Introduce Yourself! [Archive] - Page 5

Amano

04-13-2005, 08:02 AM

Hey there! The name's Samantha, or Sam for short. "Hey you" works, too. Soon to be 20 years.

I'm hail from western Nevada, where the only thing interesting is actually having access to the Internet. Heh. I stumbled onto DigitalPress.com just randomly. Can't really remember what I was doing. That was two hours ago. Oye.

My favorite games include: Guilty Gear X2, Secret of Mana, Gunstar Heroes, Final Fantasy VI, Katamari Damacy, and EarthBound.

I like all sorts of games, but generally rpgs, 2D fighting, racing, and puzzle games are my bag.

As far as my collecting habits, I'm on a quest to own every console RPG. So far, my main systems I own RPGs for would be GBA, PS2, PS1, and SNES. It's slow going, considering my limited funds. I'll probably get around to updating my very old game collection profile in a week or something like that. Busy with work and all.

Real life consists of work for me. It isn't half bad, though, because I'm 2nd in command at a game store. I play approximately 30% of the games I buy, and I maintain a long-distance relation with my squeeze. It's exhausing. I'm also looking into taking night classes at our local community college.

Started gaming back when I was 2. I played with my old man on his Intellivision. Then the NES came along, and I suppose that hooked me. And I just started to seriously collect in the last year. The sick thing is that I'm looking for all of the RPGs I sold maybe 2 years ago. They're all really expensive now, too. *sigh* Whoever said, "Ignorance is bliss" ought to be shot. Ignorance bites you in the rear later. ¬ ¬'

Anyways, nice to meet you all!!

VinnyT

04-13-2005, 08:42 PM

I can't belive I've never posted here, and i've been here for over a year.

- Who you are- Vinnyt
- Where you live-Willowick
- How you found the forums-GameFaqs
- What your favorite games are-Shinig Force II, MLB series, Sonic series
- What systems you collect for: SNES, Pico, Genesis
- What you do in "real life"-Work at a pizza place
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Not really.

POST 1000 in this thread!

THATinkjar

04-14-2005, 03:23 PM

I've just joined, and this seems the most fitting thread to tag onto first :)

Who am I? - I'm Jon. Notice the lack of "h". I hate it when people automatically assume the "h". Pet hate.

Where do I live? - UK, south. As far south as you can go, and to the east. South-east. Yes.

How did I find this forum? - A friend of mine found Nescapades (http://www.nescapades.com/gameroom.htm) which inspired me to find more wonderful game rooms. Which took me here, thankfully!

What are my favourite games? - Gosh, that's a wee bit hard for my first post. Something Sonic and something Mario. That'll do, no?

What systems do I collect for? - PC, N64, SNES, PS2 (and I'm looking in the long-term to pick up some PS1 games), Xbox and GameCube.

What do I do in real-life? - I work for Alpine Components. Just starting there. And in September, I'm going to Uni - or that is the plan, anyway. I've backed out the last few years - my colleciton cannot continue to grow without appropriate funding!

Anything else of interest? - Not really. Erm, these forums, and the Room Of Doom pages, inspired me to remodel my room this week. I took off the six sliding doors that hid my shelving before moving and reorganizing everything. It looks superb. Mess is not an option!

I hope to contribute to these forums like many have done so already. I just wish I found you guys sooner!

motoko_chan_o0o

04-16-2005, 08:37 PM

- Who you are- motoko_chan_o0o
- Where you live-That one city with lots of lights and gambling ;)
- How you found the forums-my hubby is a member here!
- What your favorite games are- Halo2 baybee!, Baulder's Gate series, Resident Evil series, basically any decent game platform with good graphics where you can kick the shit out of stufff ;)
- What systems you collect for: well, hubby does all the collecting, I'm just along for the ride.. we have xbox, ps2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Neo Geo, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and I'm sure a bunch of others that I can't think of right now.
- What you do in "real life"-I'm a Turnip Plebotomist... in ortherwords a Bill collector, you know those people you HATE to have call you? that's me! ;)
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Well, since I married him, I really didn't have a choice hehe... No really I'm a big video Gaming fan, a huge Sci-Fi/Fantasy geek myself.. so they just kind of go hand in hand!

Jed

04-18-2005, 09:00 PM

- Who you are --- Name's Jed, but you could've guessed that. :P
- Where you live --- Bayville, New Jersey
- How you found the forums --- Someone on the NES board at GameFAQs referred me.
- What your favorite games are --- The Wizardry series.
- What systems you collect for --- Any
- What you do in "real life" --- I'm a database admin at http://www.autoshopper.com as well as an avid (and aspiring pro) bowler.
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.

I look forward to many successful transactions, both buying and selling.

jchesser

04-19-2005, 03:27 AM

Who I am---> Joseph Chesserr
Where I live-> Bardstown, Ky... next door to a person that posts here named kraboomba.
How I found DP-> Kraboomba
Favorite Games-> Final Fantasy 7 ( sorry, Fan Boy and proud) Super Mario brothers, and Final Fantasy 3
What systems i collect for-> none really but i am lookin in to the master system to start off with and then move to gensis (32x) sega cd and end with saturn.
What i do in real lilfe-> Well i am a huge baseball fan and i love to go to the local ballpark and watch the louisville bats play when there home and i am not at work, love the reds and the braves. Other than that i go to work and come home and play city of heros.
Interesting Facts-> I am a red headed short tempered irishman 21 years of age. I am a full time professional photographer.

Teo

04-19-2005, 02:01 PM

Heyou!

Name is Teo

I'm 23 years old

Live in Washington (NW)

Beat my Monkey Cliff Diving scores

Have a big collection of Nintendo rarifacts

Wonder's why the avatar does not work for me.

machine.slave

04-19-2005, 04:17 PM

Hey, all!

My name's Brock, I'm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I've known about this board for a while and finally decided to sign up. I've been on CGCC.CA for about a year and a half, now.

I'm mainly a systems collector, with over 50+ systems to date, and have been collecting for almost 2 years.

rick weis

04-19-2005, 11:43 PM

since i just did an intro at atariage thought i would just cut and paste it here too :)

How did you get into classic gaming?
answer= mom and dad got me a atari 2600 for christmas (77) 2 weeks later i started collecting atari 2600 games. and still at it...

How big is your collection
answer= TOO BIG, but yet not big enough.

what systems do you collect for?
answer= mostly Atari 2600

Do you play games or do you mostly just collect, trying to get every last game?
answer= mostly collect! every last game? NO, that's impossible!!

Ever been to any classic gaming events?
If so, which ones?
answer= World of Atari , CGE, NWCGE, SC3
and would like to make it to eurocon,AGE, and at least one on the east coast..

- What are some of your interests besides classic gaming?
answer=modern gaming

Do you enjoy mountain biking?
answer= NO, i don't have a mountain bike

Listening to music?
answer= YES anything but heavy metal and that kind of music that the base rattles your windows from 10 miles away!

Watching movies?
answer= once in a while

What kind of movies?
answer= action and horror movies

Traveling?
answer= only at work

Programming? Knitting? Writing new homebrew games for classic gaming systems?
answer= NO, NOOOO!!! and i wish i could!

- Where do you live?
answer= vancouver, Washington

How long have you been there?
answer= 5 years

Ever lived in any strange places?
answer= Yes, an appartment! nuff said

- What do you do for a living?
answer= i drive 14 ft and 24 ft trucks delivering mags and books to retailers. i LOVE to drive!

What would your dream job be,
answer= i once had a job (4 years) where i mostly just went to the horse races and bet and watch the racing while being paid for it. (yeah nice job if you can find it)

if you're not already doing it?
answer= other then the above answer i have my dream job now.

- Have you created any interesting websites you'd like to share?
answers=
http://community-2.webtv.net/AT2600COLLECTOR/Ricksgameroom/

http://community-2.webtv.net/AT2600COLLECT...KWEISATARI2600/

http://community-1.webtv.net/AT2600COLLECTOR/ATARI2600SELL/

http://community-1.webtv.net/AT2600COLLECT...I2600COLLECTOR/

http://community-2.webtv.net/A2600COLLECTO...IVISIONPATCHES/

- What websites do you visit on a regular basis?
answers= mostly AA and DP

- Does your forum name need any type of
explanation?
answer= NO!

Is there an interesting story behind it?
answer= NO

- Do you have any pets? Any unusual ones?
answers= NO and NO!

- Ever had your "15 minutes of fame"?
answer= YES, i once played a solo on stage, in front of 2500 people while blinded. Yes, blinded... all the lights went off, then the spot light came on, and like i dope i looked into it! *rolleyes* needless to say i could not see a thing during almost all of the song. but still played it perfect!

PentiumMMX

04-20-2005, 04:01 AM

...After realising I have been on here for a little over a year and did not intruduse my self, I will now do so!

I am PentiumMMX, you can call me "Fred the Spanyard" if you want, I don't feel like saying where I live.

I discovered the fourms when I was looking for a decent Old-Skool Gaming fourm that was not loaded with "Nintendo 64 suck0rxxx! NES pwns!!11!11!", "ColecoVision rock0rz! I wanna' overclock it and play Halo!", and "GRRR! Nintendo Fanboy SMASH!"

I got into gaming when I got an N64, and the first system I played was an Atari 2600. I started collecting in 2003, starting with NES, Game Boy, and N64.

A few of my favorate games are "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night", "Mega Man 5", "Super Mario 64", "Mega Man X4", "Final Fantasy 7", "Ninja Gaiden", and "Zelda: Link's Awakening".

Outside of playing games, I enjoy watching anime and cartoons ("Xaolin Shodown" and "Mega Man: NT Warrior" are the best), and wacking stiff with a stick while shouting "TWO-MAGIC!".

dcrw6

04-20-2005, 07:39 PM

I've been coming here for a while, but just now decided to post.

-Who you are -Dustin
- Where you live- In Salem, Oregon. Nice enough city, but not enough game stores
- How you found the forums -came across it as I searched for a Dreamcast checklist
- What your favorite games are Shining Force, Doom 1/2, Resident Evil, Silent Hill 2, Stranger's Wrath
- What systems you collect for - Currently collecting for X-box and finishing up the Dreamcast. Used to have an almost complete N64 and halfway complete PSOne collection, but somebody robbed my house and took them all, it's too depressing to go buy them all again at the moment.
- What you do in "real life" -stock shelves at Wal-Mart

Andy_D

04-20-2005, 11:30 PM

Missed this a couple of days ago...

I've been coming here for a while, but just now decided to post.

-Who you are - Andy.. .just hit 35 and still feel 15 :D
- Where you live - Live close to Manchester in the UK
- How you found the forums - Actually found the forums through a group on Ebay!
- What your favorite games are - After all these years, I still enjoy Populous, ToeJam & Earl and Astrowars
- What systems you collect for - I used to collect that took my fancy, until it was getting underfoot. Sold everything then regretted it and starting again. I am going to be looking for Atari, Vectrex and 'Tabletops'
- What you do in "real life" - in RL I am a Webmaster for an online recruitment site... means I do all the 'techy' things :D

diggs130

04-25-2005, 08:32 AM

Hello my name is -read my name tag

Doug~

37/married/3 kids ya gotta love life!!

At times I guess its more of collecting than playing(someday it will be the otherway around but until then get'em will you can!)

- small town minnesota
- Luck
- all 80's,modern fps pertaining to war.
~Atari 2600,7800,5200/sega saturn,dreamcast,some genisis/colecovision,pretty much all the classics!
- What you do in "real life" Truck driver
- My son!I said ebgames for ps2 games and he said something about ebay I said what and its consumed my life for a year and it continues!

ebay handle- diggs130

craziest buys 125.00 for star castle on the vectrex,I had to have it so Im happy :D

120.00 for star fortress on colecovision,same :D Thanks to the dude who beat me out and sold it to me 3 months later for his cost 8-)

Ive had a few good deals from sellers here to( redcurrie, mindlesspunk77, Drexel923, Chunky)

out.......

PammyK

04-26-2005, 10:58 AM

I am an old school collector from Arizona who has been out of the hobby for a while. I used to be very active back in the early-mid '90's on #RGVC. You know what I mean..can't drive anywhere without hitting the thrift stores on the way. Once you get there you are able to walk in and with just a glance at the shelf know whether anyone else has been there or new stuff has been added. "My name is Pam and I was a collecting addict." Yes, I even think I failed a course or two as a result of the need to hit the Value Village on the other side of town every Wednesday afternoon. You can Google my old email pammyk@primenet.com on Google groups to verify my identity.

It is now one child and one divorce later and I have dusted off my collection and am going to be selling it all. As much as I hate to do this (hmm..first born vs. Cubicolor) I don't think keeping it in storage is proper and need to pass on the joy.

I am trying to catalog as I go since I have multiple systems and lots of boxes of hardware, games, etc. I have listed my current auctions in the marketplace forum and if anyone wants to keep tabs on what I have found in the depths of the storage shed thus far I have current lists online at http://www.geocities.com/pammyk600/ which will be updated frequently.

- Where you live: Gilbert, AZ
- How you found the forums: no brainer there
- What your favorite games are: 2600 Adventure and Stampede, coin-op Amidar
- What systems you collect for: 2600 is the main love but all the other systems are hard to pass up on in the wild.
- What you do in "real life": former computer geek turned mom.

Happy Gaming!
Pam

Flack

04-26-2005, 02:29 PM

Don't get rid of everything Pam! My 3 year old son is a whiz at Super Mario Bros and just started playing Warlords the other day. Never underestimate the power of the retro genes.

Welcome aboard, and we hope you stick around even after your collection is gone!

segagamer

04-26-2005, 05:57 PM

I've also been coming here for a while, but just now decided to post.

-Who you are - Alex.. .38 years old Asian
- Where you live - Streamwood, IL, USA (nw suburb of Chicago)
- How you found the forums - Cannot remember how I found this site, but maybe it was in my quest for collecting classic games for systems such as Odyssey 2, Atari 5200, etc.
- What your favorite games are - I think I prefer any Sega arcade titles ported to the various home systems such as OutRun, After Burner, Virtua Racing, etc.
- What systems you collect for - I collect games that I have interest in for Odyssey 2, Atari 5200, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (JP), Sega Game Gear, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn (US, JP), Sega Dreamcast (US, JP), TurboGrafx-16, Super NES, Playstation 2, Xbox/GBA/PSP (my brother's systems)
- What you do in "real life" - Currently, I work at Motorola as product planning analyst, which involves making sure we have enough parts and accessories for 2-way radios for customer warranty/support period (similar to automotive parts being available when your car needs service).

BTW, if there are any cool gamers out there in my area, it would be neat to hang out and play some games.

MrRoboto19XX

04-29-2005, 01:25 AM

Who you are - Earl-18 years old

Where you Live - Crownsville MD, a suburb of Annapolis
How you found this forum - Been coming to the site for a while, just signed up today.

Favorite Games - Big Fan of Old Sega Arcade Stuff, also a good 2D action Adventure. Im Into a lot.

Systems I Collect For - Master System, SNES, Genesis, NGPC, NES, Virtual Boy, Oddyssey^2, Dreamcast.

How I started Collecting - An uncle of mine gave me his old oddyssey 2 games and system after I showed him how to hook it up, he gave me the system and games which totalled to about every game except about 6 or so, boxed.
After that Ive just been picking stuff up at random places, and Falling into deals.

In Real Life I work as a Concierge at a surprisingly high-end Assisted Living Community, nice job, I get paid to help old people, and play my ngpc when its slow (about 2/3 of the time)

Anyone know the person thats "the" expert on the oddyssey^2? Id like to get those last few games.

Murdoc

04-30-2005, 01:39 AM

My name is Raymond, I am a 17 year old student in 11th grade and live in East Stroudsburg, PA. Well I found this place when I was just randomly browsing Game sites via goolge search. I love anything related to Video Games more Specifically Sega and Sonic. Some of my favorite games in no particular order: Sonic 1, 2, and 3, Asteroids, Missile Command, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Tetris, Super Mario Brothers, Mortal Kombat 2, Soul Caliber, Frogger, Galaga, Space Invaders, GTA 2, 3, Vice, SA. Now own the collecting side of things Ill take anything I can get for any system even if I don't have it. I started getting into Video games with my first Game boy in 1990 I was 3 at the time and I loved it, I moved up to my Mom and Dads NES 1991 and The same time I got a Sears Atari 2600 off my Aunt with it came 160 Games. Then in 1993 When I got my Sega Geniuses and I immediately fell in love with Sega and Sonic. I had quite a nice collection by the Time the PlayStation and N64 came out Unfortunately my mom decided I didn't need all my other game stuff and tossed it on me I really had no say in it being only 9 at the time. The only thing that survived that was my Gameboy witch I still have now. So as time passed I got more and more into gaming and started re buying The systems I use to have and the ones I missed out on. Also I like to add anything I buy is going to get played I see no point in dropping a bunch of cash on something and not use it for what its meant to be used for. I got a small game room I set up behind my bedroom I went out and got a Nice 32" Flattube Toshiba TV for it about 3 Weeks ago my games have never looked better. I have all my systems hooked up to it and there easy to access, also I have a late 70's couch I got for free of my grandma back there its the most comfy thing I ever sat in perfect for them long hour gaming sessions. Well I guess that's it for now please pardon my Grammar and and Sentence structure I am very tiered and my have screwed it up a bit. All thats left to say is see you guys around the boards.

Moon Patrol

04-30-2005, 03:52 PM

I suppose I should introduce myself before I try to make any deals on the buying and selling forum :-P My names Josh, and im from southwestern Virginia, its not a fun place to live, but luckily no one knows the value of older game systems to someone like me! I ran across these boards one day just looking for random articles about the Sega Genesis and read the Extended Play article, which was pretty cool. I am currently collecting for my Sega Genesis, which I have had since 1993 :-D I also collect (slowly) for my Master System. I have an NES, but what's the fun in collecting for it, if everyone else is, besides, I already have like 80 games for it, and that was just from when I was little! You could say im a crack baby when it comes to the 8-bit/16-bit age though.

tylerwillis

05-01-2005, 05:55 AM

-Who you are - Tyler Willis (not very original with the handle)
- Where you live- Texas
- How you found the forums - Online Rarity Guide is my friend
- What your favorite games are - FFVI, Lunar, FFX (insert your fav RPG here)
- What systems you collect for - Primarily working on my DC collection (need about 25 to go for a complete US)
- What you do in "real life" - I don't

albailey

05-02-2005, 08:52 PM

- Who you are --- My name is Al Bailey
- Where you live --- Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)
- How you found the forums --- I did a google search looking for NES information and came here.
- What your favorite games are --- Bubble Bobble.
- What systems you collect for --- Mainly NES, but also SNES, N64 and Genesis
- What you do in "real life" --- I'm a software developer.
- Any other interesting facts - I used to own a NES when I was a kid. In May of 2004 I bought one in a pawn shop and started looking for games to play on it. A year later, I have around 600 NES titles (not including label variations).

Al

Swatty

05-04-2005, 07:29 AM

- Who you are
Vance. A 21 year old that should be studying for finals.
- Where you live
Well, when I'm at school I'm in Pullman, WA (about 8 months of the year for the last 3)
Home (where I go when I'm not in Pullman) is in Prosser, WA
(eastern side of Washington State, a better reference is that Prosser is about 30-50 miles West of the Hanford Site)
- How you found the forums
I can't really remember. I saw the DP stuff and when browsing the Saturn games that one can listen in a CD player decided I wanted to add 2 games I didn't see.
- What your favorite games are
Oh, tough one. Favorite seems to always change depending on what system I've played recently. I will have to say Super Mario Land for the GB is one that stands out. As for other favorites, I dunno.
- What systems you collect for [I'll break it down by maker]
NES, SNES, N64, GCN, GB, GBA
Genesis, Saturn, DC, GG
Playstation, Playstation 2
XBox
Although I'm working more on the older systems at the moment. These are just systems I own and have games for at the moment
- What you do in "real life"
College Student(attempting to major in Electrical Engineering), and computer tech for the on campus student computing services (they are the helpdesk for undergrad students, run some general purpose labs, clean computers of viruses and worms when people get their connection turned off).
Not much else real life stuff.
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I think my collecting just grew on the fact that anytime I was in the local video game store I wanted to be able to rent anything in there without having to shell out to rent a system as well. I don't think it was an initial goal to collect games, it was more to get the systems to play them. Although in the last few years the video rental store was just become horible, so I find myself buying more games. Plus I'm starting to want some of the systems that the rental place never had(like the Saturn, or any handhelds).

