Harry Potter tops library's most-borrowed games list

The Video Game Librarian's experiment in game rentals loans has reached its first birthday, and he's provided us with a list of the 12 most borrowed games during that time. With no M-rated titles in the mix, it should come as no surprise that Harry Potter walked off with the popularity crown -- it is a library after all.

    1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    2 (tie). Spider-Man 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, and Scaler
    5. Men in Black II: Alien Escape
    6 (tie). Viewtiful Joe, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    9 (tie). Katamari Damacy and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    11. Beyond Good & Evil
    12. Gradius V

A year's review of the program ensues, with thieves tarnishing the purity of the subsidized experiment, but at least some of the "lost" (and then recovered) titles included Van Helsing, Alias, and Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. Do game thieves have no taste? (Okay, they took Gran Turismo 4 and Lego Star Wars, too, but why would you steal bad games? A sense of gamer honor, perhaps? Okay, probably pure ignorance there, too.) At any rate, even if games are limited to PS2 budget games (and probably PS3 titles in the future due to their touted backward compatibility), we hope more libraries begin to share games with the public after these types of stories are told.

[Thanks, John]