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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: oldgamerz on April 07, 2018, 09:35:38 pm
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Do you have your games arranged or mixed up?, by genre or type, or some kind of special way? :)
For myself I have a box with a drawer filled with shooting games mostly FPS games another box with Miscellaneous games.
A shelf of golf games and another small shelf of Genesis and Super Nintendo games, and another shelf for compilations and arcade conversions
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Mine is arranged by console release date, all games are alphabetical so it goes and then by region. I don't have regions mixed up, it just bugs me too much to do it that way.
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Mine is arranged by console release date, all games are alphabetical so it goes and then by region. I don't have regions mixed up, it just bugs me too much to do it that way.
Same
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The house I live in unfortunately has small rooms and given I only have a few of them my game room is all crammed into one which requires that I be very resourceful on displaying as much of my collection as possible despite this. I two large Atlantic brand shelves, one of which is mostly PS2 and my Gamecube collection while the other large one is a combo of various console games on it. I have a slightly smaller shelf with mostly PS3, PS4 and PSP games on it. And then I have three small Atlantic shelves that have some of my more manageable collections that I'm more or less done collecting for so I don't have to worry about expanding to a larger shelf. My Dreamcast, Saturn, DS and N64 collections are on the smaller shelves respectively.
The inspiration for my gameroom layout was from the collection vids done by Mike on the Youtube channel Charge Back Forward; his collection and gameroom are still my favorite. I hope someday to have a larger space where I can do what I've always really wanted to do with my game room which is have it more organized and also work on expanding it again as well.
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I arrange them by system and then in alphabetical order.
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My collection is arranged by console on media shelves and my amiibos are placed on shelves on my walls and on a amiibo display that looks like the end level of super mario 1. All and all I don't organize them much outside of that like by color or alphabetically or anyhting. I have them just placed in whatever order I bought them and put them there. I have console boxes stacked up like jenga in the corners and some collectors editions boxes too :)
All and all my room is getting cluttered as time goes but it's semi neat for how much is confined in once space, but this summer my collection plans on making the grand voyage to my attic where I plan on building a huge man cave, tree house type vibe :D. With flooring, lighting, outlets fans and the such. I calculated it will cost me about 500 dollars at least to make the attic comfortable to inhabit and safe and climate controlled for video games but it will be so worth it to expand my collecting capabilities and make my room more roomy. :D.
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Like most of the other responses:
I group the games together by system (in no particular order of systems), and then alphabetically within each system.
My DVD-style games, cartridge boxes, and most of my cartridge games are on bookshelves. My CD-style games are in those tower CD holders. And my Genesis and Master System cartridges are in tower cassette tape holders.
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I group them by system and then alphabetically. Ordering it any other way sounds incredibly daunting.
Though I do keep games of of other regions and platinum/best sellers/etc editions separately because it looks ugly otherwise. So I'll have black label PAL games, then US games, then JP games, then platinums. Normally. The order differs. In fact it's only really my PS1 games' platinums I keep on my shelves at all, the others are just crammed away somewhere. Ew. But yeah.
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I Organize my games by console then alphabetically. I have no Japanese or euro games as of yet, still a noobie collector XP
also (at least for my disc based consoles) I have them categorized by console manufacturer (ex. Microsoft then Nintendo then Sony).
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I use shelves to store my collection. I order through systems, then in alphabetical order. For more expansive collections, I often have lettered boxes to help my go through each one alpahebtically
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In tubs and boxes. ;)
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Having to keep my collection in my bedroom means space is always at a premium, but there is some method to the madness. My entertainment center consists of a large, 2 sided Besta shelf from Ikea, and a heavily-modified Journalist unit (also from Ikea, long since discontinued.) Against one side of the besta unit is a very small media shelf (something like 15" wide by 3 feet tall). This is the portable games area- DS titles of all kinds are on the mini shelf, plus Game Gear games & Vita games split between the top shelf & the top of the unit. Above that is a set of hanging baskets from Daiso holding PSP games. On the top corner of the Besta unit, as well as one shelf, are cartridge-based and boxed portable games, along with a bunch of extra Game boys and accessories. The upper half of the besta unit is pre-crash systems and games, as well as my Sega Saturn games. Crossing over to the Journalist cabinet, you have the rest of my CD-based games. This is all in a general inverted L shape game-wise... for the most part, going left to upper right, then down, the games go from older to newer. My post-crash consoles are on the Journalist shelving, all hooked up & ready to play.
Across the room at the foot of my bed is post-crash cartridges. There's a wire media rack holding boxed carts, and a 3-tier rolling drawer unit with loose carts & the cables/controllers for the pre-crash systems. The rolling drawer doubles as an extra shelf to set up the pre-crash systems on when I want to play one. All my other controllers are in a modular drawer unit in the closet. Large specialty controllers are in the front of the cabinet above the closet. Finally, portable systems are stored under the table my stereo is on.