If anybody wants to know why "Swatty," it was left over from a high school class when I was "swat01." SWAT stood for something like "Students With an Aptitude/Attitude for Technology." The administration realized some students knew more than they did on computer stuff, so they got the students to help.

Great place here, I hope I can gather and contribute useful information.

purelunatic

05-04-2005, 06:15 PM

Hey all.
My name is Dion Hicks, I'm 21 and have been playing games for 17 of those years. I live in Newfoundland Canada, and no I don't live in an Igloo or ride a dogsled. I'm a university student studying computer engineering and one day hope to become a game programmer myself. I mainly enjoy RPG's but I sometimes play FPS and fighting stye games, with Capcom games being my favorite. I own around 200 games, with the majority being Playstation and NES. My favorite games have to be Star Ocean 2, Xenogears and Final Fantasy 3. If you haven't played these RPG's yet, do so now. Hopefully I'll be able to pick some new games up here to add to my collection.

CatchFiveBats

05-04-2005, 08:30 PM

- Who you are
My name is Zac Saxton. I'm 18 years old, and I've been collection for about a year now.

- Where you live
Noblesville, IN

- How you found the forums
Heard about them on RF Generation.

- What your favorite games are
To be honest, I don't really have a favorite, but right now I'm playing Harvest Moon: Back to Nature the most, so I guess that's my current favorite.

- What systems you collect for
Atari 2600, Atari Lynx, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, DS, Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast, Game Gear, Playstation, PS2, Neo Geo Pocket Color

- What you do in "real life"
High school student.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I've been into video games my entire life, but I just started collecting in the last year. When I first started collecting, I had a Gamecube, Playstation 2, XBox, and SNES, plus about 50 or 60 games total. I now have 18 systems I'm collecting for, and a little over 200 games between all of them.

euronymous

05-05-2005, 07:01 AM

Hi my names Ell and I'm from Cleveland,OH. I found this site from a forum I go to called Sega Dreams. I have too amny favorite games to list but my all time favorite is Zelda A link to the Past. I collect for the NES, Genesis, SNES, PS1,PS2,Saturn,N64, Turbo Duo, Neo Geo AES and handhelds. I've been collecting since the 8 bit days and haven't looked back. My dad got me into collecting.

jcrouse

05-09-2005, 02:27 AM

Jerry McKenzie turned me on to the site after a Virtual Boy game purchase. I'm a computer geek and an IT Manager for a living. Most of my background is on the emulation side of retro gaming. You know, those nuts that build their own cabinets. :) I have three. You can see two of them here: http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer . My full size upright is not pictured. It's the one I spend most of my time working on. I have about 50 platforms running on it. Everything from the original odyssey up to the PSX, 3DO and Dreamcast. I won't talk much about roms but I have most every one. I run a front end called MameWAH and am a moderator of the ArcadeOS/MameWAH forum at Mameworld. I spend most of my time writing small application and designing graphics for the emulation community. I sure wish it wasn't generally a free contribution community. I'd be rich. :)

I also spend a lot of time on a PC gaming. We have a clan (a group of OLD (40+) college friends) that use a program called Ventrilo (voice over IP) and talk for free over the internet while we play. Our favorite game is America's Army.

As far as consoles and collecting is concerned I'm a n00b. Actually I bought my first console about a month ago because I needed a N64 controller and it was bundled. Since then I have picked up a Virtual Boy (or 2 or 3) and am starting to collect the games. I like the technology and uniqueness of the system. Oh, I forgot about the Vectrex I have in the original box and 13 original boxed games, duh.

Well that's about it for me.

Take care,
John

Kuros

05-11-2005, 11:16 PM

The name is Kuros. I've been a lurker here and I sometimes use the rarity list to check out a few things. Drummy turned me on to the forums, which I never really checked out. I've been playing video games since I was 3, my brother got an NES for his 13th and I played the system more than he did. :)

I play and collect, up to 419 games so far.
http://users.ign.com/collection/Kuros777

Latest thing I got was a Sega Nomad with 14 games, rechargeable pack, aaa pack, case, ac adapter, car charger and an extra controller. Working at a Gamestop has it's advantages. :D

segagamer4life

05-12-2005, 01:05 AM

Hello, my name is Gary, I have been lurking, around here for about 2 years now, I joined the forums, last year, but didn't post alot. I am back now with a vengence...lol. I have been a game player all my life, but I have been collecting, for over 3 years now. I currently have all systems, from the sms and up. I enjoy gaming as do all of you, and I look forward to having fun with y'all.

Veepa

05-12-2005, 07:17 AM

Hello...
I'm new to these parts.. The name's Nick J. Phillips.. and I seem to enjoy old video games.. along with old music and movies.. I don't know why.. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the things I'll never experience again. I'm 18 years old.. I've got plenty of classic systems.. but I share something special with my Sega Genesis.. even though the sound is awful. But I enjoy all my systems equally. I love the show, "Rocko's Modern Life", but I hate the God awful attempt at a video game... That's all for now.

itatton

05-13-2005, 04:49 AM

I'm Tatton and I'm from Columbus Ohio. I typically slave away in various IT and retail jobs, but I enjoy frequenting the various game stores in town and I'm an avid collector.

My favorite consoles are the Saturn, Turbo Grafx/Duo/PC-FX, and Neo Geo (in no particular order). I started collection back in 1999 when my girlfriend at the time got Magic Knight Rayearth US for Christmas and I realized I needed a Saturn so I could play it too. It all kinda snowballed from there.

I'm currently at 1864 games and I'm creeping toward my goal of 2000 by the end of the year. My systems vary from an original Odyssey up to Xbox/PS2/Cube. I'm a big fan of fighting games and role playing games, though I'll pick up just about any import I can find that wasn't released in the states.

I think that about sums it up. If anyone's interested, my collection can be viewed at http://users.ign.com/collection/darkizet

I look forward to posting and chatting with you guys!

-Tatton

snes_collector

05-14-2005, 02:14 AM

I'm Jordan Brewer from Carroll County Virginia

I found DP buy somebody posting about it on GameFAQS

My Favorite Game is Animal Crossing

The systems I collect for is SNES, GC, Gen, and NES

I real life I go to school everyday and hate it

Something interesting about me is that I just turned 13 yesterday, and I've only been collecting games since Feb. 2004, but I still know abunch about it

Sammelhammel

05-14-2005, 12:28 PM

Hello, I'm Hardy. I live in germany and I am 26 years old.
I've found this site when I was on ebay.com...there was a notice of this site. My favourite games are RPG and sometimes shooter too. I am collecting these type of games for the PS, PS2, SNES, the Sega Mega Drive (german Sega Genisis) and the Master System. Don't matter if its PAL or NTSC.
In real life I study communication and media management. Next year I'll do my abroad-year in the states. I'm looking forward :-)
Hope you understand me a little bit cause my english is not so well ;-)

See ya

Hardy

Streetball 21

05-16-2005, 01:10 AM

Whats up fellas? I'm Steve, I'm 27 years and live in San Antonio, TX and I've been looking at the site for a couple of months now. I decided to sign up when i saw how many hardcore gamers are around here. Most of my friends in town are casual gamers so it's kinda hard to talk retro gaming with some of them.

I like all kinds of video games, but my favorite franchise is the Mario series. I also enjoy sports games as well. For the past year, I have been collecting all kinds of games for all my systems. I own a NES, Game Boy, Super NIntendo, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, PS2, XBox, Dreamcast, and I'm anxiously waiting for Nintendo Revolution to arrive. I've been going to flea markets, pawn shops, and thrift stores trying to find any kinds of older games, especially Nintendo 64 games and Dreamcast.

My other hobbies are playing basketball here in town just about everyday, and spending time with the family, and also rearranging my game room everyday. Hope to talk gaming with every one soon, Laters!!

Eb69

05-16-2005, 05:59 AM

Danny

Found the place by being sent here by a fellow member at another forum on a quest for information.

Favorite games would have to be Zelda series, Shining Force, Mega Man, and Suikoden.

I collect for pretty much any system I can get my hands on, although my collection is not that large.

I do auto glass and upholstery mostly.

I started gaming and collecting when I was a little kid. A friend of my fathers and my neighbor had a NES and I became hooked from the first moment of playtime. As for actually collecting, I find it hard to let go of any game I buy. Unfortunately neccesity sometimes demands it.

<<IronBuddha>>

05-16-2005, 08:20 AM

Hello.....
I was looking for a forum that talks about old games and came acroos this site. Looks really good compared to the other sites. I'm 25 and in the past few months I missed the games I grew up with so I've started collecting, so far I have a nes with 32 games, snes with 20 games and a genesis with 23 games. I'll be pretty active I'm really liking this site.

phonox

05-18-2005, 09:42 PM

Heya guys, Mike here n just thought I'd hop on here and introduce myself. I started gaming with the Atari but never really got into em until I got addicted to the NES for a long time. I've owned probably ever single type of video game system ever released here n am still collecting. Lately I've been posting a few of my items that I just dont know why I have (helly empty game boxes/manuals and a bunch of games as well). A friend of mine showed me this board about a year and a half ago (maybe more) but I never really got on and checked it out but it is definitely a tight place :o

Out of curiousity ne one know what happened to the site videogamebible.com ? He used to post on there all the time he said but now it says it is closed till earlier this year. hmm ah well. talk to ya'll lata

jdchess

05-20-2005, 12:37 AM

Hey guys. My name is Jason and I'm 27. I'm mainly a Nintendo fan. My collection is mostly NES and N64, but I have quite a few SNES and GCN games also. My ultimate goal is a totally complete NES cart collection (US releases at least). I plan to get all the N64 titles eventually also, but the NES is my main focus for now. I recently added another NES test cart to the collection (the control deck cart), so I'm only missing one now (the NTF2 cart). Needless to say, I've been pretty excited the past couple of days :D . I love the site and the message boards are awesome. I'm really looking forward to being part of the community here.

Katsu

05-20-2005, 01:51 AM

I like templates, so let's go with this:

- Who you are
My name's Rob. I'd say more, but the sections below seem to be more appropriate for the type of stuff I'd usually put in this section.

- Where you live
I live in Round Rock, TX (suburb of Austin.) I live with my wife of 2 years and our baby girl of 3 months, Madison... oh yeah, and our stupid cat, Montana. :roll:

- How you found the forums
I think I was searching for a complete list of Dreamcast games a couple of years ago. I never really visited the forums though.

- What your favorite games are
Some of my favorites include (in no particular order): Final Fantasy 3 (SNES), Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Fighting (Arcade), Herzog Zwei (Genesis), Quake III Arena (PC) and Super Puyo Puyo (SFC).

- What systems you collect for
Right now I'm focused mostly on 1990's US consoles. I pretty much have every single 1990's US console hooked up to 1 TV in my game room. At last count I had 980+ games for all systems. I also own 3 arcade cabinets (Killer Instinct, Neo Geo 4 slot, and SF2 Hyper Fighting.)

- What you do in "real life"
If you're referring to work. I work at IBM Austin. On Linux power server performance. I won't bore you. If you're referring to stuff that's not video games. I've been holding weekly low-stakes Texas Hold 'Em games at my house once a week for the past 18 months or so. I'm a big Spurs fan. I watch a minimal amount of TV (I only record Penn & Teller's: BS). I do like oddball/foreign/indy movies though. I golf once or twice a month. I used to skate(board), but I tore 2 ligaments in my right knee last year. The replaced my ACL in December, and it still doesn't feel healthy enough to return to the skate park.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Nothing too interesting. How does anybody start? You just kinda start wanting to play those kick ass games from the good ol' days, right?

I would like to add that if you live in the Austin area and you're into gaming, poker or art/indy/b movies, you should really contact me. I maintain an email list of about 50 like minded people in the area. We usually get together at least once a week. Good times.

-Rob

GamerNerd

05-20-2005, 07:56 PM

- Who you are
Ken

- Where you live
Chicago, Illinois

- How you found the forums
Just surfed in.

- What your favorite games are
Gyruss, Galaga, Millipede, Black Widow, Major Havoc, Tempest, Pooyan, Time Pilot, Xiaolin's Road, Kung Fu, Tiger Heli, PinBot, Space Harrier, Outrun, Qix, Narc, Timber, Xenophobe, Pit Fighter, Smash TV, Robotron: 2084, Bubbles, Defender, Sinistar, Rampage, Rampage World Tour, Balloon Fight, Elevator Acton

- What systems you collect for
I own a Playstation 2 where I can play PS1 games besides the PS2 games.

- What you do in "real life"
I'm unemployed, because I'm disabled

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I began my gaming collection with the Atari 5200 (1986-1987), NES (1986-1999), Game Boy (1989-1997), Sega Genesis (1991-1998), Playstation (1997-2002) & now the Playstation 2 (2002-present). I've been playing videogames for 19 years & I've beaten 391 of them so far.

mindlesspunk77

05-22-2005, 02:33 AM

hey i think i posted here but i dont remember!

name- paul
sex-male
age - 22
occupation - own my own video game store

interests- 80's toys collecting video games and memrobilia going to shows!

come to my store! lahaska pa near new hope pa 45 mins north of philly!

www.hotgames2go.com check site!

Sam

05-22-2005, 08:25 AM

I'm Sam, 23 years old and I grew up on the NES.

As a kid I was a rabid Nintendo fanboy but have mallowed and realise every system has games that are worth playing. I'm obsessed with games as I guess must be a common symptom here. I love to play, collect, talk, write and buy games - just wish I had more money to do this last one with.

I'm in New Zealand which is a PAL country but games are quite hard to get/pricey here a lot of the time. Been lurking here for months - look forward to contributing to some topics.

EricB

05-22-2005, 05:56 PM

Hi Everyone,

My name is Eric , I'm 36 years young! Thats right, old people play video games too :P

I love my Atari 8bit computer & playing games like zork on it!

My systems are 130xe, 2600jr, nes famicom, dreamcast, halo green xbox & mame for pc!

when i was younger, I could not be beat when playing NES tecmo bowl, or blades of steel. I mastered every trick with those games back then :)

With sega genesis, I would gamble playing 94madden, It was a cool thing to do & a way to back up just how good you thought you were/are 8-)

In the Arcades
ive played asteroids over 12hrs straight on 1 quarter and my family members would back me up on that!

Thats me the gamer! EricB

Blue60

05-22-2005, 11:37 PM

- Who you are
Hello People i am Chris

- Where you live
Just outside of Toronto

- How you found the forums
i was looking for some info about my "NEW" Colecovision

- What your favorite games are
hell i love em all

- What systems you collect for
i have a NES, and a SNES, i just Scored a Colecovision with 3 standard and 2 super (gun like ones) controles for $5.00
I want to get more systems ( i want one of everyone) and i need more coleco games (all i have is Donkie Kong)

- What you do in "real life"
I am a Security Officer "Insert Rent-A-Cop Joke here"

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
My GF and I both Love the Old systems, and the fact that My NES still has my Soul......

SSJ3

05-23-2005, 06:02 PM

Hello,

I am SSJ3. I love anime and gaming, maybe thats why I am here, I am not really good at introductions. My friend Crush Crawfish recommend how great this site is and well, he was 110% correct.

Later :evil:

skascha

05-23-2005, 08:47 PM

Hi, I am Sascha, and I am here new!
I am now 15, and live in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
My favorietes games are: Puzzle Loop, Pac Man and Super Mario Bros 3.
My English isn't very good, so don't screem to me that I make mistakes!
If you want to know more about me, just ask!

dr.wario

05-23-2005, 10:50 PM

8-) HI I am dr.wario I just want to say that I AM threld 2 be here

Mattiekrome

05-24-2005, 01:41 AM

Wow, its been all this time and I have never even had a formal introduction. Oh well, here goes. My name is Matt and I hail from a small lil town called Mount Holly. Its in North Carolina, and is about 20 miles north of uptown Charlotte. I am 26 years old, and a graduate of Western Carolina University with a BSBA in Computer Information Systems. I was just recently married to a wonderful woman (and college sweetheart) this past december. Her name is Kelly, but for the remainder of my stay here on DP, she will be referred to as "Wifey". We have 2 "children", one Jack Russel Terrier named Roxie, and a Pekenise name Sunni. Since being laid off from my last job, I have become a contract "Network Analyst" at my current job. I dont have a large collection, but I do collect enough to keep me interested. I am currently into complete NES Tengen games and complete SMS games. I do collect a bit of everything tho. I am somewhat active on eBay as well, selling and buying under the name "Mattiekrome". HELLO EVERYONE :)

Windy Miller

05-25-2005, 06:59 PM

- Who you are
Aloha everyone, I'm Nick.

- Where you live
United Kingdom.

- How you found the forums
I've been lurking for a few months & finally decided to join in.

- What your favorite games are
Puzzle games..

- What systems you collect for
Currently collecting for the Gameboy, although if a puzzle game takes my fancy, i'll buy the console to go with it.

- What you do in "real life"
Currently between jobs.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I've been playing games since 1978, but had a brief break between 1987-1994 when I started my first job.

mills

05-27-2005, 06:16 PM

name's mills

I live in Elgin, IL, im 21 years old. I lived in Boston for the first 20 years of my life. I live with my girlfriend and I just started collecting games again.

I started playing at the age of 4. When I was a kid I had two NES's, two SNES's, every new gameboy when they came out, an atari 2600, a sega genesis, a TG16, multiple tiger handhelds, NP and GP magazines, toys, etc etc etc. As I got older I sold it all or traded for newer games, this I deeply regret, I just started again this year and I no have about 65 NES games, A Top loading NES original. an SNES and about 36 games. I have the box for Final Fantasy 3 but no cart. Shadowrun cart only mint, arkanoid DOh it again mint cart only. My favorites in my NES collection are Crash N the boys street challenge mint cartridge, and the Metroid cart with yellow sticker. As my colelcting is in its early stages I'm not looking to buy any super expensive rares, that is unless I find them really cheap, I'm just trying to find games that I love to play. Liek Zombies ate my neighbors.

beardyboo

05-28-2005, 05:30 PM

Hi all.

Im Martin from Surrey U.K

26 years old and been with my other half for 2 years now.

Well into my sega and have quite alot of games and systems floating about (and no space to store it all!)

Glad I found this place, talk to you all soon.

Beardy out..............

p.s Visit my website if you can. Find it at www.giantleap.tk

TonyB80

05-28-2005, 07:55 PM

Hi, My Name's Tony, I live in Manchester, UK and my job is not that interesting so i won't talk about it. Been looking on DP for a number of months now for reference purposes and finally decided to join the Forums.

I got into computer games about 14 years ago when I got a Sega Megadrive with Sonic for my birthday and have been playing every since. I sold my Megadrive to get a PSX in 1998 and then decided to get another Megadrive about 2 & 1/2 years ago as i wanted to play sonic again. Every since then i been collecting Sega Games when ever i see them.

Systems I current have are, in no particular order - Megadrive, Master System, Game Gear, 32X, Saturn, Mega CD, X-Box and Playstation, PS2.

Game wise I've collected a near complete set of PAL megadrive games (minus cover variations and specials items), PAL Mega CD games and PAL 32X games (except Darxide and Primal Rage of course).

Additionally I been picking up old Sega magazines such as Mean Machines Sega, Sega Pro and Sega Power.

Currently playing through Resident Evil 2 in PSX and Maximo Vs. Army of Zin on Playstation 2.

Tony :)

Lost Dream

05-29-2005, 11:59 PM

Hi, Lost Dream here.

Been told about this place by people at assembler, so thought I'd take a look :)

CitizenSnowman

05-30-2005, 04:34 AM

Hey, there CitizenSnowman here.

Ive been a lurker for quite awhile, just decided I would join in on all the forum action today. I collect for SNES, GG, and a little GB and GBA. Im also a big fan of collecting Nintendo Power magazines and really obscure video game memorabilia.

Im currently playing through the Metal Slug series....mmm I just cant get enough. 8-)

mcgladds

05-31-2005, 02:55 PM

Hi. I'm mcgladds.

I found this place on a big list of large forums about anything and everything, and when I saw "Retrogaming Roundtable".. well, there was no way I couldn't click on that.

Games : Contra I and ONLY I, SMB3, Zelda's (all of them), and Kung Fu. I know Kung Fu.

