Alright, it's been over for almost a week already, but here's the statistics for my list.
- First, here's the table of platforms and years. This lists all the platforms I own and have and have played games for (hence why some have '0' (favourites) while other consoles are omitted altogether);
| Nintendo | Sony | Others | Decades | ||||
| Nintendo | 3 | Playstation | 3 | Philips Videopac G7000 | 0 | 1970s | 0 |
| Super Nintendo | 2 | Playstation 3 | 2 | Atari 2600 | 0 | 1980s | 1 |
| Nintendo 64 | 6 | Playstation 4 | 0 | 1990s | 26 | ||
| Gamecube | 1 | Playstation Vita | 0 | Windows PC | 17 | 2000s | 20 |
| Wii | 1 | macOS | 6 | 2010s | 3 | ||
| WiiU | 1 | 2020s | 0 | ||||
| Switch | 0 | Mobile | 0 | Franchises (3 games or more) | |||
| GameBoy/Color | 2 | SEGA | The Legend of Zelda | 6 | |||
| GameBoy Advance | 1 | Mega Drive | 0 | Star Wars | 4 | ||
| DS | 1 | Dreamcast | 3 | Mario (*except Yoshi's Island) | 4 | ||
| 3DS | 1 | Sim | 4 | ||||
| Total War | 4 |
In total this makes 19 games (originally) on a Nintendo system, 5 on a PlayStation system and 3 on a SEGA system, alongside the 'others'. With this, Nintendo as a whole wins, however with 17 PC games on my list, PC wins as an individual platform. That platform does however have the advantage of superseding 'generations'. When including the macOS platform, with 6 games, due to both being a personal computer platform, the total for this category rises to 23 games, almost half the list. The console with most favourites is the N64 with 6 games in the list.
The list is heavily centered around the 1990s and 2000s with a total of 46 of 50 games between them. The 1990s win overal with 26 games, among them the #3 and #1 game. Going deeper into this, looking through the list, most of those 90s and 00s games are from the second half and the first half of those decades respectively, an era I'd like to call the Golden Age of Video Games. The single 1980s game is 'Soccer' on NES (the black-box game) at #46.
The Legend of Zelda wins as most featured franchise with 6 games, among which the #1 game. After that there is a 4-way tie, however for the Mario franchise I didn't count 'Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island', which would give Mario a definitive 2nd place finish with 5 games. The order of the franchises in the 4-way tie is by highest game of that franchise in the list. The Star Wars franchise's highest game is at #2, Mario's at #3, Sim's at #8 and Total War's at #24. This means that Total War led as franchise with most entries for most of the list, while the Legend of Zelda franchise only took the lead during the list's Top 10, with it having three entries in the Top 10.
- Next, records for oldest, newest, highest, biggest movement, most games;
- Oldest video game: #46: Soccer, NES, 1987
- Newest video game: #10: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, WiiU, 2017
- Number of newcomers: 0
- Highest newcomer: -
- Number of re-entries: 6
- Highest re-entry: #30: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, PC, 2000
- Biggest climb year-on-year: #17: Call of Duty, PC, 2003 (#27 > #17)
- Biggest drop year-on-year: #32: SimCity 3000, PC, 1999 (#15 > #32)
- Most games of year: 1997, 1998, 1999; 5 games
- Most represented generation: 6th; GameCube, Dreamcast, GameBoy Advance, PC + macOS (releases during 6th console generation); 15 games
- Number of genres: 19
- Most represented genre: Construction simulation, Adventure; 7 games
- Average age of all games: 24 years; 2000.0 (=January 2000)
The list seems quite varied, there are plenty of genres represented and multiple years have an equal amount of games included. However the average age of the list is fairly old. This is because most games are from around the year 2000. There are some big climbs and drops this year. This is probably because this year I used a ranking engine to come up with the list this year. The top 12 or so of the list however stayed true to earlier iterations. There were no newcomers, but due to the ranking engine, there were quite a few games that returned after being absent for the previous year(s). This also meant some early games from the 80s and 70s, that have been included in previous years and were subjectively important to my personal development have now been dropped from the list this year. Overal, the 6th Generation of video games is represented most times in the list, however this is due to including PC and macOS games that were released during the era of the 6th console generation. If these are excluded, the 5th Generation of video games easily wins.
