Introduce Yourself! [Archive] - Page 7

Solotaire

08-05-2006, 01:17 AM

- Who you are
Oh God. . . Im Ed. I got nothing else

- Where you live
Im In london Ontario, here.

- How you found the forums
www.cgcc.ca

- What your favorite games are
Dragon Warrior 4, Final Fantast 8 and anything 3DO

- What systems you collect for
3DO . . . and anything that was a game system . .. but 3DO first.

- What you do in "real life"
Senior Case Management for a COmputer Company.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Um . . . Well... I can but my legs behind my head, beat FF7 and FF8 in a total of 72 Hrs, and I make old people cry over the phone all day. But not at the same time.

Failing the rest of that info, Im really here, because I like the Buying and Selling. Seriously though, thats how I found out. Someone one on CGCC was all like ZOMG SALEx0RZ at HERE and I was like Ohhhh Clicky Click.

And thats how Im here. I was pestering a few people by PM, but Ill put in some input now.

Solo

merriman_bk

08-05-2006, 05:29 AM

Hey my name is Bret Krogel. I'm all about all things turbografx/pc-engine heh, although I feel like a youngin in that field (I'm only 21). But what can I say I got a turbografx when I was 9 from a friend of my brother, had a soft spot for it ever since. ;)

iatneH

08-06-2006, 11:29 PM

Hi, I am Geoff and as you could probably guess, I am a complete pervert.

I also didn't see this sticky and posted a new topic before I posted this message. Sorry! I promise I'll be good...

I like shooters and run'n'guns and Bemani, but I suck at all of them...

XNemesisXTyrantX

08-07-2006, 08:02 PM

Hey. Well here's all the info about me.

Who you are:
A random Collector

Where you live:
PA

How you found the forums
Surfing the Net

What your favorite games are:
1.Super Mario RpG
2. Final Fantasy IV
3. Final Fantasy V
4. Vagrant Story

What systems you collect for:
1. Snes
2. Genesis
3. All Rpgs

What you do in "real life"
High School -_-

Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I can beat Time Crisis 3 with 1 credit, even with a broken pointer finger.
I collect Snes and Genesis games because I consider the 16th bit era the best.
I only recently started collecting but I have been playing games since I was 4.

SeGaFiEnD

08-08-2006, 07:26 PM

Hi everyone, my name is mark and I am from Queens NY. I've been gaming since I can remember. I am a classic gaming nUt and have been collecting for 3 years.
Systems I own: Odyssey 300, Odyssey 2, Vectrex, Atari Video Pinball, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Lynx, Colecovision, SMS, Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, GB Color, GBA SP, Virtual Boy, PS1, PS2, PSP, TurboGrafx 16, 3DO, NeoGeo Pocket.
and a nice amount of games and stuff. I am also into M.A.M.E.
I found this site after needing a new place to buy stuff. I traveled over the bridge to New Jersey and found video game heaven (thanx for most of my collection Joe!). I also like tattoos and almost all music from 1930's banjo music to deathmetal and everything in between.

P.S. Digital Press is rockin' like Dokken!!! x_x

Chadt74

08-09-2006, 11:27 PM

Hi all, my name is Chad and I have been a gamer since I can remember. I don't know much about the Brady bunch, but I could destroy my babysitter in Kaboom. Went from Atari to playstation II today owning most of the systems. I am not REALLY a collector but I just want games that I will enjoy and that are fun to play.

Outside of gaming I am a CPA who likes to work out, and jog (actually finished a marathon) in my free time.

I live in Boston so if anyone is local feel free to say hi.

That is all, off to the boards!

Rorschach

08-12-2006, 11:10 AM

Hello. I found this site after seeing somebodies room of doom on another website, and had to find out where this place was; eventually I found digitalpress. I'd list my favorite games, but that would take up half of the page. I am collecting for the NES and Genesis but I buy stuff for pretty much every system I own. I am located in Ottawa Ontario. I prefer to pick up stuff locally, but can't pass up on an awesome deal regardless of where it is.

Greg2600

08-13-2006, 05:42 PM

Hey this is Greg, my friend Rob and I do a weekly podcast, full of comedy bits, sarcasm and some local music. Since we've played every system since the 2600 (except PS2), we often interject video game discussions into our bits. Granted most of it is in a tongue in cheek comedic format. Please check it out!

www.paunchstevenson.com

PS: I went over to you location a few times when it was Outer Limits, had no idea there was something different. Look forward to check it out soon.

yummysmokedham

08-14-2006, 02:06 PM

Hello, My name is Jordan. I live in Carthage, MO and work in the technical department for the local municipal utility. I found out about Digital Press at OKGE a few years back. I have been a member for a while now, but have not been very active but now that I am done with college hopefully I will have more time to "chill" on here. My collection contains a little bit of everything, from an odyssey 200 to playstation 2. I am finally starting to narrow down to all things NES. I have a complete Virtual Boy collection, and am wanting to get a NES m82. My favorite games are SNES-era RPG's such as Chrono Trigger and Legend Of Zelda: Link To The Past. My favorite series is The Monkey Island Series from LucasArts, I have been a huge fan of these adventure style games since I was a child. If you would like to know anything else about me, just drop me a PM.

deaditeash2

08-16-2006, 09:46 AM

Hey Everyone,

I just came across Digital Press yesterday - looks great so far... I must admit I'm a retro gamer for life! As a youngster on Christmas morning my brother and I opened the biggest box of all only to behold our very own Atari 2600 - I popped in Frogger and it was all over. I currently own Sega Genesis, Playstation, Playstation 2 and of course PC games. A few years ago I sold my third NES and all my 130 or so games - I've regretted it ever since. I am planning on picking up that re-tooled third party NES the Generation NEX and will now be attempting to replace many of my complete NES games I owned - so any help would be appreciated! My fav systems are Colecovision and NES followed by Genesis and SNES. I'm into Sidescrollers, SHMUPS, and RPGs.

Dave in Minnesota

EthanJC

08-19-2006, 02:37 PM

Hi everyone, my name is Ethan and I am a 16 year old student living in Junction city Oregon. As of right now I own a Darth Vader atari 2600, an atari 5200, a colecovision, a SMS, 4 NES, 2 Genesises (Genesii?),2 SNES,A Jaguar, Two dreamcasts, an N64, and a PS2. For being a middle class 16 year old with no job, having around 250 games in total seems to me quite an accoplishment. Anyway, Digital press is awesome, I'm glad to be a member.

EthanJC

08-19-2006, 02:37 PM

EthanJC

08-19-2006, 03:22 PM

I'm really sorry, I have a really slow computer so I clicked post three times because it didnt look like it was doing anything. Apparently it posted three times..... sorry

MetalRuss87

08-20-2006, 08:12 AM

Hey everyone, here's my info as i'm new to these forums:

Who you are:
Russ, i'll be turning 19 next month :)

Where you live:
Sydney, Australia

How you found the forums:
Surfing the net originally looking for M.A.M.E roms

Favourite games:
There's too many, but i'll list some now anyways:
Most are either Sega Master System or NES games-Shinobi, Rampage, Spy Vs Spy, California Games, Batman Returns, Super Mario Brothers 3, Power Rangers(SNES) etc...

What systems you collect for:
1.SEGA MASTER SYSTEM!
2.NES
3.Super NES
4.Sega Mega Drive(Genesis anywhere else :P)
5.Any old Atari Systems

What you do in 'real life'
Music, play guitar, write songs for my new band, rock out, party...and I work for a theatrical agency as an office assistant \m/

Any other interesting facts:
Well my first system was NES at a very young age. I also grew up in arcades playing games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and the like. One Christmas years and years ago, I was given an SMS and my gaming addiction just grew from there. I've only just been 'seriously' collecting for about a year now.

t0asta

08-20-2006, 04:22 PM

Hey Folks!

I've recently started collecting NES and NES-Related
items. I have a lot of fun scouring thrift-stores and
swap-meets, it's like treasure hunting!

I sport my powerglove every day. It really weirds
out my friends and family. They're just jealous,
because they don't have the POWER!

Anyway, Hi!

blackgenma

08-21-2006, 12:56 PM

hello everyone.
Im Gabe,Im 16 and I live in clifton NJ.
I found out about this website when I went to the DP store.(its 4 blocks from my house.)
I dont really collect anything, but I am a huge fan of arcade cabinets. the DP store got a "scramble" cabenit, created by konami in the early 80's. I think its great that the store got it because it next to some more recent cabenits, and that sorta symbolizes what DP is all about, both old an new games.
as for what I do Im curently working a summer job at the DP store. after the summer I gotta find a new job. :(

obliterator918

08-22-2006, 05:14 PM

- Who you are

Brandon Staggs... Known also as "Obliterator" back in the day (NoCal C64 BBS scene).

- Where you live

Oklahoma, USA.

- How you found the forums

Rob Ohara pointed me here. I met him at OVGE 2006.

- What your favorite games are

Impossible to really answer. Some of my favorites over time: Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Raid Over Bungling Bay, the original Sim City, Ultima 4 (C64 version)...

- What systems you collect for

C64, Sega Genesis.

- What you do in "real life"

Program and sell Bible study software.

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

I collected hundreds of games when I was a kid. Those are all gone. Now my collecting consists mainly of picking up old Commodore equipment when I find a decent deal, and finding good Sega Genesis games. My collection is based mainly on sentimental value, not something I do to be a completist or for eventual sale. One of my favorite games I have collected for the Sega Genesis is Pirates! Gold, which is still fun to play to this day.

axelitf

08-25-2006, 08:46 AM

Hi,

my name is Axel Pfaender, I live in Berlin, Germany.
I work as a graphic designer, actually i run my own design company with a couple of friends.

I started computing and gaming on a Commodore128, later Atari ST. Right now I don't own any video gaming system.
I work as an illustrator for German Game Magazine "GEE".

The games i love most are Donkey Kong and Super Mario Land (a rather common opinion I guess).
I guess that's all for now.

cheers,
Axel

dreamchaser_se

08-27-2006, 01:42 PM

Hello everyone.

My name is Andreas but on the internet I call myself for dreamchaser or dreamchasr_se. I live in Sweden (nope we DONT have penguins or polarbears roaming around the streets) i got a son who is 1,5 years old.

I have as long as I remember loved video games, my first real gaming experience was with Supr Mario Bros back in the day but what caught my atention was Castlevania.

This game series is in my oppinion the finest of them all, I have been collecting CV games and goods in 5 years and I still find new objects.

This seems to be a nice place, I think i´ll stay for some time.

Hwj_Chim

08-28-2006, 06:07 PM

HI my name is Chris I don't really collect. but I don't get rid of any video games so I have got a lot of them now. I have been video gaming sence the Nes and my fav system is the saturn.

PingvinBlueJeans

08-29-2006, 02:13 AM

I just realised that I never posted an intro in here. Anyway...

I've been into gaming for many years now. I have always been a big fan of arcade and console video games. My first system was Atari VCS and my newest is Playstation 2. I have accumulated many others along the way. The systems that I play the most these days are probably ColecoVision, NES, and Sega Master System.

I have come to this site for years, but have just joined the forums recently. I often post on AtariAge as well, and I am a contributor to MobyGames. That's about it... :)

.Goomba24

08-29-2006, 05:12 PM

Well, as you can see, I am .Goomba24. I live in the southern USA, so I may use "ain't" occasionally. Other than that, I found this place by always using the Digitpress rarity guide to check my games. I love collecting older games from the Intellivision to the PS1. I am a huge Nintendo fan with a wide sense of humor. I look foward to this place. Some of you may know me from Nintendo Nsider.

rasone77

08-30-2006, 12:07 AM

Hi, I am new to the forum, however, I have been checking out the online rarity guide for the past few weeks. I collect NES games as well as SNES RPG's. Anything else I come across for cheap generally gets sold on E-bay (unless it's Mario or Yoshi. My wife's a fan :)) so I can buy more of what I collect.

will2097

09-03-2006, 03:16 PM

Hi I'm new-ish! I've been examining the Digital Press archives for months. I'm mostly interested in early to mid '90s stuff. Jaguar, FM Towns, CD32 and of cause my all time favourite, 3DO!

I also run a blog under the name "3DO Kid".

http://fz1-3do.blog.co.uk

Take care everyone!

Will

Gamer Nerd

09-04-2006, 04:39 PM

Some of you may remember me when I was a member of DP recently, and some of you don't because I left due to personal problems, etc. so let me re-introduce myself.

- Who you are? Ken

- Where you live? Chicago, IL

- How you found the forums? Someone from another forum linked me.

- What your favorite games are? Rampage, NARC, Galaga, Pac-Man, Defender, Robotron: 2084, Pinbot, Earthshaker, Riverboat Gambler, Bride of Pinbot, Jackbot, Millipede, Smash TV, Outrun, Tetris, Gauntlet, Strider, Pirate Ship Higemaru, Final Fight, etc.

- What systems you collect for? PS1/2 & PC

- What you do in "real life"? I'm unemployed because of my disability. I listen to music, watch TV, etc.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.? No.

FaSCoRP

09-05-2006, 05:18 PM

Hi everybody

- Who you are
I´m FaSCoRP

- Where you live
Buenos Aires, Argentina

- How you found the forums
In another forum, a local one, called "Arqueología Digital"

- What your favorite games are
It´s hard to answer, but I think about the Wing Commander series, and the Resident Evil also. But If I must choose one, I´ll pick Final Fantasy VIII

- What systems you collect for
Dreamcast mostly, some Gamecube, little some Xbox

- What you do in "real life"
Unix Security Administrator

ding-dong

09-11-2006, 06:44 PM

Hi. I like drawing and the NES. 'nuff said :)
I'm back, bitches!!!

Dumsday

09-13-2006, 06:32 PM

Hi All. I'm a long time lurker on DP....I actually did try registering once but something didn't work.

- Who are you? - Chris aka Dumsday

- Where you live? - Vancouver, BC

- How you found the forums? - Man, it was at least a couple years ago. Maybe 3. I think there was a link on another discussion board.

- Favourite games? - Tough. The answer was always Super Mario Bros. 3 until 2 years ago when I played Mario 64. Yes, I first played it 2 years ago...I was in university during the N64/PSX era so I didn't have the time or money for games. I'm probably one of the few who played it after beating Super Mario Sunshine. Been really into the arcade compilations for the consoles. Right now I'm playing Guitar Hero, FF II (the one on FF Origins for the PSX), Shadow of the Colossus.

- What systems do you collect for? - Well, I buy games that I want to play. I have a list of all the games I want to play for ALL consoles and I'm working on those. I still need to get a 2600, TG-16, Dreamcast and some of the less popular consoles like Jag and 3DO (though there are not many games on my list for those machines). Not a PC gamer at all, but I just started playing the C&C 10th Anniversary set and Starcraft since I had never played an RTS.

- What do you do in real life? - Well, I suppose I can't go into detail but I'm a Development Director at a videogame company. Part of the reason I didn't try joining DP for so long was that I was unsure of the rules around an employee posting. I recently just had my 17th game approved by 1st party. Also...I started as a tester many years ago.

- Interesting facts...hmmm. I had to TwinGalaxies world record on Lock'n'Chase for the Intellivision for a couple years. Until my record wa smashed. Oh well.

I probably won't post much....but it's nice being able to once in a while! :-)

jasonphamtastico

09-13-2006, 09:19 PM

I'm Jason...and I've been lurking around dp for a long time now, and just decided to join. :)

dj trooper

09-21-2006, 03:52 PM

I couldn't see another place to put this message on the forum so i thought this would be the best place to say helloooooooooooooooooo! from England. Just came across this site today and i must say it's brilliant! Maybe the best retro site i have come across. Thankyou very much

dj trooper

09-21-2006, 03:52 PM

Helloooooooooooooooooo! from England. Just came across this site today and i must say it's brilliant! Maybe the best retro site i have come across. Thankyou very much

N 2 Nintendo

09-22-2006, 09:20 AM

Name: Matt H
Location: SW, Viriginia
Occupation: CNC Operator
Hobbies: Collecting period, but mainly collecting video games, comics, and some cards.

Games:

NES- 42
SNES- 18
N64- 22
PS- 3
Atari 2600- 8 + console

M15fit

09-25-2006, 03:03 AM

Wellllll, Hi

The names Martin, am from Australia

Ive known of digi press for a long time and had a few guides, thought i'd join the forum as i can relate to the threads easily.

Better off saying what i dont collect for, list would be shorter:

Snes
Megadrive
5200
CDi

Ive gathered a huge collection of games over the years, biggest would be either the 2600 or the saturn followed closely by dreamcast. I collect alot of consoles so plenty of pal/US/JAP systems, helps when you have imports

Currently playing parodius deluxe and Gunbird on the saturn and Dragon quest 8 on ps2

SarKenobi

09-26-2006, 12:11 AM

I'm Sarah, one of DigitalSpace's gaming buddies. He and I actually live pretty close to each other down good ol 82nd Ave. I went along with him to this weekend's NWCGE show and met some DP members. So the day after I decided to join DP cause what the hell? Very few of you might actually remember me from the show though!

SarKenobi

09-26-2006, 04:53 PM

Oh I forgot to mention my gaming profile! I'm not just for looks yknow!

I grew up playing Nintendo casually, all the systems except for the Virtual Boy. My dad would buy the systems and a handful of games for me and my two younger step siblings. We would play a lot of wrestling, Goldeneye, Mario Kart, etc. My first video game would be Duck Hunt on the NES at the ripe age of 4, which was the same year I learned to read huh!

My very favorite series is Legend of Zelda, and I was influenced at an early age by watching a babysitter play Link to the Past. So that makes my favorite game genre RPGs. Mostly because I really love all the boring assed text reading and creating strategies. Lately my obsession is with MMORPGs, because obviously I'm trying to torture myself!

Currently I have a modest collection of 350 games and 10 consoles, but always trying to build up and learn more about classic games since I'm ODing on current gen. I totally buy games to play them because I'm not as dedicated as most of you to build and sell, although I respect those of you that do!

I would be classified as "deaf" since I can't really hear every day sounds. I still have some hearing but it requires headphones and cranking to 11! I love Nintendo for creating very accessible games to play since I never play with sound (it would freak me out a lot). And I get a lil angry sometimes when games don't have subtitles (I'm looking at you, Splinter Cell series!) and especially when DVDs don't as well.

DigitalSpace can vouch for me, I'm a very mellowed out and down to earth girl who can make some crazy jokes and always willing to learn new things. Expect to see a lot of me posting around!

shadow77110

09-26-2006, 10:10 PM

Just Introducing myself,

Who you are - Dan (shadow77110 on every site I'm registered at)

Where you live - Dunedin, New Zealand

How you found the forums - I was looking up how rare my old PSX games were and came across this site.

What your favorite games are - This is a hard one, might be Metal Gear Solid 3 (PS2) or
Super Mario World (SNES) or
Resident Evil 2 (PSX)

What systems you collect for - PAL PSX at the moment, but when I get a SNES, I'll collect for that too.

What you do in "real life" - I'm still at school.

Any other interesting facts - Not many, other than this site got me collecting and I am 13 and like games other than PS2/XBox GTA replicas. Hardly anyone at school knows I collect though, because the people that do, say the games are useless, not fun and old (whats wrong with old stuff? My Fav. Artist is Pink Floyd).

HotCarl

09-29-2006, 03:31 PM

I'm new here and just wanted to introduce myself. I'm 31 years old, been gaming since my big bro brought home a 2600 when I was about 6 years old. Although I do own other systems, I'd say I'm more Nintendo-centric than anything else. I'm not a huge message board guy, but I do frequent one other board besides DP. I am in the process of moving right now, so all my consoles are packed Due to that, all my game time the past couple of months has been on my DS. Phoenix Wright, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart Wi-Fi, NSMB and Trauma Center.

See ya 'round the boards.

HotCarl

The Grumpy Hatter

09-30-2006, 03:40 PM

- Who you are
I'm the Grumpy Hatter, pleased to meet you.

- Where you live
Small town in Connecticut. Not much goes on around here, and the nearest game stores are a 20 to 30 minute drive. Not fun.

- How you found the forums
I'd seen it linked quite a few times on CAG, and I thought to check it out two weeks ago. I like to lurk a bit when I'm checking out a new forum, just to see the general mood of the place.

- What your favorite games are
In terms of "classic" games, I'd have to say Chrono Trigger. Really incredible game. More recently, I've really enjoyed Guitar Hero, Tales of Symphonia, and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

- What systems you collect for
I don't really do too much collecting. Until recently, I didn't even realize people considered video game collecting a viable thing to do. I don't buy many games for older systems very often, as most of my money goes toward getting all the games I want for the current generation. CAG has certainly helped me out there quite a bit. However, now that I know more about the collection aspect of the hobby, I've been considering getting a system I don't own and collecting for it. Dreamcast is the most likely choice right now, because it's got a lot of good multiplayer games, something my friends and I are really in need of, and it has a lot of legendary fighters. I suppose that was a bit of a long-winded answer, but I get carried away sometimes.

