IGN Game Collection Feature

[Sph1nx]

Seems their doing a series on some of the larger collections in their db.
Heres the first.

http://games.ign.com/articles/506/506070p1.html

[Aussie2B]

Pretty cool. That would give me more incentive to list my games on IGN, but considering I have under 500 games, I don't think I'd have much of a chance. You probably need 1000+ for them to take notice.

That guy has questionable tastes, in my opinion, though. :P Altered Beast blows away anything on NES? Haha, yeah right. Even if he mostly had crappy NES games back then, he must have had SOMETHING better than Altered Beast. I also find it funny that the two RPGs he lists on his favorite top 5 games list happen to be two of my most disliked RPGs. :P

[portnoyd]

Man, that is just not an incentive enough to enter my games into their system. I would, I guess, "qualify", but .. meh.

dave

[esquire]

Man, that is just not an incentive enough to enter my games into their system. I would, I guess, "qualify", but .. meh.

dave

I tried using their db and found that too many items were missing, especially in the classic systems like intellivision. I gave up on it after that.

Can someone recommend a good online games library db? Besides IGN, I've looked at fatman games and had the same problem there - too many mistakes, typos and omissions. The only other one I've looked at is GTZ and if I recall, you have to manually type in each and every game in your collection, which can be a pain if you have a larger collection like I do.

[Ed Oscuro]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Sphinx (gonna look at it), but IRT Portnoyd:

Hmm, let's see...I can stick with GameTZ which gives me discounts on games from certain online stores (never use it), or I could hope and pray to be noticed by legions of crazed Mega Man fans reading IGN...um...yay? So yup, I agree with you.

@ Aussie2B:

Never underestimate the power of muscular lycanthropic creatures on men! xD

[swlovinist]

Its gonna take some serious time, but I will represent us and try to "fix"their serious holes in their inventory. I will log all my games and then try to report all the bugs I find. I was gonna do it tonight, but dang. 3500 games(with many not on the lists)is gonna take some sweet time


Its all about the love.................with a double shot of coffee and a game to keep me awake!

[PapaStu]

All the more incentive to get me to complete my IGN list (still have the NES and Gamegear stuff to add, plus a few loose titles here and there)
Im sitting at 1121 (not counting the stuff thats missing) on the site right now. Now all I need to do is get some new pics.

[GaijinPunch]

I gave up on IGN altogether.

[GaijinPunch]

I gave up on IGN altogether.

[Oobgarm]

I set my IGN collection up quite some time ago, back when they first started the whole thing. Yeah, it's missing a few items, but no big deal.

I'm gonna send in some pictures of my stuff, hope I get chosen. I think those display cabinets might help my cause. :D

I also exended an invitation for the featured collector to come join us here at DP.

[chrisbid]

i tried to be diplomatic in my choices for top games. when i wrote it, i couldnt think of any other game in the PSX/N64 era that i spent more time with than FFVII. That era is my least favorite game generation, but i didnt want to sound like a crusty curmudgeon and list a bunch of pre 1990 games. I had already mentioned Panzer Dragoon Saga in another question, so i didnt want to be redundant.

the cool thing was that i had posted pictures of my collection, and listed all the games that were missing from their DB, one of the staffers personally updated all of the games that were missing.

When the Genesis first came out, i loved all of their arcade ports. The NES was anti-arcade, with perversions of arcade games like strider, the first TMNT, all the simpsons games, and others.

though i gave them a link to the blue sky rangers INTV game list, with all of the proper publishers and what not, and it still hasnt been updated. oh well

[swlovinist]

IGN has emailed me to inform me they would like to do a piece on me. I sent them 20 pics, yesterday, I am still inventoring, and am about 1/4 the way through their site

[v1rich]

I sent them this list of SNES games, waited a month, sent it again, waited a month, then sent it to another one of their email addresses and still nothing.

Nobunaga's Ambition Lord of Darkness,
Operation Thunderbolt,
Pinball Fantasies,
Super Noah's Ark 3D,
Mountain Bike Rally Speed Racer,
Hurricanes (US Gold) Soccer,
The Adventures of Kid Kleets,
The Duel: The Test Drive II,
Snow White in Happily Ever After,
Soccer Shootout,
Steel Talons,
Hammerlock Wrestling,
Time Trax,
Casper,
GP-1 Part II,
Fun N' Games

I have all these games and I want it to show up in my collection. That's why I am giving up on IGN. If you are going to do something, why not do it right and actually put all the games in the database. Half.com, Ebay, and Amazon.com have a source for the games, why not IGN?

[Cmosfm]

O_O

This is bullshit, I have more games "catalogued" in my IGN database than this guy so I wonder what there criteria is for picking these people...do they just have some trained monkey pick some guy with a lot of games or something?

Meh, whatever.

[VACRMH]

Can someone recommend a good online games library db? Besides IGN, I've looked at fatman games and had the same problem there - too many mistakes, typos and omissions. The only other one I've looked at is GTZ and if I recall, you have to manually type in each and every game in your collection, which can be a pain if you have a larger collection like I do.

If you're just trying to get your collection online, and have a small amount of space to put up a website, Collectorz.com's game collector program works good and outputs in html.

You pretty much have to type in everything tho :( You do a search for the game in a few databases (Amazon, Moby Games ect) and pick what you want to add.

