They definitely have me beat, though I have the largest game collection of anyone I know (atleast until I starting selling some of it on ebay, $$ is tight right now lol). Last time I counted I was up around 150 games across 5 platforms (counting windows PC as 1).

195 TOTAL GAMES
55 PC 28%
35 Xbox 17%
18 X360 9%
18 GB 9%
16 DC 8%
14 PS 7%
12 GCN 6%
9 GBA 4%
7 SNES 3%
6 PS2 3%
2 DS 1%
2 GBC 1%
1 Web 0%

Favored platform: PC
Favored publisher: Nintendo
Favored developer: Nintendo
Estimated value of collection: $4,780.13
IGN Editors' avg. score: 8.6

I'm loving that Intellivision ][ he's got stashed on the bottom shelf by the Gamecube. That was our first console in my family household. We still have the system + all the games, although the contacts are worn to the point where you can't boot the cartridge half the time and you're jiggling the cartridge and blowing into the port and all that stuff. I'm one of those freaks that buys the Intellivision Lives! discs when they come out. This guy is my new hero.

Also, my collection (based on what I've entered at IGN) is only around 150 games.

Can you imagine how much porn this guy has?

wow there are less games in my local video game store.

So far I have 3 games, I am really getting close wouldn't you say?

T-Bird's Estimated Value of his Collection is $29,200.00? Wow.

I think I'd be more ashamed than proud...At least half of all the games released for a system are total crap. At least you're being a good consumer :)

I'm sure he bought most of those games in a large sale/auction lots, specifically to collect them, that or he's independently wealthy.

Ready to be amazed?

http://videogamecollectors.com/

Behold video game collecting at its finest!

Wow. He is one of the few proud owners of a Sega Saturn. Glad to know somebody other then me kept theirs.

Only some 90 bought when new computer games, pretty much stopped playing anything but certain few games at one point. Have bought a few from ebay too since.

Two Amiga game I really regret not having bought new are Mega Lo Mania and Another World. I think those are in the Amiga top 5 and alltime top 20.

Man o man I do not come close, this is my collection which has some holes in it as well as I am pretty bad on updating when I get a new game.
http://users.ign.com/collection/StormBringerGT

I collect as well but I've limited my purchasing for now to just consoles/PC's. I probably have about 15-20 or so consoles and "old PC" (Like an Atari XL, C64 etc) Plus about 300+ games (PC and consle) I would have had a LOT more but years ago when I went off to college my mom ended up having a massive yard sale which she sold off most of my collectables (and yes, since then I've forgiven mom). Some of the valuable stuff sold was about 30+ issues (bagged and sealed) of Electronic Games magazine from 1982-1985, my TRS-80 computer, my orginal C64 with about 200+ games. I think once my basement is finished I'll start collecting more.

BTW T-Bird, nice collection!

Wow that is beyond belief, how long would it take it to actually calculate the value of a collection like that!
o and btw is 'shutter' just an American phrase or did u mean 'shudder' Steve?

I run a custom built access database to track all my media. If I include dvd movies and all software then my total comes to 1421. Just games is only 1103 so T-Bird still has me beat. Games cover 23 systems: (# of games)
32x (17)
3DO (59)
dreamcast (30)
game gear (26)
game.com (8)
gameboy (68)
gamecube (33)
genesis (39)
jaguar (13)
nintendo 64 (33)
nintendo ds (6)
NES (41)
PC (311)
playstation (51)
ps2 (107)
psp (7)
saturn (67)
sega master system (45)
snes (22)
turbo grafx 16 (6)
vitual boy (13)
xbox (91)
xbox 360 (10)

Well...pretty much none of these games are from "large auctions/lots" except a few Saturn and Genesis titles I got in one big order from ebay.

Gamestats estimates each title at $25.00 - considering I have some I couldn't get rid of for $2.00, but others I could charge over $200.00 for, that's probably about accurate. None of this counts hardware costs however (and the PC upgrade cycle is a killer). Btw - many high priced rare games are saturn releases (Dragon Force 1 & 2, Panzer Dragoon Saga, and Radiant Silvergun, for example).

Technically, this list is incomplete, as Gamestats doesn't even have listings for about 30 titles I own.

I try to avoid garbage games, so you'll find very few in there. I think the 32x could have been a pretty fair system -IF- it had gotten the support it deserved.

Everything on there is legit. I either paid for it, it was given to me, or it is has been made freely available. Now if only I had time to actually play this stuff...

