How is Your Game Collection Sorted? Segregated or Interraccial?

[PDDestro]

System -> Alphabetical

There is an exception, however.  My PS1 and PS2 games are intermingled so to speak, since the spines look so similar.

Almost like this, but with a caveat, I only intermingle PS1 games with PS2 if they are part of a series; e.g. Suikoden.

[the7k]

Man, so no one organizes it by genre like I do? If I want to play a 2D Fighter, I don't wanna look all over my collection. King of Fighters is very far away from Vampire Savior alphabetically.

[V3rtigo]

just plain alpha. the only thing that bothers me about it is the cd cased ps1 games which will have to be replaced with dvd cases.

[nodge2k]

Man, so no one organizes it by genre like I do? If I want to play a 2D Fighter, I don't wanna look all over my collection. King of Fighters is very far away from Vampire Savior alphabetically.

I like the concept, I just have problems of wondering how to implement it. Do you take sub-genres into account for example. Taking your example of beat-em ups and you're looking for Street Fighter II Turbo for example, is it under beat-em-up>2D or is it just under beat-em-ups. Also, what do you do about games that span multiple genres or are the only game in a particular genre.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking how you are doing things. I'm intrigued about how you do things. If you could answer me these questions and explain something that might work for me. I'd be more than happy to implement it. I just feel like I know where everything is in an Console>alphabetical collection. The only problem with this is when I think "I want to play Soul Calibur II today. Oh crap, which version did I buy/which version is my good save on." which I guess is reduced if you know that all your fighting games are together.

[sheep2001]

Man, so no one organizes it by genre like I do? If I want to play a 2D Fighter, I don't wanna look all over my collection. King of Fighters is very far away from Vampire Savior alphabetically.

I have my PS1/2 fighters and PS1/2 football(soccer) games split from the main collection - the rest are by system, then alpha

[the7k]

Well, the games are further separated from genre into developer. I kinda consider Capcom fighter to be a completely different animal from SNK fighter, and I have Capcom's 3D fighters right next to their 2D ones. It really depends on what your into how you'd implement it. For example, I consider Beat 'em Ups completely different from Fighters, so I have games like Guardian Heroes and Die Hard Arcade right in the middle of my fighters and shmups. Shmups then lead to Rail-Shooters, which then lead to FPSs, etc etc.

As for 'unique' games, they pretty much go with my 'rhythm' games, so I have Cosmic Smash right next to Space Channel 5.

[nodge2k]

Well, the games are further separated from genre into developer. I kinda consider Capcom fighter to be a completely different animal from SNK fighter, and I have Capcom's 3D fighters right next to their 2D ones. It really depends on what your into how you'd implement it. For example, I consider Beat 'em Ups completely different from Fighters, so I have games like Guardian Heroes and Die Hard Arcade right in the middle of my fighters and shmups. Shmups then lead to Rail-Shooters, which then lead to FPSs, etc etc.

As for 'unique' games, they pretty much go with my 'rhythm' games, so I have Cosmic Smash right next to Space Channel 5.

Seems pretty well thought out and makes a lot more sense if that's how your mind works