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  3. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    I have just added Colecovision and Odyssey²/Videopac. I also added most of the retro handhelds. And Apple II. I will leave it for today. Heh.

     

    By the way, if anyone knows a list of Apple II type-ins or freeware games created back in the day, let me know in the comments. Perhaps I should filter by Publisher on the online Excel with the list of games and select some magazine games.

     

    EDIT: Yeah, I'm counting every game offered for free and also commercial modern homebrews. It's not very accurate, but after all it's just a list of games and a curious way to see how much love receives each system.

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    Hey zzip, I apologize. There must be errors, I assume that. I will ask the admins to allow me to edit the first message to add the missing systems (that's undeniable) and the missing games (that's more than likely).

     

    I have done the best that I could.

     

    Also, I used the term "type-ins" for type-ins and magazine cover games that were never released commercially.

     

    The criteria seems odd but there's an explanation: the databases don't have enough filters, so I was forced to use a rough estimation by counting the games released after the "commercial life" of a system, the type-ins...

     

    This is an open project and all corrections are welcomed. My intention was to check the state of each homebrew scene, as I'm a bit curious and confused as to why some system have thousands of homebrew games and others have 100 or zero.

     

    I was afraid to lost all the work and I knew I was not going to be able to edit the message 1 hour after sending it, so I decided to leave it as it is for now.

     

    My favorite console is the PS1 and the scene is depressing... I'm also surprised there aren't more games for the 16 bit consoles.

     

    As you said, I hope it's just a mistake and there are hundreds more! 😎

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  6. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    6 hours ago, Newsdee said:

    Worst Games: Many "adult" games that came out over the years were downright terrible.

    In particular, arcade-style games that basically used the mature theme to sell, but didn't have any other redeeming quality (not even a basic storyline, or some kind of card game simulation).

     

    You gotta choose one of those. Rules of the topic. 🤓

     

    Seriously, it would be great to know the name of one of them, the one you disliked the most. I'm curious now.

  8. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    1st generation

     

    Odyssey: Around 6 games

     

    2nd generation

     

    Atari 2600: Around 2000 games

    Colecovision: Around 200 games (Wikipedia lists 165, one user says there are actually 230)

    Intellivision: Around 130 games

    Odyssey²/Videopac: Around 30 games

    Atari 5200: Around 12 games

    Vectrex: Around 150 games

     

    3rd generation

     

    NES/Famicom: Around 200 games

    Master System: Around 175 games

    Atari 7800: Around 30 games

    C64: Around 4000 games ( more than 1000 type-ins from 1984 to 1993 [1, 2, etc.] , around 2500 homebrew games after the last official game appeared around 1993)

    MSX: Around 300 homebrew games after the last official game appeared around 1993, probably hundreds of type-ins too

    ZX Spectrum: Around 4000 games (around 2200 type-ins [1, 2], around 1800 homebrew games after the last official game appeared around 1993)

    Amstrad CPC: Around 2000 games (1400 type-ins from 1984 to 1993, 700 homebrew games after the last official game appeared in 1993)

    Apple II: Around 20 homebrew games released after the commercial life of the system (filter by Publisher "Homebrew" here), probably hundreds of type-ins too

    Atari 400/800/XL ("Atari 8-bit"): Around 4500 games (Around 2000 games released after the last official game appeared around 1989 [manually search by year here] around 2500 magazine/freeware/shareware games before 1989 [1, 2])

    BBC Micro: Around 1500 games (Go here and manually filter by Commercial Release+Public Domain+Awaiting Categorisation and see the first pages to find around 100 modern homebrew games; filter by Magazine+Book to find the 1500 type-ins)

     

    4th generation (home consoles and computers)

     

    Genesis/Mega Drive: Around 100 games

    SNES/Super Famicom: Around 30 games

    Turbografx 16/PC Engilne: Around 25 games

    Amiga: Around 500 games (manually search the ones released after 1995 and the non-commercial ones before 1996 here)

    Atari ST: Around 200 games (most of them freeware/shareware, a few modern, homebrew commercial ones)

    MS-DOS: Around 2500 games, probably much more (2000 small freeware/shareware games from my collection, 165 homebrew games after the year 2000)

     

    4th generation (handheld systems)

     

    Game Boy/Game Boy Color: Around 70 games (1, 2)

    Game Gear: Around 20 games

    Lynx: Around 140 games (manually filter by Homebrew here)

     

    5th generation (home consoles)

     

    Jaguar: Around 100 games

    3DO: Around 5 games (1, 2, 3, 4)

    Playstation: Around 70 games (around 65 with Yaroze, around 5 without it)

    Saturn: Around 125 games (around 100 with Game Basic, around 25 without it, check out XL2's engine too)

    Nintendo 64: Around 15 games (Spacer and Yeti3D Pro are not included there but they exist. Same with Flappy Bird, Pyoro 64 and others).

     

    5th generation (handheld systems)

     

    Game Boy Advance: Around 450 games (1, 2)

    Neo Geo Pocket/Neo Geo Pocket Color: Around 10 games

     

    6th generation (home consoles)

     

    Dreamcast: Around 70 games

    Playstation 2: Around 20 games

    Game Cube: Unknown

    Xbox: Unknown

     

    6th generation (handheld systems)

     

    PSP: Around 2000 games

    Nintendo DS: Around 1200 games

     

    7th generation

    Playstation 3: Around 20 games

     

    SOON: More systems, including very rare ones.

