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[StanJr]

Final Fantasy (NES) 1 hour

This party I have was slow to start, but after the Castle of Ordeal, they freaking rock! I'm blowing through the Sea Temple like never before! Already visited the Mermaids, now off to battle Kraken!

[rmaerz]

Arcade
Sea Wolf 7 mins
Bomb Bee 10 mins
Tail Gunner 7 mins
Gee Bee 4 mins

[Taskmaster99]

Neo Geo AES
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Magical Drop 2 - 10 minutes

[StanJr]

Final Fantasy (NES) 1.5 hours (Kraken fell to my might, off to Mirage Tower)
Joshua (NES) 30 mins
Gradius (NES) 10 mins.
Adventures of Dino Riki (NES) 15 mins.
Silver Surfer (NES) 30 mins.

[Taskmaster99]

NES
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Battle of Olympus - 30 minutes

[4Ks]

Todays times.

Intellivision
Donkey Kong 5 mins

Genesis
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 20 mins

[Taskmaster99]

NES
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Battle of Olympus - 20 min.

[zylon]

Nes: Battle Chess 1hr
TI99: Burgertime 20 min
Demon attack 15min
Moon mine 30min

[StanJr]

zylon, on Sat Mar 6, 2010 6:54 AM, said:

Nes: Battle Chess 1hr

This means you played what, like 6 moves? Oy, you are a better man than I. I do not have the patience for that game.

[BDW]

Prepare yourself:


Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - GG - 60 minutes

Sonic the Hedgehog - GG - 30 minutes

Kabuki Quantum Fighter - NES - 25 minutes (damn blinking light interrupting my gaming sessions)

Street Fighter 2 - GB - 15 minutes

Bloodstorm - Arcade - 30 minutes (2nd time beating it)

Star Fire - Arcade - 10 minutes

Total time: 170 minutes, or 2 hours and 50 minutes.

Edited by brandondwright, Sat Mar 6, 2010 9:28 AM.

[Tr3vor]

NES:
SMB3- 1.5 hours
SMB- 45 min

ATARI 2600:
Yars' revenge- 45 min
Dig dug- 20 min
keystone kapers- 30 min
pitfall- 20 min
bowling- 1 min
spider fighter- 1 hour
asteroids- 50 min


this is all i can remember from the last month that i have not posted.


also, i played space war on my Palm V, if that counts...

Edited by Tr3vor, Sat Mar 6, 2010 11:55 AM.

[Taskmaster99]

NES
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Donkey Kong 3 - 10 min.
Battle of Olympus - 20 min.

[StanJr]

Final Fantasy (NES) 2 hours (pillaging the Wind Temple. My team is unstoppable now!)

Kid Kool (NES) 30 mins.
Guardian Legend (NES) 45 mins.

[4Ks]

Todays times.

Atari 8-bit
Donkey Kong 5 mins
Blue Max 10 mins

Nintendo 64
Robotron: 2084

[Atarian7]

Atari 2600:
Kaboom!-192 minutes

I don't know why but for the past few weeks I haven't been
playing that well. My high score for that time is 80,???.
Before that time I had reached 300,000 once and 200,000 twice in the same week.

It is still my goal to reach 999,999.

Edited by Atarian7, Sun Mar 7, 2010 7:30 AM.

[sandmountainslim]

Atari 2600 games

Bombs Away (WIP by Atarius Maximus) 35 minutes

Bottomless Pitfall! 25 minutes

Missile Command 15 minutes

Ms. Pac Man 15 minutes

[cvga]

Atari 2600:

Kaboom! 10 minutes
Picnic 5 minutes
Marble Craze 12 minutes

[StanJr]

Yesterday's Times:

Ninja Gaiden (NES) 30 mins.
Klax (NES) 30 mins.
Spider-man Revenge of the Sinister Six (NES) 45 mins.
Final Fantasy (NES): 1 hour 45 mins.

(Took down Tiamat in ONE HIT last night. Apparently he has a weak spot for BRAK magic, who freakin' knew? Off to the Temple of Fiends one last time...)

[accousticguitar]

Another nice week outside.

2600:

Star Trek - 4 min
Mini Golf - 5 min
MissAdventure Revised - 25 min
Shield Shifter - 32 min

[Taskmaster99]

Genesis
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Streets of Rage - 20 min.

