carlsson Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 Here's the summary for Week 25, running from June 20 - 26. We logged 1931 minutes of eligible play, playing 51 games on a total of 21 systems. Top 10: 1. Action 52 (Genesis) - 225 min. 2. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 177 min. 3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 106 min. (#6) 4. Blast Off Pinball V1 (Radio Shack) (Handheld/Tabletop) - 85 min. 4. Klax (Atari 7800) - 85 min. 6. GhostRush (CoCo 1 & 2) - 80 min. (#4) 7. Granada (Genesis) - 75 min. 7. Pinball Master (Radio Shack) (Handheld/Tabletop) - 75 min. 9. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 68 min. (#1) 10. Klax (Arcade) - 66 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 177 min. (PN#10) 2. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 106 min. (PN#3) 3. Klax (Atari 7800) - 85 min. 4. GhostRush (CoCo 1 & 2) - 80 min. (PN#2) 5. H.E.R.O. (Commodore 64) - 45 min. 5. Tutankam (CoCo 1 & 2) - 45 min. 7. Eggomania (Atari 2600) - 35 min. (PN#1) 8. Defender (Arcade) - 29 min. 9. Crystal Castles (Arcade) - 25 min. 9. Solar Quest (Vectrex) - 25 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Atari 2600 - 319 min. (#1) 2. Genesis - 300 min. (#9) 3. Handheld/Tabletop - 267 min. 4. Arcade - 201 min. (#4) 5. CoCo 1 & 2 - 125 min. (#6) 6. NES/Famicom - 97 min. (#3) 7. Atari 7800 - 95 min. 8. Game Boy - 89 min. (#2) 9. N64 - 85 min. 10. Atari ST - 55 min. As the heat waves strike, people are busy at work or away on vacation, the numbers go down. It paves the way for Action 52 on the Genesis to become the most played game this week! The evergreen Kaboom! is in a strong second place and also takes the pre-NES title. Systems wise the Atari 2600 and Genesis are in top, but the handheld LCD and tabletop games are not very far behind! A new entry to the 1000 Minute Club is Granada (Genesis) which becomes #495 with a total of 1022 minutes played. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Looks like I'm adding at least one new game to the list of arcade games next week, as today I found some really cool stuff. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) Semi-scheduled stop at Mikado on Wednesday means arcade games. Got the clear on Hishouzame in the arcade, which felt really good. I have not been practicing it a lot recently, so it took me 4 attempts. Took breaks between Hishouzame sessions to play other things. Also a rare visit from the SuperGrafx, although I used the MiSTer since I was too lazy to actually set up the real SuperGrafx. Neo Geo AES/MVS Garou: Mark of the Wolves - 14 Neo Turf Masters - 5 Arcade 1941 Counter Attack (Japan) - 24 Battle Garegga - 5 Hishouzame - 40 Out Zone - 8 Sennou Game Teki-Paki - 5 Space Harrier - 5 The Typing of the Dead - 10 Thunder Dragon 2 - 3 VS. Super Mario Bros. - 5 VS. Super Mario Bros. was never available in arcades in Japan and Nintendo, being the typical jackasses they are, threatened legal action against arcade operators that imported it back in the 80s or something like that. What a garbage company, unless it was for using the various bootleg versions. SuperGrafx Aldynes - 10 G/MD Metal Slug (beta) - 8 It's this: I guess evil is talkative and that's bad for some reason. Yeah, this is the Typing of the Dead cabinet. The keyboards are Dreamcast keyboards, which I guess makes sense since this is running on a NAOMI, which is basically a Dreamcast. ^ you know your local arcade is badass when it has Battle Garegga, Hishouzame, Thunder Dragon 2, The Typing of the Dead, Space Harrier, Neo Turf Masters, and Teki-Paki. Proof of Hishouzame clear: 4th place is me, as well, but I got frustrated and didn't bother to put my name in there and walked away. Edited July 3, 2022 by Steven Pendleton 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) Here are my times: Atari 2600: Q*bert- 6 minutes Wizard of Wor- 2 minutes The official Frogger (Supercharcher)- 3 1/2 minutes Laserblast- 3 minutes Kool-Aid Man- 5 minutes Lock N' Chase- 10 minutes MIllipede- 3 minutes Montezuma's Revenge- 3 minutes Entombed- 3 minutes Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back- 12 minutes Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Death Star Battle- 6 minutes Super Breakout- 10 minutes Game Boy: Mortal Kombat 2- 1 1/2 minutes Battletoads- 2 minutes NES: Arkanoid- 2 minutes NARC- 9 minutes Baby Boomer (Unlicensed)- 11 minutes Megaman- 5 minutes Edited July 3, 2022 by Prosystemsearch 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 3, 2022 Author Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) Atari 8-bit: Kik-Start - 17 min. Preppie! - 9 min. Skateboard (AMC Soft) - 15 min. Skate Crazy (Atari User) - 8 min. Topper - 5 min. For the month of July we're playing something called "Summer of fun" with a mixed bag of games, also including BMX Simulator and Star League Baseball not yet featured above. We'll see exactly how much fun it is a few weeks in, but it was a good start with some variation. Edited July 3, 2022 by carlsson 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosystemsearch Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) Almost forgot that I also played about 7 minutes of Megaman 3 for the NES and roughly the same of Robot Tank for the Atari 2600 as well as 2600 Spiderman for about 3 1/2 minutes! OOPS! Edited July 3, 2022 by Prosystemsearch 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 Here are my times for this past week (June 27th through July 3rd, 2021)... sorry, again no gaming this week, and I do not yet know when it will resume. