PC games are currently in a cabinet and due to storage space issues console games are storaged away simply in a box.

I keep track of them with a spreadsheet, didn't first think I'd need one as I'm not a collector per se and mostly buy only games that I know I'll play but still I ended up reaching the point when I didn't always remember had I already bought something and had to go and check.

Most of my games I store in clear plastic bins, each one labelled by system (PC, PS1, PS2, etc).

A handful I will keep out on a shelf either because I am actively playing them or as display items.

I don't keep an inventory of what I own because that is too much like work. 😜

I like to keep my games in their jewel cases, on racks. Just enjoy the sight of them. Many of them are release day copies I've kept with me since I was a kid in the 90's. Minus the copy of Fallout that was missing from it's jewel case. I suspect my brother had something to do with that while I was away at college. Ordered a replacement copy... but it's just not the same. Also turns out that of all the CD's I've spun back up, it's my release day purchase of WarCraft III which has shit the bed. I think I actually vaguely remember that being the case back in the late 00's when I was still having LAN parties with my friends after college. I'll want to get another copy of that at some point.

I did find I had to make a spreadsheet to organize them. Started off as which games I owned and where (CD-ROM or GOG), and whether I'd beaten it or not. Then it evolved into what are the system requirements? I need to know which retro system is best suited for it. So that's color coded. Then I started putting in the issue of Computer Gaming World where they reviewed it. Not for every game, and that part is still a work in progress. But sometimes as I'm perusing my library, I like to go back and read contemporary reviews to decide what to play next.

Namrok wrote on 2022-10-12, 13:40:

I did find I had to make a spreadsheet to organize them. Started off as which games I owned and where (CD-ROM or GOG), and whether I'd beaten it or not. Then it evolved into what are the system requirements? I need to know which retro system is best suited for it. So that's color coded. Then I started putting in the issue of Computer Gaming World where they reviewed it. Not for every game, and that part is still a work in progress. But sometimes as I'm perusing my library, I like to go back and read contemporary reviews to decide what to play next.

Pretty much what I do too, minus the reviews and for system requirements I list what graphics API the game uses and what system should be used for period correct experience and what for modded/enhanced experience. This year I also started to list the last time I had beat the game mostly just for fun.

I used to have a similar spreadsheet about that, which also had my serials for each applicable game so I don't have to dig em out. Also had columns of bots, APIs, emulateable (mainline DOSBox or PCem), etc.

I have many shelves for my almost 300 Big Box releases and DVD cased games and a few for my other systems for which I mostly rely on flashcards and ODEs so I don't have a ton of original media for. I used to do the spreadsheet thing, but I'm a very lazy person and always forgot or postponed updating it whenever I got new titles and as such lost track with the passage of time, so I ended up not really using it.
I mostly remember what I have and when I don't, it's a nice surprise to see something on the shelf that I had completely forgotten and even better so when I open up a big box and I find memorabilia or related material I put inside at some point.

To be honest - none, why should i?
I have a couple of boxes lurking around mostly Intelivision games i obtained with the console a couple of years ago (console #3) a few Amiga games have still a box which i kept it over the decades mostly to store the manuals due to that they still exist (divorce and all that turd). But no boxes of DOS games are left (that is i wasn't a doze user but had three games for my dads PC, SimCity, SimEarth & Populous, Simearth incl. box, manual & "daisy planet" he gifted to a kid while i was off for a decade or so). Thus "why should i?" not enought to really take care of them.

Database? for the repeating same five games i play? Does that make sense?
What i recently guess of is to keep track of my saved games (amiga script project), extract some data and to make of this a game specific database.

I understand the need for it, this i do.

But i simply never cared much for cardboard it's the software which i like.
Some other even collect shipping boxes...
The opposite is me "no matter how the data is stored as long as i can play it"
or fiddle around with it.

I store mine on shelves. I track them by looking at them.

wiretap wrote on 2022-10-14, 11:14:

I store mine on shelves. I track them by looking at them.

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Is that a mini fridge full of NES games?

What mini fridge? I don't have one in the picture. My NES games are in another room.

wiretap wrote on 2022-10-14, 11:14:

I store mine on shelves. I track them by looking at them.

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You, sir, are evidently a man of culture and a gentleman and I approve everything I see in that picture.

Sombrero wrote on 2022-10-14, 13:36:

wiretap wrote on 2022-10-14, 11:14:

I store mine on shelves. I track them by looking at them.

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You, sir, are evidently a man of culture and a gentleman and I approve everything I see in that picture.

coughDiakatanacough

Namrok wrote on 2022-10-14, 13:38:

Sombrero wrote on 2022-10-14, 13:36:

wiretap wrote on 2022-10-14, 11:14:

I store mine on shelves. I track them by looking at them.

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You, sir, are evidently a man of culture and a gentleman and I approve everything I see in that picture.

coughDiakatanacough

It's a big box, so I approve EVERYTHING and regret nothing.

I actually adore Daikatana and am somewhat envious of that US release!

wiretap wrote on 2022-10-14, 11:14:

I store mine on shelves. I track them by looking at them.

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There's a nice-looking shelf, if I ever saw one!

All my physical boxed games are on shelves in my computer room. All my physical but loose disks are in storage bins in the closet in my computer room. All my digital games are in the ether and I track those with Gamecollectorz.

You can see my entire collection, physical and digital here:

https://cloud.collectorz.com/shagittarius/games

I don't need that DB to track my physical games, I can tell you what I have from my head, but for all the digital games, most of which I got for free or from some subscription service those I have to look up.

wiretap wrote on 2022-10-14, 13:15:

What mini fridge? I don't have one in the picture. My NES games are in another room.

That thing in the lower left. I guess it's a server rack?

Yea that's a 22U rackmount cabinet.