What have you actually PLAYED tracker for 2022 (Season 15)

[Steven Pendleton]

9 hours ago, DragonGrafx-16 said:

I've never played Deep Blue lol

That Deep Blue is arguably better than some of the junk on Action 52 is quite impressive in a strange way, but I have played both and I'd rather play Action 52. Deep Blue is horrid.

[+jgkspsx]

I give games many chances but Deep Blue is pretty much out of chances for me. It’s one of thise games where you are sure you must be missing something because it can’t be that unfair… but it absolutely is that unfair. 

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 06, running from Feb 7 - 13. We logged 5485 minutes of eligible play, playing 95 games on a total of 27 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Mole Mania (Game Boy) - 531 min.
2. Dragon Quest III (Dragon Warrior III) (NES/Famicom) - 387 min.
3. Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar) - 340 min.
4. Slap Fight MD (Genesis) - 262 min.
5. Mouse Trap (Intellivision) - 255 min.
6. Bug! (Sega Saturn) - 240 min. (#8)
7. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 203 min. (#2)
8. Lemmings (Sam Coupé) - 172 min.
9. Skiing (Atari 2600) - 170 min.
10. Tutankham (Intellivision) - 158 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Mouse Trap (Intellivision) - 255 min.
2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 203 min. (PN#1)
3. Skiing (Atari 2600) - 170 min. (PN#6)
4. Tutankham (Intellivision) - 158 min.
5. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) - 137 min.
6. Winter Games (Atari 2600) - 85 min. (PN#12)
7. Fighter Pilot (CoCo 1 & 2) - 75 min.
8. Firing Squad (GCE Game Time watch) (Handheld/Tabletop) - 75 min.
9. Baseball (Microvision) - 65 min.
10. Blast Away (GCE Game Time watch) (Handheld/Tabletop) - 35 min.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Game Boy - 684 min.
2. Atari 2600 - 657 min. (#2)
3. NES/Famicom - 585 min. (#1)
4. Atari Jaguar - 505 min.
5. Intellivision - 453 min.
6. Genesis - 443 min. (#3)
7. Sega Saturn - 398 min. (#8)
8. PlayStation - 376 min. (#7)
9. SAM Coupé - 228 min.
10. PC (DOS) - 191 min.
 

This week, yet another one of Shigeru Miyamoto's games top the list but it isn't Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Excitebike or even Radar Scope. Rather the most played title is a puzzle game featuring a mole, never before played in the tracker. Over at the pre-NES list, it is headed by Mouse Trap and let's just hope that Muddy Mole doesn't get stuck in it. (Yeah, I know that moles and mice are different species)

 

The most played system is the Game Boy, less than 30 minutes ahead of the Atari 2600. On this list we see a new entry in form of the SAM Coupé (1989-92), back in its day something of a superset of the ZX Spectrum and where the acronym supposedly stands for Some Amazing Micro/Machine, amazing enough to sell 12000 units per what Wikipedia tells me.

 

Dragon Quest/Warrior III (NES/Famicom) becomes member #479 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1333 minutes of which 1291 were played in 2022.

Edited February 15, 2022 by carlsson

[digdugnate]

I'm like two days late, of course, but nothing to post for last week.  Maybe this week

[oyamafamily]

ATARI 2600:

Fast Food (for HSC) - 12 minutes

Yars' Revenge (for HSC) - 156 minutes

 

ATARI 5200:

Vanguard - 30 minutes

 

ATARI 8-BIT:

H.E.R.O. (for HSC) - 65 minutes

Pac-Man Arcade (TEP392) - 50 minutes

[Steven Pendleton]

Saturn. Also some bad/fake Nintendo games because yes, I do use Nintendo systems on very rare occasions.

 

Saturn
Hanagumi Taisen Columns - 15
Layer Section - 9
Sonic R - 21
Sonic the Hedgehog - 19
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - 9
Sonic 3 & Knuckles - 41

Did you know that Hyper Sonic can get permanently stuck in Launch Base Act 2? You do now.

