SpriteCell

Making charts and graphs of video game data, and archiving video game history.
Mostly on Bluesky now:

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https://t.co/YG24p7hBmS
The Shigeru Miyamoto Archive is up to 597 English language entries, or 640 including any language. More than 150 have been added since its launch.
Leads for new entries are dwindling, but I still have some avenues to explore.

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https://t.co/ZAEnXQLdiH
A study examining the physical and digital prices of 900 games on 4 platforms over the course of 3 years. Find out how often physical is cheaper, which publisher puts their games on sale the most, what days of the year have the most sales, and more.

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There sure have been a lot of re-releases and games released within compilations in recent years, though. To celebrate its 50th anniversary of being a company Konami released three compilations. And then kept releasing more every year. More context in the link.

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https://t.co/IKMgl1vaQn
Here it is, the most comprehensive list of games that Konami has developed or published on the internet. Featuring brief write-ups on dozens of important and interesting games as well as graphs and statistics about how they have changed over time.

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The number of games made by Konami each year has fallen quite a bit compared the early 2000s, even more than you'd expect given the increasing amount of time of it takes to make a game. They've been making a lot fewer mobile games, too. None released in 2025 so far.

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It should only take a couple minutes. I had to link to the image because it's too big to be readable on the Google forms page, but here it is.
I'll reveal who the six are when I get a good number of responses and close the poll.

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Please take this poll comparing how various websites handle video game genres. I've put six of the biggest and most active game databases against each other by comparing what genre they consider 17 different games to be. https://t.co/csu0ePGrrg

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Few consoles release in June but it's not the rarest month.
(These dates are all from Wikipedia. There are many ways to decide which console releases count, this is merely one of them.)

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I looked at every Game Awards to see what kinds of games were most likely to win and then constructed an elaborate scoring system to try to predict the winners this year once the nominees are announced.
https://t.co/TdSKvWNKpG

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I gathered data about 2,449 video game review publications to find out more about how they score games, what country they tend to be from, what platforms or genres they focus on, and how long they were active.
https://t.co/SmeMM3sHbd

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@whats_this_VGM Do you have any information about when this aired or on what channel? I would like to include this in my Shigeru Miyamoto archive.

いつ、どのチャンネルで放送されたかの情報はありますか？ これを宮本茂アーカイブに追加したいと思います。

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I may get it out in May.
There are two other statistical projects I would like to do this year, one is a bit time sensitive so I will prioritize it.
I am also seriously considering getting a https://t.co/k7zX4ElzBV subscription sometime in the year to bolster all three archives.

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In 2024 I released two statistical projects and one infographic on SpriteCell. The Platinum Trophy and Difficulty project has often gotten the most traffic on the site, thanks to people googling things about platinum trophies.

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December was a bad month for me, in part because I lost all the data on my main Windows drive. The project I had been working on for the last few months was completely lost. I have already partially restarted this project once, so restarting from scratch is especially difficult.

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Last one of these: Lionel Kiddie City is offering a free flag and is mermaid headquarters, Sears is selling some NES games for $9.99, Toys "R" Us is pushing Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, and a much later TRU catalog has a short story written by a child.

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The Video Game Catalog and Circular Ad Archive has been updated with a 2024 page and 650+ new images from previous years! 4,460 total images from Toys "R" Us, Best Buy, Sears, and more await you inside. Take a look at what games were advertised and how.
https://t.co/QPq0Y0DiRx

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The Zelda CD-i games being advertised, "The Rayman" for Jaguar with not-final box art, get a free Cabbage Patch Kid or college scholarship with a Coleco purchase, and four systems for sale at Toys "R" Us.