Introduce Yourself!

[HYB]

- Who you are

I am Hanna.

- Where you live

I hail from the cold north. Finland,Europe.

- How you found the forums

I was browsing around a Finnish castlevania site evaluating my goods and noticed a link to the search. I found the forums and was quickly hooked (I've been lurking for a couple of days).

- What your favorite games are

Well shoop da whoop. Hell if I know. Serieswise Castlevania,Zelda and Metroid probably but I'll play anything.

- What systems you collect for

I'm collecting mainly anything castlevania. Just got my nes (i've had 20 but i didn't know how to set the tv channels up until last week and tought of them as faulty XD;) and I've started collecting games for that. So mainly NES and SNES and some new games that are good.

- What you do in "real life"

Play videogames. Sometimes i lurk around forums and read. Most probably you'll see me in front of photoshop practising my digital painting or in school.

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

I began collecting seriously last week. I've spent over 200 euros and my heart is aching right now. But you could say I've collected most of the games I want from GC and upwards (but I'm poor and have no job so it's been slow XD;).

[pedrogames.com]

Hey everyone, Doug here. One half of Pedro! Games, an all ebay venture at the moment. Just stopping in to see what's going on outside of our little world.

We sell primarily Nintendo NES games and accessories on ebay, and will soon be expanding to a website, which will for the near future be for informational purposes only, with bigger plans for later.

Check us out when you have a moment, and if you mention that you are a registered member of Digital Press, I'll throw a discount your way on your first purchase with us.

[caveman_games]

Hello my name is chris and i am a newbie to this digitpress forum.
I am interested in PS2 demos
I have alot of atari 2600 games for sale. If you are an atari fan and have any wishes let me know. pm me or email me.

I sell on ebay and will be there quite regularly.

if you like one of my items let me know

thanks,
chris

[Chadmahn]

Hello, I'm Chad and I'm from New Jersey(Morris County). I discovered Digital Press the other day when a friend and I were driving through Clifton to get some Hot Grill. I've been playing video games and computer games since I was 4. The first game I ever played was Kirby's Dreamland on my shared(i have a brother so the systems sorta got shared,until I started playing more games than him) fat original grey gameboy. Over the course of time, I have/had a NES,Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy SP, PSP SNES, N64, PS2 and Wii. I sold the PS2 for cash to get Wii, I sold PSP because I needed cash and I was sorta getting tired of it(I was annoyed Tekken: Dark Reserection didn't have online play and Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops was a great game, but it sorta just got old after awhile), the NES is at my grandparents' house to give bring back great gaming memories when I'm bored there. My favorite games are, Super Smash Bros., Resident Evil 4, Warcraft III(I used to play WoW since it came out, but I lost interest over the year) and Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion. Outside of videogames, I like hanging with friends, playing soccer,reading, and watching english premiership football

[colicub]

Yeah, h'lo peoples! Figured I'd best fill this in....

- Who you are

Colin, 25. *waves*

- Where you live

The strangely sunny for this time of year Edinburgh in Scotland.

- How you found the forums

Can't remember, think I got linked by a friend a while ago. Took my sweet time in joining though.

- What your favorite games are

Aaaaah.......Quackshot, Jet Set Radio Future, Space Channel 5 Part 2, Viva Pinata, the Pokemon series, Toejam & Earl: Panic On Funkotron.

- What systems you collect for

God, pretty much anything. The system I have the most games for is my Mega Drive though.

- What you do in "real life"

I work for Blockbuster Games, formerly a branch of Gamestation.

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

I also collect vinyl records. And I seem to be collecting random stuff. And I started collecting seriously when I got to University and found a couple of good shops nearby. A few years later I got a job at the Game On exhibition, and it grew from there. Exponentially.

[Wraith Storm]

Im Derek. I live in Oklahoma and have been into games all my life. Im a HUGE retro gamer. I like new games but I LOVE old games. I pride myself in that I can answer almost any question someone has regarding the NES, Turbo Duo, or any Sega system. But my intrests dont just lie with games. I also love cartoons and Anime. I LOVE hand drawn cel animation and it makes me really, really, REALLY angry that almost all american studios have gone to CG animation!!! CG animation destroies every single thing I hold dear about cel animation!!! I also really like movies. While I enjoy the stuff Hollywood churns out and entertain myself with reading all the cool asian movies, the movies I love most are the Itallian flicks. From the Spaghettie Westerns to the Giallo to the Zombie films, Itally makes the greatest movies ever! With Directors Like Dario Argento, Michele Soavi, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci you cant go wrong.

