the arcade game it's worth playing to see the pretty (and sometimes disgusting) art.

 

 

Nokia Symbian:

Atari Retro - 35 minutes

Played on the N-Gage, but this is a Symbian game, not native N-Gage. It consists of literally postage-stamp sized emulations or ports of Atari 2600 games. And here I thought the native N-Gage Atari Masterpieces was hard to see!
 

 

I played Missile Command and Yars Revenge. They're not bad ports but the tiny display and all of the crap you can't get rid of on the screen makes this impossible to recommend to anybody but collectors. (This card also includes Windows Mobile and Palm OS versions of the same games; maybe those are better, but I don't have a compatible device.)

 

PC:

I never log this so I forgot to log what I played last week! I got a copy of the Super Rare Mixtape Vol 1 and played several games from that.

 

Echoes+ - 25 minutes

A slightly too trippy twin-stick shooter, a bit hard to control on a keyboard.

 

A Mini Falafel Adventure - 65 minutes

A fun little Metroidvania starring a falafel. I think I got halfway through but got stuck on the shmup boss.

 

Plug & Play:

Jakks Pacific TV Games - Classic Arcade Pinball - 65 minutes

Most plug and play games are kind of questionable emulation or port collections, but this is a wholly original pinball game with good physics and three interesting tables. For the $10 it sells for, you can't go wrong, other than the horrible video quality.

 

[carlsson]

Week 26

 

Top games

 

1. Borderlands (Switch) - 960 min.
2. Capcom Fighting Collection (Switch) - 810 min. (#7)
3. Metro 2033 Redux (Switch) - 500 min.
4. Sonic Origins (PC) - 432 min. (#4)
5. Portal 2 (Switch) - 300 min.
6. Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Switch) - 210 min.
7. Pac-Man Museum+ (Switch) - 210 min.
8. Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, The (Switch) - 200 min.
9. Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force (PC) - 198 min.
10. Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human, The (Switch) - 150 min.

 

Top systems

 

1. Switch - 3696 min. (#1) = 73.5%
2. PC - 858 min. (#2)
3. PS4 - 252 min. (#5)
4. iOS - 104 min. (#4)
5. Plug & Play - 65 min.
6. Nokia Symbian - 35 min.
7. Arcade - 20 min.

 

Total 5030 minutes and 38 different games on 7 different systems, with 4 participants.

 

Welcome to the "Which Nintendo Switch games have you played this week" tracker! As the participation goes down slightly, 8/10 games on the individual list are on the Switch with Borderlands and Capcom Fighting Collection at the top. The systems list sees two new entries, as we didn't have a generic plug & play category before (only dedicated handhelds) plus that a Symbian games was dug out.

 

No changes to the 50, 150, 300 Hour clubs. Actually again no games with 5000+ minutes were played this week.

 

If anyone was late to post, I'll include your times for next week. Also, I'll post some mid-season stats later this week.

[carlsson]

Here are the mid-season stats for the modern tracker. In the first half of 2022, we have played:

 

• 220,836 minutes (2021: 227,861 min, 2020: 227,403 min; 2019: 159,690 min)
• 470 games (2021: 347 games, 2020: 235 games; 2019: 184 games)
• 36 different systems (2021: 24 systems, 2020: 19 systems; 2019: 22 systems)

 

The 2021 numbers are here.

 

While the total number of minutes is lower than the two previous years (including 2020 where the classic tracker saw a big dip, but not the modern one), the number of games and systems are higher than ever. Many people would have difficulty to even name 20 different gaming systems made in the last 20 years, but we bring out almost 40 of them!

 

11 of the top 100 from last year are still on the list. PUBG might no longer top the lists but still hangs on in the top. However since our premier PUBG player is having some time off the tracker, eventually it will drop in the ranking. A comparison of minutes per position:

 

#1: 8631 min in 2022, 24973 min in 2021

#10: 4020 min in 2022, 4648 min in 2021

#50: 1320 min in 2022, 974 min in 2021

#100: 480 min in 2022, 309 min in 2021

 

Systems wise, 21 of the 24 systems from last year have been logged in 2022. The top two, Switch and PC are unchanged. Of the systems in top 10, only the Oculus Quest is missing since we no longer have any participant to report it. Instead we have a bunch of new entries, headed by the Nokia N-Gage in 14th place.