 

Dreamcast
Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2 - 74

 

G/MD
Snow Bros. - 9

 

FC/NES
Action 52 - 28
Somari (bootleg) - 14

 

Arcade
Out Run - 4
Quartet 2 - 18

[+jgkspsx]

Not so hyper now, are ya!

[Prosystemsearch]

Here are my times for the week

 

NES:

Arkanoid- 9 minutes 

Bee 52 (Unlicensed)- 4 1/2 minutes

Megaman 1- 9 minutes

Megaman 3- 21 minutes

Kart Fighter (Unlicensed)- 3 minutes

Parodius- 3 minutes 

 

Sega Master System:

Dynamite Duke- 6 minutes

[+jgkspsx]

I love Bee 52. It’s a really neat transformation of the Defender / Choplifter formula.

[carlsson]

Atari 8-bit:
H.E.R.O. - 21 min.

 

Not much to write home about. I played this HSC game exactly one session per week. I improved my score by 40% but it means very little when you're still at the bottom of the high score list.

 

[digdugnate]

not a whole lot of gaming going on in the Classic tracker for me.

 

Arcade:

Outrun -- 45 minutes

Q*Bert -- 30 minutes

[onlyinajeep]

Color Computer 2

Shark Treasure - 190 minutes 

Tube Frenzy - 30 minutes

 

Commodore 64

Jupiter Lander - 22 minutes

 

Commodore VIC-20

Jupiter Lander - 30 minutes

 

Mattel Electronic Basketball (Handheld) - 45 minutes

 

TRS-80 Model I

Outhouse - 60 minutes

 

[+jgkspsx]

Last week's forgotten games:

Atari Lynx:
Knight Moves - 20 minutes. Played a couple games.

 

 

I also left out this screenshot from the amusing Always Winter Never Christmas:

 

 

Sega Genesis:

Crüe Ball - 40 minutes.

Ex-Mutants - 25 minutes (I forgot how grade Z it looked, but it's pretty fun. Hard to believe it was a licensed comic book property!)

Wings of Wor - 20 minutes

 

Some unusually long play sessions this week.

 

Arcade:

Tumblepop - 115 minutes. Played through a bit and then decided to beat the game, and then I played some more. Super fun one.

 

 

Atari 2600:

Fast Food - 20 minutes for HSC

Pooyan - 10 minutes for HSC bonus

Yars' Revenge - 90 minutes for two HSCs

 

Atari 7800:

Donkey Kong - 20 minutes

 

Atari Jaguar:

Last Strike - 25 minutes

Mad Bodies - 20 minutes. It may be homebrew, but it's fully as strange, confusing, and disorienting as many of the retail Jaguar releases.

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - 15 minutes for comparison's sake.

 

Atari Lynx:

Raiden - 45 minutes for HSC. Scored 5x the previous AtariAge record ? (Thank goodness @Steven Pendleton doesn't do Lynx!)

 

 

Ynxa - 400 minutes. Found all of the gems outside the Pyramid, completed all the Paths of Persistence, spent a lot of time looking for the secret room (which is NOT the hidden room)...

 

 

LCD / Tabletop:

 

Caveman (Tandy/Tomy): 35 minutes

 

Cobra Super Copter (Tandy/Gakken): 45 minutes

 

 

Double Cross (GCE Chase'n'Counter) - 15 minutes.

 

Star Trek Generations (Toy Option) - 30 minutes. This is clearly a repurposed Eastern Bloc Game and Watch that has had a spurious license (questionably legitimate) slapped on it. (If it were a real Generations tie-in Picard would have been on the label.) It does not play very well - an endless stream of cosmonauts falls from one shuttle and you have to collect them with the other and drop them off at the space station when it appears for bonus points. However, you can seemingly pick up infinite cosmonauts so it's very low stress. It's hard to miss for the first fifteen minutes. I took it apart and there are no wires to attach the LCD or the speaker - it's strictly pressure fit. However, it works fine. Go figure! (If anybody finds one of these in the future, pro tip - you have to turn on the speaker first by holding the left button and hitting start.)

 

 

Vindicators (Tiger) - 45 minutes. Surprisingly good adaptation of the arcade game, but the fuel and damage pickups drop either in immense profusion or not at all. Something's wrong with the RNG ?

