3000 ROMs? How Many Do You Actually Play?

[Skadar]

I'm in the middle of building my cabinet and I spent last night prepping the computer that I will be installing.  I started going through MAMEWah to create my filtered game list.  After essentially keying through 3000+ ROMs I ended up with a list of 125 games.

To be honest I was actually surprised at the length of that list.  I was expecting it to only be about 50 games.  I was pleasantly surprised though... having a real cabinet that plays 100+ solid, classic games (not even counting Daphne and Pinball!) will be awesome.

I can't wait until my control panel arrives!

[Thenasty]

I probably only play about 5 and its all classic and non of those CONTINUE type games so you can finish the game. I like the ones that when its GAME OVER, you start again ie..pacman, galaga, space invader etc...

[M3talhead]

Out of the 5016 roms I have, I've played maybe 10%. You need to remember though, many of those are clones/duplicates that wont get played anyway.

[clanggedin]

I play quite a few on them.. Almost everynight I try and play a game I have never played before. You'd be surprised how many games there are that are really good that no one has ever heard of.

[namedos]

I'm with Nasty...I play five.  With my front end I only load the games I'm interested in so you don't have to page through hundreds or thousands of games.  Based on a hundred or so I tend to play the same five 90% of the time.

[ahmer]

I made a cab including 600 games.All these games are well known such as Neogeo CPS1,2 games. ;)I don't have any more Roms.

[loadman]

I play 86 games, Deleted the rest  of the roms   (mame .79)

Galaga (Fast shoot) played the most by far!

[Bones]

I play quite a few on them.. Almost everynight I try and play a game I have never played before. You'd be surprised how many games there are that are really good that no one has ever heard of.

Yeah I agree. There are literally hundreds of great games I have found that I never knew existed.

My regret is that right from the start I didn't record what I had tried and maybe give it a rating so when creating my games list I wouldn't have to do it all again.....

[Q*Bert_OP]

There's only about 150 roms I actually use...

[AC.]

     I play about 15 initially, and another 25 are on the top of the list.  I also do what many of you do, pick a random game and check it out.  I have found a few good ones by picking them at random.  It is also interesting to see the bad games, and then have a better guess as to why the arcade market dropped off in the 1980s.

[pointdablame]

My favorites list has somewhere around 200 games, only 50 of which gets any amount of "regular" play really.

I'll occasionally pop into the main list and try a random game, but not often.

And really, Galaga/Galaga (fast shoot) probably gets played 50% of the time.