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So many of us know tips and ideas for collecting games. You see the posts on what types of shelving and how to display pretty regularly. I'm curious though, if you collect game swag? How do you sort it, catalog it etc? Do you have any interesting items that you got for free? I have several plastic drawers full of stuff but it seems so inefficient.

I have some random swag but my favorites are my Suikoden store display signs. I found both of them on ebay with the Suikoden V limited art print and got all 3 of them for about $18 shipped. I had been seeing the art print by itself listed and selling for around $30 so I felt awesome when it came in the mail.

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EDIT: I knew this topic felt familiar... http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=11735.0

Those look Nice like that! Great to see other Suikoden fans.I have several of those Suikoden signs. I'm also trying to figure out the best ways to organize all my extra stuff. Maybe it's hopeless and I should pile it in the floor and swim through it like scrooge mcduck..lol

Our last community playthrough before this current one was playing suikoden together. It was my first experience and I loved the game. If the second one wasn't so expensive, I would be all over it.

in terms of swag, I always collect anything gaming related, whether it be VHS, stuffed animals, coins, or toys. I grab it. I don't have any way of documenting or sorting it, it is boxed up with all the giant collector's edition stuff I get.

Boshamp-Suikoden II is one of my all time favorite games. It is just amazing. So glad you got to experience the first one.

I guess my biggest problem with my swag is, I know I have something but then it is coming down to in which place did I see it last. I went to Ikea and bought some smaller boxes to try and organize and label the boxes by item type. I had plastic drawers full but the weight of the stuff tends to crush other stuff, so I'm trying to not just loosely toss things into drawers.

Suikoden II is scheduled for the September playthrough... ;)
I tend to use floating shelves to help display smaller memorabilia, or some of the floating boxes.

This is an older picture, and things are kinda flopped on the shelves at this point, but you get the idea:
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For printed materials a suggestion i have read but never seen(or maybe just thought of?) was to run fishing line just beneath the ceiling and lay them on top. They get displayed but don't get damaged from ape/tacks/that oily-shit that supposedly comes off and leaves no damage.

I love those tiny drawers there in the corner. I also like your shelving because it is not as restrictive as bookshelves and you have storage space below that. This picture in the center of the room looks like how my stuff looks right now. Really hoping to move into a house and get it more organized.

Suikoden II playthrough would be great! I have been meaning to playthrough it again.

This is how my room looked around two years ago but now I have a much smaller room and more stuff.. *sigh

Fishing line may be a good idea.

"Center", eh? It's a lot better than it was in these images, and this was just one side of the room... This also doesn't account for what has spilled over outside of this room. I've got older photos from when I moved in, where the entire room is just shipping boxes, and my old apartment... let me find that video. I would definitely go with Izret's suggestion for printed items though, as maximizing any vertical space is the best solution as you can see what happens when you maximize horizontal space...  ;D

EDIT: Old video of the apartment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiS1V9qQFqQ

EDIT EDIT: OH! I have to take a picture of what I did with Juggernaut to save space...

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Most recent:
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Hey now,


I wish my gamin' stacks were this orderly and organized. Been slowly but steadily workin' on it, though.

Thanks all for the display ideas...

Wow that is a bunch of stuff that needs organizing. I love the pictures! This is what my game room looks like now.

That video is amazing!

Hey, I have that same Sonic hat, given to me courtesy of a certain forum member here...

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FWIW, I have swag all throughout the house. I just try to space it on whatever wall space is available. However, as a suggestion since you have an Ikea near, try grabbing either the square wall shelves or the "cat shelves" (Best way to describe it if you have a cat), and you can grab a cheap LED light to spotlight them.

Cat shelves, for reference:
[img width=540 height=411]http://hauspanther.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PreMadeCatClimbingshelves.jpg[/img]

Catshelf = anything the i-have-no-boundaries little so-and-sos can get on.

True, but I meant in particular the platform shelves that are recommended for cats to climb.

Nice hat, goes well with the helmet too! Is it the Optimus Prime voice changer one?

Those are certainly interesting shelves, I will have to look the next time I'm there. I only have swag in the game room due to cats and a two year old. I really do not need her grabbing up all my stuff, well I did give her an extra Harvest Moon plush because I had 4 dupes. 

I really need to start a Gamer Kitty thread...

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It's just the mask that straps over the face - no voice. As of 2 weeks ago, I now have 7 cats roaming the house. I keep the room closed because of them, and we moved things off the floor (besides environmental damage like flooding) to prevent them from crushing things. The cats are not light, nor are they the most graceful things. :'(
This pretty little boy here decided he had to have my attention when I was trying to catalog my N64 items a few months back. He's standing on his nail clippers out of spite, as he's a polydactyl and hates to have his dewclaw trimmed.

He is beautiful. I have two kitties and they are not allowed near my games. One eats our mail, she is pretty but crazy..lol

One eats plastic bags ($3000+ vet bill for some that got stuck), and has a slight alcohol problem...
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Another broke into a bread box and tore apart a bread loaf just to eat it, and is generally neurotic...
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Your cat is normal. I wish I had a video of when our largest male cat wanted my attention, and I ignored him since I was playing Halo 2... So, he decided to headbutt the controller right when I spawned into game, which caused me to throw a plasma grenade onto a teammate, teamkill my entire team and get booted from the game for multiple betrayals. The stories I have because of the cats... But, back to the swag! Picture incoming of Juggernaut:

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yeah create a gamer kitty thread ill start posting my pictures

He's also giving you the what's up look

The cat with the drinking habit has a twin --- in Iowa

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Your kitties are cute too Gamernick!

I remember that Juggernaut standee.