How many games have you beaten in your life?

[dsheinem]

I know that I’ve beaten about 825 games since keeping track in 2010.

I’m sure that I’ve beaten far more in the last decade than in the three before that, but either way I’d guess my count is probably conservatively around 1300 games beaten in my lifetime so far.

[ElkinFencer10]

@Elkin: yeah, I have the same conundrum, not sure if I should count games beaten on different platforms as different games. I mean, in a case like Strider on NES vs Genesis, its an easy yes since they are different games, but I have beaten dragons lair 2 on the arcade, PC, and switch, I guess I would only count that as one game since they are all identical but I'm not really sure

My thing is that I started using Backloggery to catalog my collection more than what I had beaten specifically, so by the time I switched to using Backloggery for beaten games and RF Generation for physical collection, it was too much of a massive clusterfuck to bother going and changing.

[pook99]

@anapan: there is nothing wrong with stopping games before you beat them, the point of a game is to have fun and if you have to pull yoursel through a game you are not enjoying then whats the point?

I do think finishing a game is finishing a game, if you use game genie/cheats/save states whatever it still counts as finishing it.

@prfnsl_gamer: kids today definitely have it easy, games in general are easier and if they are playing classic games odds are they are doing it with liberal usage of rewinds and save states. In our day you either beat it legit or you didn't beat it at all.

@dshen: I'm probably in the same boat, I definitely feel I beat a lot more games per year since I started keeping track then I did before that.

[PartridgeSenpai]

I completely forgot that, while I don't have a backloggery, I DO have a Google Sheets page of all the games I own, and I mark down games I've beaten on that. It only counts stuff I currently own, so it doesn't keep track of stuff I've gotten rid of (which is a lot), but at least according to that, 330 of the games I currently own I have beaten. I suppose on that marker, knowing just how many hundreds of games I had sold back before I moved to Japan, I would bump up my estimate of how many games I've beaten to more like 400 at the least, 450 at the highest.