Some things i have mentioned quite a bit recently: 1. I have not been very active for the last year essentially in any capacity. 2. a. This was due in part to work. 2. b. This was due even more so because of a year long competition run by some great guys over at Trueachievements.com. If people are interested let me know i will(to the best of my abilities) write up a blog detailing how it worked and blah blah blah none of you care about achievements. 3. My collection list on the site is extremely out of date. 4. I have started catching up on the Collectorcast.
Since i am again laid off and finally eliminated from my competition i get to flood the boards with my nonsense, get some site work done and hopefully learn some new things and maybe JUST maybe be able to impart some knowledge to others. There isn't much left in my head that is relevant though... so we will see.
Having been listening to the podcast (and being totally burned out on gaming... for the moment) i couldn't help but feel bad for neglecting all of my obligations as a collector. I am hoping to get back into the swing of collecting the things no one wants and then maybe really taking the plunge and buying stuff worth owning again.
Anyways... the point of this was for me to jot down my "current" collection stats. Which i lazily copy pasted (feel free to scroll for a bit TEXT FLOOD) :
Boxes/Manuals: Microsoft Xbox 360 94 (43%) Sony PlayStation 2 32 (15%) Sony PlayStation 3 29 (13%) Microsoft Xbox 24 (11%) Sony PlayStation 8 (4%) Nintendo Wii 7 (3%) Macintosh 4 (2%) Sega Genesis 4 (2%) Nintendo GameCube 4 (2%) Nintendo Game Boy Color 2 (1%) IBM PC 2 (1%) Nintendo DS 2 (1%) Nintendo Game Boy Advance 2 (1%) Nintendo 64 1 (0%) Nintendo Game Boy 1 (0%) Sony PSP 1 (0%)
Collection: Microsoft Xbox 360 144 (18%) Sony PlayStation 2 141 (17%) Microsoft Xbox 137 (17%) Nintendo Game Boy Advance 55 (7%) Nintendo DS 41 (5%) Nintendo GameCube 37 (5%) Nintendo SNES 35 (4%) IBM PC 35 (4%) Sega Genesis 32 (4%) Tiger Game.com 14 (2%) Nintendo Game Boy Color 11 (1%) Nintendo Game Boy 11 (1%) VTech V.Smile 11 (1%) Nintendo Wii 10 (1%) Sega Pico 10 (1%) Nintendo e-Reader 5 (1%) Nintendo 64 5 (1%) Stand-Alone Handhelds 5 (1%) Sega Mega Drive 3 (0%) Leapfrog Leapster 3 (0%) Sega Master System 3 (0%) VTech V.Smile Baby 3 (0%) Sega Game Gear 3 (0%) Mattel Hyperscan 3 (0%) Sony PlayStation 3 (0%) Nintendo GameCube 3 (0%) Nintendo Super Famicom 3 (0%) Tiger R-Zone 3 (0%) Tiger Handhelds 2 (0%) Sega Dreamcast 2 (0%) Commodore Amiga 2 (0%) DVD 2 (0%) Sega CD 2 (0%) Nintendo Game Boy 2 (0%) Microsoft Xbox 360 2 (0%) View-Master Interactive Vision 2 (0%) Sega Saturn 2 (0%) Plug & Play TV Games 2 (0%) Leapfrog Fly 2 (0%) Sony PlayStation 1 (0%) Nintendo 64 1 (0%) Sega Game Gear 1 (0%) Sega Saturn 1 (0%) Microsoft Xbox 360 1 (0%) Sega Mega Drive 1 (0%) Microsoft Xbox 1 (0%) Nintendo Game Boy Advance 1 (0%) Sega Mega CD 1 (0%) Sony PlayStation 3 1 (0%) IBM PC 1 (0%) Sony PlayStation 2 1 (0%) Buzztime Home Trivia System 1 (0%) Nintendo Game Boy 1 (0%) Nintendo DS 1 (0%) Sega Genesis 32X 1 (0%)
Demos: Microsoft Xbox 57 (36%) Sony PlayStation 2 53 (34%) Sony PlayStation 12 (8%) Microsoft Xbox 360 11 (7%) Sony PSP 8 (5%) Nintendo GameCube 8 (5%) IBM PC 7 (4%) Nintendo DS 2 (1%)
DLC: Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade 153 (91%) IBM PC 12 (7%) Nintendo Virtual Console / WiiWare 4 (2%)
Hardware: Sony PlayStation 2 15 (12%) Nintendo Wii 11 (9%) Sega Genesis 10 (8%) Sony PlayStation 9 (7%) Nintendo SNES 7 (6%) Microsoft Xbox 360 7 (6%) Nintendo DS 7 (6%) Nintendo Game Boy Advance 7 (6%) Sega Dreamcast 6 (5%) Nintendo Game Boy 6 (5%) Microsoft Xbox 5 (4%) Mattel Hyperscan 4 (3%) Nintendo 64 4 (3%) Nintendo GameCube 3 (2%) Nintendo Game Boy Color 3 (2%) Sony PSP 3 (2%) Multiple Consoles 2 (2%) VTech V.Smile 2 (2%) Tiger Game.com 2 (2%) Leapfrog Leapster 2 (2%) Buzztime Home Trivia System 2 (2%) Microsoft Xbox 360 1 (1%) View-Master Interactive Vision 1 (1%) Plug & Play TV Games 1 (1%) Nintendo NES 1 (1%) VTech V.Smile Baby 1 (1%) Tiger R-Zone 1 (1%)
All of those stats are so i can cross reference when i get everything up to date to see what has really spiked and what has plummeted.
I am figuring the whole process will take me 1-2 weeks. Most of which will be related to me trying to figure out where to stack things while i dig back in the closet to pull out more things. http://sdrv.ms/UBqBgM (I promise to make an new phototbucket or remember the password to one of my old ones so people can stop clicking links to SkyDrive) The closet is ~4 feet deep maybe a little over 8ft high and terribly nonuniform 2ft across and stuffed so full i can't actually close the door. In addition to: http://sdrv.ms/U9qVad http://sdrv.ms/U9qY5Y http://sdrv.ms/U9qZ9V
Plus another closet full at my parents house which i am afraid will just be full of things i will have to throw away from moisture damage at this point
Wish me luck. Thanks for scrolling and if you are not familiar with my presence on the boards you will be over the coming weeks
I wanted to make this blog when the work had been completed but it is taking much longer than expected. As some of you have noticed the PlayStation database has changed somewhat significantly.
A very special thanks is owed to Jason Dvorak (aka dangerboy) over at Game-Rave.com for allowing RFGeneration the use of his information. To help in keeping our(aka your) collection tool the most comprehensive AND accurate on the internet.(If not the most we are quickly closing the gap anyways )
The bulk of the changes came in the form of variations. Though there have also been quite a few new titles added also.
When this project started we had roughly 1750 titles in the PS database. As of this blog we are just over 1900 entries and should easily eclipse 2000 and possibly even 2100.
In the same vein as the NES and 2600 updates everyone might want to check to make sure that their online collection matches their real world games. There are still some more changes to come. I will post further updates here so that everyone can easily check specific titles.
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