How big is your collection in 2024??

[Rhuno | 107]

Very impressive numbers in this thread! My collection isn't too big, but it's currently at 413 games across various consoles as follows:

NES - 92
SNES - 30
Virtual Boy - 2
N64 - 16
Gamecube - 13
Switch - 17

PlayStation - 8
PS 2 - 24
PS 4 - 11
PS Vita - 4

Dreamcast - 83
Genesis - 15

XBox - 35
XBox 360 - 46
XBox One / Sx - 5

Odyssey 2 - 12

I collect mostly stuff from my childhood; have never been big on playstation. Growth going forward will mostly be NES, SNES and Dreamcast, but taking it pretty casual.

Happy collecting in 2024! I'll be interested in seeing some of these numbers next year! 

Edited January 22 by Rhuno

[The Count | 527]

2,500+ easily. I don't have a collection tool though. Anybody have any good recommendations?

[a3quit4s | 4,102]

1 hour ago, The Count said:

2,500+ easily. I don't have a collection tool though. Anybody have any good recommendations?

Excel and Onedrive. Doesn’t cost much for a license or O365 subscription, infinitely customizable, store on your own storage, no outages or chance that a company stops supporting it. My problem with all the ones that exist like GameEye is they don’t account for homebrews and adding an entry for every one I buy is cumbersome. 
 

Google sheets is a close second but I don’t like how it doesn’t support tables for sorting A-Z, unless it was recently added. Still don’t like its reliance on an internet connection. 
 

It is really just personal preference though for whatever you use. I was keeping track in Game Value Now for a while as well just for fun to see a value of my collection but I stopped doing that a couple months ago. Remembering to add in two spots was annoying. 

Edited January 22 by a3quit4s

[T-Pac | 7,560]

I'm currently sitting around 370 physical games:

45% - NES / FC

28% - Atari 2600

9% - SNES / SFC

6% - GB

5% - Genesis / MD

5% - TG-16 / PCE

2% - SMS

I plan to put a hard cap on my collection around 460 physical games, which should be enough to cover most of the "must-have" titles left on my shopping list for the next several years.

I know a lot of people roll their eyes at the idea of "playing every game in your collection", but I'm actually aiming to do it - so I need to be wary of adding too many more titles. (Especially since it'll take me well over a decade to play through everything I already have just a single time haha.)

[T-Pac]

[SNESNESCUBE64 | 541]

I have been slowly pairing down my game collection for a little while now to focus on arcade stuff.

In terms of arcade cabinets, I have 20 now. One is a playchoice, I think I have 12 carts for that. I have tons of boards and monitors these days but I don't count that really. If you wanna see what I have, my VAPS is up to date (except for congorilla, I forgot to add that): https://www.arcade-museum.com/members/member_detail.php?member_id=486462

Otherwise, I have about 20 games for each nintendo console except for NES which is closer to 80ish these days.

[drxandy | 3,235]

Found the book and did my count, whew. 90% all disc based games are cib very very rarely did I bend on those.

Gb/gbc/GBA - 153 mostly loose

Nes: box: 52 loose:67

Snes box: 31 loose:40

N64: usabox: 94 usaloose:15 jpnbox:45 jpnloose 11 // 165 total

Gcn: USA 96 jpn 86 // 182

Wii: USA 163 jpn 4 // 167

Wii U 55

Switch 172

Ds USA 254 jpn 6 pal 2 // 302

3ds 103

Xbox 778 woo baby didn't count imports yet but I have some of em

360: USA 392 jpn 3 pal 4 399

Xbone/ series: 72

PS1: USA 89 jpn 6 // 95

Ps2: 168

Ps3: USA 162 pal 1 // 163

PS4: 91

PS5: 9

Vita: 11

Genesis boxed 30 loose 2 // 32

Game gear 20 loose

Dreamcast 3

Saturn jpn 3

Sega CD jpn 1

3,298 games with 149 new last year woo woo

 

 

 

 

[fcgamer | 4,728]

Okay here's what I have. I'm pretty sure I have some homebrew and other items that somehow didn't make it onto the list, then again the copied PlayStation stuff is on here (any probably could be removed). Also am pretty sure I have about 100 SFC CIB titles that I never bothered to document, so with those things accounted / not accounted for, the number at the bottom is more or less correct. 

