General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: tafk on February 11, 2015, 09:29:28 am
Title: Don't know if old topic, but how do you all store your games?
Post by: tafk on February 11, 2015, 09:29:28 am
Title text. I'd love to hear how everyone stores their stuff.
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Post by: bikingjahuty on February 11, 2015, 09:46:28 am
All my games are on media shelves. Atlantic makes a bunch of pretty quality shelves, ranging from small shelves that hold around 5 CD jewel cases to ones that can hold over 1000.
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Post by: badATchaos on February 11, 2015, 10:16:58 am
Honestly my collection isn't very big so I arrange my stuff, roughly, by how likely I am to play it. Favorites up front!
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Post by: Warmsignal on February 11, 2015, 01:14:49 pm
Media shelves, dresser drawers (sadly), and PSP is currently banished to inside of the TV console. I'm actually very tight on room at this point. Future purchases are going into one last drawer and then my space is maxed out.
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Post by: abe on February 11, 2015, 01:51:46 pm
I don't have a whole lot of space to put stuff, so my games are all over the place. My PS2, PS3, PSP, and DS games are kept in a media shelving unit. My GameCube, Wii, 3DS, and Vita games and one lonely copy of Xevious for the NES are in those generic plastic stacking CD/DVD bin things on my dresser. I keep my limited edition games and imports on a shelf in my bookcase. Everything else is just spread about wherever they fit on display if they can be.
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Post by: gf78 on February 11, 2015, 02:28:03 pm
After surrendering my game room to my youngest daughter who was growing too big to share a room with her sister (I kid, I was more than happy to do it for her) and systematically dismantling and selling the bulk of my collection (not so happy about that in hindsight :'( ), my PS2, PS1 and PSP games are stored in boxes in my bedroom closet. I have a really nice 5-shelf wooden cabinet with glass window doors that the bulk of my PS3, PS4 and Vita games are in. My PS3 games have spilled out into a 5-shelf DVD rack that holds 75 DVD-size cases comfortably. I have a curio cabinet that has some of my gaming stuff in it, namely my OG 60gig PS3, sackboy plushes, etc. I'm going to put all of my import Final Fantasy titles in there together to display on the top shelf once the last of them arrive. Most of my other stuff like Wii and DS games I have stored in boxes in the closet also.
I keep a few games for various systems on my nightstand shelf if I am currently playing them. Right now, New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the 3DS, Castlevania the Dracula X Chronicles for the PSP and a few others are hanging out there.
In an ideal world, all games would be sorted by system and stored alphabetically on shelves. Unfortunately, I'm not living in an ideal world at the moment. :(
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Post by: argyle on February 11, 2015, 04:01:27 pm
My disk-based games are on a mixture of custom shelves & store bought shelves. I have very, very few disk-only games and those are in a small cd binder - most of those were either given to me or picked up for next to nothing. Cartridge games varies - a few I have displayed (the 2 SNES FF games, the 2 Atari 2600 Pac-Man games), and most of the others are stacked on a shelf. DS & 3DS games are in a drawer either in their original cases or for the DS loose carts I have (and there are a lot, since I started collecting for the DS very late) in those Club Nintendo 18-game DS cases.
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Post by: topspot123 on February 11, 2015, 05:32:09 pm
Most of my 'modern' stuff is in media racks. The older things are stored in a couple of ways. I like sharing my youtube videos here, I hope no one minds.
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Post by: desocietas on February 11, 2015, 07:56:16 pm
Most of my 'modern' stuff is in media racks. The older things are stored in a couple of ways. I like sharing my youtube videos here, I hope no one minds.
I just watched the video during lunch, and it was pretty neat! I haven't gotten to the point of needing to put my stuff into storage containers for later, but it's good to consider for protection in general. We like to display the boxes if we can, but there are some items that we could store away (dupes, incomplete items, etc.).
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Post by: betelgeuse on February 11, 2015, 09:46:47 pm
I have a high ceiling in the room my games are in. Most of the bundles or collectors editions go up there on a shelf. The majority of my collection is double stacked on store bought adjustable shelves unfortunately. It's all in alphabetical order and I keep it grouped together by brand. For the most part the back row is still visible (GBA games in front of Gamecube, SCD games in front of Turbo Grafx, Playstation in front of Playstation longbox etc.). My 360 games are on a custom shelf and the overflow is on media shelves.
The goal is to finish building my custom shelves. I have one made that holds ~450 DVD's. It's on casters so I can slide it back and fourth to get to the shelves behind it. I still need to elevate it so it lines up with the height of the rear shelf. The wood is pretty expensive, but it is so much neater...and technically still double stacked. ::)
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Post by: insektmute on February 11, 2015, 10:04:51 pm
I'm using kind of an odd mix of things right now, with an Ikea Billy bookshelf in the bedroom for portables and retro games, an Atlantic Elf rack for PS3/360 stuff, and a big metal Can-Am tiered drawer system for everything else.
I'm also almost entirely out of room, but going forward, I'm thinking I'll get another rack for games, get all my movies into the Can-Am, and keep my CDs in the bedroom... unless I sell them. Gah, decisions!
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Post by: olly88 on February 11, 2015, 10:39:31 pm
I have an alcove in my bedroom and in there I have a bookcase. I had to add a few custom shelves on top of it though to make room, and also pile stuff up down the side of it. Everything in there's pretty snug, any time a get a game it seems like I have to reorganize everything around just to fit one game in :P
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Post by: burningdoom on February 12, 2015, 01:51:29 pm
1. Regular shelves for DVD-case-style games (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, Saturn), and NES, SNES & N64 cartridges.