May take awhile to get everything in, but it's a good way to keep organized as well ;)

[dreamcaster]

I've got 231 games and only 1 is missing from their db (Motor Mash PSX PAL exclusive).

And everytime I've e-mailed them, they've eventually added the missing game to their db.

[portnoyd]

How would you guys like a system akin to dvdprofiler.com, but for games?

dave

[Mr. Smashy]

IGN has been pretty good to me about adding games to their database. I had 4 games that weren't in their list and it only took them one working day to add it in. The IGN database works well enough for me and I'm sure that it'll get better and more complete in time.

[tynstar]

They are missing 8 Genesis games that I own. I sent them an email or two long ago about the missing games and only 2 got but in. Now I send them an email every other day in hopes that the games will be put in. I emailed them on some missing NES and SMS games and those got put in. My total list on there is almost 1100 games.

[wisekrak]

How would you guys like a system akin to dvdprofiler.com, but for games?

dave

The BEST Idea i've heard in a long time. The big problem is, someone has to host the central database. DVD profiler has a community that constantly tweaks and updates it's database on a regular basis. CollectorZ game collector software is the closest thing to DVD Profiler, but no central database where the community can update.

Maybe we could hassle those guys to release a game version of their software???

[Drexel923]

O_O

This is bullshit, I have more games "catalogued" in my IGN database than this guy so I wonder what there criteria is for picking these people...do they just have some trained monkey pick some guy with a lot of games or something?

Meh, whatever.

Because you have to send them some photos of your collection:


Do you have a game collection worth showing off? Whether you have lots of games, a unique way to display your collection, or a small but sweet lineup of rare or highly rated games, set up your collection on IGN (users.ign.com)or GameStats and show it off. The service is free.

Once you're done, send us some photos of your collection at games@ign.com (you can use the same email address to submit game titles not yet in our database) and you might just be the next gamer to find his or her name in this column.

I also tried to email them about adding MBR/SR to the list and didn't get any response. Its not that bad for me since thats the only game I have that isn't there, but I agree the should keep the thing up to date. Maybe chrisbid (if its not too much trouble) should compile a list of our games and email them...they have to listen to the person they showcased, right?

[djbeatmongrel]

How would you guys like a system akin to dvdprofiler.com, but for games?

dave

The BEST Idea i've heard in a long time. The big problem is, someone has to host the central database. DVD profiler has a community that constantly tweaks and updates it's database on a regular basis. CollectorZ game collector software is the closest thing to DVD Profiler, but no central database where the community can update.

Maybe we could hassle those guys to release a game version of their software???

i was thinking there could be something like this on DP with since theres the new searchable database

[Cmosfm]

O_O

This is bullshit, I have more games "catalogued" in my IGN database than this guy so I wonder what there criteria is for picking these people...do they just have some trained monkey pick some guy with a lot of games or something?

Meh, whatever.

Because you have to send them some photos of your collection:


Do you have a game collection worth showing off? Whether you have lots of games, a unique way to display your collection, or a small but sweet lineup of rare or highly rated games, set up your collection on IGN (users.ign.com)or GameStats and show it off. The service is free.

Once you're done, send us some photos of your collection at games@ign.com (you can use the same email address to submit game titles not yet in our database) and you might just be the next gamer to find his or her name in this column.

I also tried to email them about adding MBR/SR to the list and didn't get any response. Its not that bad for me since thats the only game I have that isn't there, but I agree the should keep the thing up to date. Maybe chrisbid (if its not too much trouble) should compile a list of our games and email them...they have to listen to the person they showcased, right?

Oh.

<_<

>_>

My bad?

LOL

[Naiera]

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[PapaStu]

Ive been trying to get a few PSOne games added to the list for almost 2 months. Ive emailed them a few times, and gotten nothing back in response. Im going to get the list finished up this weekend, and going to try and get some pics in, and see what they say. I dont mind a little blurb on me :D

If Anyone can think to get these games added (connections internally allways help) I would love it.

PSOne Games that need to be added
All Star Racing 2 (Mud Duck)
American Pool (Mud Duck)
Extreme Go-Kart Racing (Agetec)
Robo-Pit 2(Mud Duck)

[chrisbid]

i had posted pictures of my collection a month or so ago, and one of the editors came across it, and was impressed with it enough that he thought it would be a good idea to show off collections. I dont frequent IGN as much as i used to (I used to do freelance for them), but i still have a few friends there i keep with.

[esquire]

How would you guys like a system akin to dvdprofiler.com, but for games?

dave

I love DVD profiler. It's the shiznit! Would you have links for developers and publishers like DVD profiler has for the actors? Just kidding. But it would be cool. You can add in cheats/easter eggs just like they do in DVD profiler.

[calthaer]

I'm just not big on announcing what's physically located in my home to the internet at large - especially on places like GameTZ.com where I'll be giving at least some of those people my address. I should get a PO box, I know, but if I don't list what I have then I have less to be concerned about.

We have an alarm system and all, it's just - I don't trust people over the internet. Call me a cynic.

On the topic of accurate online databases: Fatman games may have a lot of typos when it comes to your particular system...I've seen a lot of Apple ][ games on there that are accurate. If something isn't right or is missing, Fatman has an automated form to let you put it in.

Looking for a pre-made, complete inventory system online somewhere is probably a search done in vain at this point, since it's a somewhat new fad to be posting all this online anyways. Just contribute to whatever database you want to use and make it better.