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 A2600 Enduro 32 Just one game for me in either tracker this week. I'm on vacation in the UK and not finding/making time for video games. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) ATARI 2600: Pac-Man - 84 minutes ATARI 7800: KLAX - 135 minutes ATARI LYNX: KLAX - 310 minutes GAMEBOY COLOR KLAX - 50 minutes NES / FAMICOM KLAX - 15 minutes SEGA GENESIS KLAX - 20 minutes EVIDENCES OF THE WEEK: My KLAX gameplay footages on several systems, which I dedicated specially to LGBTQIA+ people, who deserve more respect and dignity in the entire world. This week we celebrated the LGBTQIA+ International Pride Day. Edited July 4, 2022 by oyamafamily 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 My times for the week: NES: Bump 'n Jump - 32 min. Kung Fu - 76 min. Kyonshiizu 2 - 3 min. Beat one loop each of Game A and B in Kung Fu, the latter as a 1LC (i.e. without losing a life). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Atari 2600 Hunchy II - 3 minutes Kaboom! - 37 minutes Solar Fox - 50 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agb Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Arcade Klax 19 Atari 2600 Solar Fox 77 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) This week I played: Pokemon Red Version for Game Boy - 719 minutes Super Mario Bros.: Level-Headed v.0.3.9. - 26 minutes Progress: Pokemon Red - I finished leveling up all of the in game Pokemon into their evolved forms bringing the Pokedex to 123 which is the max before any trading. The next step is to copy my file to my PKHex folder and start new files to get just what I need to trade for. Things like alternate starters, alternate fossils etc. Mario - I only had time to play one game. This one ended near the end of the game with a glitch where the level didn't scroll after Mario went down the flagpole, causing the game to be stuck. I finally caught COVID this week so I probably have less game time than I would have. For a day and a half I felt too sick to do anything. Gotta catch 'em all, COVIDmon. Funny but not funny. I'm still sick but my work won't let me go back until after next Tuesday so I expect to get lots of game time in if I can stay feeling well enough. And thankfully I will be paid for my usual hours out of my sick time which is separate from PTO. Maybe I'll get to finish the Pokemon Red/Blue living dexes and move on. I'm more prone to play RPGs than action based games when I feel like this due to being kind of dizzy. Edited July 4, 2022 by TheGameCollector 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 20 minutes ago, TheGameCollector said: Maybe I'll get to finish the Pokemon Red/Blue living dexes and move on. Hint: Pokémon Red is now only 543 min away from the 10K club... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, carlsson said: Hint: Pokémon Red is now only 543 min away from the 10K club... I can guarantee it will reach that eventually. I still have my unfinished 3DS files for when I get bored on the buses or at work on days where I'm done with the work early too. Last year the 3DS was my preference for playing the series, but getting my new PC in October changed all that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Just a tiny bit of Pac-Man Championship Edition on the NES for my classic gaming time this week, though I did play a ton of Metro 2033 Redux on the Switch for the modern tracker! NES Pac-Man Championship Edition - 5 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyinajeep Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Acorn Archimedes Lemmings - 100 minutes Acorn Electron Thrust - 20 minutes Arcade (via MiSTer) Birdiy - 20 minutes Frogger - 10 minutes CoCo2 Moon Shuttle - 20 minutes Tutankam - 110 minutes Commodore Amiga Torch 2081 - 80 minutes Dragon 32 Shark Treasure - 25 minutes MSX Oils Well - 20 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Via Sega Saturn Williams Classics disc: Robotron (30 mins) Joust (45 mins) Defender (30 mins) Defender II (15 mins) Bubbles (15 mins) Atari 5200 Megamania (30 mins) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Do we have parity between the trackers? I wonder... Arcade: Akka Arrh - 20 minutes I feel like I'm missing something. Looks really cool, though. Gravitar - 25 