OdSquad64

06-01-2005, 07:58 AM

Hi im odsquad64
i live in the US i collect for 2600, Nes, Snes, Genesis, DC, Saturn, N64, GC, and PS2. My favorite games are Megaman games, Resident Evil games, or most other Capcom games.

well... there ya go

Crosman

06-02-2005, 03:23 AM

Hello everyone,

Im Crosman, Im 18 year's old and live in the state of Michigan.
I came across this site when I was looking for how rare some of my game's were. I decided to register since I plan on creating a Giant game room soon and making it one of the best in Michigan.

A few thing's about me.

First off, I am still doing time in high school, I will be graduating this summer. The reason that I am graduating latw is because I have a disease called Chrones. I missed out on alot of school and it really tore my career up. (If you would like to know some more about this, PM me.)
Second, Next year I will be attending ITT tech, I will be going to school for game design/Character disign. I have so many idea's locked up in my head, it's madness.

Third, I am currently a Moderator at a pokemon website called Psypoke and I plan on making my presence hear as often as possible.

Last but not least the more general things about me.

I am a big sports buff, I love sports and have played them since birth, I also love the Ninja turtle's more then life itself.

I have alot of knowledge on wildlife, I worked at the the toledo Zoo for a few day's but gave it up due to some personal reason's, so if any of you fella's or ladies need any animal advice Ask away!!!

I will finish this off by saying I have a girlfriend, plan on moving out this summer and getting married next summer, my (to be) wife is great and supports me with everything I do, she hope's I land a job with Nintendo some day.

Same with me.

Look forward to talking to everyone. 8-)

Crosman

06-02-2005, 03:25 AM

Sorry about the double post.

Evilgoatboy666

06-02-2005, 11:31 PM

Hey my Name is Steve N. I live in geneva,ohio a smaller town but not as small as alot of them. I found these forums from World Of Games. I go and talk to the owner all the time and he told me to come on here so that's how i found it. My favorite games include the Resident evil series and mario game or Zelda game, halo 1 and 2, final fantasy series and most of all Earthbound. I mostly just collect games for the snes i have about 30 or 40 in my collection i really just find deals on things and sell them for other things but snes is the on;y trpe i really collect everything else i use then sell agian. I'm currently employed through the DNC coporatrion as a banquet server but it's only a summer job i will be attending youngstown state in the fall...I'm just glad i have found a new site to post on and talk to other video game junkies and stuff like that...you can find on xbox live underthe gamer tag EVILGOATBOY666 hope to here from people soon..
peace out

Evilgoatboy666

06-02-2005, 11:31 PM

EviLOttO

06-03-2005, 05:38 AM

Name: EviLOttO

Location: Dusseldorf City, Germany

I AM COMING :evil:

TEND

06-04-2005, 05:12 AM

Hello all,
I live in Winnipeg, MB, up in Canada.
Good Stuff.

BobbyRobby

06-04-2005, 09:47 AM

Name is Rob. I decided to check out the forums since I use the Onlide guide frequently. My favorite games tend to be Nintendo games and RPGs, but I play pretty much anything.

My collection:
http://users.ign.com/collection/BobbyRobbyPaladin

SRC

06-06-2005, 09:39 AM

Hello, I'm SRC. I'm kind of a NES and Gameboy expert, but I'm also into Atari and such.

Sockdude01

06-06-2005, 11:51 PM

Hey there. I'll just follow the suggestions for this post:

Most people just call me Sockdude. Nobody knows my real name ;). I found the forums, actually, by searching for "video game collectors" in Google Image search. I found videogamecollectors.com and I found a link to Digitalpress... odd, huh? My favorite games would have to be Contra and The Legend of Zelda. The systems I collect for are the NES and 2600.

Flack

06-07-2005, 01:41 AM

Welcome guys! The last few new members look like a nice mix of new and old gamers alike. Welcome aboard all!

suckerpunch5

06-07-2005, 09:56 PM

My name is Ray. I collect mostly for GCube N64, SNES, GBA, and Dreamcast. I am also getting kinda drawn into the PS1 scene too.

I try really hard not to be a fanboy, but somtimes it gets the best of me. Been lurking this site for a while now, so I thought I'd join up, and get in on some of these threads.

As for my street cred, I've been gaming since the Atari 2600 (I am 26), and I write game reviews for the Daily Nebraskan, the University of Nebraska campus newspaper.

Right now my favorite game is Resident Evil 4. Can't get enough of mercanaries!

thedfp

06-07-2005, 11:04 PM

Hi, I'm thedfp. I'm 21 years old. Right now I live in Louisville, KY but I'll be moving to Tullahoma, TN at the end of the summer to start work on a masters degree in Aerospace Engineering. I've lurked around here for a long while.

I collect for the PS1, PS2, XBOX, GC, and Dreamcast. I have less than 70 games total but I expect this number to go way up once my research assistantship starts.

Nirvana

06-08-2005, 01:51 AM

Hey, I'm Nirvana. Currently collecting SNES games. Also, I'm a big rock/metal fan. PM me if you are selling any SNES games, I AM willing to buy anything that appeals to me!

eden

06-09-2005, 08:22 PM

Hi!

My name is Darren. I'm a long-time gamer (16K Spectrum onwards). I enjoy all genres of games but am particularly keen on shmups & 2D platformers.
Although I own an MD/Snes/N64/GC I mostly play PS1 and PS2 titles and am currently actively collecting PAL PS1 titles.
My other interests are mostly music and comedy.
I live in the UK and first visited this site for PS1 info before coming across this forum.
I'll probably never be a particularly prolific poster but I lurk daily. Hopefully I'll meet a few likeminded gamers and swap minutae about PS1 titles.
Should be fun!

Darren

eden

06-09-2005, 08:28 PM

oldschoolvidiot

06-09-2005, 10:22 PM

Hello, my name is Matt, I am happily married, I live in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. I have been collecting games since August 2003 and at the present time, my collection is approximately 1000 games strong. My main goal is collecting Nes cartridges and so far the game count is at 340 titles (including variations). The actual systems that I have collected so far are:

Atari 2600
Colecovision
Intellivision II
Game Boy
Game Gear
NES
SNES
N64
Game Cube
PS1
PS2
Sega Master System
Sega Genesis
Sega Saturn
Turbo Graphix 16
X Box

Well I hope to meet some fellow collectors and make some trades.

soul.less

06-10-2005, 11:45 PM

Hi, my name is George, I'm 18, and I currently live in Illinois.

Several of my favorite games are: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Half-Life 1 & 2, Shenmue 1 & 2, and Final Fantasy VI.

I collect games for a lot of systems, including, but not limited to: NES, Super NES, Dreamcast, PlayStation, and Saturn, just to name a few.

I currently am not employed, but I am a college student (just started a few months ago, heh).

Hawksmoor

06-12-2005, 04:51 PM

Hello everyone. My name is Ian, I'm 27, and I was born, raised, and currently reside in Atlanta. I've been an avid console gamer since the heyday of the 2600. I own quite a few consoles and collect for all of them, but I primarily focus on DC, SNES, Genesis, Saturn, and PS2. I also own a GCN, Xbox, N64, NES, Jaguar, Jaguar CD, 32X, Virtual Boy, Game Gear, Gameboy Advance SP, Lynx, Nomad, NGPC, 3DO, Turbo Duo, and Turbo Express.

I really don't have a favorite system; I simply enjoy great games, regardless of what console they happen to be made for. I am currently a part-time student and journalist, with the majority of my writing consisiting of game reviews for various websites.

Topher2798

06-13-2005, 11:43 PM

Hiya,
Topher here....
I stumbled upon this forum by accident.
Looks like my kinda place.
Think I'll stick around.....

UrQuan

06-14-2005, 08:48 AM

Wow, two Ians introducing themselves in a short time...

Yeah, my name's Ian. I'm 19 years old and I live in Fargo, ND. My favorite game of all time is Star Control 2 on the 3DO. I've played through it two or three times a year for the last seven years, I like it so much. I own an Atari 2600, NES, SNES, N64, Virtual Boy, Gameboy Advance, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast, 3DO, Playstation 1 & 2, and XBox. Considering my age and lack of funds, I think my collection is pretty decent.

By day in the real world, I'm a telemarketer - the scum of the earth- and by night, I'm the vocalist in a grindcore band. I just recently got back into game collecting after my DVD collecting spree. I go in collecting waves. I'm obsessive in my collecting, no matter what it is. I use what I collect, though. I buy games to play them, not to look at them sitting there

I'm hoping to have a good time here. Thanks in advance!

Slimedog

06-14-2005, 10:07 PM

My name is Steve and I'm a gaming addict. (Hello Steve) Well not really, but I collect all console and portable games from NES to present. My collection is my pride and joy. I'm a happily married Support/Development tech for a small company and I live near Orlando FL.

What are the odds that UrQuan would post right above me? I've been collecting for about 5 years now and I owe it all to Star Control 2 for the 3DO. That game changed my life.

GraveyardDeciple

06-15-2005, 03:43 AM

Hey, what's happenin? My names Dani. I'm from Warner Robins Georgia (hell on earth). I had an account here awhile back, but I just forgot my s/n and such so I just made a new one. I started collecting when I was about 7 yrs old. I got my first nintendo. And I loved it. Gaming is my life pretty much. In real like I'm a car audio technician and I also work at a two wheel body shop part time. I'm also in a band and all that good shit.

Alucard

06-15-2005, 08:01 PM

My name is Dustin Schubert and I found the site from a friend. I collect games for the Saturn and the Super Famicom. I also collect systems, and at the moment I have around 31 systems. I pretty much just hang out with World of Games at his game store.

Audigy

06-16-2005, 05:41 PM

Hi. :) I'm Audigy.

As a soundcard, one would think that I'm interested in making music... but I'm not like other soundcards. I enjoy 'pixel art' related things (See homepage) and most things related to classic console RPGs. Music-related, I enjoy picking apart sound formats of PSX and PS2 games. The results of this can also be found on my homepage. :)

I continually see references to this board from friends I have in the NES collecting scene, so I figured I'd come check it out more in-depth (yeah, my account's been around a while... just haven't posted that much.)

Currently, as far as collecting stuff goes, I'm trying to complete my collection of PSX RPGs and corresponding strategy guides. I have a rule that I will never pay more than original retail price for any game... and have been pretty lucky so far.

I used to collect NES and SNES, but... emulators got advanced enough for me to not need the original consoles anymore, so off to eBay they went (many years ago, please pardon the blasphemy. :o )

Anyway, yeah, hi. :)

Dark_Sol

06-16-2005, 06:50 PM

Hi there from Russia!
from one of the most freaking nuts jrpg collectioner. LOL
I do no collect all consoles and all games. for games - only role-playing of all kinds , for consoles - only those that have many rpg's to play :P
Since VERY LIMITED amount of original games was ever imported in Russia (in old ages and now) i have to do a lot of ebaying and totally waste all my cash onto it. :embarrassed:
I'm most concentrated on SEGA boxed and complete games with the best possible condition and i guess i have one of the best Sega MD rpg collections.

I guess rarest gems of my collection:

Sega MD - Shadowrun Asian PAL version Complete in MINT condition. Saw only 1 copy of this and grabbed it...
Sega MD - Maten Densetsu JAP complete in splendid condition.One of the rarest Sega MD RPG games every seen on ebay. Even in japanese auctions it costs not less then 45$.
Sega MD: Daikoukai Jidai 2 JAP (Uncharted Waters 2) complete.
Sega MD: Dragon Slayer JAP complete with a pin.
Sega MD: FACTORY SEALED Phantasy Star 2 with Hintbook.Costed me quite a sum of cash.But always wanted to get it sealed.Too bad i had to unseal it and to play...LOL, but it still smells good!

Saturn: Valhollian JAP complete mint
Saturn: Princess Quest JAP complete
Saturn: DeviceReign JAP complete mint
Saturn: Great Adventure JAP complete mint

Haoie

06-17-2005, 12:37 AM

Hey everyone, I'm from New Zealand, 1 of those PAL regions gamers. I specifically collect PS1 titles, right now I'm at 68. I've been collecting for just over 2 years. I try to get PAL whenever I can, but I have a few of those NTSC US games that never got a PAL release, like Lunar:SSSC. Eventually I hope to reach 100 in my collection Feel free to AIM me anytime, just tell me who you are first. Ciao.

fpbrush

06-17-2005, 03:44 AM

hi! im ryan, and have been lurking these good boards for awhile now.

as with all of you, i love collecting videogames. i find it hard to pass up a beautiful piece of hardware (white saturn, yum! ). I have roughly 9 unique systems and a handful of saturns and dreamcast :)

because i am currently in school, my collection is more.. "playable" than a typical collection. while i love having mint in box items, i wont pass up that loose $2 space channel 5 disc at a gamestop bin :)

when i get some more time and money-- i would love to further my dreamcast and gameboy collections, as well as break into the 2d wonderland known as PC Engine :)

look forward to talking with all of you!

mb7241

06-17-2005, 06:54 AM

Have I posted here already? In case I didn't, I'm Matt; I've been a member here at DP for over a year (should be, at least). My main emphases for video game collecting are Super Nintendo (all regions: I may well be one of maybe half a dozen in the United States with 2 PAL-version Super Nintendo systems) and PlayStation (also all regions). I'm a respected buyer/seller/trader here at DP (can't remember how many trades I've done here, I'd guess about 10), at www.tradegamesnow.com (45 rating/100% positive, 4 currently pending trades) , and at eBay (43 rating/100% positive, 2 pending sales). The item I'm looking for the most right now? Suikoden II (PS1; any and all 3 regions' individual release of it). Have a nice day, all of you :) .

bazariah

06-17-2005, 08:20 AM

hi guys

my names barry but i prefer to go by the psuedonim of bazariah

im from england, which sucks as most of our older consoles had a speed reduction

i've been collecting games since i was around 4 years old im now 26

i predominatley collect nes games, i currently own all but two uk pal titles... recently i got into collecting famicom games

snes is another firm fave system of mine

i have quite a vast collection of the older 8-bit micro computer systems (spectrum, c64 and amstrad) and still enjoy playing

and i recently "tied" the record high score of contra for the nes

anyways this is all i can be bothered to mention about myself at this time in the morning (just got off a 9 hour night shift) but if you want to learn anymore about me feel free to ask

laters

xxdemonic_gamer

06-17-2005, 08:22 PM

hey guys whats up im 18 and my friend told me about this site to find some rare and old games his name is "world of games"
might know him maybe now but hes a good guy

Geo1126

06-18-2005, 05:39 AM

Hi, I'm George and I'm 19. I live in California. I'm going back to college in a month. I like to play classic games from the classic system from atari 2600 to the Dreamcast. This site really fits my needs. I like playing games on Nintendo and Sega systems (mostly Sega.) My favorite system is the Sega Genesis with the combination of the Sega 32x and Sega CD. I mostly play the Sonic Series and Streets of Rage. I began collecting in 2001 when I got interested in how good it is to play the good classic.

Scissors

06-19-2005, 03:12 AM

Greetings.

I collect games for most every Nintendo, Sony, and Sega console. The only ones I don't have are Sega's Pico and Gamegear, and Sony's PSP. I also have a few Neo Geo Pocket Color and Turbo Grafx games. My favorite Genres are RPGs (especially strategy RPGs) and Musical/Rhythm. My favorite RPG is Final Fantasy III/VI (whichever you prefer to call it). The last game I completed was Amagon for NES (I believe it was my second time playing through). I'm currently playing Galerians on Playstation (for the first time).

GizmoGC

06-19-2005, 08:34 AM

Hello everyone. I have been an avid gamer and collector for many many years. I have owned nearly ever US system released, and almost every portable system system (US and overseas). My collections consist of
Atari 2600
Colecovision
Intellivison
NES
SNES
N64
Gamecube
Sega Master System
Genesis
Sega CD
Sega 32x
Saturn
Dremacast
Gameboy
Gameboy advance
Nintendo DS
PSP
N-gage
GP32
Wonderswan
3DO

Many, Many more. I have managed two videogame stores and had access to many promo/display/prototypes. I hope to contribute a but to this board as I can.

mhuntley

06-20-2005, 04:46 PM

:D Hi! I love my gamecube! Here are my games:
Harvest Moon A Wanderful Life
Sonic Adventure Director's Cut
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Luigi's Mansion
Animal crossing
Tony Hawk's Underground
The Sims Bustin'Out
Need For Speed Underground
Prince of Persia The Sands Of Time
Mario Power Tennis
Super Mario Sun Shine
Batman Vengeance
NBA Live 2004
Madden 2003
Dakar 2

ice1605

06-21-2005, 12:46 AM

Hi, my name nickname is Ice. I love video games and computers. (If anyone wants to sell me a supercomputer, PM me. Just Kidding [Although I would like one...]) I live in Dublin, Ohio. I really like all Nintendo and Sega systems.

Ice

Yamazaki

06-21-2005, 04:30 AM

Hi, I`m a 21year-old student living in Japan right now.
I`m a gaming fan for more than 8 years now, but my interest in collecting just started like 3 years ago. I have no daddy that gives me a 1000$ each week, but I manage to keep my collection growing (especially in Japan, though its quite stupid considering that I don`t have any place to put the stuff!).

My collections mainly consists of:

Sega Saturn
Dreamcast
PC Engine DUO-R
Neo Geo
Neo Geo Pocket
SNES
Famicom
N64
Gameboy
Xbox
PSX
PS2

up till now I have like 300 games and own 14 game systems.

cbella76

06-21-2005, 05:12 PM

HI! My name is Cathie and I am from Wilkes Barre, PA. I am 28 years old, just went back to school and have crappy job at present time.
I am in love with NES!
I like anything computer related and police scanners.
I just recently bought a NES with all hooups from ebay for a few dollars. When it arrived it blinked so I used sandpaper on pins and works like new! I buy my games at a local used video game store for 2 dollars each!

I also have gamecube with some games, and several gameboys with games and a playstation with a few games and never get used.

Saaataaan

06-22-2005, 02:59 AM

Hey folks!
Name's Dennis (although my nick is saying something different...), I'm from Duisburg, Germany and I'm a passionate gamer!
I started off with a C64 for years, until I got a NES and a GameBoy. After that I had the SNES and I saved a lot of pocket money to buy myself a N64. After that a friend of mine wanted to get rid of his PlayStation One, so I bought it for a nice price. As I saw the pictures of the PS2 I knew, that I needed to get one them, so my mom bought me one for christmas!
Then there was nothing for quite 2 or 3 years until some buddies of mine convinced me of the quality of the Dreamcast, so I got one on eBay. After that, everything went "down the drain"! ;) I searched all 2nd hand shops, flea markets or eBay auctions to buy a Master System, a Genesis and a Saturn. As Resident Evil 4 came out, the time was right for me to buy a GameCube and now I own them all! ;) Also I have a GameBoy Advance and I'm really keen to see the next generation consoles.

Don't ask yourself why I won't be able to post here very often as I will more or less stay a silent reader! ;) Sometimes I will answer to several posts, of course.

Nice forum though and a great archieve of everything about games, this site is. I'm very impressed! :)

Kefka1

06-22-2005, 11:38 PM

Hi. I'm Rob. I'm just starting to collect NES/Famicom games (the NES is my favorite system and I already have a famicom and a good 20 games for it as well as about 20 games for the NES). I also play guitar and am trying (not completely sucessfully) to learn to read speak and write Japanese.

Skinhead

06-23-2005, 02:57 AM

I'm only here to play a few games and as my housemate is on DP. I think that's it.

8bitcrooner

06-24-2005, 05:07 AM

Ladies, gentlemen,

I happend upon this joint in my pursuit of classic gaming community. It appears I've found what I'm looking for. NES is my gal, but I can appriciate other dames. I respect my elders and hope I can teach something to someone younger. Classy site if I've ever seen one; perpetuation of the legacy is always on my menu.

Jake2215

06-24-2005, 10:20 PM

Uh...I'm Jake. I like retro gaming. Mostly NES.

...yeah.

