{"id":1235,"date":"2025-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2025-04-21T02:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:53:43","slug":"getting-married-wont-stop-me-playing-video-games-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/getting-married-wont-stop-me-playing-video-games-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting married won\u2019t stop me playing video games \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apparently Star Wars Jedi: Survivor didn\u2019t go down very well (EA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader reveals how his plan to play 1,000 different games in one year is going and why nothing, not even getting married, will stop it.<\/p>\n

This is the follow-up to I played 1,000 different video games in 2024 to clear my backlog<\/a>, which GameCentral showed in February. In 2024 I challenged myself to play a thousand different games before the end of the year. I made a poor start to my challenge though, playing just 32 games in January, against a target of 85.<\/p>\n

So, to make any progress I had my work cut out. Also, I only have around an hour a day to play games. Some days there\u2019s other things on and I don\u2019t play anything at all. The amount of time I play each game varies enormously, with the longest being many hours and the shortest only minutes.<\/p>\n

You might think my girlfriend would mind about my challenge, but she has her own challenge to read 50 books a year, all of which have to fit different categories. And she makes this target easily, as she has fewer hobbies than I do.<\/p>\n

February was a good start on catching up though. Making a decision to sell off a load of PlayStation 4 and N64 games helped, and I managed 118 games \u2013 but was still 14 behind overall. But in March I was moving house, and with many boxes of games I needed to hire a storage unit to put them all in.<\/p>\n

There was also a load of other stuff that should have been thrown out years ago to deal with. I was also trying to time things, so I didn\u2019t need essential items after they had been packed up. With plenty of unpacking and ferrying stuff back and forth I had another bad month with 20 fewer games than my target. In April I recovered slightly, but still not enough to catch up.<\/p>\n

The summer was busy with a holiday to Crete, football tournaments, drumming, a camping trip for a friend\u2019s anniversary, new challenges with my business to sort out, several music festivals, trips to the doctor, and even meeting pair of capybaras. As we entered August, I realised I\u2019d still been behind at the end of every month. I felt like a football team who looked to make the play-off places but have slid down the table and now have a relegation battle on their hands.<\/p>\n

With less than a third of the year remaining, I wasn\u2019t making enough progress. But then something else happened that made me take stock. Driving back from a local music festival the day, after my girlfriend\u2019s birthday, I thought \u2018I\u2019m going to ask her to marry me\u2019. And the next month I did.<\/p>\n

I carefully planned a proposal where I hid her name and the words \u2018Will You Marry Me\u2019 into a quiz. And after going down on one knee with a tanzanite ring, she said yes. So the next thing on our agenda would be planning a wedding. Obviously, we would make that our priority. And it made me realise there are more important things to think about than a challenge.<\/p>\n

So did I stop there? Did the wedding planning mean I would miss the target? Or would I make an unlikely catch up? Well, spoiler alert<\/em> there will be a part three to this series of Reader\u2019s Features.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the games I played in the middle third of the year:<\/p>\n

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