Lost Levels

Do you typically buy bottles of beer and leave them half-finished? Partially guzzled, sitting on countertops and TV trays and magazine covers? Would you buy a Happy Meal and not finish your French fries, thus making it a Only-Mildly-Happy Meal?

I end up doing this very same practice with video games, which is funny because the average game costs about 30 bottles of beer or 8 Happy Meals. (Wait, how much do Happy Meals cost nowadays?) So I’ve decided to make it a priority to actually finish all of the games in that accursed backlog, partially due to feeling a bit guilty about spending all that money and not seeing things to their conclusions, but mostly because I’m going back to grad school and I won’t be able to spend a penny on new releases for the next two years or so. This is an attempt to trick myself into thinking I don’t want new games (Hint: I do).

The helpful site at hand is Backloggery.com, which makes an Achievement-esque metagame out of finishing your own games. My username on there is Lunker, so if you face the same struggles as I do and need a support group, feel free to friend me. How many games do you have left unfinished?