Zilla

06-25-2005, 07:01 AM

-My names George
-I live in Gainesville, Florida
-I found these forums when looking for complete listings for US releases for various systems. This site is amazing because of the amazing amount of information on it. Hopefully the forumns are just as good.
-My Favorite Games is a hard question there are so many games I havent played as I'm not new to gaming but growing up I didnt have a lot of games and now at 23 a lot of things take up my time. I'll do a list of games I have good memories of and as my quest to play more games continues I may one day be able to make a true favorites list. NES- Contra SNES- F-Zero N-64- Goldeneye Gamecube- ??? SMS-??? Genesis- Mutant League Football
Dreamcast-PSO PS1- Front Mission 3 PS2- Madden 2004
XBOX- Halo Turbo Grafx16-??? GBA- Advance Wars 2, DS-??? PC- Warcraft 3
-I collect for a lot of systems. I own the following: NES,SNES,N-64,Gamecube,SMS,Genesis,Dreamcast,Turbo Grafx16,PS1,PS2,XBOX,GBA,DS. I still need:Sega CD,32X,Saturn,GB,GBC,Virtualboy, CD-i, 3DO,Jaguar,Lynx,Neo-Geo pocket,PSP, Gamegear.
-In real life I'm a student
-Nothing super interseting about me. I really like sports and working out, I like anime and music, and I like Gaming. Hopefully I'll be able to find my place in this Retro Gaming Community.

phreak97

06-25-2005, 02:28 PM

Hello people, My name is James Abery, I live in South Australia, and I own approximately 30 game consoles. I have recently started to focus on collecting NES stuff rather than everything stuff.

i found digital press via someone referring me here when i was looking for a nes rarity guide. i have now bought the classic book, and am awaiting it's arrival:)

i would have introduced myself sooner, but i didnt see this topic until now:P

Joker

06-26-2005, 04:53 AM

Hey everyone. I'm Howie, and I'm a friend of Vigilante's.
Just thought I'd pop in and introduce myself.
I went to the last "user meet" tonight (06/25/05), and had a great time. Met a lof of interesting people, had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs.
A little bit about myself... I'm from Hasbrouck Heights, I work at California Stucco in Hackensack as their Office Manager. Been a gaming fanatic since the days of Atari 2600, maybe even before that... when PONG was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I used to be very much into Turbo Grafix 16, but I am a die hard Playstation fan; had my PSOne, and PS2, and now I'm into my PSP.
Some of the classic arcade games I used to love playing were/are Ms PacMan, Donkey Kong, Centipede, and Jungle King.
How did I find DigitPress? Well, Vigilante (Nick) told me about it, so I thought I'd check it out... and I'm glad I did.
By the way, thanks Joe for a really cool time. You've got a very imressive collection... it's right up there with my DVD movie collection.
Anyway, I hope to see you guys in the chats often.

JCubed

06-26-2005, 06:20 AM

Im Jeremy, 15, from Grafton Ohio (near elyria or more mainstream Cleveland) My dad started me on an intellivsion and C64 (sold them though :angry: ) I now have around 15 consoles and about 6 handhelds with hundreds of games. VERY into computers and technology, upgrade almost monthly and overclock heavily 8-) cars would also be another passion of mine.

museumsteve

06-26-2005, 07:07 PM

Hi Guys (& gals)
I'm museumsteve (the name stuck years ago due to my love for retro/classics).
I've owned an Indie store in Hampshire for over seven years and love games as much today as I always have.
Fav games for me are MrDo! and Robotron.
Love these forums and I hope to be able to contribute to them.
I do have an undying love for all things Hi-Def as well :)

bauerda

06-27-2005, 06:07 AM

I'm Duane and I'm 43 years young, I live in Washington state and have 2 kids, (both who love video games). I've been playing video games since the 70's, ever since pong came out. After that I was hooked. I've played games on the old Radio Shack computer, Apple, Zenith 248's with 16 colors, all the way up to main frame computer text games. I've seen the advanced in computer graphics, from the old monocrome screens, through cga, vga, and xga, all the way to the modern svga's. I can't wait till someone invents a holodeck program, now that would be cool. I'm always on the look out for the latest and greatest video games. My favorite one's are mainly RPG's and stratagy's/simulations, like CIV and MOO.

ZeetherKID77

06-27-2005, 05:10 PM

I'm ZeetherKID77, I'm from Florida. I first started gaming when my parents gave me a blue Game Boy Pocket and Kirby's Dreamland 2 for my birthday a looong time ago. I eventually heard about Pokemon, and my videogame journey pretty much started there. I like RPGs, "quirky" games like Katamari Damacy, puzzle games, fighting games (especially SSBM), classics, and compilations (my favorite is Megaman Anniversary Collection). I currently own a GBASP, a Nintendo DS, a GCN, original GB, GB Pocket (a silver one, I sold the blue one), GB Color, Genesis, a PC, and a PS one. My other interests include model trains, cars, and drifting. My favorite car is the Toyota Trueno AE86 (Hachiroku), and my favorite anime/manga is Initial D. I found out about the forums when I was reading the DP Collector's Guide Advance (very well done, might I add).

GameSlaveGaz

06-27-2005, 08:04 PM

Helloooo...I'm Gaz and I just joined because this is a kick-ass site and I wanna talk to fellow gamers and use the guides on this site. I was never a gamer as a young kid and since my parents were cheap I didn't have a big selection of games, so believe it or not, I didn't even know about Castlevania or Metroid let alone some of the other classics until about 5 years ago! (I know, it's sad). I'm 20 now, and I got my first system when I was 8. I asked for a Nintendo and my dad brought home a used Atari 5200 he got off a friend, with Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man. That's it. But I didn't care. I did finally get an NES, and later a Genesis and years after a PlayStation, but we never bought a ton of games for any of them. The N64 lit a fire in my heart for gaming when I got one for Xmas w/Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and I finally became a gamer. I was, like, 14 or 15 at the time. Then I decided to replace all the lost systems my parents trashed and finally get the ones I was denied when I was younger. I also started to find out about obscure systems I'd never heard about. I then realized I wanted to own as many systems as I could. My collection is still quite modest due to lack of funds and space, but it's at a nice even 14: NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2, XBox, GameBoy Advance SP, DS, GameGear, Lynx and NeoGeo Pocket Color. Collectively I have 340 games and that's including playable demos, TV Games joysticks and 2 Game&Watches. I've finally played a lot of the games I missed out on as a kid and living up to the standards of a true gamer.
I'm in Massachusetts, and I have the pleasure of working in the video game dept of my local Toys R Us. My boyfriend and his brother, also hardcore gamers, work at GameStop, so we always get some good deals on games and free promotional items. I go to Berklee College of Music and aspire to be a music teacher or a rock star, so video game theme music is one of my loves since it marries my two biggest pastimes together.
I also geek it up hardcore with Star Trek, anime, fantasy, Cartoon Network, Jhonen Vasquez comics (I got my name from his cartoon Invader Zim), Monty Python and anything to do with Bruce Campbell.
I can tell I'm going to like it here. A lot.

Nate Nanjo

06-28-2005, 02:01 AM

I'm Nate Nanjo, from Georgia, been a gamer since I was little, but didn't get hooked until I got my SNES. I'll be 20 next month. I'm finally able to start my game collection with out my parents interfear. To bad its small, I only have a complete Playstation RPG section for now :(

Hope to get know more gamers.

And my favorite game may be a bit obvious

Skelix

06-29-2005, 12:15 AM

Hell everyone, not much to say. Been gaming ever since I was little (am 30 now), became an involved collector past hmm 2 years?

I bounce back and forth to different sites, usually don't post just read. Do most of my buying through auctions and order through internet sites.

Figured should do a quick intro before I start buying/trading here.

Favorite systems to collect for Atari 5200, Apple II and of course NES!

Lord Thag

07-01-2005, 10:58 PM

Heya

I'm Jon from Nor Cal. I just signed up here, though I've been lurking for a bit. I'm a regular over at Atariage, so you can guess what I collect, right? 8-)

I've been a game since about '83 when my family first picked up a 2600, and I've never stopped. I've got a 1000+ or so games currently, mainly Atari systems Intellivision, and NES, with plenty of other random crap thrown in. You get the idea.

In my day job, I work with folks who have developmental disabilities and mental health problems. I manage about 12 crews that help these clients learn job and behavioral skills so that they can live independantly.

At home, I often hike, play games (big surprise there), write, and get bit by my cat, who is quite evil and insane. Kind of like me LOL

Nice meetin' y'all!

BeowulfXXIV

07-03-2005, 11:27 PM

Hiya, my name's Nick, and I'm your average obsessed Nerd. With a collection of a little over 250 Games, I own the biggest collection in the Louisburg-Bunn-Zebulon area (not that that's anything big) I'm also deep into Anime.

I hope to go to the Air Force soon as I lose a bit of weight, and I have a fiance', Kristin Blickensderfer and we plan to marry after she graduates, of which she's a junior this year. I myself, Graduated this year. I hope to make a lot of friends!

UnInformer

07-04-2005, 07:30 PM

Hello,

I am 22 and from Omaha, NE. My collection now stands at a little over 560, which is more than anyone I know, but can't be the biggest in the city. Aside from the obvious video game obsession, both new and old, that brought me here in the first place, I love reading, writing, anime and ar games like Axis and Allies and RISK.

As for other game related forums I go to, only Game Informer (as InformedFS) and the 167 member Hole, which I help Moderate. Now I have finally decided to join your forums here.

MarHel78

07-05-2005, 12:19 PM

Hi all,

just wanted to let you know that I;ll be crawling through the forums in the future.

The name is Martin, I'm 26 and from Germany. I've been playing videogames since my early childhood, but my first own system was the Dreamcast. Right now, I have some more systems from Pong clones, 8bit to next gen and handhelds with a total of a mere 200 games.

Action Adventures and Racing Games are my favourites.

Cya,

Martin

fe2mike

07-05-2005, 07:50 PM

Hey there everybody, my name is Mike if you hadn't guessed. My wife (Rachel) and I have been gaming since the Atari 2600, although not together until right before the PS2.

We live in Eastern Washington where I work at Merlyn's- a comic, book, and game store (mostly rpgs, tabletop wargames and the like) and my wife works for the USPS.

Our collection contains stuff from the 2600, NES, PS, PS2, X-Box, and PSP. We also have a bunch of PC games and even some for the old Apple IIe in storage.

I found this site about a week ago after moving some boxes around the house and found my NES, then busted it out and started replaying Final Fantasy.
Later, Mike

davepesc

07-06-2005, 03:02 AM

Davepesc here, I've been a lurker for quite a while, but I've decided to go live. I am most interested in all things Sega and the Atari 2600.
My latest interest has been the Sega CD, which I finally got last month.

Scissorman

07-06-2005, 03:20 AM

Name:Tanner White
Age:21
Sex:Male
Location:Irving, TX

Even with all of the new fancy systems coming out, I still like going back to the classics that made me the gamer I am. My favorite console is STILL the Super Nintendo and is probably the most played console in my apartment. I am currently building up my NES, SNES, and Genesis collections, finding rarities here and there. The pride and joy of my collection is probably Castlevania:Dracula X on Super Nintendo. I spent three years looking for this elusive game, and I finally got it in March 2004.

My favorite game series is Castlevania. It is the only series of games I have the entire collection of (minus Rondo of Blood). That and Silent Hill. I love horror-themed games.

In real life I like movies, books, and drawing my own artwork. Videogames have been a part of my life for a long time and really has been the only hobby that had stuck with me since my childhood. That and drawing.

Well that's me in a nutshell. I look forward to meeting everyone on the board!

ncman071

07-07-2005, 03:23 AM

hi my name is justin and i'm 25 years old. i am a recent college graduate and i started teaching 3rd grade about 6 months ago. i also just got married last month, so its been really busy in my personal life.

i have been an advid gamer since around '92 when i first got my snes. i started out with the nes back in '85 or '86 but i really fell in love with snes. since then i have collected about 9 consoles which include the snes, genesis, 32X, GCN, DC, PS1, PS2, N64, and an XBOX. i also have a Gameboy Adv. but i never got into that handheld. I have 278 total games for my systems which are valued at around $5200.

I really got into collecting video games for rarity and value but mostly for fun back in 2001. It has been an adventure since. Some of my biggest finds include Chrono Trigger and Earthbound for the SNES recently.

DocRamon

07-07-2005, 03:30 AM

I've been lurking around here for a little bit, but finally decided to join in on the fun...

I'm 24 and from the DFW Texas area. I've been playing video games since I was a little kid, back in the Atari/NES days. I'm now a pretty avid moviewatcher, and have a job at a local television station... video games have become my hobby outside of mass media.

I mainly stick with Nintendo systems, and have just here recently started "collecting" for the DS, so expect most of my posts to be related to that system in particular, or at least just Nintendo systems in general.

McBacon

07-07-2005, 02:24 PM

Hello!

I'm McBacon, I'm pretty new. I have a small, but growing collection of around 100 games. The reason is, I only collect what I want to play.

I'm the UK, and I hope to join in on the mid week/weekend topics, and take some photos like Caut does.

Pick

07-08-2005, 12:56 AM

Hi everyone!!

I am Pick and I love programming.

I also like playing video games, my favorite games are Animal Crossing: Wild World and Digimon world 4.

Hiryu

07-08-2005, 08:01 AM

Hi everyone, my name is Paul, I'm from Madison Wisconsin. I just found this site from a link someone sent me of the collection photos, I snooped around the site and I was hooked! I'm 29 and am currently in school, I am in the process of trying to find a job right now, and I am also married.
I guess I wouldn't consider myself a collector, so much as a guy who made many dumb sales mistakes in his youth and now wants to repurchase them. I have been playing games since my parents bought an Atari 2600 back in the day, then was turned on to the NES and Master Systems. First home computer was a TI/99 4A with a HUGE disk drive and cart slot! I love all sorts of games, mainly RPGs, shmups and old school platformers. I hope to meet many new people and form some good friendships and chat buddies!

chrishicks

07-09-2005, 04:12 AM

hi everyone, chris here. I recently got into collecting systems that I used to own or never owned as a kid. I have been buying for around a year now. I think I have built myself a decent little collection in this time. I have been mainly trying to get systems complete in their original boxes. of course if I can get a good deal on an unboxed system that I want I won't pass it up. the other thing, I'm only getting the systems that I know I'll play at one time or another. no getting every system ever created for me - mainly because I just can't afford it.

I'll try to post a list of what I currently have if anyone is interested.

Dji

07-09-2005, 02:01 PM

Hi everyone, I'm from Quebec. I'm 21 and I've been playing games since I was 4. I've had a lot of consoles since then (Atari 2600, NES, SNES, N64, GCN, GB, GBA, DS, SMS, Gen, Saturn, DC, GG, PS2, Xbox, TG16, 3DO). However, I've been having less and less fun with the vast majority of modern games, mostly because I especially like simple games (read: no need for twenty different buttons), I hate cutscenes (what I like to call "interpassivity") and I love fantasy / hate realism, find sprites charming / polygons bland, adore 2D/ despise 3D, like collecting huge cartridges and totally hate CD loading times. To this day the NES remains my favorite system of all time. Pretty convenient, since there are so many great, cheap games available seemingly everywhere. On the other end of the spectrum, I also own what I consider the mecca of video games, that is a Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet. Neo games are, on the contrary, expensive and hard to find, but just as great. This is fairly new to me, and discovering the Neo has been my greatest video game-related joy since the end of the Super NES. I'm stuck in an 8-to-16-bit vortex 95% of the time, and proud of it! However, I'm not totally grumpy yet. Some fairly recent games that I really like are Serious Sam, DDR, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Wario Ware, War of the Monsters, Ninja Five-0, and the Aki wrestling games on the N64 (especially No Mercy).

racketboy

07-09-2005, 07:20 PM

I've been lurking for quite some time, but I thought I would say "hi!"

Hokkus

07-10-2005, 04:55 PM

Hi! I'm Mikko, 22, from Finland. I'm student, studying energy technology at the university. I spend my time playing video games and reading books. I usually read scifi novels or short horror stories.

I have been playing games since Christmas 1992. I wanted a NES for Christmas present, but I got Mega Drive II with Sonic 2 instead. Since then I have been Sega and Sonic fanboy. My favorite games are Ecco: The Tides of Time, Sonic 2, Nights, Super Mario Bros. and Tetris. I like all kinds of games, but I especially love platformers, adventure games and RPGs.

I have been collecting since last December. My collection is still pretty small, only about 150 games, but it's growing steadily. I primarily collect for Saturn and secondarily for Mega Drive, then for other Sega machines. I'm also interested in NES, SNES and PC-Engine, but at the moment I can't afford to collect for them.

McBacon

07-10-2005, 05:03 PM

I got Mega Drive II with Sonic 2 instead. Since then I have been Sega and Sonic fanboy.

I primarily collect for Saturn and secondarily for Mega Drive, then for other Sega machines.

Its pretty cool how the first games you play stick with you, and plan out the types of video games you will like when you are older.

Welcome, everyone!

Gundam_Pilot_

07-11-2005, 12:43 AM

Yo im brian NES collectors basically know me for the most part from NESworld.com

i gottta lot of shit nes
i collect only nes and thats it. over 700 games now and 130 over controllers

pics are here ^^ i need to update em tho

http://members.lycos.co.uk/allmystuffishere/?

El Commodore

07-14-2005, 05:05 AM

Welcome to the forums!

This is a big place and it's sometimes easy to get lost in the crowd, but we really do want to know about you. This thread will serve as a "who's who" reference for the future so make your presence known!

Tell us any or all of the following:
- Who you are
- Where you live
- How you found the forums
- What your favorite games are
- What systems you collect for
- What you do in "real life"
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.

NOTE: posts here that are NOT introductions will be removed, so if you want to say hello to someone, start a new topic to do so.

Let us begin.
I am Cory Kennison
I live in Madison Ohio
So far i've been playing games like killzone, jade empire, halo 2 for the most part
i don't have many systems have xbox gamecube ps2 dreamcast, n64, sega nomad im hoping to get more in the future,
i really don't do that much kinda bored

gamer_joe

07-15-2005, 01:22 AM

Hi! I'm...well...Joe. I live in the Denver area and am staying with James (jgenotte) for a while till I can get back on my feet again. I have been lurking for a while and decided to finally get around to introducing myself. So, here I am! :D

Nice to meet you all.

-james

b0bby

07-15-2005, 01:24 AM

hello all
-My name is robert hess a.k.a. b0bby,notriousb0bby,awesomecoolguy(on different threads/websites).
-I live in "hot" Miami,Florida.
-Originally from Queens, New York.
-My good friend Lone_monster told me about the site.
-My favorite games are: Metal Gear Solid (PSX),Chrono Trigger (SNES),Tomba! (PSX),Einhander (PSX),Zelda:Ocarina of Time (N64),
- x_x all i could think of at the moment but there are many more
-I collect SNES,NES,PSX,DC,NGPC.
-I'm a sophomore in High School.
-Im tryin to start my own small pressure-washing business to fund my love of games

:snipersmile: :pimp:

VioLatoR

07-16-2005, 07:49 AM

Hey hey, my name is Logan O'Neill. I live in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I'm currently unemployed and extremely lazy, but I'm planning on possibly taking something computer related at the community college here in the near future.

A friend of mine has been telling me about this place, so I figured I'd check it out and see what its all about. I'm not really a collector, though I could see myself collecting sometime in the future. As far as console goes, I havent done much gaming in recent years, mostly PC gaming.

My favorite games would have to include just about every Final Fantasy game 7 and below, Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Soul Calibur.

annie

07-16-2005, 09:31 PM

Hi, my name is Annie and I live in Maryland. A couple of co-workers have told me about this site. I don't know what videogame subject/thread I should ask this inso I ask it here. I never owned a handheld system. I was thinking of buying a Gameboy Advance, DS, or a PSP. Besides games(My fav game is a Bust-a-Move), what should I need to look for in handheld system?

sadat

07-17-2005, 12:44 AM

Hi, new to the site. I've never posted on a forum like this but it seems like a nice friendly big-happy-family type of thing so why not?

Who you are / Where you live

26, London England

How you found the forums

Googlepoodle

What your favorite games are

2D shmups, and anything with NINTENDO written on it. Best games? Looking through the games I have, the desert island ones would be... Balloon Fight [Balloon Trip mode only though!], Super Mario Kart, Soul Calibur 2 [GCN], Outrun 2, New Zealand Story, Pac Man, Super Mario Land [GB], Power Stone 1, Advance Wars 1, ISS64, Metroid Fusion, Pikmin 1&2, Championship Manager in all its forms, Crazy Taxi [DC/GCN], Ridge Racer 4, Gradius V, Psyvariar Complete [PS2 PAL], Puzzle Bobble [ARC], Bangaioh [DC], Axelay... pretty big island!

What systems you collect for

Cheapest way to start off is by collecting current gen as it's released i reckon - so I've been amassing a 'cube collection while getting hold of older games that I like. Got all my old consoles - 26-odd at last count, and games to go with them, just not all mint/boxed/etc. Have been in the game for a while, just starting to take it seriously!

What you do in "real life"

Work far too hard - for a nice amount of £. Can't complain!

Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.

Compulsive hoarder, who failed to grow out of computer games...

IGN list of collection at

http://users.ign.com/collection/sadat

TCZ

07-17-2005, 02:38 AM

Hi, i'm Paul from England - even though i've surfed here for a while - I have only just joined the forum.
Found the forums originally through a link exchange with an old website that I ran.

Grew up with the Commodore 64 as my main games machine after my Parents bought it for me as a birthday present!, then moved to the Amiga, and finally PS2 and PC.

Favourite games, Thing On A Spring!, LCP, and Bruce Lee (on C64), Settlers, Monkey Island (series) (on Amiga), Grand Theft Auto (on PS2/PC), Dark Forces (on PC) and loads of others I can't remember!

Collect mainly Commodore related stuff.

I Run the TCZ retro-gaming website for Commodore 64 :) , involved in various computer programming projects and work full time with computers.

Wrote a number of computer programs over the years - the only one that ever made money was Ilinios on the Amiga! Best 15 minutes of fame was a write up in a national daily paper about a tv related website site that I did... 8-)

Began collecting when I was about 12 - haven't stopped since! :embarrassed:

My website can be found at: http://www.the-commodore-zone.com

Bromhidrosis

07-17-2005, 06:02 AM

Hi, I'm William from Tennessee. I've lurked on and off for a while, but just now decided to make an account. I found the site from a link on GameFAQs. Originally, my only interest here was the online rarity guide, but it's clear that has changed.

By system, my favorite games are:
Odyssey^2- Baseball
Vectrex- Mine Storm
NES- Life Force/Zanac/Castlevania
SMS- Bomber Raid
Genesis- Beyond Oasis/Castlevania: Bloodlines/SSF2
SNES- HyperZone
32X- Space Harrier
Saturn- Warcraft 2
PS1- FF Chronicles
Dreamcast- Looney Tunes: Space Race
PS2- Sega Classics Collection/Gradius V
GC- FF:CC/LoZ: Four Swords Adventures/RE4
Xbox- Morrowind GotY Ed.

PC- UT2004

GB- Kirby's Dreamland/MM2
Game Gear- Super Columns
GBC- Mario Tennis
GBA- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
DS- Yoshi Touch & Go

Specifically, I collect 32X since there's so few US releases (and I've found almost a third in less than a year of looking,) but I'll buy anything that looks interesting, provided I have the money for it (and that doesn't only apply to videogames.)

In real life, I work for a school supply company. Boring work (specifically going from school to school,) hard labor, decent pay, and the occaisional pretty teacher (during the summer delivery period) sums it up. Not a full-time job, but definitely not bad for a high school student.

I really never considered myself a collector until I bought my 32X and even now that's all I consider myself a collector of, despite having almost 50 NES games, an Odyssey^2, a Vectrex (only set me back $50 if I might add,) and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for the 32X (nowhere close to the rarest 32X game, but I knew how bad it was when I bought it.) I definitely wouldn't have as many games as I have if it weren't for the great deals a couple of local stores often have.

DJBoy416

07-17-2005, 09:42 PM

Hi,my name is Aaron and I am 25 years old.I live in Indiana.I have played video games since I was 8.
Current systems I own:
PS2
GameCube
Game Boy Advance
Nintendo 64
PlayStation
Game Boy Color
SNES
Genesis
Game Boy
NES
TG-16
Current number of games I own:611
Current favorite games:
WWE SmackDown Vs RAW
Batman Begins(GBA)
Namco Museum(GameCube)
WWE Day of Reckoning
Popeye:Rush for Spinach
Pitfall:The Mayan Adventure(Genesis)
NBA Jam:Tournament Edition(SNES)
Blades of Steel(NES)
Kirby Star Stacker(Game Boy)
Fantastic Four(GBA)

darknut101

07-18-2005, 07:33 PM

Name is AJ and I am 19 years old. I live in PA and have a severe addiction to video games. I began collecting about 8 years ago and just recently became an avid collector. I love anything video game related.

Systems I collect for:
NES
Super NES
Game Boy
Playstation
3DO
Nintendo 64
Virtual Boy
Game Boy Advance
Playstation 2
Gamecube
Xbox

TizzaTheScactus

07-19-2005, 01:13 AM

Hey, I'm Karl from Michigan. I was looking on eBay for rare Atari 2600 games when I found mention of this site, so I checked it out and here I am!

I have been a video gamer since I first played Joust, Pac-Man, and Burgertime in the arcade at about age 2. My favorite games are the original Megaman series for the NES, the first 3 US Final Fantasy releases (not counting Mystic Quest), Secret Of Mana, Chrono Trigger, the original 3 NES Castlevania titles, Super Mario Bros 1-3, Super Mario World, Faxanadu, and too many others to list at the moment!

At present, I collect any games and consoles I can find:

-I have 5 NES consoles (4 original, 1 top loader) with over 230 games and a myriad of controllers and accessories;

-an Atari 2600 console with over 30 games;

-5 Genesis consoles (2 model one, 1 model one with "High Definition Graphics" around the cartridge portal, 2 model two) with over 80 games, about 20 controllers, and a bunch of other goodies;

-4 Super NES consoles (3 original, 1 new model) with tons of controllers, etc., and approximately 55-60 games;

-A Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance with over 25 games between them;

-A Nintendo 64 console with over 30 games and a few beat-up controllers;

-A Sega Dreamcast with about a dozen games, a few rough controllers, and a broken VMU;

-A PlayStation 1, original model, with over a dozen games, a couple of controllers, and several memory cards;

-A Gamecube with about 10 games, a few controllers, and a couple of memory cards.

Well, I work, and am going back to college in the fall (hopefully). When I'm not working, I shop around at thrift stores and eBay, looking for new games to add to my collection :D

CrimsonNugget

07-19-2005, 08:16 AM

Hi, the Nugget has arrived. I live in the good ol' US of A in the state of Pennsylvania. I collect Sega systems and games for Sega systems. I am a die-hard Sega fan, and of course, my favorite video game character is Sonic. The one thing that would make my life complete is Sega making a second Game Gear, but we know that won't happen. :( Ah, so there you go, that is me.

Sailorneorune

07-19-2005, 07:40 PM

Hi, my name is Kerri, but I am known as sailorneorune just about anywhere I post.
I joined to trade or sell some of my unwanted games for games I've been wanting for a while.
I hope that the rarity list does not rule all here but it probably does. Please be gentle as I am a college student who just wants some good games to pass the time between semesters.

Thank you all.
sailorneorune

d4rkmoon

07-19-2005, 09:17 PM

Hi my name is Tim, i am 33 and I life in germany, in a place called Limburg (near Frankfurt). I found a link to this place some days ago @ the SegaXtrem Forum so i was lurkin a while ;) and finally decided to register.
In RL i am a Musician, with a parttime job as a computer assembly guy (don´t know how to call it the right way)

I started gaming with a Vectrex & the good old Amiga 500.My Consoles are:GB, PSX, PS2, DC, GC and i just added a Saturn to them ;)
My favorite games are:
Klonoa2, FF VIII, Firewarior, Gungrave, Zone of Enders, Puyo Puyo Tsuu, Gunbird2, Gradius, Bomberman, Silent Bomber, Mars Matrix, .

I wouldn´t call myself a collector, but a gamer with a weak point for oldschool 2D games....

p_w38

07-20-2005, 01:27 AM

Hey, Phil here from Texas. I've lurked this site for about three or so years now and I felt it was time I finally posted for a change. :p

I can't say I'm the biggest collector here, but my modest collection is growing day by day.

I'm into Castlevania, Metroid, and pretty much anything that has to do with Sega. Used to not be a Sega fan but in recent years I've found I really do like them. The Saturn and Genesis/32X are my favorite to collect for. DC is a close third.

I'll eventually post my room of doom once I get it in order. Until then I look forward to talking to you guys and gals. :)

KenjiS9965

07-22-2005, 08:08 PM

Hi, I'm Trevor (or Kenji/Trev), I'm 17 and reside in Buffalo, NY

I am pretty much anime and gaming obsessed, though im also an amatuer photographer and a audiophile

Consoles I own:

Magnavox Odyssey 2
NES
SNES
Genesis(Type 1)/32x/Sega CD(Type 2)
Dreamcast
Xbox
PS2
Game Boy Advance

Usually i like RPGs and shooters, though i really play just about anything

Geno Bomb

07-23-2005, 03:24 AM

Hi. I'm Geno Bomb and I think that the SNES was the best system ever. My favorite game on it is Super Mario RPG, which is what I got my name from, but I enjoy all of the big RPG's like FF3/6 and Secret of Mana.

MASTERWEEDO

07-23-2005, 05:41 PM

IM MASTERWEEDO, IM 20, I LIVE IN PA, I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING EVER SINCE I MOVED BACK FROM CHICAGO. I HAVE A SMALL COLLECTION THAT IS GROWING NOW MY ASS FINALLY GOT A JOB. AND FINALLY, DONT BITCH ABOUT THE CAPS LOCK, ITS HERE TO STAY.

CONSOLES I HAVE

{3} ATARI 2600'S (70+ GAMES)
{2} NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS (20+ GAMES)
{11} SEGA GENESIS'S [3 #1][3 #3][5 #2] (140+ GAMES)
{2} SEGA CD'S (10 OR SO GAMES)
{1} SEGA MASTER SYSTEM ( 14 GAMES AND 2 PAIRS OF 3D GLASSES)
{1} GAMEBOY (8 GAMES, 1 HAS NO CAR AROUND THE BOARD AND DOESNT WORK IN GBA, I DONT REMEMBER WHAT IT IS)
{1} PS2 (5 GAMES)
{1} PSX (10 OR SO)

7 SEGA GAME GEAR GAMES AND CARRYING CASE

VG_Maniac

07-25-2005, 11:52 AM

Hey, everyone. I'm VG_Maniac...also known as Aaron. I'm 22 years old, and live in Washington state. I sill live at home (doesn't bother me), work part-time, and go to school part-time. I have been playing games since the original Super Mario Bros.... and that's basically my whole life. I grew up on the NES, then the SNES and so on. Even though I've been gaming for 18+ years...I didn't really start getting serious about collecting until a couple of years ago. My collection is pretty decent sized...but nowhere near as impressive as some of the crazy collections I've seen on this site. I'll probably post pictures of my "Bedroom of Doom" once my collection grows a little bit more.

The systems that I own are:

Intellivision
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
NES
Game Boy
Super NES
Virtual Boy
Nintendo 64
Game Boy Advance
GameCube
Genesis
Saturn
Dreamcast
Playstation
PS2

As for my favorite game of all time...probably a tie between Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, and Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
My favorite console of all time is the Super NES.

evil_genius

07-25-2005, 10:52 PM

Hi, my name is Dan. And I work in a button factory. I collect complete NES and Genesis games.

cityside75

07-26-2005, 05:27 AM

Hi I'm Jim, aka cityside75. I've been a longtime lurker and occasional poster, and figured it was about time I posted here.

I'm 34 years old, so I've been around just about since the beginning. My first non-pong system was an Intellivision in 1980, which my parents bought for the family for xmas. I still have that original system and an Intellivision 2, along with an NES, SNES, N64, PSX, Saturn, Dreamcast, Xbox, and PS2. I've also been a long time computer gamer - I have a C64, C128, and a bunch of PC games. Oh yeah, I also have a GBA and an Atari Lynx.

Some of my all time favorite games are:
Starfox - SNES
Super Mario Series (8 & 16-bit)
Rez - DC
Doom - PC
GTA 3 and beyond
Half-Life series
Robotron - Arcade
Samurai Shodown 2 - Arcade
Mortal Kombat 2 - Arcade

But my first love was always the arcades of my youth, therefore my current favorite toy is my HotRod SE and my complete MAME collection. It's been a hit with everyone else too.

Unfortunately I don't get nearly enough time to play the games anymore, as I am married with two children and I am attempting to get a new business off the ground. My company, New Perspective Data Solutions focuses on Geo-demographic analysis.

I'm a lifelong Chicagoan and a diehard Cubs fan, and I love DP - it's one of the few websites that I try to check out for at least a few minutes every day.

Keep up the good work everyone!

fpstream

07-26-2005, 11:44 PM

Hi, I'm fpstream, Humanoid introduced me to the website. Don't have much old systems, just Oddsyey 2, Genesis, Atari 2600, and that's all. Thanks.

hbkprm

07-29-2005, 05:59 AM

im hbkprm and im a fresh face in the roundtable
i'll be 18 in sept
im a gamer and very proud of that i played then, now and forever 8-)

BookMasterJMV

07-30-2005, 12:53 AM

Howdy.. new to these parts..

My name is Justin Viskoc.. aka BookMasterJMV.. or Bookie. I'm 20 and work full-time at the Circulation department of a library in Henderson, Nevada -- just outside of Las Vegas.

Came here via Roger (Rogmeister)'s blog. We both frequent Pat Lewin's ezBoard.

Game-wise, I don't play anymore. However, I do vividly remember such games as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first ones and the other arcade-style ones), Tetris, Legend of Zelda, Duck Hunt. Ah, memories. :)

Originally came here for the arcade, but saw I have to get these points to get into the arcade. LOL Guess I'll have to post a bit.

weredog

07-30-2005, 04:31 AM

Hi, I'm weredog. I'm not really a collector per say but I've been gaming since I was about six.I started way back with the atari 2600.I remember going to the roller rink and spending more time in the arcade than actually skating.

Favorite games include almost any action RPG, Final Fight, Konami's TMNT and Simpsons games, Kangaroo, Jungle Hunt, Atari ET ( yes, you read right ), River City Ransom and Killer instinct.

LDIS91

07-31-2005, 09:49 AM

Hi, I am Logan. Uzi 9mm was the person to show me DP. I am quite amazed with the site, and I hope to continue posting on it. I enjoy games,computers, and just all around tech stuff.

bhatchk

07-31-2005, 08:02 PM

Hi my name is Harold My friends just call me Butch. I'm from the state of Nebraska.I never seemed to have a girl friend growing up so I kinda took to Nessy.After all shes kinda like a woman.Doesnt want to work unless you give her extra attention.nd shes always on the blink. Now that I'm on disability I took to colleting as a hobbie and started selling to pay for it.Not enough time in my day now.You guys are real collecters.This site was the find of the year.So many times I had questions and no answers .Thank You for having a place where gamers can go rub elbows. I got to go pay for some games but I'll be back soon.Any about nintendo games and rare things I'm always interested even if just to look and share.Feel free to contact me at bhatchk@yahoo.com.Thanks Again for the site :D

Uzi 9mm

07-31-2005, 08:47 PM

Hmmm, almost 500 posts and I still haven't made an Introduction post!

Hey guys, I am Jacob, also known as Uzi 9mm. I live in Detroit, Michigan, and I enjoy games, movies, music, and going online.

PeteyPablo

08-01-2005, 01:55 AM

Hi, Im Peter aka. PeteyPablo! I live in London! sounds silly but one of my best mates Gunstar_Hero UK inspired me to get involved in collecting and i now have a strong desire too do so! Speak too you soon...PeteyPablo

MuzeBoy

08-01-2005, 02:10 AM

Whats crackin Guys and Dolls,

Im George, but you'll know me as Muzer or MuzeBoy, Im a great fan of all different types of games and systems and interested to find out more, you'll be hearing a lot more of me, as i predict i ill be a keen buyer/seller/trader. If you feel the need to contact me my email is; Muze-Boy@hotmail.com, and my xbox live gamertag is 'Muzer', i hope to be hearing and talkin to you all,

...Muzer... :)

erehwon

08-02-2005, 01:41 AM

I'm Jason from Fort Wayne, IN. I've been into gaming my entire life, but I just started to collect. I want to get some of the systems that I never had. I'm also interested in movies, game and movie soundtracks, books, and anime. I hope to enjoy my time on this forums as much I've enjoyed the CAG forum and the IGN forums.

gauntletwarrior

08-05-2005, 04:51 AM

Hi All! I am new to here. My name is David and I live in Wellington, FL. I have been on the Neo Geo Forums for over 4 years and have plenty of feedback there as neogeofl. I picked gauntletwarrior here to go with my eBay account, which has 100% Positive feedback there also, and because I love Gauntlet Arcade Games. I have a Gauntlet Legends and Gauntlet Dark Legacy (coming soon) Cabs in my house. I also own a Neo Geo AES, NGCD, Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, and so on. I love games and have been playing them for over 25 years now. I have twin 5 year old boys that I am breaking into games also. Anyway, just wanted to intruduce myself and make some more friends! Thanks!

cranberrygrape

08-08-2005, 12:43 AM

- I am LJ
- Currently in NH just came back from a 4 year stint in VT
- How you found the forums
- Retro Shareware
- I don't really collect but I do enjoy looking at collections!
- I work as a diet aid for old people
- I've never played the Legend of Zelda but I've watched the show.

That's it.

Jinzubaru

08-08-2005, 03:53 AM

Ha. Forgot about the introduction. Been on for about a week now. A few of you already know me( and most of you that do are probably pissed off at me.) Anyways, my name is Jacob and I like the Halo games(who doesn't???). I live in Arkansas. And this state is not full of stupid hillbillies and rednecks. I HATE it when I see stuff like that on movies and shows and stuff. Anyways....toodles.

dwaldman1999

08-09-2005, 10:18 PM

Hi I'm new to this board so I'll introduce myself. My name is David and I'm from Shaker Heights, OH. I have been into video games since I was little. My first system was the atari 7800. I enjoy classic video games as much as I do the new ones. I am still really into Nintendo and have been working to refurbish my old system and games so that they work again. I am starting to collect more classic games now in addition to the ones that I previous owned. I have started a website listing games that I am selling the URL is www.angelfire.com/games6/davidsclassicgames. Check it out and let me know what you think.

DoctorAwesome

08-10-2005, 11:33 AM

My name is DoctorAwesome, and my favorite dinosaur is triceratops.

alec006

08-11-2005, 06:08 PM

Hello Digitpress Forums, For the past 2-3 weeks ive been getting great answers on tech questions ive posted in the forms and i think you all for the replys. Anyway My name is Arron nick named alec006 in the fourms and ive been playing video games eversince 1994 (when i was 4 years old) when i got my first system the Sega Genesis and with it Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Ever since then ive been collecting video games and trying to get mostly all the video game systems from 1972 to Present Day. Right now i have 11 of them from a well known Atari VCS (2600) to my latest Nintendo DS. I have 115 games so far for the systems and i can say im a huge Sonic Fan,since Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was my first game.I still have it with the box and intrustions. Well thats mostly it,I will contenue to be here for a long time post replys and post new topics as well. You can view the games i own here http://users.ign.com/collection/haloeep. Thanks for reading and "Have you played Atari Today?"[/url]

ym9o1-S

08-14-2005, 09:56 AM

Hi all ,,,
the names Chris from Victoria Australia.

Im 30 been collecting for around 2 years,,
Im currently working on a website showcasing my whole collection.

This site is awesome!

Found it thru a thread..

Some of my collection..
Gamecube

Black Console
Platinum console (new)
Chars limited edition Gundam edition red console (new)

Wave bird controller
Official memory card
Resident evil chainsaw controller

Zelda windwaker collectors ed
Zelda four swords box
Luigis mansion
Super Mario sunshine
Viewtifull joe
Metriod prime
Super monkey ball 2
Wave race
Paper Mario
Fzero
Resident evil collectors edition
DonkeyKonga pak

Nintendo DS

Nintendo ds metriod prime hunters demo pak console

Feel the magic
Kirby canvas curse
Ridge racer ds
Super Mario 64 ds
Wario ware touched

Gameboy SP

Gameboy advance black U.S edition
Zelda gameboy adv sp gold limited edition
Bubble bobble
Fzero
Super Mario

Nintendo 64

N64 console
N64 console ice blue
N64 console grape
N64 limited edition pokemon (new)
N64 lmtd pokemon console loose

Supermario 64 LCD pinball

Paper Mario 64 (new)
Earthworm jim (new)
Star wars battle for naboo (new)
Kirby 64 crystal shards
Mario party 3
Mario tennis
Mario Golf
Snowboard kids
Duke nukem
Doom 64
Extreme g
Extrene g 2
Quake 2
Star wars episode 1 racer
Mystical Ninja
Donkey Kong 64
Diddy kong racing

Carts only

Mario kart
Wcw
Lylat wars
Golden eye 007
Destruction derby
1080
Pilotwings
ECW
Waverace
Banjo kazooie
Turok
Zelda Majoras mask
Yoshi’s story

Super Nes/S Famicom

Snes pal consol
All stars pak console
Mario’s 5 pak
Super famicom

Nintendo scope gun and game
Snes arcade steel controller
Snes mouse

Rockman x Famicom loose with ins
Mystical ninja goeman famicom loose with ins
Predator famicom boxed
Axelay famicom boxed
Fzero (new) pal
Fzero famicom
Final Fight famicom
Supermario 123 Famicom (new)
Super Mario kart pal
R-type Famicom
The snurfs pal (new)
Super Mario all stars pal (new)
Arkanoid new and sealed with Nintendo labels!!
Great circus mystery pal (new)
Pilotwings pal (new)
Warios woods loose
Dk Country loose
Super Mario paint Loose

Nes

Nes Controller set pal
Nes toploader boxed pal
Sharp twin famicom

Zapper gun
Dog bone controller

Discs

Mario golf
Breakout
F1 racing
Lode runner
Konami game???