 

Top 100 games so far in 2022

1. No Man's Sky (PC] - 8631 min.
2. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One] - 7604 min. [#3]
3. Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4] - 7081 min.
4. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Xbox Series X] - 5827 min.
5. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (Xbox One] - 5398 min. [#13]
6. Kangokutou Mary Skelter 2 (Mary Skelter: Nightmares) (PS4] - 4568 min. [#8]
7. GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon (Switch] - 4440 min.
8. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands (Xbox Series X] - 4380 min.
9. No Man's Sky (PS4] - 4210 min.
10. Forza Horizon 5 (Xbox Series X] - 4020 min.
11. Death Stranding Director's Cut (PC] - 3780 min.
12. Blue Reflection: Second Light (PC] - 3336 min.
13. Alien: Isolation (Switch] - 3170 min. [#17]
14. Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers Edition (Switch] - 3050 min.
15. Kangokutou Mary Skelter (Vita] - 2973 min. [#43]
16. Pikmin Bloom (iOS] - 2960 min.
17. Minecraft (PS4] - 2895 min.
18. Monopoly Solitaire (iOS] - 2877 min.
19. MLB The Show 22 (Xbox Series X] - 2830 min.
20. DOOM Eternal (Switch] - 2805 min. [#25]
21. Triangle Strategy (Switch] - 2760 min.
22. Lego City Undercover (Xbox One] - 2720 min.
23. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Switch] - 2700 min.
24. Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Switch] - 2610 min.
25. Pac-Man Museum+ (Switch] - 2580 min.
25. World of Solitaire (Switch] - 2580 min.
27. Duolingo (iOS] - 2531 min.
28. Resident Evil 4 (Switch] - 2460 min.
29. Knights of the Old Republic (Switch] - 2100 min.
30. Halo Infinite (Xbox Series X] - 2092 min.
31. Lego Jurassic World (Xbox One] - 2078 min.
32. Taonga: the Island Farm (Browser based] - 2063 min.
33. Kyuukyoku Tiger (PS4] - 2009 min.
34. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 (PS2] - 1918 min.
35. Shin Megami Tensei V (Switch] - 1757 min.
36. MLB The Show 21 (Xbox Series X] - 1717 min. [#2]
37. Days Gone (PS4] - 1665 min.
38. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Switch] - 1620 min.
39. WarThunder (PC] - 1615 min.
40. Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA] - 1610 min.
41. Demon's Souls (PS3] - 1603 min.
42. TIS-100 (PC] - 1598 MIN.
43. Bingo Bash (iOS] - 1552 min.
44. Bravely Default 2 (Switch] - 1550 min. [#45]
45. Borderlands 3 (Xbox Series X] - 1500 min. [#32]
46. Microsoft Sudoku (iOS] - 1482 min.
47. Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order (PC] - 1468 min.
48. Hishouzame (PS4] - 1450 min.
49. DOOM (2016 reboot) (Switch] - 1340 min.
50. Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Switch] - 1320 min.
50. Tempest 4000 (Switch] - 1320 min.
52. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch] - 1305 min.
53. Capcom Fighting Collection (Switch] - 1290 min.
54. Kangokutou Mary Skelter Finale (PS4] - 1276 min. [#9]
55. Dicey Dungeons (PC] - 1262 min.
56. Sonic Origins (PC] - 1260 min.
57. Bionic Commando Rearmed (Xbox 360] - 1223 min.
58. Octopath Traveller (Switch] - 1200 min.
59. Pinball Arcade, The (PC] - 1192 min.
60. Flowers: Le volume sur printemps (PC] - 1172 min.
61. Sonic Origins (Switch] - 1160 min.
62. Legend of Mana (Switch] - 1148 min.
63. Resident Evil: Revelations (Switch] - 1140 min.
64. Sonic World (R9 rev 2) (PC] - 1130 min.
65. Eiyuden Chronicle Rising (PC] - 1126 min.
66. Minecraft (Xbox 360] - 1100 min.
67. Yoku's Island Express (Switch] - 1035 min.
68. Battle Garegga Rev.2016 (PS4] - 990 min.
69. Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 (Xbox 360] - 985 min.
70. Resident Evil 5 (Switch] - 980 min.
71. Borderlands (Switch] - 960 min.
71. Pokémon Sapphire (GBA] - 960 min.
73. Wordle (Browser based] - 921 min.
74. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PS3] - 861 min.
75. Blood Stone 007 (Xbox 360] - 853 min.
76. Same! Same! Same! (PS4] - 809 min.
77. Octopath Traveler (PC] - 800 min.
78. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch] - 780 min. [#7]
78. Forza Motorsport (Xbox] - 780 min.
80. Same! Same! Same! (2 player version) (PS4] - 760 min.
81. Centipede: Recharged (Switch] - 750 min.
82. Teleglitch (PC] - 749 min.
83. Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA MegaMix (Intl. ver) (Switch] - 720 min.
84. Kyuukyoku Tiger (Switch] - 706 min.
85. Mile High Pinball (Nokia N-Gage] - 690 min.
86. Asteroids: Recharged (Switch] - 660 min.
87. 1001 Ultimate Mahjong 2 (Switch] - 630 min.
87. Resident Evil [HD Remaster based on GameCube ver] (Switch] - 630 min.
89. Forza Horizon 5 (PC] - 624 min.
90. Chocobo GP (Switch] - 600 min.
91. NHL 21 (Xbox One] - 588 min.
92. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (GBA] - 571 min.
93. Malzbie's Pinball Collection (PC] - 567 min.
94. Gravitar Recharged (Switch] - 555 min.
95. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii] - 522 min.
96. Crimzon Clover World EXplosion (PC] - 520 min.
96. Gran Turismo 4 (PS2] - 520 min.
98. Andro Dunos II (PC] - 516 min.
99. Metro 2033 Redux (Switch] - 500 min.
100. Beat Souls (Switch] - 480 min.
100. Borderlands (Xbox Series X] - 480 min.
100. Dead Cells (Switch] - 480 min.
100. Dragon's Crown (PS3] - 480 min.
100. Puzzles and Dragons Nintendo Switch Edition (Switch] - 480 min.
100. Streets of Rage 4 (Xbox Series X] - 480 min.