2. CD-Towers for PS1 & Dreamcast games.
3. Cassette Tape Tower for Sega Genesis & Master System games. (Genesis games fit perfectly into cassette holders & cases)
4. 9-pocket card plastic binder pages for Game Boy/GBC/GBA games. (Easy to flip-through, and no random piles of handheld games)
5. Club Nintendo game holder case for DS/3DS games.
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Post by: MJMaranan on February 13, 2015, 01:43:03 am
My brother moved out and left me an awesome cabinet that I use for storage.
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Post by: fighterpilot562 on February 13, 2015, 02:13:52 am
Anyway I can :D
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Post by: kamikazekeeg on February 13, 2015, 04:32:48 pm
I don't have a very big collection, which is good, because I don't have a lot of room, but I basically store all my extra console stuff in three of those cheap 3 drawer plastic containers, then I have one more for Game Boy stuff and my Nintendo 64 games as I have about 30 right now and they aren't great for displaying. The rest of the games I have take up a book case I've shown off before. I actually need another container for the consoles I have as I just have them up on a shelf right now in the closet. My closet is a disaster right now, despite my best efforts to organize it, which seemed to only make things worse lol
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Post by: betelgeuse on February 13, 2015, 11:25:51 pm
So true!!! I've reorganized several times to make it work LOL
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Post by: mark1982 on February 14, 2015, 06:38:12 am
In a dedicated game / entertainment room. Right now all the recent titles are inside glass cabinets, I have a few deep cabinets I can store my older to latest titles inside (DVD cases). My older cartridges and jewel case CD based games I keep in plastic sealable containers, so no dust or any form of mold can get in, then just store the containers in the cabinet. I go through them quite often because I still play a decent amount of my older games.
For consoles I keep all the original boxes then the ones I don't use I can just store them away.
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Post by: theflea on February 14, 2015, 04:56:53 pm
Most of my 'modern' stuff is in media racks. The older things are stored in a couple of ways. I like sharing my youtube videos here, I hope no one minds.
I love this video! I use similar storage boxes to hold my manuals and loose GBA games.
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Post by: dashv on February 16, 2015, 12:15:10 pm
What did you do for loose SNES carts. Genesis loose carts are easy because you can simply use cassette holders. Even NES shelves can be found easily. But SNES I'm struggling with.
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Post by: topspot123 on February 16, 2015, 05:38:37 pm
Most of my 'modern' stuff is in media racks. The older things are stored in a couple of ways. I like sharing my youtube videos here, I hope no one minds.
I love this video! I use similar storage boxes to hold my manuals and loose GBA games.
Thanks for the compliment!
Do you have cases for your GBA games? I saw this video a few years back.
I was already doing this with my regular GB games. I still have my GBA games in a set of zippered folios, but I bought the proper size Really Useful Boxes just in case I wanted to change my mind.
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Post by: retroone on February 16, 2015, 06:40:43 pm
Most of my 'modern' stuff is in media racks. The older things are stored in a couple of ways. I like sharing my youtube videos here, I hope no one minds.
I love this video! I use similar storage boxes to hold my manuals and loose GBA games.
Thanks for the compliment!
Do you have cases for your GBA games? I saw this video a few years back.
I was already doing this with my regular GB games. I still have my GBA games in a set of zippered folios, but I bought the proper size Really Useful Boxes just in case I wanted to change my mind.
All of mine are just tossed in one of those plastic tubs loose. Although those custom cases are nice!
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Post by: gf78 on February 17, 2015, 04:05:20 pm
Just a funny story tied into the "how do you store your games" subject. This past weekend, I got all of my boxed games out of the closet and organized them alphabetically by system. You know, since when you add new games, they end up in a different spot. This way I can keep track of where they are all at.
My wife comes in while I have these giant rows of PS2 games up and down our king size bed. She starts snapping pics on her phone saying "Your sick. There's something wrong with you!" I just said back, "You don't see me taking pictures of all your shoes do you?" That shut her up. :P
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Post by: deftommo on February 24, 2015, 11:31:40 am
My collection is rather small so I mostly keep them on shelves along with books, or in a couple drawers in my TV stand.
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Post by: mrnikon on February 24, 2015, 12:27:12 pm
Nothing too special, I just put some rail shelves up, and that what I have been using.
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Post by: desocietas on February 24, 2015, 07:26:27 pm
Just a funny story tied into the "how do you store your games" subject. This past weekend, I got all of my boxed games out of the closet and organized them alphabetically by system. You know, since when you add new games, they end up in a different spot. This way I can keep track of where they are all at.
My wife comes in while I have these giant rows of PS2 games up and down our king size bed. She starts snapping pics on her phone saying "Your sick. There's something wrong with you!" I just said back, "You don't see me taking pictures of all your shoes do you?" That shut her up. :P
Haha, we all have our retail therapy :D
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Post by: amauriel on February 25, 2015, 11:06:47 am
Right now, we've got everything in our basement. We have some Expedit shelves that we turned into a TV stand with 16 boxes for systems, and most of our retro stuff is hooked up down there. We bought a shelf for all of our SNES/NES/Genesis games as well. That's sorta where the nice and pretty organization ends. Almost everything else is in plastic tubs in our storage room. The tubs are organized by console but it's just too much stuff.
The positive is that we both like our jobs at the moment and if mine gets to become a full-time job (I'm a contractor at the moment) we'll be able to start house shopping. I'd love to have a glass case for each of our main collections: Zelda, Harvest Moon, Shin Megami Tensei, Resident Evil (although Ronalopolis kinda wants to thrift one for this that looks like it might have come out of the mansion) and maybe Metal Gear (not sure if he has enough to fill a case).