Happy new year everyone! I know it's 2 January already but I wasn't here yesterday, so there it is.
Anyway, as the list is over now that means it's time for stats, because that's what it's all about. The results of the guessing game I already posted, Veknoid won that with 15 correctly guessed games. First here a table of the games platform and decades. This only includes platforms I actually own. Nintendo wins in total, but that's also because they've been around the longest. Similarly, the PC wins as a single platform, especially if Mac is included with the number it rises to 20 games which is almost half the list, because the PC is a single continuing platform that isn't clearly divided up by generations. The obvious decade to win is the 90s, followed by the 2000s as a distant but still clear second. In fact, only 4 games were not from these two decades. Hopefully next year will have a few more newer ones as I bought Cuphead recently which might make it in, and of course Tears of the Kingdom is on the horizon which has a decent chance. I might even return some games into the list, but that's a question for over 10 months from now. The Zelda franchise includes the most games, followed closely by Star Wars, Mario (which includes spinoffs Mario Kart and Yoshi's Island) and Sim games. Pretty much every other franchise in the list is represented by only one game, except Total War, which is represented by two games.
| Nintendo | Sony | Others | Decades | ||||
| Nintendo | 4 | Playstation | 4 | Philips Videopac G7000 | 0 | 1970s | 0 |
| Super Nintendo | 2 | Playstation 3 | 2 | Atari 2600 | 1 | 1980s | 3 |
| Nintendo 64 | 8 | Playstation 4 | 0 | 1990s | 30 | ||
| Gamecube | 1 | Playstation Vita | 0 | Windows PC | 14 | 2000s | 16 |
| Wii | 1 | macOS | 6 | 2010s | 1 | ||
| WiiU | 1 | 2020s | 0 | ||||
| Switch | 0 | Mobile | 0 | Franchises (3 games or more) | |||
| GameBoy/Color | 3 | SEGA | The Legend of Zelda | 6 | |||
| GameBoy Advance | 1 | Mega Drive | 0 | Star Wars | 5 | ||
| DS | 0 | Dreamcast | 2 | Mario | 5 | ||
| 3DS | 0 | Sim | 4 | ||||
From the data we can conclude some more statistics. Like the 90s decade easily wins, the 1997 and 1998 years are the clear winners with 1997 slightly above 1998 with 7 titles in the list. 1998 would overal have a slightly higher average though due to one of them being the #1 and two of 1997's games are in the 40s vs only one of 1998's. 1999 closely follows these years and 2002 and 2003 show another, though lower, peak. The list is quite varied, which I can be happy with, with 21 different genres and 33 franchises represented, with both adventure and construction & management simulation genres being most represented with 7 titles each. 6 of those in the adventure genre however are Zelda games.
- Best Year: 1997; 7 titles.
- Best Decade: '90s; 30 titles.
- Average Year: 1998.2 (~ February 1998)
- Average Game by Age: Blast Corps, Nintendo 64, December 1997, #43
- Most Featured Genre: Adventure, Construction & Management Simulation; 7 titles.
- Number of Genres in List: 21 genres.
- Number of Franchises in List: 33 franchises.
As the 90s are the most represented decade, the most featured generation is naturally the 5th, featuring 20 titles when including PC and Mac games from the equivalent era (ie. counting Anno 1602 (#7) from 1998 as a '5th gen game'). The list featured a decent amount of changes from last year, with 7 different entries, however, 6 of those have returned from previous years while only 1 was 'new'. This new game also wasn't a recently released game, but a game from 1993. The newest game on the list remains a game from 2017 and no games from the current generation are featured (counting The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (#10) as a WiiU game). What this means though I'd say is that modern gaming needs to shake things up, because it's losing me.
- Most Represented Platform: Windows PC; 14 titles (inc. Mac 20 titles). Nintendo 64; 8 titles.
- Most Represented Generation: 5th; Nintendo 64+PlayStation+GameBoy/Color and Windows PC+Mac (of equivalent era); 20 titles.
- Most Featured Publisher: Nintendo (including subsidiaries); 19 titles.
- Most Featured Franchise: The Legend of Zelda; 6 titles.
- Oldest Game: Missile Command, Atari 2600, 1981, #49
- Newest Game: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo WiiU, 2017, #10
- Number of new or returning games: 7 titles.
- Highest Newcomer: SimCity 2000, Macintosh, 1993, #41
- Highest Re-Entry: Age of Mythology, Windows PC, 2003, #36
As a consequence, movement compared to last year was mild, 13 games have not changed their position compared to last year, while most that did only moved one or two spots either up or down. A handful of games made a larger drop.
- Unchanged compared to last year: 13 titles
- Largest climb compared to last year: +4 places; SimTower, Macintosh, 1994, #31
- Largest drop compared to last year: -6 places; Multiple titles (3)
- Highest placed dropped game from last year: Super Metroid, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, 1994, #36 (2021)
