digdugnate Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Arcade: Captain Commando - 30 minutes Metal Slug 5 - 60 minutes Varth: Operation Thunderstorm - 60 minutes NES: Mega Man 2 - 30 minutes Just some minor Classic gameplay times, though I did finish Captain Commando and Metal Slug 5. I would've finished Varth but I ended my game instead of continuing. Argh! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Genesis Streets Of Rage, 180 minutes. Im getting to the final hallway but run out of lives before I reach Mr X. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+neogeo1982 Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Neo Geo AES Robo Army - 35min Top Players golf - 60min Sega Genesis Phantasy Star 4 - 600min 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 7 hours ago, agb said: Kaboom 43 HS of 5934 You're getting there. Soon you will reach 10,000. I think Kaboom! is easier than Eggomania so you have the skills. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 56 minutes Megamania - 70 minutes Solar Fox - 53 minutes 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Arcade Pinball Action 18 Super Pinball Action 47 NES Tetris 304 Tetris 2 8 Tetris for the NES HSC! I don't think I've ever tried to play the game for score. I can't get near the top of the table, but I've enjoyed increasing my score nonetheless. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) Another good week for gaming around here this week! I spent most of the week doing a full play through of Resident Evil: Revelations, which was my all time favorite game on the 3DS back when I had one so I finally picked up the Switch port when I saw it on sale for a few bucks on the Switch eShop last week. The Switch port plays just as great as the 3DS version, though I'll admit I did miss the stereoscopic 3D effect and the touchscreen based puzzles that are absent from the Switch release. It's still an utterly fantastic entry in the Resident Evil series even without those 3DS extras though, and I had a lotta fun playing through it again. I also took the time to refurbish my Atari CX-78 trackball this week by opening it up and giving the bearings a few drops of 3-in-1 oil, since they were starting to seize up from not having been lubricated in nearly 40 years. It was an easy project and the trackball works smooth as silk now, so I put it to good use playing a bit of Millipede Trak-Ball and Missile Command Trak-Ball on the 2600. Millipede and Missile Command play just fine with a regular old joystick, but playing them with a proper analog trackball is by far the best way to enjoy those titles if you ask me! That's all for this week, so until next time and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours Ineligible Resident Evil: Revelations (Nintendo Switch) - 1,140 minutes Wordle (Browser Based) - 58 minutes Atari 2600 Laser Blast - 28 minutes Megamania - 97 minutes Millipede Trak-Ball - 14 minutes Missile Command Trak-Ball - 15 minutes Ms. Pac-Man - 7 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 1,359 minutes (22 hours 39 minutes) [161 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Nintendo Switch: 1,140 minutes Atari 2600: 161 minutes Browser Based: 58 minutes Edited March 7, 2022 by Skippy B. Coyote 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crade Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Not much to say this week. Too bad plumbing explosions aren't a category! Intellivision ~40 minutes Night Stalker ~20 minutes Super Cobra NES ~20 minutes Dr. Mario 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 10 hours ago, Atarian7 said: You're getting there. Soon you will reach 10,000. I think Kaboom! is easier than Eggomania so you have the skills. I am far away from getting 10,000 on Kaboom. I find Eggomania much easier as I can get 200,000 every once in a while. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 8, 2022 Author Share Posted March 8, 2022 Here's the summary for Week 09, running from Feb 28 - Mar 6. We logged 6343 minutes of eligible play, playing 96 games on a total of 21 systems. Top 10: 1. Pokemon Blue Version (Game Boy) - 1465 min. (#4) 2. Phantasy Star IV (Genesis) - 600 min. (#1) 3. Tetris (NES/Famicom) - 597 min. 4. Megamania (Atari 2600) - 571 min. 5. Dragon Quest III (Dragon Warrior III) (NES/Famicom) - 319 min. 6. Streets of Rage (Genesis) - 180 min. 7. Unnamed (Atari Lynx) - 150 min. (#8) 8. Qix (C64) - 136 min. 9. Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing (NES/Famicom) - 115 min. 10. Millie and Molly (C64) - 112 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Megamania (Atari 2600) - 571 min. (PN#7) 2. Qix (C64) - 136 min. 3. Millie and Molly (C64) - 112 min. 4. Drag Race Eliminator (C64) - 105 min. 5. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 99 min. (PN#6) 6. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 94 min. (PN#1) 7. Bowling (High Tech) (C64) - 88 min. 8. Laser Blast (Atari 2600) - 76 min. 9. Midnight Mutants (Atari 7800) - 70 min. 10. Donkey Kong PK / XM (Atari 7800) - 60 min. 10. Winter Games (C64) - 60 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Game Boy - 1491 min. (#6) 2. NES/Famicom - 1130 min. (#3) 3. Atari 2600 - 1040 min. (#4) 4. C64 - 830 min. (#10) 5. Genesis - 813 min. (#1) 6. Atari Lynx - 195 min. (#5) 7. Arcade - 155 min. (#2) 7. Atari 7800 - 155 min. 7. Neo Geo AES/MVS - 155 min. 10. Sega 32X - 75 min. One of the earliest installments in the Pokémon franchise, the Blue version becomes the most played game this week by a factor of more than twice the amount of the runner-up Phantasy Star IV. The 2600 HSC game Megamania represents and takes the pre-NES title by a good margin, followed by three C64 games all beyond 100 minutes each. The most played system thus is Game Boy, followed by NES, Atari 2600, C64 and Genesis. Neither of the 96 games played break any boundaries this week. 4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 (edited) Games. G/MD Hellfire - 22 Same! Same! Same! - 14 Slap Fight MD - 418 Zero Wing - 18 Arcade Slap Fight - 21 Sonic the Hedgehog - 20 PC Engine Kyuukyoku Tiger - 19 Saturn The Conveni ~Ano Machi wo Dokusen Seyo~ - 21 Also known as simply The Conveni!, this is an interesting game where you make a convenience store and manage it. Not entirely sure I know what I'm doing, but it's interesting. It got released about a week later on PS1. DecAthlete - 17 Sega Rally Championship - 20 I have been thinking about taking a break from the tracker for a while, or just tracking things that actually have built-in time tracking things so I don't have to keep recording it myself, or maybe just guessing for everything. I haven't decided yet. Edited March 13, 2022 by Steven Pendleton 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Please just estimate. If you stop tracking our average game title length is going to drop by 50% or more 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 13, 2022 Author Share Posted March 13, 2022 Atari 8-bit: O'Riley's Mine - 5 min. Pooyan - 19 min. This round of the A8 HSC features Pooyan in a hacked version that removes extra lives, and E.T. Phone Home which didn't quite start on my 130XE so I need to troubleshoot it. In the mean time, there was a request to hack O'Riley's Mine to disable extra lives as well, so with help from others I posted two versions of this game as it turned out it had a 2 player bug manifesting as whenever player 2 reached 100,000 pts, they would get an extra life for every item picked up at the same time raising the bar for extra lives for player 1, making player 2 almost invincible and player 1 hopeless to achieve any good scores. I fixed both this bug and then another version without extra lives for either player, in case we play it later in the HSC. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 I did play a little bit of "classic" games this week... Playstation Wipeout XL - 10 min (Started playing this but really wasn't feeling it. Wanted to stream it, and start fresh, but was playing it on my PS3 and it apparently had some saved game on there... didn't feel like figuring out how to delete the save to start new, so I just changed games.) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 My times for the week: NES: Gimmick - 10 min. Metroid - 134 min. Metroid X - 235 min. Moero! Pro Tennis - 1 min. Famicom Disk System: Metroid - 503 min. Tennis - 1 min. Beat the Famicom Disk System version of Metroid three times, mostly making my own maps and ultimately getting the best ending by beating the game under two hours. (Frankly I thought I'd be getting the best ending after my second playthrough, but I guess I was a minute or two late.) Then I beat Metroid NES twice in a row to get the best ending on my second playthrough. On the NES you have to win in under an hour to get the best ending, which is ridiculously tight; it more or less expects you to use the undocumented Up+A code to quit back to the password screen, which I'm not really down with. It's much easier to just do it on the second loop, since you keep all your items except energy tanks and missiles. After that I beat the early (ca. 1999) but well-done ROM hack Metroid X, getting the "fair" ending. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+neogeo1982 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Neo Geo AES Robo Army - 30min Metal Slug 2 - 75min Top Players Golf - 60min Atari 2600 Centipede - 40min Sega Genesis Star Flight - 150min Kings Bounty - 120min Phantasy Star 4 - 610min - Finally finished it. