The recent shopping extravaganzas that starts right after Thanksgiving makes me wonder about a lot of things... and out of curiosity, how large is your video game (include PC games) collection?

In the past year I sold off most of my collection. I realize I simply won't have time to play most of them, and that I'm simply not interested in holding on to most of them, and they also take up a lot of room! Plus, there have been a number of great compilations released (which I LOVE, and hope more compilations are released), as well as a bunch of virtual titles, so most of my older material has been sold.  Anyway, if people have lists please feel free to post them (I realize some of you probably have LONG lists
Also, do you have any games you'll "never" sell?

cheers,

-avatar!

ps No list from me as of yet, but I'm working on it.

Huge, but manageable. Very little junk to be found and I've gotten rid of plenty...Just have stuff I'm playing, have played or plan to play in the future. Other than 3 Super Famicom carts, which just look cool.

If I were to guestimate:

70-80 NES carts
40+ SNES carts
30+ PS1 games
65 or so "last gen" games (between DC, PS2, GC and Xbox and PS2 having more than half of that load)
12 Neo Geo Pocket Color Games
10 Turbo Duo cards/CD's
30+ Atari 2600/7800 games
10 GBA Carts
13 DS games
10-12 GB/GBC carts
5 PC games

Cheers avatar!  Nice thread, I can't wait to see what games you think were so important to keep in your collection!

Mines is a state of fluctuation, usually between selling US versions and buying Japanese or Hong Kong versions of PlayStation/2 games, since I just don't use the US PS2 much (and am trying to learn Japanese.)  Its right now around ~110 games (split pretty evenly between SNES, N64, PSX, and PS2.)  At one time, when I was buying games randomly off eBay, I had around ~150, but like you said, some of them I just didn't think I would play much (because they weren't great, just decent or o.k.)  I have my list on the VGrebirth ( http://www.vgrebirth.com/community/games.asp?id=csKcsK ), a site I urge any of you to check out, as its a very accurate database for console/handheld games in general (plug ---> http://www.vgrebirth.com/ ).

I don't think I'd sell any of them outright (outside of switching versions), as I've already sold the ones I didn't really feel the need to keep.  So I guess the whole thing is a must keep

PC games?  None, until I pick up some of the YS games.  I used to have Max Payne 2 and the X-Wing games, but I have no idea where they are right now.  And Megarace, any of you remember MegaRace?  The disc is permenently in one of my PC's drives.

IGN collection page:

http://club.ign.com/b/list/custom?&owne … lid=100018

I've got almost 500 games.  I'm proud of it, though it's obviously not like the 2000 (!) games that some people have.  SNES, Genesis, PS1, and NES games make up the largest chunk of my collection.  Since I'm a big SNES fan, I've got 100+ of those, and since I'm a fan of the 16-bit era in general, I've also got like 60+ Genesis games.  I try to stick to noteworthy titles of course, and so I'd like to think that quality is the overriding theme of my collection rather than quantity.

I actually sold off about 20 or so PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube games a few months ago.  Years ago I also sold a good amount of N64 games, which was something I regretted, as I wound up buying back a few of them (and in worse condition than mine had been >_<).

My collection has seriously diminished in recent years, down to just a few favourites I always return to, and a few games I'm determined I'll finish off someday. I really don't have any 'proper' retro stuff anymore in terms of cartridges. My physical collection pretty much starts at the Playstation / Saturn era. The exception being PC games because I kind of discovered PC gaming a couple of years ago and went on a bit of a spree picking up things like Baldur's Gate, Starcraft and Freespace etc. - the highly regarded classics I missed out on due to not paying attention to the PC scene.

My stuff is a mix of European, US and JP versions:

PS1 - 17
PS2 - 21
Xbox - 2 (Guess what these are)
Dreamcast - 6
Saturn - 8
Gamecube - 2
PC - 67 physical, 3 digital download
360 - 8 physical, 11 XBLA

To be honest, most of those PC games I'll never touch again, but they're not worth the effort of selling. Not that they're bad - but even something like the special edition Civilization 2 only is worth about £5. For that I'd rather keep it for the nice book In fact it's a bit of a hassle for me to get rid of anything because most of my stuff is imported - I can't just take it to a shop and trade it in. If I could be bothered to trim out the chaff I'd end up with only the stuff I'll never, ever part with. Which would be:

PS1:

Metal Gear Solid
Resident Evil 2 and 3
Vagrant Story
Final Fantasy 7 and 8
R-Type Delta
Gradius Gaiden

