Video Game Storage

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By sniper-gamer

People who love computer games and buy them regularly are often faced with the fact that they do not know where to store them. Games are scattered everywhere in the house, especially on the floor, where they can easily get lost or damaged. Do you remember the last time you were trying to find a game you wanted to play? I guess it wasn’t so easy. But it shouldn’t be that way. It is time for you to do something about it. In this article I will share with you some ideas of how to sort out this mess.

You can store your video game in various ways. For example, you can put boxes with your games in a classic bookshelf, which can be found in almost every house. If you don’t have one it won’t be a problem to purchase it in a furniture shop. There are shelves of all sizes. You can buy a short shelve that won’t take up much space while containing all your CDs. If you have a great amount of CDs, you can find a taller shelf, which will contain not only your video games, but also all other media you have.


photo by flickr.com/photos/thrillho
photo by flickr.com/photos/thrillho

The bookshelf is not the only solution. If you don’t like it, you can buy a video game storage cabinet that was designed especially for keeping games organized. Some video game storage units can contain not only games, but also the game console, controllers, accessories, and even a television. Some suppliers offer wall-mounted video game storage racks. If you don’t have much space in your room, a wall-mounted storage will be a good solution.

photo by flickr.com/photos/siradavis
photo by flickr.com/photos/siradavis

If you don’t like the idea of buying a new piece of furniture just for storing your video games, there is another method, that doesn’t require this: throw the boxes away and store the discs in a CD wallet. This solution is extremely easy and cheap. A CD wallet that holds 250 game disks requires much less space than 250 DVD-sized disk cases.

This solution has one significant disadvantage: when you decide to sell your games, you won’t earn as much money as you would if you were selling them with original boxes. This won’t be a problem if you store game boxes in your basement or attic instead of throwing them away.

My friend John stores his video game collection in CD wallets. In the past, every time he decided to play game he had to spend a significant amount of time searching for it. Once he got tired of this and he decided to sort his games by genre and title. The result of this change was impressing. After he made his games organized, he was able to access them much faster and spend more time playing instead of searching. If you plan to store your games in a wallet, I suggest you to do it in the same manner.

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