Slim Gatsby
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In the time I've been on CAG, my old-school collection has increased dramatically, leaping up from a handful of PSX and N64 games to 300+ and 160+, respectively, along with a Super Nintendo and Nintendo cartridge collection bouncing up from a starting point in high double digits to roughly 150 apiece.
I try to keep things organized, so I can find games when I want to play them, so they can be displayed nicely with minimal clutter, and so that, when large lots of games pass through my hands, I can quickly extract the games I don't have (or are in better condition than my copy) and put the rest up online for trading and selling.
Right now, though, my collection is disgraceful -- sure, the disc-only PSX stuff can go into a massive CD binder, and the complete ones fit neatly into any CD rack, while boxed Genesis, SegaCD, and Saturn games all fit into DVD-storage shelves, but I am at a loss as to how to display -- or at least store in a relatively organized fashion -- my Nintendo cartridges. My iKea desk has a sort of recessed shelf that holds three rows of NES cartridges 37 units high; the rest are in about five of those old carrying cases, but any new ones purchased are stacked halphazardly on another shelf. They are mostly alphabetized, aside from the new ones, because having games simply stacked means that EVERYTHING needs to come out to add new games and keep things in order...which also generally makes most of the games unaccessable.
My Nintendo 64 and SNES games are all in halved Priority Mail boxes; they seem to fit them width-wise perfectly when going two-by-two or three-by-three. However, this is neither neat nor displayable, nor do they store well.
I don't want to spend a fortune on (and bulk everything up with) Universal Media Cases a la The Cover Project, but I want to find a way to get everything neat and organized and at the same time accessable.
Can anyone point me to some shelves or other storage units designed with these cartridges in mind, or something similar that fits? I'd love to find stackable tupperware drawers that are just the right height and width for some of these games -- most are too narrow and/or too deep. And, in true CAG fashion, the less expensive, the better!
I had a similar problem with controllers, but then, with one of my more ingenious ideas, I screwed hooks into the wall and suspended a wireframe shoe rack, reinforced with wireties, from Bed Bath and Beyond ($10); this gave me three shelves on an incline with a lip. The top has 3x3 Nintendo 64 controllers with Wii Peripherals next to it, the middle has more N64 controllers (with not a single color duplicated!) along with Dreamcast, Saturn, and PS2 ones next to it, and the bottom one has my Nomad, four WaveBirds, Xbox 360 controllers, and TV remotes in easy reach. Again with the shoes, extra controllers, peripherals, and wires are in a shoe net over the back of my door (another $10 or so).
But, for anything other than cartridges, wireties solve everything. You know those wireframe cube shelve things that are so easy to assemble and a dorm-room staple? Take a spare piece and use wireties to cut a cube in half! Half-shelves like this are great for consoles that front-load or have a generally low profile.
I try to keep things organized, so I can find games when I want to play them, so they can be displayed nicely with minimal clutter, and so that, when large lots of games pass through my hands, I can quickly extract the games I don't have (or are in better condition than my copy) and put the rest up online for trading and selling.
Right now, though, my collection is disgraceful -- sure, the disc-only PSX stuff can go into a massive CD binder, and the complete ones fit neatly into any CD rack, while boxed Genesis, SegaCD, and Saturn games all fit into DVD-storage shelves, but I am at a loss as to how to display -- or at least store in a relatively organized fashion -- my Nintendo cartridges. My iKea desk has a sort of recessed shelf that holds three rows of NES cartridges 37 units high; the rest are in about five of those old carrying cases, but any new ones purchased are stacked halphazardly on another shelf. They are mostly alphabetized, aside from the new ones, because having games simply stacked means that EVERYTHING needs to come out to add new games and keep things in order...which also generally makes most of the games unaccessable.
My Nintendo 64 and SNES games are all in halved Priority Mail boxes; they seem to fit them width-wise perfectly when going two-by-two or three-by-three. However, this is neither neat nor displayable, nor do they store well.
I don't want to spend a fortune on (and bulk everything up with) Universal Media Cases a la The Cover Project, but I want to find a way to get everything neat and organized and at the same time accessable.
Can anyone point me to some shelves or other storage units designed with these cartridges in mind, or something similar that fits? I'd love to find stackable tupperware drawers that are just the right height and width for some of these games -- most are too narrow and/or too deep. And, in true CAG fashion, the less expensive, the better!
I had a similar problem with controllers, but then, with one of my more ingenious ideas, I screwed hooks into the wall and suspended a wireframe shoe rack, reinforced with wireties, from Bed Bath and Beyond ($10); this gave me three shelves on an incline with a lip. The top has 3x3 Nintendo 64 controllers with Wii Peripherals next to it, the middle has more N64 controllers (with not a single color duplicated!) along with Dreamcast, Saturn, and PS2 ones next to it, and the bottom one has my Nomad, four WaveBirds, Xbox 360 controllers, and TV remotes in easy reach. Again with the shoes, extra controllers, peripherals, and wires are in a shoe net over the back of my door (another $10 or so).
But, for anything other than cartridges, wireties solve everything. You know those wireframe cube shelve things that are so easy to assemble and a dorm-room staple? Take a spare piece and use wireties to cut a cube in half! Half-shelves like this are great for consoles that front-load or have a generally low profile.