3DO - 13
Amstrad GX4000 - 1
PolyGame Master - 2
Arcade / Jamma - 3
Atari 2600 - 18
Casio Loopy - 2
Classic Games - 2
Dreamcast - 25
Eagle - 12
Famicom / Famiclone - 4490
Famicom Disk - 248
Gamate - 42
Game Boy / Game Boy Color / Game Boy Advance - 765
Game Cube - 13
Game Gear - 122
Game King - 40
Game King III - 4
Game Master - 8
Game Plus - 2
IN2IT - 14
Invisible - 4
Lico Cai - 6
MSX - 2
SNK MVS - 40
Neo Geo Pocket / Pocket Color - 20
NES - 108
Nintendo 3DS - 12
Nintendo 64 - 62
Nintendo DS - 11
PC Engine Hu Cards - 67
PC Engine CD-ROMS - 2
PC Games (all formats) - 42
PlayStation - 106
PlayStation Copied Disks - 104
PlayStation 2 - 73
PlayStation 3 - 5
PVP - 4
Sega Mark 1000 - 38
Sega Mark III - 23
Sega Mega Drive - 801
Sega Saturn - 24
Sport Vii - 3
Super A'can - 11
Super Famicom / SNES - 102
TI-99 Computer - 1
VCCP - 3
Watara Supervision - 11
wii - 23
WiiU - 2
Wonderswan - 17
Xbox - 35
Xbox 360 - 69

===7660
 

[a3quit4s | 4,102]

@fcgamer bro do you store famicom games in like your walls and shit? I though apartments/housing in Taiwan is like very small and minimal?

[fcgamer | 4,728]

19 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

@fcgamer bro do you store famicom games in like your walls and shit? I though apartments/housing in Taiwan is like very small and minimal?

My apartment is quite big for the area, luckily, and the price is also quite a steal for the area. That being said, I'm in the same boat as @MegaMan52 as I have games and machines stashed away in cabinets in basically all rooms of the apartment, aside from the bathroom, though in the living room, aside from the television set up, there are not many games or anything on display. 

I do have some really nice glass cabinets built into the walls in the living room, and I've often considered just using them exclusively to display the prime gaming stuff, boxing the rest up, and then turning the current game room (which is quite small) into an office area. The only problem with that is I really hate the idea of people possibly defining me by my games, whenever I host parties or invite friends / dates / family over. It's certainly a part of my life, and it's certainly not something I am ashamed of, but at the same time feeling like I have to "explain" it or "justify" it anytime a non-game collector is over doesn't sound very fun, especially when my actual time playing games and the like is quite limited.  

[RpgCollector | 900]

Funny this topic came up. As I get closer to death my wife is getting more insistent I sell it all ( just hate to sell things; especially to collectors). I decided to put together an excel sheet of it all. I only collect CIB and 99% of my collection is CIB. I also collect box variants so I have multiple copies of the same game with different boxes (Gameboy GBC GBA and DS mainly for variants).