 

Milton Bradley Microvision:

Blockbuster - 150 minutes. Played this at every spare moment this week, almost cleared the second board. I reliably clear the first board now which I never thought I would.

 

Nintendo Game Boy:

Super Hunchback - 35 minutes. I can reliably get all the secrets in the first level and still suck at the second.

 

Sega 32X:

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - 15 minutes for comparison's sake.

 

Sega CD:

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - 15 minutes for comparison's sake.

 

Sega Game Gear:

Outrun - 25 minutes. This is NOT the Master System port, but a nicer looking, better playing original conversion. Never released in the US because Sega was dumb. Fun fact: the Master System and Game Gear are out of tune to each other, producing the most horrendous side by side comparison sounds EVER.

 

 

Sega Genesis:

Crüe Ball - 25 minutes.

Dragon's Fury - 30 minutes for a FB HSC.

NBA Jam: Tournament Edition - 15 minutes.

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - 15 minutes for comparison's sake. I think this is probably the first level I've beaten the most lifetime without continuing further in the game, haha.

Star Trek: Deep Space 9: Crossroads of Time - 60 minutes. Frustrating but oddly addictive game, especially if you like the show.

 

Harsh when you lose:

Zoom - 20 minutes. Truly a super weird game. It would be a perfect fit for the Jaguar!

 

 

Sega Master System:

Air Rescue - 45 minutes. Choplifter with a lot less shooting and a lot more precision flying. Super frustrating and addictive.

Fantasy Zone - 65 minutes. Made it as far as I ever have, the second boss ?

Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa Opa - 45 minutes. I don't think I noticed before that the regular enemies are tiny versions of the first game's bosses.

Ultima IV - 30 minutes of asking people if they saw any sailors or a black car.

[DragonGrafx-16]

C64:

Laser Zone - 10 mins

 

Genesis:

Lightening Force (aka Thunder Force IV): 28 mins - I can't get as far as I can in Thunder Force III but with time I will get better at it.

 

 

[agb]

Times for the week

Atari 2600

 

Fast Food HSC 35

Solar Fox 228

Taz 13

Yars Revenge 151 HSC. 
 

All good. 

[TheGameCollector]

This week I spent plenty of time gaming, revisiting some of my best experiences of 1998:

 

Goldeneye 007 for Nintendo 64 - 329 minutes

Mario Kart 64 for Nintendo 64 - 73 minutes

Pokemon Blue Version for Game Boy - 173 minutes

Super Mario 64 for Nintendo 64 - 395 minutes

 

Progress:

Goldeneye - completed the game on Agent mode then again on Secret Agent mode including the Aztec level on both modes.

Mario Kart 64 - completed all four cups with Gold on 100cc mode as Mario

Pokemon Blue - continued my PC emulator file and beat the 3rd gym

Super Mario 64 - played from start to finish, getting all 120 stars

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600

Kaboom! - 34 minutes

Solar Fox - 9 minutes

Yars' Revenge - 74 minutes

 

 

[+thegoldenband]

My times for the week:

 

Atari 2600:
Doggone It! - 3 min.

 

NES:

Doraemon - 150 min.
Dragon Warrior III - 290 min.

 

[crade]

NES:

45 minutes - R.B.I. Baseball - For HSC.  I'm terrible at this game.

[+wongojack]

Arcade
Pinball Action 75
Super Pinball Action 68

 

NES
RBI Baseball 240

 

This ends my biggest gap posting to this thread in years.  I've been playing 100% modern games for months, but that includes tracking hours and hours for Bionic Commando Rearmed 1&2 which are pretty 'retro' for modern games.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Not the biggest week for gaming around here this week, but a good one nonetheless! I played a quick round of Wordle every day, a bit of Atari 2600 for the high score club, then finished up my playthrough of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on the PlayStation with 100% completion! After that I started up a game of Dino Crisis on the PlayStation as well, and I think I'm about 2/3 of the way through at this point.

