The Brag n' Boast Thread

[Aggie Tsubi]

I'm really digging these Turbo/PC Engine-themed collections. I collect a little of everything, new and old, all hardware manufacturers, so I don't have a unifying theme to my collection. At most, I guess someone might assume I like Nintendo and Sony games best looking at my collection since I have more games for their systems than others, plus most of my game-related merchandise seems to be based on games on either Nintendo or Sony systems.

I gotta laugh at all the problems with the wives/girlfriends. My future hubby actually gives ME the hard time for amassing so much game junk, haha. Although he loves games as much as me, but I'm much more of a collector. He doesn't seriously mind, but I have cut down my rate of acquiring stuff a bit in recent years. I've pretty well maxed out the space we have now, short of packing my shelves two rows deep and making them look ugly (which I have started doing to some extent). I dream of someday having my own dedicated game room, while he'll have his own dedicated music studio room.

[bartre]

damn bernie, that's like 3X what i've got!
that said, there's a lot of games there that I would personally never play, what with all the other games in my collection.
damn impressive though!

[turboswimbz]

Bernie, that shelf is beautiful.  And I'm familiar with the lack of screws, it's quite common in furniture building.  Most often serious craftsman would never make it another way.  I wasn't sure about the bags, but I really like it actually after a bit.  gives it pizzazz.

[DarkKobold]

That shelf, I've posted before.  I had a buddy of mine build it for me out of solid maple wood.  He is a cabinet builder, and made it without nails or anything.  Some cut where all the joints kinda snap into position.   : :  Anyway, he will have to build another one soon..

Bernie, your sorting is killing me. Such a great collection, but such a bad sorting. Turbo CDs mixed in with Super CDs mixed in with Hucards mixed in with PCEngine...

[Bernie]

That shelf, I've posted before.  I had a buddy of mine build it for me out of solid maple wood.  He is a cabinet builder, and made it without nails or anything.  Some cut where all the joints kinda snap into position.   : :  Anyway, he will have to build another one soon..

Bernie, your sorting is killing me. Such a great collection, but such a bad sorting. Turbo CDs mixed in with Super CDs mixed in with Hucards mixed in with PCEngine...

lol, I sort alphabetically.  I used to do it by region and format, but ehh..  I like it this way better.   

[DarkKobold]

lol, I sort alphabetically.  I used to do it by region and format, but ehh..  I like it this way better.   

I'm usually not OCD, I just find that sorting method to look so ugly. The end labels are so vastly different.

I prefer my method of sorting. Old TG16, Newer TG16, TGCD, Super CD, PCEngine stuffs.



Just need to get off my lazy duff, and finally get those sparky labels.

[turboswimbz]

interesting organization guys, maybe I'm in the middle somewhere, I got TG16 all alphabetical then PCE stuff alphabetical.

[Sadler]

lol, I sort alphabetically.  I used to do it by region and format, but ehh..  I like it this way better.   

I'm usually not OCD, I just find that sorting method to look so ugly. The end labels are so vastly different.

I prefer my method of sorting. Old TG16, Newer TG16, TGCD, Super CD, PCEngine stuffs.

SNIP

Just need to get off my lazy duff, and finally get those sparky labels.

I'm with Bernie here. I can't read Japanese. If I want to play a game it's way easier for me to locate it if everything is alphabetical. I'll admit it's not as pretty:



Side note, here's the piece of hardware I'm most happy about right now! SuperGrafx with Super CD-ROM and Arcade Card :



Yes, it's dirty. It also kicks lots of ass!

[bartre]

I gotta Side with bernie on the organization.
I can read basic japanese, but anything with kanji screws with me, esp. since sometimes the font is just ridiculously small.
though i do occasionally get asked if they're all games for the same system.

[vestcoat]

I split my U.S. games between CDs and Turbochips and then alphabetize them. It took years of counseling before I could de-segregate my orange spines from the "colored" labels.
 
For PCE, I haven't even bothered to learn the names of some of my games, so I forgo the alphabet completely and break them down by format: CD, SCD, ACD, HU, and SGX. Inside of that, I have some genres like shooters, RPGs, and two-players loosely grouped together.

[Aggie Tsubi]

Gah, the madness of it all, haha. I'm majorly anal about the organization of Turbo/PC Engine games. I can't stand having the colors all mixed up. No matter what the system, I sort US and Japanese releases separately, but I have to take it a step further for my NEC stuff. I only have orange-spined TG-16 releases so far so that's easy enough, but for the Japanese releases, HuCards, CD-ROM, Super CD, and Arcade are all separate and then alphabetized within those groups (alphabetized according to the Roman alphabet, going off however the title should be properly romanized). Big box and normal jewel case PC-FX games also are kept separate, obviously.

[Bernie]

Damnit!!  Now I am feeling the need to reorganize....  ugh...

[Lost Monkey]

Geez, I even group Dreamcast games by the spine colour.  Then by alpha.   It drives me nutz when they change the label styles - like the PS1, ps2, ps3, DC, Genesis, TG16...

[Aggie Tsubi]

I'm the same with Dreamcast, haha. And red case Genesis games are separate from the rest, and PS1 long boxes from jewel cases, of course. It's probably a miracle that as of yet I've tolerated mixing in a few Greatest Hits with my jewel case PS1 games, and the newer style PSP cases are mixed in with the older ones that have the larger black tab on the top of the spine. The inconsistency of the PSP games really bugs me, though, so my organization of them might change in the future. Right now my PSP collection is still dominated by older releases.

[FiftyQuid]

I'm sort of with Bernie, and sort of with DK.  My issue is I can never remember if it's an older TG release, a CD2 or SCD.  So as much as I want to put the same labels together, and the same colours together I can't because I'd never find anything.  I have about 100 games right now so I could probably manage it, but what happens when I get to 200?  My brain would explode trying to find a specific title in less than 5 minutes.  That's 5 minutes I could've been playing the game!

Small collection = sort by colour
Medium collection = sort by colour/name
Large collection = sort by name