[Mattdog]

Hello everyone,

My name is Matt and I live in the Birmingham, Al area.

I've been browsing the boards here for several years and I finally decided to sign up.

I've been playing and collecting videogames since the Atari days. Some of my all time favorite games include Phantasy Star 1, 2, and 4, Zelda Link to the Past on SNES, and the entire Metroid series. More recently I just finished Okami, which was a fantastic game. I also enjoy building Gundam model kits.

I hope to meet some new friends here and share common intrests.

[grolt]

Hello, my name is Rhett and I come here from Calgary, Canada. I've got a Bachelor of Communication Studies, so I'm more interested in video gaming as an art form than something to just plug in and play. I'm actually more interested in just reading about games, the evolution of the medium and the impact gaming can have on our perception.

I'm also a collector too, focusing on the neglected Sega systems, mainly the Saturn and the Master System, although recently I've been dabbling into Sega CD and 32X. The reason for this is twofold, since I respect them the most as innovators in the medium, always doing more than offering mere games. They sold experiences, whether it was through 3D glasses and dual slots in the Master System days, or online gameplay, internal hard drives and time-sensitive gameplay alternatives with the Saturn. Nintendo and Sony had more success by taking the middle road (which is probably why the Sega's worst system, the Genesis, did the best), but Sega won admiration for always pushing the limits.

My other reason for collecting Saturn and Master System games before all others is the beautiful uniformity of their packaging. Throughout their runs, Sega stuck with the same big, beautiful packaging all the way (unlike with the Genesis, Dreamcast, and PlayStation). It's a thing of beauty looking at all those bold, crisp Saturn spines lined in a row. The Master System games were even more impressive though, from an artistic standpoint, embracing minimalism with their usual singular object amidst a gridded background.

As for favorite games, here's a short sample of various genres:

NiGHTS
-Bar none the best, the gameplay is still a total original today, and the world's are so beautifully detailed and surreal that it's impossible to not want to get lost in this game during every waking moment.

FINAL FANTASY VII
-The most commercial of the franchise, sure, but man the story is a deep, dark labyrinth of post-modern alienation.

VIRTUA FIGHTER
-Such an iconic game with amazingly deep fighting dynamics and the simplicity of the graphics elevates it into a thing of abstract beauty

MARIO 64:
-Like VF, it redefined how we look at simple genres, opening them up to a huge world of endless possibilities. I'll never forget the awe of playing this game for the first time.

ASTAL
-In terms of platformers, there is no game more beautiful.

SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP NETLINK EDITION
-My favorite racer with the wonderfully loose control and terrain-sensitive handling got even better with the NetLink option. Even to this day it offers beautiful hi-res multiplayer gameplay without any lag...talk about replay value.

WONDER BOY IN MONSTER WORLD
-The best of the 8-bit platformers, it brought an RPG complexity and amazingly detailed graphics to what's supposed to be just a jump and punch genre.

QUAKE
-the ultimate online game, with gameplay and level design so intricate that strategy could be utilized with amazing precision. Most first person shooters I'd call diversions, but this elevated the genre to art.

SONIC ADVENTURE
-Another title to demonstrate the wonder and innovation capable at Sega during their prime. While the non-Sonic stages were at times spotty, the gameplay was at least always unique. And then there are those Sonic levels, cinematic in their visual splendor and totally intense in their speed. That killer whale set-piece is unforgettable. Add in those VMU chaos, online downloads and time attack, and it's a game that begged to never be put down.

While I always played games as a child, and owned most of the big systems, the Saturn was the first one I saved my own money for to purchase, and as a testament to Sega's hardware quality, it still runs as good today as it did twelve years ago (and three PS2's later).

I've basically out grown gaming in a traditional sense, so the last system I bought was, day and date, a Dreamcast. If Sega jumped into the ring again I'd probably shell out, but I rarely have the time or patience to play modern games. In my eyes, games got as complex as they needed to in the 32-bit era...everything else has been excess.

Still, I admire and collect those vintage systems, taking in the creativity those designers needed to have to make these little abstract pixels and sprites signify a whole other world.

[Tiktaalik]

Hi I'm Tavis and I'm a game developer from Vancouver, BC.

I'm fairly young so I don't have nostalgia for anything earlier than the NES, but I've been an avid collector of just about everything since then and recently the Colecovision, of which one I managed to find a year or so ago.

