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[Moofers]

Something around 150 but I'm trying to only collect the ones that really meant something to me or just aren't available anywhere else. I don't want a collection so big that I've got walls of games or stacks of boxes and whatnot. I just want every console I ever had and then some of my favorites for each one.

Dreamcast: 5
Jaguar: 4, might buy one more
Genesis/CD/32X: around 30
Saturn: around 10
Vita: around 25
PS1: about a dozen
PS2: 4 or 5
PS3: around 50
PS4: around 30
Wii U: 8
Xbox 360: 5
Xbox One: 2
Xbox: 1

I've got a ton of digital games as well, but I am not that concerned about getting physical copies of most of them. I'm happy to have them and play them, but I enjoy having most of my collection tucked away in the newer console HDDs.

 

[brainpann]

I haven't sat down and counted anything since my Senior year of college (2005) and back then I was at 1500.

With all the consoles that have released since then and me spending 5 years in Japan buying up dozens of games for almost every system, I'd say I'm easily somewhere between 3000-4000 games right now.

Wowza! Nice job.

 

[superNESjoe]

I paired down about 75% of my games when I started my business and bought my house, but I have just shy if 300 left.

 

[Imbarkus]

For those posting numbers, if it doesn't bother you, can you tell us your age? (I'm curious)

I'm 44. My count is definitely the result of lifetime accumulation and does include C-64 disks which I haven't booted in a while which may just be totally blank due to magnetic seepage.

What with disc rot and all, I'll bet a few of us with spreadsheets actually have fewer functional games than are totaled (evil villain laughter).

 

[TGO]

Not too sure
About 130 per generation on Playstation
I'm currently at 60+ on PS4

 

[theecakee]

Around like 150 or 200 now, I've been slowly selling them off though and dropped collecting games trying to go more digital.

Too expensive, takes too much space, and hard to move from place to place. With most I'd probably never played again.

 

[tilomite!]

About 400.

 

[Celine]

The rundown of my physical game collection:

SNES: 9
N64: 18
GC: 20
Wii: 34
WiiU: 9
GB: 2
DS: 29
3DS: 8

WonderSwan: 14

PC Engine: 14

Master System: 5
Saturn: 19

Neo Geo CD: 17
Neo Geo Pocket: 7

PS1: 1
PS2: 5
PSP: 5

Xbox: 5

Atari 2600: 6

Total: 206

 

[SeanC]

My collection is made up mostly of JRPGs across all consoles, I think last count was around 140 or so of those, plus another 60 thereabouts from other genres and games I'm fond of or nostalgic for. So around 200, but mostly JRPGs.

 

[brainpann]

Im 33.

No regrets. ;-)

 

[Rolodzeo]

Last time I checked I had more than 400 physical titles. It's been a while since then, I should count them again soon.

 

[Previous]

Hundreds. Never actually counted them. I don't consider myself a collector though; I buy games I want to play, I just never sell them.

^
I'd estimate I got somewhere around 350. Ranging from N64 era to present, handhelds included.
Except Nintendo platform games, I've started buying games exclusively digital last year. Mostly for space saving reasons.

How the hell do you guys store 1000+ games?

 

[Olengie]

A lot

 

[crpav]

Don't know at this point. Maybe past the 1000 number. Have a large collection that I keep adding to but it's mostly stored under my steps since wife does not what that "crap" out.

 

[1upsuper]

Back when I was actively updating my backloggery account I was at about 600-something. By now I've broken 700 I'm sure, but I don't have an exact number. I don't collect for the sake of it though. Pretty much every game I've bought has been one I've intended to play, though that doesn't mean every single game I own is good. I've got a handful of garbage Famicom games, for example. That's my favorite platform, coincidentally.

 

[SirUltimos]

^
I'd estimate I got somewhere around 350. Ranging from N64 era to present, handhelds included.
Except Nintendo platform games, I've started buying games exclusively digital last year. Mostly for space saving reasons.

