This site is a personal catalogue documenting a small but meaningful video game collection. My formative years were shaped by Japanese games during the 1990s and their game design, storytelling, and cultural nuances. I began assembling the collection during that era, continuing sporadically into the early 2000s before shifting my focus to other pursuits. The collection represents a broad cross-section of gaming across multiple generations and genres. Meanwhile this site offers myself a sort of virtual gallery to browse what I have, decide what to play, and avoid buying things I already own.
Over the years, my life and work have taken me across various continents, and with each move came compromises in what I could keep. Today only my most recent systems are readily accessible while the rest, including a trove of uncatalogued software and hardware, remain in long-term storage. As such, the site isn’t a complete inventory but more of an evolving snapshot shaped by availability and shifting interests. Over time I am slowly adding in content I have, but it is a slow process.
This catalogue’s origins were humble: a simple text file in DOS that later became an early Excel spreadsheet, and then a hand-coded HTML site with some questionable design choices. After nearly a decade of neglect, I’ve rebuilt the platform using now-ubiquitous CMS ecosystems. While the aesthetics and some metadata mimic an online storefront, nothing here is for sale. The format simply offers a convenient way to filter, sort, and visually browse the items; and also give me a nice test bed to try out designs and code.
Most images are of the actual item themselves, particularly with older parts of the catalogue. No such point with new items where high-resolution images are easily available. But on many occasions I’ve noticed there’s no high quality images available, even on the most-popular eastern and western game database and cover image sites. I do find my images have ended up on a number of them, and also a number of stores. Images on this site are super optimised but high quality scans are available on request. There’s no gatekeeping of nostalgia or history here.
At present, the collection includes a diverse mix of games, each with some descriptive or contextual metadata. Many items still await documentation, especially legacy hardware and region-specific releases. The site continues to evolve slowly, as a non-commercial venture. It sits as a digital gallery how I like it: personal, structured, and informative. It quietly reflects both a history of games, and also a history of myself. I hope you find equally interesting and informative.