Are You A Video Game Hoarder?

28 responses to “Are You A Video Game Hoarder?”

1. 

   Chuloopa

   January 5, 2011 at 10:04 am

   I have something like 70 360 games ALONE… so if he feels like a hoarder, what does that make me?

   I LOVE hard copies – i consider myself a collector – i take extreme pride in my collection.
   I have an entire bookcase full of games, and not all of them even fit in it.
   I love hearing people exclaim “holy shit!” when i open the doors to reveal my collection.

   There’s also the security i feel in the fact that if i ever get into some serious financial trouble, it would sell for a pretty penny… although it would take a damn lot to part me with my collection.. a damn damn lot..

   Digital Distribution may be cheap – but damn, there is nothing like the feeling of a shelf full of games!

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2. 

   elvis

   January 5, 2011 at 10:05 am

   “my wife tells me now she is totally disgusted to see how much money is sitting on top of the shelf”

   I loathe comments like these. Everyone has their hobbies. If your wife doesn’t like how much money you spend on video games, ask yourself (and her) how much money she spends on shoes/clothes/hair/whatever.

   My wife fully supports my hobbies, and encourages me to spend money on myself if it brings me happiness. Likewise, I fully support her hobbies and feel the same way about her spending money if it means she is happy.

   Anyone who is angered by their partner’s hobbies needs to step back and take a good look at why they’re in a relationship with someone if they’re truly angered by something as trivial as a hobby.

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   1. 

      Sam Ridyard

      January 5, 2011 at 10:34 am

      Relationships have to be based on mutual satisfaction though, if my living room is filthy and filled with useless crap that no one uses, so is my wife’s.
      It is too selfish for me to say to my wife, “take it or leave it” when most video games (in my experience) are never played once they have been completed. For me, it would be a bit like holding on to the action figures I played with when I was a kid.

      I used to hold pretty tightly on my games, but realised in the last few years that they are just taking up room unnecessarily, and for my wifes and my own sanity I have jettisoned absolutely everything bar the games I’m currently playing, and once I’m done, they get traded or sold immediately. The same thing is also being done with my comics collection, though it’s a little harder to get trade value on shitty 90’s X-men back issues.

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   2. 

      Chuloopa

      January 5, 2011 at 10:51 am

      What he said, also 🙂

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   3. 

      APK31

      January 6, 2011 at 10:34 pm

      I totally agree with elvis. I think if buying games is well within your budget then, by all means, buy games. If it’s not, then don’t buy games. It’s pretty simple.

      If you can afford games without having to make sacrifices on anything else, then there shouldn’t be a reason why a wife/girlfriend or husband/boyfriend – take your friggen pick – should complain about it, especially if it’s just because ‘it’s there and they can see it’.

      And, Sam Ridyard, if you have to end up trading or selling all the games you have played to keep your wife happy, then you just end up throwing money away. I mean c’mon – you buy a game for about $100 and then trade it in less than a month later for what, like, $50? Sounds like an awesome deal to me. I’d rather keep the games, even if it’s another year or two before I pick it up again.

      Why are we even talking about this anyhow? If the problem is that your partner can see it and is complaining about it, then put them all in a box and store it away somewhere. Surely there won’t be a problem keeping your stuff in the back of a cupboard that barely sees the light of day?

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3. 

   Daniel

   January 5, 2011 at 10:22 am

   Thankfully my girlfriend OWNS half of our collection, which is sitting around the 2 or 3 hundred mark of old and new consoles and games.

   I have no problem with it as long as you keep it neat and tidy, and don’t buy games simply because you want it as collection padding, especially if you don’t have the money to buy them.

   As someone said, everyone has their hobbies.

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4. 

   Jim Neale

   January 5, 2011 at 10:34 am

   Um… I see no problem at all with the games you have on your shelf. You are a grown man and have a hobby, embrace it.
   I’m 18 years old and have (I just counted) 189 games in a bookshelf under my tv in my bedroom. All mine, purchased for me as gifts over 11 years or bought myself. I take pride in my collection and never sell any of my physical games

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5. 

   v4next

   January 5, 2011 at 10:42 am

   I would say that collecting your favourite games is only collecting, though if you collect multiple copies of the one game then THAT would be hoarding.

