Ever wondered if you have anything rare and valuable gathering dust in your attic? A rare video game system perhaps. A vintage board game. Or an artifact from ancient times, proudly displaying the label "Made in China" on the back. You might be sitting on a fortune, but you have no way to tell... until now!

As an avid video game collector, I am always trying to expand my collection. Get new video games that I don't yet own. Problem is, sometimes I cannot remember what I have and what I don't have. For I have thousands of video games in my collection, all scattered around the house: on bookshelves, in closets, in boxes... If I ever want to find out whether I have a game or not, I have to frantically rummage through all those locations, creating a total mess in the process.

As a user of the RarityGuide.com database, you most likely collect something as well, whether it be video games, comics, books or what not. RarityGuide.com frequently receives questions from users on how to better organize their growing collections.

And so, in  order to catalog my video game collection, and to explore solutions available for the RarityGuide.com collectors community, I decided to try out the Game Collector software from Collectorz.com...

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