Sky is the limit.I see it,I want it,I buy it.

LOL

OT: $100-200 for me. Goes a long way with mixture of steam sales and waiting for price drops on retail boxed copies. For new games i have not payed more than $50 bucks including tax as one can always find preorder deals on such games. I borrow and lend games to my friends so that certainly helps somewhat. 

Current retail games backlog: 10. Current digital games backlog: Who counts these but lots more. 

It's been in the few hundreds last year. Admittedly I spent way too much on games but I've managed to adopt a budget. I pretty much only buy games for my PS3 (my step dad has all the Halo games and a few other games on xbox so really no xbox exclusives I want). I have a Wii and already have Metroid Prime Trilogy, RE Remake, and Metroid Other M. A few other games interest me but I'll wait on them.

I rarely ever buy games at full price unless it's something I know I will get my moneys worth out of like Skyrim, Fallout, Black Ops, etc. For the most part I wait to buy games on the cheap. Haven't even played RDR. Waiting for the GOTY to drop to 20 bucks. Now that I have Plus my budget is even more limited. I rarely ever go for sales.

Guess I should make my list for last year
Rented games $2 a pop.
SMG2
Advance Wars Dual Strike
Rune Factory:Tides of Destiny
SM3DL
OoT3D

Purchased games
Xenoblade $50
KI:Uprising $40
Trine 2 $20 (Gift Nullified)
..That's it. (wow 2012 was a bad year)

Hardware
WiiU $350 (Needed it)

So $450 in total. 350 of it due to WiiU.

2013 year forecast (Curse these $60 prices)
FE:Awakening $40 (Gift nullified)
MK7 waiting for a sale $30
FE:DLC Plan to use around $10
MH3U $60
1 more WiiU game $60
Birthday WiiU game $60 (Gift nullified)
Christmas 3DS games/game $40 (Gift nullified)

To rent
Rayman Legends
Paper Mario SS
A Prof Layton
NSMBU
...More to come

So bout $170 for 2013, not bad.

(2014 gonna suck up everything.....)

Edit:Gah how can I forget Pokemon? $40. So $210.

Probably around $500 per year, generally consisting of a couple of full price games and a lot of older cheaper titles and off course the odd knick knack here and there.

Ok I took too long to see this but HOLY CRAP.

(Wait you live in Japan?)

I spend whatever I need to spend no limit.

Also you rent games or $2 per 2 weeks? damn, Game rentals here are like $7-$10 for first day plus like 50cents per day after you have it haha.

Your rental place sounds awesome. $1 a week is pretty amazing. Just like PS plus but without the 10GB plus downloads. 

Local library.(That's some good use of tax money)

Selection is limited but usually has what I want. You can always find the popular Nintendo games in the Kids section and I rent the ones that take less than a month or so to beat. 

I apply the same rules to my friends. I give em $2 for 2 weeks. It's a good system. (I'm the only one that pays though, so I get priority lolz)

Local Library. People donate their games or something.