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6. 

   Chris Rossetti

   January 5, 2011 at 10:45 am

   Mike in no way are you a hoarder! I have 10 PS3 games, 20 original xbox games and over 200 xbox 360 games. So i know you’re not a hoarder cause if you are i’m most likely insane and should be put in arkham!

   I agree with Chuloopa. I love hard copies. I have the same affinity with dvds and movies. I cant stand downloaded dvds except on my iPhone. and te “holy shit” factor is awesome. The games stand proudly round my tv and near my console.

   Mike how many movies do you own that you havent watched for a few months or years? its the same conclusion. u will eventually play them. I always end up replaying kotor or battlefront when i want a star wars fix

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7. 

   Powalen

   January 5, 2011 at 10:56 am

   It’s not that I keep my games so I can have a collection… It’s because I can’t bring myself to give up a game that I used to really like.

   One day in the future I might want to disconnect the PS6, dust off the ol’ PS3, try and find a TV that still uses HDMI input and a 2D screen and play Valkyria Chronicles on my space-lounge.

   I mean, I still fire up the original Crash Bandicoot games from time to time. 😛

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8. 

   Marathon

   January 5, 2011 at 11:00 am

   That’s not alot…

   I have well over 50 X360 titles in the cabinet with the TV. Around the same number of PC and Mac titles in retail box form. Granted most of my PC releases are now digital, (curse you steam) but I’m a sucker for a decent collectors edition of a game I am really keen on.

   As for older stuff, original floppy discs of Sim City 2000 is around here somewhere. 😛 As well as the 6 floppy disc behometh that is the original 1994 Marathon by Bungie Software. I even kept the old boxes. A lot of the older older console and dates computer stuff including original Xbox and NES titles are in storage but I can view a library of games at any one time.

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9. 

   Michael

   January 5, 2011 at 11:06 am

   I used to be a hoarder, but not so much since I’ve been married. I’ve parted ways with my older consoles when I bought my new ones and sold the games with them, cause I realised it was pointless holding onto the games if I’m likely never going to play them again.

   That said, I’ve kept pretty much all my PC games (as there’s almost always a way to get the old ones working on new PC’s), and I kept the majority of my Gamecube games (probably around 30) even after I sold my Gamecube as I can still play them on my Wii.

   I never sell games for my current systems though (except for all my Guitar Hero games and instruments, I decided I’d finally had enough of that). My PS3 and Wii games will be sold when I decide to sell my PS3 and Wii. You never know when you’d want to play them again.

   That said I’ve still got a pretty impressive collection (despite the fact that I Can’t buy games as often as I used to since my baby daughter arrived). I’ve currently got around 30 Gamecube games, about 30 Wii games and about 20-25 PS3 games.

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10. 

    Shikyo

    January 5, 2011 at 11:36 am

    I’d like to think my collection relates more to the shelf of books I’ve read through as opposed to Toy Figuirines. It comes down to your partners (and your) perspective on games in general. I guess for those that view it as toy figurines, you’re saying that games shouldn’t be played by adults in the first place but keeping a shelf of books is acceptable by adults.

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11. 

    TGK

    January 5, 2011 at 11:47 am

    Don’t like/understand hoarding. I own half a dozen X-Box/360 titles physically, pretty much only my must haves, still own my GC collection of about 15 titles, my ol’ N64 and games is kicking around somewhere and I only own half a dozen DS games. Got mates who have huge stacks of games which I don’t really understand.

    But then again, I always was a patient oppotunistic/budget game buyer to start with.

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12. 

    Jamie Watt

    January 5, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    At last count my PS3 games were numbering in the 80s. I probably have about 30+ Wii games. I still have most of my old PS2, gamecube and PS1 games as well. I sold my NES back in the days before the N64 but kept Zelda 1 & 2. A few of my SNES games have gone ‘missing’ so I only have about 10 or so of them.

    I have two bookshelves of manga and two of anime. My DVDs are now in a box under my bed, replaced by my growing collection of blu-rays….

    Now that I come to type it, it seems less impressive and more… sad.

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13. 

    sarujin

    January 5, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    The numbers in the article are definitely not hoarder numbers.

