A quick one this. Last night while I ought to be doing more micro-architecture research I was instead reading the Wikipedia article on Beebdroid.
I noticed it had the top 20 played games…and I thought I’d do the same for jsbeeb.
So for the period 1st January 2015 to 16th February 2016, the top 20 disc images loaded from the “Stairway to Hell” archive are:
| Image | Number of loads | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 10OfTheBestGames | 374 | 4.00% |
| Elite | 318 | 3.40% |
| 2002 | 192 | 2.06% |
| Airwolf | 128 | 1.37% |
| 3DPool | 123 | 1.32% |
| Exile | 117 | 1.25% |
| Elite-v1.0_B | 111 | 1.19% |
| 3DBombAlley | 101 | 1.08% |
| Elite-MasterAndTubeEnhanced | 99 | 1.06% |
| Arcadians | 84 | 0.90% |
| ChuckieEgg | 84 | 0.90% |
| 180Darts | 82 | 0.88% |
| Repton | 81 | 0.87% |
| 3DGrandPrix | 78 | 0.83% |
| Frak | 72 | 0.77% |
| 10OfTheBestEducation_B | 72 | 0.77% |
| 3DConvoy | 68 | 0.73% |
| Pacman | 67 | 0.72% |
| CastleQuest | 65 | 0.70% |
| 1984 | 61 | 0.65% |
Interesting, eh? I can only guess “100OfTheBestGames” and “2002” are so popular because they appear near the top of the image picker dialog if you don’t filter it.
For what it’s worth this doesn’t include all the hits to the built-in Elite image. That numbers 8,500 hits over the same period.
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