And lastly - there is a small element of shame at times - the game room (officially called "the office") is like OFF Deep Woods (a strong insect repellant) for women ;)

A link to some (year old) pictures:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aus_tbird/album?.dir=f12f&.src=ph

T-Bird, in your pic's is that an old Commodore 64 (model #1701 or 02) RGB monitor??? The color and sharpness on that tube was amazing (Probably still is great for old consoles) Unfortunately mine broke many years ago and I never got it fixed.

DJ

Good job, Steve! You took a forum posting and challenged it on the front page! :-)

I have a brilliant program that helps you collect info about your games and puts it to a database called Games Collector and I have exported my games (current at time of posting the list!) to a website (http://www.angelfire.com/bc3/briancostelloe/).

I haven't yet added my PC stuff to the list as I focus more on consoles and I am tempted to include my old Game & Watches to that list!

I've only got 39 games. 36 pc and 3 nes. I don't have (or want) any other platforms. I've basicly only got really "top" games. I don't game that much and only buy 5 or so a year, and those generally are the 5 best games that came out that year. I just don't play the rest. (Or I pirate them). I don't game that much as I used to anyways.

Owning them is easy, but where to find the time to play them all?

I don't buy many games, well not compared to these guys :) but even then I've no enough time to play them as often as I want them.

Games like Civilization 4, Galactic Civilizations 2, World of Warcraft, they eat time like there is no tomorrow.

I find I start enjoying games like Oasis and Weird Worlds more and more because of my time constraints :) Games like Society are sure to get my attention now, I time there's a big market to be had in games that offer a lot of satisfaction for a little bit of needed time.

The indies are after it already, I think the big publishers will also realize this some time soon.

I interviewed Hugh Falk for OnTheSPoTGames last year and he had an insane amount of games. The interview and photos can be found here:

http://tinyurl.com/s46dd

If that link does not work, they are in the Retro PC Games SPoT at the forum.

He was moving at the time and selling off some of his collection so chances are his collection isn't as large as it was in these photos. I can say I was thorougly impressed!! The other links posted by Steve are equally as impressive. Wow!

Heres mine ;)

http://users.ign.com/collection/XxaLiCeInChAiNsxX?showAsOthersSeeIt=1&objType=1&lid=1

That list is missing a few though, theres a couple DC games, PS1 games, Genesis games, and GB+GBA games.

I own 5 games. I like to run and be active hence my decision not to be a loser and play video games while my ass expands exponentially by the week.

I have, at most, 500 games. This really is nothing to brag about. Please don't estimate how much money I sunk into them, that's just depressing. If I played all of my games over again, how long would it take? It boggles the mind.

Hey rob, welcome :)

I happen to be 153 lbs, in pretty good shape, and right in the ideal body mass range for my age and height (actually, a bit on the low side even, but still "ideal"). Just FYI. I look forward to reading more of your posts :)

Here collecting in Portland, OR. I'm known in all of the game stores around town...I have approximately 1400 games right now for Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Gamecube, N64, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Dreamcast, Atari 2600 and 7800, and of course including the 705 games I have for the NES. My wife looks like she's going to explode every time a new eBay shipment shows upo at our door - hehe. I'm currently converting my garage into an arcade to store and display all of them, as they're all in tubs under the bed right now. I dunno if it will look like Gibby's, but I'm shooting for gaming comfort also, with La Z Boys and all.

I had a NES when I was a kid but didn't really took care of it. So right now, I only have 92 PC games (total owned and not played) and it's mostly RPGs.

Favored platform: PC
Favored publisher: Interplay
Favored developer: Blizzard
Estimated value of collection: $2,234.69
IGN Editors' avg. score: 8.6
Line6's avg. score: 8.5

Here's my collection:

users.ign.com/collection/wesleyte

1449 TOTAL GAMES

Favored platform: PlayStation 2
Favored publisher: Nintendo
Favored developer: Capcom
Estimated value of collection: $32,633.52
IGN Editors' avg. score: 8.1
wesleyte's avg. score: 8.9

-Wes

heres an idea of what I have:

