+jgkspsx Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 This is a subject I started thinking about when I put all my Lynx games in a coin binder and alphabetized them. Presumably the larger systems all have libraries that span the Roman alphabet, but do they really? Also, it would be interesting to know what systems have the lowest alphabetical diversity. Only games released more or less legally publicly on physical media count for this. One-off cartridges or cartridges of ports made without the permission of rights holders don’t count. Official or aftermarket doesn’t matter. The word “The” doesn’t count for this purpose. So the Lynx has (picking a game at random where there is more than one): A.P.B. BattleWheels Chip's Challenge Dracula - The Undead Electrocop Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge Gates of Zendocon Hydra Ishido: The Way of the Stones Joust KLAX Lemmings Ms. Pac-Man Ninja Gaiden Othello* Pinball Jam Qix Rampart S.T.U.N. Runner Todd's Adventures in Slime World Unnamed* Viking Child Warbirds Xybots Yastuna 2: The Space Incident* Zarlor Mercenary It looks like the Jaguar may just fall short, at least until official Qix or Quest 64 ports emerge (Neither Orion Collection nor Ocean Depths seems like a “real” entry for O…) Attack of the Mutant Penguins Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales Club Drive Defender 2000 Evolution: Dino Dudes FlipOut! Gravitic Mines* Hoverstrike I-War JagZombies* Kasumi Ninja Last Strike* Missile Command 3D NBA Jam: Tournament Edition Orion Collection* Power Drive Rally Q? Ruiner Pinball Super Burnout Tempest 2000 Ultra Vortek Val d'Isère Skiing and Snowboarding White Men Can't Jump Yopaz IceStar* Zool 2 The Game Gear squeaks over the line thanks to Ren and Stimpy, the X-Men, the Japanese library (not to mention a numeric title too!) 5 in One Fun Pak Alien Syndrome Berlin no Kabe Cosmic Spacehead Dynamite Headdy The Excellent Dizzy Collection Faceball 2000 Gunstar Heroes Halley Wars Iron Man/X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal James Pond 3: Operation Starfi5h Kishin Douji Zenki The Lucky Dime Caper Starring Donald Duck Magical Puzzle Popils Nomo’s World Series Baseball The Ottifants Popeye Beach Volleyball Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy Rastan Sylvan Tale Tails Adventures Tails' Skypatrol Urban Strike Virtua Fighter Animation Wizard Pinball X-Men: Mojo World Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Horobishi Mono no Gyakushuu Zool The Channel F might be unique in that all of its games’ official titles start with the same letter: V for Videocart * homebrew/indie games 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smith Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Well definitely not the NUON, that much is known. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Saturn does. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 32X is missing a lot, in part because 1/5 of its library starts with S… After Burner Complete Blackthorne Corpse Killer Darxide E? Fahrenheit Golf Magazine: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples (not convinced that this shouldn’t start with 36…) H? I? J? Kolibri L? Metal Head NBA Jam Tournament Edition O? Primal Rage Q? R.B.I. Baseball '95 Shadow Squadron T-MEK U? Virtua Racing Deluxe WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game X? Y? Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Still probably smaller than the percentage of SFC/SNES games that begin with "Super". 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremiahjt Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 9 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said: Still probably smaller than the percentage of SFC/SNES games that begin with "Super". This is neither here nor there, but that MRE Tobasco bottle brings back some memories. I used every bottle I could get my hands on. Sometimes I would save one to use as salad dressing when they supplied us with a hot meal. Anyway back to the alphabet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) Obviously most of the major home computers have physically available games A-Z: C64, Atari 8-bit, ZX Spectrum etc. Actually back in November 2013, I played one game on each starting letter, though I cheated and utilized multiple systems. Edited January 17, 2022 by carlsson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glazball Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) I can confirm these consoles all have A-Z games (considering only US retail, not foreign or homebrew games): Atari 2600 NES SNES Genesis I assume, but haven't checked, that PS1 - PS4 all have A-Z titles, as well as Wii and Switch. Each console has a massive library so it's understandable. Sega Dreamcast is only missing a "Y" game! Edited January 17, 2022 by glazball 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 Now that might be the only major modern console to not not have an A-Z list: the Wii U! Using @MegaManFan’s list: Most letters are covered, with some surprising omissions: 007 Legends Axiom Verge Multiverse Edition Bayonetta 2 (2 discs) Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker DuckTales: Remastered Epic Mickey 2 Funky Barn Game & Wario Hyrule Warriors Injustice: Gods Among Us Just Dance Kirby and the Rainbow Curse Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD Mighty No. 9 NintendoLand O? Pikmin 3 Q? Rodea: The Sky Soldier Splatoon Tank! Tank! Tank! U? The Voice: I Want You The Wonderful 101 Xenoblade Chronicles X Yoshi's Woolly World Zombi U 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, jeremiahjt said: This is neither here nor there, but that MRE Tobasco bottle brings back some memories. I used every bottle I could get my hands on. Sometimes I would save one to use as salad dressing when they supplied us with a hot meal. I was so incredibly hungry in MCT that I used to drink every bottle that I got just to have more stuff in my stomach. That's part of why I keep one sitting on my desk at all times. The other reason is because I found out that they cost taxpayers millions of dollars each year and got rid of them because of that, which I always thought was pretty funny for some reason. Edited January 18, 2022 by Steven Pendleton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I couldn't complete an A to Zed on GameCube either. No Q. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Genesis/MD does (what Nintendon't). SFC/SNES and PC Engine also do. Obviously SuperGrafx does not and neither does Neo Geo, I guess. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 I suppose a console has to have more than 26 games to complete the alphabet, ha. Did the PC FX? I feel confident the Tandy Color Computer did between 1&2 and 3, but they may not count as the same system. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) 11 hours ago, jgkspsx said: I feel confident the Tandy Color Computer did between 1&2 and 3, but they may not count as the same system. There is a listing of games here. While we count 1&2 separate from 3 in the tracker, I'm not sure if the listing below combines them. https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Disks/Games/ Here is a page for the BBC Micro, which also features 0-9 and A-F within commercial releases: https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php?rt_R=on&atoz=%23&sort=b Generally I think many of the major home computers will satisfy this condition, because it was so easy to publish tapes and floppy disk based games compared to the cartridge based consoles which often (post-NES) involved licensing schemes or unauthorized games. Even the slightly more obscure Oric-1/Atmos has a full listing here: https://www.video-games-museum.com/en/sys/97-oric/3/q https://www.oric.org/software/ Edited January 18, 2022 by carlsson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 Plus so many formats - cartridge, tape, and disk for many computers. I wonder what the cartridge distributions alone look like? The Vectrex is close thanks to the massive homebrew library, but not quite there: 3D Narrow Escape Armor Attack Bedlam Cosmic Chasm Dead of Knight* Every Day Is Halloween* Fortress of Narzod Gravitrex Plus* Harmageddon I, Cyborg* J? KnightEx* Logo* Mine Storm NOX* Omega Chase* Polar Rescue Quartz’s Quest* Rip Off Solar Quest Thrust* USA Zombie Apocalypse * Vector Pilot* Web Wars Xmas Cart* Y? Zantis* * homebrew EDIT: It has been pointed out that the Vectrex has YASI (Yet Another Space Invaders) and Jingle Bell Hero (Guitar Hero takeoff with Christmas music) but neither was released so far as I know by itself, and neither was the lead game on the twofer carts they were released on. YASI certainly was meaty enough to deserve its own cart, but Alex Herbert never authorized its release that way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Cartridge games missing per system: Letter E Q U W X Y Z C64 0 0 VIC-20 0 0 0 0 0 0 Atari 8-bit 0 0 1 0 0 TI-99/4A 0 0 0 If you disregard the XE Demo Cartridge with 4 games for the Atari 8-bit, it should get another zero in the X column. (in case anyone wonders how the above table was created, I made a separate HTML page and the cut and pasted the WYSIWYG from the webpage into the editor) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glazball Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Now the next step in this thread should be for everyone to list their favorite games, A-Z, for each console. Here's my Genesis list: Altered Beast Beyond Oasis Castle of Illusion Disney's Aladdin ESWAT Forgotten Worlds Golden Axe (Ghouls N Ghosts a close 2nd, Grind Stormer is damn good too. This one was tough!) Herzog Zwei Insector X Jurassic Park - Rampage Edition King of the Monsters 2 Lightening Force M.U.S.H.A. Nobunaga's Ambition OutRun Phantasy Star II QuackShot Revenge of Shinobi Splatterhouse 2 (another toughie with Shinobi III, Strider, Streets of Rage, etc) Truxton Ultimate Qix Viewpoint Wonder Boy in Monster World X-Men 2: Clone Wars Ys III Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 My favorite A to Zed completions so far were Nintendo DS and PS1. I got some really weird stuff to do it. Zooboomafoo (sp?) for PS1, Zenses (sp?) for DS, whacky games that I don't think anybody wanted except me for this purpose! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 Hey @MegaManFan, I like Zenses!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neogeo1982 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 On 1/17/2022 at 9:11 PM, jgkspsx said: more than 26 games to complete the alphabet, ha. Did the PC FX? As much as you collect and you asked that? Yes it has almost 3X that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 I have historically tried to avoid learning too much about the PC FX. It makes me sad. Looks like it’s missing E, H, I, N, Q, U, X, and Y. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 On 1/19/2022 at 8:16 AM, jgkspsx said: Hey @MegaManFan, I like Zenses!! I'm sure it's good, I just never got 'round to playing it. Once I had a "Z" I tested it and tucked it away. I'll pull it out and give it a go sometime! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Well done on the topic OP! I always thought the Lynx and Jaguar libraries being like this was done on purpose. I mean, you have a pretty limited amount of games, especially with the Jaguar, and yet somehow almost every letter of the alphabet was represented. I don't believe for a second this was just a coincidence, there was some marketing strategy behind it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I'm getting closer on the 3DS games. Just picked up Wreck-It Ralph, Yo-Kai Watch and Zoo Resort! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black_Tiger Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 The PC Engine has all 26 covered. I can't list examples, but you can easily check each letter here: http://pcengine.co.uk/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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