Collecting all Wii U games

[Ganoncrotch]

armodillo17 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

for the 14 games which feature a "The" on the GC on my shelf a lot of them are movie titles such as The Hobbit, The Italian Job, The Incredibles or The Polar Express simply put those games  Wouldn't make sense to file under Hobbit, Italian Job or Incredibles for me it just wouldn't be where my brain would associate the games and considering I'm doing it literally on a letter by letter on the cover basis then it makes it easiest as possible to at a glance see if I own a game based on finding it in a shop here, just takes one look at the pic on my phone to know if I've got the title rather than thinking... Did I list this game under The Legend of Zelda or would I then go for The Legend of Zelda to not count the "The" but surely the game series is more popularly known as The Legend of Zelda so it would be under Z and that is before even getting into the fact of the individual games... Cos Surely it's called Windwaker! so W... or The Windwaker... so it's back under T again anyway.

Enjoy the twitching though at my lining up of games here! I'll be sure to put a pic up soon just to annoy you :D but yeah hope you get it from above, I'm not listing the games under a word in their titles which they're often called, I'm literally doing it Alphabetically for ease of aligning with a Worddoc.

I get what you're saying about the Word doc--I didn't know that the alphabetization in Word counted the word "the," though. Most programs are coded to ignore it, just like a library or store would. Personally, I use Gamepedia to track my gaming collection. If you have a Mac, I HIGHLY recommend it. It even has an iOS companion app, Pocketpedia, so I always have access to my collection. You can check it out here. I'm sure there are some good ones for Windows, too.

And yes, the Legend of Zelda games are a pain in the ass when it comes to alphabetizing. Personally, I choose to organize my games alphabetically by series title, then chronologically by release within each series. For example, since Super C is the sequel to Contra, I tell Gamepedia to sort it as Contra 2, rather than put it under S. As for The Legend of Zelda, I would file it under L, but the second game in the series is just called Zelda II, not Legend of Zelda II, so that makes my brain consider the series title as "Zelda." I wouldn't argue with anyone who wanted to put it under L, though. Putting it under "The," though... I would fight that person on the spot ; )

And yes, I'll continue to enjoy my twitching! It's therapeutic... or something. 

At least in EU lands we got

Probotector

and

Probotector II : Return of the Evil forces (what a name, return of the bad guys)

on the NES it wasn't until it went to the SNES that it became

Super Probotector.

But yeah when it comes to certain games it's just a case of where does a certain persons mind jump to, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are another 2 which I would happily drop on the "the" pile again or "Legend" I guess in your case, but still those games I always just call... Ocarina of Time, never the full title, different strokes for different folks I guess.