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The 7 Levels of Board Game Collecting

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We’ve been seriously collecting board games for more than a couple of years at this point here at Shelfside. Our current combined collection would be really quite shocking to our high school selves, and we wanted to depict the fun progression of how it’s like to start collecting board games.

There was a time where Cards Against Humanity and Monopoly dominated the conversation, and for quite some years at that. As we got older, like many others, Catan was one of the first games that just utterly gripped our attention, and down the rabbit hole we went. Like really, the Gamecube thing I talk about in this video hits home for our friend group. Target and Barnes and Noble were our go-to as we picked up games like Pandemic, Betrayal at House on the Hill, and we’re sure that the party game Throw Throw Burrito would be a grab if it was around at the time. Of course, spending money on board games is way too tempting and has led to some unopened games. And some games are just expensive, like Food Chain Magnate, Frosthaven/Gloomhaven, and Caverna. This video wouldn’t be complete with the behemoth TI3 and the new TI4 as well, which come a little later down the line in the journey. We have yet ourselves to hit the highest level in this video, and that is for sure a personal goal of ours.

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21.06.2023

224 Comments

  1. Anyone ever played Dragonsscales? I'm seeking a game like that but with expansions I like games with expansions much more like DC deck builder has alot and the complex multiverse way of playing so something expansive and with figures

  2. What? You replaced TI3 with TI4? A true collector would have kept both!

  3. if I only had friends that were into board games too I could JUSTIFT MY ADDICTION

  4. This is so damn true.

  5. This is exactly me but replace the "give to friends" sign with "sell on Facebook or BGG" … If you're patient, you can actually get back a lot of the money you spent. Out of print games barely go down in value, even if used. Also, when someone really wants an out of print board game, they'll pay almost anything for it. I've been collecting board games since 2009 and I can say I've recouped at LEAST 60% of the money I spent by selling through Facebook and BGG. Now, just like in the video, my collection consists only of what gets played, and a few guilty pleasures that I don't want to get rid of. I'm also WAY pickier now. The market is flooded with games that look amazing now but with the experience I gained through the years, I can now see past the fluff and know when a game isn't worth it.

  6. I have the same problem!! Lol …and some doubles of the whole collection of Shadows of Brimstone that I will never sell. I believe I still have 4 oustanding kickstarters I'm waiting for. Can't even keep track of what I have anymore. One day I'll have time to play!! Lol

  7. I would say my journey went as follows;

    – rediscovered board games at a Meetup. First game in 20 years? Kemet.
    – bought Carcassonne some time later.
    – bought Mage Knight. Then Lords of Waterdeep. Then Mage Wars. Then…
    – started hosting own board game night.
    – eventually ended up with a whole wall of board games (many unplayed), A room dedicated to board games and shelves galore.

    Then. Something happened.

    One night the gaming group complained about playing new games all the time. “Why can’t we just stick with a few and really develop strategies?”.

    – Recognize that I’d gone from board game player to board game collector.
    – Recognized my purchasing had a lot to do with the “get” and less about the “have”.
    – Sell most of the games and keep only the best of the best (in our opinion).
    – turn the board gaming room into a arts and crafts room instead.
    – keep game nights small and fun again with games we know and love.

    I feel sorry for people with walls of games now. I mean, you can’t really play all those. Or rather, you’ll never be able to focus on just one that you like and if you did…why have 200 others? MUCH happier now that I realized what was happening. I hope others beat the, “new shiny!” Addiction as well. 👍

  8. Too real, I've been guilty of just about all of that.

  9. ok… I have a problem too. Subbed for more boardgame videos.

  11. Step 8: Arguing with level headed people on kickstarter lol

  12. This video is inaccurate…I created a BGG account probably somewhere around level 2/3

  13. This is me except that my downfall started with Exploding Kittens

  14. 😂😂😂😂
    2.5 watched thousands of hours of top tens and researching games to buy
    8. Discovered solo gaming..
    9. Board game evangelising…everyone will worship the cardboard..have you heard the good news about cardboard??

  15. You promised "No more games" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Silly Rabbit! Because Expansions! Because Kickstarter Edition with minis! You're so SCREWED!
    Yeah go to BBG! Next step to realizing you have a problem it by going to a Game Convention! PROMOS! See games in development and play brand new games! aaaaarrrrrggghhhhh!
    How many games is too many? At what point do we admit we have a problem?

  16. This could easily be me..especially military board games. I have to avoid game shops and browsing or i'd spend a fortune.

  17. I have made it to 7 but oh do I remember the buy, buy, buy stage so many games. Nice video.

  18. Really love your videos and channel keep up the great work. Helped convince me I really don’t need a board game table.

  19. Sees video, immediately begins guessing where I am on the spectrum… sees several shelf’s stacked. I’m somewhere between 4-5

  20. We've made a rule to only buy games on days ending in "y".

  21. Ouch… A little too close to home 🙂

  22. Lol this is me…Started with a few card games for fun, then I bought Gloomhaven and I’m slowly turning into that “nerd” that paints miniatures and makes mini doors/terrain…. I’m having a blast tho 😅

  23. Great video. So many pleb games, though.

  24. 0:03 Spotted Fulltone OCD box on the right. Are you a guitar player too?

  25. This is great! My life exactly… haha

  26. So very relatable. Just missing the Kickstarter fase, hahahahahaha

  28. Level 7 summarized: Board Lord

  29. My gate way game was blood rage. 😂🤣

  30. Level 8 – let me purge my collection of anything in the shelf of shame OR for every new game I buy, I’ll get rid of one I no longer play.

  31. If we would be homeless together we would have 2 copies of TI!

  32. But pandemic legacy season 0… jut one more

  34. I did the same thing but with crack

  36. Crazy, prude hat guy ruined it.

  37. The username “Board” is already taken 😆

  38. The lack of Dominion expansions on that shelf is disturbing

  39. Now do minis….oh geez….thousands have gone into warhammer, dark age and dnd along with many…many others

  40. This is way too real
    (Level 5)

  41. Wow, decades of a gaming, started clubs, promoted, still at it and I have yet to reach level 4 …

  42. My gateway boardgame was 7 wonders. Nothing but buy buy buy from there. With a recent purchase of a full battlestar galactica set (my preciouuuuuuuuus!)

  44. LEVEL 4:
    That escalated quickly

  45. I'm probably top level lol but I'm smart I shop at the thrift stores and I show stuff off on my channel I have pretty close to 1,000 games

  46. I think there's a few extra stages… painting your minis, trying some ccgs and wargames, getting over the fear of sprues with a "cheap" wh40k starter set, ordering Kingdom Death Monster, building & painting KD:M, playing KD:M…..

  47. Hahahahahahahaha. True lol

  48. So true… I don't have a problem… I can stop anytime…. I just need Wingspan to make my collection complete… and maybe Ankh.

  50. * looks at the four new board games on shelf that haven't been played yet*

    O no…it's like my book collection all over again.

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