![]() ![]() Not long after that, I began acquiring more “sophisticated” games for “research”. Once we hit 50, I decided I didn’t need any more of those samples. Still, those bins began with a dozen or so games in them, and quickly expanded into several bins with about four times that. The portfolio games didn’t go into the cabinet rather they went into big Rubbermaid bins that were stored in a crawlspace over my garage. Mostly “portfolio” stuff at first things I’d worked on like kids games I’d never actually play without a kid, which at the time I didn’t have. Then I began working at a game design studio and things started coming home. (By comparison, the current count in there is between 80 and 85.) I was proud of the 25 or so games I had in it, and liked having them there to show guests to our house that I was a GAMER. It lived in the front room of the house, like a humble trophy case. I have a yellow glass-front cabinet from Ikea that, for a long time, was sufficient to hold my collection (and some other stuff to boot). Now, that includes games that I’ve played someone else’s copy of, then acquired one for myself and never played at my own table, but we’re still talking about a HUGE number of boxes full of pieces that haven’t exactly been played quite yet. If I had to estimate, I’d say about 20 to 30% of those games have never been played. Or maybe at this point it’s better to call it a library. My profile currently lists 227 items, but that includes a lot of the individual Magic expansions and is missing a ton of stuff floating in storage, so it’s far from an accurate representation of everything in the collection. This is without counting my Magic cards, which fill an entire closet all their own, boxed and organized by sets and decks. I own well over 200 tabletop games and expansions. We’ve all got one, some just have worse ones than others. “Pile of Shame” is a term thrown about among gamers that refers to the ubiquitous stack of games we individually own but have never played yet. My (primary) Games Cabinet in sections, comprising around 30% of my board game collection as of autumn 2017. ![]()
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