Carts
MegaMan 3
Zelda
Mario bro’s
Dragons lair
Bubble bobble Mint
Bubble bobble used
Turtles mint
Turtles used
Super Mario 2 Mint
Metriod Mint
Rollerball
Nes open Loose

Tabletop

Mario;s cement factory
Dk Junior

Mini classics

Octopus
Super Mario bro’s
Fire
Mario’s cement factory
Super Mario bro’s
Dk junior

Super Mario watches

Yoshi
Mario

Nintendo Game and watches

Dk3 micro vs system mint (new)
Dk hockey vs system mint (new)
Pinball
Mario bro’s
Gold cliff
Oil panic
Dk 2
Black jack mint (new)
Dk jnr
Mario’s cement factory
Super Mario bro’s
Octopus
Climber
Super Mario YM-901-s
Popeye loose
Octopus Loose
Fire loose
Turtle bridge loose
Parachute loose
Donkey kong loose
Zelda loose
Pinball loose
Rainshower loose

Panorama

Mario bombs away loose

Nintendo virtual boy

Nintendo virtual boy console
Nintendo Virtual boy console Mint (new)

Vboy games

Baseball (new)
V Tetris (new)
Galactic pinball
Vertical force
Panic bomber (new)
Golf
Virtual shooting game
V league Baseball (new)
Mario clash loose
Wario land loose

SegaDreamcast

Aus Console
Fishing rod x2
Keyboard Typing of the dead
Dreamcast mouse
Cha cha amigos shakers
Dreamcast vibration pak
Dream Eye HKT-9402
Dreamcast visual Memory
Dc-X importer disc

Sonic 10th anniversary pak
Shenmue 1 + 2 box paks
Sega bass fishing
F355 challenge
Virtua fighter 3tb
Ducati world
Sega tally
Ecco
Disneys dino
Sega marine fishing
Trickstyle
Shadowman
Daytona usa 01

Saturn

Saturn console boxed mint
Saturn console loose
Saturn console loose

Saturn arcade stick
Satrun steering wheel
Virtua gun pak
Saturn gun
Action pro replay
Convertor cart ntsc – pal – ntsc
Nights into dreams pak with 3d controller

Virtua fighter2
Sega rally
Nights into dreams
Nights into dream jap (new)
Virtua cop 1
Virtua cop2
Fantasy zone
Winter heat
Panzer dragoon
Virtua fighter
Burning rangers
Torico
Mighty hits
True pinball
Earthworm jim 2
Die hard arcade
Tomb raider
Clockwork night 2
Manx tt
Gex
Euro 96
Street fighter alpha 2
Viruta fighter pal
Shinobi x
Rayman
Battle arena toshinden
Sonic 3d
Virtua cop 2 pal
Athlete kings
Space hulk
Police nauts pak

MegaDrive

Mega drive1 sonic pak
Megadrive 2 and cd console pak
Mega cd 1 boxed
Arcade sega controller
Master system convertor
Lethal enforcers cd and gun pak
Menacer gun

Mortal kombat mega cd
Silpheed mega cd (new)
Silpheed mega cd open
Prize fighters mega cd (new)
Robo aleste mega cd
Ecco the dolphin cd (new)
Thunderhawk Mega cd
Time Gal mega cd
Sol feace Mega cd
Cobra commando Mega cd
Final fight mega cd
Nba Jam mega cd
The Terminator Mega cd
Yumeni mystery mansion mega cd
Starwars Mega cd
Sonic cd mega cd
Kei flying squadron mega cd
Snatcher mega cd
Ground zero texas mega cd

32x games

Virtua fighter
Doom
Metal head
Virtua racing
Star wars
36 Holes golf
Knuckles chaotix PAL !!!!!!!!!!
Fifa 96

Megadrive carts

Greendog
Seperation anxiety
Another world
Ballz
Markos magic football
Two crude dudes
Pro-am
Mk3
Jewel master
Klax
Taz escape from mars
Batman forever
Woderboy in monsterland GOLD
Techno clash
Mickey w o I GOLD
Super Monaco gp
Rocket knight adv
Quackshot
Golden axe
Death Duel
Ghostbusters
Atomic runner
Space harrier 2
Wolverine
Outrun
Shinobi
Talespin
Battletoads
Micromachines 2
LhX chopper
Cyborg justice
Fatal labrynth
Ecco the dolphin
Sonic 2 and global gladiators pak
The page master
Acme allstars
Megla mania (new)
Dr robotnicks Mean bean magic
Aero acro 2
Zero
Rangerx
Jurassic park
Superman
Incredible hulk
Captain planet
Ghouls n ghosts
Forgotten worlds
Strider
Turtles tournament fighters
Aladdin Platinum
Sonic spinball Gold
Truxton
Michael Jackson moonwalker
Rolling thunder 2
Cruball Motley
Wonderboy in monsterland
Thunderforce III
Sonic and knuckles
Sonic 3
Bare knuckle
Double dragon 3

Sega Master system

Sega master system plus console with gun

3d glasses loose

Zaxxon 3d
Space harrier 3d
Outrun 3d
Missile defense 3d

Carts

Galaxy force
Ecco the dolphin
The new Zealand story
Rainbow islands
Bubble bobble
Ninja gaiden
Ghost house
Transbot
Double dragon
Slap shot
Bank panic
Scramble spirits
Populous
Shinobi
Castle of illusion mickey mouse
Stryder
Alex kidd in shinobi wrld
Sonic
Ghostbusters
Wonderboy 3 dragons trap
Fantazy zone
Fantasy zone 2
Wonder boy
American baseball
Mortal kombat 2

SMS Cards

Spy vs Spy
My Hero
Ghost House
Teddy boy

Gamegear

Sega gamegear plus sonic edition
Sms cartridge convertor

Games

Super Monaco gp
Starwars
Ecco
Lemmings
Dragon ncrsytal
The simnpsons
Jungle book
Wonder boy
Prince of Persia
Fantasy zone
Sonic 2
Strider returns loose

Sc3000

Sc3000 computer soft key console loose
Sc3000H hard key console loose

SJ2000 joystick
SH400 steering wheel
Data cassette player

Word block
Super tape 1
Heroic quest
Black jack
Munchman
Watch me draw
Solar conquest
Alphabet tutor

Carts

Basic level 3 a
Basic level 3 b
N-sub
Pacar
Sega Flipper
Star Jacker
Yamato
Monaco gp
Borderline
Champion tennis
Champion Golf
Congo bongo
Safari Hunter
Pop flamer
Orguss loose
Sinbad Mystery loose
Pacar loose
3DO

Panasonic 3do console

Dragons lair
Doom (new)
Megarace
Road Rash
Striker
Primal rage
Shockwave 2
Coleco vision

Coleco vision console

Space fury
Carnival
Zaxxon
Qbert
Venture
Smurf
Donkey Kong

More to come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joker T

08-14-2005, 05:33 PM

Hey i'm new to posting but i have been browsing for a while.
I have been playing games for about 5 years and my collection is not much compared to the others on here but I am pretty selective and enjoy the games I have. My favorite platform is currently PC.

My systems in no real order:

Sony PSP
Sony PS1
Sony PS2 (2)
Sony Playstation
Nintendo Gameboy Pocket
Nintendo Gameboy Color (2)
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Blue
Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Black
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Gamecube
SEGA Dreamcast Black Sports edition
Microsoft XBOX which is Broken :angry:

Oh and a stupid Plug and Play -_-

I own around 450 games

My Favorite Games:

Half-Life-PC
X-Wing V.S.Tie Fighter-PC
Star Wars: Dark Forces-PC
Star Wars: Dark Forces 2: Jedi Kinght-PC
Sim City-PC
Halo-XBOX
Jet Set Radio Future-XBOX
Armed and Dangerous-XBOX
Timespliters-PS2
SSX-PS2
ICO-PS2
Prince of Persia:The Sands of Time-PS2
Soul Calibur-DC
Jet Grind Radio-DC
Shenmue-DC
Marvel V.S. Capcom-DC
NBA Street-GC
Resident Evil 4-GC
Tekken 3-PS1
Final Fantasy 7-PS1
Crash Bandicoot:WARPED-PS1
Crash Bandicoot-PS1
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2-PS1
Lumines-PSP

Famicoman

08-15-2005, 12:56 AM

Hi, I'm Famicoman. I first came into contact with DP from AtariAge. I was interested in, and bought the collectors guide, and the advanced guide a few months later, when it came out. I recently thought I should cover all bases, and become a member here too.

Samelson

08-17-2005, 02:30 AM

Hello. My name is Steven. I currently live in Illnois. I have lived here for about 8 or 9 years. I grew up in Parkridge, Illnois. Great place. My buddy Uzi 9mm mention this site to me. I never really get into "Classic Gaming" but once he showed it to me. I was blowed away. This site is truely AMAZING. I got some favorite games. Halo2 of course, MLB 2k5, NBA 2k5, and plenty more I cant remember at the moment. I own Xbox (2). My first one broke so I gave it to my older brother whos 20. Then I got a new one for this last Christmas. I also have Gamecube, Nintendo 64, Genesis, Sega,Dreamcast and a bunch others. I dont have a job right now. But I hope to get one in the next year or so. I'm a Freshman this year. Cary Grove Highschool is where I go. I got into gaming. Hmm, I dont remember off hand. But It was probably my brother who I always used to watch. I started off with the old old systems. Then when I got into gaming more I relized it was a bunch of fun. Then I got a Nintendo Gamecube. Then I got a Xbox. I was amazed how sick the system is. Im looking forward to the Xbox 360. Well, I hope you all good people had a good time reading this long write up. I'm looking forward to be posting and asking stuff or helping on this wonderful site. See you guys around.

-Steven or Samelson

Tron2005

08-18-2005, 07:34 AM

Hi My name is Chris and i live in Beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado. i am Married with a 18month old Son named Andrew himself like is daddy is getting an early start with gaming. I cant keep a controller away from that kid...

Ive been collecting for a couple years now. i never got rid of any of my systems i still have my first system a Pong system and all of my subsequent ones VCS,Intellivision,NES,Genesis and now i own many systems and i like them all to be honest . Below is a system list

Pong
Atari VCS *2600 sixer
Sears Telegames *VCS heavy sixer
Intellivision I & II w/Intellivoice and 2600 System Changer
ColecoVision
Atari 5200
Atar 7800
Atari Jaguar
NES
SNES
N64
Genesis 1,2,3
Dreamcast
Playstation
PS2
Xbox

Hand Helds:
Gameboy (grey)
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance SP
Sega Game Gear

As for what i do in real life. Im a supervisior at a Electronics Manfacturing plant. eg we Make the circuit boards for Telecommunications and computer/Networking systems

C

RetroYoungen

08-18-2005, 10:32 PM

Wow. Over 2200 posts and I don't think I did this one! If I did it's probably somewhere in the middle, and honestly I don't want to go through every post to look for mine.

So just to be sure, I'll do it here.

I'm the RetroYoungen, a.k.a. Kevin S., and I've from Vacaville, CA (a half-hour from Sacramento and about an hour from San Francisco). I've lived in CA my entire life, and I've loved most of it. I just turned 21 this year (August 6th to be exact). I've been playing video games since I was 2 at Christmas of 1986 on an NES (I was Luigi, so I love the little greenie probably more than his brother).

I collect for pretty much every console I can, 18 in total (though hopefully that number will go up after CGE this year). I have about 660 games at this point but I need to go over them all to make sure I've counted every one into my computer.

I'm an English major at the local community college, almost ready to transfer to Sac State. At this point in my life, I want to become a teacher at the college level. I've written one novel, plenty of poems (and not just "angsty" poems), short stories... I just like to write.

And I write reviews in my blog on DP here, so if you want to read any reviews of mine go ahead and check it out. :)

SWORD OF POWER

08-20-2005, 11:47 PM

i like nintendo stuff....... and rpgs........and swords. i'm a zelda fan and final fantasy, but i also like crazy japanese games.... i'm a babe magnet and still a nerd... :D i'm in high school now. i like pets. i don't like cheese very much. but i love SWORDS!!! :D 8-)

EricDeLee

08-22-2005, 12:58 AM

Just thought I would say 'hello' being that I am a newbie here.

I learned about this site through Atariage.com I have been a member at AtariAge for a long time now. I was out of the 'collecting market' for a bit there because of a divorce but I thik I'm making a comeback now. I have sold a lot of my extra stuff lately... but I stil have my main collection together.

I collect for the three systems:

1. Atari 2600 (300 plus games + @ 100 games for trade)
2. Atari Lynx (63 unique games)***
3. Vectrex (8 games)

*** Atari Lynx.... Recently made a mistake and sold 11 sealed games that I forgot I didn't have doubles of. I am kicking myself for that. I only needed a few ridged carts and clat carts from completing my commercially released set.

I have other systems as well: PS2, PSOne, Dreamcast and a few others. I think for the most part I will be collecting ONLY handheld stuff in the future (Lynx, Turbo Grafix Express, Nomad, etc.). I will keep my current stuff, but will not get anymore 'consoles' beyond the next-generation consoles.

The Nomad is a wonderful system. There are a lot of good games for that system, so I regret selling it. The TG Express... well... I know nothing about Turbo Grafix stuff... but I think it is interesting, so eventually I'll dive into that market. I also liked the Sega Game Gear... but I'm not sure if I will collect for it again.

At one time I had something like 12 Atari Lynx systems and over 150 Lynx titles. Not to mention all of the extra stuff (manuals, pouches, carrying case, ac adaptors, com-lynx cables, etc). But I am basically down to what I have for my collection now and that is it. I still have four or five systems... so i may sell those off. Who knows. Interested? Shoot me a PM or something.

Well... that is it for me. My GF's mother used to work in an Atari assembly plant at one time. Used to bring home games all of the time from work... (a lot of Activision titles). She is digging those out for me and I'm anxious to see the results. They won't be for sell... but if need be and if by chance I have loaners or prototypes... I'll get them dumped to see if they are anything new.

Take care....

DonMarco

08-24-2005, 12:02 AM

Hey there all. Name's Marco or DM, depending on when you met me. If you've met me. Wait.

I'm registered and now lurking, waiting for more strategy guide threads. It's the Versus thread here (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27559) that brought me here. Using it, I was able to get all the volume numbers without having to wait until I bought the guide or it popped up on ebay. I've got 36 guides now, and looking to finish up the collection soon. Before Thanksgiving, I hope. Money's a bit tight now. I'm thinking of selling off my Nintendo Powers to raise funds. Not too sure, though.

Game and system wise, I'm pretty good. Everything's in boxes now, so no pictures or lists. I find lists to be pretty boring anyway. I'll take some pictures when I get a free weekend or two.

I'm a diehard NGPC player, DC junkie and Landstalker master. I've recently started and forgotten about a website dedicated to my apathy for video games in general. I really should write more for it, but I'm a chronic procrastinator.

cyberfluxor

08-24-2005, 01:02 AM

Hello, the name's Matt and I'm from Chesapeake, VA.

People who aren't familiar with the city of Chesapeake, it's near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and it's better known neighboring cities are Virginia Beach (East) and Norfolk (North). I live 90 minutes from the outterbanks North Carolina home of Kittyhawk and Nags Head.

I came accross the forums last year when looking around for video game collections to see what others had, but didn't decide at that time to join. Recently I left a few on-line communities (Like myspace) flooded with youth and ignorance, so looking for a new place to join I fell back upon here. Reviewing what this community had to offer with the wealth of information I was suckered right in.

Generally I collect and play mainstream consules and computer games but enjoy getting out to the classic arcade joints downtown and at the beach on the weekends. My favorite system would be the SNES because I have more of my favorite games on there and it's easy to find new games to add to my collection for it. Generally I will play any type of game but there's times where you just have to play a RPG or FPS (Whether it's replay or continuing where you left off).

In "real life" (AKA Reality) I'm a full time student at Old Dominion University (Best known for their Basketball Team the Lady Monarchs and science research) and working on degrees in Math, Electrical Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. Eventually I will transfer to Virginia Tech for my Masters (Go Hookies!). While this long process of learning is going on, I work part time at a cable company as a telemarketer (Of all things) and in my spare time work on cars, computers, go out, and program.

In middle and high school I wrote several dozen games and applications for the TI calculators and PC that were popular by other classmates. Some games were clones like Pac-man, Mine Sweeper, Snake, and a casino game with a few original slot machines, cards, and table betting games that kept track of several savable accounts. My biggest hit was an adventure platform consisting of 29 puzzle maze levels that I ported to the TI-82. Even though I haven't made games recently, I still place ideas on paper for later down the road developements.

My first game system was a Sega Master System back in '91 and played the hell out of it. Growing up with just one game system and a few games, everyone else was always getting newer systems and games. This outcry for my own archive finally happened when I got my first job, buying anything familiar or adventurous I could at low prices. Within 2 years I collected over 400 games on 13 different systems and continue to do so.

Vixenkit

08-24-2005, 06:37 AM

Hello everyone,

My name is Loren and I currently live in Sunnyvale, CA. Kind of ironic that I love video games so much, and one of the founding fathers of video gamedom began here: Atari. And oddy enough, Atari has resurfaced from the ashes... In Sunnyvale, no less. Used to be Infogrames, now Atari. The irony is so thick you can taste it!

Anyway, I discovered video games when I was about five years old or so. I saw the arcade game 'Destruction Derby' for the first time. It was set in an area of a department store that was rasied just one step above the floor and was quite at home among its older brothers and sisters, the pinball machines. There were a few other arcade games there, but this one caught my eye.

Even though the graphics back then pale in comparison to the eye-catching hyper-real style of today, the blocky caricatures of race cars duelling head-to-head in a race for survival to see who could get the most points before the time ran out was so innovative at the time, a child could not say much more than, 'Wow! Can I play?'. Kind of like how games draw our attention nowadays. ^_^

The designers knew just how to draw a person in when they played. A rumble feature that started when the game stole your quarter gave you the feel of a powerful race car engine purring excitedly, like a wild animal just barely held in check, and it felt so good against your hands that you would step full on to the acelerator and scream around the surface of the arena after your prey, completely lost to the outside world until sadly, the game ended seemingly as suddenly as it began.

Then, you would take a few deep breaths, come back to reality, then want it again, and again! Wow... So yeah, that was the beginning.

Two years later, my brother and I discovered the Atari 2600 at a friends' house. You could not keep us away from anything with a joystick for very long after that. It was nearly ten years before I actually owned my first Atari 2600. Found it at a garage sale for $5.00. It was the first console I owned. Managed a pretty extensive collection before I lost everything.

Moving forward, I met the most wonderful person in my life ten years ago, and of all things, they encourage my gaming habit. Even to the point where I had to say 'Whoah! Okay, I think I have too many games.' (I have a lot, and I am not sure if I will every play any to an extent until I am retired).

I have no favorite system as I enjoy the features of each console for their uniqueness. When I collect a game that was released on multiple platforms, I usually go with the one that looks the prettiest, or end up getting copies for each system.

What I do... Well, I could tell you but I would have to eliminate you. j/k of course, but I really cannot talk about it. However, in my spare time I like to design graphics with photoshop, play around with physical things I have drawn then scanned, make improvements. Some day I hope to be self-sufficient in that regard. ^_^ I like to write short stories, play around with HTML, sometimes offer my services as a day care provider or babysitter, create storyboards, make people laugh (but I am not a comedian), learn Japanese, collect rare and hard-to-find laserdiscs, and that is just a little bit. ^_^

Soon I should be posting the gaming stuff I have in the appropriate forum, and I have some stuff to sell too. If you wish to contact me, just PM me. ^_^

Holdemgod

08-25-2005, 10:50 PM

My name is Tony and I'm from Topeka, Kansas. I like collecting games and owning people in poker.