How the hell do you guys store 1000+ games?

In my case it's not that hard. Just a room with a bunch of shelving. Games don't take up THAT much room.

Moving is another story, so thank fuck I don't have to move very often.

 

[Tambini]

Probably about 280

 

[MrNelson]

I actually started cataloguing what I have about a week or so ago. I haven't gotten them all yet, but after counting games from this gen and the prior two gens (back to PS2/GCN/Xbox), it came to over 250. My collection goes all the way back to the 2600, so if I had to guess I would say I'm over 500 physical games.

Edit: I'm 24. I never sold my games, so a good chunk of of what I have I've had since I started playing (4 y/o). I really got into it after I turned 19 and got a job, and technically my collection has been split in half since it was both mine and my brother's, so right now I'm slowly replacing things that were his/we decided belonged to him.

 

[BakedTanooki]

381 games.
27 years old.

 

[Az987]

Over 1000. Maybe 1200? I stopped keeping track around 1000 and that was quite a few years ago.

Edit: mine are stored in various cardboard boxes, mostly lol. I should probably invest in some book cases.

 

[AmuroChan]

For those posting numbers, if it doesn't bother you, can you tell us your age? (I'm curious)

34. Part of my collection I inherited from my dad, who started collecting games around the days of the Atari 2600.

 

[brainpann]

^
I'd estimate I got somewhere around 350. Ranging from N64 era to present, handhelds included.
Except Nintendo platform games, I've started buying games exclusively digital last year. Mostly for space saving reasons.

How the hell do you guys store 1000+ games?

This is how we do it, lol.

 

[kamikazekoala]

I'm 34. Started to keep everything I liked from the age of 14... Still sold some SNES titles as a kid

Two months ago I started putting everything in a Excel sheet and I was surprised at the total at the end. I thought I just reached reached 1000 at the end of 2015, but it was a bit more...

Breakdown of my collection:

3DS 103
DreamCast 15
DS 82
Game Boy 35
Game Boy Advance 91
Game Boy Color 9
Game Gear 76
GameCube 58
Mega Drive 18
Nintendo 64 54
Playstation 115
Playstation 2 233
Playstation 3 88
Playstation 4 10
PSP 70
Playstation Vita 25
Saturn 4
Super Nintendo 58
Wii 57
Wii U 35

Total 1236

Now everytime I buy a game, I put it in my list and put it in a PDF so I see it on my smartphone, so I don't buy a duplicate. It never happened till last year, so I don't want it to happen again...

^
I'd estimate I got somewhere around 350. Ranging from N64 era to present, handhelds included.
Except Nintendo platform games, I've started buying games exclusively digital last year. Mostly for space saving reasons.

How the hell do you guys store 1000+ games?

We had a spare room we didn't use for anything. Girlfriend thought I would be nice I had a room to put everything in. But it has and will to stay with that room only. Heard some stuff people who store it everywhere from the livingroom to the bedroom. I myself don't want to go so far. It will not even be necessary, because I'm not going for full sets, only for games I like and have fun with...

 

[Jonneh3003]

Around 1300 physical games the last time I checked, probably around 200 digital but a lot of those are Steam games I've never touched.

 

[Ceallach]

2600 - 9
NES-36
GB/C - 13
Master System - 32
SNES - 344
Genesis - 12
MVS/AES - 55
Saturn- 86
N64 - 21
PsX - 71
Dreamcast- 53
NGPC - 12
GBA - 20
PS2 - 104
XBOX- 72
DS - 114
360 - 210
PS3 - 94
Wii - 87
PSP - 13
3DS - 64
Wii U- 26
PS4 - 16
Xbone - 5

So 1569. Most of which was collected on accident

 

[brainpann]

I'm 34. Started to keep everything I liked from the age of 14... Still sold some SNES titles as a kid

Two months ago I started putting everything in a Excel sheet and I was surprised at the total at the end. I thought I just reached reached 1000 at the end of 2015, but it was a bit more...