 

Top systems in 2022

1. Switch - 68191 min. [#1]
2. PC - 36331 min. [#2]
3. PS4 - 30227 min. [#5]
4. Xbox Series X - 24196 min. [#4]
5. Xbox One - 19747 min. [#3]
6. iOS - 12160 min. [#7]
7. Xbox 360 - 5852 min. [#10]
8. GBA - 4376 min. [#12]
9. Browser based - 3198 min. [#8]
10. Vita - 3193 min. [#13]
11. PS3 - 3093 min. [#20]
12. PS2 - 2715 min. [#9]
13. Wii - 1733 min. [#15]
14. Nokia N-Gage - 1375 min.
15. Xbox - 916 min. [#21]
16. PSP - 819 min. [#16]
17. DS - 627 min. [#11]
18. Super Impulse Tiny/Micro Arcade - 490 min.
19. Atari VCS - 270 min.
20. Wii U - 215 min.
21. Evercade Handheld/VS - 160 min.
22. 3DS - 150 min. [#14]
23. Arcade - 120 min. [#22]
24. TinyCircuits Thumby - 115 min.
25. Gamecube - 80 min. [#18]
26. Mac OS 9/OSX - 75 min.
27. ZX Spectrum Next - 65 min.
27. Plug & Play - 65 min.
29. In-Flight ES American - 49 min.
29. Android Phone - 49 min. [#23]
31. Nuon - 45 min.
32. PS5 - 40 min. [#17]
32. DSi - 40 min.
34. Nokia Symbian - 35 min.
35. Basic Fun Arcade Classics - 20 min.
36. MiSTer - 4 min.