PS2:

Gradius 3, 4 & 5
Final Fantasy 12
Rez
FreQuency
Amplitude

Xbox:

Halo
Halo 2

Dreamcast:

Ikaruga
Soul Calibur
Phantasy Star Online

Saturn:

Twinbee Deluxe Pack
Parodius Deluxe Pack
Gradius Deluxe Pack
Radiant Silvergun
Sega Rally

PC:

Ys I&II Complete
Ys - The Oath In Felghana
Civilization IV
Rise of Nations
Freelancer
Pirates!
The Sims 2
Galactic Civilizations 2
Knights of the Old Republic 1&2
Heroes of Might and Magic 5
Starcraft
Monkey Island 1, 2 and 3
Day of the Tentacle

360:

Virtua Fighter 5

I got some 40-50 PS2 games to sift through, the latest game dating back to...2002?!

I still got stuff left over from 5-6 years ago that I haven't played yet...though, to balance it out, I have finished more recent games, namely what Gust has to offer in the U.S.

I don't count digital games as part of my collection, so here's what I physically have.

GB - 1
GBA - 5
GCN - 8
DS - 7
NES - 3
PS2 - 30
PSP - 5
PSX - 10
SNES - 5
Wii - 3

I went through the same thing a few years ago.  There were a few PC games that I played in my youth but I was never into PC gaming like I was into console gaming.

Since pictures are fun, here are a few that I took of my SNES stuff a year or two ago:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/ … Scarts.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/ … Sboxes.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/ … /Extra.jpg

Hmm, I can't get the image thing to work right, so I'll just make them links.

Er.. let me think :

27 NES games,
I sold my SNES about 7 years ago ,
31 N64 games,
76 GameCube games,
13 Wii games,
49 GBC/GBA games,
26 VC games,

TOTAL : 222 games, in my opinion, NOT ENOUGH.

A couple of years ago I resolved to NEVER sell anymore games in my collection, I broke that promise with Far Cry Vengeance in January. I haven't bought a games mag since

My own collection is but a shadow of its former self.  There were many, many games I realized have been sitting around, either barely played or never finished.  It's these games I knew I would never touch again, so I've either sold them, traded them in, or just gave them away.   

The titles I keep, I keep because I know that I will unequivocally pick them up and play them from time to time.  I won't list every game I currently have, but I will say that the number of titles below each represent about a third of my existing collection for each respective system.  (So, for instance, I've got eight PS2 titles listed, which means I have approximately twenty-four PS2 titles total.)  These just happen to be my absolute faves:

PSOne:
Beatmania (All of them. Eleven, I think?)
Brave Fencer Musashi
Bust A Move
Bust A Move 2: Dance Tengoku Mix
Chocobo Racing
Crash Bandicoot 2
Einhander
Guitar Freaks
Guitar Freaks 2nd Mix
Metal Gear Solid Integral
Point Blank 3
Pop'n Music (Again, all of them.  I believe there were seven.) 
Resident Evil 2
Suikoden
Suikoden 2
Umjammer Lammy
Vib Ribbon

PS2:
Ape Escape 2
Ape Escape 3
Capcom vs SNK 2
Contra Shattered Soldier
Gitaroo Man
Gradius V
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence

Dreamcast:
Grandia 2
Jet Grind Radio
Samba de Amigo
Samba de Amigo ver. 2000
Soul Calibur
Virtua Tennis

GBA:
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Double Dragon Advance
Kururin Paradise
Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Ninja Five-O
Rhythm Tengoku
Super Mario Advance 4: SMB3
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Revival
Wario Ware, Inc.
Wario Ware Twisted!

Gamecube:
Ikaruga
Mega Man X Collection
Soul Calibur 2
Viewtiful Joe
Viewtiful Joe 2

DS:
Bleach: The Blade of Fate
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Contra 4
Elite Beat Agents
Kirby Super Star Ultra
Nanostray
New Super Mario Bros.
Ouendan
Ouendan 2
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Phoenix Wright: Trials And Tribulations
Rhythm Tengoku Gold
Trauma Center: Under The Knife 2

Wii:
Boom Blox
Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition
Super Mario Galaxy

PSP:
DJ Portable MAX
DJ Portable MAX 2
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
Virtua Tennis 3
Parodius Portable

SNES/SFC:
Final Fantasy V (SFC)
Front Mission (SFC)
Seiken Densetsu 3 (SFC)
(This listing is an exception.  These are the only three SNES/SFC titles I currently own -- and I keep them strictly for sentimental reasons.  I don't even have an SNES to play them on anymore.)

