[General Discussion] Decaying virgin games

For PSX, I had a semi-mission of getting every RPG available in English. I came pretty darn close too but my cheapness made it hard to get some games. In addition, I was taking classes meaning I didn't play much of most of the games I got.

I had planned to get to them after I graduated but I went overseas instead and couldn't bring my game collection with me.

Luckily, going overseas meant I couldn't go through the same thing with the PS2. However, I really got into my NDS overseas because it is portable so I now have a nice collection for that system.

For PSX, games included both Lunars, Vagrant Story, Legend of Dragoon, Final Fantasy VIII and IX, Star Ocean 2, one of the Personas, amongst many more.

Part of me is getting to the point that I am going to take all the cases of the games I have, place it in a prominent place in my house, and put up the sign "BACKLOG" to deter myself from buying any more games for a while.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I have thought about this from time to time Hach.

What I think is happening is we buy a game because we heard it's a "great" game, or we look at the back and it looks decent, or it happens to be within our price range. We think "This will be an awesome game to play later". In addition, we get the game because we may feel if we don't get it now, we won't be able to get it later on.
However, investing in a game is as you said, investing in a book. It's an investment of a potentially unknown period of time. Time that could be used to play games we DO enjoy. Time that can be used on games we HAVE enjoyed in the past and therefore want to play again.

One of the things I have done as of late is when I got out and see games, I think to myself "Will I really play game X since I have games A through W lined up?". Once I realize the answer is "Probably not.", I avoid getting said game. Now, that doesn't always work. Yesterday I found Persona for PSP at roughly 8 bucks. I know if I push myself that I'll play it and also the price was excellent. However, this mentality does help tanker off some of the games I would buy more because of a whim or solely because of the price. It also helps me not get games because I may not be able to get them later since what point would there be to get a game if I never play it?

There's nowhere I can't reach.