Memory Card

This collection here is the 1,115 games I owned in my collection from the early 1990's until the late 2000's.

Due to space concerns and needing money for going back to college, I decided to start selling games. I am not counting anything on Steam/PC I have played or bought since 2007.

I received a NES some time around 1988, and had maybe a dozen games for it, maybe a few more. My brother sold them years later so I don't exactly recall, and therefore I don't include that as part of my "game collection." I include when I got a Sega Genesis with Sonic 2, and it ended after I only bought 3 PS3 games, and with going to college and getting a good gaming laptop, I was playing less console games.

As the years passed, I was nostalgic about my old collection of games, and the fact that I used to have a site where I documented my PSX games, but it was never completed, and I wanted every US dreamcast game, and that site was never completed. Combine this with the fact that I had about 10 images of my old game collection, but they appear to not exist anymore because I didn't take backups back then, and archive.org didn't catch them. So I decided to rebuild my collection digitally.

I went out and got exactly all 1,115 games I had in my original collection in rom/iso format, as a "legal backup", because I bought all of my games originally, and did not get any less or any more than my 1,115. The chase to get the last 10% was quite fun, as was the collecting of them again and scouring the most proper of dumps. I even had to buy a game1 just because a good dump of it didn't seem to exist in the internet, and then I dumped it for Redump myself.

Only thing, was that when I reached 100% of my collection back, there was an emptiness that did not replace the 4-5 small bookcases I had in my basement in 2003. Perhaps it's not about how getting all of my games back let me down, perhaps it was more like that I expected this to transport me back to a time when things were more simple. I just needed to worry about playing video games and anything else wasn't that important.

Instead of a couple racks of games, I now have a 465 gigabyte chunk of games on a spare hard drive. It takes up less space, but it's not the same. If you give a dog a bone, when you later show him a photocopy of a picture of a bone, what does he do? He just looks at you.

As it stands now, this list functions as the best way for me to stay in touch with my old game collection, see how many of them I've actually played, but also share it with others.

Because in reality, this collection is sealed in time, it will never shrink, it will never grow, and my memories for it involve me in a locked room, called memory, and that's the only place where it will truly exist.

32X (5 games)

32X CD (2 games)

3DO (34 games)

Arcade (6 games)

Atari 2600 (8 games)

Dreamcast (92 games)

GameCube (4 games)

Gameboy Advance (2 games)

Genesis (144 games)

NES (36 games)

Neo Geo MVS (14 games)

Nintendo DS (2 games)

PSP (13 games)

PlayStation (592 games)

PlayStation 2 (104 games)

PlayStation 3 (3 games)

SNES (41 games)

Saturn (9 games)

Sega CD (3 games)

Xbox (1 game)

  1. Beatmania IIDX 8th Style https://redump.info/disc/43856↩