Saturday, October 16, 2010

All the Games I've Ever Owned (I Think)

http://bit.ly/nawts_spreadsheet

That up there is a spreadsheet I made last week, with all the games I've ever owned, sorted in order of their release dates, with as good a critical review score for each as I could find. I think it's complete, but I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a few games that I just don't remember - even so, it's got about 250 or so games in it.

I made this spreadsheet for two reasons:
1. Someday, I want to go back to the beginning and play through each game, in order, and blog about it. If each game took 20 hours to play, I'm looking at 5,000 hours of playtime ahead of me!
2. I wanted to see how 'good' my opinion was when it came to purchasing games (thus the critical review for each). On average, my score was about 83%, which isn't bad - of course, for some systems, I had a more discerning opinion, and for some, less.

I hope to do more statistical analysis of my gaming habits in the future using this sheet, too - how many games for what systems I bought in what years, how good the games I bought in a given year were, etcetera. But for now, it's enough to see the general run of my gaming history, and to know that it was pretty good.