First post, by tincup
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Over the years I've developed a bookkeeping system to organize my PC game spreadsheet in a coherent way.
What I'd like to do is add an additional filter: 'Game Era'. That is, an number of categories - 3 to 5 would seem reasonable to start off with - to rough sort games by approximate technological period.
Until now the only distinction I've made is "Floppy" era, and post-floppy. This leaves almost all games from the mid 90's onward in one huge undifferentiated group, and I'd like to refine this so that an early Glide accellerated game can be distinguised from something of more recent vintage.
2D games should probably coexist side-by-side with 3D in a given category or the whole thing may become too granular to offer a useful broad stroke overview.
So my question to the community is what rule of thumb might work well to sub-divide games of the post mid-90's period? Sort by year? DirectX? Resolution? Some essential CPU/GPU parameter? Whatever system it is, it needs to be simple.
Consider this 4-category grouping:
Floppy era
Early [post-floppy]
Mid
Late [current]
What approach might provide reasonable cut-offs for each group?