Statistics
What the database holds, counted the way the library explorer counts one collection, but over every game Title Screen has facts on. A game is a title with at least one commercial release; a release is one game on one platform in one market. Prototypes, demos, homebrew, unlicensed releases and add-ons are counted only under release classes.
14% of games came out on more than one platform, and 9% of releases are ports of a game first released elsewhere. The busiest year for new games was 2000 (2,153); for releases, 2008 (4,405). 5,734 identified copies were sold in more than one market as identical bytes. 92% of releases are dated.
New games by year
Games by the year of their first commercial release anywhere. Each column opens that year.
By decade
New games per decade.
By generation
Commercial releases; the note counts games and platforms.
By platform
Commercial releases on each platform; the note is the share of its games found on no other platform.
By market
Commercial releases by the market they were sold in. The 10,001 with no market are mostly arcade sets and the Switch, PS4 and Xbox One lists, whose sources name none; filling them in is open work.
By genre
Games by their main genre.
Genres over the decades
Each column is one decade’s new games with a known genre; a cell is the share in that genre. Darker is a bigger share.
| Genre | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 25% | 20% | 12% | 12% | 7% | 6% |
| Sports | 12% | 13% | 14% | 12% | 7% | 5% |
| Shooter | 33% | 22% | 8% | 6% | 8% | 11% |
| Adventure | <1% | 3% | 6% | 9% | 13% | 16% |
| Role-playing | 3% | 7% | 8% | 11% | 15% | |
| Platformer | <1% | 9% | 8% | 5% | 7% | 9% |
| Puzzle | 3% | 2% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 5% |
| Racing | 9% | 5% | 6% | 6% | 4% | 3% |
| Board, card and tabletop | 3% | 9% | 8% | 4% | 1% | 1% |
| Action-adventure | <1% | 1% | 4% | 11% | 12% | |
| Simulation | 1% | 1% | 4% | 6% | 4% | 5% |
| Fighting | 3% | 2% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 2% |
| Strategy | 2% | 2% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| Educational | 2% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 2% | <1% |
| Music | <1% | 1% | 4% | 3% | 1% | |
| Gambling | 1% | 2% | 3% | 3% | <1% | <1% |
Publishers
The 25 companies with the most commercial releases as publisher.
Developers
The 25 companies with the most commercial releases as developer.
Players
Games by the most players any of their releases allows.
Platforms per game
How many platforms each game came out on.
Most ported
The games released on the most platforms.
| Game | Platforms | Releases | First |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double Dragon | 11 | 29 | 1987 |
| Lemmings | 10 | 26 | 1991 |
| Primal Rage | 10 | 26 | 1994 |
| Doom | 10 | 24 | 1994 |
| Mortal Kombat II | 10 | 20 | 1993 |
| NBA Jam | 9 | 34 | 1993 |
| Prince of Persia | 9 | 32 | 1991 |
| Samurai Shodown | 9 | 25 | 1994 |
| Marvel - Ultimate Alliance | 9 | 22 | 2006 |
| Puyo Pop Fever | 9 | 21 | 2003 |
| Madden NFL 07 | 9 | 17 | 2006 |
| Xeno Crisis | 9 | 17 | 2018 |
| Space Invaders | 9 | 15 | 1978 |
| Dig Dug | 9 | 13 | 1982 |
| The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 8 | 31 | 2005 |
| Terraria | 8 | 28 | 2013 |
| Lego Jurassic World | 8 | 26 | 2015 |
| Earthworm Jim - Special Edition | 8 | 21 | 1994 |
| Theme Park | 8 | 20 | 1995 |
| Micro Machines | 8 | 19 | 1993 |
The oldest games
The earliest dated commercial releases.
| Game | Platform | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Galaxy Game | Arcade | 1971-09 |
| Hockey | Arcade | 1973 |
| Soccer | Arcade | 1973 |
| Volly | Arcade | 1973 |
| Winner | Arcade | 1973 |
| Gran Trak 10/Trak 10/Formula K | Arcade | 1974-03 |
| Clean Sweep | Arcade | 1974-05 |
| Speed Race | Arcade | 1974-11 |
| Tank/Tank Cocktail | Arcade | 1974-11 |
| Baseball | Arcade | 1974 |
Release classes
Every release in the database, 151,493 in all.
Counted from data build 2026.10.08. How complete each fact is, platform by platform: Coverage. Everything here can be recounted from the archive.