Homebrew/hacks/translation repo’s (all systems) - 1,152
PC Big Box - 7
SuperCharger 2600 - 12
Atari 2600 - 425
Atari 5200 - 50
Atari 7800 - 52
Atari Jaguar - 2
Atari Lynx - 58
Nes Licensed - 680
Nes Unlicensed - 83
Nes Aladdin Enhancer - 7
Snes - 505
N64 - 196
Gamecube - 88
Wii - 138
Wii U - 6
Switch - 51
GB - 511
GB Variants - 231
GB Europe Exclusives - 43
GBC - 446
GBC Variants - 28
GBC Europe Exclusives - 48
GBA - 978
GBA Variants - 78
GBA Europe Exclusives - 12
GBA Video - 34
GBA E-reader - 16
DS - 702
DSI - 3
DS Variants - 98
3ds - 106
VB - 14
Master System - 96
Master System Europe Exclusives - 8
Genesis - 289
Sega CD - 138
Sega 32X - 30
Sega Game Gear - 234
Sega Gmae Gear Variants - 26
Sega Saturn - 132
Sega Dreamcast - 88
Laseractive - 14
PS1 - 639
PS1 Europe - 5
PS2 - 768
PS3 - 234
PS4 - 145
PS5 - 2
PSP - 219
PS Vita - 65
NeoGeo MVS - 35
NeoGeo CD - 15
NeoGeo Pocket - 30
NeoGeo Pocket Europe - 3
TG16 - 90
TGCD - 40
Microvision - 12
Supervision - 60
Cougar Boy - 14
MegaDuck - 12
GameKing - 17
Gamate - 14
N-Gage - 10
Game.Com - 18
Gizmondo - 8
Wonderswan - 8
Zodiac - 4
Game Wizard - 10
Xbox - 55
Xbox 360 - 57
3DO - 38
CD-I - 35
Amiga CD32 - 13
Telstar Arcade - 4
Fairchild Channel F - 20
APF MP1000 - 12
Arcaida 2001 - 19
Odyssey - 10
Odyssey 2 - 48
Bally Astrocade - 29
Colecovision - 16
Intellivision - 64
RCA Studio II - 10
Vectrex - 27
Ti99-4A - 7
Action Max - 5
FlashBack Systems - 12

Total Count = 10,873
Various CIB Game Systems - 238
Arcade Games - 44
PCB Boards - 32

[fcgamer | 4,728]

15 minutes ago, RpgCollector said:

Funny this topic came up. As I get closer to death my wife is getting more insistent I sell it all ( just hate to sell things; especially to collectors). I decided to put together an excel sheet of it all. I only collect CIB and 99% of my collection is CIB. I also collect box variants so I have multiple copies of the same game with different boxes (Gameboy GBC GBA and DS mainly for variants).

Homebrew/hacks/translation repo’s (all systems) - 1,152
PC Big Box - 7
SuperCharger 2600 - 12
Atari 2600 - 425
Atari 5200 - 50
Atari 7800 - 52
Atari Jaguar - 2
Atari Lynx - 58
Nes Licensed - 680
Nes Unlicensed - 83
Nes Aladdin Enhancer - 7
Snes - 505
N64 - 196
Gamecube - 88
Wii - 138
Wii U - 6
Switch - 51
GB - 511
GB Variants - 231
GB Europe Exclusives - 43
GBC - 446
GBC Variants - 28
GBC Europe Exclusives - 48
GBA - 978
GBA Variants - 78
GBA Europe Exclusives - 12
GBA Video - 34
GBA E-reader - 16
DS - 702
DSI - 3
DS Variants - 98
3ds - 106
VB - 14
Master System - 96
Master System Europe Exclusives - 8
Genesis - 289
Sega CD - 138
Sega 32X - 30
Sega Game Gear - 234
Sega Gmae Gear Variants - 26
Sega Saturn - 132
Sega Dreamcast - 88
Laseractive - 14
PS1 - 639
PS1 Europe - 5
PS2 - 768
PS3 - 234
PS4 - 145
PS5 - 2
PSP - 219
PS Vita - 65
NeoGeo MVS - 35
NeoGeo CD - 15
NeoGeo Pocket - 30
NeoGeo Pocket Europe - 3
TG16 - 90
TGCD - 40
Microvision - 12
Supervision - 60
Cougar Boy - 14
MegaDuck - 12
GameKing - 17
Gamate - 14
N-Gage - 10
Game.Com - 18
Gizmondo - 8
Wonderswan - 8
Zodiac - 4
Game Wizard - 10
Xbox - 55
Xbox 360 - 57
3DO - 38
CD-I - 35
Amiga CD32 - 13
Telstar Arcade - 4
Fairchild Channel F - 20
APF MP1000 - 12
Arcaida 2001 - 19
Odyssey - 10
Odyssey 2 - 48
Bally Astrocade - 29
Colecovision - 16
Intellivision - 64
RCA Studio II - 10
Vectrex - 27
Ti99-4A - 7
Action Max - 5
FlashBack Systems - 12

Total Count = 10,873
Various CIB Game Systems - 238
Arcade Games - 44
PCB Boards - 32

Maybe I can take some of those Game King and Gamate games off your hands

[PapaStu | 47]

Currently, one game larger than my collection was in 2023.  It'll get bigger though, there's always more to eventually appear so I can add it to the wall.

