The All-Tevin Request Hour

At Tevin's request, here's a photo of my current Xbox game collection.

With a single caveat, noted below, it represents the entire North American Xbox catalog as of July 25, 2005. (Two titles were released on July 26, that I won't have for a few days.)

It now just about fills the longboy cabinet I keep them in, with the games stacked three deep on the shelves. (The upper shelf has some styrofoam risers in it that let you see titles in all three rows. The lower shelf did not have enough height to do this, so they are just layered three deep.)

This collection may find a new home in my bedroom closet soon.


Caveats and miscellaneous info:

• The Halo 2 Map Pack and Cold Fear were off visiting The Frozin One when this picture was taken.
  
• About 30 of the games are not boxed, but are in paper GameStop DVD sleeves. (They were purchased used.)
  
• There are a few duplicate titles:
  • Halo 2 -- For LAN partying
  • 007: Agent Under Fire -- Because the Platinum Hits version can't be used with the EvoX exploit. (I backup all my Xbox gamesave data to the home fileserver monthly.)
  • Deathrow -- I received a second copy as a pre-order bonus with Breakdown.
  • Motor Trend Presents: Lotus Challenge -- Faulty bookkeeping
  • NHL 2002 -- Really faulty bookkeeping.
  • The Hulk -- Because I was stupid.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny -- Because I can occasionally be really stupid.
    
• Yes, there is a copy of Barbie Horse Adventures in there. And yes -- I've played it.
  
• 2/3 of the collection was purchased used from GameStop.com, EBGames.com and from people on eBay.
  
• According to my Xbox gamesaves directory, I've played 271 of the games represented here.
  
• There are about 60 titles that are still in the factory shrink-wrap.
  

Man, am I a geek...

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Tevin also recently asked about the status of XboxRated.com. Well, he's a day or two ahead of me. There will be two new blogs coming online later this week that deal with XboxRated.com:

• xbrdeveloper.blogspot.com -- This will be my developer blog, commenting on the daily struggle to get the web-site on-line. This blog will also provide a few sneak-preview links into the site to see what it's all about.
• xboxrated.blogspot.com -- This will be mainly for public announcements regarding the site while it is in its infancy. Links to all new content posted on the site will be announced here. (This should be really nice for those of you using RSS or Atom feeds.)