bbagnall
06-26-2004, 11:07 PM
I've always been a little sad the C64 died off as a computer of active game development, but then something occurred to me.
There are 15,800 games according to Gamebase. If you played each one of those games for 10 minutes each, that's 109 days of straight play with no sleep or meals or bathroom breaks. At 1 hour per day, or 6 games per day, that's over 7 years of play, if you didn't take any weekends or holidays off. In other words, you will probably never play every single c64 game in your life. You definitely could not complete every c64 game, not in 10 lifetimes. It just ain't possible.
So if you somehow took only the good games (and I keep finding good ones I've never heard of like Exile) you might be able to complete just the good ones before you die. Right now I'm working through Legacy of Ancients and having an amazing time. I can't stop playing it once I get going (can't say the same for Deus Ex II, despite considering it a great game). Upcoming C64 games include Mars Saga, Dan Dare, Shogun, Neuromancer, Legend of Blacksilver, and on and on and on.
There are always worthy unplayed games to move on to after completing a game. So basically what it boils down to is, the situation is exactly the same as if new games were being made for it every day. The C64 will never die in my opinion.
There are 15,800 games according to Gamebase. If you played each one of those games for 10 minutes each, that's 109 days of straight play with no sleep or meals or bathroom breaks. At 1 hour per day, or 6 games per day, that's over 7 years of play, if you didn't take any weekends or holidays off. In other words, you will probably never play every single c64 game in your life. You definitely could not complete every c64 game, not in 10 lifetimes. It just ain't possible.
So if you somehow took only the good games (and I keep finding good ones I've never heard of like Exile) you might be able to complete just the good ones before you die. Right now I'm working through Legacy of Ancients and having an amazing time. I can't stop playing it once I get going (can't say the same for Deus Ex II, despite considering it a great game). Upcoming C64 games include Mars Saga, Dan Dare, Shogun, Neuromancer, Legend of Blacksilver, and on and on and on.
There are always worthy unplayed games to move on to after completing a game. So basically what it boils down to is, the situation is exactly the same as if new games were being made for it every day. The C64 will never die in my opinion.