[drxandy | 3,235]

Ya know I've had Atari stuff (not a lot, but a heavy sixer and maybe 30 loose games) for many many years but since I don't actively collect it, haven't added it to my count. Next year's list I'm gonna add it and hopefully a little more Atari since it was my first console experience along with the 800xl computer, thanks dad.

[CT | 93]

13 hours ago, fcgamer said:

I really hate the idea of people possibly defining me by my games, whenever I host parties or invite friends / dates / family over. It's certainly a part of my life, and it's certainly not something I am ashamed of, but at the same time feeling like I have to "explain" it or "justify" it anytime a non-game collector is over doesn't sound very fun, especially when my actual time playing games and the like is quite limited.  

This is a really interesting point and I'm curious how others feel. I would assume most of us are not ashamed, but we may not want to be judged or labeled by others due to our collections.

Personally, I feel like this is who I am and I let it all hang out. I have Donkey Kong, Mario, Zelda and more stuff behind me in my Zoom background (I work from home and take lots of meetings). I play Dungeons & Dragons. I love having my game collection on display, and I love showing anyone my shelves (although they probably are not as excited about my DK Jr. Math as I am). Games are meant to be displayed  (jk)

I know some folks do not want to show off their collection to people due to safety concerns (lot of value there).

And I believe @fcgamer that you play music, work, enjoy food...games are just a small part of who you are and not one thing defines you. I have plenty of other hobbies as well.

Also, the people who come over to your place may have garages full of games and will just throw them away because they had no clue you would be interested in it. I tell everyone I know for that reason.

But I do hear you.

At this point in my life, IDGAF, this is me. And I celebrate other people's passion, if it makes you happy then have at it!

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,013]

13 hours ago, RpgCollector said:

Homebrew/hacks/translation repo’s (all systems) - 1,152

There's the money shot.

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,013]

44 minutes ago, CT said:

At this point in my life, IDGAF, this is me.

I feel the same way but have the same view towards displaying my collection as he does. For context, I have built in shelves at the back of my basement that holds my collection and most people that come over never even ask or acknowledge it besides, "Damn that's a lot of games. Remember playing xyz?".

I don't really care what people who don't share my hobby think so I don't need to have it front and center in my house to invite people who don't know or care about my hobby to provoke a conversation. In my experience, most conversation with non collectors go in a couple directions. 1) it's space 2) it's money or 3) it's useless. After you have this conversation a ton of times, it becomes tiring.

So since I don't care what people think, I don't provoke their responses by putting my games front and center - and my wife wouldn't have it lol. In the living room I have a Xbox Series X with the OEM Star Field wrap with the Star Field controller under the TV and my HDMI N64 above that. Those alone have been enough to spark any other closeted gamer or collector to start asking questions. 

[CT | 93]

2 hours ago, RegularGuyGamer said:

In my experience, most conversation with non collectors go in a couple directions. 1) it's space 2) it's money or 3) it's useless. After you have this conversation a ton of times, it becomes tiring.

I definitely see your point. And I would imagine it depends on:

a.  How large a collection you have 

b.  Where it is located in your place.

c.  How many guests come to your house

d.  How much you have spent on certain items and willingness to disclose that

 

I have a small collection and a small amount of guests so it doesn't bother me too much, but I could see where it would become tiresome to talk about!

Edited January 23 by CT

[Khromak | 768]

I don't have a lot of guests and when I did they didn't really see my collection (it's in a somewhat tucked away area). Unless someone saw the arcade games and wandered over this way, they wouldn't normally have a reason to come by my game room.

However, I have definitely experienced that conversation, when I'm telling someone (at work, or otherwise) about something I'm excited to have bought, or looking to buy, or whatever. Often times the price will come up and there's an awkward conversation about why I spent all this money on a video game when it's a down payment on a car. It's not necessarily a judgment conversation, but it's definitely a shock to most people.

