2004 Games Report

Summary

• 470 Games played (80 new to me)
  
• 212 Titles
  
• 112 Sessions
  
• Played with 216 different people
  

Last Year's Hits

Two games from last years top games, Amun Re and
RoboRally, didn't get played at all in 2004. Amun Re because of a bit
of burn out and RoboRally because of insufficient opportunity.

Five games got played, but fell out of the top ten. "6 nimmt!" only fell to #18 while Puerto Rico, Attika, Finstere Flure, and Balloon Cup fell more substantially. Most of these fell due to some amount of burnout and will hopefully get picked up again soon.

Three games, Crokinole, Electronic Catchprase and Princes of Florence retained spots in the top ten.

Year to year comparison

If you want to maintain a high rate of playing games and get a healthy amount of sleep, I recommend against having a baby. In every other regard, I highly recommend it.
This years gaming dropped substantially along all axes except number of different people.

Year    Games   New     Diff    Ses     Ppl
1997     ~30
1998    ~100
1999    ~150     63
2000     301    112     141     126     129
2001     712    172     266     175     165
2002     650    161     279     163     241
2003     552    128     272     129     180
2004     470     80     212     112     216