- What you do in "real life"
Student. So I'm in the prime of my life in terms of free time to play video games.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Really, I have CAG to thank for starting me on the path that has led me here.

magoo8301

10-03-2006, 12:39 AM

- Who you are
Andy

- Where you live
Ingleside IL about 45 mins North of Chicago

- How you found the forums
Just stumbled upon it one day

- What your favorite games are
Panic Restaurant NES ( I always wanted to become a Chef)

- What systems you collect for
NES

- What you do in "real life"
Im a Inground POOL Specialist ( POOL BOY )

courtesi96

10-03-2006, 08:52 PM

- Who you are

I am Courtesi96!

- Where you live

I live in Illinois, North America!

- How you found the forums

I am a big fan of porn (ie: Game Room photos)

- What your favorite games are

Without taking up a huge amount of space:

Pooyan (Radio Shack Color Computer),
Scramble (Vectrex),
Turrican 2 (Amiga)

- What systems you collect for

I want to get back into collecting actually with primary concentration in Commodore 64.

- What you do in "real life"

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

When I grew up I just knew that one day I wanted a computer. After looking at all the competition I decided on a Commodore 64. My grandmother at the time (85?) worked at a (now defunct) chain store called "Venture." They sold the Commodore / Atari computers in a big way. But one day she heard that Commodore was going out of business (it did, but not for quite some time!) As a result, My parents were a little spooked about buying a "dead" computer. So what I got instead was an Radio Shack Color Computer.

Now don't get me wrong. It was an alright computer w/ good games. But the sound was hideous, you only had a choice of 2 different controllers (the controllers were analog), really bad graphics (4 colors!)

After a while I upgraded to the CoCo 3. It was better graphics with the same crappy sound. Anyway, I eventually upgraded to an Amiga and well - I won't make it very long. But I still think once in a while how I might have turned out or how different my life would have been had I had a C64.

Fast forward to last weekend I decided to visit the Commodore show in Lombard, Illinois. I picked up a copy of Commodork and after finishing the book I think it inspired me to actually purchase the computer and get some software for it. I'd also like to learn Assembly language programming too. Anyway, that's enough for now![/i]

agr1170

10-03-2006, 10:04 PM

Hello

I am from Kentucky (Yeehaw) and I am looking forward to talking to people here. I love classic and present gaming.

cmislin

10-18-2006, 08:15 AM

- Who you are

cmislin is username on here
or chris

- Where you live

kenmore ny
usa

- How you found the forums

well I've been on the site for some time then I noticed there was a lot more information and stuff so I made a username and haven't looked back

- What your favorite games are

genre of the games would be shooters , gun games where you aim a gun device at the tv, and rpg's

- What systems you collect for

almost everything game related and everything I can get my hands on

- What you do in "real life"

well I graduated from itt tech with a degree in electronic technology but my first choice was way back I saw in nintendo power that you could be a video game designer or what not but the only two places you could go at that time was japan, vancouver in which digipen was running it. I've never moved before so I choice my second choice electronics. RIght now I work at a casino as a slot technician I repair the slot machines.

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

well I began collection atleast over 7 years ago or so not sure what I started collectiing but I'm a collector by nature or packrat-ish but I've been running out of space so some stuff needs to go for I can continue to expand my video games and olders computer games with games and such.

Khajiit

10-18-2006, 12:40 PM

Hey everyone. I am new to the forums, but have been a fan of digital press for a while now. I will try to keep this brief, for I have a tendency to ramble.
I am a 21 year old male from Cary, NC. I enjoy games and playing bass guitar. My ambition is to work in the game industry with the ultimate goal of being a game designer. Some of my favorite games include Super Mario Bros. 3, the Metal Gear Solid series, the Resident Evil series, Diablo II, Morrowind, and Day of Defeat. I am not a serious collector, and I have a humble collection ranging from NES to PS2.
That's all for now. Bye, everyone.

Widar

10-19-2006, 05:28 AM

- Who you are
Mattias Widar, 24 years old.

- Where you live
Borås, Sweden.

- How you found the forums
Wikipedia

- What your favorite games are
Bubble Bobble is the only classic i can think of right now

- What systems you collect for
NES and C64

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Got my old C64 back in 1988, found it again when i moved a couple of years ago and started to complete my game collection. Latest addition is Giana Sisters. :)

Always been a fan of NES, never had one myself untill this spring, bought one for fun and before i knew it i began buying more ang more games just for the fun of seeing my shelves filling up. :)

Cheers,
Widar

hindsr1976

10-23-2006, 12:31 PM

Hi every one,
My name is Robert Hinds and live in Brampton, Ontario Canada. I am just getting into collecting games and have around eleven systems so far.

xtremegamer

10-23-2006, 04:45 PM

Hello All!
My name is Matthew,
From Columbia, MO. I am mostly into Xbox stuff now, just because stuff is getting cheap and it's easy to find. I am up to almost 100 Xbox titles and counting. I have small collection of games, a little of everything. I enjoy my NES the most just because thats the system I grew up with. Usually sell my super rare games on ebay to buy other games. Will have a lot of stuff on for the Christmas season.

Ebay user Id:
xheat99

camarotuner

10-28-2006, 06:59 PM

Let's see, the name is Glenn.

I live in Aston, PA which is about 20 minutes outside of Philadelphia.

I build custom cars/motorcycles for a living. Seriously. I'm also looking into a more "regular" job because I'm in line for at least one probably two major knee surgeries next year.

I currently have a NES, SNES, N64, Game Cube, GBA, and will be picking up the silver edition PS2 as soon as it shows up at the local store. In addition I'll basically buy any system I can find complete in box that I feel has at least 1 quality game worth owning in the collection for it. I'm a pack-rat basically. My one condition is that I buy only "complete" items AND won't buy re-issues. So no "greatest hits", "players choice" or any of that crap. It's all complete and original or I'll keep hunting.

I got involved in video games when I was a wee little lad and my father took me to sears and surprised me with the brand new NES system. It's been a constant thing, more or less, since that day.

Other hobbies or whatever, oh hell I can sum up my entire life in very few words. I am a tattooed and pierced freak obcessed with motorcycles, custom cars, and video games.

Hope to get to know you all better soon, peace.

Ookla

11-03-2006, 07:17 AM

Hello everyone, I'm JD. I am a long time lover of video games and am just now 'rediscovering' them. (having taken a long break to collect several 1980s action figure lines...;)) What I'm most into are the handhelds. I have many Atari Lynx games, and Genesis games as well. I also have a Virtual Boy with nearly all the games made for it, and I support GB, GBA, GG, and have about 300 2600 "commons".....so I suppose I have a sampling of everything. @_@ :D Sadly, I traded away my Lynx systems and my Nomad years ago, and miss them badly. What I'd most love would be both or either of said systems....its very frustrating to have the GAMES for them but nothing to PLAY them on!! rrrrrrr lol. Anyhow, I live in Kentucky (ughhh...I'm a NYer at heart..) with my girl and our puppy, and am a chef by trade. Thats about it I suppose. Thanks for listening! LOL

-JD

BONK

11-05-2006, 01:46 PM

Hey all im Lance been a retro collector since i got my atari 2600 right now im mostly finishing up collecting systems rather then games. my systems are

Atari- 2600 5200 7800 800XL lynxM2 Jaguar no cd thoe :angry:

nintendo- SNES nintendo 64 virtual boy gamecube GBA DS

Sega- Master system genesis 32x sega cd saturn nomade dreamcast gamegear.

Other Intellivsion model 2 colecovision amiga 500 neo-geo pocket color 3DO turbographics Texas TI-99 Commodore 64 Vectrex

Sony-PSX PS2 PSP

Microsoft-Xbox

My intrest is mostly in old consoles themselves but if i find a game i like or is rare i make sure i pick it up the best buy i ever got was my virtual boy with all U.S releases and the system din't get the space invaders game thoe and a jap tetris game.

Capon-E

11-05-2006, 06:26 PM

I LOVE THIS SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BY THE WAY DIGIT, YOUR STORE ROCKS BROTHER! 8-)

Switchstance

11-14-2006, 03:13 PM

- Who you are : I'm Switchstance, 24 years old, male.

- Where you live: In the cold city of Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina.

- How you found the forums : I've reading this forum since a long time. Now it's time to join in and share and contribute with it.

- What your favorite games are : I think I like several 8bits games from NES, SMS and PC Engine. I think my fav. fav is without doubt SMB3, Bomberman, Lode Runner . Wonderboy, etc.

- What systems you collect for : I collect basically FC games. (Famicom not NES) Pirates, Multis, manuals, NES cartridges, SMS carts, and a lot of other stuff. I wish to have a PC Engine. ;_;

- What you do in "real life" : I'm a graphic designer in a company. I do some programming in the past (Most assembler for 6502) and I've translated several tech docs to spanish.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc : I don't start to collect, all my stuff is from when I was a kid, and I keep it with me since all my life. Now I'm buying a lot of stuff, only for playing, most.
Sorry my bad english.

ncman071

12-03-2006, 09:40 PM

hey everybody, my name is justin. i'm 26 and married for about a year and a half from north carolina and i'm an elementary school teacher. i also coach church league basketball and work part time some at the local ebgames. i started collecting kind of aimlessly around 2001 and it slowed way down around my junior year in college. but now since i graduated in 2004 my collecting has become a definant obsession. i have an snes, n64, ps1, ps2, dreamcast, gamecube, xbox, xbox 360, sega genesis, and sega 32X. i own around a total of 350 games most of which are for the snes (112 games). my goal is to own a 3DO, Jaguar, sega saturn, and basically every 8 bit system. i want to try to have a complete sega 32x library and then go from there. i'd love to own a couple arcade machines. anyway, i love the website.

AlphaNerd01

12-07-2006, 10:40 PM

- Who you are
Evan, age 19.

- Where you live
Washington, DC ... The Catholic University of America.
- How you found the forums
A friend showed me the site a while back. I also visited the store a few times, and even went to one of the meetings. The store is great, and so is the site. I try to avoid this site cause I spend hours on it, and I need to focus on my studies now haha.

- What your favorite games are
I always have trouble with this one. Hmm... lets do it this way.

Favorite RPG: Final Fantasy IV or Fable, depending what mood I'm in.
Favorite Platformer: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or Super Mario 64
Favorite 1st Person Shooter: DOOM series, although Gears of War is already in a close second.
Favorite Adventure Game: Dungeons and Dragons for the Intellivision! haha
Favorite Sports Game: Mutant League Football or Tecmo Bowl, depending.
Favorite PC Game: Dungeon Siege, Neverwinter Nights, or Diablo. I still can't choose.

- What systems you collect for
Currently? None. I'm a full-time college student now. But before I went to school, I was collecting for all the Sega consoles. I have plans in the future to expand my NES and SNES collection.

- What you do in "real life"
Whoops, answered that already. I'm a full-time student here at CUA, and I also work part-time at GameStop.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I started collecting after I was given the family IBM PC in the early 90s just to play games on. I became obsessed with the computer, and how it worked. So now, I'm really interested in vintage computers, which isn't really 100% compatible (pardon the pun) with retro video games.

I've read some of your introductions, and I can honestly say this is my favorite forum right now.

dylan0228

12-10-2006, 07:49 AM

Hello!

My name is John & I`m 30 years old. I live in Wisconsin with my fiance & my 10 month old son. Hopefully he`ll appreciate the games when he gets older. I collect for quite a few systems, but I`m mainly working on the NES right now. I build industrial gas & electric generators for oil pumps, hospitals & all kinds of other things. These engines are huge! I`ve been told that if you were to run one of these engines non-stop, it would be well over 1,000,000 miles before it shutdown. Crazy when you compare to a car!

I found this site basically by chance just searching the web. I may have heard of it once before that. I just hope it`s up & running for good now! Well, chat with you later guys!

John

Single Player Gamer

12-14-2006, 04:02 PM

My name is George and I live in Gainesville Florida. I have posted on this board before under a different name but not that often. I couldnt get my login stuff back for it but I figured I would just start fresh. I'm here mostly to gather information and ask questions. I own around 700 games for various systems and the collection is still growing. If you ever want to know anything about me just ask.

Golden Bear

12-14-2006, 07:22 PM

I was Sugar Bear... then they changed me to Golden Bear.

:mad:

JellE

12-15-2006, 01:50 PM

Since I have actually started posting, I thought it was about time to actually introduce myself.

Well...I have been a lurker since September/October. I FINALLY decided to join a bit ago. I randomly found the site via search engine! (the modern world, I tell ya)

I am doing Atari things. I got interested in Atari, on a suggestion from someone I used to know. I had Pong and O2 growing up, but haven't really done much of anything, since I was about 12. I have had limited experience with SDC and PS2. I am not really a "gamer." But, I spent countless hours at the laundromat playing Galaga, Centipede, and Asteroids...but other than that really not much else.

I just recently got my first Atari 800, and I look forward to doing what I can with it. I have been toying with my emulator for a few months now, playing games....so far, I seriously suck, but it is fun nonetheless.

Alright... now for the GOOD part! (yeah right) Okay, well I am 34 (soon to be 35) year old female. I have spent almost my entire life in NW Texas. I am divorced (about 10 years now) and have no children (although I am going to be an aunt soon). I have been working for 7 years for a telephone relay service for the deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired. I have done a stint volunteering with Prevent Blindness Texas South Plains/Panhandle division.
I am into a bunch of different things.

I read a lot, write a lot (as you can probably tell), researching many different subjects, listening to music, chatting, cars, computers, chess, SLEEP. I hang out in the #atari channel over on IRC. Basically, I am a jill of all trades... mistress of none!

I think this probably covers anything anyone would WANT to know about me... and probably stuff no one really cares about. BUT, if you have any questions or just wanna chit-chat... feel free to PM me or find me on IRC.

--------------------

There are two sides to every story and the truth is always somewhere in between.

Atari 800
410 Program Recorder

http://www.myspace.com/jelle72

Take care...be well, be safe, be blessed...and may all your dreams and wishes come true!

Damaramu

12-15-2006, 02:27 PM

Ah, another Texan to the mix. Welcome everyone!

mlambert890

12-16-2006, 12:36 AM

Name is Mark. 36 and married with a kid due any second (new little gamer!). I'm a technology architect at a "very large software company"(tm) ;-) Been a lurker on the site and a customer of the store for a while, but figured since I started posting I might as well intro.

Been gaming forever and pretty much collect everything. I'm more into collecting systems than games though, and usually just keep a representative sample of the "best stuff" for the platform.

Favorite games are Everquest 1&2 (addiction), WoW (lesser addicition), FEAR, Half Life 2, Gears of War and Resistance (those two have been a HUGE pleasant surprise for me and are just awesome).

brg942012

12-18-2006, 07:31 PM

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.
Hi I'm Blake G. of Texas.
I found the forums thanks to my friend Matt (Goomba24).
I'm new at this old video game collecting thing and I would like to start collecting atari 2600 games and nes games.
Well in "real life" I got to school and make great grades (I'm on the basketball team by the way) and just collect and play video games.
I began collecting after my grandfather died. My grandma let me have his old systems, and thats how I grew to love old video games. So It Is Very Nice To Be Here!

Crescent

12-19-2006, 04:20 PM

Hi everyone, name's Ar and I'm a 22 years old gamer from Spain. I found the website through a spanish message board.

My favourite systems are Sega Megadrive (which was my very first system), SNES, Dreamcast and the Sony consoles. I collect games from a lot of systems and I'm trying to make a complete Pal DC collection (PS1 & PS2 are too big for me). I'd like to get my hands into some dev stuff too. My favourite (and recent) games are HL saga, Mafia, Oblivion, PoP and Fahrenheit. On my retro side almost all Capcom games for SNES, Sonic, Another World, Shinobi and the Disney games for MD.

In real life I'm in my 5th year in Medicine, hoping to finish next year. I love reading and I'm an average artist ;)

ItAllGoesWhite

12-20-2006, 01:14 AM

Hello all!
My name is Mark, and I'm new here. It's 1:00AM in the morning and I stumbled across this website while looking for information about spotting resealed games. It seems like a place I wouldn't mind calling home, since I've recently plunged into the collecting scene.

I live in New Hampshire. It's a pretty decent place--and contrary to popular belief, we're not all hicks. I'm attending the University of New Hampshire because I followed a girl there. It definitely wasn't my first choice, but the girl is worth it.

I love RPGs, from popular ones (such as Final Fantasy) to more obscure and (in my opinion) underrated games like Azure Dreams and Quest 64.

I've recently decided to start collecting PSX games exclusively for the next few years until I've sufficiently built a collection--then I plan to move on to PS2 games. I'll most likely skip PS3 (I don't like the way this current generation is shaping up) and move onto another CD-Based system.

I'm a perfectionist and starting a collection of games that I can go back to years down the road was more or less just a natural progression for me. The thought of having an expansive library of old games gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.

In 'real life' I'm constantly trying to better myself through reading, exercising, and meditation while I attend school. I'm going to find a job next semester since I'll be moving in with my girlfriend and our two puppies. My current major is English but I'm changing it to Computer Science (weird, huh?)

Apologies for such a dry dissertation. Like I said, it's late and my brain is a bit scattered. Bottom line is I'm really looking forward to participating in a community that enjoys collecting as much as I do.

Tommy

12-21-2006, 09:25 PM

Hi all, been lurking around for awhile and decided to join finally. Wish I could visit the brick and mortar store but due to being on the other coast its impossible. Luckily I found another store I like in San Diego called Luna Retro games. Great little store to keep my hobby going. Well just wanted to say hi.

Tom

rupert

12-23-2006, 04:45 AM

Hi, I'm new here, I have been recomended this place by a few people so thought it was about time I had a look round.

- Who you are
Rupert aka King Rupert aka James Costello
- Where you live
Near Manchester, England
- How you found the forums
Some recomendations
- What your favorite games are
too many and my opinions change all the time.
- What systems you collect for
Sega Master System
- What you do in "real life"
specialist retial IS co-ordinator
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I have a degree in furniture design..
I started collecting for the master system about 14 months ago ish, difficult to say exactly when it turned into collecting

anyway thats me :)

eric nintendo

12-25-2006, 10:51 AM

- Who you are
Hello all, I'm Eric! ^_^

- Where you live
Toledo, OH

- How you found the forums
I was looking for online rarity guides and found this site.

- What your favorite games are
I love so many games it's ridiculous, but my favorite game ever is more than likely Chrono Trigger.

- What systems you collect for
A lot! Atari, Intellivision, Master System, NES, Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, SNES, PS1, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, Wii, Game Boy, Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, Game Boy Advance, DS...I mostly focus on the classic consoles though.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I started playing video games with my father's Intellivision, back around when I was two or so. I began playing as soon as I could hold a controller in my hands. Ever since then, I've been addicted to gaming. More recently, I've begun to get serious about collecting although I've amassed a decent collection just from being a gamer over the years.

m117

12-26-2006, 06:39 PM

- Who you are
Matt
- Where you live
Columbus, GA USA
- How you found the forums
I found the forums while searching for info on game rarity.
- What your favorite games are
Unreal Tournament (PC), Street Fighter II (SNES), basically anything street fighter!
- What systems you collect for
SNES, N64, GENESIS, DREAMCAST, PSX, PS2, SATURN, even PC. Just starting though, only a couple hundred items total.
- What you do in "real life"
I am a flash designer and future college student. Saving up right now!
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I started collecting strictly for sentimental purposes, I became excited a few years ago when I realized that all the games that brought me endless hours of enjoyment in my youth were available for my purchasing pleasure by way of eBay. Hence began my quest to complete a collection of nostalgic entertainment electronics. My biggest and most proud find yet was when I snagged a copy of Final Fantasy VII GH in a KMART a year ago. Boy, the memories!

SAMTRON

12-31-2006, 09:20 PM

- Who you are
Samantha
- Where you live
Oklahoma City, OK
- How you found the forums
By clicking on the forums link? Haha.. I found Digital Press.. Jeez. I can't even remember, I've been using the website for so long..
- What your favorite games are
My favorite games? Well, the Mother series is my #1 favorite, beating out everything else out there. Other than that.. Soul Calibur series, I'm a huge Soul Calibur player. Resident Evil, especially 4.. Heart of the Alien, X-Com UFO Defense, I always had a soft spot for Rainbow Islands..
- What systems you collect for
NES, Sega Master System, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, N64, PSX, 3DO, Dreamcast, PS2, XBOX, GameCube, various other..
- What you do in "real life"
Been working retail video games for 4 1/2 years now. Currently, Assistant Manager of a Vintage Stock.
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Collecting began when my dad first started buying video games for us. I have many that are originally the ones I had as a child. Never stopped, never slowed down.
I'll be writing a column in the Midwest City Sun about Video Games starting January!

thahurricanegame

01-01-2007, 10:45 AM

- Who you are
Dave
- Where you live
Toronto, ON
- How you found the forums
I was having nostalgic video game memories (as i sometimes tend to have) and I searched "blockbuster video game championships" in Yahoo and I it linked me to a thread someone started here pertaining to the competition back in 94 and 95, the golden days of gaming in my opinion.
- What your favorite games are
I am not a big gamer now a days (despite the fact in a home of a lot of people we have a xbox 360, ps3, nintendo WII and the list goes on) but out of the handful of games I play now a days - Socom, I have played this series since it was released back in 2002 I truely believe this is the first time I have been hooked to a video since mortal kombat/street fighter days!. So I play socom 1, 2 , and Combined Assault, Any sports titles, sports compact racing games, once in a while call of duty 3 and I believe that is it.
- What systems you collect for
PS3, XBOX 360, Nintendo WII, NES, Sega Master System, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, N64, PSX, 3DO, Dreamcast, PS2, XBOX, GameCube, various other..
- What you do in "real life"
Currently working in a huge office performing computer maintenance, software upgrades and going to college for marketing.
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I mostly collect SNES related material I was the video game guru in my area growing up in the 90s as a teen, nobody could defeat me I have received competition cartridges from blockbuster to special nintendo Star Fox cartridges because of me being so good and being rewarded not only money, prizes, trips but the cartidges themselves i kicked BUTT on back in the day.

