The Wall O' Games

I had a little task to do for XboxRated.com and ended up taking all of my Xbox games out of their cabinet. For fun, I stacked them so that I could take another picture for y'all.

With the exception of Cold Fear, which is still on sabbatical at The Frozin One's place, every Xbox title released in North America as August 11, 2005 is represented.

That's 637 titles.

I put the second-generation Steel Battalion controller in front to help give you a sense of how huge this collection has become. (Plus, it just looks cool.)

A few things to note:

• On the left side of the picture are 36 titles that are in GameStop sleeves. The were bought used and came with no manual or case. (Actually, one of them is Frogger Beyond, which is in a CD case and came from a vendor on eBay. It seems that title cannot be found at any major retailer.)
  
• If you zoom in, you will notice that the titles are upside-down (except for twenty or so in the left-most stack.) This is because my games are sorted by title and stacking them with the spines upside-down is the only way to get them back in the case alphabetically when they are stacked three deep.
  
• The titles that aren't upside down are in my "now playing" list, or were recently played when Frozin & Family came over for the weekend.
  
• If there is a "Limited Edition" release of a game, then the library includes that version of the release. (With the exception of Halo 2 -- I have both versions for LAN gaming.) Same comment for Morrowind, I only have the Game of the Year edition, not the original release. (Though, oddly, I have a copy of the original release manual -- somebody at EBGames screwed up and put the wrong manual in one of my pre-owned titles.)
  
• There are chairs behind the stacks which help support them.
  
• The right-most stack has 81 games in it. I got less ambitious as the stacks built to the left.
  
• Before the picture was taken, I had one minor fall -- about ten games from one column.
  
• After the picture was taken, I had seven separate stack falls involving over 200 games.
  
• Yes, I intentionally waited for X-Play to come on so that Morgan Webb's face (and only her face) would show just above the WOG. I was in the mood to jerk SlickMoney's chain. :)

EDIT: I just found out that there are six games missing from my database, and therefore, my collection. *sigh* I'll find some other way to photograph the monster (no, Slick, not Morgan Webb) once I have them ALL.