Edited July 7, 2022 by carlsson

[+jgkspsx]

At 24/36 systems, I think I am probably the most peregrinating tracker around here. Or maybe peripatetic. Or maybe just easily distracted.

 

I'm excited to report that the Evercade is getting its first native cartridge-based game before the end of the year: Cathedral, which has been out for a while on PC, Switch, etc. will be part of a 2 pack with NES extravaganza Alwa's Awakening. Maybe within the next year it may have 10 native games and be eligible for more full participation.

[Steven Pendleton]

I finally bothered to clear Tiger-Heli. Nice little game. Not much else to say.

 

PC
Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force - 349

 

Switch
Hishouzame - 10
Kyuukyoku Tiger - 87
Snow Bros. Special - 40
Tiger-Heli - 24
Twin Cobra - 5

 

PS4
Kyuukyoku Tiger - 52
Same! Same! Same! (2P ver) - 40
Tiger-Heli - 60
Twin Cobra - 60

[TheGameCollector]

This week I played a lot thanks to having to stay home and recover from COVID (even more in the classic section):

 

Diablo II Resurrected for PC - 193 minutes

Sonic Origins for Switch - 594 minutes

Sonic World (R9 rev 2) for PC - 88 minutes

 

progress:

Diablo II R - just rescued Deckard Cain

Sonic Origins - completed Story Mode (all four games) with all emeralds/time stones, then Sonic the Hedgehog (1)'s Anniversary, Classic, Boss Rush and Mirror Modes as Sonic with all 6 emeralds each where applicable. I've unlocked quite a bit of museum items.

Sonic World R9 - completed all the Sonic Adventure 2 stages as Knuckles.

[digdugnate]

I played a lot of different games for the Switch.

 

Switch:
Borderlands -- 1140 minutes
Borderlands 2 -- 180 minutes
Capcom Fighting Collection -- 360 minutes
Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - 210 minutes
Dead Cells -- 180 minutes
Hades -- 360 minutes
Littlewood -- 120 minutes
Pac-Man Museum+ -- 210 minutes
Sonic Origins -- 120 minutes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge -- 180 minutes

[+jgkspsx]

It was an unusual week.

 

Apple iOS:

Haven't wanted to spend much time on my phone lately.

Duolingo - 62 minutes

Pikmin Bloom - 17 minutes

 

Discord:

GameQuiz Bot - 45 minutes

This is a guess-the-game-from-the-image bot that is pretty fun. It sources its images from https://vgdb.io/ which means that it's biased towards the games that site's users are interested in. But there are enough games I like to keep me going.

 

Nintendo Switch:

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - 240 minutes

Oh my goodness will they quit talking? The investigation parts were really fun but the amount of dialogue that serves no purpose except to pad the obscene playtime is... really an issue.

 

VMLabs Nuon:

Ballistic - 38 minutes

 

of which most is captured here except for a half-hearted last game.

 

 

[+wongojack]

For the first time in as long as I can remember, I have no time to report on either the classic or modern trackers this week.  I just wrapped up a long vacation to the UK, and I was just too busy to fit video games into the daily routine.

 

More to come of course . . . 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Not a lot for me this week, just a bit more Metro on the Switch.

 

Nintendo Switch

Metro 2033 Redux - 300 minutes 

[carlsson]

14 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Discord:

GameQuiz Bot - 45 minutes

I'm considering if this is an own "format" or just as well could go as Browser Based, but since we had two Twitch entries from before, I suppose Discord may qualify as its own format too.

[carlsson]

Week 27

 

Top games

 

1. Borderlands (Switch) - 1140 min. (#1)
2. Sonic Origins (Switch) - 714 min.
3. Capcom Fighting Collection (Switch) - 360 min. (#2)
3. Hades (Switch) - 360 min.
5. Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force (PC) - 349 min.
6. Metro 2033 Redux (Switch) - 300 min. (#3)
7. Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, The (Switch) - 240 min. (#8)
8. Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Switch) - 210 min. (#6)
8. Pac-Man Museum+ (Switch) - 210 min. (#7)
10. Diablo II Resurrected (PC) - 193 min.