I am thinking of starting a retro gaming site dedicated soley to the invididuals who cannot find information,images,videos of the 90's gaming era, especially when it comes to competitions, because gaming is strong in this new generation but it's not the same as it used to be. The site will help relive memories of how it was to be a kid, how thrilling it was to compete store to store, nation wide and so forth, just a fun site for people as myself who feel the years just went by in hyper speed, lol.

ave

01-01-2007, 12:40 PM

- Who you are
I'm AVE aka aventus or even hoerny sometimes. Don't confuse with "horny".^^

- Where you live
Germany, land of endless laws restricting video games. Well, what is internet for? Getting forbidden DVDs and Games :D

- How you found the forums
I know the Digit Press page for a couple of years now (BTW I think the old "Room of Doom" section was better, although it were less pictures) and always wandered around in the RoD-section. A few days ago, a friend linked me to a discussion with Adol and thats how I finally ended up here :)

- What your favorite games are
There are lots of games I like and that I have played a lot, so I can't really answer that question in a satisfying way :(
I'll try anyway:

Shenmue
Gradius (all versions)
ESPGaluda
dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU
Ikaruga
Super Star Soldier
Lylat Wars (StarFox 64)
Halo
Resident Evil 4
GTA 1, Vice City and San Andreas

Those will do :)

- What systems you collect for
In general all SEGA-systems and ALL japanese games/hardware. Unfortunately, such an interest is hard to afford for a student :(

- What you do in "real life"
When I'm not busy with collecting video games, I study japanese or even for school which I don't normally.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
The start of my japanophilia was -of course- a japanese video game. I bought Soul Calibur for 9$ at play-asia because it was cheaper than the PAL-Version. What a mistake. I fell in love with the japanese letters, spine-cards and general style (orange/white) immediately. All in all, thats how that whole thing started (collecting japanese games/systems, learning japanese, travelling to Japan...) =)

retro

01-02-2007, 07:01 PM

- Who you are:

Hi, I'm 20 years and on the most german boards, I'm just "retro" ^^

- Where you live:

I live in NRW/Germany

- How you found the forums:

I was the one who gave the guy in the posting above, the link with the Adol discussion. I just heard about it, from another collector and then looked up the forums.

- What your favorite games are:

Hmm favourite games...

I guess

- Resident Evil 2 (psx)
- Castlevania Symphony of the Night (psx)
- Super Castlevania 4 (snes)
- Super Metroid (snes)
- Akumajo Dracula Chi no Rondo (pce)
- Street Fighter 2 Turbo (snes)
- Mega Man X (snes)
- Super Mario World (snes)

there are so much more games to mention, but this would take too much space.

I love the Castlevania, Resident Evil and Mega Man series, and all sorts of shooters and survival horror games.

- What systems you collect for

I collect for almost every system, except the newer stuff like ps2,ngc,xbox,360....

Actually, I haven't fixed myself on something special. I'm doing a Castlevania collection, and after that, I'm trying to get alle the must-have titles for each system. Sometimes I even buy trash games which i actually dont' need. ^^

- What you do in "real life"

Currently I'm doing some sort of "coummunity service". After that I will finally go to the university.

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

About 5 years ago, when there allready was the ps2 era, I somehow managed to get out my old and first system ever, the Game Boy, and I fell into some sort of nostalgic trip. I startet to collect every Game Boy game I was able to find and with the time it started with other systems like the SNES, which is still my absolute favourite system.
As I stumbled over the old Room of Doom website years ago, it gave me also some pushes and I startet to spent all my money on systems, games and merchandise stuff. Well, until today ^^

NintendoHaven

01-05-2007, 09:22 PM

Hello everyone!

- Who you are Rory
- Where you live Kansas
- How you found the forums Justabum told me about them
- What your favorite games are Little Samson
- What systems you collect for NES
- What you do in "real life" I'm OIlfield Trash
- Any other interesting facts, I like nintendo

PallarAndersVisa

01-06-2007, 03:35 AM

Who you are
Grant
- Where you live
Richmond, VA USA
- How you found the forums
I found the forums from a dude at www.laplandmetal.com
- What your favorite games are
Symphony of the night, Megaman 2, NHL2k7, Madden 07, NiGHTS
- What systems you collect for
anything I can get a castlevania game on :)
- What you do in "real life"
College Student, Radio show host, UPS employee (part time) and guitar player for Metal band Withersoul.
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Just started getting BACK in to console gaming after a long hiatus to PC gaming. Never really collected untill this year when I bought Dracula X for Saturn, and THEN bought a saturn system. they I started buying cool games for that, and got the interest to keep my good games and stop selling them. I only casually collect. My first goal is to own all US released Castlevanias, and eventually get everything Castlevania related that I can find.

7venoms

01-07-2007, 09:28 PM

My name is Mike Campbell.I just registered today. I am 30 years old, and from San Angelo, TX. I,am happily MARRIED 4years with 2 kids, a 2 year old, and a 2 month old. I currently work for the school district at a middle school.

I have been playing video games since Atari... I have owned almost every major console since Nintendo all but the Sega Dreamcast. I own a playstation 2, Xbox, and just recently purchased a 60GB Ps3 last Nov.

All time favorite games Tekken Tag, and Tekken 5
Favorite Genre: Fighting:pimp:

Dreamporter

01-09-2007, 07:25 AM

Name is John

From New York

Used to be on the forums long ago but lord knows I have no clue what e-mail address/logon info I used

Fav Games
Ristar, NiGHTS into Dreams, Three Dirty Dwarves, Streets of Rage 2

Fav Systems to collect for
All Sega consoles

Real Life

Tech support for Time Warner - Roadrunner Hight Speed internet

Other stuff
Outside of video games im a crazy otaky and renny, I bounce between anime conventions and renaissance conventions all year. I play D&D and im basically the ultra geek

Crazy Climber

01-10-2007, 04:04 AM

- Who you are: Brian

- Where you live: MN......BRRRRRR....Cold

- How you found the forums:
I met some members at the Midwest Gaming Classic, Krazy Kamino and FAbombjoy that told me about it and I also have the DP collectors guide, videogame collector magazine subscription, post at Atariage (Crazy Climber)etc...

- What your favorite games are:
Megamania -2600
Commando -NES
Magical Drop 3 -MVS
Actraiser -SNES
Rambo III -Genesis
Indiana Jones TOD -Arcade

- What systems you collect for : ATARI 2600, some NES

- What you do in "real life" : Video games are "real life" everything else is fake

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Nothing special, just dig old games:-D

fourzerotwo

01-11-2007, 03:05 PM

Who you are

I go by the gaming moniker 'Fourzerotwo'. Its my gamercard, its my web address, its my username of choice no matter what the circumstance.

Where you live

I currently reside in the beautiful Los Angeles, CA area.

How you found the forums

From a friend of a friend named Google. On the prowl for some tips on keeping your gaming collecting up to par, and came across this beautiful piece of resources.

What your favorite games are

Wow. Thats kinda like asking a father to pick his favorite child, or a child to pick his favorite flavor of ice cream. I suppose I'll have to limit one per console:

NES = The Legend of Zelda + Super Mario Brothers 3 + Paperboy
Gameboy = The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening
Gameboy Advance = The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past + Castlevania: Curse of the Moon
SNES = Super Mario Kart + SimAnt
Turbo-graphix 16= Bonk's Adventure + Bomberman '93 + Military Madness
Sega Genesis = Gauntlet IV + Toe Jam and Earl + Sonic The Hedgehog
Sega CD = Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure + Space Ace + Jurassic Park
Sega Dreamcast = Crazi Taxi + Typing of the Dead + House of the Dead
N64 = The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time + Goldeneye + Rush
Xbox = Ghost Recon + Star Wars: Battlefront
Wii = The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess + all Virtual Console games
Xbox 360 = Call of Duty 2 + Gears of War + Lego Star Wars II
Xbox Live Arcade = Marble Blast Ultra + Cloning Clyde

For sake of time, I know I've left a lot out!

What systems you collect for

NES
SNES
Gameboy
Gameboy Advance
Sega Genesis
Sega CD
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Saturn
N64
Gamecube
Xbox
Xbox 360
Wii

Pretty much anything besides Playstation.

What you do in "real life"

In 'real life' I work for a video game developer called Infinity Ward (http://www.infinityward.com). We develop the 'Call of Duty' franchise for Xbox 360 / PC and all next-gen consoles. In my free time, I also started The Console[r] (http://www.theconsoler.com)which remains a mystery until launch.

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

I've been an avid gamer my entire life, and an un-official collector of all things video games for that entire time, however what started the 'official' collecting of it all was when I traveled back home for the holidays and was poking around the old homestead.

I discovered an original Sega Genesis + Sega CD with a whole boxful of games that had been left there. I immediately fired it up and started playing the old classics. They were all in perfect shape and had just been stored up for safe keeping. I shipped it back to California along with some other old gaming finds from back home and then began to organize my collection once I returned, adding new things that I'd lost or was missing from my collection [i.e. Favorite classics, A/V cables, etc.]

I also run a blog called Fourzerotwo (http://www.fourzerotwo.com), its more of a personal blog, but also talks Vid Games business from time to time, but always in the vein of general video game topics.

I look forward to chatting with all of you!

EmOneGarand

01-11-2007, 10:13 PM

I'm Matt Alexander

I'm a student in my Senior year working for a BFA in Theatre Design, do game design in my spare time (nothing groundbreaking)

Games have been a big part of my life, can't remember when I didn't like gaming hah hah. I'm a collector but I mainly collect to play.

crunchysuperman

01-12-2007, 01:43 PM

- Who you are
Joey

- Where you live
VA, USA

- How you found the forums
Linked from Atari Age

- What your favorite games are
Old stuff: pretty much anything coin-op, Atari2600 & Commodore 8-bit
These days: DeusEx, Unreal, Serious Sam, Painkiller

- What systems you collect for
2600,5200,7800,Intellivision,Colecovision,Odyssey2 ,Vectrex,Vic20,C64,C128

- What you do in "real life"
VP of a mfg. facility

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Simple - been gaming as long as there have been video games

ConsoleFreek

01-14-2007, 03:46 AM

Hello all
My name is Bryan AKA ConsoleFreek I am a 34 year old carpenter from Brisbane Australia.
I found this site just browsing for stuff on google about 6 months ago and have only now decided to join.
Great site by the way.
I started to collect consoles and games about 2 years ago but have been a hardcore gamer all my life.
I have ownd just about every console ever made at one stage or another and my goal now is to get them all back.
Looking foward to learning a lot from you guys.
CF

Lestat8617

01-16-2007, 11:25 PM

- Who you are
Joe

- Where you live
Dallas/Fort Worth Texas

- How you found the forums
uh...don't really remember

- What your favorite games are
Duck Hunt, Counter-Strike, and BF2142

- What systems you collect for
dont really

- What you do in "real life"
Stocker

typeofan01

01-17-2007, 02:48 PM

Who Am I: Joe
Where From: Amelia Island, Florida
Age:33
Systems Owned: US Turboduo, PS2, Messiah Nex, Xbox, Gamecube, Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Gen 1 Genesis + SegaCD
Fav Games: All Castlevania, Radiant Silvergun, All Zeldas, Shenmue, Numerous RPGs, way too many to name.
Real Life:Pro Chef for a Five Star Resort
How I Found Digitpress:Can't honestly remember
Been Collecting For: About 5 years. It all started when I had my Duo repaired. Now, as my girlfriend is so fond as saying, it's a never ending obsession.
Future wants: A Super Nintendo. Unfortunately, due to money shortage, it's going to be a while.
Collection highlights:Radiant Silvergun, Dracula X (Duo & Snes),Bonk 3 CD,Castlevania: Nocturne in the Moonlight collector's edition,Valkyrie Profile,and lots more.
Words of Wisdom: Don't let indecision stop you from buying a game or system when you find one.When you eventually go back to get it,it's usually gone.Also, don't sell anything in your collection unless it's a life or death situation.

stampede_dude

01-17-2007, 10:13 PM

Who Am I: Brandon, Stampede_Dude
Where From: North Carolina
Age: 16

Systems Owned: PS1, GB Pocket, GB Color, GB Advance
Favorite Games: Anything Pokemon or dealing with external hardware
How I found Digitpress: A friend told me
Been Collecting for: I don't really collect, I just play :) I have been playing pokemon since whenever it came out +1 year or so, probably around 1997 or something. My first system was an Indigo Gameboy Color.
Future Wants: Pokemon Green, japanese version. Seriously. I also want an SP or Micro but that's out of the question, I refuse to pay $40 for a gameboy :D
Collection Highlights: None, unless you like Crash Bandicoot and copied disks, and the random Pokemon game
Words of Wisdom: Don't eat yellow snow

Celestial Avenger

01-18-2007, 08:36 AM

I don't believe I ever bothered to introduce myself!

- Who you are

I am Lee. I've been around the internets for a while, but this is one of the few boards I want to call home now.

- Where you live

Memphis. Soon to be Sacramento.

- How you found the forums

Online rarity guide.

- What your favorite games are

Xenogears, Final Fantasy VII, Psychonauts, Micro Machines

- What systems you collect for

I tried Sega CD for a while, but once I got around 30 games, I realized about 25 sucked so forget it. Maybe I'll collect Saturn soon though!

- What you do in "real life"

I make copies. Wow.

- Any other interesting facts

I make a review show! It's gotten a few subscribers on youtube. I'm about average quality at best (for my standards). Most people seem to love it though. Check out my sig!

I'm sure that fad won't last. I always go through fad phases. Last year it was baseball card autographs. I got about 130+, more than half of which were on baseball cards from 1957 to 1969. 98% success rate on old players, 94% success rate overall. The cards look pretty sweet. I think I'll post a youtube slideshow of them all on a separate account. I respect the old timey players, and I'm sure a lot of them love getting fanmail. I think I'll do it again this year, but not so much. I won't be sending to any current players because there's no one I can trust. (lol steroids)

I like sports, and I don't know why. I intend to go to a lot of college sports games this year for some schools in my area, notably the University of Memphis, Rhodes, Chrisitan Brothers Univeristy, and possibly Crichton College. I don't like driving to crowded-ass downtown too often, and I'll mostly be going to basketball, baseball, and football events that have 60-200 in attendance.

I haven't been to FedEX forum more than once. It's a pain in the ass down there. :-( Oh well.

I also have a kidney stone at the moment! Yay me!

Great meeting you all. I hope to post much more often. Since you can't respond to me, here is my official Still Gaming topic. (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95108)

Cinder6

01-18-2007, 02:49 PM

- Who you are

My name's Jared.

- Where you live

California (near Sacramento)

- How you found the forums

Hmm, I've known about the site for a while, but I think I first heard of it at GameFAQs, or possibly NES World.

- What your favorite games are

My top three would be Metal Gear Solid, Chrono Trigger, and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. After that, it just becomes a grey area, since I like most games I play.

- What systems you collect for

Right now, I have an NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PS1, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2, and Gamecube. I hope to get a Master System and Atari VCS/2600 some day in the future, and possibly a Neo Geo AES.

- What you do in "real life"

I'm a student, but I work at a martial arts school.

- Any other interesting facts

I only started collecting older games in June. That started when I found a Zapper along with my SNES games. I didn't have an NES, but about two weeks later, I found one in my science fiction class (I have no idea what it was doing there), and the teacher said I could keep it. And thus, my collecting days began. I don't have a whole lot of games (only a hundred or two), but I'm getting there :)

I really need to get more Dreamcast and Saturn games, though. I only have two of each.

zwackery

01-19-2007, 05:03 PM

- Who you are
The Great Sorcerer Zwackery (no relation to the Wizard of Wor)

- Where you live
Ohio

- How you found the forums
I've been using the DP Guide and the online reference for a few years while looking for Atari stuff on the internet.

- What your favorite games are
Yars' Revenge, Pressure Cooker, Cosmic Ark, BurgerTime, Venture, Major Havoc, Moon Patrol, TRON, Discs of TRON, Satan's Hollow, Laser Gates, Subterranea, Pitfall II, Choplifter, Reactor, Wizard of Wor, Krull, Robotron: 2084, Ninja Golf, Star Castle, Brutal Sports Football, and of course Zwackery

- What systems you collect for
mainly Atari 2600/5200/7800/Lynx/Jaguar, Colecovision, and Vectrex

- What you do in "real life"
university instructor

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
driving across the USA in 1993, I found a boxed 2600 and some boxed games and that rekindled my interest in Atari

spunky_d_99

01-19-2007, 08:37 PM

Hey everyone! I'm Jamie and I live in the state of Maryland. I've actually known about the forum here for a few years now, but I never joined until now. I love the old school gaming goodness provided by the good folks at Digital Press.
I've been gaming since 1989, when my brother got his Nintendo Entertainment System. My favorite games are too many to mention them all, but I'll just name a few:

Contra (NES)
Rad Racer (NES)
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (NES)
Blaster Master (NES)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Genesis)
Rocket Knight Adventures (Genesis)
Silpheed (Sega CD)
Donkey Kong Country (Super NES)
Super Metroid (Super NES)
Crono Trigger (Super NES)
Super Mario 64 (N64)
Jumping Flash (Playstation)
Crash Bandicoot (Playstation)
Layer Section (Saturn)
RayStorm (Playstation)

I collect games for the NES (top loader), Twin Famicom, Game Boy, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Playstation, and the Dreamcast.

In "real life", I'm a temp at a major banking business. Basically, I make edits to the website and do some filing, copying...all that "office stuff".
I actually became a collector rather unintentionally. Back in 2002, I decided to purchase a NES again because I just missed the good 'ol days of pressing A to jump and B to shoot. Months turend into years, and buying 1 gaming system turned into suddenly turned into having 10 systems (3 of which are the PS2, Xbox 360, and Wii) hooked up to my humble 25' old Television. after I purchased the Sega Genesis a few years ago, I knew that I was officially a collector of school games and won't be giving up my collection unless my life depends on it.

I spend my spare time playing those games, and also writing reviews on them on the internets. I'll put up a link in my posts whenver I write a new one, but don't worry...I won't spam the joint.

Nice to meet eveyone :)

Xevious

01-21-2007, 11:25 AM

Hi!
I'm John, a 33 years old interiordesigner from Oslo, Norway.
I've been here for a while but I've just start posting - think I found the forum through my search for retrogames on the net.

I collect for nearly all systems, but NES (PAL-B/SCN) is my main collection.
My favorite games must be Galaga and Xevious.
I also run a retrosite/forum in Norwegian.

Thanks!

SeverThe7th

01-21-2007, 03:51 PM

Who you are
Konrad
- Where you live
Adelaide, South Australia
- How you found the forums
My bro linked me
- What your favorite games are
My favorite games? Rpgs, Final ... Fantasy Series, Soul Blazer Series, Breath of Fire Series, Dragon Warrior Seriies, Zelda Series ... blah blah blah. Asides from Rpgs though i can like any game from any genre as long as it kicks :moon: ... eg Mario Series, Monkey Islands, Civ, Disney games like quackshot... endless possibilites!
- What systems you collect for
NES, SNES, Mega Drive/Genesis, N64, Gameboys, PSX, PS2 ... later on ill expand horizons to things such as Atari
- What you do in "real life"
Going to go to Tafe this year to get a diploma
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Dad first got a 2600 for a first gaming experience... than a SNES with a ufo copier so we never really bought games for it, though the old folks did buy a cart than kept changing it for others. Never could afford games in those days, but later on starting getting paid and discovered ebay. Havent been collecting long, but i dont see a stop sign any where near.

zodiacprime

01-25-2007, 03:53 PM

Hey all, my name is Lance Bohy, 36, and I've been gaming most of my natural life. I have fond memories of my family spending countless hours playing our Sears Tele-Games Video Arcade system - which I still have in its original package btw.

Can't say that I was really ever a serious collector until about 3 years ago. On a whim I bought a bundle of old classic Activision games for the VCS off of eBay and to my surprise, I couldn't stop playing them. Fast forward 3 years and several conventions (including 2 CGEs) later and I now consider myself a pretty die-hard collector.

I collect for any system that I can find and have a "thing" for the old console computers of the 80s, like the Commodores, Ataris, TIs, CoCos, etc. I'm mainly a complete-in-box collector but I'd never pass up a rare gem for the lack of a box. Of late, I've been mainly collecting homebrew games for various systems (Vectrex, 2600, 5200, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc) and am amazed at the quality and dedication shown in these games. Keep it up guys!

