How do you handle multiple games in a set? (Game List Q)

[Jasoco]

I'm trying to figure out how I want to list my games. Mainly the games that are more than one game together.

The way I see it, there's two different kinds.

The first is multiple games on one medium. i.e. the infamous "Super Mario/Duck Hunt". And more recently, the Xbox "JSRF/Sega GT" and "Tetris Worlds/Clone Wars" games. These games are multiple full games on one disc, but set up as separate games. I'm not talking about compilations like Arcade collections and stuff. Those are touted as compilations. I mean actual multi-game things. Hard to explain. But only ones like SMB/DH, the Xbox pack-ins, etc. Not stuff like Midway Arcade, Namco Museum, Pac-Man Collection. (That would get too confusing.)

The second is games that are separate, but come in the same package. Most notably the GTA Double Pack. Both the Xbox and PS2 have these. They're two games. But sold as one in one pack. But two separate games.

Then there's the distant relative of that, like the Sega Saturn "3 FREE GAMES" pack-in that has three separate discs, instructions, but one box/package.

Stuff like those, I'd like to list as separate games. Otherwise my game counts are actually off. If I had GTA III and VC on the same listing, My Xbox game count would be one off. But with the JSRF/Sega GT, I have it on one line currently. But I can't help think how my collection is that much smaller looking list-wise.

I know, it's a silly thing to worry about, but I have to figure out how to handle this.

I've already separated my multi-game packs into separate listings (With notes that they are part of a bundle.) But have not done anything to the multi-game medium versions. (SMB/DH, JSRF/GT.) And am wondering if I should even bother there.

For example, right now my Xbox list has 18 entries, but in reality, it's 19 games. Maybe I should just rethink my game counting routine. Recode my list page to count multiple games as multiple games.

Maybe I should have a "Game Count" and a "Cart/Disc Count". *sigh* LOL

[PapaStu]

Interesting question.
I would either put them under the Variant section for that system, or put it in by Alpha, for the first game listed on the box.
GTA Double Pack, would be listed as that, but in the coment line, there would be a note of Grand Theft Auto 3, and VC. For the GTA Directors Cut (GTA and GTA London;1969) I put it as Directors Cut, and just noted the different games included. I count GTA:DC as 1 game not 2... But thats just how I do it. Unless your in a numbers hunt, I dont think having a count thats short by A game or two is signaling the end of the world.

[Daria]

I count multiple games on one cartridge as 1 game. Mario/Duck Hunt is just that Mario/Duck Hunt. And then if I owned SMB1 I'd list that and the seperate Duck Hunt cartridge seperately. So owning all three cartridges would count as 3 seperate games.

The GTA pack however are two seperate disks, it is possible to own one without the other. I'd probably list them back to back as something like this:

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18. Grand Theft Auto Double pack: GTA III (complete)
19. Grand Theft Auto Double pack: Vice City (complete)
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[Drexel923]

I count multiple games on one cartridge as 1 game. Mario/Duck Hunt is just that Mario/Duck Hunt. And then if I owned SMB1 I'd list that and the seperate Duck Hunt cartridge seperately. So owning all three cartridges would count as 3 seperate games.

The GTA pack however are two seperate disks, it is possible to own one without the other. I'd probably list them back to back as something like this:

XboX
18. Grand Theft Auto Double pack: GTA III (complete)
19. Grand Theft Auto Double pack: Vice City (complete)

I agree with that. If the cart/disc has more than one game on it I still label it as 1 unit. But if they are on seperate discs then they are seperate games. I don't see any other way of doing it really. Imagine if you buy a SMB/DH cart but you also own SMB and DH seperately. Would you then have two listings for each game, that really wouldn't make any sense when you look at a list.

[Jasoco]

I agree with that. If the cart/disc has more than one game on it I still label it as 1 unit. But if they are on seperate discs then they are seperate games. I don't see any other way of doing it really. Imagine if you buy a SMB/DH cart but you also own SMB and DH seperately. Would you then have two listings for each game, that really wouldn't make any sense when you look at a list.That's how I have it. And it makes perfect sense to me. I don't see splitting the hundreds of SMB/DH carts out there into two games. For carts, I guess I agree with the above poster.

Now, does that go the same for the disc games with two games on them? JSRF/GT? I'm tempted to split them. Since I technically do have 19 games. But only 18 disc's. But it is full games on that dual disc.

[Ed Oscuro]

[quote="Drexel923"]I don't see splitting the hundreds of SMB/DH carts out there into two games. For carts, I guess I agree with the above poster.[quote]
Wow, that's almost as good as a NWC championship cartridge! :D Just the other day I saw a Kung Fu cart and three of these SMB/DH carts at the same Goodwill. I'm afraid somebody must've bought them all by now...

For me...everything that comes as a unit stays as a unit. If I get a collection package that has multiple game discs with their own jewel cases (a hypothetical example) then I go by the name of the overall package. Companies always name such things, makes inventory management easier.

[sisko]

1 disc/cart = 1 game.

Zelda Collectors= 1 game
SMW/SMAS = 1 game
GTA Double Pack = 2 games
JSRF/Sega GT = 1 game
FF7 = 1 game (exception to the rule....duh)