(Discussion) How Many Games Should You Own For Each Console? - Retro Bird

I talk about how many video games you should own for each console you have.

How Many Games Should You Own For Each System? How Many Video Games Should You Own For Each Console in your Collection?

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[luliby]

Hey, shoutout to the awesome Castlevania music in the background. I love that that exact track is the menu music for the Anniversary Collection. It's so good.

[ironinquisitor]

How much money you're willing to spend, how much space you got, and the console in question.

[mannycisneros]

I hold on to a couple games because I KNOW from experience that if I sell it I'll see it in the wild and want to buy it again give it another chance.. especially fighting games Its fun to master them so i just keep them in the collection

[tennessee]

I think the SNES/NES Classic allowed me to cross some games off my wish list and made it a lot more economically friendly to own them. I will always have a few games that I will never part with but every game I own is a game I love and play often. So for me I only need about 20 games on a console. Sure I'd love to have them all but if I'm not playing them, what's the point. Thanks again for another great video.

[GoodVibeCollecting]

Gamer's mindset = Quality over Quantity. Collector's mindset = Quantity over Quality. :)

[theconsolecollector]

Quality over quantity.
I personally would rather have games i enjoy and will ACTUALLY play over walls and walls of games that just sit there (other then gamecube lol)
I don't like seeing game rooms with walls of games id rather see consoles and unique things displayed. I finds walls of games pretry boring honestly.

[jakek]

Well put. I have a Marie Kondo style approach to collecting. I need to look at the game and be happy it is on my game shelf. I was collecting some games that I would see on my shelf and remember the terrible time I had finishing the stinker, and I realized that was stupid. This philosophy does allow for the inclusion of games for historical value, or good music, etc. Also, as you suggested, I keep a spreadsheet tracking the games I want to play. Building the spreadsheet is like a meta-game to actually playing video games.

[greatmentakingovertheworld]

I really don't have that many Dreamcast games but it's one of my fav systems. The games I've played on it have stuck with me. Shenmue 1 and 2, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Soulcalibur, Jet Grind Radio, RE Code Veronica, House of the Dead, Powerstone and such. Great games to come back to and some of my fav of all time

[TM-dbwz]

I recently got a Supaboy for free, so I wanted a few games to play on it. I picked up 6 games that were either physically exclusive for the snes, or I wanted to play handheld. Others either were too expensive, or I have for other consoles. I'm happy with these 6 and don't plan on getting any more.

[dariusq]

I don't usually put a cap on how many games I should own except in the case of disc based systems. For display purposes I like to use music CD wallets so I can flip through my games. I buy large albums and set the goal of filling it with discs, and if space allows the manuals as well. Once the album is full I would gauge that collection as complete. Some systems had more games that I wanted than others which would be a simple matter of buying more albums.

[NESADDICT]

I want the most for nes, 2nd most for snes and 3rd most for TG 16. Lol

[SkyScourgeGod]

I have a fairly decent sized collection of games for around 20 different consoles but its all pretty curated. I buy what I feel is fun to play with a sprinkle of titles here and there that aren't too good but have nostalgic feelings for. The exceptions I make for this are the Neo Geo CD and Yu-Gi-Oh games. Eventually I'd like to go for a complete Neo Geo CD collection because SNK is pretty cool and the Neo Geo CD is underappreciated to fans of Neo Geo. As for Yu-Gi-Oh games I played the card game a lot until around a few years ago and I'm a huge fan of the anime and franchise so I want to try and get a complete collection of physical Yu-Gi-Oh video games across all platforms.

[Mnus_p]

I have a 5 games rule. I won't buy a console unless there are 5 games I must play on it. That said, that doesn't mean I'll always have at least 5 for a console. I own ONE Wii game. Xenoblade. I just didn't like the Zeldas or Metroids much for the system, so I wound up with only Xenoblade, which I love. Like you said, quality over quantity.

[Danny-xmpe]

I own the 10 retro consoles that mean the most to me and I tried to narrow my collection down to my top 10 favorite games for each of those consoles. I was successful at that for most of them, but I just couldn't get the NES list down to just 10, too many memories with that console.

[chid]

I'd say 15 is when I feel comfortable giving an opinion on a console. And of course most of those games have to be the best considered on the platform.

[mpkrist]

When I was in law school (2010-2014) time permitting I would hit garage sales, flea markets, goodwills, and gamestops. The only real money I would pay was for consoles and would just see what I could come across for cheap. Almost no specific gaming agenda. Being away from friends and family gave me free time on Sundays when football wasn’t on or on the way home from class. It’s a shame that people can’t have the fun I did during that time frame, gas prices alone make aimlessly driving cost prohibitive.

[thepolacek]

Great video. I would buy more games for nes, but they are too expensive. I have a hard time paying over $10, and we all know that doesn’t buy much in the nes library.

[totallyfrozen]

I’m a fan of emulation, but I’ve found that it, too, has its downsides. For example, time…time to find the ROMs and test then to make sure they run on your emulator, sorting them, loading them onto the system, and of course finding time to play them.

[tonyp]

I love this video a lot. It's not funny or anything but it's still great. I know you like the funny stuff etc. I do as well. I just like to point out though just because you were serious here with no joking doesn't make your videos worse than the joking ones etc. There's a lot of videos where people are serious, & just because they are serious doesn't make their videos good.

I know I commented on this already. It's true though. There are a lot of video makers who are serious, I click off their videos. With you it's a lot different because when you make your points like you did in this vid, it relates to me a lot of owning a lot of games & not playing them.

I don't even own a lot of physical copies of games. I have Ever Drives & roms & have access to 1000's of games. I only play about the 5-10 I like that you stated. That was a excellent point. I rather play the 10 games I really like then to have 30 mediocre ones.

Again for me anyways, it's very hard to find somebody interesting in videos. Whether you are serious or joking, that's all you being Genuine & relatable. So for example if I click on a vid & can't go through 30 sec to 1 min. I click off the channels. So it isn't I like all Serious people etc. Yeah great vid like always.

[BitGlitch]

Yeah the quality over quantity is something been thinking about, but when it comes to NES I would have to keep all those just cause of the connection I had with the NES.