My favorite games? I'd say the Castlevania series has always been a consistent fav, as well as Mega Man. I enjoy platformers for the most part but can also really get into a good space sim: I still consider X-Wing on the PC to be about as near-perfect a game as you can get. Of late, twitch-action games like Qwak (on the GBA) have been stealing the show.

In real life I'm an applications programmer for the US Government. I do mostly web enabled apps, but have done some other stuff as well.

Interesting facts? I have a wall-o-fame of signed boxes in my office. I love meeting and talking to the legends that started this industry. Like many of you, I collect toys as well... I probably have more toys than games... although the gap is closing. I'm trying to organize my game collection at RF Generation, so far I've plugged in 180, only got 1500+ to go ;) check it out: http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?name=zodiacprime&folder=Collection

PS2

01-25-2007, 05:14 PM

Hi im a 28 year old male from WV. Im into horror movies and video games. My favorite games are The 7th Saga (snes) FFIX (PS) FFX (PS2) and Super Mario Bros 3 (Nintendo). I found this site through a user on Gametz.com .

GuyinGA

01-27-2007, 11:15 PM

I'm Andrew
I live in GA
I found the forums sorta randomly....I was looking for "best games ever" and this came up. I've been more impressed with this video game forum than the others (WOW! People can type and form complete sentences with actual thoughts! Amazing!)
Favorite games:
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Final Fantasy II/IV (SNES)
Secret Of Mana (SNES)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (SNES)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Yoshi's Island (SNES)
Sonic & Knuckles (Genesis)
Guardian Heroes (Genesis)
Dynamite Headdy (Genesis)
Ristar (Genesis)
Final Fantasy VIII (PlayStation)
Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation)
Crazy Taxi (Dreamcast)
UFC (Dreamcast)
Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
WWF No Mercy (Nintendo 64)
Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 (Nintendo 64)
Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64)
Legend of Zelda 64 (Nintendo 64)
Soul Calibur II (PlayStation 2)
Grand Theft Auto III (PlayStation 2)
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Game Boy Advance)

WAIT! There's more!

Forgot my favorite PC/Commodore 64/Amiga games as well:
King's Quest (PC)
Leisure Suit Larry (PC)
Wasteland (Commodore 64)
Curse of the Azure Bonds (PC)
Test Drive (Commodore 64)
CounterStrike (PC)
Diablo II (PC)
Alien Breed (Amiga)

I collect mainly for all of them....I've been on a PS2 buying kick lately though. I'm considering getting a Gamecube for the sole purpose of Zelda: Wind Walker and Animal Crossing. And Luigi's Mansion. And....

I work as a greeter for a restaurant and a phone operator. Neither job makes that much, but that may change soon. I'm somewhat nerdy looking, but I don't care. I got a boatload of confidence and think I'm hot shit. ;)

I began collecting games not until I got out of college and had jobs. Most of the games I have now are games friends of mine in college played....only 3+ years later. I just recently found and bought Escape From Monkey Island for PS2 for 9.99 (!!!).

kaedesdisciple

01-29-2007, 02:02 PM

Don't think I ever did this...

- Who you are
Joe

- Where you live
NYC, born and raised

- How you found the forums
Through word-of-mouth of my esteemed colleagues over at neo-geo.com

- What your favorite games are
Now that's a toughie, all depends on which system we're talking about, but just to do a sampling in no particular order:
Rez, Shock Troopers, Super Mario 1-3, Bust a Move, BurgerTime, Bionic Commando (NES), almost any Castlevania, Dragon Warrior IV, Zelda 2, Streets of Rage 2, Rygar (NES), Samurai Shodown IV, Metal Slug 3, Final Fantasy Tactics, Intelligent Qube, the Tekken series, Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 0-4, Killzone (obviously), Last Blade (again, obviously), Katamari Damacy, Halo 2 (I'm sure I left some out, but meh)

- What systems you collect for
Too many if you ask me, I currently have:
Atari, ColecoVision, Gameboy/Color/Advance, NES, Genesis, Lynx, NGPC, Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo MVS, PSX, PS2, PSP, Gamecube, Xbox

- What you do in "real life"
I'm a tech security & risk analyst in the 9-5 world. On the side I fix computers and convert/edit videos and pictures.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I've been playing for as long as I could hold a controller (20+ years now) and I've been seriously collecting for the last 7 or so. I read a LOT about history and video game theory, especially back from the late 70's and 80's. Some of my most favorite topics to read about are classic computers, hardware hacks and things of that nature. I think we'd better know where we came from if we ever plan to forge ahead, especially in this industry. If it were up to me I'd still be working on my old C64 (RIP), but we must maintain Moore's Law it seems.

Pleasure to be here ladies and gents. See you around!

omega_squid

01-31-2007, 12:33 AM

- I am Shelby, Male, 15
- Kentucky
- Through eBay
- Kirby Series, Mario, Metroid, Centipede, Stampede, Chibi-Robo, just about anything Unique/Classic is a favorite for me!
- Any I can get my hands on
- Student, I also run a business myself providing alot of different services
- I have gotten into DIY Console Repair Lately, and it has been alot of fun buying unwanted, broken consoles and making them work like new again! I also have a small business, Omega Squid Studios, which can be seen in more detail on my website, www.omega-squid.tk, or http://omega_squid.sitesled.com.

I joined about a month ago, but have just now validated my account! :D

8bitnintendogames

01-31-2007, 02:53 AM

First off, I have to say I love the Digital Press collection guide books!

My name is Kris, and I am a major nerd when it comes to classic gaming. I was probably about 4 or 5 when I was first introduced to the Nintendo Entertainment System, and gaming has been a part of my life ever since.

Now that I am in my 20's now, I am more of a collector of the classics. I have dedicated myself to my website for the original Nintendo, www.8bitnintendogames.com/forum. I have also gotten into collecting Sega, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Super Nintendo, Virtual Boy, and a little bit of the Nintendo 64. Flea markets are my favorite place to go because I have always come home with something rare and video game related, i.e. Chrono Trigger complete for a mere dollar!

I also like to snowboard, work on classic cars (mustangs particular) and go to school (never thought I would admit to that one).

dgdgagdae

02-04-2007, 01:41 PM

Well, I'm Chris, and I've been reading these forums pretty regularly for over a year now, it seems. But I've just ordered my own Intellivision so I can start collecting for the system with which I grew up ("up with which I grew"?). Currently, I have an Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS, but I wouldn't call myself much of a gamer. I probably only spend about 2 hours a week playing games. But, I'm a collector at heart, so the Inty should be fun.

speccyclive

02-05-2007, 01:49 PM

Hi, i think 8 bit gaming is best !

i have a site for this : http://speccy.altervista.org/

Yurf

02-09-2007, 06:09 AM

- Who you are
Joris (George in English)

- Where you live
In Ghent, Belgium.

- How you found the forums
I was looking for an online rarity guide for retrogaming.

- What your favorite games are
Super Mario Bros 3 (NES), Shinobi (SMS), Streets of Rage II (Gen), Alisia Dragoon (Gen), Link to the Past (SNES), Lufia (SNES), Final Fantasy VII (PSX), Crash Team Racing (PSX), Gran Turismo 2 (PSX), Tomb Raider I & II (PSX), Perfect Dark (N64), Tetrisphere (N64), Devil May Cry 3 (PS2), Dark Chronicle (PS2), Fahrenheit (Xbox), ...

- What systems you collect for
I collect for Playstation and Mega Drive, but if I see a game with a low price, I'll probably buy it.

- What you do in "real life"
I'm a second-year student in Applied Economics at university.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I started playing games at the age of 3. However, my parents were totally against gaming, so I got my first console (PSX) at the age of 12. The collecting of games started about 2 years ago.

MonoTekETeA

02-11-2007, 11:24 PM

(I'll stick to the standard format)

Who me? : Jeremy

Location, location, location: S. Dirty Jersey

Which arrow did I follow? : The one from Next Level Games

Olde favs: Havest Moon 64, Off-Road Challenge, River City Ransom, Earth Bound, Final Fantasy Seven and Tactics, NES Zelda I, non oldies> any Light Gun game, Virtual On, and MMOs.

Collections in my pantry? : I only really collect things I enjoy playing, and the games I buy, I have learned the hard way of trading in games.

What to do, once finished the doing: I work at a store long corrupted by old men who work out of high backed leather chairs, while still working with video games, take a minute to think, ok now guess, no don't think too hard, No I do not work for EA or a studio, I use a cash register, it isn't that hard! Come on...anyway. I hope to get a job in the future with anything dealing with sound. I love sound. From noises made from the mouth while 20 cotten balls are shoved into it - to music, I'd love to work with it. So that includes a radio DJ, sound enginniering, sound design, recording sound, voice acting, building sound studios, setting up stages, anything.

Random fact: My first childhood memory is playing Joust on the Atari 2600 with my mother, next to the one of my Dad and a family friend building the stairs in the room of which me and my mom played the Atari 2600.

uLtRasHoT

02-13-2007, 07:24 PM

Well, here goes my introduction!

- Who you are
Simon

- Where you live
Jackson, Georgia, U.S.A.

- How you found the forums
I found the forums quite a long time ago after looking up how rare a couple of games I have were. I haven't been a member of the forum 'till now. I guess I can say that mEgAsHoT (who's my brother) also helped me find this site, which is awesome to say the least!

- What your favorite games are
I have so many favorite games it would be hard to list them all, but a couple of games I like are:

Guitar Hero 1 & 2, Gran Turismo series, Need for Speed series, Tekken series, Advance Wars Series, etc.

- What systems you collect for
A bunch:

Atari 2600
SNES
N64
Gameboy
Gameboy Advance/SP
Nintendo DS
Sega Genesis
Sega Saturn
Xbox
Playstation 1
PS2
Gamecube
Dreamcast
Sega CD

All of these consoles except for the PS1, Atari 2600, and the Sega CD are hooked up to me and my brother's TVs via system selectors. So, that's 5 on my TV and 5 on my brother's TV.

- What you do in "real life"
Currently I'm a senior at Stockbridge High School, and I'm graduating in June! Afterwards, I plan to go to college and become a computer or video game programmer so I can create awesome games which could then be featured on this website! XD

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I've been collecting and playing games for a long time now, but me and my brother's first system was probably the Sega Genesis (though I don't remember too well), in which we had Sonic the Hedgehog. We then received the N64 with Wave Race 64 and 1080 Snowboarding for our birthday in 1998, and that system as well as the Genesis have been working 'till this very day!

Another note is that on almost all of my systems, I have more than 5 games for each, which means I have a bunch of games =P. I only have one Sega CD game left (the others I threw out), and that's the RPG Vay, which I could say is quite rare.

Oh, and me and my brother Skylar (who goes by mEgAsHoT on the forum) are twins. Yeah, for real obviously XD

Y0u

02-13-2007, 10:54 PM

Y0u (r/n Elliott, prefer not to post full name)
I've been gaming since I got a 2600 for Christmas in '91 when I was way back in kindergarden. Before that though, the local library had an Apple II and they would let you play games on it- I remember playing some muppet game and Oregon Trail on it (and believe it or not, I didn't need too much help from my parents!) Been accumulating games (more to play than collect, but I do enjoy collecting for its own sake too) ever since then- I have close to 300 games now. My collection is <http://club.ign.com/b/list/custom?&owner=Someone150&mode=view&&lid=100018>.

iRoy

02-14-2007, 05:17 PM

Hi!

My name is Roy Vonk and life in the Netherlands.
I collect many things, from Star Wars items, games to gadgets.

I came here thanks to another forum, to ask you guys about my Gameboy demo pod :)

Regards, and have fun!

Roy.

50s Brawler

02-15-2007, 03:48 PM

Not much to say really, I'm not entirely new to forums community setups and I have known about this particular one for a few years, and I know a guy around these parts named MegaDrive20XX (I believe he was called Ghouls 'N Ghosts at one point). Though I do recognize a few others already from other sites. I'm 29 years old, been gaming since 1983 and don't foresee ever quitting my passion for gaming. Out of all the genres the "Beat 'em Up" genre is my all time favorite, hence my avatar and sig pic. My screen name is a salute to The Beat 'em Up genre that has always glorified the beat downs and gang culture of that started in the 1950s, and I earn my bread by bouncing in clubs and as a grill man at a Denny's Diner. I'm here for good conversation and community, no drama.

Skittlesforever

02-15-2007, 04:01 PM

Who you are
Patricia.

Where you live
Manitoba, Canada.

- How you found the forums
I've known about DigitalPress as a rarity guide website but never knew there was a forum, one night I was checking out the website and saw that there was a forum.

- What your favorite games are
the Zelda series, Mario bros., Paper Mario, Super Mario RPG, Mario bros 3.

- What systems you collect for
GB, SNES, NES, GBA, N64

- What you do in "real life"
I am a full time first year student at university.

Three-P

02-15-2007, 07:54 PM

:pimp: What up, y'all?

The Three-P is in the hiz-ouse! And if you wonderin', that's short for Pissed PlayStation Pimp.

Anyway, here's a bit about me:

Real name-Jess. (On some other sites, I go by the name, "Crazy the Clown.")
Age-29. (Old enough to know better, young enough not to give a :bad-words: )
Home-The U.S.A.
How I found this site-Searching for classic games, I found a good site for the people who got love for them.
Favorite game series-Final Fantasy, Mortal Kombat, Castlevania.
Systems I collect for-Only 3, for now. The PSX, PS2, and PSP.
What I do in real life-I'm between jobs.

Anth0ny07

02-15-2007, 10:36 PM

-My Name is Anthony
-Im 18 (but will be 19 in April)
-I live in Pennsylvania
-I found the forum on yahoo while searching for info on "Grand Theftendo"
-I collect for:
Nes
Snes
N64
Ps2
XBox 360

8bitnintendogames

02-16-2007, 01:29 PM

I just wanted to post that when I said hi in this post, I gave the wrong name to my Nintendo site, the new name is http://www.8bitnintendogames.com. Hello again and long live the classics!

54f3gu4rd

02-16-2007, 04:54 PM

Hey All, just found this site a week ago or so, been lurking around and i find it awesome here, great site/info/ppl.

Anyways, I'm a (small time) game collector who's in love with games and everything to do with games. I literately live, breath, think, hear, do video games almost 24/hours a day. I've always collected games since i can remember, but only recently began to stat collecting seriously (actually have some $$ now).

In what they call "real life", I'm the department head for QA at a local game publisher. I don't really have any particular favorite game, but i love to play everything that comes out, and i mean everything. What really kindles my excitement is strange/niche games that are innovative and bring something interesting to the industry.

Doc Eggfan

02-17-2007, 10:58 PM

Who you are
I am known as Dr. Eggfan in the Sonic modding community, and I think my reputation there is well preserved to keep using the name. I think.

Where you live
Australia

How you found the forums
Cryomancer suggested that some of you here might be interested in some things I want to sell. I shall respect the ten day waiting period before trying to palm off my stuff though.

What your favorite games are
I have always stood by my decision that Jeff Minter's Tempest 2000 is the greatest video game ever created. For me, it marked the end point of the classic gaming era, and it ended on an unbeleivable high. I still haven't finished it, everytime I think I've got it sussed out, it throws a new enemy at me - "Oh, now I have to combat death raining from above too, thanks very much Mr. Minter"

What systems you collect for
Pretty much everything Sega related. I had a brief love affair with Nintendo, but my serious collection is my Sega collection. I started with a Mega Drive, which has been upgraded with all the add-ons, and I have about 150 games, but it is far from complete. I also have a Nomad, a Saturn and a Dreamcast. I recently purchased an Australian SC-3000H computer and have been collecting SG-1000 titles lately, I think I've got close to 70% of all the officially released software for the first generation Hardware.

What you do in "real life"
I am currently manager for a local Newsagents

Segertar

02-19-2007, 07:44 AM

Hello, my name is Tony. I live in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I don't remeber exactly how I found these forums, but I think it was in a Tips and Tricks from awhile back.

I don't have any specific favorite game, but I think SNES RPGs are some of the best made.

I am currently collecting for NES and SNES. I'll buy anything if the price is right.

I work for the Kenosha Sheriff's Dept as a Direct Suervision Officer at the County Dentention Center.

Like most of you, I have been playing games pretty much my entire life. I have been actively collecting games for a little over a year. My collection is pretty modest compared to some, but it's still a work in progress.

See ya in the forums!

Everton1878

02-20-2007, 12:55 AM

Hey,

I live in LA and have been collecting video games for 10+ years. I'm 16 now. My goal is to get a complete n64 collection, cart only.

FirstxDegree

02-22-2007, 10:01 PM

My name is Brandon.

I currently am attending WVU. With a home near both Memphis, TN and Pittsburgh, PA.

I was recommended here by a friend because I have a bunch of stuff for sale/trade... and I am also looking for some good deals.

favorite games: Any Zelda Game (OOT = Fav)

What systems you collect for: PS1 mainly, and DC but I keep an open mind to all...

What you do in "real life": I'm currently a college student. soon to venture into the real world...

Felipe

02-24-2007, 12:06 PM

Well, my name's Felipe (Phillip in english), I'm 24 years old and from Brazil.
I always liked videogames but I only seriously started collecting about 3 years ago when I came to know a couple of my friends and they were seriously into... so I took the dust of my Sega Saturn and started to gather som games! I even managed to buy my first Genesis and SegaCD console back from the guy I had sold it to (it's in an incredibly BAD shape, but hey, that was my first console ever!). I'm a big Metal Gear fan and that was the main reason I bought my PS2 and PSP systems (of course that i have a lot of PS2 games and my PSP collection is growing slowly, but hey, MGS3/MGSPO were my reasons to spend the money on those consoles :D). I collect for the Genesis, SegaCD, Saturn, Nintendo DS, PS2 and PSP... hopefully I'll get a Wii sometime... You can all view my collection at: http://users.ign.com/collection/fbaldner

I have no idea how i managed to find this site :D But im glad that i found it and bookmarked it!

Being a collector here is an expensive hobby... just so you guys know, a Wii here costs somewhat more than US$1.000,00... yeah, sad little place this here... a PS3 costs about 4 times a Wii... so sometimes its kinda difficult to get things here...
When we talk about classic things you usually have people selling loose carts (in horrible shape... like stickers all over, or those magic markers... thats when they don't stuff the bolts' hole with some crap that is horrible to remove) usually too expensive for their conditions... sometimes you can find good stuff at the right price too, but that's not all the time ;) I myself found a pretty decent copy of Snatcher, for the SegaCD, for US$5,00! The CD wasn't perfect, but is completely playable!
Then we have eBay... but we also have our god-forsaken customs that usually charges 60% for taxes... but there are loopholes to avoid that ;) The first thing that i bought on eBay to test those loopholes was a mint Silhouette Mirage for the PS1... of course that there's also PlayAsia... but the customs know them too well and all packs from them are charged :beaten:

To pay for all that I'm graduating from college now as an Electrical Engineer, and I work with automation systems... soon on my way to robotics!

And thats pretty much it!
If anyone wants, you can just contact me on MSN or e-mail, that's in my profile!

Azraelscross

02-24-2007, 05:57 PM

guess since i've posted a few times i should introduce myself. just a little*or not so little* bit of history
I'm Matt. i'm 19. i found this place through assembler
I've been playing video games for most of my life. i was a Sega child through and through. all i ever played was sonic and the Power Rangers Fighter*with some mario 3 mixed in*. first game i remember getting was Sonic and Knuckles*sonic 1 and 3 were my moms* I also remember Mortal kombat and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure when i rented them. so mostly platformers.

Then one birthday i got a Gameboy Color with Pokemon Yellow. and shortly after an N64 with Diddy Kong Racing*its still the only N64 cartridge i own* made its way into my home. i started branching out more and started playing Zelda on GBC and endless hours of pokemon. little did i know this was just the beggining

Then i started Heavily into PC gaming. Starcraft and Diablo was pretty much it though. before that i was mostly a player of Escape Velocity but i didn't play that much*and its a mac game*. Also playing starcraft i made my first large group of friends. We wasted many lunch hours on school computers playing burned copies curtosy of the guys. my playing of it only got worse when i bought my own copy of the Starcraft battle chest. Cause then i had my own copy on my own pc capable of going online. after i moved in summer of 2001 my gaming kind of stagnated until...

Christmas 2001 i finally got a PS1*a little late i know* with FF Chronicles. the day after i got FF VII. from that day foreward RPGs became my favorite. i didn't even really know different genres until then. here i fell in love with the FF Series and Discovered the awesomeness that is Lunar. I also played alot of Dead or Alive.

then on my birthday in 2004 my mom and i went 50/50*more like 65/35. she paid more* on a gamecube with Zelda CE. and that christmas i got the rest of the gamecube games i own. here i got Heavy into zelda and played alot of Wrestlemania 18 so i could finally beat my friend at it after him kicking my ass for so long. thus also started my renting splurges. where i discovered games like Skies of Arcadia and Sonic adventure. i also started getting back into the old Genesis and started playing the SNES alot. and also i started getting really interested in imports*of which i still have none* i had intrest before but it really flared up

then just last christmas my mom suprised me with a PS2 and i went and got FF XII* 71.18 CAD.owch* and so here i am. no imports and barely any games*damn i need a job* but i love gaming so that doesn't mean crap all

ClockExplosion

02-26-2007, 12:00 AM

Hi. I actually used to be a poster here a long, long time ago, but I stopped coming after an unfortunate school year that cost me some health.