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These two are exceptions as well, seeing as how I'm a late adopter, and these are actually all the games I currently own for each.  (And like the Wii, I'm also not counting digital downloaded titles.)

PS3:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Grand Theft Auto 4
LittleBigPlanet
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots

Xbox360
BioShock
Blue Dragon
Dead Rising
Gears of War

Like avatar I spent most of the year selling off most of my games only keeping those I'd play again. It's not that I don't have time to play but it just takes so much for me to get to the point where I want to play a game, even if it's a favorite.

I have more than this as I haven't sold everything I plan on selling yet but here's what I'm definately keeping:

GB: had around 12 games
Tetris

SNES: had around 14 games
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2 (I've been thinking of selling this though)
Super Mario All Stars + SMW
Super Metroid

PS1: had about 50-60 games
Brave Fencer Musashi
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Final Fantasy VII (it may not work though, need to play)
Mega Man Legends
Mega Man Legends 2
Mega Man X4
Metal Gear Solid
SaGa Frontier (I'm fraggin' serious)
Tomb Raider
Resident Evil 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Wild Arms
Wild Arms 2

PS2: had around 18-20 games
Castlevania Curse of Darkness (Not a great game but entertaining enough)

I'd say Wild Arms 1&2 are the ones I'd never get rid off but I pretty confident about keeping all of the above. Also, if the copy of FFVII I have above doesn't work I will not bother tracking down another copy.

Lately, I've just been borrowing games from a friend. He has a lot more money than I do and why bother to buy the games if I beat them (especially RPGs) and then never touch them again.

I'd say I have about 20 PS2 games, 10 Gamecube games, maybe 20 PS1 games and eight SNES games.

My last count revealed I have around 267 games. Most of them are at my home in Holland, some of them are here with me in Japan.

I used to write a blog once, but I grew tired of it. I still regularly update my inventory though:

http://amazingu.blogspot.com/2005/03/quick-update.html

The ones in black are the ones that I bought since I came to Japan in April 2006

I've also got an outdated list up on IGN:

http://club.ign.com/b/list/custom?lid=1 … r=Amazingu

Can't log in anymore for some reason, and changing the password doesn't help either.

And here's some pictures of what I have back home:

http://amazingu.blogspot.com/2005/09/fr … s-cum.html

I used to have an enormous PSX and PS2 collection, but I recently sold a huge amount of them to pay for bills after I broke down and bought the Gundam Wing MSiA's that Bandai recently re-issued.

What I have left:

PSX:

- Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Iron and Blood
- Baroque (Japanese)
- Chrono Cross
- Final Fantasy VII
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Final Fantasy IX
- Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
- Lunar II: Eternal Blue Complete
- Parasite Eve
- Parasite Eve II
- Racing Lagoon (Japanese)
- Suikoden
- Suikoden II
- Vagrant Story
- Xenogears

All of these fall under the "Never Sell" category, as I love them all (the D&D one for entirely different reasons )

PS2:

- Beyond Good and Evil
- Growlanser Generations (the big-assed box set)
- Okami
- Shadow Hearts: From the New World
- Suikoden III
- Suikoden IV
- Suikoden V
- Zone of the Enders (Japanese)

Xbox 360:

- Assassin's Creed
- Beautiful Katamari
- Bioshock
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
- Halo 3 (Collector's Edition)
- Ridge Racer 6

Wii:

- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Super Mario Galaxy

DS:

- Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations
- Pokemon Diamond (Won't give up until my Gardevoir is competition level!)

Also, I own Septerra Core for the PC, which I refuse to sell until I actually beat the game.

NES: 9
GB: 31
SG: 4
SNES: 43
VB: 1
SS: 1
PSX: 87
N64: 34
GBC: 12
DC: 14
PS2: 50
GBA: 49
XB: 11
NGC: 31
DS: 36
PSP: 6
Wii: 12

Total: 431

People really like the PSX here!

PSX was the first console I owned and actually had money of my own to buy games with, so it was pretty special. Plus the cost of games went way down around that time (I remember seeing Street Fighter Alpha 2 for $15 and I had to pinch myself, after the days of $70 incremental SFII "upgrades"), so I ended up accumulating a lot of games around that time, which I could have only dreamed of in the NES/SNES days (where I only got, like, 1-2 games every 2 months and rented the majority or swapped with friends...I only have so many carts now because of Funcoland's dirt-cheap prices for games I rented and liked). But I could probably tack on another 25 PSX games or so that I either traded, ebayed or lent out (and haven't made any effort to get back), since I hadn't learned to control my new-found buying power and probably got a lot of games I shouldn't have.

