NAY, your article was so good I've never heard of you before, then I saw your link trying to dig through your work, saw the pic on your site. Well done, sir.

I don't really know if I should support this line of thought now that we have so much that is digitized, thus making physical items true collectors items, or if I'm still soured on people buying multiple copies of a game when it comes out to "collect" them (one needs only look to just about any Blizzard LE release,…

I'm jealous, Ben. Your Goldendoodle is magnificent. I just have a smaller version:

Step 1: Arrange them in a pyramid shape and hit them with a tiny sword.

The only games I care about are the ones that I played as a kid. I don't want all the n64 games, just a dozen or so. Some I have from being a kid, others I have to find because I only borrowed my friends games. Just need 2 or 3 more and I'll be done.

Great read. ^_^

The nice thing about using a spreadsheet is that its fairly trivial to add a script that will look up the value of each game on VGPC and put the info in your sheet. I've done it on mine just to get a general idea of the worth of my collection. The instructions for how to do it are in the gamecollecting reddit.

Is buy games in steam can be called collecting?

I use GCStar to track ny stuff at home. I exported a csv that I generate a webpage from if I want to bask in its glory while away.

I guess this would be the place to brag that about a year ago I picked up a pristine pairing of Suikoden I and II for $20. Huzzah. Thanks Craigslist.

Now, how to make room to display the hundreds of Amiibos that will be coming out over the next year...?

in between hoarder and collector is another group of people who don't want to just give up or throw out games they like. They're called "People who want to keep the games they already own and like."

Very informative read, Geebs Ben! Has made me want to organize my old game stuff a bit better... namely not just shoving it all in a closet.

I never set out to build a collection and I thought I had a pretty awesome one... But that second image up there just made mine look like crap.

Going "garage sale'n" can be one of the most effective forms of game collecting, but it can also be a huge waste of time, energy and gas. If you're going to just wing it and drive around your area, be sure to look for neighborhood/community sales. Look in your local paper or on your local paper's website for listings…

I second the Google Drive collection tracker. I do the same thing. It's really necessary once your collection gets big enough. I know a lot of my collection off the top of my head, but there's a lot I can't keep track of without some help. I used to use VGCollect.com along with the App for it... But the App was…

I prefer to collect games I'll actually play. For instance, I bought Panzer Dragoon Saga and played the shit out of it. It's so good that I feel Final Fantasy XIII tried to copy it and failed. Megaman X4 on the Saturn is also a little pricy in comparison to the PSX version. I bought it new for $180 just to open it and…

Great article! I'm not much of a collector, though my Phantasy Star and Zelda collections are the bee's knees.

I maintain a spreadsheet on google with all of my games for every platform/what games I still want as well. My prize in my collection is the original .hack series, all 4 games, all DVD's, booklets, in original dual cases.

My particular jam is big box PC games/software (especially the weird and obscure stuff). Definitely a space-killer for obvious reasons, and is more or less an endless pursuit due to the sheer volume of stuff out there, especially when you factor in re-releases, collection sets, shareware copies, etc. Of course, that's…