How Do You Organize Your Collections?

Alphabetical for everything.

My patience is large and my collection is small, so I just try to keep everything together in no particular order.  If it fits, it belongs there.

I have a CD holding shelf, but since I came home I haven't used it.  Right now my games live in a shoebox.

Gamecube games lower right, X-Box classics lower left.
Gamecube classics upper right, X-box games upper right.
Games I'm currently playing all over the place.

I place them together by System, and then by favorites for each system. The games I don't like go on the bottom shelf. 

System and alphabetical. 
 
An exception is made if it's a sequel.

games i try to keep in order by series and if im feeling extremely bored...publisher.
 
everything else i don't care enough about to keep in order.but i keep a handful of cds, that are in my monthly rotation, not in cases just lying on my passenger side seat...yea i don't care about my cds.

I just organize by system, I don't put them in order least favorite to favorite though. I'm not that cool.

" System and alphabetical.  An exception is made if it's a sequel. "

" System and alphabetical.  An exception is made if it's a sequel. "

I go by series (in chronological order) -> alphebetical order -> genre

I mix platforms together only if they're part of aa series (like psp and ps2)

 
but all of my playstation and psp games that have cases fit in two shoe boxes so there isn't much to organize...

My music i keep all similar bands together, dont really care much for alphabetical. For games i just keep a good organized section under my TV stand. On steam i organize my games by 4 categories, indie, singleplayer, multiplayer, and strategy. Only reason i give strategy its own section is because i have so many. 

I put them in groups based on there genre, the Steam groups the groups alphabetically and each game in each group is alphabetically aligned based on the individual groups.

I don't organize them at all.

" Alphabetical for everything. "

" System and alphabetical.  An exception is made if it's a sequel. "

I don't really organise any of it but I do keep my games grouped by system and seperate to DVDs, Blu-ray which are seperated again to the CDs.

i tend to organize pretty much everything in an unorganized pile.

I used to be pretty critical of having everything in alphabetical order and such, but over the years I really dont care. I usually have a pile of games or music that I'm currently using and then just shelves of games/music. Some things like ps1 games or movies really take up a ton of space. All those cases are in storage and the games/movies are in binders.

Games I don't play, and games I do play.

" System and alphabetical.  An exception is made if it's a sequel. "

" Alphabetical for everything. "

" System and alphabetical.  An exception is made if it's a sequel. "

When I had a larger collection (before I either sold them at yard sales, or put away in the attic) I kept my games in alphabetical order.  Now that my collection is a little smaller, I keep them in the order of game last played. 

I don't, all of my shit is stuffed under my couch in huge space saver bags. It only comes out when I'm feeling nostalgic, I just don't have the room to display everything, but that is what I want to do badly.

I tend to go alphabetical, but I recently reorganized my 360 games by color.

" System and alphabetical.  An exception is made if it's a sequel. "

Games by platform and alphabetical. Also, the games I'm playing now are on a different shelf closer to the system.
Music alphabetical by artist. 

Here's a question: If you have a game with a title, like let's say, "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion", do you file it under "E" or "O"? Or are you crazy and file it under "T"?

By system, then alphabetically.

Hmm...I tend to organize my music by genre.

My ps3 games are usually all over the place, I throw the like frizbees. My pc games however are neatly put in a bunch of sleves in a metal like box.

" @Soapy86:  People who alphabetically sort anything using "the" as the first word are crazy people. "

" System and alphabetical.  An exception is made if it's a sequel. "

I don't have enough room to organize anything :I

For video games it just by console, I'm thinking of organizing my 360 collection alphabetically since I'm approaching 70 or so games (and my gamer score is 12,000, I'm shouldn't by another game for a year! haha). DVD's and Blu Ray's each have their own areas.

Games I am currently playing are next to the system and games I am not playing are on a shelf.

Alphabetically grouped by system. The groups of systems are also Alphabetical ie. PS2, PS3, then Xbox 360

In the order I bought them.

Organize?

DS and PSP have nice shoe boxes.  PC is a bit... everywhere.  CD sleeves / jewel boxes mostly go on the desk here, those DVD-boxes-but-bigger in a box in a closet, and old / shitty stuff basically ends up in some weird drawer.

360 and PS3 go on the shelf :

my PS3 collection is randomly sorted, my 360 collection is sorted by how frequent i play them (since my collection is small) and my DS is sorted by when i bought them.  everything else is packed away for now so i don't even know

When I'm done with a game for the moment and switch, I usually leave the CD on/beside my system, the problem being I tend to have a short attention span and switch games often, leading to less and less space for my CDs. When there's no more room at all is when it's time to clean up. Then the process repeats.

Hmm. Never really thought to organize my games. I'm not one of those kids who leaves their discs out or puts them all in the wrong cases, but I just always feel like it's a hassle to just get up and grab the game, let alone organize them. That's one of the main reasons I play so many downloadable games. Well, not really... but really. 
 
Oh, and I guess it makes sense for me, because I have to stack my games on top of one-another in two columns. I don't have enough horizontal space to just line them up neatly side-by-side. I'd probably do it alphabetically if that were the case.

Alphabetical based on series.  No concern given to system.  Alan Wake is side-by-side with Ace Attorney.  Luigi's Mansion is under "S" along with all the Super Mario Bros games.
 
They are also placed chronologically within their series;  MGS 3, then MGS, then MGS 2, etc.