Every day this week, I'm counting down my five favorite gaming accomplishments over the last 12 months. We start at the bottom …
In 2008, I threw some games in the trash.
That might not seem like a big deal to some people, but it was for me.
I'm a pack rat, someone who still owns two Dreamcasts (one American, one Japanese) and scours used bins at EB Games for games I'm only mildly interested in playing but want for collection purposes...or something.
It was earlier this year that I realized that's completely insane. All of these games were stacking up in my apartment, many of them B or C-list products that I had no emotional investment in except "oh, it would be nice to own that." This likely applies to more than 3/4s of what I own.
A bunch of those -- including Namco Bandai's infamous first-person fist-based Xbox shooter "Breakdown" -- were tossed out of the collection in 2008.
In early 2009, the purge will be deeper. I plan to throw out many more. The reason? The games I own should be ones I truly treasure. Don't worry -- the same philosophy will be exercised on my DVD collection, too.