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A Little Embarassed

September 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Stop me if I’ve told this one before.

Awhile back, I was organizing my games collection with my wife, and we were both a bit shocked to come to find that there’s at least nine golf games in my collection (PC and Console combined).  Nine.  Golf Games.  And I’m not even talking about like every single version of Tiger, either (I’ve only owned two different versions of it, will probably be buying ’09).  Hell, I’ve probably forgotten about one or two, like old Sim Golf titles.  I even once was buying microtransactions in Shot Online.

It’s not even like I’m a golf nut.  I play golf.  I enjoy watching some golf highlights on TV every once in awhile.  I’ll watch PGA tour footage if Tiger is playing.  But that’s about it.  I don’t play every weekend, or even as much as I’d like (some months I don’t even get out to play), and if I had to say what percentage of my video-game playing time in the past ten years included golf-related titles, I’d probably say less than 5%.

But there it is, at least nine golf games staring me in the face.

It’s not like it’s my number one genre.  I have no doubt that FPS would be the easy victor here.  Golf probably isn’t even second.  I imagine there’s enough RPG in the collection, or a slow buildup of racing titles over the years to knock it out of second.  But nine?  Golf games?  I just realized that I might be over ten now if I count golf themed games.

At any rate, it kind of came as a surprise to me, and even some of my friends have pointed out that they didn’t know I was such a golf nut (I didn’t either!).

So what would we find if we went through your collection?  Do you have any surprises that you weren’t even aware of?  Is there a large volume of Olsen Twins DS titles in there anywhere?  Did you not realize what a Mario fanboy you are?  Show us whatcha got.

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 iKonik // Sep 9, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    The game I regret buying most is Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. My God that was a horrid game. And I remember my sister had an Olsen twins horse racing game. That’s all I can think of off the bat.

  • 2 thbsp // Sep 11, 2008 at 7:44 am

    my game collection is rather sparse. i borrow or rent games whenever possible/practical, and i try to limit myself to one game in a series. the midnight club and gta franchises, for example, i am a huge fan of, but i only own one of each despite having played all of them other than gta4.
    i do have four mgs games though, three of which are mgs2. (i bought the original, then a copy of mgs2:s which didn’t work, then another copy that did work)

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