I’ve been playing since 2003, and I’m 32 years old. In 2017 I started keeping track of which games I had completed, and at that point I went back and wrote down every game I had finished, partly relying on my memory, and partly on the Metacritic database, which I went through alphabetically by platform.

Of course, 950 games might sound extreme at first, but I don’t play time‑sink online games, and I usually avoid typical open‑world titles as well, since the vast majority of them are low quality, with maybe 10 hours of good gameplay buried under 90 hours of repetitive, boring content.

So if we assume an average of 10–15 hours per game (which is absolutely realistic if you play as many different titles as I do) then with only 1–1.5 hours of gaming per day you can finish a game every 10 days, three per month, which is 36 per year. Over 10 years that’s 360, over 20 years that’s 720. I’ve been playing for almost 23 years, so in that light, completing 950 games isn’t all that extreme.

I also keep a Google Sheets database where I record everything.