Sorting your collection

[Ze_ro]

Another quick question about collectiong: How do you guys sort yours? I personally sort mine in alphabetical order, though I have to leave some games out of this. Specifically, the M-Network games don't stack well, so I put them at the top of all the columns I stack (They're in alphabetical order left to right at least). And of course, my double enders don't fit either (Though I'd have a hard time deciding where to put them anyways), so they're sitting next to everything.

 

I've been thinking of rearranging everything by company instead, but haven't actually bothered to change it yet.

 

--Zero

[Atari-Jess]

i order mine by company, then by type of game, like adventure, sport, puzzle, etc.

[Nateo]

I sort alphabetacally as well. It's much easier to get to my games that way. I use Cart Commander to organize my lists as well, although if you don't have Cart Commander, Microsoft Excel works well too.

[+cvga]

I used to sort in alphabetical order but I switched to a sort by company (with alpha as a secondary sort) after I picked up some Tiawan-type games. I like to use VHS cassette towers to store my games in. Each one holds about 100 carts and they display very nicely.

[Skatepunk60]

I have mine on shelves by cart type (atari sears) then activision imagic apollo 20th fox ect then i stack m network carts by taking a baseball card or some kind of card and folding it in half and placeing it between carts so the labels face out hasent failed yet

[NE146]

I shovel all of mine into a couple of large wicker baskets...

 

yeah. Seriously ;p

[liveinabin]

I got mine in a bag

The bag DOES have an atari logo on it though, I'm gonna have to work a bit at this retro-collector thing aren't I?

 

[ 10-28-2001: Message edited by: liveinabin ]

[atari70s]

i sort by systems by company and then by number ( if no number then alpha. ) and also i might eb getting a neon atari logo for my window. so theworl d who passes by can see which system i support

[dwh]

I sort my collection by company name.I put the games in plastic boxes to keep the dust out.I thought I had a great system going until Sylentwulf posted those pics of his filing cabinets;guess I will be buying some new plastic cabinets soon!...

[jsoper]

I sort by company. Games from Atari Activision are further grouped by color (because it looks so cool)

 

Put them in Sterilite plastic boxes (96 games each) and slide them under the bed.

John

[StanJr]

I keep mine in boxes sorted by company and further sorted by label type if applicable.(like for Atari, red label, silver label, regular label, etc)

 

Sortin' Stan

[The Night Phantom]

You need to consider both what is going to be easy for you to find and what is going to be easy for you to manage. Usually when I want to play a game I know which one it is and what its name is; so, alphabetical order by title is a natural way for me to search, and of course it's easy to set up, also. I personally would not follow Atari-Jess' scheme since A) the company rarely enters into my game selection process and B) I find categorizing by genre to be a headache (e.g., is Star Raiders a “space” game or a “strategy” game?). However, if these methods work for you, then by all means use them.

 

Although it might mean a little more work, you can also set up some sort of database (or a series of lists kept manually) to allow you to view a listing of your games ordered by different criteria. In that case, the actual physical ordering of your cartridges becomes less important. For example, you can keep the carts alphabetized, but whenever you want to look for Activision sports games, you fire up the database and have it sorted by company+genre, and then you have a quick and handy way to know which carts to pull out.

[CosmicJoke]

Cart Commander is a good database type program for classic game collectors. Its like shareware except that you send some carts to the author instead of money if you decide to use it.

[The Night Phantom]

Also note that “virtual” ordering can solve the problem in my Star Raiders example above, since you can list multiple genres per game and cross-reference as appropriate.

[CosmicJoke]

Web Page For Cart Commander

[Sylentwulf]

I have mine in sterilite containers ala the picture below. I got sick of dusting them and figure this is the best way to store them AND the easiest way to find and play them. I have them arranged alphabetically right now, but I think I MIGHT change them to company/alphabetically cause I think it looks cool

 

[Lemmi]

humm lets see i sort by company (activision,atari,sears,imagic,m-network)

 

and i keep them stored in 2 hot tamales boxes which hold about 75 tapes or so a piece