Author Topic: Amount of available soft (Read 965 times)

Tatsujin · « **on:** September 05, 2006, 02:54:09 PM »

does anybody know the exactly piece of games which were released on the japanese market cuts into the different media (Hucard, S-Hucard, CD, SCD, ACD), excluisvely demos (hibaihin, taikenban) and unofficial softs etc.

even i try to count the entire entries on pcecp it is hard to get an exactly result.

not an easy task though

esteban · « **Reply #1 on:** September 05, 2006, 02:58:59 PM »

As I understand it, you are looking for the raw tallies for each category? Share the numbers you came up with, even if you think they might be wrong, so we have something to reference.

Keranu · « **Reply #2 on:** September 05, 2006, 05:56:42 PM »

Agreed.

Tatsujin · « **Reply #3 on:** September 05, 2006, 06:46:16 PM »

OK will do it to morrow. unfortunately i can't log into the forum via my pc at home. do someone know why? is there a IP restriction per log in?

Joe Redifer · « **Reply #4 on:** September 05, 2006, 06:56:57 PM »

Perhaps your computer at home has the CAPS LOCK perpetually on or something. I hate it when I check the box that says "Keep me signed in" yet I have to sign in almost every single time, even on the same computer and browser (Firefox). Something is definitely broken.

Tatsujin · « **Reply #5 on:** September 05, 2006, 07:43:07 PM »

nope, sorry must be to an other reason

Kaminari · « **Reply #6 on:** September 05, 2006, 08:32:18 PM »

There were more than six millions PC Engine (all models) sold in Japan. Cross that with the average number of copies for an average game, let's say 50000... You do the math

Tatsujin · « **Reply #7 on:** September 05, 2006, 08:51:01 PM »

sorry, only want to know the amount of games (soft). as i'm informed, it's somewhere around 1000different titles.

akamichi · « **Reply #8 on:** September 06, 2006, 04:12:03 AM »

I don't have exact numbers, but there were roughly 650-700 officially released titles. This doesn't include demos, unofficial titles, samples, prototypes, etc.

Anyway, I'd say there's probably 800 or so unique titles if you count those demos and stuff.

If you want a separate breakdown on the number of HuCards, CDs, SCDs, etc, I could go through some of the magazines I have for an accurate count. Going from memory I think it's something like:
Hucard: 44%
CD: 15%
SCD: 38%
ACD: 3%

Of course those aren't exact, but I think it's pretty close. IIRC, there was a list of games on one of the Japanese PCE sites that had the numbers, but I can't find it right now.

bt · « **Reply #9 on:** September 06, 2006, 07:24:31 AM »

Here are the breakdown numbers from my personal collection.

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                HuCard  ( PCE / SG )     CD  (  CD / SCD / ACD )    Sum
   American         90  (  90 /  - )     51  (  24 /  27 /   - )    141
   Japanese        302  ( 295 /  7 )    437  ( 120 / 303 /  14 )    739

   TOTALS:         392  ( 385 /  7 )    488  ( 144 / 330 /  14 )    880

I do not have a break down of demos, samples and mooks (etc) from within those numbers (and those numbers also do not include bootlegs, beta versions, etc).

Black Tiger · « **Reply #10 on:** September 06, 2006, 08:04:26 AM »

Quote from: "bt"

Here are the breakdown numbers from my personal collection.
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HuCard ( PCE / SG ) CD ( CD / SCD / ACD ) Sum American 90 ( 90 / - ) 51 ( 24 / 27 / - ) 141 Japanese 302 ( 295 / 7 ) 437 ( 120 / 303 / 14 ) 739 TOTALS: 392 ( 385 / 7 ) 488 ( 144 / 330 / 14 ) 880

I do not have a break down of demos, samples and mooks (etc) from within those numbers (and those numbers also do not include bootlegs, beta versions, etc).

There aren't that many demos and bootlegs(also depends on anyone's definition of a bootleg), so that's a very accurate number.

Anyone have any rough numbers of how many games wre released for any other consoles?

Keranu · « **Reply #11 on:** September 06, 2006, 09:56:09 AM »

Thanks a lot for the lists, Akamichi and BT. I don't know if they are exactly correct or not, but that definitely gives a good idea of how many games for each format. I was always curious by this as well. I also always imagined that the SCD format had the most titles.

Kaminari · « **Reply #12 on:** September 06, 2006, 07:22:58 PM »

By 1997, the 16-bit Japanese market approximately looked like this:

550 games on the Mega Drive (cart, MCD, 32X)
660 games on the PC Engine (Hu, CD, SCD, ACD)
1400 games on the Super Famicom

Those are round numbers which don't include taikenbans or mooks.

bt · « **Reply #13 on:** September 07, 2006, 01:15:58 AM »

Quote from: "Black_Tiger"

There aren't that many demos and bootlegs(also depends on anyone's definition of a bootleg), so that's a very accurate number.

There might be more than you think...

There are the Special HuCards (Gunhed Caravan, Soldier Blade Caravan, BMan 93, Final Soldier Caravan, Power League Gold, Bonk 3, Youkai Dochuki Gold, Darius Alpha)

and several "commercial demos" (Faceball, FEoE-SCD, Hudson RPG, Psychic Detective 3, Laplace No Ma, Bman 94)

and some store demos (DUO DEMO 1, DUO DEMO 2, PCE 4 game instore demo, Emerald Dragon, Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor-Griffon, Mad Stalker, Mamano Hunter Youko Tooki Yobigoe, Startling Odyssey, World Heroes 2)

And Mook Versions (Emerald Dragon, Anearth Fantasy Story, Kabuki Den, Lodoss Tousenki SCD, Xanadu).

The PCEngine Hyper Catalogs, and PCEngine Fan Specials, and DEVELO starter kits.

And the "unofficial commercial games" (the 3 "Excite Software" discs, the MindRec titles, the Games Express titles, etc).

Those are the ones that I know of -- most are included in those numbers, but not all.

Keranu · « **Reply #14 on:** September 07, 2006, 12:06:34 PM »

Quote from: "bt"

There are the Special HuCards (Gunhed Caravan, Soldier Blade Caravan, BMan 93, Final Soldier Caravan, Power League Gold, Bonk 3, Youkai Dochuki Gold, Darius Alpha)

Youkai Dochuki Gold!?!? I never even heard of that, do you have any pics of that? Too awesome!