When I was a kid I actually wasn't allowed to own an NES despite all my other friends having one, and I had to go play outside and with regular toys etc. My first real system was the Gameboy, which my parents gave me, and the SNES, which I bought myself with paper boy route money. Maybe it's because it's my first real console, but SNES is the one I love collecting for the most, and the one that I probably have the best collection for.

I don't collect for collecting's sake, so I don't own multiple sku, sealed copies of games or anything. I basically collect so that I can try out the games that I've never been able to play before. Recently though, probably because I have a real job and some money, I've been more selective in my collecting, and leaning toward wanting complete boxes and everything. When I was a kid I'd settle for cart only copies of just about anything.

As I mentioned before my favourite system to collect for is the SNES, but I've nearly got just about every good game for the system at this point. In the last week I got a Super Scope and Battleclash and Metal Combat though, which was a great experience, so there are still things I haven't tried. After years of not having an NES, I finally got one a short while ago, but it seems almost too daunting to start collecting for. I've made a point to pick up a few of my favourites (Ice Hockey, Mario 3, Ninja Gaiden so far) when I see them though.

To finish my introduction I have a question about the forums: When I logged on I saw a bunch of extra forums such as "Marketplace" and "What is it Worth" but then when I tried to post in them it wouldn't let me. When I logged off and logged back in, they were gone. What's going on? How do I access these? PM me the answer if this introduction forum isn't the proper place to ask. There didn't seem to be an FAQ thread anywhere.

EDIT: Forgot to mention my favourite game: EARTHBOUND for the SNES. That game is totally incredibly awesome.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Hey all, I figure this is a good place for a first post ... scratch that, the BEST place for a first post.

So, let's go through this questionnaire line by line, ready? Go!

Who am I? I am Frankie, and I probably don't REALLY hate you. Not yet anyway. Go ahead, just GIVE me a reason. ;)

Where do I live? Lyndhurst, NJ. Fun times and swamp gas stink from the bordering "Meadowlands".

How did I find this forum? Hell, I'm surprised it took me TWO YEARS to find the Digital Press STORE, considering how close I am to it! I'm not exactly sure how I found the forums ... they kind of came to me in a dream.

What are my favorite games? Oh jeez. I've been gaming since the Atari 2600, so that's a long, hard list to pull from, but some the highlights are Burgertime, Super Pac-Man, River City Ransom, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Ghouls N' Ghosts, Rival Schools 1, The WWE Smackdown series, The Timesplitters series, and most recently I named Resident Evil 4 the "action adventure game of the century" in my mind.

What systems do I collect for? I own just about everything since Pong ... so I collect pretty much everything. I do have an almost COMPLETE (US) Sega Master System games collection, which I acquired all in one fail swoop (ask me about how I came across that sometime, it's quite the story), and I love continuing to bring my Atari 2600 collection one step closer to complete (I'm only missing a handful of games there).

What do I do in "real life"? What is this "real life" you speak of? Yes. I do lots of "things", some I even get paid for! I manage a movie theatre, I'm a freelance graphic artist, a part-time stand up comedian, and I'm fully licensed to teach high school ... I just need to find a high school that has an opening in the art department. (If you know of any drop me a line!)

Other interesting facts about moi? I managed the Funcoland at the Willowbrook mall for about 4 years, from around 1996 to 2001 - from the Sega Saturn all the way through to the launch of the PS2. So, not only do I have a healthy game collection from those years, but I've got a WEALTH of game retail stories that might even be able to rival Joe's. Who knows. Maybe. It was equal parts love and hate (Loved the product, hated the annoying customers). Perhaps you pissed me off and I threw you out of the store once? If so ... don't drop me a line. Please.

[The Snappy Sneezer]

I am Jeremiah from Louisiana I collect games for all systems I have, Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, PS1,2, Dreamcast, Xbox. Games I love include Ms.Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Beserk, Gunstar Heroes, Pirates of DarkWater (Genesis, my favorite licensced game), Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, King of Fighters, Burger Time (Back when this first came out there was a burger place here called Burger Tyme that had a special spice to it and everytime I play this game I smell that type of burger), Persona 3, Missle Command, Crackpots, Super Mario, Athena... I am a painter in reality and a freelance adventurer. I like old movies, such as the comedies of that famous 1930's duo Wheeler & Woolsey. Their greatest films include Cockeyed Cavailers, Diplomaniacs, Peach-O-Reno, Cracked Nuts and Hips Hips Hooray. I also have special for Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Roscoe Arbuckle, Charley Chase, Betty Boop, Looney Tunes and the Van Beuren studio of animated shorts.

