retrofanatic wrote:
Lol, very true, but thankfully I don't have anything lying around on the floor. Everything I have is on shelves or on top of a dresser 🤣 and pretty much contained in my "game room". If I had stuff lying on the floor that's when I know I have to get rid of it, so I try to keep it all on shelves as neat as possible so I can justify keeping it to myself (and to my gf 🤣). But I really need to organize what I have...especially my jewel case games. I do have a lot of stuff "lying around" in my garage and a closet or two 😵 ....but it's still "under control" but I think I will need to sell and/or trade some stuff soon to de-clutter a bit.
I've contemplated the same approach to organizing my games but I want to keep them all in one place as much as I can because there's always a chance that I want to play that game that I put away in storage, so I will have to come up with a good solution.
I know 🤣
But I do know that as long as I do nothing, then nothing will happen and my old solution wasn't very satisfying to begin with. This is how I've 'organized' my games the last couple years (it kinda evolved slowly by itself, so to speak).
I have a couple LAN weekends with a couple friends and that means either 2 or 3 rigs will be standing here (can't fit a 4th) and thus I basically have all the games we play regularly 3 times, but now I got part of my games in an old kinda tiny closet along with my old radio on top (the cassette deck doesn't work anymore though) and some audio CDs. This closet/cupboard thingy grew too small so I got a larger closet (really neat looking) and this is where I keep all my most modern games like UT2004 and games of basically that same era, but I also keep a part of my movie collection in here, and some boxes of random stuff.
And the other half of my movies collection (it's really not a big collection btw, maybe 30 or 40 movie DVDs or so) is in yet another cupboard along with stuff like empty envelopes and thus etc. But in reality, it's still a mess in the living room as everything is kinda organized, but not in a way that's very practical to me.
The other half of my games are stores in cardboard boxes under my bed and a few more are littered around the rest of the rooms here. So to me it's more about thinking about where to put what and sticking with that idea, so I have all my movies in 1 spot, all my games that I play often in 1 spot, all games that I will not play often will go into storage, but sorted in a way that I can find it again quickly without me actually having to remember where exactly it is (kinda like I already did with my hardware components)
It's ok if you have to walk through a couple rooms if you want to go fetch a game that you'd otherwise not play a lot, I think that's preferable to having to store all games in plain sight that I will hardly get used. If I'm done with any particular game (for instance if I haven't played it in a year or more) then it's time for that game to be put back into storage. And I've already sorted them by type of game, so 'modern' shooters all together, old shooters all together, all RPGs together. And games that I have many copies of (like my Sim City games) I store separately, but close to all the other simulation/building games.
All my boxes of TA go into 1 box, but I'll keep that box next or very close to the other boxes of RTS games. This way I can find stores games more quickly and it doesn't matter how many I actually have.
What would be best for me is to do it this way: First I'll obviously want to know what game to play. Then I can take a quick look to see if it's in the living room and if it's not, then it must be stored. Then I'll walk into my storage room (which is basically under my bed at this time) and take a peek at the (labeled!) boxes and simply get the box and open it. This is best as I wouldn't even need to remember where it was, I can just to take a quick look and in a minute I'll know for sure.