Breakdown of my collection:

3DS 103
DreamCast 15
DS 82
Game Boy 35
Game Boy Advance 91
Game Boy Color 9
Game Gear 76
GameCube 58
Mega Drive 18
Nintendo 64 54
Playstation 115
Playstation 2 233
Playstation 3 88
Playstation 4 10
PSP 70
Playstation Vita 25
Saturn 4
Super Nintendo 58
Wii 57
Wii U 35

Total 1236

Now everytime I buy a game, I put it in my list and put it in a PDF so I see it on my smartphone, so I don't buy a duplicate. It never happened till last year, so I don't want it to happen again..

.

This is the way to do it. Even then, Ive accidentally bought a duplicate.

 

[WiiRevolution1]

Note that it would be alot higher if I wasn't so poor lately. From 2014 on lets just day my spare money flatlined, which is why last gen is much higher.

Anywayz I keep tabs on my current gen collection in full, so I'll podt some last gen numbers:

DS: 89 Games
Wii: 50* Games
PS3: 26* Games
*I sadly sold some of these for new games. Especially the Wii online games that don't have online anymore. Hated doing that, but oh well...not sure what the number is now.

Current Gen:

PS4: 4 Games (Still need to add dates.)
1st Game: Watch_Dogs
2nd Game: Skylanders: Swap Force
3rd Game: Infamous: Second Son
4th Game: Life is Strange
5th Game: MegaDimension Neptunia Victory II (Ordered from amazon, hasn't arrived yet.)

WiiU: 12 Games (10 because I sold COD and Lego. :/)

1st Game - 11/18/12: New Super Mario Bros. U - $59.99*
2nd Game - 11/18/12: ZombiU - $59.99*
3rd Game - 11/30/12: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 - $59.99*
4th Game - 03/28/13: Lego City Undercover - $46.98
5th Game - Nintendo Land
6th Game - 08/04/13: Pikmin 3 - $59.99*
7th Game - 08/25/13: New Super Luigi U - $29.99* -
8th Game - 10/04/13: The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD - $59.99*
9th Game - 11/22/13: Super Mario 3D World - $59.99*
10th Game - 05/30/14: Mario Kart 8 - $59.99*
11th Game - 05/29/15: Splatoon - $59.99*
12th Game - 04/06/16: Pokken Tournament - $47.99

PSV: 18 Games (All Complete!)
*Means One (Or as soon as amazon delivered with free shipping.)
**Means that I had as PS+ and got the physical version.

1st Game: Virtue's Last Reward - 12/20/12 (Came with system, already had on 3DS.)
2nd Game: LittleBigPlanet PSVita - 12/21/12
3rd Game: Uncharted: Golden Abyss - 12/24/12
4th Game: Playstation All Stars Battle Royale - 12/27/12
5th Game: Rayman Origins - 06/28/13
6th Game: The Walking Dead - 09/12/13
7th Game: Gravity Rush** - 09/12/13
8th Game: Tearaway - 12/12/13
9th Game: Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - 10/11/14
10th Game: Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - 12/12/14
11th: Persona 4: Golden - 01/09/15
12th: HyperDimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 - 01/22/15
13th: HyperDimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation - 05/07/15
14th: HyperDimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation - 07/09/15
15th: DanganRonpa: Ultra Despair Girls - 09/06/15*
16th: Corpse Party: Blood Drive - 10/20/15*
17th: HyperDimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed - 01/08/16
18th: The Walking Dead: Season Two - 01/08/16

And finally my main system, tho I probably have over 100 more digital only games on it, here is my physical 3DS collection. There is a huge chunk missing that I meed still to try and add. Will try to do that soon!

3DS:
Games marked with a * are from GS and do not inlude tax.

