Re: Lost Games

On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:40:26 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 1/27/2025 7:23 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:21:52 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
 

On 1/25/2025 8:59 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>
* have I ever mentioned I have a spreadsheet where I log all my games?
I'm sure it must have come up before ;-)
>

https://clz.com/games

 
I prefer a spreadsheet just because its more platform neutral and
doesn't require an online connection to use. Just drop the file
wherever and I have the data. Plus, it has all the fields I want and
is easy to modify.
 
I actually had a database for it (not a real one; I used Access ;-)
but it didn't really add all that much in needed features and wasn't
as portable, so I went back to the spreadsheet.
 

*shrug*  They have a half-dozen or so software packages for different
things.  I have the ones for Books and Movies (home media basically,
VHS, disc).  I find them useful as I have several thousand of the first
and over 600 of the second.  I'm also still on version 18 of both,
haven't paid for the upgrades/updates, and they work just fine.

Come to think of it, in some ways I use "Playnite"
(https://playnite.link/) as a database of my video-game library. It's
designed mainly as a launcher that allows you to combine all your
various libraries (Steam, GOG, EA, UPlay, etc.) into one app, but you
can also add "empty" games to it (e.g., no way to play the games, just
in the list as placeholders), and in fact I do that for my newer
Playstation/XBox games.

Often when I need to refer to games released in a specific year (or
just get information about a specific game, like publisher or when it
came out) I use Playnite for that purpose.

It does lack several significant fields that I'd find useful
(including date and price of purchase, how I got the game, and where
I've stashed the media, if it's on disk), and it lacks portability. If
I'm not in front of my main PC, I've no access to the info. So in this
regard, my spreadsheet still serves a useful purpose.