As many of you know that have been following my blogs for a while, last year I decided to really work on cutting down my backlog. Realizing I had 200+ in my collection that I started and never finished, I realized it was something that needed to be done (though it should have been started long ago ) I originally started this in late 2009 (around October) but didn't get more serious until a little further into 2010. So, as a recap I finished the following games in 2009:


Agatha Christie and Then There Were None
Anubis
CSI Hard Evidence
Finding Nemo / Monsters Inc

So, very few games finished for the year and certainly not the best games. But, it was a start and believe it or not, I don't think I had finished that many games in one year before just because I started games and never finished it. So while it may seem like nothing to others, for me it was quite good. I decided to set a goal for myself last year, but decided to start it a little late in the year so I wasn't able to make my goal of completing 52 games for the year. Still, I did end up finishing a decent amount of games and I'm still very pleased (especially since I really haven't played anything since October or November) Since 2011 has already started, I thought it would be fun to do a recap for 2010. So last year I managed to finish the following games:


The Bee Movie
Aladdin SNES
Zuma
Aliens in the Attic
Henry Hatsworth In the Puzzling Adventure
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Carnival Games
Chicken Little
Chicken Little Ace In Action
Alex Rider Stormbreaker
Crazy Chase
G-Force
Boing! Docomodake
Lego Batman
de Blob
Antz GBC
Toy Story SNES
Toy Story 2 N64
A Bug's Life PS1
Bolt
Cate West and the Vanishing Files
Elebits
DK King of Swing
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Daxter
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
Excitebots Trick Racing
Jungle Book SNES
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
Family Game Night
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command :gbc:
Atari Anniversary Edition Redux PS1
Drill Dozer
Drawn To Life
Game Party
Casper Friends Around the World :ps1:
Guitar Hero III


So that's a total of 38 games completed for the year, so I missed my goal by 14, but I'm still very happy. I had a decent mix of games and got play a little on all the system and a little something from every genre. I'm still working through a lot of my older games and games that aren't as great as some of my other games. I still have a lot of great games coming up and I'm really looking forward to getting to some of these games I have been waiting to play for a while. To keep this blog shorter I decided not to recap each game, but if you are interested in my "brief" opinions of the games you can find it on my list

So far for 2011 I have finished:


Garfield a Tail of Two Kitties
Haunted Mansion

So my backlog still has a ways to go, but at least I made some progress last year. I haven't really set a goal for myself this year. I have a feeling I'm not going to make as much progress as last year, but I would definitely like to and I would prefer to do better. I think about my only goal for this year is to add fewer games to the backlog than I beat so that my progress makes more of a dent. I kind of had the same goal last year (until I added goals later in the year) but I'm not really sure if I was successful or not I do, however, know I did better than 2009!!!

I have been thinking about my backlog and if I want to change anything about the way I have been tackling it. Last year, I pretty much played games on any system I wanted, but played the games in alphabetical order. I just decided it was the easiest way to go in a choose a game without being stuck with all my bad games at the end or something. I found this method worked pretty well and actually prevented me from being tempted by my new games that I was really wanting to play, i.e Kirby's Epic Yarn, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Epic Mickey, etc. So I'm thinking I'm best to stick with this same method this year. Because I have less free time on my hands this year I may make some changes, I just haven't decided for sure if I'm going to and what I want to do. I have a feeling the DS is going to get more time this year than my other systems. I may also change it so that I work on completing my shorter games and/or the bad games first. I really want to get all those games out of the way so I can enjoy all the awesome games I have been waiting to play... but again, for now, I think I'm going to stick with the same method as last year.

So, that's all for my backlog progress for 2010. I'm working on my top picks for 2010 which I should have up sometime this week.

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