1st Game - 03/27/11: Pilotwings Resort -$39.99*
2nd Game - 03/27/13: Nintendogs + Cats - $39.99*
19th Game - 03/24/13: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - $39.99*
20th Game - 06/28/13:- Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D - $34.99
21st Game - 08/12/13: Mario & Luigi 4: Dream Team - $39.99*
22nd Game - 10/01/13: Monter Hunter 3 Ultimate - $29.99
23rd Game - 11/23/13: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Betwen Worlds - $39.99*
24th Game: Skylanders: Giants - 02/13/14
25th Game: Fire Emblem: Awakening - 07/01/14
26th Game: Skylanders: Swap Force - 07/01/14
27th Game: Shin Megami Tensei IV - 08/05/14
28th Game: Paper Mario: Sticker Star - 08/05/14
29th Game: Kirby's Triple Deluxe - 09/11/14
30th Game: Code Name S.T.E.A.M. - 03/13/15
31st Game: The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes - 11/03/15
32nd Game: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D - 01/23/16
33rd Game: Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest - 02/19/16

I plan to add the follwing games to my collection this year if all goes well:

1: Zero Escape 3 (3DS)
2: Tokyo Mirage Sessions (WiiU)
3: Corpse Party (3DS) (Already have psp digital but must own this ultimate game!)
4: Persona 5 (PS4)
5: Yomari (PSV)
6: Pokemon Moon (3DS)

Being poor sucks when it comes to completely missing games. Just wish games would stay in stock. If I stick with the above games I'll say RIP to The Firefly Diary, Omega Quintet, The first Senran Kagura Vita game (Its already dead.) Bravely Default, Etrian Oddyssey Untold 1, and more. The first two games are barely in stock, but by the time I can afford them they probably won't be. Oh well. I want to stick with mostly 2016 games for the remainder of the year and I want those 2016 games the most so I've made my decision. Just sucks games have to become rare and start going up in price so soon nowadays.

Edit: Want to add estimates of older systems. THESE ARE JUST ESTIMATES: (And after I sold off more games.)
GBA: 50
GBC: 5
GB: 10
GC: 20
N64: 10
SNES: 10
NES: 10

 

[jshackles]

How the hell do you guys store 1000+ games?

I took this photo a few years ago back when I was moving and getting these shelves set up in my new place.

Since then I've filled all of these to the maximum capacity - between the cartridge games (which use universal cases) and the handheld games (which use DS cases) each shelf holds 342 games. For DVD-case sized games, they'll hold 558. I've got a total of three of these, and that's why I've had to slow down some because I've run out of space and have been trying to convince the wife I need a fourth.

 

[psylah]

442 (Not including PS4)

 

[Camwi]

I have around 2,000. I've been meaning to take pictures of my game room for insurance purposes, but I still haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe this thread will put a boot to my ass.

 

[bryt]

Probably over 100.

 

[The42gamer]

I'm 20 years old and I have around 200 games. Not bad considering 1/2 of this collection I've gotten since 2014

Some games aren't shown cause I unfortunately have some DS games without cases

 

[kswiston]

I haven't done a count in a long time. I used to maintain a list on Backloggery, but I gave up on that about 5 years ago when I started getting more titles digitally. For awhile, I was basically 100% digital, but with PS3/360 titles going for clearance prices, and the Canadian dollar driving new digital games up to the ridiculous $79.99 price point, I have started picking up more physical titles again.

Here are ball parks for what I own:

Saturn: 8
Dreamcast: 13
PS1: 25
PS2: 85
PS3: 40?
Xbox: 6
360: 45?
SNES: 15
N64: 8
Gamecube: 18
Wii: 35?
Wii U: 5
GBA: 14
DS: 70?
3DS: 8


So close to 400.


I purged most of my gaming collection in 2001 though, so libraries for any system older than that are largely stuff I had left over or recollected in the late 2000s. Since PSN and Virtual console covered a lot of what I wanted, I never bothered to rebuild my SNES, N64, or PS1 libraries to the extent I would have if digital didn't exist.