Q:Who you are
A: I'm Lane. I'm 19, nearly 20. I'm a college student at Southwestern University.

Q: Where you live
A: I live in Georgetown, Texas, on the University.

Q:How you found the forums
A: I used to run a website about prototypes which crashed and burned a while back (okay, let's just stay the engine ran out of steam). I decided to come back after being bored these days.

Q: What your favorite games are
A: Kirby's Adventure, Kirby Superstar, Bubble Bobble, Super Metroid

Q:What systems you collect for
A: NES, SNES and someday I hope to acquire a Commodore 64.

Q: What you do in "real life"
A: I'm a student, a journalist for the campus newspaper, and I'm a tech support guy on this campus.

Q:Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc
A: I remember not being able to beat 1-2 of Super Mario Brothers till I was 8 or so. In my defense, I had a stroke around the age of 2, and that caused me to lose all motor skills that I essentially had to build back up. Now, I can about to the Lakitu levels without bieng in anger.

I can get to 1-4 on the real SMB 2, by the way. :)

Intelstan

02-27-2007, 08:21 PM

My name's Stan and currently living in Canada. I go to college and a Nintendo + Sony fan. My favourite genre of games include RPGs, racing, and puzzle. I found this forum when I was searching for PSP and DS comparisons.

DefaultGen

02-27-2007, 11:02 PM

Hello, I don't know exactly how I ended up here but i've been visiting the site for a while now. I think it was a price guide link from GameTZ, but who knows really. I'm TJ from New York and I just recently got into retro games (Probably about 6 months ago I purchased most of my retro consoles).

2 months ago I started collecting NES games (starting with nothing, heh) and i've got around 230 games now (nothing rare, at all). Unlike just about every other collector, i'm not very interested in complete games (except disc games). I'm probably gonna lurk around more than post. I'm facinated by all this rare stuff you guys talk about :-)

pongbeat

02-28-2007, 03:41 PM

Hello from France,

Actually i live in Marseille (south of France, great soccer team too, and sunny place!). Some of you may know me on others forums (atariage, atarimania and others french only!).
I'm into collecting since...8 or 9...i can't remember exactly, because i always keep my first console (Xmas gift in 1981...first french year out!).
I'm more into old stuff...from 1972 to 1985 but i've also a lot of recent consoles!

I've more than 350 consoles and computers (only old ones!) and i'm really into Atari, colecovision and intellivision. I've more than 1500 games with some rares stuff too, but in Europe we don't have very rare system or game!

I hope to post frequently, but my work (journalist and musician) takes a lot of time!

I'm really happy to be here! and be a part of the videogame junky world!

ACiD

03-04-2007, 01:01 AM

Hello everyone. I am your average classic gaming fan. Born in 1987, at 8 months old i started playing video games. However I do not recall this from memory, only hearing family and parents telling me. My first system was the NES. As I grew older, I had quite the obsession on my hands just like many of you do. I am a big fan of the NES, SNES, Gameboy Mono, 7800 and Genesis.

Due to a short childhood, These games are all I have of fond memories. Yet, they were the best. (I hate people who say "Are the graphics good?")

I found these forums trying to find a rarity guide so I wouldn't get too ripped off on purchasing games.

My favorite games that I can think off the top of my head are.

Earthbound
Contra
Super C
Contra III
Operation C
Tetris (For GB)
Tengen Tetris
Ghouls n' Ghosts
Final Fantasy 3, 7
Mega Man Series (Including X series)
Ninja Gaiden I, II and III
Marble Madness
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Kart
Goldeneye 007

I practically collect For Display Only boxes for SNES that are flat and in mint condition. So, if you have any, please consider PMing me about them. I hope to get to know some of you and enjoy this great place. Let the legends live on.

ShenmueFan

03-10-2007, 01:14 AM

Hi, I'm Scott and I've been a gamer for almost 20 years now...crazy!

My first system was a NES and I was a serious/hardcore gamer up through the Dreamcast...and interestingly enough, the Dreamcast is my favorite system of all time (it just had the best amount of unique games for it in its short lifespan...sooooooo underrated and overlooked)!

Unfortunatly, to get through college from 2000-2004 I had to sell of probably 95% of my gaming collection of which I had 30+ systems, hundreds of games, dozens of super-rare collectibles... :(

Now that school's done and steady paychecks are coming in I'm rebuilding my collection, piece by piece. It'll cost a pretty penny but I'll have my gaming stuff back!

Romac

03-11-2007, 07:53 PM

Hi my name is Robert. I am 18 and live in Oklahoma. Bought a place of my own recently and been filling it with games ever since.

My hobbies include playing games, riding bicycles and driving my precious Mercedes. (I don't adore it as much as my collection)

It is pretty easy to make a good living here but I do work very hard for it.
I work on industrial refrigeration equipment (Large walk in freezers and the like). I also lay brick for extra money.

I have always loved games and always wanted a big collection.
Here are some of my favorites I own as well as the ones I play often.

SMS: Phantasy Star, R type, Rastan
Genesis: Super Monaco GP, Ristar, Shining Force, Streets of Rage
Turbo-16: Ninja Spirit
Saturn: Dragon Force, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Nights, Burning Rangers
PS: Guilty Gear, Tactics Ogre, Elemental Gearbolt
DC: MvC2, SHENMUE, SHENMUE 2, PSO, F355 Challenge, Last blade 2, Ikaruga
XBOX: Ninja Gaiden Black
Neo Geo Pocket: Match of the millenium, Last blade
NES: TMNT 2, Renegade, Super Mario 3, Kid Icarus, Mega Man 4
Sega CD: Lunar, Lunar 2, Dark Wizard
Jaguar: Kasumi Ninja(always funny), Tempest 2000
GC: PSO plus, Resident Evil series, Skies of arcadia legends
Wonderswan: Star Hearts

I only have about 950 games but they are all good ones if you ask me.
I am in the process now of cleaning and restoring some of the games that are in rough shape(New jewel cases, Cleaning off stickers etc.)
After I am finished with that I am going to buy like crazy again.

Let me know if you like my taste. I know many game collecters in the area so if you are around OKC give me a shout. I will introduce you to the crowd.

Ran

03-18-2007, 01:39 PM

Hello! I'm a 16 year old man living in sweden. I found theese forums when browsing an eBay-auction, the seller linked to this site.
My favorite games change all the time, but i guess that it would be something like
Mega Man 2, Ducktales/2, Little Nemo (nostalgical), Carmageddon II, Stepmania, Half-Life, Castlevania (NES), Super Castlevania IV, Cho Ren Sha 68k, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Diddy Kong Racing (nostalgical), Banjo-Kazooie, F-Zero X, Yoshi's Story (nostalgical), Marshmallow Fighters and a million more games i've forgot in the moment.

I'm not so much of a collector, mostly since i've never really had the money for games. An N64 game in a local store was in 1998 priced around 750 SEK, which is around 107 USD...

I only have about ten games each of gameboy/gameboy color, GBA, PSX, PS2, N64 and NES. Instead i've relived most of all the lost years with no money using emulators. Not as good, but at least i'm playing the good oldies, other than the stupid kids today with no respect for good games (iee. pre-3D).

Now that i finally have some money and a chance to buy used games on the internet, i'm thinking of starting to collect slightly more serious. I just don't know what i should start collecting. Maybe SFC-games, since i haven't played as many.

I enjoy programming, even thought i'm not that good. I program in QuickBasic and C++. At most, i could probably do an 1:1-copy of Castlevania to NES.

I'm currently studying electrics/computers, thinking of being an engineer in the future.
I'm not so good when it comes to the english language, i lost it all by playing Warcraft 3 with germans for two years. Hopefully, my weird syntax is at least better than that of the many idiots floating around on the internet today.

I began "collecting" (or rather, started buying games) around when i got my N64. I got a NES with around ten games in 1995, but since there wasn't any games to buy for it, i only had those first games. My game purchases came more and more often, untill around 2004, when i realised that gaming cost so much. Under the time untill now however, i played computer games, especially vertical SHMUPs. I haven't really restarted with collecting, but i've bought some games for my PS2 at least.

I Have No Name

03-22-2007, 12:03 AM

I feel like I'm at AA or something....

I'm 26 been playing most of the days I've been on this green earth, used to collect games religiously. Lost a few consoles and sold a few games and now am trying to replace them all. I'll play anything once.

Stone_Protector_101

03-22-2007, 10:24 AM

Well I am Eddie Pointer know to most as Ze or just plain Ed no double D here.

I live in Maryland land of the Gafflers damn retail stores and there lies...

My Fav 5 games will be and always will be
1.Chrono Trigger
2.Guilty Gear X2
3.Street Fighter 3 (Dojo or Normal)
4.Guitaroo Man
5.Tetris

I collect for pretty much all systems But most of my collections are in SNES, NES, N64, PS, and dreamcast.
I also have some oldies like atari, 3do, jag, saturn, neo geo... thats pretty much it i would say i have about close to 800 or more thats in the uncounted boxes of doom.

N real life i and a Comp Tech part time and still training but full time Docket Admin. at a law firm:devilish:

bust3dstr8

03-22-2007, 04:29 PM

I'm David, 31 years old from the south shore of Boston, MA. I work with grumpy mothers and nervous brides as a banquet chef in a hotel.
I collect for alot of systems, but 16bit and shmups are my favorites.
When I'm not button mashing, I'll be playing poker(real chips and felt,
non of that Internet crap), fishing and boating on the Cape or hopefully
attending a Pats game.

Wirekittin the nefarious

03-23-2007, 01:38 PM

I am 18 years of age and attending Georgia State University this fall. I found the forums just by being bored in the school library and looking for a game forum, so I guess I just happened by. I was given a SNES back when I was younger and I just started from there. I've become entranced with Nintendo and I collect whatever catches my eye. For instance, I don't buy a game that I don't respect or don't want to play even if the price is $20 and the value is in the hundreds. Granted it will be tempting, but I don't have the attention to try and re-sell it. I'm an RPG as well as action/adventure gamer, but my center focus has to do with rhythem games much like DDR or IIDX or PPP or Popn or ect, ect...

Gradius

03-24-2007, 08:28 AM

I'm 29 years old and have been a gamer since I was old enough to pick up a controller and figure out how a keyboard works. I grew up on old PC games and the Intellivision and arcades before they went the way of the dinosaur. I'm partly a collector, but mostly a gamer, and I've found alot of obscure but incredibly fun game to play by browsing the forums here.

I came across Digital Press when a friend recommended it to me, swearing it was right up my alley! Looking forward to spending a great time here!

Censorship-Zen

03-25-2007, 10:26 PM

Hi, I am Zen. Being a video gamer for more than 20 years, but also a lawyer, I have decided to take some time off to write a comparative study about video game censorship. Thus, your input is much appreciated.

200609

03-27-2007, 03:07 AM

Hi, I live in MA, US. My favorite game at the moment is Battlefield 2: MC for PS2 although, my all time favorite game though is either MGS for PSX or Silent Hill for PSX (huge fan of the Silent Hill series). I'm a bit slow to adopt next gen consoles, preferring to wait until they drop in price (especially the PS3!). Anytime I see a cheap PS2 game I pick it up even if it sucks. I'm primarily collecting for DC at the moment though. I'm 20, and I'm a nurse's aide.

jcrosby

03-27-2007, 03:40 AM

My name is Jonathan and I’m 23 years old.
I live in Alabama.
I was referred by a friend who has been a long time lurker.
As for my favorite games it’s almost impossible to narrow it down to just one, so I’ll say just about anything on the NES.
I’m really only collecting for the NES.
In real life I am self employed / student.
As for other interesting facts about myself; I love all things aviation, fly rc planes, always have an 80s web stream playing in winamp (xmms when in Linux), and have about a month left on my Computer Science degree.

8Ways2Tuesday

03-27-2007, 05:46 PM

Hi! My name is Kalli and I'm from Southeast Michigan. My family had a TI99/4a when I was about three or four, but it died and subsequently went into the garbage around the same time we got a Super Nintendo.

And that was about it - I didn't know what a Playstation was until my senior year of college when my best friend introduced me to Kingdom Hearts. Admittedly, I was a little intimidated because the characters spoke and obviously things were happening with that controller that were not natural!

Within a year I'd acquired a Playstation, PS2, GBA and Gamecube. And now there are about fourteen systems plugged into my TV, and my co-workers like to guess what color DS I have with me.

Crack would be cheaper.

I started importing in early 2006 and found this messageboard while looking for info on Super Famicom power supplies - and instead found an online store I hadn't heard of and just bought a whole one instead of trying to find pieces.

I'm not a 'completist' collector. I'm happy to be able to enjoy stories and characters. I avidly collect things from Enix, Atlus, Square and Nihon Falcom.

And yeah, I really do name characters without a default name 'Bubba'.

I'm admittedly a n00b in many respects, and have learned an amazing amount from just browsing the boards for the last couple days.

Snakeizzz

03-29-2007, 10:44 PM

Hello, my name is Kevin, im 19 and from Toronto, Canada.
I own an XBOX, PSP, N64, SNES, Dreamcast, PC engine II. I mainly collect for the SNES.

I found out about this forum because i recently acquired Samurai Shodown PAL version for the SNES and was wondering how much it is worth. It led me to this site as there were posting of collections but I have not seen anyone having this cartridge yet.

I love playing video games, FPS (Counter Strike, BF1942, etc.) and WC3 (this is the same handle on azeroth but i play DOTA (UMS) now most of the time). Im looking for a mature good community(forum), i read a lot at IGN & Kotaku but Kotaku does not have a forum (i don't think they do) and IGN forum is a mess. Things besides gaming, hmmm, I like listening to "all types of music" (no trance or country =P), i think video game music is amazing! and i think i know about computers (beyond a flake I believe).

games i currently play (or can play) on PC: UT2k4, CS 1.6, CSS, TFC (DRIPPYS!!!), WC3:FT, BF1942

TEAM FORTRESS 2 COMING SOON!!!

Daniel T

03-31-2007, 12:44 AM

Hello fellow gamers,

I'm from Toronto, Canada and my name is Daniel Teixeira.

I first started playing video games when I was seven back in 1989 thanks to the emergence of my all-time favorite video gaming system, the good ol' NES.

Classic gaming continues to interest me to this day. Newer games haven't really won me over as of yet.

The Sega Genesis was the last system that I ever bought.

I consider myself a video game player, rather than a video game collector. I buy games with the intent of beating them to the pulp.

When I see people making comments about certain games being "impossible" to beat, this motivates me to prove them wrong. I always take it a step further when defying the odds. So for example if I manage to finish a game without dying, I will then attempt to finish it without dying without ever picking up any items. I did so with Friday the 13th (NES) for instance and that is my greatest gaming achievement by far (while finishing Predator (NES) without dying would be a close second, since it took a lot of persistence to pull that one off [about five straight hours of playing]!).

I have sent speed runs to Twin Galaxies to prove people wrong. I never even knew about the site until someone challenged me to prove that I could beat a game in the stated way (beating Mike Tyson in the first round in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!). Anything is possible though, as they have all realized by now. I feel that anyone can beat any game if they dedicate enough time and remain determined until the end (show heart in other words), no matter how trying the circumstances may seem.

Writing is something that I would like to pursue as a career, preferably in the field of sports and entertainment.

I have written one full video game FAQ for the obscure NES release by the name of Power Punch II. I also assisted Brian Sulpher with his Friday the 13th FAQ. Those were both equally fun to work on.

I keep up with my writing skills by adding information into my gaming document, although it has been a while since I last updated it. This is basically a 269 page document (thus far) that tracks every game that I have finished, with the dates of when each game was first played and finished, ratings and comments for each game, self made screenshots and my greatest accomplishments in each game. Top ten lists and diary-like stories are also shared. This document is meant to preserve cherished memories, as well as to inspire others to see that anything is truly possible if one puts their mind to it.

I love a good challenge and am currently trying to beat Power Punch II for the NES with 200 points as the Final Rating, which is the highest possible score. This isn't something that is supposed to be possible, but I don't give a damn what Beam Software had in mind when putting this game together, 200 will be reached!

The designers did everything in their power to make it unreachable, but as He-Man always used to say: "I have the power!" (okay that was pretty cheesy, sorry). I will then update the FAQ for the last time. I'm hoping that DreamTR will be able to help me with one of the sections, since he owns the prototype of Mike Tyson's Intergalactic Power Punch, but I'll have to ask him obviously.

Penguin

03-31-2007, 03:59 PM

Hi my name is Justin, im 21 and i live in Fort Myers Florida. I have been a gamer since I got my first Nintendo NES back in 1989. I'm currently going to college studying for my major in Business Management and Information Systems. Over the past year i've just recently started collecting consoles and games. So far I have an Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2 and Wii. Total of about 100 games which is growing when I have extra money. Stumbled on this site a few days ago while surfing the internet and glad I did. Working toward a beautiful "room of doom" :)

cosmic4z

04-06-2007, 09:34 AM

Hi Guys,

My name is Jamie, and I live in Sheffield in the UK, I design and make (mostly coding) video games for a living, I'm mostly play god games (civ4 etc on PC). Computers I have include, Atari 800xl, BBC B, Atari ST (x2), Amiga 500, a couple of PC's and a few laptops. Aside from computers / games, my other interests include salsa / running / yoga / tai chi.

Did I miss anything?

bennyleeiowa

04-06-2007, 11:47 PM

Hello, My name is Ben. I love playing video games. I try to stay true to my roots in sticking with Nintendo! After all it is how the gaming industry go to where it is today! My favorite sports game is Ken Griffey Jr presents Major League Baseball for SNES!!! I'am recently trying to get my NES collection up to speed! My roommate Jake brought me to this site

PC_EngineCard

04-07-2007, 09:55 AM

Hey guys I was searching for an retrogamer site and I found this.

Hope I can post more (if I have enough time).

MobilityRed

04-07-2007, 11:25 PM

I'm Scott from New Jersey. I'm 23 and hold a degree in Information Systems. In real life, I work in Quality Assurance for a large corporation. In my free time I'm into television and of course video games. I've played numerous consoles but the NES and SNES will always be the ones I'll consider unforgetable. There was no greater feeling in my childhood than my grandparents giving me a new NES game for Christmas or my birthday. I can still remember the day I unwrapped R.C. Pro AM for the NES or when my grandparents bought me a Super NES. I'm not sure if I ever told them how much those gifts meant. Gaming was a big part of my life, a much bigger part than it is now. I feel like the days of gaming with each other in person are much better than the online capability we have now. There was just something special about getting together with friends to play.

That being said, at 23 I have a lot of experiences and a lot of advice to offer about life in general. You'll probably find me frequenting off-topic conversations more so than about games.

punkyqb9

04-08-2007, 12:12 PM

Tim from Madison, WI. Marketing, play lacrosse, eat cheese drink beer.

I stumbled onto this board looking for info about the greatest (in my humble opinion) game of all time, "Madden 93". My friends and I still play it on occasion and talk shit just like we did when we were 16.

Boom, he's on his back!

That's all I play except for a little NHLPA '93 on occasion, "Im going to make Gretzky's head bleed for super fan 99 over there"

As a kid i was the poor schmuck with the Intellivision while the rest of you were playing with your Ataris.

Leprakon7

04-08-2007, 11:37 PM

What's up everyone. I was referred by my brother Dragonsfyre . I like all the retro systems. I got a snes,nes so far. I've been play'n super double dragon lately.

CreativeOnlineSurname

04-10-2007, 01:24 AM

It occurs to me that I've never introduced myself. I've been here a while, but I don't seem to post that often. I'll probably be working on that.

My name is Bobby, I'm 22 and I live in Fort Myers, Florida, one of the most pitiful places for a collector to live and / or interact with others of his kind. I've got everything from NES (Atari was before my time, sorry guys) to Wii. I've been playing since I picked up an NES Action Set at the tender age of 5. I was shooting ducks and trying to shoot laughing dogs whilst other kindergarteners were playing, I dunno, tag? I've got somewhere around 500 games for numerous systems, unfortunately, I have not counted my stuff in months, so we'll see how accurate that is next time I have a day off. Speaking of which, that leads to employment. I work at the local Best Buy's Geek Squad, where I enjoy a modest discount on my current gen games, among other items. It pays the bills, as the saying goes. I'm engaged to an amazing girl who I've been with for six years this April 17th, coincidentally. She supports my collecting bug and recently started playing games with me, which is exactly why the Wii is the most amazing thing going on right now. Nothing else ever pulled her in, except the occassional romp through Super Mario World.

If you haven't noticed, I have a tendency to rant.

schnuth

04-10-2007, 01:06 PM

Hey all! I've been lurking here for the past month so it's about time I introduce myself. :) My name is Aaron Schnuth and I've been collecting classic games on and off for the past 13 years or so. I used to hang out on rec.games.video.classic when newsgroups were still the place to go.

I found myself breaking out my game collection recently, and a trip to the old newsgroup showed that mostly everyone had moved on. So I decided to look and see what was happening over here since I still have a couple old DP guides. It's really great to see the community still thriving even if it's no longer centered on the newsgroup.

