Random poster in a thread about games: "Please tell me you've played more than a hundred games in your life. Think about it. A hundred. Should seem like a small number, compared to probably over a million games out there"
Interesting question. How many games HAVE I played? For the purposes of this question, let's say games you've played for a minimum of one hour. Beyond that, the definition is up to you (arcade, phone, flash, console, PC, whatever).
How many games are in your Steam/GoG libraries today?
I'm going to work on a more accurate count, but my GoG/Steam libraries have about 150 games, and I have certainly not played all of those. I would guess my bodycount is between 300 and 400, spanning from the late 80s to today, with a greatly diminished count in the last ten years.
What's yours?
I've beaten hundreds, across pretty much every genre. I couldn't even begin to count how many I've played.
Right? I'm 45 year old. I've been playing games since before they had endings other than running out of lives. It's like counting how many times I've eaten in a restaurant or watched a new series. Who even knows.
Hell, what about those old 20-in-1 game boxes that you'd wire directly into the antenna on channel 3 and had like 5 variations each of Pong and a few other games where a dot moved around the screen? Does that count as 20?
But yeah, I'm the same age and the '80s alone would put me into the hundreds. Lots of trading games with friends, trips to the rental store and arcades, and copying shareware disks.
In my DOS computer, I have some CDs that are collections of like 20 games or more. I've played basically every game on them at least once, for at least one hour. I also had over two dozen NES games. So my game count was probably upwards of 100 by the time I turned 8.