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Hi forum, my life goal is to have every physical game that has ever been released, my question is does anyone know how many physical games there are?

Um, yeah. Good luck with that.

With simply the Sony consoles (PSOne to PSP) you are looking at around 10 000 titles, possibly much more.

Add that up with every title that exists on the NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Sega Genisis, Sega Master Drive, Nintendo 64, XBox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Dreamcast, Nintendo Gamecube, Atari Game system Etc.

And then the amount of games that has physical copies on the PC and the older Macintosh machines.

Along with the additional games that'll come out on The current gen consoles and possibly next generation of consoles, not to mention the amount of time, money and effort you'd spend to aquire every single one. Or that some copies are remarkably rare and others may be confined to a set region of the world and never been released abroad.

Then you got a life goal that is utterly impossible to complete.

@Treflis: you quote right it's impossible and you only tipped the iceberg with the consoles he'd have to complete libraries for, we could name them all day.

A more realistic goal would to own every console, or gaming system made.

Or as some collectors do, focus on a single console or two and accumulate titles for those specific ones.

And even that will take a long time and effort.

plot twist: op is actually an eccentric billionaire with an army of buyers / sophisticated thieves placed in countries all over the world and can actually pull it off

@Macutchi: Can I borrow one of those thieves so I can get the copy of Super Marathon on display in Bungie's front lobby?

@suicidesn0wman: i'm sure he wouldn't mind that. just watch out he doesn't make a move for anything in your collection

You ought to sell that idea to Hollywood.

If they seem sort of interested just remind them they made Pixels and your idea can't be worse then that.

Sounds like you'll be collecting houses too.

@Macutchi: m night shalhiman stuff there

Nah, just storage boxes, he wont be able to afford the house to put them in so everything will be boxed in a closet somewhere.

It's impossible, sorry I had to burst your life's dream.

For For 100.000 game boxes? Better be a walk-in closet then. Actually, make it a run-in closet, or better still: a drive-in closet.

Never said he'd store them at his place, most likely his moms basement(hopefully not the garage or he'll have to replace half of them after a nice hot summer).

Hope you have a few hundred warehouses at your disposal as well as spies set up around the world.

Better chance at winning the lottery.

A lot of people on here saying it's impossible but it isn't. There are physical copies of games available all around the world, you just need the time, know-how and finances to buy them all.

So no, it's not impossible, it is however, improbable.

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do you mean x rated games by writing "physical games"???

James Rolfe from Cinemassacre has nearly every NES game, but that's because people send him games to play on his YouTube Channel.

It also depends what you count as a physical release. So for the NES do you just include official Nintendo carts? What about bootleg carts? The Tengen Carts? Some game carts are like $400 or more.

Considering its taken Rolfe nearly 10 years to get ALMOST every NES game, getting every game for every console sounds like too tall of an order.

Plus you're going to need every console to play the games, otherwise you can't test the games to see if they work. Non working games are worthless.

Ok guys. You can stop now. OP is clearly discouraged from trying this impossible task.

Never stop dreaming!

your life goal is pure and noble. But its almost impossible to find physical copies of old games. Especially really rare ones.

I hope someday Gog.com will expand enough to start printing out real copies of games. I'd love to buy games in physical format again... I hate having everything digital, especially if a games really good I want a physical game.

I still dunno what Square-enix was doing when they released Rise of Tombraider on PC. The north american version was all digital, but some other regions got lucky and had physical releases. Not everyone has 40+ gbs of internet to waste on downloading a single game.

Some people mentioned it... but you will need lots of space to store all these games. I only have a handful of games from the late 1980s to now, and even those take up a few shelves of space. Every game in history would take up a warehouse.

@soul_starter: No, its impossible.

There's probably a gajillion games that have been released.

@lilceazer: Wow what a goal you have their my friend..XD...

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