I used to collect for everything I could get my hands on, but quickly found I couldn't afford to do such things nor did I have the room before I bought a house. These days I mainly focus on collecting NES, SNES, Genesis, Dreamcast, PS1, and Gameboy stuff.

But I have many other systems that includes my large Atari 2600 (VCS) collection that has been stuck at around 350 games for forever. I can't remember the last time I found a Atari game in the wild. I also have a couple Vectrex systems one of which I found as I was moving into my house a few years ago. The thrifts have dried up so bad around here in recent years it's just sad.

I'm 32 years old and live in Toledo, OH. So that's who I am. :) Nice to meet you.

Aaron

jsaxton1981

04-10-2007, 05:23 PM

Hey all, today is my first visit here, because of the "it calm beef min" thread.

My name is James, and I am starting a LAN Gaming center in NH and I am pretty big into gaming, not as big as some of you but hey a gamers a gamer in my book.

I am 25 years old huge into computer gaming (WoW, CS 1.6 and so on...) also got a 360 which is broken at the moment :'( and a first gen NES which serves as back-up to the 360.

~James aka Marlboro Man

Lerxstnj

04-11-2007, 10:22 AM

My name is Steve and I started with gaming on the Atari 2600. I have since got rid of that system, but kept the 2600 adapter and a few games for the Colecovision and have the emulator. My system collection includes 5 Dreamcasts (gotta have backups!), 3 Xboxs, Colecovision, Atari 5200, Sega Genesis, Gamecube, 3DO, Commodore 64, PS1, and a PS2. I guess I skipped the Nintendo and Super Nintendo years that most of this board is into, but I have the emulators. I plan on getting all the new gen systems eventually. I mostly collect games to play, except the Dreamcast where I want every game! I am into MAME and have a cabinet with an X-Arcade controller. I love pinball and own an original Bally Kiss. I want to get a South Park machine some day.

Some All-time Faves:
PC: Half Life, Unreal Tournament
Atari2600: Air Sea Battle, Combat, Pitfall, Yar's Revenge, Space Invaders
Colecovision: Lady Bug, DK series, Turbo, mostly arcade games
Atari5200: Missile Command, Galaxian, mostly arcade games
XBox: Halo 2, Burnout series, X-Men Legends, Half Life 2, Driv3r, Black
DC: Hydro Thunder, Ready 2 Rumble, Shenmue, Sega Fishing games, Death Crimson OX, House of the Dead, Marvel Vs. Capcom series
PS1: Silent Hill, Tomb Raider series, Beyond The Beyond, Nascar Rumble, Parasite Eve series, Resident Evil series, Vagrant Story
PS2: Clock Tower 3, God of War, Guitar Hero series :guitar:
C64: Dino Eggs, Gateway to Aphsai, Toy Bizarre
GC: Resident Evil 4, Geist, Mario Kart, Eternal Darkness
MAME: Asteroids, Donkey Kong, City Connection, Crazy Climber, Frogger, Shuffleshot, World Class Bowling, Moon Cresta, Commando, Robotron, Tempest, Scramble, lots more!

Gamer Museum

04-11-2007, 07:01 PM

Hi there! I'm new here, so hopefully I can find out some cool stuff about gaming! I hope to have my gaming site up soon as well, so when it's up, be sure to visit www.gamingmuseum.com!

goldenaxeboy

04-15-2007, 03:24 PM

I am goldenaxeboy and i am preety much a sega gamer now for nearly 10 years i have my own message board as well.

8-bitNesMan

04-16-2007, 07:11 PM

Hello to all! I've been a member here for almost three years (and a lurker for even longer) so I figured it was high time I introduced myself. So for the milestone of my 200th post, here goes: My name is Boyd, and I was born and raised in the great state of Tennessee. I found the forums by happy accident, back when I was still in college pursuing my IT degree. I'm a Nintendo nut from way back, starting when my dear old Dad bought me a Nintendo Action Set for my 11th birthday. I'll be 30 this July (No!) and I've still got it. I love any games that are good, but mostly platformers, fighting games, and first person shooters. The 2-D Mario and Castlevania games are probably my all-time faves. I collect for most all systems from classic retro up til current day. In real life I do IT work for a hospital and I love it! Glad to be among fellow gamers and I appreciate all the good folks who keep this site going for game nuts like myself. Game on!

krypton85

04-16-2007, 10:22 PM

Hey there, my name is Chris, I currently live in northern NJ (15 minutes from the DP store!). The voice of God told me to come here. I collect exclusively Atari 2600 games and label variations. I just recently got a Jag and am kind of excited about it... I may have to start collecting for it, I just got my first game from the DP store, NBA Jam, T.E. for only 6.99! I've been collecting since about 1993 and I'm looking forward to being part of the collecting community again, I was out of it for a while after I sold my entire collection about 5 years ago. Congrats on a great site, and a great store!

-Chris

barflytke401

04-17-2007, 12:54 PM

Eric-Ohio-NES, SNES, GB, N64, GC, PS1, PS2-Ops Manager by day, RPG Gamer at night...that's about it...

S-Wind

04-19-2007, 01:40 AM

HEYA EVERYONE!

I've known about his website for almost a year. I've been using it as a resource to compile videogame lists so I can work towards completing entire libraries and to see how rare certain items are.

I started gaming when I was 5. My first system was the Colecovision. I am a collector as well as a gamer. I currently own over 1,200+ games, 20+ systems, not including duplicates and expendables. Everything is complete and in great to mint condition.

Mouse

04-22-2007, 07:34 AM

Hi. I'm Mouse. Been lurking here for a bit. Decided to get an account because I have a "prototype" I want help with.

I love video games, especially 2D platformers like Mario 3 and Castlevania and such, games involving robots, and games that are open and allow for a lot of exploring and experimenting. I love big, wide worlds in games.

Also I am fascinated by early versions, demos, unfinished games, and that sort of thing as well as oddities, pirated versions, hacks, and games not released in my country. The weird stuff.

Right now I am in the middle of a torrid affair with my PSP since I can run so many cool things on it.

kataboom

04-28-2007, 05:40 PM

hey people im eddie & ive finally registered on here. i dont have too many games after selling them off over the years but im interested in collecting again. im not too anal about collecting completes. im just interested in carts & manuals. no boxes here or completes or sealed boxes, etc.

what i collect:

1. nes
2. n64
3. snes
4. atari 2600

Ace Comics

04-28-2007, 10:00 PM

Heyyy all,

Long time lurker, first time poster and all that. This is a great place to kill an afternoon... or afternoons. Wonderful amount of information, and nice people.

I'm not yet all-in as a collector... just dug out the old NES and planning on ordering a new 72-pinner. After that, planning on rooting thru some local used book stores for games (Phoenix, AZ area).

All the neat stuff here really makes me regret how nonchalant I was with loaning out games, and not worrying about getting'em back... that's for sure.

Anyhoo... thanks for havin' me... I look forward to taking part!
-Chris

calgon

04-29-2007, 11:47 AM

Hey guys.

I've been a spuedo-lurker for around a year now, and finally decided to create an account.

My names Matt. I'm a 23-year-old journalist, who is broke as a joke. I love collecting anything out of the 8-bit and 16-bit era. I like the boards sensibility, so hopefully I'll blend in nice and quietly :rocker:

ashmeister

05-01-2007, 04:14 AM

hey im ash.
im 17
still at college in the good old UK.
i work at burger king :S yay but i write alot of books in my spare time.

I found the forums while looking for N64 stuff. and i gotta admit this place is great.
ive managed to own pretty much every console in the last 10 years except ps3 but i got an N64 and im hooked. i dont really own that many 40 at present and i cant really afford to get them all complete although i have a few. ive decided to sell my wii as it has collected dust thanks to my N64 and the fact that the games are kinda awful at present.

im planning on collecting Nes next but i want to complete my n64 cart collection first.

AsH

www.asborthwick.com

OatBob

05-01-2007, 11:48 AM

Hello, I'm Ben

The consoles I have are: Atari 2600, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Game Boy / Color / Advance, Genesis, 32X, Dreamcast, Playstation, and Xbox. I'm seriously collecting Dreamcast games right now, and I'm looking to buy anything I currently don't have.

A bunch of people over at RF Generation (http://rfgeneration.com) have mentioned stuff from these forums, so I'm checking it out now. Equally, I highly recommend going there too. It allows you to track your collection online and display it for others to see without exchanging spreadsheet files. If you're curious about an example of this, check out my profile (http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?action=profile&name=OatBob&folder=Collection), and collection list (http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?name=OatBob&folder=Collection).

I look forward to meeting you in the coming months.

chrissylas

05-02-2007, 12:58 PM

Hey guys, my name is Christina and I'm really just starting to seriously collect. I'm 22 years old and a student (at least for a week and a half longer... it's graduation time baby!) in Augusta, GA.

I've been playing games for 17 years although I actually started gaming on our Atari ST (which I miss terribly) and I've just continued from there. I mainly collect NES games and even on my modest budget I've managed to get over 200 games so far. It's not as good as some of you guys' stuff but I'm sort of proud of my little collection.

I look forward to hanging out here and learning from you guys :)

BIG-JG

05-03-2007, 09:25 PM

Jamie here...just put a new thread (football games) anyway im 32 love video games...love football, and life. Retro games are very cool! ANyway glad to be here and hope to get that great collection going.

Dingo

05-05-2007, 02:02 PM

Hey, Cory here, though I mainly go by Dingo on every forum I vist. Found out about these forums by reading through a few posts at the Hardcore Gaming 101 forums. I'm 18 years old, going to college (semester just ended) for journalism, and I plan on writing about games one day. I play everything from NES up to the current generation of systems; the first game I ever beat was Contra on the NES and that also firmly grounded me into the life of a gamer. I don't have a huge collection mainly because I can't afford it, but I enjoy fighting games (I stick with 2-D fighters), shoot'em ups/run and guns, action adventure games like Metroid and Castlevania, and the occasional RPG; throw in a few obscure games that I can't think of off the top of my head and you have me.

Anyway, thus is my introductory post and I look forward to posting here and getting to know everyone :D .

zdan80

05-05-2007, 02:57 PM

Hi, my name is Dan...been reading here for a few months now, got turned onto the site by a St. Louis area store owner (Jason of Trade-N-Games, nice guy check out his site at www.tradengames.com)

Anyway, I have just started seriously collecting like 8 months ago. Started out just looking to buy all the old RPG classics I loved as a kid (I'm 26 now), and its morphed into a collection of many random systems (2600, NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, Sega CD, PS1, PS2...). Aside from collecting all the great RPG's, my current goal is a complete NES collection. Still debating whether I want to make every game complete or not. Current count is around 125 games, all of which have manuals 30 or so are complete as well.

Still figuring out where I can get the best finds out around here, nothing much lately but today I got 4 Jaguar carts for $1 at a garage sale AND A ps2 system for $15 at goodwill, both of which I thought were pretty good deals.

Thanks
-Dan

-_-Nintendo-_-

05-07-2007, 02:58 AM

I'm Nathan, an Aussie who likes playing and collecting games :)
Like above I come from Australia :p
Just checking rarity of of some games and decided to join.
Fav games? I like most games but probably platformers or adventure games.
I try to collect for all systems, but some systems are next to impossible to find here.
I work at Subway and am a year 12 Student.
Games have always been apart of my life, but now I have money to build on that passion :)

KillerCheese

05-08-2007, 04:58 PM

Hey guys ive been a lurker here for a few day and thought what the hell and registered. Im currently 13 years old and hooked on video games and just recently started collecting so my collection is very modest.
I own:
ps1 (chipped)
ps2
xbox 360
dream cast
game cube
psp
ds
gba
gbc
sony Ericson gaming phone (w5501)

And also need advise on weather to get an n-gage as ive been considering it.
so to sum up heres some pics of my tiny collection.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00003.jpg
My setup

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00006.jpg
pc games and one spectrum game.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00007.jpg
ps1 and dream cast games

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00008.jpg
psp and ds games

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00009.jpg
Game cube games

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00010.jpg
ps2 games

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00011.jpg
xbox 1 games

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00014.jpg
360 games

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00016.jpg
game boy, game boy color, game boy advanced and vmu.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/killer_edam/DSC00017.jpg
all of my games together, excluding demos i have 92 games.

cosmicpsycho

05-08-2007, 11:56 PM

hey there, guess i'll go ahead and introduce myself. my name is chris, and i live in fl. i started "collecting" about a year ago with nes, trying to relive my childhood i guess. since then i've added ps1, snes, turbo grafx, and genesis. i'm also looking for other systems "2600, sms, 3do, etc....." i guess i'm hooked. so anyway hello.

djjaye

05-09-2007, 10:25 AM

hi nice to meet you collectors.

ive been a collector for a number of years. i love the nes,snes,megadrive eara best, truly great games. and in my opinon the snes was the best of all the consoles produced ever. it was helped with loads of top games and a well made construction ( not like my 360 it crashed loads ).

even though i would love to collect more ive decided to sell my collection.

i will still have my wii and planing on getting a ps3 when i sell up.

also i have afew emus so i can play my favs of yesteryear.

heres afew pics of my collection and i will wait till i can get in the selling forum to sell :).

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z44/djjaye_2007/DCP00775.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z44/djjaye_2007/DCP00787.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z44/djjaye_2007/DCP00789.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z44/djjaye_2007/DCP00779.jpg

MysteryRidahz

05-09-2007, 05:08 PM

Howdy, you folks can called me u2k..

:villagepeople:

wozzaofrare

05-10-2007, 09:29 AM

long time lurker, first time poster

Im Jeremy \\^_^/

landamo

05-12-2007, 02:22 AM

Hi my name is Orlando I'm 22 and I live in a small town in California. I guess you could say I've been collecting games since I had my first nintendo in the late 80s, but I didn't collect games so much as didn't get rid of them. The super nes is my favorite system of all time and Super Mario Bros. 3 is the best game ever. I found this site while looking at a bunch of snes and nes sites and I have to say it's nice to be around like minded individuals

newcoleco

05-14-2007, 12:20 PM

Daniel Bienvenu : I'm a gamer, collector and homebrew programmer ColecoVision.

I'm a programmer and I always wanted to program my own video games. My mind is stuck in the past, I prefer programming games for the ColecoVision console than anything else.

I'm a french canadian and I live in the province of Québec. English is not my cup of tea, but I'm still learning every day by chating with some of you.

I'm a member of a video game collectors group named C.C.J.V.Q. and we had meetings 3 or 4 times a year. I'm a member of Adamcon, a group formed by Coleco Adam and ColecoVision users. I also meet in person some guys from Digital Press during a gaming expo.

I wasn't very active in many forums, during the last 2 years. In fact, I wasn't very active in the Internet. I was looking for job and stuff like that we call generaly "life". Now, I'm back online, but my counter drop to zero here... well, I'm still in the archives.

My favorite games? difficult to answer. I'm not an arcade gamer. But I like the ColecoVision game system, the Commodore computers, and a few other systems. On these machines, I have some favorite games, but because they are "cool". Donkey Kong was the first video game I played in my life and give me this dream to program a video game myself, and this dream comes true for the computers first, then for the ColecoVision in year 2000. For the Vic-20, I was impress by Romix's Galaxia. For the Commodore 64, I enjoyed California Games, and also funky noisy music in games like Commando. At the arcade, my favorite game was Joust because of its originality.

My main collection is ColecoVision stuff. I still have a working Commodore 64 with 3 disk drives and many floppy discs.

My job is programming stuff, but my academic formation is over programming phase, like design and planning projects.

Because of my collector friends, I tried many other systems like Intellivision, Atari2600, NES, SNES, N64, SMS, Genesis, Saturn, DreamCast, and a few other consoles and computers like Game.com and Game'n Watch. But I'm not really collecting for these systems. Anyway, I have no more free space to continue collecting and to buy any "new generation" console.

The best stuff is in the vintage, classic gaming is fun. The homebrew scene is very active for not enough systems, more work have to be done here.

ult1matex64

05-15-2007, 02:44 AM

- Who you are
Justin Webster, 19yrs old.
- Where you live
Australia, Victoria
- How you found the forums
Searching video game collections on google
- What your favorite games are
Too Many to say, favorite genre though are FPS, Racing.
- What systems you collect for
All
- What you do in "real life"
I dont have a job (searching but where I live sucks), but am planning on doing a Cert II in IT in July.
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I just started collecting not too long ago, games have been a part of my life, all the way down to the Atari/Commodore 64 days.

I have recently bought a Japanese Dreamcast R7, and Panasonic Q, has well has a Dreamcast Keyboard, Atari Lynx II.

thegardentool

05-16-2007, 09:11 PM

- Who you are
Daniel Hale

- Where you live
Oklahoma

- How you found the forums
I was referred by a member of [H]ardForum.

- What your favorite games are
Sadly I don't really own any of my favorite console games anymore. I love Final Fantasy II and III (SNES), Chrono Trigger, and other RPGs.

- What systems you collect for
I don't really collect per se, but I'm looking to acquire new stuff for my Sega Saturn which has been lightly used over the last decade. It's time to change that now I've gotten bored with the last two generation of consoles.

- What you do in "real life"
Well, I'm currently taking time away from school to make sure my wife and I have food and a roof over our heads and our pets' heads too. I work full-time in food service for a private university in town and make a decent amount of money each month. I'm also a journalist for the Army National Guard, which is quite fun and exciting but also has some downs.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Like I said before, I'm not really collecting yet. I have been playing video games since I was about 2-3 years old. I've owned a NES, SNES, N64, Sega Saturn, Playstation, Playstation 2 and Xbox 360. I've also been an avid computer gamer for many years, which is why I've always put console gaming to the rear over computer.

Flack

05-16-2007, 09:27 PM

Always good to have another Okie on board -- welcome to the party!

Flack

05-16-2007, 09:30 PM

Randor650

05-17-2007, 11:52 PM

- Living somewhere in Missouri
- Don't exactly remember how I found digitpress but it was a good while ago.
- Big fan of Shenmue and Cybernator
- I have a very General collection but focus on Playstation, Dreamcast, and Master System stuff.
- Started collecting games by never selling any I ever owned. Once I was able to start working I started buying the things I couldn't before (such as my turbo duo and Virtual Boy :)

That shoudl do for starters

starfox316

05-18-2007, 06:58 PM

My name is Patrick. I am 20 (1986) years old and hail from Long Island, NY. where the concrete meets the sand. I moved to Tennessee for college and currently attend Middle Tennessee State University as a sophomore in English Literature. I do my game shopping in and around middle Tennessee as well as doing SOME sort of game looking on every vacation I take.
I was working at a Taco Bell when I got into a Castlevania discussion with another guy up at work. We got into it and he mentioned that he collected NES games. I'd never seen a mass collector like that ever, he had about 600+ NES carts and about 900+ games in total. Here were all of these games that I was told by my parents were too expensive (I friggin wanted games so bad as a kid) and this kid had hundreds while I was stuck with 3 or 4 NES carts as a kid.
He turned me onto digitpress and it's been a real blessing with my collecting. I'm a playstation one guy through and through and I've really found DP's classic boards helpful for my snes work-in-process.

I grew up NES to Sega to N64 to psx to PS2. And I collect snes games currently. I play snes 80% of the time while gaming, ps2 gets 15% and my DS gets the leftovers.
I really enjoy turn-based strategy, rpgs, puzzle games, and beat-em-ups. Turtles In Time and Kirby's Avalanche are the two games on my shelf that are never dusty. I love collecting and I love games, period. See you dp'ers on the flip side.

Don't hesitate to PM me,
I have a good working knowledge of the snes collection and some decent cart only's for trade. Plus, im always in the market for good conversation.

Keep your eyes and ears open, don't just accept what others tell you as truth and keep coming back to the controller, man.

Chaz From Phantasy Star 2

05-20-2007, 05:26 AM

Hey, everyone! I just signed up here. I'm proud to be a member!

Starfox, what are your favorite RPGs? Mine are the Phantasy Star games and Secret of the Stars.

Rick O2

05-20-2007, 10:55 PM

Who: My name is Rick

Where: Michigan, USA

How Found: Surfing the web for classic/retro gaming sites

Fave Games: All Time is Tecmo Bowl for NES because I'm a bit of a sports fanatic and it was the first good attempt at a football videogame. I'm also a big fan of Pick Axe Pete, Turtles, and Killer Bee's (Odyssey 2).

Systems Collected: Odyssey 2, Colecovision, Original NES, Atari 2600. O2 is the only collection I am serious about, the rest I just collect the games I like.

Real Life: Dad, Husband, and Planning Director for a local Municipality.

Other: I just recently got back into the classics. While looking through some boxes at my parents I discovered all of my old Odyssey 2 games and the system. Plugged it in and it worked, sortof. Joysticks were shot from years of abuse and I have the hardwired kind where you are out of luck if they go bad. So i went on an internet auction site and bought a working O2 and the rest is history. I have added to my collection and have started becoming more active in the classic gaming world, strictly as a hobby.

