Hi,
while people have different kind of approaches to sort their games, sometimes it is the best choice to sort the games by name. At latest when you start to write down all titles you own, you will run into difficulties.
Let's take Spectravideo's NEXAR as (perfect) example:
NEXAR is like the short name, if you look closely it has the title:
The Challenge of NEXAR
But wait there is more! There are some dots behind the "of"
The Challenge of.... NEXAR
Now, let's strip the article away and add it as suffix:
Challenge of.... NEXAR, The
My point is, do you really care when you are sorting your games? Personally, I would sort the games including the articles at the correct place as in my opinion the article is part of the game name (You also dont remove articles that are in the middle of the name and put them at the end)
Maybe it's a german thing, but taking the wonderful movie "Das Boot" nobody would ever chop it down in "Boot, Das". It's like the title. With everything even if it's only an article.
I could go on for ages:
Decathlon
The Activision Decathlon
Activision Decathlon (The)
How do you think about it? Is it OK to keep the article in the name? How would you keep your records? (Shortname and extra the full name?)
Every answer counts and will be taken into account for my tool i'm currently developing.
Thanks,
Andre