For you guys with a moderately large collection, if you have a favorite game like Final Fantasy, do you keep those in a sub groupe or with their perspective console games?
For you guys with a moderately large collection, if you have a favorite game like Final Fantasy, do you keep those in a sub groupe or with their perspective console games?
I wouldn't call my collection even remotely near "moderately large," but I do have a large section dedicated to my King's Field collection.
And I'd probably do something similar(albeit in a smaller fashion) with other favorites as well if I had the space. :P
For me it's Resident Evil, launch titles, and pack-ins.
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I mostly keep them keep them sorted by console but I do have keep all of my boxed games together as its own section. I don't exactly have a big collection though. NEED TO BUY MORE!!!
Most of my collection is organized by console and such, except for GBA games which are just in a big bag.
The only exceptions would really be my Popful Mail collection which has its own shelf above my CD games, and my Working Designs collection with variants/promos/bonuses/etc which has it's own bookshelf since it's rather large.
I use to collect wrestling games, both US and Japanese import titles. But all titles stay grouped with their respective system.
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All my games are sorted lexicographically by console and region. Parsing out any individual series, even my favorite ones, would wreak havoc on my OCD.
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My collection has 35 systems and over 4,000 games, and they are all organized according to system.
What is moderately large? I'd think 4k+ is super large. Anyway, mine's a fraction of sloans, and I too keep everything separated by consoles and then alphabetical, except for series where the title is a bit off (e.g. Legend of Zelda v. Zelda II).
No idea how you define "moderately large", but I organize my games by console, alphabetically, sometimes further broken down by different packaging types (PlayStation longboxes together, jewel cases elsewhere). But I do have specific collecting goals. I don't think collecting is nearly as much fun without particular niches that you're passionate about. One really big one for me is that I collect anything and everything related to games developed by tri-Ace.
Only reason I said moderately large is because it would have to be a good size to even have sub sections right?
I'd say over 300 is getting into big enough for categories. I'm right at that mark, and my whole collection is just mess. I keep the games I received for Christmas as a kid up on a shelf, the rest are just wherever.
Alphabetically by console with only big, stupid boxes like Point Blank and Donka Konga out on their own. Too hard for me to find anything otherwise.
I use to do something like this, I had all my Resident Evil and Working Designs games on display but as shelf space became more of a commodity as my collection became larger I was forced to take the displays down and go with the rows of side by side games. I still collect more for sub categories over just going for a complete set for a particular system but it's now all separated by system and not the sub category itself.
I would think the style of sub category your thinking of would happen more in smaller collections unless you just had a ton of room for a larger collection.