BelPowerslave

05-23-2007, 01:28 AM

Not really here to introduce myself, was more interested to see if this guy "Airraid" had properly introduced himself to the group. You see, he's quite the bane to usenet: Crossposting, starting flame wars, changing his user handle time and again to get around people's killfile filters. What I found odd about him hanging out here is the fact that he calls some of the forum goers "owned" and "faggots".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOAi3-jYw_M

Apparently he managed to find something so amazingly rare and mind blowing that he not only had to record a really bad video of it, but also post it to YouTube and then go on to almost a 2,000 word rant to make sure that "some of the faggots on neo-geo.com forum and digitalpress forum ARE OWNED because of their sheer stupidity and faggotry.".

Yes, that's right, if you were foolish enough to think the Genesis version of Ghouls'n'Ghosts was just great, it was just your "sheer stupidity" that allowed that thought to squeeze through....for, you see, Arthur's feet do not, *DO NOT*, D O N O T go behind the grass! The next time anyone utters something about the Genesis version being "pretty good" they need to beware the wrath of YouTube's saddest user: Airraid: The guy who posts videos showing Arthur's Feet going BEHIND the grass<insert big booming orchestra here>.

Now, I've not been around the Digital Press forums a whole lot, most of my postings were with a little mag called "Manci Games", but I found that the people here were generally pretty hip, and more than willing to talk about retro gaming to no end(and that's a good thing)....certainly no "faggotry" going on....

Bel

djh82uk

05-23-2007, 10:18 PM

- Who you are: Daniel
- Where you live: South Wales, UK
- How you found the forums: Google
- What your favorite games are: Retro wise I guess Desert/Jungle/Urban Strike & Cannon Fodder
- What systems you collect for: Lots
- What you do in "real life": I run a retro gaming online shop aswell as do IT contracting.

Nice site, one of the best info sources I have found, are there many UK people on here? or mostly US?

DJH

LimpBizkit

05-24-2007, 12:05 AM

nick names buck and i come here to be a big dog on a forums and im just rollin rollin rollin rollin:king:

owna xbox and 360. owna ps1 2 and 3. owna nes and am buying games by the bunch is.

Sparkster

05-24-2007, 12:27 AM

- Who you are: I am Sparkster. The name is too long for most old school RPGs, so I will either go by Killer or Abba... Killer came from my super-cheating in some RPGs, thus being a killer. Abba came from being too damn lazy to move my cursor more than one space to register my name.

- Where you live: Siberia, Canada (aka Calgary)

- How you found the forums: A friend directed me here to see the rarity guide

- What your favorite games are: All old school. I especially like the Marios, Mega Mans, and Dragon Warriors.

- What systems you collect for: NES, SNES, Genesis, some Atari

- What you do in "real life": I make sure airplanes go out safely, on time, and with people's luggage... I also bring them in.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.: I began collecting by accident. Somebody was selling games for cheap. I wanted more games, so got them. He also included games for a system that I did not have. Later, I ended up going to some garage sales, and saw some deals that I couldn't refuse. Then I saw more and more deals I couldn't refuse.

Cloud121

05-24-2007, 01:49 AM

Who you are: Dylan, Age 20

Where you live: Des Moines, Iowa

How you found the forums: Been lurking for quite awhile, just finally decided to register.

What your favorite games are: Resident Evil (Series), Virtua Fighter (Series), P.N. 03, Devil May Cry (Series), Metroid (Series), Capcom vs SNK 2, Phantasy Star (Series), Parasite Eve (Series), Shenmue (Series), Mega Man/Mega Man X (Series)

What systems you collect for: Primarily Sega. Especially MegaDrive, Mega CD, and 32X.

What you do in "real life": GameStop (Sad I know, but hey I have fun).

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

I got my MegaDrive back in Christmas 1990. I was a pretty casual gamer until August 2000, when I bought my Saturn, because I wanted to play VF2, HoTD, Virtua Cop, Die Hard Arcade, and all of Sega's arcade games at home. This is what converted me from a Sony fanboy, to a hardcore Sega nut. I got my 32X a year later, and my Mega CD in November 2001. Dreamcast came along in January 2002. The Dreamcast is the greatest console ever made.

I own nearly 600 games, and am constantly getting more all the time. If you're interested at all, here's a link to my collection: http://users.ign.com/collection/Cloud121

Blackcrow

05-24-2007, 05:23 PM

- Who you are
Christopher

- Where you live
California in a small town called Yuba City

- How you found the forums
Looking to see if "trader dan" still had a site, and there was a topic with "trader dan" in it.

- What your favorite games are
That would be to hard to say.. All my games are my favorite.

- What systems you collect for
Right now I am working on my SNES, but I collect for all of them.

- What you do in "real life"
Just doing the college stuff atm.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
It started a few years after I had sold Mega Man 6 for the nes, I just had to have another copy, so I bought that one, and said oh wait. I should get the rest of the nes titles too, and here I am today looking for games. :)

michaelthemovieman

05-24-2007, 07:41 PM

I guess I should have posted here first, so I guess I'm doing this out of order. Even so, here's who I am:

Who you are
Michael DiTraglia

Where you live
West River, Maryland

- How you found the forums
Referred by my man, Earl Gray

What your favorite games are
I love many kinds of games, but here are some of my favorites: Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario, Zelda, Super Mario RPG, Okami, God of War 1 and 2, Halo, and the list goes on...

What systems you collect for
NES, Super NES, Genesis, 32X, Game Gear, Game Boy (all versions up to Advance), Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS1, PS2, Xbox, and 360... that's all I have for now...

What you do in "real life"
Go to college to advance my studies in journalism and film studies, with the hopes of becoming a journalist, particularly one covering movies, video games and other entertainment mediums (but I like writing about many different things)

Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I've been an avid gamer since 1992 (thank you, Sonic!) and have been watching films seriously since 2000. I began collecting games after studying the changing prices of old games for a while, yet it truly took effect because of Earl Gray, "a true inspiration to the children"

josemp81

05-25-2007, 04:06 AM

Hi my name is jose I have been hanging out here for a while just reading and learning about this awsome hobby.

I learned about Dp after a bought a Messiah

I live in Fullerton California Which is in the OC. AND Trust me we are not all rich and sexy and surf everyday like that stupid show!! but anyways I will be moving to goshen Indiana by the end of summer.

Which i dont mind but i have like 6 swap meets and like 10 good will/salvation army stores all with in a 30 mile radius Not only that but here Craigslist is HUGE with tons of posting everyday.

And who knows in goshen. Well i did check there craigslist and they have like 2 posting a day under electronics LOL horrible.

I started collecting ever since a can remember but i just been gettin into it alot like 3 months ago. My favorite system has to be the SNES

I work with kids at the local school as a aide i just finished school at CSUF with a B.A in Criminal Justice.

OH YEAH MY SPELING IS HORRIBBLE. lol

Knoxximus

05-27-2007, 04:34 PM

I go by Knoxximus, and, by the description header of these forums and the threads I've read so far, I believe I may have finally found a home. I was born in '73, and reared on Radio Shack 6-in-1's and Odyssey II's. It just goes downhill from there.LOL

Anyhoo, just wanted to say what's up and I'm happy to see that gaming didn't turn out to be the fad my mother said it would be!\\^_^/

I live in Las Vegas, and will be attending the expo this year, and I was there the last time it was here (like, 2 years ago?).

I found this place ironically by asking a forum member in another forum (Wii60.com) where he was getting info about the new PS3 upscaling quality. He posted a link to here. So I poked around a bit, liked what I saw, and said what the heck?

I'm a Hemodialysis Technican by trade for now, and I also hold a BS in Sports Med that I don't currently use. I also have had the great fortune of having some of my music (I'm a hip hop music producer) featured in some Midway games for the PS2/Xbox/PSP. It's awesome to have been able to some way have been apart of something that has pretty much defined my existance. Thanks to that partnership, I'm also proud to say that I've been to 3 E3's before they went private (01', 05', '06). I was happy to be able to cross that off of my "things to do before I die" list.\\^_^/

I collect for pretty much NES on up. I have a 2600, but don't collect for it. I'm also a MAME'r, and have a 33" Dynamo Showcase cab setup. Gotten lots of free pizza thanks to it.ROFL

My fav games are action/adventure side scrollers, RPG's, Action RPG's (Top down, side scrolling, or 3D), 3rd person shooters (1st person are ok too),...hell, I'll play damn near anything except sports simulations (will be play the arcadey ones though i.e. Baseball Stars, NBA Jam, Blitz, etc.).

Interesting facts? Well, I pride myself on being probably one of the best Strider 1 players in the world. I can beat that game on 1 man if I so choose to (usually waste the others scabbing for points...High Scores FTW!!). I remember I used to think it was the hardest game in the world, so I made it my mission to own it (this was back when it was like the best game out...right before Street Fighter hit). I'ma little rusty nowadays, but I can still beat it on one credit.:pimp:

Anyhoo, thanks for reading! Hopefully I'll see some of you at the expo this year!

starfox316

05-29-2007, 05:55 AM

Hey, everyone! I just signed up here. I'm proud to be a member!

Starfox, what are your favorite RPGs? Mine are the Phantasy Star games and Secret of the Stars.
Xeno Gears (psx) Wild Arms 2 (psx) Ultima series and Phantasy Star series

darkhades

05-29-2007, 12:35 PM

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clarkkr79

05-29-2007, 09:40 PM

Name:
-kevin

Location:
-The Desert (Phoenix, Arizona area)

How found:
-I think dumb luck ? :)

Favorite games:
-Anything non RPG (don't have the patience I guess). Utopia (intellivision), Anything Mario bros or Zelda (except the mario party's, smashes, etc.)...., Dracula X (saturn), Toe jam & earl Jammin (genesis), etc....

What I collect:
-All systems except the new ones.... pretty much anything Intellivision / Atari era to Nintendo 64 / Sega Saturn / Turbo Grafx 16 (all the stuff I really grew up with).... I have an Xbox and a wii, but haven't played the XBOX in a long time, and wii was meant for resale, just got a little hooked on zelda, so I still have it...

How I got into this:
-got into classic gaming on a friends thought that I could make some money on reselling.. well I have, but recently have found I'm keeping just about as much as I'm reselling... Grew up with the intellivision and atari, moved on to the NES, and the rest was history.. I love all the older games and really don't like the new stuff. And well, thats basically it!

Rick

05-30-2007, 02:00 AM

I'm Rick. Been here a little bit, only posted once, I'm a bit of a shy fella when it comes to message boards.

I've been collecting games since I was five. I'm now almost 22. Do the math. =p

I have about 250+ NES games. A small-ass amount compared to most people's here, but it's difficult to collect things with little money. My ultimate goal is to someday get an NES Prototype game.

That's it here.

TecmoSuperBowl

05-31-2007, 03:36 PM

This is my second time around. I had an account under the name classicb but i changed my email and forgot my password and can no longer access my old account.

My favorite game of all time is Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES so i'm taking that name for my second round here at the forums.

VICEROY

06-01-2007, 06:41 PM

Name.
Kevin

Location.
Also the Desert, Phoenix AZ

Found out.
Famous told me about it.

Favorite Games.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee ; All the Zelda titles

Collect.
snes, nes, sega, wii.

Got into gaming.
The Legend Of Zelda

James8BitStar

06-02-2007, 03:15 AM

Sorry I'm late in introducing myself!

You can call me Jimmy, the Arkansan, usually known as 8-Bit Star or some variation thereof. I found this place because I told Max Lords that I was planning on ditching some of my games but Ebay sounds too complicated, so he said I should just do it here if my only goal is to clear room. Right now though, my feelings are kinda mixed. Don't really have any "favorite" games, and I'm not currently sure what the closest would be. Maybe Might & Magic for the NES.

I mostly collect for older systems, specifically the NES, SNES, PC-Engine, and Genesis/Sega CD. Also I sometimes collect older PC games (in fact there is one particularly obscure one I'm trying to find). But recently I've kind of put off game collecting, partly because there's no stores in my local area that deal in older consoles (well there are, but they're almost exclusively stocked with Sports games) and partly because the money I have is going towards my other interests at the moment.

Besides gaming, I'm also an animation-holic and have been practicing art and scripting so I can draw my own comic, and learning Japanese with an aim towards eventually getting into imports (as well as playing the import PC-E games I already have--no I won't use ROMs or patches) and also because I find this helps me think.

That was probably a longer belated introduction than I really needed or warranted, but thanks for sitting through it!

DOL_001

06-06-2007, 09:15 AM

I live in Northern California and have been playing games for 11 years.

My first system was the SNES which I got in '96 when the N64 was released, and the first game I had was Killer Instinct (which was packed in with the system).

My favorite types of games are fighting (more 2d than 3d), racing and shooting, but I'll play anything if it's good.

I mainly collect Dreamcast stuff and have finished getting all 247 US released games. You can see pictures of my stuff from the link in my signature. Currently I'm looking for a boxed US version Samba de Amigo Maracas controller and any 1st/3rd party accessory I come across.

Also I heard about this site from gametz.com and www.tradegamesnow.com

Mercapto

06-06-2007, 03:36 PM

Well, it's time to show myself here too :)
I've been lurking only a few days and decided to fess up, so here I am.

I'm from The Netherlands and have been buying consoles since the NES. Part from the Atari Jaguar I haven't strayed from the Nintendo path till the 360 came by, but that ain't very retro yet :)
I'm not a collector...yet, what I have now is all just for fun and games, no collecting yet. I own the NES with 9 games and a zapper, games are cart only, console and zapper are boxed. I have a SNES with 15 games, all complete, a classic Gameboy with 10 games, most complete, a Jaquar with everything complete and 6 games complete, an N64 with 9 games complete, a GC with 12 games complete, a 360 with everything complete and a DS all complete. (pretty hard not to :P)
And I'm the crazy dude that just bought the mint VB from ebay you may have noticed, far too expensive from the looks of it, but hey :)

I am a DVD collector so this whole "cart only" deal is pretty weird for me, I cant imagine buying a DVD with "disc only", so right now I'm aiming to buy boxed and sealed, to get used to the "cart only" deals. I started collecting DVDs by buying the most expensive rarity out there, so just point me in the right direction! ;)
I'm looking to get NES, SNES and N64 stuff at first, seeing as my room is filled to the brim with DVDs there is little room for consoles.

Cart only...bbbrrrr..... :)

Gandhara

06-07-2007, 07:08 PM

hey I'm new here and live in the western U.S., I been a collector and gamer pretty much all my life since the mid to late 80's gaming has always been a passionite entertainment of mine.

I remember playing the old Arcade games like Donkey Kong and Pac-man back in the day (still personal favs to this day!) along with playing Atari 2600, Commodore 64, and of course the NES which was my first system. I was also into Sega Genesis and the old PC DOS stuff (Commander Keen and Duke Nukem etc...) in the 90's.

I collect for all those plus more obscure systems: SMS, BBC Micro and MSX stuff to name a few. I'm a big MSX fan. It had alot of quality 8-bit games that you couldn't find on NES. My username Gandhara is from an old action/rpg MSX2 game I like from Enix (of Dragon Warrior fame) that I wished they would have payed more attention to in the future, but check it out if you have not played it before.

I have so many favorite games so I'll just name some series I like and play often: Pac-man, Gradius, Parodius, Aleste, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Adventure Island, Wonderboy, Shinobi, Strider, Pitfall, Zelda, Sonic, Valis/Fantasm Soldier, Alex Kidd, and Outrun.

Besides Gaming I like collecting the old Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest kf movies.

horseboy

06-08-2007, 01:12 AM

Hey there. I live in northwest arkansas. I collect everything. That's about it.

Deku_Grumble

06-11-2007, 06:42 PM

Hello! My name is Deku_Grumble, and I live in the U.S. I'm 18. That's all I'll say about this for now! :p

I found digitalpress from browsing Google trying to find a forum that was about retrogaming and that many people went to a lot. I found too many retrogaming forums that havent been used in months!

I am a major Nintendo fanboy, so naturally my favorite games are Mario and Zelda. I do have some non-Nintendo systems, the PS2, Genesis, Game Gear. My favorite non-Nintendo series is the Tony Hawk games.

I don't really collect games right now. I just buy stuff I like that's out right now.

In real life, I just graduated from High School. I am going to college to be a computer programmer. I like skateboarding (though I'm not a punk or anything), taking pictures, music, retrogaming, etc.

I started gaming when I was 3, back when the NES started to die and the Super Nintendo was coming out. I got the NES and Super Nintendo, along with the Sega Genesis and the Sega Game Gear. Eventually I couldn't keep getting every system, I'm not that rich! So I liked Nintendo the best so I mainly get Nintendo stuff.

So... see you all around!

clicked

06-12-2007, 03:06 AM

Hey my names clicked and I'm from PR. I'm 16.

I was recommended to the forums by someone on the Nintendo Forums. I love gaming in general. My favorite developer/company is Nintendo. I dont know what I would do without them.

I got into collecting a few months back and I'm starting to build my collection. I have all the Nintendo consoles and almost all the Sega ones, only missing the Master System.

I'm still a High School student. I'm very much into anything related to Tech. On my free time I obviously love playing video games and when I'm not doing that I'm either busy creating stuff on my computer or learning how to do new stuff on it.

See you guys on the boards!

leicamaster

06-13-2007, 06:18 PM

Hi my name is leicamaster! Im 21 and live in PR.

I was recommended to the forums by a friend. I love Nintendo and SEGA. I started collecting like a year ago and own all the Nintendo machines and Im trying to complete the SEGA consoles I only need the Pico,Mark III and the Master System. Hopefully now in July im going on vacation to Japan and hope I find a Mark III.

After work I come home and sit in my computer searching for items on ebay or play video games!!

Chaz From Phantasy Star 2

06-14-2007, 04:09 AM

I'm glad you have friends, leica...... we can't always rely on ourselves alone. Not even me.

Nicholas Onimura

06-15-2007, 08:51 PM

My name is Nick Frei, and I live in Iowa.
I was led here by an article in Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine issue 217.
I love retro gaming, particularly NES, Genesis, SNES, and arcade.
My favorite games and game series are Sonic, Mario, Kirby, Final Fantasy, King of Fighters, Mega Man, Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-A-Move), and River City Ransom.
In my "real life," I'm just a normal high school student.

~Nick

Chaz From Phantasy Star 2

06-15-2007, 09:02 PM

217? Why did it take 217 issues for EGM to mention the legendary DigitalPress!

Spazz

06-18-2007, 06:31 AM

Hello, I'm new and I see there are a lot of arcade gamers on this forum. I'm currently starting on an arcade game project and I need a little help. I'm going to build a Splatterhouse arcade game cabinet with 100% authentic arcade game parts (I'd rather not build a MAME cabinet or anything like it). Has anybody else here done anything like this before that maybe could fill me in with information on anything I may need to know? I'd appreciate the help.

Palmer Eldritch

06-18-2007, 03:02 PM

Hi there,

Name´s Michael. I´ve been passing by these boards for a while now and finally found it prudent to register.

Great site. :)

Willem

06-21-2007, 02:12 AM

Hi,

My name is Willem (duh!), 22 years old, living in The Netherlands.

consoles: NES, SNES, N64, Cube, Wii, PSX, PS2, DreamCast, PC-Engine Duo-R, GameBoy, GBA SP, NDS, PSP. I'm a great fan of Falcom games and will collect anything from Falcom.

I'm a Uni IT student for two more years.

cheaplightning

06-21-2007, 10:45 AM

I am a Canadian otaku living in Japan. I do a lot of buying and selling of games and hope that soon it becomes my primary source of income..
I love the hunt. I love "testing" the games. all in all it just rocks.

Check out my auctions some time!
Im also willing to take any requests to find that elusive game you are looking for here.

Thanks!

CL

Glitch695

06-21-2007, 04:46 PM

What's up folks. This looks to be about the best site for classic gaming I have seen yet. Long story short, I got my first NES when I was 5, and went from there. I mostly collect NES/ SNES/ PS1 stuff; newer stuff doesn't appeal to me very much (with the exception of MGS3, I just got that, and damn). Anyways, glad to be here.

Zork

06-29-2007, 08:22 PM

Hello, my name is Jacob. I'm seventeen and don't have a job so all I do all day is play video games. It's heaven.

I live in New Hampshire in a small, quiet town. It kind of sucks because there are no local stores where I can go to buy games.

I have known about this website for about three years now. I browse the forums all the time, but up until now, I have been too lazy to register. Originally, I found this website through another website which I found out about through nintendo power.

I love and collect all kinds of games, for all kinds of systems. I don't think I have ever played a game that I didn't enjoy(sports games don't count). I am always looking for more games. I can't get enough.

I got into video games at the age of three. My father decided to set up his nintendo, in the living room, for me to play around with. I was hooked after the first day. As I got older, I slowly got more games and more systems. More recently, I have gotten into the collecting aspect of the hobby a lot more. I have been trying to make sure I have complete copies of games and stuff like that.

This forum is amazing for someone who plays and collects video games and I am glad to finally be a member of it! :)

misfits859

06-30-2007, 10:03 PM

Chip here. I live in Kentucky and I've been lurking around these forums for quite awhile...just finally decided to reigster. I'm not so interested in "classic" systems and so forth, although I did cut my teeth on the original Atari 2600. I spend most of my time playing with the current gen consoles and buying any stuff I don't already have for the PS1, DC and N64 gens forward. Lots of good deals on x-box and PS2 stuff in my community lately, so I've been catching up on those items.

