Congratulations!!!
its happy & sad day in same time,i hope this will never happened with me.
My backlog grow faster than i play games,so i think i am safe for now:)

in for Retro 4 especially like to try MacVenture Series.

Congratulations!! Definitely worthy of a celebration!

Not in, but color me impressed!

Congratulations! You can call that the Ultimate Achievement!
I envy you.I don't have a big backlog myself, but I'm getting more games than what I finish, so it doesn't seem to end.
Not in btw.

Nicely done on clearing your backlog .... i have so many games in mine

Im in for Be Mine 2 Anniversary

Thanks for the giveaway
+1

Not in, but congratulations. Now is time for more games!

... and meanwhile physics suffers as you while away the hours playing games instead :(

LOL, you're celebrating the defeat of your backlog by trying to increase our backlog :D!!! Love it! Not in though.

Holy crap. 30+ games at the same time?! Kinda hard to get deep into a different genre, I suppose.
Well I'm sure you developed some sort of personal memorization skills or something, 'cause what you do is pretty unique. I'm not in.
But congrats, pal. :)

Congratulations!

I'm sure I will never be able archieve that.

I'll be in for Retro 4 if I may give away the games that I already have / wouldn't play... Which would be everything except Earthworm Jim and TMUaKMoon.

I've been hammering away at my backlog, and it is enormous, but I'm getting there! I'm giving each game my fullest attention and doing reviews for all of them as I go, so it's slow-going, but I really am enjoying myself! ^__^ My current problem is that I've not been feeling well, I'm needing to find a new job, AND I need get everything done that I can at my current workplace before my boss retires ^_^; *sigh*

Congratulations on defeating your backlog, but... What are you going to do now? You don't have any games left to play! *insert mental image of The Scream here*

Not in but thanks for the giveaway Ghorpm, and congrats on beating your backlog which must have been several hundred games. How many did you finish (not counting stuff you finished back in the day)?
I used to think beating the backlog was possible but completely unseen and unheard of among the forum regulars here, well you proved me wrong.

Question: Did you use any walkthroughs and strategy guides for any game, and if yes then which games?

I know you normally refuse to use walkthroughs so your answer is probably no but I'm going to preemptively express my disbelief, not that I don't know you're a highly intelligent scientist but because some games are simply obtuse and no form of intelligence is sufficient to guarantee success. "There is always a way", yes, but one would have to be absolutely persistent to the point of mentally unhealthy obsessive-compulsive levels to persist in some games.
I lose my patience quite quickly, if I don't see any advancement for 2 hours then I quit the game for the moment. Then I try a couple weeks, months or years later to see if I can get any further but if I get stuck again, I quit again. Some games I'm willing to abandon completely, and since you said you never abandon a game I'd like to ask if you are just a terminal OCD nutjob or if you have figured out something that most people haven't. If it's the latter, please share your secret!

I'm stuck in so many games right now that I could use advice. Not the usual crap like "just give it a break and come back with a fresh mind" or "take notes while you play" or stuff like that, I've either figured this out myself or heard it all already and it's not helping me out of some seemingly dead ends. Give me outside wisdom, as in wisdom I haven't already divined myself. Surely, you have something. You're the most abnormal person I know on here in regards to my question so I'm awaiting your reply in positive hope, thanks in advance. There must be something that I can apply, even without first having to increase my brain capacity (tedious). Don't let me down with redundant "normalpersonspeak" advice!

PS: my main grievance is with point & click adventures where it's theoretically impossible to get stuck as you can brute force your way out of many situations by systematically trying everything on everything and everyone, everywhere. That's the same to me as looking up a walkthrough though, so it's kind of cheating in a way. I've gotten into situations where I seemingly tried everything though and still can't advance, and it's quite aggravating because I've played a ton of p&c adventures starting more than a quarter century ago so I'm very familiar with all the dirty tricks these games try to pull, including game mechanic tricks that don't even relate to regular puzzle logic. And yet, I still get stuck.

Congratulations for the achievement and thanks for the generous giveaway! May I be in for both (in order of preference):

1) Be Mine 2 Anniversary
2) Retro 4

My funniest experience with my backlog is with Star Craft: Brood War 1 and A.I.M. 1 I started and played a lot of both games years ago, without any regard of the story and they were nice back then (especially the multiplayer of SC) but recently I decided to play them again, and today I understood the story they present and I liked them even more (and finished them of course :)), so they are not in my backlog :)

Yes, you can do that. I've edited OP and clarified that thing.

There are many games I'll gladly replay so it's actually even better: I was playing a lot of bad and average games during last three years, now I'll choose only the best ones :D

Not in.

But, WOW, that *IS* impressive!
How long did that achievement it take you? And how many hours do you play per day/week?
I don't have half as many games as you, and I don't even know if I'll even *play* them all at least once! :-(

Sure, I can give you an answer but I'm afraid it won't help you much because I think we have different characters ;)

The only reason I play games is that they entertain me. But there are a lot of ways they can achieve that. I love reading interesting stories, unusual settings, beautiful visuals, innovative gameplay mechanics... it's fun. But when I get stuck one more factor appears: a challenge. Then my attitude changes quite drastically: I start to treat a game as an elaborate riddle created by someone for me to solve. Then I try to use my brain to solve this task and in most cases it will. It gives me a lot of pleasure but not without a cost: it's completely immersion-breaking. I immediately stop enjoying story/settings or whatever else. My attitude is very cold then, I have to be above the game to solve it analytically. At that moments I'm not thinking "hmm... action A seems to be a logical solution because it fits nicely to this universe" or anything like that but rather "solution for my problem was created by a human so it can be solved by a human". I'm not thinking what is logical and what's not but I try to think what somebody can come up with. So yeah, it's absolutely immersion-breaking. But it does work in most cases. And it's not as bad as it may seem - sure I lose some fun but I'm still getting it but in another form. I still feel entertained after solving something difficult.

I'm not a masochist though. There are some games I finished with a help of a walkthrough or even cheats. 95% of those games I consider to be bad so I didn't feel entertained by them so I used a shortcut to get them finished fast and I'm not even ashamed of that. I refuse to play anything that do not entertain me and in those cases I don't even get any fun from the challenge factor. There are some exceptions, for example Discworld. I loved this game but I had to use a walkthrough. Why? Because I didn't want to lose all story-related fun as I expected it to be greater than challenge-related fun.

And you have to remember that I'm not a completionist. I only care about being entertained. Let me give you an example: Anna Extended Edition, a game which can be very hard and extremely illogical. I've finished it without a walkthrough and had a blast playing it. Did I get the best ending? No, of course not. Did I learn everything I could from the game? No, of course not. But I don't see myself playing it again because I wouldn't get much fun out of it so I'm satisfied that I've already finished it. Case closed ;)

So yeah, I can assure you that you may solve a lot of problems when you are not immersed in a game, your brain will work so much better then. The question is: is it worth it? For me - yes, I still have a lot of fun. But I would never recommend it to anyone because I think a lot of people value immersion.
Something around three years. But it's hard to say how many hours I play... I really don't know. I guess it would be roughly one-two hours per day on average. But I'll say once again - I'm not a completionist and I don't "test" any game, I'm not trying to fool around and see what's what. I try to get into the main story immediately.