My story and reasoning as to why I have a backlog differs slightly than the rest of everyone's posts.
I have plenty of time first off, except that I spend most of my time on other things that I deem is worth spending on (chores, my garden, etc). I can't say the same with my games. I need to be in the mood and find some good "I want to play this game" time to actually plop down and play. Because if I just force myself to, then I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I would have if I did found some quality time. This along with the other fact that I don't have a lot of money on me, I like to have a small reserve so that I wont run dry on software that I had never played.
One last notable reason is that there are/were some games that kicked my ass so hard that after hours of trying to surpass/beat a certain part of the story, I burned myself out. So I leave it alone, only to come back a few years later to try again and I finaly prevail. F-Zero GX, and Viewtiful Joe were some of those games.
