Do you keep a record book ?

[LifeGame]

Hello all, i was just wondering which one of you guys and girls keep a record book of your high scores and what games you finished and stuff like that.

I know i do it so i want to see the percentage of the collecting community does the same?

As for me, i just have a book with a couple of pages for each system to write my scores and finished games for each system. How do you guys do it?

Let me know, thats it!

[Haoie]

No, I only keep a simple text file of every game in my collection, and what genre they go in. No hard copies.

[Shrooin]

I keep photos in JPG form of my high scores. ive only got 5 or 6 for Atari 2600 and 2 for Atari 7800

[Steven]

I don't keep high scores (I was never into that) but I do keep a journal of gameplay impressions and acquisitions. I do it all by old fashion pen and paper. It's awesome to have, because it'll be something to truly look back at in awe a couple years from now. I wish I did this with my hardcore Saturn days, but at least I've learned and rectified things.

[thetoxicone]

I used to have a list of high scores for various 2600 games like megamania, kaboom, and circus atari since a bunch of friends and myself would play those often.

[Push Upstairs]

I keep a mental record of the number of times I have beat SMB3.

While I might be off a number or two, I'm 99% sure its over 40 times.

[Nebagram]

I don't keep a huge journal but some achievements I do keep tucked away just in case my memory cards (which is where I have most of my records stored) fail- beating Sonic 3 in one sitting without losing a life, 100%ing GH2 songs etc. It's pretty sparse right now though. :|

[RJ]

I've had an Atari 800XL HS page (actually the last page of its manual, it was pre-lined :)) has been around for 20+ yrs. My highlight is my Gyruss score, 779,080.

I recently started one for the 7800, & began NES & ColecoVision a few months ago. Those are in a plain lined notebook.

I had a Word file going somewhere in this computer...

[XYXZYZ]

I have a gaming notebook I use for passwords, scores and stuff like that. I'll write down scores/dates for games I'm trying to improve upon, but only if it's higher than the last.

[p_b]

When I bought my first brick GameBoy, I did. I had to buy the GameBoy together with my sister, because being very young, we didn't have a lot of pocket money. So I bought a little book, telling my sis that we should write down our highscores and secrets we discovered in games.
Obviously, she never wrote something in it. And I stopped after something like 2 weeks :-)

[Mr. Smashy]

For high scores of Atari games, I just take a Polaroid of the TV and tack it onto the wall.

[shoes23]

I have a whole bunch of those little spiral notebooks for quite a few systems that I keep passwords and high score in. As far as keeping track of which games I have beaten I move all my "finished" games to a seperate area and arrange them by genre (i.e. all my completed PS2 games are on the bottom of my large DVD rack). Sometimes it is almost depressing though just how much of my collection I've played through start to finish. If I were to make a rough estimate it would probably by less than 5%.

[VACRMH]

The program I use to catalog my games has a Completed field, along with date. High Scores I put in the notes field.

[ubikuberalles]

Every once in a while I'll write down my high scores but I have never been consistent about it. Occasionally I'll misplace the notebook (or, in most cases, a loose piece of paper) and I'll have to start over whenever I get interested again. Maybe I should put it on a spreadsheet or something. It'll last longer, methinks.

[Speedy_NES]

I used to keep excel sheets for high scores (and also passwords for levels/stages), as well as keep lists for various other things...but at some point it's just impossible to keep track and maintain all the lists, so now I just mainly keep track of what I buy/sell/trade, and of course my main collection.

[DefaultGen]

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[rbudrick]

I have a list of games I have beaten I have kept since 6th grade. It is over 500 games now (no Game Genie and shit allowed). I write down the name of the game, the system and how long it took me. I still have the original sheets in the same drawer they've always been in.

-Rob

[Steve W]

Back in the day, I used to keep track of some of my better Atari 7800 scores. For example, I sketched out on a piece of typing paper the complete map to Midnight Mutants with item locations, and my best high scores. With some games, I'd keep passwords instead. Always on a piece of paper instead of writing in the instruction manual. After several years, I guess I lost interest in mapping levels and collecting good scores.

[cyberfluxor]

I use to write down notes years ago for games I was playing and methods of beating certain levels, but stopped. Realising there were websites out there with free walkthroughs, tips+hints guides and all sorts of other things it just felt useless, especially since those guides even gave away secrets I never found. Another thing was it became tedious to write down what I just did after every level, or after each sitting.

I've slowly been merging my game collection lists into a spreadsheet and adding new ones I've bought since the last updates. I have a field, like others, that indicates a "beaten" and another for "high scores", then finally comments. I have put serious thought into a journal I'd post on one of my websites after a day of gaming in regards to what I accomplished. Any new high scores or anything would just be updated to my spreadsheet. The positive part of it being posted online is it would push me to not only be a bit more active playing my current games but also give me a good outlet to reflect on what I've completed and the timeframes it took.

[DefaultGen]

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[ozyr]

I've kept a high score file on my computer since around 1980! Converted the file over the years, but still have it!

[CreamSoda]

I've never been much for keeping high scores, but I was just thinking of starting a gaming journal/log. With my progress and impressions. I think this thread has inspired me to do so. Thanks guys.

[Lerxstnj]

Yes, this was important to me back in the Atari 2600 days. I actually had a book for each console (Colecovision, 2600, 5200). Skiing by Activision was probably the most competitive game back then. My dad & brother & I would keep trying to beat each others scores. Ahhh, the memories!

[AMG]

Back in the day I would keep a record of games I've beaten and high scores. I no longer do it though.

[otaku]

I do. I keep track of scores so I can tell if I improve. Also so I don't beat things more than once unless I want to etc. good for bragging rights to

[TurboGenesis]

When I was young in my NES days, I used to keep lists;
I had a 'games played list' and a 'conquered games list'.

These days I log several hi scores to post on another forum but I am sloppy about it :embarrassed: (as I stare at my Zanac Neo score) I really need to get a notebook and keep everything tidy. Loose scrap pieces of paper are not cut it well and gets lost.