Thoughts on Alphabetizing

[Fleach]

Similar to the Bond games question... How would you guys display Star Tropics and Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics 2? They're part of the same series so would they go side by side? Or is strict alphabetical order of higher importance?

[NES_Rules]

Similar to the Bond games question... How would you guys display Star Tropics and Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics 2? They're part of the same series so would they go side by side? Or is strict alphabetical order of higher importance?

I stick with strictly alphabetical on titles like that. There's a few other NES series like that, Legend of Zelda & Zelda II: The Adventure of Link also comes to mind. I've tried putting them together, but first there's the decision of which one will be "right" and which one won't be. But to me, it just looked wrong to have an out of order title. The Adventures of Lolo also annoys me with its end label that just says "Lolo". Every time I see that I think its in the wrong spot on the shelf.

[techwizard]

i hate nes games for their end labels not always matching the full title. also for me i would put the star tropics ones under "Star Tropics", and the zelda ones under "Legend of Zelda" because those are the series names. then within that it would be in release order, so on the shelf in would be Star Tropics, then Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics 2, in the S section. and for zelda Legend of Zelda, and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link in the L's.

i like having things alphabetical like that so that if i have a specific game in mind i have a good idea where to look for it on the shelf...like if it starts with L, then i'll go straight to about the middle of the collection for example. and keeping the series together just makes it easier to know where they'll be if you have a system like that which is uniform throughout your game room. that being said, my collection isn't properly sorted either XD i have the majority of it that way but the odd game will be out of place, and some series aren't grouped together properly. i really need to fix that.

[Crabmaster2000]

I like having things mostly alphabetized. I make exceptions for things like Startropics and Zoda's Revenge or Wizard's & Warriors and Ironsword. I didn't make an exception for Contra, Contra Force, Super C though since the word Contra isn't in the title. Kind of bugs me, but it would bug me the other way too. Jaleco on the end of the label though is the worst!!!!

[nupoile]

Since I did actually put my NES collection in more or less alphabetical order, I did wonder what others did with certain games. I figured lots of people would put all (both) Legend of Zelda games in the "L" section. To me, those games go in the "Z" section. If some non-gamer were to come to my house and want to play The Legend of Zelda, were would they look for it? Most people, I'm sure, remember playing "Zelda" back in the day. I bet many people here would just say, "I'm going to play Zelda." So, I just put those games at the end of the alphabet.

@Crabmaster - Yeah! What's up with Jaleco? What were they thinking?

[noiseredux]

I always put Zelda games under L... but it's annoying that the 2nd game is the only one to not have "The Legend of" in front of its title.