How do you catalog your games?

[neorichieb1971]

I've been working on this for some time but only just got round to populating a lot of it due to stuff being in the attic which requires Spiderman antics to get up there.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =575822443


I plan to have a photo gallery in the right hand column at some stage. I've given view access to anyone who wants to view it. I have one for Sega and another for Nintendo. I don't and never had an Xbox. I suppose I could do one for PCB's and MVS.

Let us know what you think..

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Years ago I made a small little program with GUI that maintained a database I could query by various things.
It also allowed for a score table and cheats area per game. But it has long been lost to time.

[BIL]

Nothing glamorous. Three plain textfiles, each roughly organised by platform and generation.

MD [big nuts in your face, ninja fire backshot, super poolboy bros]
SFC [more stuff, etc, etc]
(generation gap)
Saturn [big nuts in your face 64, ninja fire backshot: nazo no creampie, super poolboy bros XVIII]
N64 [blah blah]
(and so on)

blackman.txt01 for stuff I'm interested in getting at some point (or not, pending evaluation!), blackman.txt02 for stuff I'm in the process of acquiring, and blackman.txt03 for stuff I own. The last isn't strictly needed... I've never had trouble remembering what I actually have, and I enjoy keeping my collection relatively lean besides. It's more to have a quick visual reference of how large each console's selection is. PCE's got a bit of filling out to do compared to FC/MD/SFC (only started collecting for it last year), 32X is stalled at a handful exactly as I want it to be.

Never been big on photographic documentation - TBH I've always been more concerned with keeping everything secure and dry. Can currently only provide grainy serial killer-esque photos of my Really Useful Boxes via 2DS, but the important thing is they're waterproof and more than strong enough to stack.

[Sumez]

Using an online database. It's a Danish website, but here's the English version.
Lots of nice filtering options, etcs.

http://www.playright.dk/samler/profil/s ... &locale=en

[Marc]

8 don't, and I have the 9dd wonderful moment of opening a storage box and finding shit I'd forgotten I owned.

[Sinful]

Well in rom form, I every now and then add more games based on categories like these for each console;

- vertical shmups
- horizontal shmups
- vertical/hori shmups
- overhead/free scroll shmups (like Granada)
- bad vertical shmups (usually western dev'ed)
- bad hori shmups (usually western dev'ed)
- etc

- by dev's (Konami, Capacom, etc)

- by genre (like beat 'em ups. And if it's beat up there's a sub folder for strictly 2D plane ones a la Ninja Warrior Again as well)

- colour hack patched

- translation patched

- etc.


This way whatever the mood is, I can just pick a folder and check out my options. It works out really well for me.

[BulletMagnet]

I have an account at backloggery.com, which is mostly intended to keep track of which games you've beaten and which you haven't, but serves my purposes as a general list of what I have, too.

[cj iwakura]

I use backloggery as well.

As for sorting, I alphabetize by system.

[Bloodreign]

I have Backloggery, but rarely update it, and much of my games are not put in there. Instead I keep a text file of everything I own, a HDD crash wiped out my to get text file (I should've moved it to Dropbox like I did for the owned titles before it did). I don't bother updating Backloggery that much, 1,178 games (or at least the last 1,150 or so) would take me forever to fill in.

[evil_ash_xero]

I just use WordPad. I have everything listed, by system. I also have it marked if I have beaten the game or not (separate file).

And obviously, the link in my sig. They're missing some stuff though.

I use the GameFAQs one too.

[Kollision]

Back when I actively kept track of a collection of games across several genres I liked the system and interface of RF Generation.
My page is still up by the way:

http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/col ... Collection

Then I went full shmup and created my own page, which requires very little maintenance since I quit purchasing stuff.

http://www.kollision.biz/games/shmups/glist_shmups.htm

I tried to go for collection completeness on all systems I decided to keep, yet I know some lists might be incomplete (NES, PS).

[Tregard]

I have an excel file which lists every game I own or have played. I started it in a fit of nostalgia where I became curious as to how many games I actually played back in the day, and how many I managed to beat. It then grew to encompass everything I've downloaded or bought which is currently sitting in my backlog. I've rated everything I've played out of 5. It even has a little randomiser formula to choose a game if I'm ever at a loss.

Fun stats:

-In my life to date (34 years) I've played 715 games. My current backlog is 898 games (but then I'm an idiot who still happily plays old games and has added about 100+ NES Sidescrolling Action Miscs to his backlog just because BIL was waxing lyrical about them on these boards). It's enough to give a man a panic attack.

-Of the 715 games I've played, I've successfully completed 230 (32%).

-681 games on the list are PC games. Thanks Humble Bundle!

[Shoryukev]

There was a pretty nice Android app I used to catalog all my games, but unfortunately it stopped working about 3-4 months ago out of the blue after an update. Makes me mad too since it had all sorts of options for wishlists, backlogs, and you could check it off when you beat it and rate games 1-5 stars, etc. Lots of useful stuff.

I'm guessing I'll probably just type everything into excel now.

[ryu]

Is this an annual thread now?

I have my own website similar to mal that I never bothered to advertize.