As those in the chat know, because of my living arrangements, I have my games stored in two different locations: my current house and my in-laws, where we lived previously. My collection at my house had grown to nearly 1000 games and it was starting to bug me that I had no solid idea of exactly what else I had. So, that's what I spent my night doing last night.

I made my way over around 5:00pm and set up the router, then headed downstairs and started plugging away. Things started rather slowly as I began with my containers full of mostly hardware. As those slowly transitioned to containing more and more games, my collection began growing online at a much quicker pace. This is SO much better than IGN. I ended up finding a stopping point roughly 10 shy of 1300 with many boxes to go. But that's not what this is about.

As I was entering stuff, I was finding myself saying, "I didn't know I had this" or " I forgot about that one." I was rediscovering my collection. I really had no idea just how much stuff I had amassed in a relatively small period of time. Along those lines, I had no idea how much hardware I really had. Some obscure, some not-so-obscure, but all there. Lots of joysticks, controllers, and just plain cables.

As for the games, I found some that I forgot I had, but I apparently forgot just how many times I had bought a game. How many copies of Aladdin for Genesis does one person need? I found manuals I didn't know I had for games I'm sure I don't have. With maybe half of my stuff from my in-laws online now, I still have a little way to go. I had originally estimated 300-400 games/systems/accessories over there. With nearly 300 being put in last night alone, I have to think that I had guessed about half of what I had there. Soon, I'll know for sure.

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