 

 

Ineligible
Wordle (Browser Based) - 71 minutes

 

Atari 2600
Fast Food - 34 minutes
Yars' Revenge - 19 minutes

PlayStation
Dino Crisis - 404 minutes
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - 185 minutes

 

 

Total Video Game Play Time This Week

713 minutes (11 hours 53 minutes) [642 minutes eligible]

 

Individual System Play Times This Week

PlayStation: 589 minutes

Browser Based: 71 minutes

Atari 2600: 53 minutes

[carlsson]

Here's the summary for Week 07, running from Feb 14 - 20. We logged 5792 minutes of eligible play, playing 79 games on a total of 24 systems.

 

Top 10:

 

1. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) - 490 min.
2. Dino Crisis (PlayStation) - 404 min.
3. YNXA (Atari Lynx) - 400 min.
4. Super Mario 64 (N64) - 395 min.
5. GoldenEye 007 (N64) - 329 min.
6. Dragon Quest III (Dragon Warrior III) (NES/Famicom) - 290 min. (#2)
7. RBI Baseball (NES/Famicom) - 285 min.
8. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 237 min. (#8)
9. Shark Treasure (CoCo 1 & 2) - 190 min.
10. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (PlayStation) - 185 min.

 

Pre-NES top 10:

 

1. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) - 490 min. (PN#5)
2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 237 min. (PN#2)
3. Shark Treasure (CoCo 1 & 2) - 190 min.
4. Blockbuster (Microvision) - 150 min.
5. Fast Food (Atari 2600) - 101 min.
6. H.E.R.O. (Atari 8-bit) - 86 min.
7. Pinball Action (Arcade) - 75 min. (*)
8. Outhouse (TRS-80 Model I/III) - 60 min.
9. Pac-Man Arcade (tep392) (Atari 8-bit) - 50 min.
10. Cobra Super Copter (Tandy/Gakken) (Handheld/Tabletop) - 45 min. (*)
10. Electronic Baseball (Mattel) (Handheld/Tabletop) - 45 min.
 

(*) Both from 1985, but different kinds of 1985.

 

Top 10 systems:

 

1. Atari 2600 - 888 min. (#2)
2. NES/Famicom - 816 min. (#3)
3. N64 - 797 min.
4. PlayStation - 589 min. (#8)
5. Atari Lynx - 465 min.
6. Arcade - 355 min.
7. Genesis - 287 min. (#6)
8. CoCo 1 & 2 - 220 min.
9. Handheld/Tabletop - 215 min.
10. Game Boy - 208 min. (#1)

 

The Atari 2600 HSC strikes by leveraging a combined effort of Yars' Revenge into first place, about 1.5 hours ahead of Dino Crisis, YNXA and Super Mario 64. By definition, Yars' Revenge also becomes the most played pre-NES game on a varied list with 7 formats. It brings us to the systems list, which is headed by the 2600, 72 minutes ahead of the NES/Famicom.

 

YNXA becomes lucky member #480 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1175 minutes played, and the fourth Lynx game to enter the club.

[+jgkspsx]

53 minutes ago, carlsson said:

YNXA becomes lucky member #480 in the 1000 Minute Club with a total of 1175 minutes played, and the fourth Lynx game to enter the club.

Neat! Congratulations to @Fadest!

[oyamafamily]

All games played for High Score Club

 

ATARI 2600:

Laser Blast - 12 minutes

Megamania - 16 minutes

 

ATARI 7800:

Donkey Kong - 12 minutes

 

ATARI 8-BIT:

Pac-Man (Atari Release) - 25 minutes

[+neogeo1982]

Atari Lynx

Unnamed - 90min

Unseen - 60min

Zaku - 60min

 

Sega Dreamcast

NFL2k1 - 45min

 

Sega Genesis

Phantasy Star 4 - 710min

Shining Force - 100min

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 45min

Ristar - 20min

Star Flight - 90min

Space Harrier 2 - 15min

Altered Beast - 15min

Boogerman - 15min

Insector X - 20min

Streets of Rage - 20min

Thunder Force 2 - 20min

 

Arcade

Zaxxon - 15min

Fantasy Zone - 10min

 

Nes

TMNT 3 - 25min

Metroid - 30min

 

Neo Geo Aes

Robo Army - 25min

Top Players Golf - 60min