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  13. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    47 minutes ago, The Atari Creep said:

    I did want to acknowledge this and let you know I did see it after the fact and want to thank you for your kind words. :)

    Actually, I was referring to the second video posted by LePionnier (he had only posted 2 videos at that point and then edited his message to add a third video, the one where you say that you've ordered the Founders).

     

    But it's okay, we can still be friends... I mean, we both love the Amico and the original Playstation (my favorite console of all time, but I didn't buy it on day one as you, I waited until late '97). 😎

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  14. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    If we count 1990 (technically it's part of the 80s), I'd say The Secret of Monkey Island.

     

    If not (as it's generally accepted), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (the adventure game).

     

    As I said on the "Choose the best and worst game you've ever played" thread, there's a very cool 1h15min retrospective video in Youtube about both games, Lucasarts and adventure games in general.

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    Welcome to the topic, The Atari Creep! I'm glad you join the discussion.

     

    I also wanted to apologize: After reading your message, I now believe that your video "Anybody hate both the Atari VCS & Intellivision Amico?", which uses the caption "Both are CRAP?" in the preview and where you ask your viewers to look for opinions that say "fuck both of these things, they're both pieces of shit", was informative and not trying to be controversial. 👍

     

    Back to the topic, I gotta say I agree with Swami: The new VIP Edition could be a great opportunity for thousands of fans who didn't get the Founders, including me. I don't understand people who have already ordered another edition being against it because theirs become less special. Why would they be upset if someone else gets it?

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  18. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    The Atari Creep seems to be desperately trying to be on the fence about the Amico to generate a debate and get more views. He clearly likes the machine, he even says he will buy it, but he keeps encouraging everyone to love AND also to hate the console. This is his second attempt: his last video was titled "The Amico and the VCS... both suck?", but then he didn't give any reasons for the Amico to suck, he said he just wanted people who think it sucked to comment on the video. 😌

  19. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    Thanks for the answers, I'm learning a lot and remembering a few things too.

     

    I especially like CatPix reply, where both his best and worst games are PS1 survival horrors.

     

    Silent Hill is definitely on my top 10 games. It was one of the surprise masterpieces that started appearing for the PS1 just after I bought the console in late 1997.

     

    I was really lucky: major titles as Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Driver, GTA or Gran Turismo, Abe's Odyssee, Spyro did not even exist when I decided to save my weekly allowance for 6 months to buy the console. I only knew Twisted Metal 2, Goal Storm/Winning Eleven (old name of Pro Evolution Soccer), Soul Blade and Resident Evil.

     

    I ended up "buying" (actually buying copies) of so many hidden gems or unexpected hits... some of them belonged to genres I haven't even played before (dancing games, musical creation games...). And the coolest thing is that most games were Japanese or American and so these copies were NTSC, removing the PAL borders and 15% slower speed of official conversions.

     

    It was a cold February of 1999 and a friend and I bought two copies: Silent Hill and Siphon Filter. The deal was that the final owner of each game would be the one to play the other game for some weeks until it's finished, and then finally each true owner will have his game forever. So I chose Silent Hill as my true game and started playing Siphon Filter. I stopped after the second stage: Since mid 1997, I had played for the first time and finished Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, Blood, Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid. Siphon Filter simply didn't have a chance. I was busy with Tomb Raider 3, International Superstar Soccer/Goal Storm/Winning Eleven and probably some 3D platform game, so I was not in a hurry.

     

    After a few weeks, we finally interchanged our games and I started playing Silent Hill. I can see why CatPix chose it as the best: the game had everything. It has amazing graphics, even using the PS1 limitations to create the fog and using pictures of real buildings as textures. It has outstanding sound, with those noises instead of normal music during the intense sections. And it has perfect gameplay, with fun and balanced action, interesting exploration and only a few puzzles that are just difficult enough. The story is kind of okay for a movie but this is a game, so the narrative is perfect. There are almost no dialogs, you are living the experience.

     

    I decided to play the game on normal but without using bullets except when necessary, only with the crowbar. Good times! I also committed the mistake of playing the game 1-2 hours ever night, just before going to bed. Man, those were the worst nightmares I've ever had. I will never play the game again for this reason.

     

    But I recommend everyone to give it a try. Definitely better than the first 3 Resident Evils, where your inventory is limited and have to use chests to store things. They are also not as immersive by a mile. Silent Hill has a few WTF gameplay (not story related) elements that I can't reveal but that every player should experience.

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  21. Posted

    Thanks digdugnate, that was really insightful. 👍

     

    Back to the topic, for me it would be:

     

    Best game: The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) (check out this amazing 1h review of the game I just discovered)

     

    Worst game: Amstrad Jumper (1985)

     

    By the way, Tommy Tallarico answered this question the other day. The best one for him was Super Mario World and the worst one High Heat Baseball 2003.

  23. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    In fact, looking at things from the perspective of the present is the biggest problem the world is facing today in any single matter you can name.

     

    By the way, the (evil, "communist") government of my country will be the next to ban loot boxes. This is one of the coolest things about the Amico: everyone pays the same for the game, developers don't take advantage of addicts.

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