To maximize space, rather than store my games in library rows, most of my collection is stored in front-to-back rows in drawers and decorative boxes. This lets me use deeper shelving to hold more titles in the same amount of wall space while keeping things in relative order. Games are sorted by console, then alphabetized with imports mixed in appropriately- I own very few imports, so it makes more sense to just keep them in place right now.
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I used to have all the games I have displayed sorted alphabetically with no regard to what game belonged to what system. Now I they're sorted by system, then alphabetically. I don't separate Greatest Hits, Player's Choice ,etc from the rest of the games. No space and I don't think it's necessary :)
I keep my SNES/SFC games in boxes because displaying them on a shelf would take space I don't have.
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Alphabetically, by system. Separating between Nintendo and PlayStation respectively.
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All console games seperately seperate regions and ofcourse by genre and sometimes series.
Shoot em ups beat em ups rpg's you name it. In alphabetical order does not make much sense to me looks pretty horrible in my opinion allot of series and genre's that should be together when your looking for them will be messed up randomly if your going the alphabet route.
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By system and then semi alphabetical because of games always being added so it's all games with a then all games with b and so on
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Another for by system, then alphabetically here. Organizing them any other way just doesn't make much sense to me.
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Most of my games are alphabetical, they are all grouped by system. The exceptions to that are:
PC big boxes are just randomly arranged on two shelves.
PC CD Rom is a big mix because I am not quite sure how to arrange them. Also I have been considering moving those into another room at some point in the future, so I have not been too concerned with arranging them.
The Genesis shelves are sorted as:
1. grid design
2. Red/caution design by publisher
3. the rest by publisher/design
The only publisher that has actual designs is EA, which has three main designs. The two-tone original games, the non-sports design that came later (like F-117, etc) and the white EA Sports.
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System
Alphabetical -ish
I have Zelda II right next to Legend of Zelda way up in the L's and Zoda's Revenge in the S's, but for some reason Rainbow Islands isn't in the B's
Most of my collection is on shelves and my badass Nintendo retail cabinet. There's some overrun though (Wii, DS, 3DS). It's in totes in the garage.
Things are looking up though! I start this weekend on one room to rule them all. A detached 12'x32' building with plenty of space for the whole collection and arcade games. I'm so freaking excited.
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By system and then alphabetical... with a few exceptions. PSVR games are separated from PS4. Imports are not intermingled with [NA/US] titles for some systems (FC/SFC)
Things are looking up though! I start this weekend on one room to rule them all. A detached 12'x32' building with plenty of space for the whole collection and arcade games. I'm so freaking excited.
Oh my, how much is that gonna cost? I was looking into this not too long ago and for what I'd want it would probably cost $10-20k
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I display by console, and then by publisher; an alphabetical arrangement would just be too much bother to make sure everything was always in the right place :)
Besides, it’s really cool to me to see all the purple Capcom NES games together, or all the distinctive grey Konami NES games together.
The publishers are not in any particular order, but I try to keep game series together so that means putting certain publishers next to each other. For example, Ultra published the first 2 NES TMNT games but Konami did after that. The first NES Double Dragon was published by Tradewest and the rest by Acclaim.
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Like most people here, by system then alphabetical, with also a few exceptions since i like to keep all games of the same series together (so Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain goes into the "L" and Silent Line: Armored Core with the other AC games in "A"). The major difference between the database and my collection is that i take into account the full title of the game (even article) so games starting with "The" will go into the "T" part of my collection.
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My Music CD and movie collections are sorted alphabetically, absolutely... In that spine/edge titles rule supreme, and even things starting with An go into A, and The go into T. :o
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My Music CD and movie collections are sorted alphabetically, absolutely... In that spine/edge titles rule supreme, and even things starting with An go into A, and The go into T. :o
That's against protocol! ;)
My games are not organized because they're split in my apartment and at my parents house. They're just arranged from right to left what I played last. When I get the whole collection together someday then I'll really organize everything.
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Congratulations in advance on your game room Turf hope you post some pics would love to see it.
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I might be an odd one out, but I tend to arrange games by franchise. All my Zelda games and stuff get their own shelf: Metroid, Mario, Pokemon, Doom, Final Fantasy, Dragon quest, etc. I think this makes for a more expressive setup.
Some things are setup by genre. I have some miscellaneous shooters, party games, sports games, racing games lumped together. I have a shrine to RPGs that only have a few in the series like the Final Fantasy Legend series (saga), Mana, and Phantasy Star stuff all lumped together. Once I fill out the collection they will probably have their own space on the shelf.
All the other odds and bits, particularly stuff that doesn't fit anywhere just gets lumped by console in no particular order. Dumping them on the floor and digging through the pile like an eight-year-old is part of the fun to me.
My favorite section, albeit probably least played section, is my Kaiju section: Godzilla games, Ultraman, King of the Monsters, Primal Rage. Easily the one most visitors comment on when they come over.
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I arrange mine by system and then in the order that I acquired them. Think of it like sorting files in Windows by Date Created or Date Modified.