I know a lot of people on here tend to be thriftier and have hard limits of not spending over $100/game or whatever, but I've spent a fairly significant chunk of change on a few of the games I have and whenever I share that with friends/family/co-workers there's always some sticker shock of what I could've otherwise spent that money on.

[Quaze | 342]

I'm at like 3000-3500 games, and pretty happy with where it's at. Most of my collection budget goes towards displays, signs etc these days, but definitely happy with the state of the collection. Only picking up the most-wanted games these days, no room for filler. lol

[Dr. Morbis | 2,089]

11 hours ago, CT said:

This is a really interesting point and I'm curious how others feel. I would assume most of us are not ashamed, but we may not want to be judged or labeled by others due to our collections.

For me it's more of a safety/not wanting to get robbed concern than anything else, but outside of my two game rooms with locks on the doors (and the arcade games in the basement), walking through the common areas of my house you wouldn't even know that I own a single game or console...

[wyansas | 131]

A bit less than 2000 I would guess (I should probably recount sometime soon) the two biggest components being in the NES and a sizable (~240) original Xbox collection.  I used RFgeneration to track everything but NES and then Google Sheets to keep track of my NES stuff.  Pretty happy with where I'm at, and now I really only look for a few rare NES variants and international versions of Super Mario Bros.  And I have hundreds of NES games I need to sell that I didn't include in the count haha.  Damn I have a lot to do.

[TDIRunner | 2,742]

I track everything in Excel which I keep saved on OneDrive so I can access it from my home computer or my phone if I'm in a game store.  Excel is great, because I don't have to worry about some types of games not being included in the list.  I also use it for tracking all of my consoles, controllers and accessories.  I also have a tab with a pivot table for tracking the total number of games along with how many are from each system.  I didn't open it this morning to get the specific number, but I know I'm a little north of 3,000 titles.  Approximately 25% of that is PS1.  The other biggest sets are PS3 and PS4.  

In addition to my overall collection tracker in Excel, I also keep a second excel tracker specifically for PS1.  The second workbook is more of a checklist for the entire NA set, along with the breakdown between long box, black label jewel case, greatest hits, and collector's editions.  Since I track PS1 in two spreadsheets, I have a check figure set to the total game count to make sure there isn't a difference between the two lists (adding a game to one, but not the other).  

[benstylus | 11]

Right now at about 2200 physical and 1700 digital games.

 

I help run a local convention with a large videogame room though so it's not all stuff I bought for me.

[DefaultGen | 5,411]

11 minutes ago, benstylus said:

Right now at about 2200 physical and 1700 digital games.

 

I help run a local convention with a large videogame room though so it's not all stuff I bought for me.

Benstylus? What's up? Branching out from the ol' UGTZ?

[DarkKobold | 191]

On 1/23/2024 at 12:07 PM, RegularGuyGamer said:

I feel the same way but have the same view towards displaying my collection as he does. For context, I have built in shelves at the back of my basement that holds my collection and most people that come over never even ask or acknowledge it besides, "Damn that's a lot of games. Remember playing xyz?".

I don't really care what people who don't share my hobby think so I don't need to have it front and center in my house to invite people who don't know or care about my hobby to provoke a conversation. In my experience, most conversation with non collectors go in a couple directions. 1) it's space 2) it's money or 3) it's useless. After you have this conversation a ton of times, it becomes tiring.

So since I don't care what people think, I don't provoke their responses by putting my games front and center - and my wife wouldn't have it lol. In the living room I have a Xbox Series X with the OEM Star Field wrap with the Star Field controller under the TV and my HDMI N64 above that. Those alone have been enough to spark any other closeted gamer or collector to start asking questions. 

I almost see my collection as different - I can't imagine someone "knowing me" but also trying to hide what I consider a huge part of my life. I host a lot of get togethers for local friends, and our joining factor is mostly that we collect video games (actually, most of those are past tense, but I digress). 

Collecting has been such a big part of my life, that if people don't like my collection, they can GTFO of my house. Luckily, collecting hasn't just brought me video games, it's brought me so many great close friends that are friends for life, regardless of whether or not they continue to collect. 

So in short, I do care what people think, because it's a good judge of whether or not I want them in my life.