[The Jack Of Hearts]

- Who you are

Gabe

- Where you live

Port Angeles, Washington

- How you found the forums

I found these forums by accident while I was searching for some gaming avatars.

- What your favorite games are

My favorite games are Super Mario Bros 3., Castlevania Symphony Of The Night, Final Fantasy IV, Tetris, Fire Emblem P.O.R., Super Metroid, Pacman, Elite Beat Agents, Chrono Trigger, and plenty more.

- What systems you collect for

NES, Super NES, Genesis, Game Gear, Dreamcast, N64, Gamecube, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Playstation Portable, Playstation, Playstation 2, XBOX 360, and Nintendo Wii.

- What you do in "real life"

I'm a full time college student working towards my A. A. degree in music, I'm also trying for a minor in Graphic Design. I work at Good Will part time as a donations attendent to some extra cash for other things such as Clothes, CDs, DVDs, Anime, Manga, etc.

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

I use to go by haxblue17 on the Nintendo boards before they went down and I'm haxsawblue17 on the pojo boards.

I love singing and have been for the last sixteen years.

I started collecting games around 1991 when the Super Nintendo came out so needless to say, I've been at this for a while lol.

[Dreamcast]

Hey guys! im new.

[THeX]

Hi Everyone,

I'm from Melbourne, Australia.

I have some Mattel Intellivision stuff (which I'm selling), plus I'm into Dreamcast, Megadrive, SNES and Xbox.

My favourite games are the X-Wing Tie Fighter series on PC.

[DragonBomber]

My name is rAy, although I use Drache online. Been on the newsgroup since '96 as well as EFNet. I talk total bollocks and make little sense to anyone on there, which is fine by me. Don't take it personal if I made your IRC screen NSFW. I have registered here several times it seems and been deleted since I never posted, I guess. I have corrupted my wife with EFNet so it's all good. She is MUCH better than I will ever be at RPGs so props to her.

I mainly collect bemani games, Bomberman titles, and games for random systems I have held onto. I had about 25 unique systems at one time (boxed Magnavox Odyssey forward) and a room of games/hardware/boxes until I had to sell them off. I miss the gear sometimes but I still find amusing things so it worked out for the best. I tend to buy movies and Bomberman/music games more than anything now. That and watch British comedy and drama.

Been out of college nearly a year now (Sociology major) and work at a library. It's peaceful unlike my former jobs. I think I am getting back into NES but I'm not sure yet. Have that itch sometimes you know? Just something cool about videogame packaging. Shout out to anyone in San Luis Obispo County, CA, Oswego County, NY, and Rowan County, NC. I've been here since '98 and it's been good to me so far though I sometimes miss NY and CA.

Take it easy folks.

Drache

[DragonBomber]

Somehow I forgot the most important thing to mention. I can eat liquid lava quite nearly and love hot foods, peppers, wasabi, etc. If it isn't nearly killing me, making me cry, or whatnot, I'm not smiling.

Drache

[steeniekins]

I guess I'll start off by saying.
My name is Kristina, or Steenie, I use that nickname for pretty much everything.

I live the lovely city of Surrey BC Canada. Which isn't all that lovely.

I was told by a friend of mine about this forum. I was looking to get just the boxes and manuals for a couple games that I have so he suggested I post on here, and perhaps I could get those sent to me or something.

My favourite games are:
Harvest Moon (for any system)
Parasite Eve
Legend of Mana
DDR
God of War (both of them)
I have a ton more that I like but those are the top 5 I guess

I pretty much collect for any system. I want to have a huge game collection. I currently only have just over 80 games right now. I typed up my want list and it's at 352 right now, and there are about another 10games that haven't been released yet that I want. I'm mainly collecting for the older systems right now and then I'll move up. I want to collect all the Castlevania, Harvest moon, Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy games.

Haha real life? I work in an office type of setting. Setting up appointments for salesmen all over the US and Canada to sell walk-in bathtubs for Premier Bathrooms. BAHA I control 82people. It's a pretty laid-back job. Most of the time I take naps, and before it was banned, I used to play games on the internet.

