Now here’s an interest I’ve ignored for over a year. You see, there’s a piece of software out there “creatively” titled Game Collector that serves as an easy to use database for video game collectors. It is not the perfect thing out there, but it is at least better than some other software I’ve found touting the same purpose. This is likely related to the fact that the program hones in on games specifically instead of just being a standard media database.

In any case, the program itself is simple enough to use. So what’s gotten me back into it (especially since I already maintain my collection list elsewhere)? Someone posed the question as to how many games in our collections are rated E, T, M, and the like. What is the answer? It’s not something that is immediately apparent! Considering my collection is pretty large, it would be silly for me to even try to guess.

So, via the use of the program, I can readily see what the answer to the question is. Unfortunately, it requires me to update my database a great deal more. At one point it was perfectly up to date but now there are some 1,000 more games needing entry. With that said, most every game can be found via their existing database which means all you have to enter in is a game name. Less if you have a USB bar code scanner or (more likely) a scanner on your phone.

As of right now I still don’t have everything up to date to answer the question of game ratings, but hopefully it’ll be discovered by next week. When it is, I might do a little vanity post looking over the various statistics. After that, my obsession will probably fall on tweaking the collection info to make it more accurate or fill in missing data.