# Which game has the most ports and re-releases? **URL:** https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/which-game-has-the-most-ports-and-re-releases/3056 **Category:** Video Games **Created:** [March 24, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/which-game-has-the-most-ports-and-re-releases/3056 "2025-03-24T08:12:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![matt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/matt/32/13124_2.png) [@matt](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/matt) #### Post date: [March 24, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/which-game-has-the-most-ports-and-re-releases/3056/2 "2025-03-24T11:36:49Z")
Semantics… Are we counting ports or host platforms (some of which received the same emulated version)? For me ports are unique. Back in the day games were remade from scratch for different platforms, which is not a port. These days we tend to get emulated versions of the original, also not a port. Figuring out if a release is a port or not requires some level of investigation and comparison with the original. We went down this bumpy road a while back: > [@Game with the Most Individual Ports](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/game-with-the-most-individual-ports/2721): > > Per Tracy Poff at Mobygames, who posted a list in 2017 of presumably the games which had the most ports throughout the years. I was interested to see if anyone here would be inclined to come up with better suggestions of what the most ported game might really be, since I know it can get tricky deciding what counts as a port and what doesn’t at times: game\_title count Pac-Man 38 Dig Dug 34 Frogger 33 Tristam Island 31 Lode Runner 29 Ms. Pac-Man 28 Xevious 26 Altered Beast 2… and [Games with the most individual bespoke versions](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/games-with-the-most-individual-bespoke-versions/3022) --- _[View the full topic](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/which-game-has-the-most-ports-and-re-releases/3056)._