Project Backlogged

I’m going to be blunt here; I spend a lot on video games.   I play a lot.  In my collection I have 338 games spread across 6 systems (PS2, PS3, GameCube, Wii, DS, 3DS).  This isn’t counting PC games, or Game Boy Advance games, or the original Game Boy games that I still have kicking around, and haven’t been sold at garage sales against my will or knowledge.   In the first three months of this year, I have all ready bought 56 games.

I’ve decided that this has to stop.

My problem is that I keep on buying; however I don’t complete them, so I have plenty of games that just sit there and collect dust.

While waiting in front of EB Games for it to open to buy a 3DS, I realized that this was pointless.  I don’t need to buy games as soon as they come out.  If they are good, they will be able to remain good down the line when I do pick them up, at a reduced price.  I mean, this hobby is freaking expensive!

On an impulse I decided to create Project Backlogged.

Project Backlogged is two things.

The first, for a whole year, from April 1st of 2011 to April 1st of 2012, I’m not going to buy any video games.  And while that may seem like a joke based off of the dates, I’m serious.

The second, this will help me go through the games that I want to finish, or play again, as I’m going to review the games as I go through this.  Hopefully, this will help as motivation to get through what I couldn’t finish the first time around.

Strap yourselves in; this is going to be a long and bumpy ride.

A few notes:

1. I should have more games; however I was a giant idiot, and sold my N64 and Sega Genesis and their games before I had a job for more money to buy more games.

2. Okay, there are 2 games during this period that I will buy...

·                     The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Nothing gets between me and Zelda... Of course, since we haven't gotten a release date yet, (only a vague release period of 2011) and the standard Zelda delay, I doubt this is going to be a problem...

·                     If anything is released for Zelda 25th anniversary, going by both the Metroid Prime Trilogy, and the Super Mario 25th anniversary, it is going to have a very limited run.  I'll buy it, however I won't play it until this is over.

Everything else that interests me get’s put under the “What I’m missing” tag.

3. In the event that a console breaks.  (Wii, PS2, PS3, DS, 3DS) it will be repaired.