minutes I am not good at this. OutRun - 55 minutes Slowly getting better... Atari 2600: Gravitar - 180 minutes My Gravitar obsession continues. Posted two hours of video to YouTube and played another hour beyond that... Wabbit - 30 minutes Played the first game with an obviously female human protagonist. It's hard, and quickly gets impossible, but I feel like it's a little more fair somehow than the very similar Strip-Off!, since the rabbits only come from one direction and the UFOs come from both directions. Atari Jaguar: Gravitic Mines - 35 minutes Got back to #2 on the leaderboards for most of the training missions, made a video for the aedification of others. What do you mean, the training missions aren't the whole game? ohhhhh.... Fairchild Channel F: Videocart 8: Mind Reader - 15 minutes It's Mastermind, basically. Pretty fun. Videocart 8: Nim - 85 minutes Nim was the first game implemented with an electronic "AI" opponent in the Nim-a-tron at the 1939 World's Fair, but it has rarely been released for home consoles because it is pretty primitive and there's not much to look at. Well, it's only fitting that the Fairchild Channel F, the first programmable home video game console, got it on a cartridge. I used to know how to play it but completely lost it. I re-taught myself how to play it (by which I mean I read the manual) and look at me now! OK, I still lost the 9 pile variant but at least I held my own. Once you figure out the trick it's impossible to lose as long as you do the calculations right, but doing them for nine piles in your head is pretty engaging anyway. Videocart 17: Pinball Challenge - 45 minutes Mostly played game 1 but played around with the two player modes a bit. People hate this and I understand why, but I spent enough time with it as a kid that it feels natural enough to me. LCD/Tabletop: Radio Shack Blast Off Pinball v2 - 35 minutes I think it's not quite as good as their earlier efforts because it's weird (the ball moves in a sine wave!) but it does have an orbit, three ball locks, and multiball, so it's kind of a wash. Another $5 pickup with a lot of play value. Radio Shack Space Alien - 20 minutes It has a piezo buzzer but it only uses it for the alarm clock function. A silent game is sad, but it's probably less annoying to adults. Tomy Tron - 45 minutes The best tabletop of all time? It's certainly up there. TomyTronic 3D Planet Zeon - 20 minutes R-Zone eat yer heart out again. NEC PC Engine: Jinmu Denshou - 35 minutes I'm too bad at this to post a video yet, but it's a pretty inventive 3D runner in the tradition of 3D World Runner. Crossed with Space Harrier bosses that take forever and a day to kill. Oh, and you have a health bar instead of lives, and if the boss hits you too much you lose the ability to shoot them and have to slash them instead, which is almost impossible. It's another fun, creative, technically impressive, and hugely frustrating game from Wolf Team. Nintendo NES/Famicom: Airball - 75 minutes I never knew this microcomputer classic of frustration and pain was almost released on the NES. Tengen decided against it for whatever reason, costing manufacturers of televisions and NES controllers untold millions in replacement item sales. Sega Master System: Dangerous Demolition - 15 minutes Another awesome @drludos game joins the collection thanks to France's Côte Gamers. Mecha8 - 45 minutes A very fun and colorful Colecovision port also from Côte Gamers. The hitbox for your mecha is dicey but otherwise it's pretty fun and forgiving on the easy mode. I think the hitbox would be really frustrating on higher difficulties. Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap - 25 minutes When you play SMS games you're accustomed to on the Game Gear on the big screen, you think "the viewport is still really small. Is it really bigger than the Game Gear's?" Then you play the Game Gear version for comparison, and... yes, the viewport is considerably larger. Sega Genesis: Granada - 85 minutes. Learning all the tricks, getting better... Task Force Harrier EX - 25 minutes It's a plain plane game but it's a fun plane game. Great to put it in your Nomad and go playin’ plain airplanes en plein air. Tiger R-Zone: Men in Black - 20 minutes Played through it again for video. Playing it through the phone camera severely limits my ability to avoid attacks so I only got halfway. I need to find another way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 On 4/12/2022 at 2:44 AM, DragonGrafx-16 said: Those SNES arcade games from Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits are ports and not emulation and so are not listed under arcade. I'm revisiting this subject now, as we've got some games played on the Saturn. Per this preview in the Official Sega Saturn Magazine from 1997, the games included really are supposed to be emulations of the arcade ROM. Now it is perfectly possible that different studios worked on the compilation for Genesis, SNES, Saturn, PlayStation, DOS, Windows, Game.com and Dreamcast, of which some ported the 5-6 arcade games and some wrote an emulator. Up till now, Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits a.k.a. Williams Arcade Classics has been treated as a monolith entry but I'm starting to wonder how it should be. Going by hardware capacity, it makes sense if the PlayStation, Saturn, DOS and upwards emulated the gaems while Genesis and SNES reimplmented those. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 Here's the summary for Week 26, running from June 27 - July 3. We logged 3509 minutes of eligible play, playing 91 games on a total of 24 systems. Top 10: 1. Pokemon Red Version (Game Boy) - 719 min. (#9) 2. Klax (Atari Lynx) - 310 min. 3. Gravitar (Atari 2600) - 180 min. 4. Klax (Atari 7800) - 135 min. (#4) 5. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 127 min. (#3) 6. Tutankam (CoCo 1 & 2) - 110 min. 7. Lemmings (Acorn Archimedes) - 100 min. 7. Magic Numbers (Mind Reader & Nim) (Fairchild Channel F) - 100 min. 9. Granada (Genesis) - 85 min. 10. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 84 min. Pre-NES top 10: 1. Gravitar (Atari 2600) - 180 min. 2. Klax (Atari 7800) - 135 min. (PN#3) 3. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 127 min. (PN#2) 4. Tutankam (CoCo 1 & 2) - 110 min. (PN#5) 5. Magic Numbers (Mind Reader & Nim) (Fairchild Channel F) - 100 min. 6. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 84 min. 7. Joust (Arcade) - 45 min. 7. Pinball [aka Pinball Challenge] (Fairchild Channel F) - 45 min. 7. Tron (Tomy) (Handheld/Tabletop) - 45 min. 9. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 37 min. (PN#1) 10. Enduro (Atari 2600) - 32 min. Top 10 systems: 1. Game Boy - 723 min. (#8) 2. Atari 2600 - 570 min. (#1) 3. Arcade - 389 min. (#4) 4. Atari Lynx - 310 min. 5. NES/Famicom - 266 min. (#6) 6. Fairchild Channel F - 145 min. 7. Genesis - 138 min. (#2) 8. Atari 7800 - 135 min. (#7) 9. CoCo 1 & 2 - 130 min. (#5) 10. Handheld/Tabletop - 120 min. (#3) 11. Acorn Archimedes - 100 min. Pokémon Red Version is back in first place with more than twice as many minutes as runner-up Klax on the Atari Lynx. The race is a little more close on the pre-NES front, but from "nowhere", Gravitar sweeps into first place. Systems wise the Game Boy sees 719 + 2 + 2 minutes which is enough take the title. We have a new entry on the systems front, namely the Acorn Archimedes. No new entries to the 1000, 5000, 10000 Minute Clubs this week, even after making small adjustments on previously misrecorded games on arcade and Neo Geo. I'll come up with some mid-season stats later this week! 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 56 minutes ago, carlsson said: Going by hardware capacity, it makes sense if the PlayStation, Saturn, DOS and upwards emulated the gaems while Genesis and SNES reimplmented those. This is correct. (The gamecom version were ports too, natürlich.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 Yup, so now I have dissolved the Saturn times (practically only logged by Cafeman) into respective arcade game, while the Game.com/Genesis/SNES versions remain as own entries. Damn tricky about those compilations released right in the middle when actual emulation started to become reasonable. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 4 hours ago, carlsson said: Yup, so now I have dissolved the Saturn times (practically only logged by Cafeman) into respective arcade game, while the Game.com/Genesis/SNES versions remain as own entries. Damn tricky about those compilations released right in the middle when actual emulation started to become reasonable. I've seen Sonic Jam for Sega Saturn's contents listed separately before, but those games were actually re-built and ported to the Saturn, not emulated according to experts on the Sonic Retro forum. This is what allowed for easily making the Easy modes were certain obstacles and enemies were removed and is also responsible for the higher quality sound effects such as when a ring is collected. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 (edited) Saturn Sonic Jam = ports game.com Sonic Jam = trash Sonic Mega Collection = (not great) emulation Toaplan Shooting Battle 1 = emulation Saturn Batsugun = emulation and both of those last 2 are technically illegal bootlegs lol I actually played Toaplan Shooting Battle 1 recently on MiSTer and I think I logged the games on that collection as PS1 instead of arcade. I don't think I knew those were mostly emulation at the time, but I don't really remember. My source for that is here: https://www.gamengai.com/#/cmnt-info?id=2332&p=5 They do have arranged music and some really funky scrolling, however. Not sure what's with the weird scrolling. Edited July 6, 2022 by Steven Pendleton 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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