high voltage Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 (edited) From birth (1981) to now. Is that even possible to guess? Edited February 25, 2021 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 "To now" is a bit of an ask. Retro PC is much easier: exoDOS: 7200 exoWin 3.1: 1140 So that's around ~8400 for the old era and I'd say it's a pretty accurate number. You could add Win 95-98 games by looking at particular years from Moby. Mobygames list 55187 games under "Windows" tag altogether, so in theory you could add all that up and come up with the number 63,527. How accurate Moby's estimate is is anybody's guess though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, youxia said: "To now" is a bit of an ask. Retro PC is much easier: exoDOS: 7200 exoWin 3.1: 1140 So that's around ~8400 for the old era and I'd say it's a pretty accurate number. You could add Win 95-98 games by looking at particular years from Moby. Mobygames list 55187 games under "Windows" tag altogether, so in theory you could add all that up and come up with the number 63,527. How accurate Moby's estimate is is anybody's guess though. I've always found the Mobygames database far from complete too, so the real number is likely even higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 In my opinion it should only include games that could be played straight from DOS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 6 hours ago, DragonGrafx-16 said: In my opinion it should only include games that could be played straight from DOS. I'd agree and call that beyond even making an argument otherwise. Windows 1.0 through 3.11 all required DOS to run, and it basically was an OS on top of an OS that depended on the DOS core to function. That even continued into the 90s with Win95 being DOS 7, it just didn't natively boot there first, though you could tweak it to if you must. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 What's the criteria? Are we counting only retail releases? Because if you wanna count everything, such as PD/Shareware and super-simple homemade games programmed in BASIC, the number might be in the millions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 Just well known retail games is greater than 5000+ I know that with certainty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 4 hours ago, wierd_w said: Just well known retail games is greater than 5000+ And what is that number based on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 I have a package with that many in it. ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 Right Like I said earlier, ExoDOS collection is pretty thorough, and it contains 7200 MS DOS games. Out of these ~3300 are classified as shareware. That leaves ~4000 games, not all of which are "well known". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 6 hours ago, wierd_w said: I have a package with that many in it. ? I think I got a certain disk drive last year in the mail with that same package. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Charlie Cat Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 8 hours ago, Zap! said: I think I got a certain disk drive last year in the mail with that same package. Good to see you again Ter. Glad to see you posting away again for sure. Anthony.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Charlie Cat Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Hi guys, I always loved the IBM computers. I had a collection of them at one point . Anthony.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Charlie Cat Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Hi guys, My favorite was the IBM Aptiva. When Windows 95 came out I had it installed in CompUSA, I thought is was the best machine ever from IBM. Many years having fun playing games on it. Anthony.. . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 On 4/17/2021 at 7:45 PM, fdurso224 said: Hi guys, My favorite was the IBM Aptiva. When Windows 95 came out I had it installed in CompUSA, I thought is was the best machine ever from IBM. Many years having fun playing games on it. Anthony.. . Gotta love old school IBM computers. They were so good quality wise and always had a distinct look to them. But, I am a little biased as my family's, and then my own, first personal computer was an IBM PS/1 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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