Have you become a game collector by accident?

[Gamerace]

Actually, I was just reflecting on that myself. I have always enjoyed collecting things and over the years it's gone from comics to dvds to PC games (which ended abruptly after my last PC died and was never replaced - I have a laptop but it's s--t for playing games) to collecting Wii games.

It wasn't even my Wii. It was my sons' but I started with Tiger Woods 07 as I really wanted to play that with Wii controls and knew my son wouldn't care about it, then some joint purchases, Godfather, SSBB, then a few unique games I wanted - Dewy, Zack & Wiki and then fast forward to today, I own the damn Wii and over 30 games for it. WTF? I don't even have time to play them!

I started on this site purely out of curiousity of the potential success of Nintendo's blue ocean strategy. Feel in love with the Wii personally and in a combination of my desire to collect and getting caught up in this sites microcosm I ended up building a large games library which has been growing faster than I can possibly play them.

Just yesterday I slashed my 'games wanted' list here in half, bought a bunch of them that I know without question I'll play, will pick up SH:SM, TvsC, Sam & Max 2 and Endless Ocean 2 and then that's it for the rest of the year (unless something new get's announced that I just have to have, or I see an awesome deal on an interesting game). Just picked up Cursed Mountain for $10 for instance, and it's worth every single penny and then some but I'd have been so mad if I had bought it full price like I had originally intended. Once I clear out my Wii backlog, I'll get to Dragon's Age (which should be cheap by then) and that'll keep me busy for a loooong time.