Do You Put Your Games In Alphabetical Order?

[e_brugal]

All I know is people who sort Legend of Zelda games with the Z's instead of the L's are philistines.

Well not everyone,  I put that game not in Z neither on L,  I prefer to have it on T. The name of the game is " The legend of Zelda... " so it really should go on the T.

 

[wiggy]

then EVERY game which starts with "The" or "A" should be filed the same way

[pringlesman]

All I know is people who sort Legend of Zelda games with the Z's instead of the L's are philistines.

Well not everyone,  I put that game not in Z neither on L,  I prefer to have it on T. The name of the game is " The legend of Zelda... " so it really should go on the T.

 

[e_brugal]

then EVERY game which starts with "The" or "A" should be filed the same way

That's what I do 

[Gutling]

It's mostly alphabetical, but I also like to keep uniformity in my spines, so like with my Genesis games I'll have all my black grid cases together, all my red strips cases together, etc.

Sega Genesis makes me so sad looking at my collection. So many blended red spines looking good, then a few blacks splattered in. Then some random white sports games, and the oddball game that is just its own colors (menacer, king salmon)

They had it so right with master system lol

[sheep2001]

You're kidding?  We got about 4 different grids with sms, and then a few non grid releases thrown in to mess it up further.  Then activision decided they didn't want a white grid, so they made rampage red, and some others black.

[Seraph Man]

So, basically, no one believed in uniformity, and everyone wanted to be a special snowflake. Well, at least companies don't do that now.

Unless you count Platinum hits, or the new Mario games, or the one Luigi variant, or Greatest Hits...

No company ever believed in uniformity, apparently. They always have to have their stand out titles.

[sheep2001]

And let's not forget the rebrands they do half way through a consoles life.  My PS3 collection really irks me. Lol

[Megatron]

So, basically, no one believed in uniformity, and everyone wanted to be a special snowflake. Well, at least companies don't do that now.

Unless you count Platinum hits, or the new Mario games, or the one Luigi variant, or Greatest Hits...

No company ever believed in uniformity, apparently. They always have to have their stand out titles.

That's exactly why I don't buy GreatestHits or other variants.  And for the unavoidable ones, like Mario Wii, or Mario Kart 8, I just buy replacement shells and (if needed) grab a uniform cover off of TCP.  For the times when you find a rare or unique game that is a Greatest Hits, Platinum, etc, I typically just order a black label (or the system equivalent) authentic cover from offline.

The only one I have found that is truly a mess is PS3...and I only have a handful for that system anyway, so it doesn't bother me as much as others.  360 at least modified theirs to go from white with light green stripes to just white - something you have to squint in order to see.

[Nacho3]

I usually sort by system, with 'games in a series on the same system' next to one another.

I say 'usually' because I recently experimented with just keeping series together, with no regard for system. It looks kinda terrible (because it LOOKS unsorted), but it's also cool seeing, say, all the Castlevania games in one place. Sorting by series also underscores just how many Mario and Final Fantasy games there are though :\

I have thought about doing this because I would love to see all of my Halo games from all three Xbox systems together and Mario's etc. The main thing keeping me from doing it is my HD systems are in the living room and the retros are in a separate room, I don't want to go into a different room to grab a game to play. I'm sure I would not like the way it looks and separate them by system again anyway.

[shenske]

And let's not forget the rebrands they do half way through a consoles life. 

Ugh, these kill me. Some i have mixed (still in alphabetical) but some are just so different i leave them at the end of my games in their own alpha.

[wiggy]

All I know is people who sort Legend of Zelda games with the Z's instead of the L's are philistines.

Well not everyone,  I put that game not in Z neither on L,  I prefer to have it on T. The name of the game is " The legend of Zelda... " so it really should go on the T.

 

LOL!  That sums it up for me too

[redsox2012]

I can't sort my Genesis collection alphabetically because of the numerous cover variations.  I sort them my cover type and I'm happy with the result.  Unfortunately it means that many series of games are separated because the installments were released at different points in Sega's cover design scheme.

[hoverboots]

Yeah, I do. All my cased games are alphabetical, but my NES, SNES, and N64 carts are just sorta stacked in order of what I've played recently.

[Gutling]

I do ps1/ps2/ps3 greatest hits, dreamcast all-stars, sega mega hits, xbox/360 platinum hits, and gamecube players choice all on their own shelf separate from the "black" labels.