Our Actual Shelfies

After playing "My Shelfie" a few times, I thought it would be fun to show an actual shelfie of our game collection.  We don't have whole rooms to devote to this.  We have limited space, and have no interest in keep every game we get.  Sometimes, they're just not our cup of tea and we happily donate them to gamers we know, or local groups who can probably get them to players.

Our main, active game area is this two shelf spread at Anne's place.  

There are more games behind the one we put in front, but it feels more peaceful to have the few boxes up front.  We tend to put out cat and animal games there.  So you get to see a small selection of cats instead of a whole mess of little boxes and card decks of different sizes.  We don't typically play battle games or big box modern Euro games.  We like them small, short & sweet. 

The binder has a bunch of printable roll-and-score games ("Roll Estate" and such) and notes of mine on classic games from various sources.


Over at my place, there's this overflow shelf, and a few on the shelf above it, all mixed in with the bedsheets and towels.  Yes, they slowly take over more and more space.

Finally, there's my old collection of RPG books that I started getting in the 80s.  


D&D, GURPS, Palladium books, others.  I bought a few starter RPG systems like Animal Adventures and Doctor Who RPG recently, thinking maybe Anne would sit through some of those adventures, but she doesn't like to be put on the spot to come up with actions, so I don't think role-playing games are going to be a match for us.  I have bought and sold a few whole collections of RPG books over the years -- except for the very common core books, they hold good value across the years.

I also "collect" game apps, as you've seen here.  The nice thing about apps is they don't take up any physical space.  Most of them are free and if you don't like it, just uninstall it.  If you want to try it again years later, there's a good chance that your game data is still there, or Google Play stashed it in the cloud for you -- or you can start fresh.

As for physical games, that's most of what we've got.  This blog series is up to almost 400 articles now, and probably two thirds of those got donated, otherwise, we'd be up to our eyeballs in boxes of games.