 

Top systems

 

1. Switch - 4360 min. (#1)
2. PC - 630 min. (#2)
3. PS4 - 212 min. (#3)
4. iOS - 79 min. (#4)
5. Discord - 45 min.
6. Nuon - 38 min.

 

Total 5364 minutes and 28 different games on 6 different systems, with 5 participants.

 

The Nintendo Switch dominance continues, with Borderlands ahead of Sonic Origins and another 6 games on the top 10 list. It manifests itself on the systems list too, where the top four from last week are accompanied by two other systems. No changes to the 50, 150, 200 Hour clubs, though this week at least one game (Littlewood) with more than 5000 minutes has been tracked.

[+jgkspsx]

6 hours ago, carlsson said:

I'm considering if this is an own "format" or just as well could go as Browser Based, but since we had two Twitch entries from before, I suppose Discord may qualify as its own format too.

For what it’s worth I only use it in native clients, not in the web version. I would argue that whatever server the bot is running on is not a browser, anyhow.

[Steven Pendleton]

I got distracted by my continuing Sonic anniversary marathon on the Dreamcast and didn't play Fairy Fencer F. Same stuff as usual is here again, along with the return of G-Darius HD and new entry KAMUI, which is an incredible RayForce + Soukyuugurentai type of thing with beautiful sprite scaling and a lot of bendy lasers.

 

PC

G-Darius HD - 13
KAMUI - 63

 

Switch
Hishouzame - 4
Sennou Game Teki-Paki - 7

 

PS4
Fire Shark - 20
Hishouzame - 54
Kyuukyoku Tiger - 17
Same! Same! Same! - 4
Same! Same! Same! (2P ver) - 21

[digdugnate]

I'm not gaming as much right now.

 

Switch:
Animal Crossing -- 300 minutes
Borderlands 2 -- 720 minutes
Capcom Fighting Collection -- 240 minutes
Hades -- 360 minutes
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle -- 180 minutes
Pac-Man Museum+ -- 210 minutes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge -- 120 minutes

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Not much gaming for me this week either!

 

Nintendo Switch

Metro 2033 Redux - 85 minutes

[+wongojack]

Android (phone) 

Stranger Things: 1984 123 

 

PC 

Dicey Dungeons 116 

Luftrausers 35 

Tharsis 125 

 

PS3 

Demon's Souls 120 

 

Wii 

Super Mario Galaxy 2 61 

 

X360 

Blood Stone 007 201 

 

XOne 

Pac-Man Museum+ 10 

 

Back from vacation and trying to get back into some of the games I was playing before with a few others thrown in.  ALSO - Watching S4 of Stranger Things prompted me to do something I almost never do and that is play a game on my phone.  Stranger Things: 1984.  It proved to be a nice time waster while I was listening to an audiobook, but I doubt I'll go back to it unless circumstances are exactly right.

[+jgkspsx]

Another somewhat sparse week for me.

 

Apple iOS:

Haven't wanted to spend much time on my phone lately.

Duolingo - 88 minutes

They added in friend challenges. My friend keeps completely dunking on me.

Pikmin Bloom - 141 minutes

Community Day, yay. They keep adding stuff but I'm not sure it's making it more rewarding to play. They gave the loading screen a facelift that is decidedly Pokemon-esque but didn't improve the load time any. If my friends stop playing it I probably will too.

 

Discord:

GameQuiz Bot - 35 minutes

 

Usually I only answer the ones I know but sometimes I get fixated on figuring one out...

 

Nintendo Game Boy Advance:

Gradius Galaxies - 25 minutes

A really great sequel from a completely unrelated team from the Konami veterans.

 

Nintendo DS:

LostMagic - 20 minutes

Loaded up an old save, promptly got toasted by what I think was supposed to be an easy level. Oh well. I don't remember how to draw the glyphs right.

 

Nintendo Switch:

Dex - 75 minutes

This cyberpunk side scroller is very interesting but a little too anxiety-provoking for me.

 

Freedom Planet - 35 minutes

A really great homage to Sonic, particularly Sonic CD. I don't know why people don't talk about it more.

