Are You a Game Collector?

[airboy]

I read the graphics carefully.  The survey seems to apply only to electronic games leaving out pencil & paper, pdfs, and tabletop games.

In terms of just electronic games - I "probably" own less than 500 including all of the gog games, expansions, Steam, and whatnot.
Unless you count all of the pinball games I have on my virtual pinball machine and that alone is 300 or so.  But those were freeware once I purchased the expensive hardware.

But if you include RPGs (including individual pdfs for modules) my number would skyrocket. I own hundreds of pdf modules for D&D, DCC, MCC, Call of Cthulhu, etc.....

If you include tabletop games, add another 50.

If you start counting books - well the skies the limit since I went to electronic books.

[ArizonaTank]

I read the graphics carefully.  The survey seems to apply only to electronic games leaving out pencil & paper, pdfs, and tabletop games.

Yes, sounds like they are talking about digital only.

I guess I am old fashioned...  It seems "empty" to say you are collecting something "digital." 

Persistence is so dependent on specific technologies. Not likely you will pass your "collection" onto the kids when you 'shuffle off this mortal coil.'

Having been around desktop technologies since the beginning, I really don't ever go back to lapsed technologies.

Some old game I still have in the garage, that can only be played on a C64 is just junk...no matter how much fun I had playing it 30+ years ago.

I guess hardware based games like old Atari cartridges might be an exception. You still can't play'em without the tech, but at least you can put'em on a shelf.

Now, a boardgame...well that is real, playable, until the cardboard disintegrates.

[SirAndrewD]

Hi, my name is Andrew, and I collect games.

[Toonces]

NERDS!!!

[-budd-]

Between Steam, GOG, and Matrix, think i'm pushing 500+ ......now a bunch of those are DLC's.....do they count? :) 

[airboy]

Between Steam, GOG, and Matrix, think i'm pushing 500+ ......now a bunch of those are DLC's.....do they count? :)

Only if you want them to.  This is not Alcoholics Anonymous (at least for this thread). 

[demjansk1942]

Hi, 'll y name is Bernie and I collect tokens from Moscow, Ussr

[MetalDog]

My Steam library says I have 43 games.  Many of them were GH Donations or gifts.  I haven't played all of them, just most.  And the ones I set my mind to I have 1000+ hours on.

[Bardolph]

No, I buy games I want to play, not to collect them. I have a lot of games, but that is a side effect.

[Martok]

Between Steam, GOG, GamersGate, Matrix/Slitherine, and a handful of older titles not tied to any DD platform, I have around 200 games -- a paltry number compared to most folks I know. 

As always, however, my problem is that I've played maybe only half of them, at least to any significant degree.  (Firing up a game and playing the tutorial doesn't count.)  Even with having reduced the number of games I purchase in a year, I still end up buying them faster than I can get to them.  (I sincerely admire Jarhead for managing to spend time with at least most of the stuff he picks up.)  :-\ 

[SirAndrewD]

I always THINK I'm going to play the games in my library.   They all interest me.  I just don't do it.

[Anguille]

I am a game collector...btw, my name is Anguille

[MC]

I am a game collector and my name is Mud if my wife finds out. 

[Sir Slash]

What happens at the Grogs, STAYS at the Grogs.  \m/

[airboy]

I went through my Steam Library.  I have 61 games.  Of those, 19 have been played less than 10 hours.  There are a couple that I played for half an hour and did not care for (Distant Worlds; Scythe) but the rest I've just not gotten around to yet but plan on playing.