ChronoTriggaFoo

08-26-2005, 04:15 AM

Hallo everyone!

Even though I've been a member since 2003, I've never officially introduced myself. My name is Alex, I'm 25 (as of May 29 of 2005) and I live just south of Fort Worth, TX in Cleburne.

I graduated high school in '98 as valedictorian of my small class of 32. Went on to college at the University of Texas at Arlington where I started out in architecture and loved it. But that love faded with frustration after 3 years even though my grades were good. I thus switched to Psychology. I received my Bachelor of Science degree in May of 2004. After that I became an insurance agent in property and casualty. Now, I am starting my own business in Health and Life supplemental insurance.

I began my love for collecting at the age of 10 yrs old, but NOT as a video game collector. It started with baseball cards. In particular, Topps cards. You could get 10-12 cards for 0.50 cents at the store. I did everything I could to find a Nolan Ryan. Oh the wonderful days of collecting baseball cards when it was FUN.

In 1990, I also happened to receive my FIRST NES with Super Mario Bros. 3 at Christmas! What a wonderful Christmas that was, cause I also happened to get all the Ninja Turtles with the sewer playset :D We never had much money, but my mom wanted me to have a great Christmas that year, God bless her heart. She would die in 1992 of stomach cancer at the young age of 35.

Through the 90's, I took to collecting comics and adoring Spider-man, even attaining the second holy-grail in spidey comics, Amazing Spider-man #1 from 1963! I bought it off eBay in 1998 for $1900! My FIRST eBay transaction! Unfortunately, he had advertised it as a Very Fine, but it only turned out to be a Very Good 4.0 (but when I did need money later on, I was able to sell it for $2400...I miss that comic though :( )

My resurgence into video game collecting began when I dusted off my old NES in 2001. I had money for once, so I would be able to go to the fleamarket and buy as many as I could for $3 a piece. I remember my first guide being a FuncoLand newspaper price guide, which lasted me for a year and a half. Oh good times.

As far as gaming genres that interest me: puzzles, strategy, platformers, RPG's, space and side-scrolling shooters, and quirky games that break the mold.

Favorite games include: Qix, Mario's Picross, Advance Wars 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 1-6, Contra, Katamari Damacy, Chrono Trigger, ICO, Intelligent Qube, and many others!

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a399/spidey300/alex.jpg

tarheelsnipe

09-04-2005, 12:37 AM

Introducing myself:

Found the forums while google-ing
HUGE metroid fan
Collect NES games
Started collecting after a NES was given to me as payment for an Xbox mod.

Malon_Forever

09-05-2005, 12:45 AM

Hello. I am new here. I am 15 years old, and in High School. I've been into gaming since I could hold a controller since my brother had a NES. I own:

3 NESs, 2 SNESs, 2 Genesis (model 1), 1 N64, 1 GCN, 1 PS1, 1 atari 2600 jr, 1 Gameboy, 1 Gameboy Pocket, 1 GBA, and 1 DS. I have over 270 games total.

I'm trying to get every N64 game released in North America. Right now, I only have 80.

subsane

09-06-2005, 01:18 AM

80?! That's pretty good considering you're only 15.

Just stopping in to what's up. My collecting is more in the area of Simpsons video games, as evidenced by the site I work on: http://www.noiseland.net.

Looking through all the prototype jargon reminds me of a screenshot I saw in a magazine of a level for "Virtual Bart" that was not included in the final product. Good times.

cammeyboy

09-06-2005, 11:40 PM

Hello everybody im 24 years old and i live in Rawtenstall england,happy to join the boards, i have been looking for a good retro videogames forum for quite a log time.

Animerforever05

09-10-2005, 02:46 AM

hello im 19! and i have around 90 Games

davyK

09-11-2005, 11:34 PM

Howdy..

I hail from the retro gaming desert that is Belfast , N.Ireland but have managed to amass a decent collection courtesy of ebay and the fact that I travel to the mainland regularly due to work (software).

I'm 39 and started way back with dedicated Pong machines (have reacquired 2 I owned via eBay), through 2600 (reacquired a woody 6 switch via eBay)- then dabbled in 8bit micros (Oric-1 and CPC-464) then returned to consoles with the NES, SNES, N64, DC and GC - was late getting into PS1 and Saturn but have good collections for them - getting some great imports for the latter (Radiant Silvergun, Twinkle Star Sprites, Parodius series - that type of thing). Have a fledgling Megadrive collection and also have a 7800 with some titles.

Favourite Genres - puzzle games, 2D shooters

Hates - bloated, po-faced FPSs (i.e. most after Quake 2) and bloody sports games.

vorpalswrd

09-12-2005, 07:17 AM

My name is Angelique and I live in eastern Pennsylvania. I found the forums while searching info on NES prototypes one night bc they make me drool. My favorite games are MGS 1, phantasy star 3, mendels palace for nes. I collect for NES 8 bit and am up to 300 (nearly). I've done this without spending over 200 dollars total, it has taken me about 15 years to get to the point I am now. I also love my genesis. In real life i am a full time psych and art therapy major and a psych intern. i started collecting after having 40 games and a system donated to me and my family when i was about 8 years old and have loved them ever since. my current dream right now is to own a prototype withut breaking the bank...hard but not impossible. see you all around.

vorpalswrd

09-12-2005, 07:17 AM

My name is Angelique and I live in eastern Pennsylvania. I found the forums while searching info on NES prototypes one night bc they make me drool. My favorite games are MGS 1, phantasy star 3, mendels palace for nes. I collect for NES 8 bit and am up to 300 (nearly). I've done this without spending over 200 dollars total, it has taken me about 15 years to get to the point I am now. I also love my genesis. In real life i am a full time psych and art therapy major and a psych intern. i started collecting after having 40 games and a system donated to me and my family when i was about 8 years old and have loved them ever since. my current dream right now is to own a prototype without breaking the bank...hard but not impossible. see you all around.

vorpalswrd

09-12-2005, 07:18 AM

My name is Angelique and I live in eastern Pennsylvania. I found the forums while searching info on NES prototypes one night bc they make me drool. My favorite games are MGS 1, phantasy star 3, mendels palace for nes. I collect for NES 8 bit and am up to 300 (nearly). I've done this without spending over 200 dollars total, it has taken me about 15 years to get to the point I am now. I also love my genesis. In real life i am a full time psych and art therapy major and a psych intern. i started collecting after having 40 games and a system donated to me and my family when i was about 8 years old and have loved them ever since. my current dream right now is to own a prototype without breaking the bank...hard but not impossible. see you all around.

tippman85

09-13-2005, 06:26 AM

HELLO!

- I'm Jason Siergri
- I'm living in NY
- I found this forum by search engine
- My favourites games are: GTA, Rainbow, SIMS, ...
- I have a playstation 2
- I'm very happy of being here and I hope to be welcome :)

Anyway... I just wanted to drop a quick hello. see you guys in the forumsâ€¦

odyeiop

09-13-2005, 09:42 AM

Hello, my names Brendan. I live in Ontario, Canada and I found Digital Press when perusing for price quotes on games I was bidding on (on ebay). Probably one of the best finds I've ever had!

I'd list what my favourite games are, but then I'd just be rambling on and on for far to long of a time, so we'll just say anything that entertains me.

I'm currently working on a Genesis and NES collection, but have lots of titles for 18 other consoles/handhelds. Hoping to finish a collection soon!

I'm currently kitchen supervisor, and am heading to school to become a Game Designer.

:deadhorse:

Jean-Luc Picard

09-13-2005, 07:17 PM

Hello

Yet another membre, from Belgium, old Europe.

I had been reading the boards and learning from you for a few weeks before I decided to register.

I'm not really a collector, but I like to call myself a retro gamer because I have more interest in older games than in recent releases. I own every Nintendo system since the NES, and a Sega Saturn. I particularly like the N64.

Well, that's all. Have a nice day, everyone.

SkuÄ“Ä“

09-14-2005, 06:55 PM

I'M BACK!

@_@

:evil:

Yes, it is Skuee, I couldn't find my other email, and wanted to make my name 'unique', so, here I am!

@_@

combatking0

09-14-2005, 08:45 PM

Hello,
I am the Combat King 0, aka Tony Black.
I am 25, and I live in the UK of Englandcestershire.

I own an Atari 2600Jr, Nes, SNES, N64, GC, MD(w SMS converter), Saturn, GG, GB, GBC, GBA, PS2, and a Barcode Battler.

My favourite game of all time is Combat on the Atari 2600.

It is good to be here.
@_@

unicronQ

09-16-2005, 07:45 AM

Hello. I'm unicronQ from Schuyler, NE, US.

I was referred here by a friend (don't know what his user name is on here). My favorite video game systems are NES and GBA. I'm just getting into collecting NES games, and have about 34 games I think right now. I just got a new job at Wal-mart, so hopefully if all goes well, I'll be able to buy some good lots of NES games on ebay. Right now my favorite video game is Castlevania Symphony of the Night for Playstation, but I really like all the Castlevania games, and other similar games and RPGs. I've also got a Nintendo DS, Gamecube, Sega Dreamcast, a GBA SP, and a Playstation 2. I'm hoping to get an SNES and a Generation NEX before too long.

Other than video games, I also collect toys, antiques, comics, and about anything that catches my eye :P .

Rosemary

09-17-2005, 03:14 PM

Hello folks,
I am Rosemary from England, I am a writer and I collect PlayStation games, especially UK and Europe releases.

I am in my 30s, blonde, a little bit cute and hope to have some good feedback on this forum.

Bye,

R

zerohero

09-18-2005, 02:37 AM

Welcome to the forums!

This is a big place and it's sometimes easy to get lost in the crowd, but we really do want to know about you. This thread will serve as a "who's who" reference for the future so make your presence known!

Tell us any or all of the following:
- Who you are
- Where you live
- How you found the forums
- What your favorite games are
- What systems you collect for
- What you do in "real life"
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.

NOTE: posts here that are NOT introductions will be removed, so if you want to say hello to someone, start a new topic to do so.

Let us begin.
Just call me B!

Originally NC, but moved to Texas

To long to list! ( Lttp, Mario Kart, Super Metriod, Star Fox these are just a few retro)

So far just NES and SNES but I'm looking into the Saturn ;)

Right now I'm in college, and I work part time at Interstate Batteries...

Well I starting missing my old games from when I was younger " SNES". I traded it to a guy at school with my games for a sega saturn which was rare in my area. I bought another one but now the games are harder to find. Thus here I am.

thejaz

09-18-2005, 12:21 PM

Hi everyone.
You may have seen me posting that in the chat over the past few days. I just found out about this site and I'm always visiting it.
I wouldn't consider myself a collector of games, but I wouldn't mind starting, just need a job first. :P
I hope to have a good time here, thanks.

mario2butts

09-19-2005, 02:01 AM

Sorry I didn't post this sooner

Hi, I'm Zack from Catonsville MD; right now I'm at college in Gambier, OH. I'm 19 (born 1986), been collecting games since I was 7. My love for gaming began when my older cousin dumped his NES on me after getting a then-brand-spanking new SNES. I was instantly hooked. Soon I was reading up on gaming history and going to Funcoland, which was heaven on earth to me, on a regular basis. At first I had no money so I had to rely on birthdays and christmas to satisfy my gaming desires. I slowly acquired more consoles as the years past: Game Boy, Game Gear, Atari 7800, my cousin's SNES (he had graduated to N64). By 2000 (I was 14), I was getting a better allowance and my collecting habit kicked into high gear. Now I have between 20-30 consoles (depending on whether you count add-ons, duplicates, etc) and a bedroom full of games. My collection is still pretty modest in comparison to others I've seen on this site since I've never had a lot of money; I haven't posted a room of doom yet since I'm at college right now.

Anyway, I found DP when I stumbled across the room of doom section which was linked to another site (sorry, I was rondomly surfing and forget which one!). I've been posting for a few months now and It's been great, kudos to all of you who have put this site together!

luffy744

09-19-2005, 03:34 AM

Hello there, I'm luffy744 (a screen name, obviously, since my mother was considerate enough to not put numbers in my real name). I'm 22, live in California, USA, and I'm a gaming addict.

It started in late '87, when we were visiting my aunt and uncle, and guess what my uncle brought home one day? A brand spanking new Nintendo Entertainment System along with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt (and back then, they even gave you *2* controllers, along with the game, when you bought a new game system). When my turn came up, I promptly ran straight, right into the first goomba. My first video game experience lasted all of 3 seconds, but that was enough to hook me (at 4 years old, it took me about 8 trys to get past that first goomba!). The following year would be spent begging and pleading for a Nintendo of my own (since this uncle lived hours away, playing his wasn't an option) and going over friends houses to play their systems. Then, Christmas 1988, what does Santa bring me? A Nintendo, Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (I loved that movie). 17 years later, and that is still the best Christmas ever.

Later on I would go on to get a Super Nintendo at launch (Not exactly sure how mom payed for that one...), but ended up returning it when I beat Mario World in a week (it didn't occur to me that I skipped over about 60 levels of gameplay goodness) and used the money on more NES goodness. But then about a year later I believe, Street Fighter 2 came out, and I ended up with another SNES, and made the horrendous mistake of SELLING MY NES AND ROUGHLY 25 GAMES TO FUND IT. I'm still kicking myself, though I ended up rebuying a NES years later.

So yeah, for the first chunk of my gaming life, I was a Nintendo fanboy (it's hard not to be when you start out with the big N at 4 years old). I eventually branched out with the Sega Genesis and Sony Playstation, but no one could touch the holy Nintendo in my mind.

Flash forward to the present, and I don't have a favorite company, thought these days I really wonder why I never saw the brilliance of Sega back in their Genesis days (too busy with Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong Country and Chrono Trigger I suppose, so the time wasn't exactly wasted! LOL )

Today I own 16 different consoles/handheld systems @_@ including PS2/GC/Xbox and roughly 300 games. My current plan is to reduce that to maybe 250 (get rid of crap/mediocre games) and begin my serious collecting of Sega Saturn, Neo Geo AES (I think I hear my wallet scratching at the door, attempting to escape LOL ) and PC Engine, because those are the ones whose game libraries most interest me at this point.

And for my own quirky mini-collection, I've set out to get a copy of every single Super Robot Taisen (a looooong running series of Japanese strategy rpgs that take the characters and robots from dozens of different anime and squish them all into a single game universe) game. This game collection spans about 10 different systems/handhelds, though I have all of them aside from the Wonderswan, so that's not a big hurdle for me. Plus, there's no big hurry on this mini-collection, since I intend on playing each of them, and each one takes me roughtly 25-100 hours to get through (plus add on the hours of anime watching to get the most out of each game!).

And I'll stop talking for now, as I'm sure most of you were -_- ing half way through this post. LOL

BenJahrvi

09-19-2005, 05:45 PM

My name is Rohan and I hail from the outlet capital of the world, Reading, Pennsylvania.

I was born on 18th June, 1979. At that time the big arcade hits were Asteroids, Galaxian & Space Invaders.

My interest in video gaming all started in 1983. I started with the Atari 2600 and the Coleco Adam.

My very first system was a Coleco ADAM. It came packaged with Sega's Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom. The games I owned for it were Spectron, Mouse Trap, Cosmic Avenger, River Raid & Pitfall. My ADAM died in 1991. I am currently looking for a stand-alone ColecoVision. :(

My second system was a Sega Master System. I loved the arcade conversions. The best game on that system was Out Run. I also loved Enduro Racer, After Burner, Global Defence, R-Type & Time Soldiers. I also loved those credit card-sized games. When I owned a Sega Master System, most of my friends owned Nintendos. My first SMS died in 1994. In 2002, I inherited an SMS from a friend who had no use for it. I am currently looking for Zaxxon 3D, Space Harrier, Shinobi, Power Strike, Time Soldiers, Fantasy Zone, Ghostbusters, TransBot, Vigilante, Rastan, Cloud Master, Double Dragon, Wonder Boy & Wonder Boy in Monster Land. :D

Because i felt like an outcast of society, My Third system was a Nintendo Entertainment System. I loved Super Mario Bros., Contra, Donkey Kong & Duck Hunt. To this day, my little cousin loves playing Duck Hunt. In 2003, My brother found me an ultra-rare top-loading NES. :)

My fourth home system was a Super Nintendo. I loved Donkey Kong Country and Still love that series to this day, because it was a landmark game to have such fancy animation. :)

My fifth home system was a Nintendo 64. My brother and I played GoldenEye 007 & Mortal Kombat 4. I also love the Cruis'n series, but not many games were released for the N64, because Nintendo stubbornly retained the cassette format. :angry:

My sixth system was a Sony PlayStation 2. This was the first game console to sport DVD playback. originally, I wanted to get a Sega Dreamcast, but Sega got out of the system business. I played NBA 2K2, NFL 2K2 & Crazy Taxi.

My seventh system was a Sega Genesis, which I bought in 2003. I love to play the first-original Mortal Kombat to this day. I recently added a 32X adapter and got Star Wars Arcade & Virtua Racing Deluxe. I am looking for Space Harrier & Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000. I am also looking for a Sega CD.

Now you've heard my home console stories. Let me tell you about the handhelds I played.

My first handheld was a Game Boy. Despite the monochrome screen, I loved their selection. I loved to play Tetris on the road.

My second handheld was a Game Boy Colour. I played Super Mario DX on it.

Last year, I replaced the Game Boy Colour with a Game Boy Advance. I love the Classic NES lineup. esp. Super Mario Bros. I got my brother A Game Boy SP for Christmas of 2004, because he still loves Super Mario Bros. to this day. :D

I got a Sega Game Gear this past year, because I love the French comic book character Asterix. I also love Pengo, Ninja Gaiden and Star Wars.

I would also like to add a Saturn and Dreamcast to complete my Sega system collection.

I only like the Star Wars games on the Gamecube.

I would also like to add an XBOX.

manuel

09-21-2005, 03:08 AM

Hello fellow gamers.

My name is manuel (yeah, I registered with my real name :D ), I'm 26 years old and I'm from Germany.
Currently I live in Japan at my wife's (she's Japanese) grandpa's place until October.

In the first place I didn't mean to be a collector, but over the last 2 years I got me a little collection of hardware, because it's quite cheap to buy used game stuff in Japan. I don't have that much games per machine though.

Currently I own the following consoles and handhelds
2 Gameboys
1 Gameboy Color
1 Gameboy Pocket
1 Gameboy Advance
1 Gameboy Advance SP (Famicom edition)
1 Nintendo DS (pure white)
1 NES (European version)
1 Famicom
1 Twin Famicom (black)
2 Super Nintendos (1 European, 1 Japanese)
2 Nintendo 64s (1 European, 1 Japanese)
2 Gamecubes (1European, 1 Japanese)
1 Playstation (Japanese)
1 Game Gear (Japanese)
1 Master System (European)
1 Mega Drive I (Japanese)
2 Saturns (Japanese)
2 Dreamcasts (1 European, 1 Japanese)
1 PC Engine (Japanese)
1 PC Engine Duo-RX (Japanese)
4 Neo Geo Pockets
1 Neo Geo Pocket Color

For all that systems I own about 180 games, most of those for the SNES, which is my favourite I think.

In real life I'm still a student. My major is Japanese studies, my minors are Chinese studies and Linguistics.

I started a blog some time ago about my stay in Japan. There are some photos of Nintendo HQ in Kyoto, so I'd be glad if you had a look at my blog. :)

safa1

09-21-2005, 06:35 PM

I collect all american and jap. systems from the 2600 and newer. I am more of a system/console collector than a game collector but I have 500 or so games.

My favorite system of all time is the xbox.
Followed by the Saturn.

n8littlefield

09-21-2005, 08:15 PM

Well, I just joined so I figured I'd introduce myself. I currently collect only NES (other than my current gen PS2 and DS) but will likely start either 2600 or 7800 collecting w/in the next few months.

My systems I've owned in the past have been Odyssey 2, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, C64, NES, GB, GG, Genny, PS1, PS2, Cube, GBA, DS. We currently just have the NES, PS2 and 2 DS's (one mine, one my wife's).

I play about every type of game except most current-gen RPGs due to me tending to hate cutscenes.

antium

09-24-2005, 03:03 AM

Hi,
My name's Adam, and I'm from England. I collect games for pretty much any system, new or old.

