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Zero to 100: Videogames by the numbers

Rediscover the joy of counting, courtesy of your favorite television games

Words: Brett Elston, GamesRadar US

Numbers. Man, there must be millions of ‘em. Seems like every other game on the shelf has a number in it. Boy, I bet you could count to a hundred using just videogame titles and related items. Let’s see if I’m right:

 

Resident Evil Zero (GC)

Final Fight One (GBA)

Street Fighter II (Arcade)

P.N.03 (GC)

Left 4 Dead (multi)

Space Channel 5 (Dreamcast)

Rainbow Six (PC)

Killer 7 (GC)

Vigilante 8 (PSone)

Wild 9 (PSone)

Final Fantasy X (PS2)

Winning Eleven (multi)

C-12 (PSone)

XIII (multi)

14… mainline Pokemon games

15… Achievement Points for beating any level of Resident Evil 5

TurboGrafx 16

B-17: Fortress in the Sky (DS)

18 Wheeler: Pro American Trucker (Dreamcast)

19… average Metacritic score for Wii’s Balls of Fury

20… years of Nintendo Power

WWE Wrestlemania 21 (Xbox)

Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (PSone)

23… Michael Jordan’s jersey number when he starred in SNESterpiece Chaos in the Windy City (SNES)

Le Mans: 24 hours (multi)

25 to Life (multi)

OMG 26: Our Mini Games (DS)

Su 27 Flanker (PC)

28… million Xbox 360s sold as of 2009, according to Microsoft

29… tracks on the F-Zero X soundtrack

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (multi)

March 31… today, also the release date of Major Minor’s Majestic March (Wii)

32… Helghast symbols in Killzone 2

33… legendary Pokemon

34… age of Jill Valentine (born in “1975”)

35… Shin Megami Tensei games (including spin-offs)

36… Final Fantasy games (excluding the Chocobo series, we think)

Centigrade 37 pinball (also your current temperature)

38… regular enemies in The Legend of Zelda

39… average Prinny height, in inches

40 Winks (PSone)


 
52 Comments
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Cyberninja  - 8 months 1 day ago 
really interesting that they have this many numbers ...first i think
Dr.Mr.Gamer  - 8 months 1 day ago 
cooool
KREATIVEassassin  - 8 months 1 day ago 
I didn't think you could do it. Looks like I was wrong. Wrong as hell, actually.
chrisat928  - 8 months 1 day ago 
I want a new Hitman game damn it!
ELpork  - 8 months 1 day ago 
Wow..... That must have taken for ever.
GamesRadarCarolynGudmundson  - 8 months 1 day ago 
I'd like to make an honorable extra mention of #143 = Snorlax = I love you! Best Pokemon ever.
jamminontha1n2  - 8 months 1 day ago 
i am just wonderin how low long this list took to make. Just consider my mind blown.
John-117  - 8 months 1 day ago 
Now that's a list of things, I say make an official top 100 for every tuesday :P

Great article, very interesting solutions to some of the numbers.
cowsrule  - 8 months 1 day ago 
Now we have to count OVER 9000!!!!! with videogames. (sorry)
lava_lamp  - 8 months 1 day ago 
bet that was a bitch to research
TrevorISme  - 8 months 1 day ago 
Great work Brett! i loved reading it of course and i wasnt that surprised about like every game in history having some number in it but it did impress me
game-thugsta  - 8 months 1 day ago 
much respect on 8, a8, 47, 75, and 92... but SUPER SUPER SUPER props on 29.... (one of my fav games)
HungryBeaver  - 8 months 1 day ago 
man that must've taken a while to find out all that shit
mikeo1229  - 8 months 1 day ago 
Yay! N3 was on there, I heard a while back that there was a sequel announced for it, hope I see some news about it soon.
Romination  - 8 months 1 day ago 
i think there were a few copouts on there...but it's only to be expected. I almost think you just started thinking 'say, these games have numbers...why not?;

that opening was one of the funniest things i've read today.
Unoriginal  - 8 months 1 day ago 
68 was my favorite.
This must have taken some time, good job.
Corsair89  - 8 months 1 day ago 
You guys really dug deep into the archives to find some of these. Well done
sixboxes  - 8 months 1 day ago 
a couple of those were a bit of a stretch, but that list was more awesome than I could've imagined.
ThunderMuffinsMcgee  - 8 months 1 day ago 
Nice! I never realized the numbers in titles before. Good work.
animeman  - 8 months 1 day ago 
@ GamesRadarCarolynGudmundson I love Snorlax too he is awesome but Munchlax is the best.
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