NES
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River City Ransom - 35 minutes

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (March 1st through 7th):

Mikie High School Graffitti (Arcade) 231 minutes in 2 sessions
Mikie (Arcade) 7 minutes
Shamus (TI-99) 161 minutes in 2 sessions
Turtles (Arcade) 61 minutes
Tetris (Arcade) (Atari Games) 30 minutes
Burger Time (Arcade) 14 minutes
Q*bert (Arcade) 12 minutes
Fly guy (TI-99) 10 minutes
Herding Cats (TI-99) 10 minutes
Honeycomb Rapture (TI-99) 10 minutes
TI Farmer (TI-99) 8 minutes
TI Hurdles (TI-99) 4 minutes

(I haven't played any non-classic games this week)

Some commentary as always:
I've played two slightly different versions of "Mikie"... in "Mikie High School Graffitti", you are not able to knock out the teacher, and if you knock out someone else, he doesn't fall to the ground, but only shakes for a while before continuing to chase you. The other version is simply called "Mikie" and has got slightly different sounds, as well as the ability to knock everyone down, including the teacher. Since this makes the game a bit easier, they sped up the people chasing you a bit in order to make up for this. But still "Mikie" seems to yield higher point values more easily.

This week I made it to beat "Turtles" again, after not having made that for the last times I played.

Then I tried the TI-99 version of "Shamus" again. Actually, the first version I got to know of this was the VIC-20 version, but that one has only got 32 rooms while the TI-99 version has 128 rooms. I found a map here which has been hand-drawn, or rather two sheets of paper that together form the complete map, so it seems like I've beaten that game before, although I can't remember the ending, and I didn't make it to beat it again today... only got to the start of the "red zone", which means I made about 75% of it (there are four zones, black, blue, green and red). The map is a bit irritating since it's not really a strict grid, so sometimes if you try to draw the map, things don't fit together properly. Apparently this game isn't really laid out on a two-dimensional grid, but rather the rooms are numbered 0 through 127, and going left or right always takes you to the room with the next higher or lower number, while going up or down can basically lead to any other room that has an exit into the correct direction.
Anyway, the TI-99 version is much more playable than the C-64 version which often seems to register collisions without any reason. And it's interesting that it's by Atarisoft who ported some titles to the TI-99 that were not arcade hits, but actually programs by third-party developers (in this case, HES or Synapse Software).

In "Tetris", the game always ends for me at round 7 or 8 - this is where the "added bricks" come into play. By that time, level 10 is reached, so the falling blocks have reached top speed (or at least I think they have). Here the level seems to increase faster than on the home computer versions.

"Burger Time" the arcade version was surprisingly hard (maybe because I didn't set it to the easier level), but I still made it to the last pattern, but not beyond that.

The arcade version of Q*bert seems a bit more fair than the TI-99 version, but this is made up by the fact that extra lives are not given quite as often as in the TI-99 port.

"Fly guy", "Herding Cats", "Honeycomb Rapture", "TI Farmer" and "TI Hurdles" are all entries to one of the competitions over in the TI-99 programming forum. Since they are all coded in TI Extended Basic, they are rather slow, also considering that the TI-99 itself was rather slow. I also decided to take part in the contest currently underway, the "Short 'n' Sweet contest", with a racing game.

[rmaerz]

Arcade
Star Force 44 mins (last week's Arcade/MAME HSC)
Galaxian 20 mins
Pepper II 10 mins
Space Invaders II 2 mins
Asteroids* 3 mins
Tempest* 5 mins
Missile Command* 5 mins

* Played at the Coliseum Entertainment Megaplex in Camp Hill, PA

Not much from me this week...

[Taskmaster99]

7800
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Ms. Pac Man - 10 min.
Jr. Pac Man - 10 min.

2600
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Missle Command - 15 min.

[cvga]

I apologize for the lack of a mid-week stat of week (I need a new title, this one seems redundant) this week. I had to prepare and give a presentation in Orlando and didn't return home until late Friday night. I know we're within a few hours of the week being over but we have played over 100 titles (109 so far) for more than 4,000 minutes (4,446 so far).

Final Fantasy also joins the 2,000 minute club (I'm sure I would have forgotten to mention that tomorrow night) and is now #6 all-time.

[4Ks]

Todays times.

Atari 8-bit
Blue Max 8 mins

Genesis
Sonic 3 & Knuckles 30 mins