If there's a game that really made an impression on you, maybe a model attack, defense, an opening, ending, etc, then that can be worth memorizing.
Memorizing a list of games though, by itself, I'd say does absolutely nothing. For simplicity lets say Carlsen knows 1000 games 40 moves each... but each of those 40000 moves have context for him. It's not machine like recall, the games tell a story.
So especially at first, I'd think that memorizing isn't very useful because there is so little context. Better to learn the basics from e.g. books on strategy, endgame, and tactics.
I am new to playing chess. I've been studying Logical Chess move by move for the last month or so. My question is should I focus at all on memorizing any games or just study them? I know through studying leads to some memorization but not as much as intentionally meaning to memorize. Magnus Carlsen has professed to memorizing 1,000's of games so I'm just curious which one is better cause I've been getting my socks blown off.
Thanks!