Play Station 2

1. James Bond 007 Nightfire
2. The Simpsons Hit and Run
3. NHL 2003 (EA Sports)
4. Jak and Daxter
5. Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc
6. Dark CloudThe Wrath
7. Kingdom Hearts
8. World Soccer Tour 2006
9. Sly Cooper
10. Sly 2
11. Sly 3
12. Treasure Planet
13. Red Dead Revolver
14. Rayman Arena
15. Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex
16. Eye Toy Play
17. Triple Play Baseball (EA Sports)
18. Sega Super Stars (eye toy)
19. Jeremy McGrath Supercross World
20. Ratchet and Clank
21. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
22. Jak 2
23. World Soccer Winning Eleven 6
24. Tony Hawk’s Underground
25. Tony Hawk’s Underground 2
26. NBA Live 2003 (EA Sports)
27. James Bond 007 Everything or Nothing
28. Call of Duty Finest Hour
29. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
30. Gretzky 2005 (989 Sports)
31. Madden 2003 (EA Sports)
32. Spider-Man
33. Grand Theft Auto Vice City
34. Grand Theft Auto 3

Xbox

1. Halo
2. Halo 2
3. Halo 2 Expantion Pack
4. Outlaw Golf
5. Mafia
6. Sims Bustin Out
7. Crimson Skies
8. TimeSplitters 2
9. FIFA Street
10. Sega GT 2002 and Jetset Radio Future
11. Dead to Rights
12. Peter Jackson’s King Kong
13. Star Wars Battle Front
14. Project Gotham Racing 2 and Arcade

Gamecube

1. Super Mario Sunshine
2. SpongeBob Sqaurepants Battle for Bikini Bottom
3. Crash Nitro Kart
4. Agressive Inline
5. Tom and Jerry War of the Whiskers
6. Sonic Adventure Battle 2
7. Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
8. Mario Power Tennis
9. Reign of Fire
10. NHL Hitz 2002
11. NHL 2005
12. NCAA Football 2005
13. Zapper
14. Luigi’s Mansion
15. Enter the Matrix
16. The Legend of Zelda Collector’s Edition Promotional Disc
17. The Sims Bustin’ Out
18. Metroid Prime
19. Tak 2 The Staff of Dreams
20. The Hobbit

Mac (computer)

1. Diablo
2. Diablo 2 (have 2)
3. Diablo 2 Epantion Pack
4. The Sims
- Vacation
- Super Star
5. Tony Hawk’s Proskater 4

Play Station

1. The Dukes of Hazzard Racing for Home
2. Crash Team Racing
3. Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
5. Tarzan
6. The Grinch
7. Rugrats Search for Reptar
8. Crash Bandicoot
9. Tomba! 2 The Evil Swine Return
10. Spyro the Dragon
11. Grand Theft Auto
12. Grand Theft Auto 2
13. Spyro Year of the Dragon (have 2)
14. Muppet Race Mania
15. Croc Legend of the Gobbos
16. The Bombing Islands
17. Micro Maniacs Racing
18. Spider-Man
19. Hot Wheels Extreme Racing
20. Crash Bandicoot Warped
21. Pro Pinball Big Race USA
22. Championship Motorcross Featuring Ricky Carmichael
23. Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories
24. Gran Turismo
25. Cool Boarders 4
26. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
27. Bust-A-Move
28. Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
29. Power Rangers Time Force
30. A Bug’s Life
31. Tony Hawk’s Proskater 3

Game Boy Color

1. Pitfall
2. Zelda Oracle of Seasons
3. Spider-Man
4. Wacky Racers
5. Pokemon Pinball
6. Dragon Warrior Monsters
7. Pokemon Gold Version
8. Pokemon Crystal Version
9. Powe Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
10. Pokemon Puzzle Challenge
11. Lucky Luke
12. Pokemon Blue Version
13. Pokemon Yellow Version
14. Pokemon Red Version
15. Shrek Fairy Tail Freak Down
16. Zelda Oracle of Ages
17. Paper Boy
18. Sesame Street Elmo’s 123s
19. Pokemom Silver Version
20. The Rugrats Movie
21. UNO
22. Monsters Inc

Game Boy Advance

1. Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters
2. Golden Sun
3. Yu-Go-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul (have 2)
4. Golden Sun the Lost Age
5. Spyro Season of Ice
6. Super Mario Advance

Systems
1. Play Sation - small version
2. Play Station 2 - have 3, 1 small and 2 big
3. Xbox
4. Gamecube - 3, 1 silver, 1 indigo, 1 black
5. Game Boy Advance - 2 indigo
6. Game Boy Color - 2 Yellow

Controllers

1. Play Station - 3
2. Play Staion 2 - 4
3. Xbox - 4
4. Gamecube - 6

Excessories

1. Screen for Play Station 2
2. Eye Toy
3. Game Boy player for Gamecube
4. 2 head sets for Xbox
5. Gun for Xbox

Memory Cards

1. about 15 for all systems

I also have a lot of extra stuff like cords for Game Boys, etc