As long as I have been collecting games, I have always described myself as a "functional collector," meaning that I only picked up games I wanted to play. With only a few exceptions I held true to this ethic, and I plowed dutifully through every game I bought, but slowly my collection began to get larger; so slow that I hardly noticed. I began to long for a "video game" clean slate, longing for a day long past where I looked at upcoming games for something to play, not just something to add to the pile. So, I set out to create a backlog list of some sort, then everything came tumbling down around me.
