I have been actively collection since 1999. I continue to thrift games and buy current gen games. I love thrifting and also buy most any gaming related junk. I also board game and collect those as well. I am lucky to have a large area for my "Room of Doom" as they call them on Digital Press. I continue to fill it, but listing on ebay is a pain so my area is a huge mess.
I generally only pick up games that are higher in rarity assuming that I have most commons. This past Xmas, I gave a Genesis to a coworker so he could give it to his brother for a gift. I told him I'd give him some of my doubles and commons. When I went to find some for him, I found that I didn't have many commons I assumed that I would own (like Earthworm Jim). I decided then that I needed to get my collection inventoried.
This led me to find the RFGen Android App. This is exactly what I have been looking for. My goal now is to get my collection inventoried and organized and to create an up to date trade list and/or sell off my extras.
I am documenting my attempt at this here to keep me motivated and held somewhat accountable.
Here is a view looking into my basement
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Board games are shelved at the entrance area:
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The main sitting and playing areas:
This area has my boxes of NES games that I pulled from the storage room to start inventorying
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The back half of the room has video game shelves, 2 pinball machines and an arcade Asteroids deluxe. The piles are extras to be listed on ebay.
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Finally at the other end is my storage room:
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I also have overstock in my garage:
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I'm very lucky to have a large space for my collection and a lot of good stuff. Unfortunately my area is not super conducive to showing off, or enjoying my collection.
My goal is to have my collection completely organized by the end of this year and to have my collection inventoried.
As a start; This was my Bedroom area:
I generally bring my new stuff in here first. I picked up a table to keep in here so my wife and I could boardgame and leave it set up without the kids disturbing it. It became a piling zone. I also pick up books at the thrifts and pile them by my bed until I read them and decide whether to keep or re-donate them.
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One day of Xmas break, I picked up a cheap table cloth and bookcase. Now my bedroom and staging area is clean.
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Here's hoping I can keep this up and get organized in 2013! Wish me luck!
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Wow!!! That's a lot of stuff. I like how the Earthbound cart is quietly sitting on the shelf, just dying to be displayed. LOL
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Look at all that good stuff. Like the boxed Odyssey and the box labeled "Vectrex"
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Hope you get to your goal this year! Lotsa neet stuff, the original Odyssey box caught my eye too. I'll come over and help if you come help with mine! 
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This looks like a good candidate for Collection Intervention.
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Looks like a good project for the new year! I need to do an audit of my collection this year as well.
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Man, look at all that potential. There might even be some PC games in there
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Wow, that's an amazing amount of items! Have fun organizing and getting it all ready for display.
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Sheesh, you just reminded me that I need to get organized, myself.
Just judging from the posted pics, while my own collection is just a fraction the size of yours, it's far less organized. You'd think I was a hoarder or something...
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@bombatomba: Bombatomba, a few. To limit the size I only keep ones that I played and enjoyed like Full Throttle, the infocom collection, etc
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