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I have two passions in life.
The first is to take on huge, time-consuming projects with unattainable long term goals like my social networking website which I have been working on for four years. Or my dream of becoming a rock star.
The second: video games.
Now, my second passion has a surprising knack for not helping me work on any of the projects started due to my first passion. So I decided that I would put the two together and create a new huge, time-consuming project with the unattainable long term goal of playing every video game ever created. Mostly. Even the shitty ones.
I understand this goal is impossible to attain in a lifetime not dedicated solely to playing video games, which sadly I cannot do, but thanks to chronogamer, chrontendo, Stallion83, this article and social ineptness, I am willing to try.
Before I begin, there must be some guidelines:
1. No games before the NES. I have no problem with pong machines, Atari 2600, Intellivision, Odyssey, etc. but, I don't feel like tracking down and purchasing all the pre-NES games and systems. Also, they aren't as fun.
2. Video game consoles only. Adding PCs into the mix would add tens of thousands of games and require tracking down hardware to run all of them. No thank you. Although, I might have to take a break to play some of the CRPGs I will be missing.
3. US released, licensed games only.
4. Games that have multiple releases only have to be completed once. I will try and play the game on each system for which it has been released. If there is a significant amount of new content or it is a game I especially enjoy, I might play it over again completely. Obviously, unless there is new content, Greatest Hits and re-releases on the same system will be ignored.
5. Games should be played on original hardware. In extreme cases of rarity and expense, I might have to bend this rule and resort to emulation.
As a secondary goal, I am going to try and play each game until its ending game over screen, final cutscene, credits, etc. Obviously, this won't happen on games that don't have an ending (i.e. sports titles, retro-arcade titles). If a game is unbearably terrible or ridiculously hard (to the point of not being fun or requiring way too much practice) it will probably not be played until it's end.
I will use my Raptr account and my Backloggery account to track game play time, completion, and other statistics as I do this.
At this point, I feel the need to truthfully address the amount of time that this would take someone. There are probably 10,000+ (and counting) games with millions of hours of gameplay that meet the above criteria. This doesn't even begin to address the issue of paying for all of the systems and games that I don't own. And finally, there is the issue of my "real life" which, unfortunately, I care about enough to let get in the way of this monumental goal.
The likelihood of me finishing might be pretty slim, but its more about the chase anyway.
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