Hmm I've been playing games since as long as I can remember. I was probably about 3yrs old when I played the classic Super Mario Bros on NES. Most of the time I watched my brother play. I only really starting getting into playing games when I was about 10. The first RPG I ever played was FF8. I only really started collecting about a year ago when I managed a video game store for about 8months until it was sold off. I loved that game cuz that is were I met one of my good friends who collected video games. She had a collection of about 300 games and it grows everyday. So that inspired me to start collecting. So I went from about 30 games to the 83 in about 6months. And it's still going. Haha I am expecting about 2games next week from ebay actually. (Stunt Race for SNES and Croc for PS1)

So yeah..I suppose that's all.

[Vorpal86]

Hello folks. My name is Kevin Hansen. I'm from Florida but moved to Dallas Texas.

I enjoy long walks on the beach, and.. wait, wrong forum. Anyhow. I try to collect as much stuff as possible, especially hard-to-find items. I found this forum a while back, but only had time to stay for a few minutes, I never got back. BUT here I am again. I was looking for some retro NES information and stumbled here.

I try and collect for any system I grew to enjoy over time, which was rather a nice chunk of them. Nintendo is my biggest appreciacian because they have been so innovative in their history. They have been around for at least 100 years and I can respect their work! Of course they only started into the video game scene around 1980. At least the company was kept in the family.

In real life I am a computer and electronics technician, soon to work for a game console repair facility. I hope anyway. If I could live out of a factory sealed game b0x, I probably would! But how much would I be worth?

I hope I enjoy my stay here, and I hope there are complimentary mints as well.

[Shinichi Chiba]

Hello all my name is George and I am from New York . I mainly collect Sega Saturn and PC-engine items . I am making my rounds on all the forums I deem great . I mainly post on the Shmups boards and look foward to contributing here as well . I also look foward to trading , buying , and selling items here soon . Thanks !

[gamebotonline]

Hi!

I'm Blake Leftwich creator of Gamebot and gamebotonline.com and I live in Mount Airy, NC (a.k.a Mayberry). I love digital press and I own a copy of the collector's guide. My favorite games are classic ones and the stuff I like to play is listed at gamebotonline.com were we keep a video game diary. I collect for every thing with a focus on 32-bit and older. I collect to play and play regularly. In real life I am a student studying game development and I've worked as a manager in retail for nearly 10 years. All my hobbies involve video games. I used to make Gamebot, the classic video game TV show. Now I create Gamebot Live, a podcast about classic games and post on gamebotonline.com. I am also in a band with my brother and fellow gamebot host Scott called Scott Leftwich and the Atarians. You can listen to the band on myspace and get an idea of what games I like by visiting the News section of the gamebotonline website or downloading the podcast form iTunes. That's it, glad to be a member!

Blake

[Cura]

Hi, my name is Cura, and i'm an alcoholic. I live in Norway in a town called Rognan, and i found the forums reading a review on a gameboy game called Volley Fire. I have many favorite games, but if i were to filter out a few. it would be Star Control II, Natural-Selection and Starcraft. I currently own all systems ever created by Nintendo up to the GameCube.

IRL I mostly hang out with my GIRLFRIEND. The rest of the time I hang at random forums and do schoolwork. Sadly there issn't much time for me to play Video Games recently, because of all the time my GIRLFRIEND drains from me, but i play some classics like SMB or Sonic the Hedgehog from time to time.

I'm looking forward to discussing, arguing and ranting with you guys...

[Bear_XI]

Hi, my name is Jason.
I live in Canada, I'm currently in Sec.3 and I just started a Sega Genesis collection which currently doesn't exist.
I hope to make it grow fast.
My favorite Sega Gen. game is Kid Chameleon and one of my favorite game is Jet Set Radio on dreamcast.

[kain76]

- Who you are

Kevin Kain -30 yrs young


- Where you live
Edmonton , Alberta , Canada (Only summer for 2 months)


- How you found the forums
Long time lurker so thought i should join

- What your favorite games are
Id say top 5 in no order are , Garou: Mark of the Wolves , Street fighter 3 3rd Strike , ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TREASURE OF TARMIN , Rez , Final Fantasy 2 (also knowen as 4)


- What systems you collect for
I buy for pretty much every system but mostly after Saturn and Ps2 Imports as well as any good Ps3 or 360 game that comes out


- What you do in "real life"
Work Retail


- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
First started really collecting when i moved for the first time as then i found my sega genesis/cd set up and hooked it up and got totally lost again playing lunar 1 and 2 and Vay as well as sonic and shininig force. after that I stated trying to find and all the games i had as a kid as well as all the game i couldnt get due to allowance issues.