:rocker:

Terminusvitae

07-01-2007, 06:16 PM

Good afternoon. I've been using DP as a resource for rarity and reviews for some years now, but I decided to join the forums today.

It is a pleasure to meet you all and I look forward to the possibility of intelligent discussion.

Apollo

07-04-2007, 10:59 AM

I'm Nick, 17, and from Paramus, New Jersey. I was lucky enough to hear about the DP store from a friend, and actually walked inside yesterday. Needless to say i was amazed. Through the store, I found the website, and here I am.

If you ask anyone in my family, they can tell you that I was born to be a gamer. I first picked up an NES controller at the age of 2, and it wasn't to play some Sesame Street game. I started out playing Dragon Warrior and Double Dragon. I was raised well by my NES.

I don't really have a collection as of right now, the largest amount of games I have is for my NES, which comes to a grand total of about 25 or so. I hope to pick up an Super Nintendo, or at least an FC Twin, as my NES is now shorting out a bit. I hope to start a collection of some Super Nintendo games, and hopefully buy some rare imports.

courtesi96

07-07-2007, 08:09 PM

- Who you are

Stephen

- Where you live

Lombard, Illinois

- How you found the forums

Yahoooooo-ooooo

- What your favorite games are

My "favorites" change all the time.

- What systems you collect for

I only have a game boy advance right now. I used to own quite a few systems. I am growing a bit bored of todays games. I want to buy some older systems but I'm not sure which will bring me the most happiness.

- What you do in "real life"

I am a computer programmer. After 12 years I am doing some soul searching and thinking of a career change.

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

I don't think I was ever a collector. I mean, I always purchased games that I knew were good and that I'd want to play. However, after down sizing my stuff I'm not sure it was a good idea.

fillo300zx

07-09-2007, 06:40 PM

Hey everyone, my name is Jason. I currently work at the University of Delaware while studying for my masters. I found out about this website from co-worker who just so happens to be an admin :cheers:

I started gaming at NES and if there is one game i regret never beating for that, its Little Nemo. I have played on every system since then. My favorite types of games are FPS, RPG, and shmups. there is only one fighting game i like to play, SSBM. While certainly not the best, I did manage to fair well in the tournaments i used to go to.

I don't get rid of games that I buy, so i am definitely curious to find out what artifacts i may posses (if any).

Other than gaming, i love driving cars. i own a 74 chevy nova, and a 93 300zx. i love to play with both and drive them on nice weekends. \

pleasure to meet you all

-Fillo

velvet396

07-10-2007, 10:53 AM

- Who you are

Chad

How old are you? (If you don't mind shocking us)

25

- Where you live

Newark, OH - possibly Pittsburgh, PA soon.

- How you found the forums

Started the Online Rarity Guide last summer when I realized I could buy all the old gaming systems I never got to have while I was growing up!!

- What your favorite games are

Cop-out answer: too many to choose. I currently try to cycle between playing PS2, 360, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, NES, Cube, and sometimes Wii.

- What systems you collect for

Primarily Genesis as it's the easiest to find in my semi-hick town. NES carts are also everywhere, but they seem to be more overpriced and less fun (or I really remember Genny better than NES, due to my age and when I played them growing up, and therefore they have less nostalgia value).

- What you do in "real life"

Marketing Director for a nonprofit theatre. Currently looking forward to finding and starting my 2nd job post-grad.

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

I always used to sell my games as a kid to trade up to the newest system. Great practice at the time, but now I'm stuck trying to recollect anything I used to have. That's how it started last summer - and I quickly decided to try and expand into things that I never got to have. I don't see myself as a collector, more of a game gatherer. "Factory Sealed" = useless to me.

Cool story to note for the future: I read about one gamer/collector who used to trade up all his stuff for newer games & systems, with one major catch. It was his parents that used to buy the stuff from him. Unbeknownst to him, his parents hoarded all the stuff he "traded in", paying him for it as if they sold it, then upon reaching a certain age in his 20's (I don't recall and it doesn't matter) they revealed to him everything he thought he got rid of previously. Needless to say, sudden massive collection. I would've cried/died.

FoxyGamer

07-12-2007, 10:46 PM

[QUOTE=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.QUOTE]

I am a girl that collects, plays, lives, and breathes video games in New Jersey with her husband.

I found the forums because of the online rarity guide digital press has; I've gone to the VG Expo, formerly Philly Classic, for 3 years in a row now, and Digi Press always has guys selling books, so I thought I'd have a look see at how rare my collection actually is.

My favorite games are mostly role playing, puzzle, and rhythm, but I play everything, from old point and click adventures from Lucas Arts on the PC, to tactical games like the Might and Magic series. If you were to ask me what my favorite games are, though? in the Role Playing category, it's a close tie between Final Fantasy VI and Suikoden II. Puzzle game would have to be Super Puzzle Fighter, and Rhythm is gonna be Gitaroo Man.

I collect all systems, old and new. I have a method to my madness- I prefer role playing titles and good games in general, plus anything Atlus, Koei, Capcom, Konami, Nintendo, and Sega. I collect for nostalgia and gameplay over rarity for the most part, but these days, I'm looking to fill my collection out with some rarer pieces.

IRL I'm a graphic designer- need anything done? Im totally available for freelance and I love working with video game themes.

I had like EVERYTHING when I was a kid, my brother and I were bookish types, either reading or playing games as opposed to playing outside- I didn't even learn to ride a bike till I was 12. Needless to say I had a fairly stellar stash of stuff that goes for hundreds on ebay now, but it's all lost to moves and time. When I graduated college and moved in with my husband, one day we decided to pick up Jumping Flash for him, but it had to be in the long box. I thought- you know, I'd really like to own all of those good games again. So, we were off to the races.

FVJVMVP

07-15-2007, 08:04 PM

I've been viewing this site and collecting everything from offbeat handheld game cartridges to vintage game toys for almost two years and now I feel it's time to atleast scrape-off the excess of my vast (but not as good as most people here) collection. Obviously I'll need alot of help, although I probably won't sell online, and what better place to recieve game advice than from the big dogs themselves?

mr.soul

07-17-2007, 10:26 PM

- My name is Neil
- I live in western PA
- I found these forums because one of my teachers told me about them. He's about 100 games short of a full NES collection and when he found out I was into old school games, he told me about this site.
- My favorite games: Metroid, NiGHTs, Kaboom!, Crash Bandicoot PSX series, Grand Theft Auto series
- As of right now I have a 2600, NES, SNES, N64, Wii, PSX, PS2, Saturn, and Genesis. I collect for all except the PSX and PS2 since I had them in their heyday.
- I work at CVS in "real life", other than that I go to school or consume vast portions of junk food.
- I began collecting for the NES. I bought one and thought it would be really fun to play. My parents deprived me of video games until I was about 10 so it was kind of a late start for me. :P

MF_Luder

07-18-2007, 06:17 PM

I've been mooching off Digital Press for a couple years now to use the very high-quality Online Rarity Guide. :) I really never paid much attention to the forums at all until I needed pricing advice on an arcade cabinet. I figured it was mostly the young crowd that ran on forums and I was too old for it. However, so far, I've been impressed with the discussion here and the maturity of both the young and "older" posters on the board. And I've enjoyed participating in it as well... so I guess I was wrong about myself.

I collect basically EVERYTHING hand-held or console from any era. I've played games all my life (started on the 2600), but I got heavy into it around the SNES and PS1 era. I was always casual about games, until 2D and then 3D RPGs really drew me in, and since then it has expanded to all genres (plus I just don't have the time to play many RPGs anymore). I really have no "preferred" system to collect for, although I don't collect too much for systems pre-NES. I guess if I had to pick one I would say that I probably tend to put the most focus on my Saturn collection. I tend to find the systems that did poorly when they came out (like 3DO and Saturn) more fun to collect for than the ones that I already played to death when they were current (like SNES and PS1).

In "real life" I work in law enforcement. However, I sell video games on the side as well (mostly through eBay), but usually only duplicate games and systems that I've picked up in large lots I buy from people in my local area.

Monsieur_Verdoux

07-19-2007, 05:35 AM

I'm 23, live in the UK, and have an extremely boring job.

I'm counting the days till late September when I can return to university and study a Masters journalism course. After that, I'd probably like to take what is currently occasional freelance writing to a professional level!

I own far too much games stuff. Nothing fancy, just lots of it:

-Megadrive, Mega-CD, 32X with 60-odd games across the three formats, and a whole bundle of others for the Master System convertor. This stuff is probably what I'd consider the jewel in the crown of my collections!

-Game Gear with 20 or so games (and silly peripherals like the dodgy TV card and magnifier thing)

-Saturn with 30ish games

-Playstation with about 20 games

-Dreamcast with A LOT of games (most of which are worthless and crap, like 'Soul Fighter' or that awful fighter jet game).

-N64 with bare minimum of "good" titles (i.e. Mario 64, Goldeneye, Lylat Wars...)

I guess the only modern(ish) console I'm currently running is a Gamecube, with 40+ titles (including Twilight Princess, the GC version of which I'd defend with my life over the lazy, cash-in Wii version!).

I've also got a Tiger 'game.com' and recently had the misfortune to pick up 'Sonic Jam'. What were they thinking?? =)

Juskin

07-19-2007, 05:19 PM

I'm somewhat retro.

My favorite game is Super Mario Bros. 3....

I really enjoy playing old games on my GBA player, legal emulators, and virtual console.

I miss 2D games so.

Shatterstar

07-20-2007, 07:31 PM

Welcome, Shatterstar.
You last visited: 11-05-2003 at 01:44 AM

I only had 2 posts but it's good to be back.

ninjabearhug

07-21-2007, 03:19 PM

Hi everyone.
I joined a while ago but i got sidetracked and never got round to introducing myself. My name is Stewart, i'm 26 and live in the UK. I've been around the scene for a long time but up until recently, i've always taken a back seat due to lack of free time. I'm interested in all aspects of gaming but my main passion is SEGA. Well that's the intro over back to scanning those awesome rooms of doom

Spinal

07-24-2007, 08:27 PM

Its taken me ages, but I'm back! Everything has changed so much, I feel I need to re-introduce myself!

So howdy folks!

What happened to all the meseta system and the buying/selling of icons? That was pretty impressive!

Super Sonic 5

07-24-2007, 11:40 PM

Hello. Nice forum you guys have here. I go by Super Sonic 5 'round most boards, but play all kinds of games. I found DP a while ago, but just joined the forums once I saw that the people here play so many classic games.

My systems include NES, SNES, N64, GC, Wii, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, Xbox, 3D0, TG16, CD-I, Game Boy (Broken), Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, GBA, a dead Game Gear, and a C64 I picked up for 5$ with no games. Oh, and a Super Game Boy, but that's not a real system. Whew... Anyway, during the summer, I'll be posting here some and lurking here more.

TheDomesticInstitution

07-25-2007, 05:14 PM

My name is Mark... and I've been reading DP for a few weeks now... I live in and around Orlando, FL... enjoy Horror and Sc-Fi movies, candle lit dinners, and rose petals... I have a game and system collection that pales in comparison to most on here (it appears)- but I've been playing video games since the mid 80s- and although not as harcore as a some of you fellow gamers, still enjoy and play games to this day.

I'm a bit of an electronics and A/V nerd, so I'll be glad to try and answer some questions, provided no "hatin' " is thrown my way. I am also good with poor sentence structure, misspelled words, and commas.

Frankzilla

08-01-2007, 08:35 PM

I'm Frank, I'm 21 years old from Magnolia, New Jersey. I was directed to the site from the GameFAQs Classic Gaming board.

My favorite games are, well there are too many to list, but I'm a huge fan of the Castelvania, Final Fantasy, and Zelda series. Old 2D Mario and Sonic games are up there also, as well as loads of RPGs.

I've just recently begun collecting, and I'm working on collecting large amounts of games for: NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, Master System, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PSX, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, PSP, Game Gear. Yeah, I'm not really focusing on few consoles, as you can see I'm going for just a large collection, something I'll be working on for many years to come.

I currently work at Gamestop in Deptford, NJ, and I'm planning on going to school for Journalism.

I started collecting after browsing some forums and seeing some people's large collections, and I decided I wanted to start one of my own, so I'm a relative newb to this, but I think in a few months I'll have a somewhat decent collection.

Barracuda

08-02-2007, 07:13 PM

My name is Jason I am 22 years old and I'm from Wausau, WI.

My favorite types of games are RPG's.

I collect mostly for the Sega Genesis, but I will pick something up if it is a good deal.

I work as a location attendent for a vending company, and plan on going back to school as soon as my wife finishes her schooling.

Well that's me.

Barbarianoutkast85

08-03-2007, 02:13 AM

DPer's

My name is Christopher Long. I live in the suburbs of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (The capital of the state). I found the forums in 2003 when a high school buddy of mine found a complete list of Nintendo Entertainment System games. I collect games for every console that I can get my hands on, right now I have roughly 15 consoles. What I do in "real life" is I am a sports writer for the Daily Item newspaper. I began collecting originally for the Sega Genesis becuase a friend and I were talking about old games that we used to play as kids, and we picked some up for a few bucks at a pawn shop and I've never looked back brother.

Chris

Fuzzball24

08-03-2007, 02:20 AM

I'm Nick, I'm just a kid, but love games just as much as people young or old! I have a measly collection of 160 games or so, but I plan to reach 200 by the end of the year. My first system was the SNES. I don't have many systems compared to you guys, but compared to my friends I'm the gaming God! Haha, well my friend has a few more...:frustrated:

See you around the forums!

Dayan X

08-04-2007, 12:38 PM

Greetings fanboy & girls, I'm Ron, I live in Houston Texas. I'm here because I was drafted into service. I'm kidding. Damaramu gave me a heads up.

I love FPS, mech combat games, RTS, and the ocasional Platformer or RPG. Current favorites are SLAI and Dragon Quest 8. I'm collecting for the GBA and PS2. I'd like to get as many as I can before they become defunct.

IRL I'm an artist and writer though I am a commissioned security officer to pay the bills. Which means that I split my funding between games and guns.

I wouldn't say I'm an avid collector. I don't really care about shutting my stuff away in a dark vault with packets of dessicant. I've lost my possessions too many times to be that anal lol. But once I buy a game chances are I won't get rid of it ever since I never know when I'll get the urge to play it.

I especially will never get rid of any multy player 'party games'. Many good times were to be had on a Friday night at art school playing Rush 2049 or Toy Commander

Kunk One

08-06-2007, 03:14 AM

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So it begins. Looking forward to Jagfest '08!

8bitgamer

08-08-2007, 01:40 PM

My name is Brett Weiss, author of Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide. I'm also on the Comics Buyer's Guide Review Crew and have written for Classic Gamer Magazine, Toy Shop, Scary Monsters, and other publications.

My favorite modern system is the PS2 (I love Maximo 1 & 2 and the various retro collections) while the ColecoVision holds the top spot for best classic system.

For more info, check out my blog:

http://brettweisswords.blogspot.com/

Thanks!

Brett

Nintendo72

08-08-2007, 03:01 PM

I browsed/posted about my listings this forum with a different nick 3 years ago while selling used NES/Genesis/SNES consoles on ebay. I've been to CGE once and E3 three times where a good amount of stuff was accumulated.

I plan to get rid of my extra stuff via ebay when I'm off work. It'll be easier to find those cooler games and will make moving from place to place a cinch if I ever need to again.

I work crazy hours at a videogame developer but do have some listings on ebay.
When I'm off work I'll be listing stuff a lot more. Feel free hit me up for a loose and boxed nes inventory list, or anything.

Little Samson

08-10-2007, 10:34 PM

Hi! I'm Dave, from the Chicago area. I found the forums through an eBay member I completed a transaction with.

I collect for the NES, though I keep around my Sega Genesis and Saturn from when I was a kid. For the NES, most of my favorite games are the classics: the Mega Man and Castlevania games, etc. I also love Little Samson (obviously), which I hadn't heard of as a kid but discovered while collecting -- what a great game! I also really like Stack-Up and Gyromite for some reason. I know they're not supposed to be fun, but I really enjoy them :P

For other systems, I love the Shining Force series (I, II and IIIa), Dragon Force, and Mystaria.

In real life, I'm an applied math grad student. I've had my NES since I was a kid, but I didn't really get into collecting games until recently. I started refurbishing broken NES systems to sell to make some extra cash, and along the way, I ended up with quite a few games and started looking for other games that I found interesting or enjoyable.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Nin10do72

08-11-2007, 02:57 PM

Hi, I introduced myself earlier but recently made a new account so hello again. Is anyone new to the forums a Golgo 13 or old skool NES fan?

neogamer

08-11-2007, 09:27 PM

Okay, here it goes! This is my first time on any type of video game forum! I am an avid collector and gamer of just about anything! I live in PA and have just returned to college to finish another business degree (boring I know)!

Anyway, my name is Shawn, am thirty years old (I still like to consider myself 29)-LOL and just wanted to say hi! I can provide a lot of knowledge and can probably learn some too!

So, I guess the question is now what do I do here!??

:help:

lintwarp

08-11-2007, 11:24 PM

I'm Kevan, and I currently live in southern GA. I've been (mostly) out of the collecting loop for some years. However, I amassed a sizeable collection of classic games back in the mid to late 90s while living in Portland, OR. Most of my stuff came from thrift stores out there. Back in the early 90s I used to read RGVC a lot and ended up contributing to the 5200 and Handheld FAQs. I also attended one of the CGEs in Las Vegas around 2000(?) and a NWCGE in Seattle around 2001(?). I've always been more of a lurker than anything else, but I do post to various forums on occasion.

I've been on this site before, but never used the forums. However, I just sold a number of items to another user (Kevin H), and he suggested I check out the Digital Press forums so here I am. Most of my collection consists of 2600, 5200, 7800, Colecovision, Intellivision, Vectrex, handhelds, and some other similar era items/systems. I'm currently slowly selling off the majority of my collection, but I plan to keep the Vectrex items. For the most part I'm not looking to trade, but I am open to possibly trading for Vectrex items...there are a lot of Vectrex items I don't have.

Oh well, I guess that's it for now. Later!

IntelliDude

08-12-2007, 11:35 AM

I'm Brian, I'm 34 and I live in lovely Greendale, WI. An avid gamer since 1978 when my folks got a Pong system, I am especially fond of classic consoles. Intellivision was my first system and remains my favorite to this day. Other systems I collect for and enjoy include NES, Apple ][, Vectrex and Dreamcast.

As soon as I got on the Ebay train, I found myself buying far more stuff than I would ever need or play, so I've been "thinning the herd" just a bit. The best advice I can give to someone who wants to start a collection would be to define what you really want to collect and stick to it. Just because you CAN get everything doesn't mean you SHOULD do so. Limiting yourself a bit is wise due to the amount of space that these things can occupy. Not to mention the fact that you're probably prone to a 40-year-old virgin type of moment if you're not careful! A lot of people, especially women (sorry, ladies), will not understand your obsession--perhaps with good reason.

I do play current games, though I'm not very good at newer stuff. My XBOX live gamertag is HeavyNova--friend requests are encouraged. I have a 360 and am currently playing Gears of War and Guitar Hero II.

I also love rock music and have my own band that plays the Milwaukee area regularly. We've just released our first full length album. Check us out at www.heavynovarocks.com and sign the guestbook while you're there.

I'd love to find a few other Intellivision fans in my area who'd like to get together every so often for some gaming. If you're interested, send me a personal message. In fact, I'd love to make some collector friends in the area, so I invite all responses.

I've gotta go--I've got bandits at 12 o'clock!!!

Brian :rocker:

lozz

08-14-2007, 06:09 PM

Hey guys,

My name is lozz.
I live in the UK and i was born in the year 1991.

My "main" console which i adore is my Dreamcast.
I bought it quite late in 2005 and am still playing online with it now.
I love PSO and on the "final weekend" earlier this year
before the servers shutdown, i managed to get in over 37 hours gameplay.

My first console was my Playstation (chipped obviously)
I still have him, however i preffer to play on my psone with LCD screen.

Recently I have bought an N-gage QD and SNES.

The only current gen console i own is my PSP, which i have had since the
UK release date back in september 2005.

Other than games i love to play my guitar, listen to music and go to gigs.
I'm also obsessive over skateboarding which i have been doing since i can
remember.

anyhoo thats me,
PEace, lozz.

Nintendork

08-16-2007, 11:57 AM

Well not so much anymore I suppose. I haven't graduated past the Gamecube and Game Boy Advance!

It's been a long time since I contributed to this forum so I wanted to take this time to introduce myself.

My name is Kevin. I am now happily married and currently reside in Souderton, PA (in the Philadelphia region, Montgomery county). I am currently looking for a new job so hopefully something will turn up sometime soon. In the midst of job searching I have been using some down time to expand on some personal projects, such as scanning old photographs to build a digital archive, I have been maintaining my blog, cleaning up around the apartment, and gradually moving old things from my parents' house to the apartment.

I've been spending today checking out my old stomping grounds and forums online since the weather is kind of down. I plan on checking in here a little more often than I have in the past few years now, as I look for some good casual gaming conversation and a chance to reminisce about the past and find out what to look forward to in the future.