I am not a diehard physical collector by any means.

 

[Daniel R]

Around 100-120.

 

[Galdius]

Right now 1789 games but I think I will buy 20-30 games in may. I think I will be able to reach 1900 games at the end of the year.

 

[Koren]

Probably between 1000 and 1500...

Also probably more than half on those in the backlog, but since I'm not fond of 98% of recent offering (I'm mostly enjoying Nintendo stuff and "classic" japanese games, and simpler stuff like puzzle/arcade games are not getting physical releases anymore), I'm really happy I have this backlog.


Since I've bought nearly all of them brand new (beside some retro stuff in mint shape in Japan), that's quite a nice sum of money involved :/

 

[Koren]

How the hell do you guys store 1000+ games?

It's not that bad. A cubic meter contains about 2800 DVD-sized boxes.

I have a 1.95m x 0.8m x 0.45m "low buffet" in my living room, I think I could pack 600 games in *each* of the 3 storage areas (although in fact I only keep GC, PS3, Wii and Wii U there, others are elsewhere in the house). Granted, since it's densely packed, it can be a challenge to reach a GC game


It's tougher to store all the accessories, in fact. I'm pretty sure that, in *volume*, I may have more accessories/hardware than games.

 

[Like the hat?]

I think I might do a spread sheet, especially now that I have excel on my phone.

 

[eXistor]

Last count I did was about 1700, I think I'm at roughly 1800 now.

/edit: When I moved to my own place I had built a gameroom specifically for it all. At my parents place I had it all displayed as well, but it was getting to be kind of a mess at the end. One of the things I wanna do is catalogue it all. I'd prefer a spreadsheet of some sort, but I have zero knowledge of how to actually effectively make one with all the info I want.

/edit2: someone asked: I'm 34.

 

[Psyrgery ES]

Around 100/120 through all my consoles

 

[Krejlooc]

thousands. Last time I counted I had about 2300 physical titles, but that was over a year ago.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Over 500 right now.

I don't collect before PS2/Gamecube/Xbox. I may eventually get into SNES and GBA.

 

[Marty Chinn]

In my case it's not that hard. Just a room with a bunch of shelving. Games don't take up THAT much room.

Moving is another story, so thank fuck I don't have to move very often.

Moving isn't all that hard though since games are uniform and they stack neatly into a box. They're the easiest thing to pack and move.

 

[EVA UNIT 01]

2 mid height bookshelves totaling about 250 games.
Comprised of ps2/ps3/DS/3ds/ps4/360/xbox/wii/wiiU/vita/psp games

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

I haven't updated my collection list in quite awhile, but I'm probably at or nearing 500+ at this point. Of which I have a backlog at least 250+ strong (physical, not digital). Thus my name.

 

[AmaterasuOkami076]

912 at last count. Doesn't take up much room either with good shelving.

 

[Zalman]

Somewhere between 200 and 300 games. I try to keep my collection small by only keeping games I actually like. At the same time, if there's a rerelease, I usually sell the old version (Twilight Princess Wii -> Wii U etc.)

 

[Pancakes R Us]

187. I started keeping a record last year on Google Docs.

 

[DJ_Lae]

I need to do a proper inventory at some point - I did years ago and then got lazy.

I did buy a proper set of media shelves the other month, and proceeded to do a better job of organizing my games than in the bookshelves I was using before.

The shelves I bought fit 720 blurays or 405 DVDs, although I tweaked it a little to also hold DS/3DS cases. I fit it without any problems at all, so that's over 400 games just in those shelves, and I still have my Gamecube/PS2/Xbox stuff in boxes, so it would probably jump up to 500-600 without much trouble.

It's a little frightening.

 

[witchedwiz]

Considering storage and all i'd say over 1000 (doubt i reach 1500)...
Much more if we considerato digital too..