[5-11under]

Hi there,

I'm 5-11under, and I live in Ontario, Canada. I'm an avid reader and sometimes poster at Atariage and CGCC, and thought I'd add DP to the mix.

I enjoy ColecoVision programming, and also playing games on the ColecoVision, Atari 2600, Vectrex, and Nintendo 64 (the living room console). I especially like racing games such as WaveRace 64.

I'm more of a game player than a game collector. About 10-12 years ago, a friend and I scoured the flea markets and garage sales in and around the Niagara area, amassing large collections of mostly 8-bit consoles. Since then, we've both sold most of our systems, keeping our favourites, and still enjoying gaming a great deal.

In real life, I manage an electronics-related R&D lab.

Thanks,
5-11under

[papasmurph4]

My name is Kieran and at the moment my wife and I hail from Duluth, MN . I was "introduced" to this site by a friend in MA - Randy C -who is very big into Atari 2600 games. I guess I am pretty simple when it comes to the games I like; I still like the games that I played with my children when they were small: pac man, frogger and if I ever come across it again dig dug. (I don't think, however, that this was ever an Atari 2600 game. My children and I played it on an old Commodore 64 system - those were the days) I do like some of the more sophisticated games too, Waterworld, Space Treat ect. In real life I am a preacher.

[NicoleyBoBoliey]

Errmm...well I'm new to the forums and I just wanted ta say hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi and all that junk woooosh C:!

Hehee its really quaint because I live like...right...there..near Digital Press. Like...right right right theerree! lol
I wish I found out about this sitey loonnngg ago <33

Name's Nicole if you hadn't guessed it! ^_^
If you did, YAY! Your a mart coookie, yes! =>

Call me whateve you want mann ;]
Nice ta meet chaaaa! ;0
<333333 :kiss:

i lovvee youu >w<

[starzlytes]

I found this site thru a search i was doing for addams family values game.
My son and i have a few systems starting with PS1,nes system,super nintendo,game cube,PS2,XBox. He plays games more than i do.
I live in small town ,Woodland,Wa.

Nice to be here and hope to chat with you all =o)

[SinCityMarv]

Hello all. :) I'm JD and its good to be here. My wife and I collect toys and video games and both enjoy playing. I tend to lean towards the handhelds, while she the "newer stuff". (PS2..she loves this game called Sphinx and the one Kingdom Hearts) I'd love one day to again own a Vectrex, but seems only a dream. I had one once, got it at a GoodWill for $4...the clerk informed me that it was "some kinda weird black and white TV" ;) Im 33 and shes 23 and we live with our two dogs. Shes a student and Im a chef with a catering outfit. Well, not too good with introduction things..lol...guess thats about it...:D

:)

-JD

[jb143]

Hello all. I found the site looking for tips on fixing my Nomad.

My first systems were an Odyssey2 and a Commodore64 to limited degrees although I'm definately part of the nintendo generation all the way. The NES was the first system I had lots of games for. Zelda and Mario3 being my favorites.

I started collecting systems and games a few years ago from yard sales and thrift stores to be able to play all the old stuff I never got growing up; and typically after building up a collection I sell it them on Ebay to buy more.

I also plan on one day building a mame cabinet and have helped several people set up the software for their cabinets.

I live near St. Louis and used to work in the production department of an engineering company, now I work in the engineering department finding sources for electronics parts...so If anyone is looking for any parts let me know and I can probally find you some really good souces(although you might have to buy 10,000 at a time)

[ProfJimbo]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Jim and I am 36 year old vintage video game collector from Lakeland, Florida. I found the forums by doing a Google search on "Retro Gaming Forums."

I mostly collect Atari 2600, Atari 7800, and Commodore 64 games and peripherals.

Today, I find myself looking at the differences between ports of Arcade games. I love seeing how the translations of games such as Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, etc turned out based on the technology that was available to the system.

I began collecting games in 1980 when I received my first Atari. I still have my original "heavy sixer" 2600, along with a 4-switch Darth Vader 2600, an Atari Jr., Atari 7800, Commodore 64, Commodore 64c, and my Commodore SX64.

In real life, I am the lead systems administrator for the timeshare division of a major hotel company. I manage a group of people that maintain servers in 18 countries.

