Does the Marie Kondo method work on games? Listen to our latest podcast to find out!
Ravi and Victoria try to slim down their gaming collections... but one of them is having a lot more trouble letting go
Marie Kondo would not like me.
Admittedly, my knowledge of the Japanese clean-up guru comes solely from cultural knowledge; I have not watched her Netflix series or read her books. Still, when Victoria suggested we use the KonMari Method on our gaming collection, I knew what that meant -- stripping down our list of games to the bare essentials, keeping only the ones that "spark joy".
I even got aggressive with it. Marie Kondo supposedly keeps only 30 books. Thirty is too many, I said, brashly. How about we make it a challenge? Let's make it... ten.
SPOILER ALERT: My list has more than ten games. Like, significantly more.
The problem is that I like... stuff. If everything sparks joy, how can I throw anything away?
You can listen to the podcast here, or in the links below, to hear how we justified ourselves. I've also appended our lists to the bottom of the page.
Click the below links to listen to us on:
VICTORIA'S LIST
To keep
Replayability
- Grand Theft Auto IV (nostalgia, replay factor)
- Grand Theft Auto V (online play keeps it going)
- Minecraft
- Puzzle Fighter
- Dr Mario
- Skyrim
- Dynasty Warriors
- Rock Band/Guitar Hero
- Worms
- Theme Hospital
To keep
Nostalgia
- Kirby’s Dream Land (because KIRBY)
- Super Mario Land (for the music?)
- Saints Row The Third (for pure escapism)
- Sims (all of them, plus expansion packs)
- Sim City 2000 (and 3000?)
RAVI'S LIST
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo Switch)
- Towerfall (PlayStation 4)
- Micro Machines V3 (PlayStation)
- Moto Roader (PC Engine)
- Pokémon Go (iOS)
- Super Mario Bros. (Famicom)
- Super Mario World (Super Famicom)
- Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Switch)
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (Xbox 360)
- Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (N64)
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo Switch)
- SimCity 2000 (Macintosh)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PlayStation 2)
- Skyrim (Nintendo Switch)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox)
- Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (PlayStation 4)
- Mass Effect 1 (Xbox 360)
- Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360)
- Mass Effect 3 (Xbox 360)
- 24: The Game (PlayStation 2)
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (Macintosh)
- Split/Second (Xbox 360)
- Elite Beat Agents (Nintendo DS)
- Sleeping Dogs (PlayStation 4)
- Project Gotham Racing 2 (Xbox)
- Stranglehold (Xbox 360)
- GoldenEye 007 (N64)
- Pokémon Red (Game Boy)
- Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
- Steins;Gate (PlayStation Vita)
- GTA: Liberty City Stories (PlayStation Portable)
- Uncharted 2 (PlayStation 3)
- Crazy Taxi (Dreamcast)
(Victoria figured it out: This apparently random collection of games is in fact an attempt by me to keep as many consoles as possible.)
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