    I’ve got 150+ 360 Games, 40+ PS2, 30 PS3, 30 Wii, 30PSP, and 15 DS games, and I still don’t feel like a hoarder.

    Collecting video games is no different to people who collect books, CDs, DVDs etc. People don’t look at someone with a shelf of 300 CDs and think there is anything wrong with that. If it is something the owner likes, so be it.

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14. 

    Kris Butler

    January 5, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    I’m a bit on the bad side. While I don’t have many of my older titles any more. I do currently have over 150 xbox 360 titles and about 20-30 ps3. Approx 25 or more 360 titles haven’t even been opened yet!

    I’m also a bargain hunter and can’t resist a good sale, so while I have heaps of games I haven’t paid anywhere near full price for them.

    Am I a horder? Maybe, but I prefer to call myself a collector!

    Oh and I just recently cracked 400 games on steam. But at least you can’t see them physically! Lol

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15. 

    The Gremlin

    January 5, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    I have ~350 games across all consoles I own (from Saturn to PS3 and everything in between, they are all connected). I like to keep the stuff, to see my neatly ordered collection and I enjoy the occasional memory lane trip.

    So I guess I’m a hoarder, but probably a discerning one. I haven’t sold a game in over 10 years, It would have to be quite a bad game, and with the amount of information available today you have to be pretty dim to buy a bad game. Every game I buy I want to keep.

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16. 

    BlueScythe

    January 5, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    Ok so my collection includes:

    Intellivision and about 12 games (and yes it still works)

    Mega Drive (aka Genesis) and 15 games

    PS3 and 65 games.

    PSP and 11 games.

    Wii and 23 games.

    So I guess I’m a hoarder as I can probably count on 1 hand the games I do play.

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17. 

    Leonie

    January 5, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    I have approximately 30 PSone games, 80 PS2 games, 20 PSP games, 30 PS3 games, and about 5 or 6 DS games. Nothing special compared to some of the collections already mentioned. ^_^ Soon that list will increase to also include 360 and possibly Wii games too… 😉
    While I’m more than happy to trade in games I haven’t enjoyed, I like to keep those I loved (which just so happens to be most of them). I tell myself it’s because I’ll play them again one day. That and I like to think of myself as a collector, rather than a hoarder… >_>

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18. 

    Matthew Corbett

    January 5, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    I thought I was bad with a current 30+ PS3 & 46+ PSP games but then I seel on completion
    Gave away PS1 for a bottle of wine with 20+ games and PS2 with 36 games to my brother so compared to you lot I think I’m doing well!
    🙂

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19. 

    jarrard

    January 5, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    i used to have about 90 xbox games.

    decided to trade heaps in and only keep the ones i still play
    what was the point if i never played them? i buy the games to play and enjoy, not to look at on a shelf.

    i think collecting them is just people being afraid of letting go and that they might regret not having it anymore.

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20. 

    Nobuto

    January 5, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    I don’t understand the argument, “why keep them if you don’t play them?” if I have a book collection, do I need to throw out all the books I’m not actively reading every day?

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    1. 

       dawdle

       January 5, 2011 at 7:42 pm

       Ditto!
       It’s like a mini-library. 🙂

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21. 

    Todd Drexel

    January 5, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    I have:
    2 Sega Consoles
    Over 100 Sega Games

    3 Playstation 1’s
    Over 1000 PS 1 Games

    1 Playstation 2
    About 50 PS2 Games

    1 Playstation 3
    About 25 PS3 Games

    1 Xbox 360 Slim
    5 Xbox Games

    3 Nintendo DS’s
    30+ DS Games

    1 Gameboy Colour
    15+ GBC Games
    2 Gameboy Advance’s

    and I still don’t think I have enough.. I want to collect all NES and Atari games now :3

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    1. 

       Chuloopa

       January 5, 2011 at 4:28 pm

       “Over 1000 PS 1 Games”

       Of which how many are legitimate copies?

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22. 

    JKEN

    January 16, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    I belive that the only games worth collecting only are the original Pokemon games. 🙂

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23. 

    Matt Henzel

    April 15, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    I don’t see a problem with that!
    This on the other hand… 😛
    http://www.videogameobsession.com/spoonman-gameroom.jpg

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