Honestly, most of my games are still in boxes for when I'm not temporarily staying at my parents' until I land another job.  I'm going to be going through them, weeding out the bad ones or ones I just don't want to play again as I'm moving into my own place, at which point I'll have to count them.  I know the Gamecube has the most, though, with something around 50.  TurboGrafx/PC Engine probably comes in second, DS or PS2 in third.

Question for people who use online lists for their game collections: where is the best place to do it?  I've tried registering a list of my games at several sites, but there are always issues that get in my way.  Primarily it's a matter of allowing for imports - even sites that let me do some Japanese games won't let me add Japanese versions of games that got an English release.  I also have a lot of really obscure games, especially for the PC Engine, where the game just simply isn't in their database at all.

I think the PSX is where the SNES was some years ago.  It's remembered fondly for possessing a lot of great RPGs and a lot of classics in general.  And it's also the console that most gamers of this generation grew up with.  More than that it has the "I'll never forget the first time..." kind of experiences that stay with you.  Experiences like MGS, FFVII, RE2, Silent Hill, and Tomb Raider.  Other consoles have experiences like that too, but the SNES and PSX seem to have a few more than all the rest, and their enduring popularity even during the twilight of their respective generations reflected that.

That's why I consider the SNES to be my all-time favorite console (the SNES was so cool that it came out with stuff like Starfox and Donkey Kong Country to make the PSX wait a little longer) and the PSX to be my second favorite.  Third is the Genesis, fourth is the N64, and fifth is the NES or the PS2.

I guess IGN isn't the answer then, since I don't think I can add both the US and Japanese versions of FZ Senki Axis, aka Final Zone.  It does allow for imports though.  Just maybe not import versions of domestic titles.

Obscure PC Engine games?  Cool.  I don't have a Hu-card converter for the PC Engine Hu-cards.

"Question for people who use online lists for their game collections: where is the best place to do it?  I've tried registering a list of my games at several sites, but there are always issues that get in my way.  Primarily it's a matter of allowing for imports - even sites that let me do some Japanese games won't let me add Japanese versions of games that got an English release."

http://www.vgrebirth.com/ man!    Seriously though, the site is made more for collectors' then the big US news sites.  Variants (different regions, releases) are meticulously listed, and if theres something you don't see but know exists, you're always free to add it.

I don't actually need one these days... my time in Japan afforded me some GREAT PC Engine deals - I picked up a Duo R for about 5000 yen and (this is the best deal EVER) a Core Grafx II for 300 yen because it was "broken."  Except it wasn't really broken... it just had a Famicom power adapter instead of the proper one.  Turns out a friend of mine at the time needed one of those and so he grabbed a used power cord for the PC Engine from a local shop and we swapped. 

Ditto that.  My PSX collection is the largest for both of the above reasons plus the simple fact that the PSX had a pretty long lifespan and a ton of games were released for it.  If I had money back in the NES days I probably would have bought an NES and tons of games for it, but I was just a kid then and my parents wouldn't even let me own a game system during the NES' heyday (I spent a lot of time at friends' houses).

I sold my entire video game collection in the summer of 2005. The new owner is someone I know well and he does what I did with it - leaves it on a shelf and never touches it. All he really did was pay to take up extra shelf space (and he bought a new shelf to hold it all).

I also sold the Wii shortly after buying it. I really tried to like it, but my gaming days are over. I put in my 25 million hours; it's time to retire. Now I just laugh at other people that play games, not because they're playing, but because I don't have to deal with it anymore. It's a relief to know that I am no longer responsible for figuring out video games. (I never really played them; everything is work to me.)

I'm guess-timating what I have for my older systems as I still have them in moving boxes from over two years ago. I haven't had time to build shelves.

DC - 30
PS1 - 53
GC - 26
XBox - 31
360 - 19
PS2 - 45
PSP - 15
PS3 - 3
Neo-Geo - about a dozen
GBA - 3
PC - just the StarCraft and Diablo Battle Chests
Virtual Boy - 4 or 5
Atari Lynx - 3
Genesis - 30-40
Sega CD - about a dozen
Game Gear - 6 or 7
Master System - around 8
JAMMA PCBs - several