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?
Ballpark of games played 1+ hour. Some of this was triggered recently by watching Youtube "Best games of 19xx" videos.
NES games. 30. We didn't have a lot of money so I only ever owned a couple of games. I used to rent games from Blockbuster.
SNES games. 20.
N64 games. 5
PS2 games. 20
Gamecube games. 10
Wii games. 15
Switch games. 10
DS / Gameboy / etc: 30
Dreamcast games. 5
DOS games. Big question mark here. 100-150? (Lots of Sierra games, Sim games, Ultimas, 7th guest, AD&D games, random games from local BBS).
BBS games. Legend of the Red Dragon. Land of Devastation. Wow, that was a long time ago. 10+
Flash games. 50+?
Phone games. 50
Warcraft. 8 million hours.
"Modern" PC games. 100+?
These counts are also kind of misleading, because I must have hundreds of hours of Starcraft, hundrds of hours of World of Warcraft, hundreds or more of hours of Civilization, etc.
I guess conservatively I'm around 500 games. Largely a function of how old one is!