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hm btw , i dont wanna start a sizing contest or something but https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4648 ... it all depends on wether you add gamejamgames and other stuff i guess but if taken a purely statistical approach i really think by '24 the ZX might give the 64 a run for the money in sheer numbers ... that said, if you stillread and reply i dont check these everyday (i check youtube like never) but i will sometime between this and half september lol (i really dont wannastart a spelling contest i just got curious b/c i know the numbers like on planetemmu run in the 25000 for a c64 or something but thats probably including doubles ... ST/amiga runs closer to 5-6k but the ZX has had a boom in the last decade.

Its like the jag had some 50 or so titles and after they opensourced it now around 300-400 (i think, i wont put my fiver on exact numbers)

But a lot of these ZX releases, just like a lot of the 64 releases are just lightweight afternoon tea coding or jams ...its kind hard to measure "full games only"

right anyway there i went again, take care, see you on another game or something (or if you reply still, no need to i assure you, dont wann hog TND's light by growing a tree over it here)

Sparky-D146 days ago (5 edits) (+1)

I think, that the comments here should mainly be about the game in question (that's why I mentioned the off-topic thing) and not about retro gaming in general etc. :) A quick last word on the numbers. Let's first take a look at the total number of games for the C64 by looking at GameBase64. There are currently around 30.000 games in the current GB64 v19

https://gb64.com/search.php?h=0

You can definitely subtract around 10.000 from that number, because these are only little basic-programs and not really finalized games, but the range of games for the C64 is definitely still very very huge then. I then searched the CSDB for all new games, released for the C64, just in the last 15 years and the search-engine found exactly 1.300 games, released since 2009 and many of them are also really good. You can also subtract some of these, because some games have different versions, but still the result will be over 1.000 new games then, since 2009. I have added this search-result as an image, because it doesn't seem to work, to directly link to the search-results of the CSDB's advanced-search-engine.

I don't know what the Spectrum looks like, but it's hard to imagine, that more new games have been released for it, in the same time. Possible is everything, but i don't think, this will be the case.

But whatever, now it should be about "River Barrage" again, I think. Otherwise Richard maybe will wonder, what this topic is all about here, on the site of his River Barrage game. *lol*

Catham Joker132 days ago

looks like i have an expert groupie on my hands. In all honesty i cant say its just from what i follow since i have a mister (around 9 minths or so now) ... maybe a year. i dont do time very well, it feels like the zx bedroomcoders are definitely on par or pop out more than the c64 in recent years (full games-like)

but yes. Lets call it even hehe see you on a next feed perhaps

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