While looking for my Top Pickz and Anti-Pickz for this year, I whipped up a little spreadsheet of all the games reviewed this year. Not necessarily the games I played in the year, but for the sake of simplicity any game I published a review or mini-review for. How about some stats?
“Console” games:
- 4 Wii U
- 10 Wii
- 3 Gamecube
- 4 SNES
- 2 NES
- 2 PS3
- 1 PC
- Total: 26
“Handheld” games:
- 5 3DS
- 14 DS
- 2 GBA
- 7 GBC or GB
- 1 Virtual Boy
- 10 iOS
- Total: 39
Fascinating stuff. As for conclusions to draw from this data, well, I played a lot of games, for one. More than one a week even, which is… a little scary. Doesn’t seem right, even. I seem to favour Nintendo platforms. The biggest categories were for generations just past, me “catching up” on slightly older games, since I can get them cheaper.
As the second biggest part of my blog, the number of comics I translated this year: 8. Not too bad. There was a big lull when my translators all gave up basically, and mostly I’ve been translating them myself. I love doing that though. I also finally scraped together the last Nester’s Adventure comic and released the Howard & Nester archive. So a pretty good year for comics, especially with other projects going on: Opentrain is back online and translating, the Metroid Database did the final Episode of Aether and is going strong with the Samus & Joey spin-off, and Tanjou actually made an update about the Rockman Zero manga! Not to mention the Megaman Battle & Chase manhua that other people did. There have been setbacks elsewhere which I needn’t go into here, but hopefully I can get Club Nintendo finished in 2015! (Maybe not N-Gang though.)
Finally, I started getting some questions in my askbox or whatever this year. It’s been great; instead of just rambling about the stuff I’ve been playing, it let me address different topics. Although I confirmed that all questions so far were asked by either my wife or my brother. That’s fine, but when they were anonymous I felt like I was reaching other people in the world. On the other hand, reaching the people I love is good too. So whether you’re related to me or not, send me a question! I appreciate it.
This post turned into more than just stats; think of it as the post wrapping up the year of MiloScat. But there’s more coming; I have more entries in the Top Pickz series to get to. Most importantly though, I want to thank every one of you readers for checking out my thoughts and encouraging me. I’m so glad that anyone would think this blog is worth looking at. Love & peace.