I found this forum through goooooooogle :D

eggwolio

09-24-2005, 07:34 PM

I haven't read all of this thread, but I'm Mark.
I live in a Chicago suburb although I spent most of my life in Texas. I'll be 24 in a month(exactly) and I'm a broadcasting student.

I like games a lot. Pretty much all of them.

I found this place through a google search for info on the Generation NEX.

readANDlearn

09-25-2005, 06:56 AM

'ello, i was turned on to this site while looking for a rarity listing of SNES games on the gamefaqs.com message boards.

Im not a series "take every single moment of the day about gaming" person, but i do love to play any thing i can. So far i have a NES, SNES, gamecube, and sega in my bed room, i have a PS2, and three of those old "pac-man and many other games" in one joy stick, hooked up in my living room, my brother has the PS in his room, and im about to get a xbox, and just cant wait for the revolution and PS3.

I am 16, going to turn 17 in Nov. I have a younger sister and brother, at the moment im playing soccer for my high school, and applying for a job at Sam Goodys.

I ussually use game sites for faqs and tips in the Message boards, but some time i stay around to talk.

and as of right now im still the newest user on this site.

:)

mezrabad

09-25-2005, 08:30 AM

What the hell?

I NEVER posted in "introduce yourself"? I would've sworn I had.

Short and sweet:

Firstly, I'm a Father and a Husband.
Secondly, I'm a Videogame Player.
Everything else is tied for third.

I'm working on playing through every game in order, year by year, starting with 1972. After almost three months, I'm up to 1977. I will probably take a break after 1979 to figure out play/acquisition strategy for the 80s and to sell off most of my stuff from the 70s. Check out my Blog to see a person obsessed.

I'm not a "collector". I "accumulate" with "intentions to play and eventually sell or trade but only after I've played it 'enough'". At the moment I've got more games than I think I could ever play within a lifetime and still be able to get away with calling it a "life". This, however, doesn't prevent me from trying to play them all anyway, nor does it seem to dissuade me from buying more.

infamous lunchbox

09-25-2005, 05:34 PM

Hi all. I have been a member for a while, but have done nothing but lurk for years. I am a avid gamer and have all of my favorite consoles. I range from the 2600 to the PS2/GC/Xbox. My personal favorites are my Neo Geo and my Sega Saturn. Played my first game at age 5-6 on the TI-99. My dad bought one for my brother, and I played against him all the time. I used to collect, but now I have given that up in favor of only owning games I truly like. My personal library (or collection as you will) spans about 700 titles right now. Down from a massive 2,500 or so. I sold a lot of crappy games. Anyhoo started posting a bit more and thought I'd say hey. Oh and I am 25 years old, live in Utah, in school, a movie buff (mostly sci-fi, horror and b movies though).

SexyKitten

09-26-2005, 08:34 PM

Hey everyone my name is Amanda. I am 23 years old and I have been poking around this site for a few months but never had the courage to join. this morning I just figured what the hell. I primarliy collect Nintendo games and have only been collecting for about 3 months. I currently have about 160 Nintendo games. Here is my pic

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/sliop24/159965600_l.jpg

drcurtis

09-28-2005, 03:54 AM

Hello,

My name is Tod.
I live in Indiana.
Found the forums on a web search but bought the Digital Press guide at the 5th annual Classic Gaming Expo in Vegas.
In real life, I'm an orthodontist.

I got an Atari 2600 in 1980 or so at the age of 8. I've also owned (originally):
TI 99/4A (learned BASIC programming in 4th grade, thereby ruining any chance of a proper mindset for elegant programming).
Commodore 64
Nintendo NES
Sega Genesis
Atari Jaguar (pre-ordered, received Christmas Eve one year, what a disappointment)
Nintendo 64
Sega Dreamcast
and the newer consoles.

I have always had a collector's mentality, but usually ended up trading in my systems and games toward the price of even newer systems. Then, in a reckless display of irony, I'm forced to repurchase these games for my collection.

My true collection started in earnest when I had the fortune of buying out the entire NES stock from a local video store about 3 years ago. The owner would buy every game available, carefully open the box, remove the cart and manual, and re-shrinkwrap the box to put on the store shelves. So I ended up with about 375 very good condition boxes, 450 different games, and 350 pretty beat up manuals. Some others had already picked through and bought some games, but he did have a number of the hard to find ones. There was even a Peek-a-boo Poker instruction sheet in the stack of manuals, but no cart. I imagine at one time they had the three Panesian titles in the store.

In the meantime, I've grown a decent collection of most consoles and quite a few games. There's really nowhere close to where I live that ever has any potential for me picking up any great finds, so I'm relegated to a life of ebay sniping. My goal is to complete an NES collection.

My favorite games are RPG's. I spent many late nights with Ultima IV on the commodore 64, and loved the original Dragon Warrior. I have fond memories of Super Mario Brothers 2, as well as the N64 and GameCube Marios. I hope to open a game store in the near future; I've already gotten the corporation setup but my day job is keeping me a bit too busy lately.

I'm also interested in anything that goes along with the Nintendo World Championships; I just think it's ultra cool to collect.

Thanks,
Tod

hegyak

09-28-2005, 11:44 PM

I am Alex Klaman
I live in solano county
I found this place from RetroYoungen
I love Metal slug 1-4 and X and Everything Sega makes.
I try to collect for systems that I currently own. The only exception is the Sega 32X and Sega CD.
I work in the Solano college's computer labs and at the local "arcade."
I also play D+D and Zatch Bell CCG if I can get someone to play me. Not as popular as MTG or others I guess...
Since I am in the labs until closing monday wendsdays and fridays I am going to be a lot more offen.

I don't know when or what I started with but I do rember getting my Genesis when it first came out. I think my first actual collectable game Knuckles Chatoix. I do have a long scar down the center of my chest from open heart surgery when I was just a few years old.

Mr. Flibble

09-29-2005, 04:59 AM

Hi! My name is Mr. Flibble and I am a flightless waterfowl. I'm originally from the Antartic region and I'm kinda between residences at the moment.

My longtime friend AltairBoy showed me this website. In fact he introduced me to the whole idea of retrogaming. Earlier this year when he took me to OVGE and I met all sorts of cool people. Since then I've been to CGE2K5 and I've met even more fantastic people there. I think both the CGE and DP people are the best!

My favorite games are Galaga and Galaxian. I love shoot-em ups. I like video pinball games, especially Midnight Magic on the XE game system. I'm really good at the game probably because I have, er, you know...flippers.My favorite arcade game is the Star Wars one where you fly an X-wing and try to blow up the Death Star.

Anyhoo I don't do any collecting. AltairBoy has plenty of games and I just use his stuff. He doesn't seem to mind.

Other then that my favorite activity is meeting people especially gamers at events. You gamers really shine at these shows. I hope to meet more of you!

Spinal

09-30-2005, 02:32 PM

Hello! Well, here I am :)
I'm Michele/Spinal, I live in the Uk and study computer science at college here. I found the forumns from a link in the Mercedes-Benz Owners club forum (www.mbclub.co.uk).

My favorite games are Zelda (any and all -except 4 swords:P) and Killer Instincts... oh and GoldenEye 64, and Mario on the original GameBoy, and... bah practically ann Nintendo games :D

I collect ANYTHING that has a nintendo stamp on it. From the first playing cards ninty made to their latest consoles!

Interesting facts... hmmm, well I played with my first console after an accident where the doc's wanted to amputate my arm. I managed to keep my arm, but it was firt paralised, then semi-paralised. They recommended I buy a console and "excercise my brain-hand co-ordination" with it... the rest, is histo...nay, the rest, is retro! :)

Michele

almostgotthemall

09-30-2005, 10:38 PM

Hey there

IdolNinja

10-01-2005, 04:45 AM

Hi all. My name is Mike and I'm from Dearborn Heights, Michigan. I'm a network engineer and have been into gaming my whole life really, ever since I got an Atari 2600 as a little tyke. I don't know if I'd really call myself a collector. I just really enjoy playing a lot of the older games (and newer games too!)

I currently have my 2600, SNES, and Genesis hooked up in my computer room, and my N64, Dreamcast, Cube, Xbox, and PS2 in the living room. Right now I'm looking for a Sega CD, a working NES (both of mine died recently), a Turbo Duo (my Turbografx died a while back) and some of the conoles I never had a chance to own like the Intellivision, Colecovision, and Saturn. I'm also hunting for games for all my older 16-bit systems that have mysteriously disappeared throughout the years that i've been itching to play again. I think Landstalker and Gunstar Heroes for Genesis are probably at the top of my (need to relive the magic) list. :)

I've been reading the posts here for a while and it seems like quite a nice bunch of people. I'm looking forward to doing some trading and outings and maybe some gaming as well. I've also been thinking about doing some local hunting via thrift shops and stuff if anyone local here in Michigan is interested in making a weekend day of it.

Doku_san

10-02-2005, 02:36 AM

Hello
- My name is Jacob in real life, and I am 15, and about to take my trial year 10 exams.
- I live in Sydney Australia, and there is no-where for me to get old games.
- I found the forums because I was looking for a Super Nintendo Rarity list.
- My favourite games are for The Super Nintendo and The PSP.
- I'll collect for anything if I can get my hands on it. I have recently begun collecting my Super Nintendo games again, because my mother sold my old one when I wasn't looking. I miss my old games..
- I go to school. Currently on holidays for another week. Then Impending doom.
- My first console was a Sega Master System. My first game was some Alex Kidd game I think. Hey I was 3 years old at the time. Then my grandparents got a NES and I played that when I saw them. It kinda took off from there.

toby

10-02-2005, 09:43 AM

Hey,

My name is Tobias and I'm from Germany. I'm 15 years old an go to school.
During my endless travels through the internet, searching for a rarityguide for NES games, I found this page. Mainly I collect Nintendo stuff, but I'm getting interested in Atari at the moment. My father gave me an SNES console as a present in 1994/1995 I think. The game I played most was something with Yoshi (I can't remember the complete name). I enjoy playing any kind of games, the new PC games a well as old NES games.

unwinddesign

10-02-2005, 07:44 PM

Will anyone read this? Probably not, but figured I might as well throw my hat in the ring. Five minutes 'til I eat some breakfast. LOL

I'm Nick, would be that on the forums, 'cept it's taken. Oh well, my eBay user id will do for now. And, uh, the name of my amazing website. I'm from the US of A, in case anyone was wondering.

I'm 16 years old, and thankfully, I'm not one of those "omg wtf lolz INTERNETZ HAHA" type of people. No worries here.

What do I hope to contribute to the community? Hopefully some tidbits of knowledge (mainly Dreamcast...I know the going price of every single US game, amongst other things @_@) and some sales items. My bud and I run an internet business buying/selling old Sega games (Sega CD and Dreamcast). Ironically enough, I'm not really that big of a Sega fan -- it just rolled around that way. A few of you have probably bought something from me on eBay, or off another forum (I frequent Dreamcast History, DCPawnshop and DCEmu).

Oh, and I bought the Digital Press Advance guide. That's gotta give me a few points, right? :P

Emuaust

10-04-2005, 05:19 AM

Hey all,

Long time board member of sites like gamefaqs and smspower( dont hold the gamefaqs thing against me!) and have been a lurker on these boards for probably 18months.

Finally got around to joining, a bit about me,

My name is Scott I am a manager of a Independent games store in Mount Gambier, South Australia.

I collect practiclly everything,(mainly sega)with massive collections of practiclly every console I have I thought id join for the buying and selling market as there are a few things that i cant get locally!
:D 8-) :D

Flock

10-04-2005, 02:07 PM

Hey im 16, male and currently living in Melbourne Australia. I've been playing games since i was about 6 starting with the Mega Drive. About 8 months ago i found my megadrive, turned it on and only planning to have a quick game, i beat all of sonic 2 :) . i guess i was bitten right then, i went and got out a 2600 a friend had given me a few years ago, that i had only played a little then forgotten about. so over the past few months ive been collecting snes and 2600 (i got a snes for $12) ive got about 35 2600 games, there great to pick up and play for like 15 minutes each, and i can get em for a few dollars each. I'm a huge nintendo fan, i did desperatly want a snes for years as a child though never got one, though did get a N64 that christmas, maybe im compensating for that though as im rather avidly collecting snes, currently have about 30+ games. I bought a nes off ebay last week, and cant wait for it to arrive. btw, i also own a ps2 and gamecube. look foward to many great times on the forum!

Rikster

10-06-2005, 09:09 PM

Hi i'm rik, i'm 20 years old and i'm from the netherlands (holland). I'm collecting consoles for some years now! my first console was the snes, i bought it when i was about 8 years old! My english aint that good so i'l just show you a list of my collection

Nintendo:
nes
snes
n64
gamecube
gameboy pocket
gameboy color
gba 2x (one inside a display)
gba sp
virtual boy
nintendo DS

sega:
mastersystem 2
megadrive I
megadrive II + mega cd
saturn
dreamcast 2X (one display)
gamegear

others:
xbox
playstation
psone + sony screen
ps2
psp
atari jaguar
atari lynx 2
neo geo pocket color
philips videopac
philips cd-i

and many more to come, i hope :D

tornadostormxl

10-08-2005, 09:13 PM

hey my name is kevin and i came here because i collect rare games

Truffle

10-08-2005, 11:27 PM

Hello!

I love collecting games , especially obscure stuff.
None of my friend are into it, they think Im wierd, and my boyfriend only really plays his Xbox. I thought I might have a better chance of finding peope who think rooms full of games are sweet here ;)

My favorite systems are

GameBoy
NES
Vectrex
Atari2600
Intellivision
SNES

and I love strategy/ RPGs.

Thetik

10-08-2005, 11:41 PM

Hey everyone my im Alex and im 17. I live in Toronto Ontario. I am presently using several forums and in one of the forums i somehow found this siter. Someone was asking were they could sell thier stuff other than that forum and different ppl posted forum sites... My favourite sysyms have got to be SNES, NES, GEN, PS1, and N64. Im not really a fan of very old sysyms like atari and stuff. In real life i am a student...attending high school.... I am kind of a noob collector and dont have much games... but that will soon change considering i found this site and cgcc.
thx everyone :cheers:

Thetik

Gamebrain

10-10-2005, 02:54 AM

Hello everyone. Heres a bit of background info about me

My name is Mike. I'm 17 years old and live in the suburbs of Philadelhpia. I am a big video game fan ever since I was 3. My biggest collection of games for a single platform is 80 for the PS1. I have 15 different game systems and counting. I will be attending VGXPO this year so check it out!

Cool

The Spelling Wizard

10-11-2005, 01:38 AM

Hello. I am The Spelling Wizard.

William_the_Saint

10-11-2005, 03:24 AM

Hello. My name is William.
I reference this site alot so I thought I might as well join and see if you people are as depraved as I sometimes become.
I collect post crash video game systems, anything before that was before my introduction to games. I like to create custom vinal decals for each of my console and matching controllers. This my offend some of you hardcore collectors, but I like my champions to be unique (and I keep it tasteful).
In closing I am currently playing Metal Slug 1st Mission for Neo Geo Pocket Color, I am not ready for the Gamecube to die and every time I touch a Playstation controller I feel like I should wash my hands (you cannot deny the library though).

johno590

10-11-2005, 04:07 PM

Hello.

My name is john (if you couldn't tell from the username) and I've been looking at this site for a while, and finally decided to join. About me... I'm 20 years old, I live in Murphy, NC.. I went to WCU for 2 years and then dropped out, now I live at home and just work two jobs, going back to school soon though.

I am also a member over at rfgen. I haven't been collecting all that long, but I have been into video games for as long as I can remember. I have almost 150 games for all kinds of different systems, and I am adding games almost every single day. Recently I've been buying just to buy, but its getting kinda expensive. I mostly have for the SNES because it is what I grew up with.

mr_pollock

10-13-2005, 05:05 AM

I'm Eric Iberri and I live in El Monte, a mid-sized suburb of Los Angeles county. I'm 20 years old and I like dogs.

I found the forum after I found DP as a reputable collector's guide/rarity guide.

My favorite games are: U.N. Squadron, Final Fantasy VI, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Super Off Road, and Mr. Driller.

I don't collect for any specific systems.

In real life, I'm a (third year) student at the University of La Verne. I also tutor English and any general writing.

metalichris

10-13-2005, 05:11 AM

What's up guys and girls my name is Chris. Just started my collection about 2 months ago. All RPG's for NES, SNES, and PSX! I found this forum while looking on Google for a price guide for video games. I go to college, and work for the college. While I'm at I was started surfing this forum LOL
cause I work in a computer center.

KingCobra

10-13-2005, 07:47 AM

Hi, new person here :D

39/Male/constrution

Fav games are of the 78' to 85' Arcade coin-op days, Nes/SNES/Genesis/CDX/Atari Jag/Dreamcast and PS2 are what I've got and a butt load of games :P

I used KingCobra as a username because I have 98' Ford Mustang SVT Cobra Roush.

That's it, see you on the boards.

CaryMG

10-14-2005, 02:15 AM

My name's "CaryMG" & I'm from New York City.
I run my own gardening business.

I was GOOGLEing around to see if there was a one-stop shopping place for "Super Nintendo" stuff when I found a place.
It had a "Message Board" option, I clicked on it & was bought here! lol

My favorite machines are ....
> IntelliVision
> Classic Macintosh
> AMIGA
> Super Nintendo Entertainment System

My favorite games are ....
> "Bowling" ["IntelliVision"]
> "BurgerTime"
> "BattleZone"
> "Galaxians"
> "Red Baron" [Arcade]
> "Tempest"
> "Star Wars: Arcade"
> "B-17 Bomber"
> "Beauty & The Beast"
> "Captain Blood"
> "Continuum"
> "Out Of This World"
> "Donkey Kong Country"

I started collecting when I bought my first system -- and I hold on to 'em 'cause the games and systems rock !

Later!
CaryMG
:) :) :)

colonel_chambers

10-14-2005, 10:22 PM

Hi guys and girls.
My real name is David, i'm 20 and a university student. I live in the U.K
My favourite console is the NES :D But I also love the SNES and N64 and too many to mention.
I joined here as I read about this place on the NES files (where I post under my real name) and it looked good so I signed up.
Incidently I noticed some people from there are on here too 8-)
Look forward to making many more posts!

Alska

10-15-2005, 04:41 AM

My name is Ron Burley and I hail from Garner KS which is a small town near Kansas City, KC.

As for games...lawd have mercy what haven't I played? I have gone through stages of collection-ism and hording as well. Started out on an Amiga 1000 and it all escilated from there. (Yeah, I had an Atari 2600, 5200 and Coleco but the Amiga really opened my eyes to gaming...seriously!)

As I grew up I became more and more nastalgic. I collected upright cabinet and a few cocktails. I was able to boast having a Tron, Galaga, Pac Man, Mr. Do, Berzerk, and various JAMMA games in my basement. Sadly, marriage and real life required me to sell them all (at a nifty profit I might add).

So, now I simply play whatever I can get my hands on. Emulators, JAMMA cabs, consoles, PC, and even and Amiga game now and again just to whet the palatte (Killing Game Show...mmm...Psygnosis gooooodness!)

So that's about it...hope to post more on the rest of the board...

Valhalla

10-15-2005, 02:19 PM

Hello all, my name is Tom Cooper, and I come from the land down under (Australia if that wasn't a give away!). I'm 19, 20 in a few days! Currently studying IT and hating it, gonna go for a big change next year.

Been gaming since about 1990, when our family got our first SMS for christmas. Played many games on NES before this, but the SMS being the first console I (we) owned, has a special place in my heart and is still my favourite. It was the only console we owned until 1996 when I bought a Mega Drive with the money I received from birthday gifts, and my obsession with gaming just snowballed from there. The next year I got a SNES and a Game Gear, then next year a N64, then the next a PS1. And so on...

I don't really "hardcore" collect for any particular console, though I am proud of my SMS collection which stands at 105 different games, and about 11 swaps.

Even though I grew up with Sega, I have no preferences of one console over another (except SMS). I view all consoles as a means to play a game, hopefully a good one!

Anyway I've been lurking around here for about a month and this place seemed like it had a damn good community of gamers, not people who play just one console and bash the others cause theirs is "the best", but true gamers who play anything if it's good and intelligently critisize if something deserves it. GameFaqs this aint'. That, and I feel compelled to post in the topic about NES RPG's and reccomend STED: Starfield of memorable relics, the NES answer to Phantasy Star.

Well I hope to have a good time here!