Men displaying their library is as old as the concept of a personal library. Books, were the items treasured in libraries, nowadays it is videogames and movies (we live in a society etc etc)
I had never seen a personal digital library myself, until I stumbled onto this https://lukesmith.xyz/library. It honestly didn't ever pass my mind, of showing your books and reviewing them in a place, digitally, in your own website, and in this process, helping others find books they like.
Mind you, the above example of luke smith is undercooked, for he has not read/finished all of the books displayed (it is quite literally a personal physical library), and there aren't reviews for most of them (1 hour reviews are worth it though)
In the end of the day, this is a Game Design channel, and I am a Game Designer, and I have been playing videogames my entire life, and videogames shaped me as a person far far more than books (except Plato's Republic), so I pretty much took the library concept and applied it for videogames I have finished or played a lot. Here, I hope you find or have already found some videogames which are worth your time, and are not merely fun (which is rare nowadays), but also provide you with memories of joy.
Almost all cover arts were found from these 3 sites:
Without the talented users uploading them to these websites, I doubt I would manage to finish this game library at all
The rest of the cover arts originate in niche sites, via duckduckgo's search engine. I did resize most of them however, or did minor edits where need be (this is why you can't reverse-search some of them, e.g. world of goo cover)
If you want to do something like this yourself, its pretty simple, the only thing which takes time is writing the "reviews"
But you need those cover arts first!
Open 6 tabs in your browser.
Optimally, resize them to 300x450, unless they are of a special console. For example, nintendo gameboy/DS games are THICC, and Playstation 3 games are fat. Dimension sizes and quality levels are listed here
As you can see, you can compress them with around 80 quality and get away with it since they are so small!
Upload the cover arts to your website pictures folder. Copy-paste my game-library .html (press F12 to see synopsis of html top right) and replace the game name and review. Repeat until it's done lol
For the "Review", note that there is a 2060 character limit for tooltips, and in some browsers or OS, this is far far lower. So don't dump full text reviews in there!
Add URLs where you see fit, but not in all of them, because if all of them have URLs, then there is little value to all the URLs (when everyone is special, no one is). Think of URLs as easter eggs! For example, I could post epic trailers for most of the games, yet I chose not to, even in outright masterpieces which I would suggest. Why?
Because that time spent watching a trailer (which you could search by yourself), will be instead spent watching some video I really suggest (or found funny lol)
But the above^ is more of a guideline; it's your website, no one can stop you, do whatever you want.
Edit: Most of the following was ported for the Javascript was a Mistake article.
tl;dr: You don't need javascript to do any of this.
