That depends on how you view it, though. I'm proud of my list. I view it as a bit of a digital repertoire. I'm still unsure about my future, but if it's anything in digitalland (for which I am keeping my eyes open), I've got a humongous list to show off my experience. Plus, in regards to all the hours we put into gaming; what else could we have put it in? Keep in mind we did it recreationally, so you'd have to compare it to going nights out and drinking, going to see a movie, or something similar. Of course having a broad repertoire of movies helps, but aside from meeting new people and possibly teaching you social posture/situations there isn't a lot that going out adds to a life; those experiences are all gone and the chances of finding a career where people care about your experience in partying are even slimmer than the chances of finding a career where people care about your experience in gaming.
Conkers Bad Fur Day
Commander Keen series
Super Smash Bros
Pokemon red/blue/yellow/gold/silver/crystal/sapphire/emerald/pearl
Pokemon Snap
Pokemon pinball
Diablo1/2
FFx/x-2
Oblivion
Terraria
Pretty sure my list (I figure about 150-160) would be a lot longer if not for my need to master certain ones, should consider making a separate thread for games you felt you truly mastered. For example, I could effectively lead raids, kite/tank/heal/dps, using 4 different boxes simultaneously on the same computer on Everquest. I have beaten Contra about 6-7 times in a row (without resetting the game, it gets harder every cycle), and felt the need to beat Ninja Gaiden without dying once.
Look, Taintedwisp, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but games are the best educational means of all time. OF ALL TIME!
^This is so true. I think the only reason that I fare so much better in school than some of my other mates is that I've spent so much time in front of this screen. Especially in english class, I can just feel the jump that is between the girls and the boys in class. Who cares about financial crisis when the abscence of video games is so big in the life of an average female teenager!
That puts me on 130, Zeal on 273. You are counting several games I've played too but didn't want to involve, though, like Tetris and Mario on gameboy and similar platforms that I think everyone knows and has had their hands on. I wonder if I can make that number; how did you remember all of them, though?
Really?! 273 is insane... Yet I forgot soooooo many games, especially on consoles and amiga, atari, amstrad... That's true some of these games are quite common (tetris and such), I'm pretty sure if you add them to your list you'll be close to my "score".
It took me a very long time to remember them though, as silly as it looks I just took enough time to make the list alphabetically (like Wheatley in Portal 2, trying every combination :D ). After that, I checked the other lists in this thread. It helped a lot actually, in the first version of my list there was something like 70-80 games missing + the games that were not mentioned in either my list or yours that popped into my mind while reading the thread (ex: I remembered Epic Pinball when I saw Jazz Jackrabbit, they have nothing in common except I played those games at approximately the same age... I also remembered You Don't Know Jack because of Jazz Jackrabbit... yes, that's completely random). Then I tried remembering games by which platform it was on, it actually helped remembering 30-40 more games. If I had spent as much time remembering the games by their platform as I did when remembering them alphabetically, there would be 100 more of them.
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@Taintedwisp: Go
That depends on how you view it, though. I'm proud of my list. I view it as a bit of a digital repertoire. I'm still unsure about my future, but if it's anything in digitalland (for which I am keeping my eyes open), I've got a humongous list to show off my experience. Plus, in regards to all the hours we put into gaming; what else could we have put it in? Keep in mind we did it recreationally, so you'd have to compare it to going nights out and drinking, going to see a movie, or something similar. Of course having a broad repertoire of movies helps, but aside from meeting new people and possibly teaching you social posture/situations there isn't a lot that going out adds to a life; those experiences are all gone and the chances of finding a career where people care about your experience in partying are even slimmer than the chances of finding a career where people care about your experience in gaming.
@Mozared: Go
Im proud of mine too. But at the same time ... lol,
Conkers Bad Fur Day
Commander Keen series
Super Smash Bros
Pokemon red/blue/yellow/gold/silver/crystal/sapphire/emerald/pearl
Pokemon Snap
Pokemon pinball
Diablo1/2
FFx/x-2
Oblivion
Terraria
I really don't want to type out all the games :S
@Mozared: Go
Pretty sure my list (I figure about 150-160) would be a lot longer if not for my need to master certain ones, should consider making a separate thread for games you felt you truly mastered. For example, I could effectively lead raids, kite/tank/heal/dps, using 4 different boxes simultaneously on the same computer on Everquest. I have beaten Contra about 6-7 times in a row (without resetting the game, it gets harder every cycle), and felt the need to beat Ninja Gaiden without dying once.
Yea I know, I got issues.....
^This is so true. I think the only reason that I fare so much better in school than some of my other mates is that I've spent so much time in front of this screen. Especially in english class, I can just feel the jump that is between the girls and the boys in class. Who cares about financial crisis when the abscence of video games is so big in the life of an average female teenager!
Really?! 273 is insane... Yet I forgot soooooo many games, especially on consoles and amiga, atari, amstrad... That's true some of these games are quite common (tetris and such), I'm pretty sure if you add them to your list you'll be close to my "score".
It took me a very long time to remember them though, as silly as it looks I just took enough time to make the list alphabetically (like Wheatley in Portal 2, trying every combination :D ). After that, I checked the other lists in this thread. It helped a lot actually, in the first version of my list there was something like 70-80 games missing + the games that were not mentioned in either my list or yours that popped into my mind while reading the thread (ex: I remembered Epic Pinball when I saw Jazz Jackrabbit, they have nothing in common except I played those games at approximately the same age... I also remembered You Don't Know Jack because of Jazz Jackrabbit... yes, that's completely random). Then I tried remembering games by which platform it was on, it actually helped remembering 30-40 more games. If I had spent as much time remembering the games by their platform as I did when remembering them alphabetically, there would be 100 more of them.