The importance of keeping track of your gaming collection

[Troglodyte]

Try plugging and unplugging this in a few times and see what happens ..............

As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of the argument right there... I've bent those S-Video pins too many times to count. Yesterday, I actually bent off a pin inside a $30 Gold GC Monster Audio/S-Video cable that I was using for one of my SNES consoles. I assume that since it was made of a certain percentage of Gold, it bent easier, and I didn't realize that one of the pins didn't get inserted into the holes, as it felt like it pressed in correctly. Instead, it got severely bent. I tried to carefully bend it back, but it snapped right off.

And yes, I'm usually a very careful collector, but whoever engineered
the S-Video cable connector standard, should be disemboweled.

[crux]

I've gotta ask, do you guys with every console under the sun plugged in actually play all of them on a regular enough basis to have them out? Even with only three I can go for over a week without using one of them. And I don't know what you guys are doing to damage your cables...

I quite literally have hundreds of games I haven't completed, not to mention a very strong inclination for arcade genres. Pick up and play necessitates the ability to, well, pick up and play. Smaller collections are a different story, but any collection with a great variety will draw games from many different consoles. Assuming I switch games at all, there's a statistically high probability that the choice will be for a different console. Unless, of course, I only hook up a fraction of my total consoles. Sometimes ease of use supersedes variety.

[MrPopo]

I've gotta ask, do you guys with every console under the sun plugged in actually play all of them on a regular enough basis to have them out? Even with only three I can go for over a week without using one of them. And I don't know what you guys are doing to damage your cables...

Aside from the 3DO, yes I do. I tend not to play a single game for a long session these days, unless I really get sucked into it, like Etrian Odyssey. So I might do one dungeon in Grandia 2, then do a few plays through Mushi Futari, then move over to the Saturn and do a battle in SF3.

[t0yrobo]

Well I guess my game ADD is much more mild than I thought .

[Dakinggamer87]

I keep track of my gaming collection to avoid buying duplicates and have an inventory of what I own.

[skyknight]

OK, didn't expect to get a wide degree of responses to this topic.

Anyway, since I have 7 consoles from different generations (I hope this is right!), and bought at least 6 games for each consoles, I should have probably around 100 game titles sitting in my home, which I lost track on maybe half of them.

Think I should spend a whole day looking through the house, finding the games and organizing them, and type in each game I have?

[Inazuma]

I had a really hard time connecting my PC-FX with S-video yesterday. Those damn S-video connectors are quite tricky and easy to break. I really need to get a tall shelf next to my TV so I have room for more consoles. I hate having to store some in the closet.

[Hobie-wan]

I don't get why so many people are having issues with s-video plugs. Yes they're not as robustly designes at they can be, but you look for the alignment notch and plug in. If you are constancly trying to plug behind the TV, either get a short extension you can get ot easier or have a switchbox you can pull and look at before plugging.

I guess this explains all the old consoles I see with the AV and controller plugs beat to crap by jamming the plugs in?

[noiseredux]

OK, didn't expect to get a wide degree of responses to this topic.

Anyway, since I have 7 consoles from different generations (I hope this is right!), and bought at least 6 games for each consoles, I should have probably around 100 game titles sitting in my home, which I lost track on maybe half of them.

Think I should spend a whole day looking through the house, finding the games and organizing them, and type in each game I have?

yes. Sites like rfgeneration offer online databases so you can track yr collection and even look stats (how many games from each system, what region, etc).

[Barry the Nomad]

I've used Play Fire to organize my games and consoles:
http://www.playfire.com/Barry

Most awesome thing is, it will automatically add PS3 and 360 games to the list when you play them via a connection with your gaming profile.