 

Hyper Light Drifter - 35 minutes

I was skeptical of whether I would like this but I finally gave it a try. I do like it. The aesthetics are as expected really great, but the combat isn't as much of a slog so far as I feared.

 

Pawarumi - 45 minutes

Very pretty and interesting shmup that I don't understand yet. There's a trick to weapon to enemy matching I haven't figured out.

 

 

Space Moth: Lunar Edition - 30 minutes

Bullet hell. Nice aesthetics.

 

Star Hunter DX - 20 minutes

Much easier... on easy mode.

 

Sturmwind EX - 65 minutes

I can't believe this Duranik classic came out physically on Switch and nobody told me. Great to revisit it.

 

PC:

More games from the Super Rare Mixtape.

 

Daughter of Reyn - 90 minutes

This rhythm-based Metroidvania ran at half speed on my poor old computer despite looking like a Game Gear game. It's fun but has a few too many rough edges to recommend. It's very close to being something great.

 

 

Emily Is Away - 90 minutes

Played through this AIM-sim adventure several times. It was a little boring after a while since different responses produced such minor changes in the outcome... but maybe that's the point.

 

 

Enviro-Bear 2000 - 35 minutes

This hilarious bear driving and eating simulator, which only lets you interact using the mouse pointer, is not all that fun to play per se. But it is really funny. Eventually I was able to survive for three winters until I ended up with a car full of badgers.

 

 

I think that's it for modern gaming...

 

[TheGameCollector]

This week I played:

 

Diablo II Resurrected for Switch - 48 minutes

Sonic Origins for Switch - 860 minutes

 

Progress:

 

D2R Switch - Just started a file in the Yuzu emulator to make sure the files I found work offline and they do. This will be my backup file to play in case I ever want to play this game while the internet has an outage. Otherwise I'd probably stick to the PC version I paid for. This emulator also has a glitch in the emulation just for this game that makes it think the left stick is drifting upward. It worked better in Ryujinx but that copy is outdated now and refuses to launch.

 

Sonic Origins - I finished off the rest of the modes for Sonic 1 with all emeralds, finished all the modes for Sonic CD with all time stones and 1 mode of Sonic 2 with all emeralds. I am saving all the mission modes for last.

[carlsson]

Week 28

 

Top games

 

1. Sonic Origins (Switch) - 860 min. (#2)
2. Borderlands 2 (Switch) - 720 min.
3. Hades (Switch) - 360 min. (#3)
4. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 300 min.
5. Capcom Fighting Collection (Switch) - 240 min. (#3)
6. Pac-Man Museum+ (Switch) - 210 min. (#8)
7. Blood Stone 007 (Xbox 360) - 201 min.
8. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Switch) - 180 min.
9. Pikmin Bloom (iOS) - 141 min.
10. Tharsis (PC) - 125 min.

 

Top systems

 

1. Switch - 3439 min. (#1)
2. PC - 567 min. (#2)
3. iOS - 229 min. (#4)
4. Xbox 360 - 201 min.
5. Android Phone - 123 min.
6. PS3 - 120 min.
7. PS4 - 116 min. (#3)
8. Wii - 61 min.
9. Discord - 35 min. (#5)
10. GBA - 25 min.

 

Total 4946 minutes and 42 different games on 12 different systems, with 6 participants.

 

With 7 of the top 10 games, the Switch for yet another week is the most played system. Individually Sonic Origins is almost 2.5 hours ahead of Borderlands 2. Quite a bunch of new entries added this week, with the total number of games now up to 1878.

 

Pac-Man Museum+ (Switch) moves into the 50 Hour club with exactly 3000 minutes played. After a long absence, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is back and just breaks 48000 minutes, so only 60000 minutes behind PUBG...

 

Btw, those mentioning they played less than they use to this week. Here are some stats on reported minutes this week compared to respective participant's average this year:

 

digdugnate: 82% of average

jgkspsx: 160%

Skippy B. Coyote: 13%

Steven Pendleton: 16%

TheGameCollector: 297%

wongojack: 81%