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - 40min 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Here are my times: NES: Batman: the video game- 3 minutes Probotector- 8 1/2 minutes Gyruss- 12 minutes Gauntlet- 7 minutes Lifeforce- 3 minutes Megaman 1- 10 minutes Megaman 4- 5 mintues Game Boy: Klax- 7 1/2 minutes Megaman: Dr. Wily's Revenge- 11 minutes Sega Master System: Maze Walker- 3 minutes Fantasy Zone- 5 1/2 minutes Dynamite Duke- 6 minutes Astro Warrior- 6 minutes Alien Storm- 7 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 C64: Lode Runner - 20 mins Gridrunner - 10 mins Neutron - 17 mins Zeta Wing - 19 mins Robotron 2084 - 7 mins Blastopia DX - 12 mins Buck Rodgers: Planet of Zoom - 13 mins Relentless 64 - 12 mins 1943: The Battle of Midway - 12 mins (the worst version of 1943 that I have played but it's not that bad) X-Force - 10 mins Stercore XD - 9 mins Attack of the Mutant Camels (Gridrunner 2) - 9 mins H.E.R.O - 7 mins Puzznic - 12 mins Dig Dug - 5 mins Graviton - 10 mins The Great Giana Sisters - 18 mins (I found a great NTSC fixed version that runs really well) Batman - The Movie - 8 mins Bomberland - 12 mins ColecoVision: Nova Blast - 21 mins Frogger II - 13 mins Atari 2600 Demon Attack - 15 mins Space Cavern - 21 mins Circus Atari - 7 mins Demons to Diamonds - 17 mins Dig Dug - 20 mins (I don't know how this version manages to have all of the music in the game but the C64 version only has the music when the player moves). 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 ATARI 2600 Aardvark (for HSC) - 10 minutes Air-Sea Battle - 60 minutes Raptor (for HSC) - 20 minutes ATARI 7800 Midnight Mutants - 55 minutes Scrapyard Dog (for HSC) - 10 minutes ATARY LYNX Scrapyard Dog - 12 minutes GAMEBOY F-1 Race - 10 minutes GAMEBOY COLOR F-1 World Grand Prix - 6 minutes NES / FAMICOM Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing - 20 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Not a great week for gaming, with real life getting the better of me… Arcade: Battle Lane Vol 5 - 25 minutes. It’s hard to tell if this is too hard or if I’m playing it wrong. (Nb. I am not aware of Vol 1-4 existing.) Blockout - 35 minutes. Definitely an upgrade from the Lynx version in many ways yet it feels less fun. Atari 2600: Human Cannonball - 35 minutes. For reasons I cannot explain I became determined to figure out to play this. I can finish games 1-3 perfectly every time on easy, have a little challenge on game 4, and cannot get anywhere on games 5-7. Still, it’s something. Raptor - 35 min for HSC. Homebrew weeks are awesome. Atari 7800: Donkey Kong (retail) - 15 minutes Donkey Kong PK/XM - 25 minutes Atari Jaguar: Raiden - 30 minutes for HSC Atari Lynx: Lexis - 40 minutes. About 25 minutes of the real game and 15 minutes of the Microvaders easter egg. Unseen - 150 minutes, many deaths and some progress. LCD/Handheld: 1943 (Acclaim) - 20 minutes Kosmichyeskiy Polyet [Spaceflight] (Elektronika) - 25 minutes. I imported this Soviet relic from Ukraine. It is a game of peaceful flight control. Star Trek Generations - 20 minutes. Nintendo Virtual Boy: Space Squash - 35 minutes. Even better than Robo Squash on the Lynx, which is a darn good game. V-Tetris - 30 minutes. Seems ludicrously easy and is very plain but I sure enjoyed it. Sega SG-1000:Champion Billiards - 45 minutes. This game is better known as Lunar Pool on the NES or as the only good Champion series game. Pretty sure this version is harder than Lunar Pool. Zoom 909 - 60 minutes. Getting good at this takes some work and watching other people who know what they’re doing in the third phase. Pretty great and an entirely different game from Buck Rogers on the Planet of Zoom which it is ostensibly a port of. I do miss the slalom part, though. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 NES Tetris 1168 I played Tetris in the NES HSC and scored what must be a personal best at 132,600. I got a lot better at Tetris this week, but I am still in a far distant sphere than the hyper-tapping and rolling gods who dominate this classic game. Interestingly, my favorite config for playing was to play on an emulator and use the keyboard?! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 16 hours ago, jgkspsx said: Please just estimate. If you stop tracking our average game title length is going to drop by 50% or more You just reminded me that I have yet to play Natsuiro High School★Seishun Hakusho ~Tenkou Shonichi no Ore ga Osananajimi to Saikai shitara Houdoubuin ni Sarete ite Gekisha Shounen no Hibi wa Sukuupu Dairenpatsu de Igai to Motemote nanoni Nazeka Mai Memori wa Pantsu Shashin Bakkari toiu Genjitsu to Mukiainagara Kangaeru Hitonatsu no Shima no Gakuen Seikatsu to Sekirarana Koi no Yukue.~. That's on PS3, though, so it won't go in this tracker. I think I saw a copy at Book Off recently. It's expensive for a PS3 game, though, at like 3000~4000 yen used. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 NES Tetris for HSC 292. Great game. Atari 2600 Eggomania 37 Kaboom 34 Solar Fox 111 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 I was a Classic Slacker (Clacker? Classicker?) this past week, just one game. Arcade: Metal Slug 4 -- 60 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Atari 2600 Aardvark - 10 minutes Hunchy 2 - 6 minutes Kaboom! - 98 minutes Raptor - 18 minutes Solar Fox - 23 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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