Virtually Overlooked: Virtually Overloaded with year-end stats

By JC Fletcher
For the last Virtually Overlooked column of 2007, we thought that we would take a momentary break from our normal routine of extolling our favorite old games. Instead, we're taking a look back on the year of speculative game-wanting. After the break, you'll find the last year of Virtually Overlooked, including the five special Virtually Overlooked Week features (but not the polls or other ancillary posts) boiled down into a pile of numbers.

To be honest, this survey was inspired by personal curiosity. I wondered just how many games we had covered, and how they broke down. Did I really talk about as many Konami games as it felt like I did? Am I really as obsessed with the Turbografx-16 as I seem? Were the VO columns written by others a lot more popular than mine? (Thankfully, no.) Head past the break for ... you know, numbers and stuff!

Basics:
Columns: 48
Games: 84
Comments: 322
Average comments per post: 6.71
Most-commented post: Journey Escape, 19 comments
Least-commented post: (tie) El Viento, SD Snatcher, 1 comment

By platform:
NES games: 42
Genesis games: 4
Turbografx-16 games: 7
SNES games: 11
N64 games: 5
Neo-Geo games: 1
Games on platforms currently not supported by the VC: 14

By genre:
No way. Too many VO games are uncategorizable. Gargoyle's Quest II is a side-scroller/RPG hybrid, for example. Photograph Boy is a photography-action game. No good stats would come of this.

Victory!
Games that have since been added to the VC, worldwide: 4

Personal quirks:
Castlevania games: 3
Konami games: 8
Technos games: 3 (sort of, River City Ransom EX was a Million game, but Million is made up of ex-Technos staff)
Games that are almost universally regarded as awful, but that we wrote about anyway: 12
Non-games: 1

Thanks for indulging us on a trip through Analyzed Memory Lane. Coming in 2008: more talking about games!

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