I also run two websites that you might enjoy.

JimboGames.com (http://www.jimbogames.com) - A collection of online flash, shockwave, and java games. I did not write any of them.

and

2600Online.com (http://www.2600online.com) - A website where you can play Atari 2600 Games via your browser. I put this up so that I can play some Atari during my down time at work.

I am also interested in politics and love discussing the topic over a pint.

Thanks for having me!

[Alex_ntsc]

I'm Alex, 30 years old, from Germany. I work at the stadium of the 1st. FC. Köln. I started gaming when I was 4 years old, thanks to the Atari 2600 and the Intellevision. But it wasn't until I got a NES that video gaming became my drug of choice. Being a kid though, I pretty much lost, gave away, sold, or destroyed anything I ever owned, including my games and systems.

Even though I'm German, I live in Germany since 1998. I lived most of my life in South and North America. I'm sure you people know how illiterate the average European is regarding classic gaming. It's not our fault really, as game companies have treated Europe like a bastard child until today. Final Fantasy VII was the first FF experience this continent ever had! No Chrono Trigger and Lord knows what else. It seems all the great games on the NES or SNES pretty much overflew Europe. On the other hand, lots of Donald Duck & friends or the Smurfs, part 14. :angry: I really started missing American gaming at that point!

I joined eBay in 2001. While exploring the new platform, I saw an auction for Final Fantasy III (US). I found out that the same person was selling Final Fantasy II (US) and Chrono Trigger. All three games in near mint condition. While I knew shipping was going to be a bitch, I couldn't past that opportunity. The rest is history. I have quite a library of games and systems now, although probably not as much as some of you here. I beleive that the NES and SNES are the greatest systems of all time! Accordingly, most of my classic gaming collection is comprised of those two systems. I added a magazine collection to those two as well; Nintendo Power and stuff. Still, I also have some Game Boy goodness as well as Playstation(s) and 3DO collections as well. And then there are the tons of PC games and newer console systems.

But collecting has been frozen on its tracks much like the German army at Stalingrad! Among other things, I became father 5 months ago. I don't want to spew old clichés but it really does change everything. It's mind boggling how fast priorities shift when you hold your first born child in your hands. Anyways, I wish to sell my video game collection and, while searching for retro gamers, I found this website.

I never thought I would sell the things I have so I never made a list. At he moment, I'm making said list plus taking pictures of all I have in order to better sell the stuff. I hope that joining this community will be helpful in the short to medium term. I would be very grateful for hints, pointers, tips, and tricks. My goal is to have sold everything within the next 12 months, as long as I get good prices.

[livingfora1up]

Hi there, I'm Brian, age 23. I've been using digital press as a guide for the last 4-5 years since I first started collecting. Of course, you know once you start it's really hard to stop. Collecting has become a huge part of my life and I'm always scouring the pawn shops and flea markets looking for deals. I've collected almost 2000 games to date with a couple of buddies who share my obsession. if you like, you can view my pics of said collection at www.myspace.com/livingfora1up I love to trade and have an ever-growing amount of doubles to do so with but there's no good outlet for trading locally.

As for real life, I'm a server at my local Applebee's and that's fun. I live in southwest michigan and aside from gaming and collecting, I enjoy karaoke hanging out with my friends, having a good time, and taking road trips and exploring new towns.

Favorite game to date: Chrono Trigger, but the ones I play most (in no specific order) are Tetris Attack, Super Smash Brothers Melee, and Guitar hero. I used to be more in to RPGs than I am now, but I still grab them whenever I see them as they make for good trade fodder.

See you round the forums!

[braincras]

Hi there!

Just to let you know that I am proud to be here and a old skewl gamers like all of you!

I sue you DOOM!!!:evil laugh:

[guitarmas26]

Hi I'm guitarmas26. I've been collecting video games off and on for several years. I'm mostly into the Atari Jaguar Scene. I collect for other systems too, like the Dreamcast, Snes, and Turbo Grafx.


- Who you are

Brad

- Where you live

Ashheville, NC

- How you found the forums

A search engine

- What your favorite games are

Side scrollers

- What systems you collect for

Everything except the genesis

- What you do in "real life"

Attend school for my degree in Information Systems.

[Red Alert]

Hi,
I'm Matthew, age 20 and I am studying IT and I live in Brisbane Australia.
I've been collecting for about 5 years and I have 24 systems and about 500 games. The newest system I have bought is a Atari 1040STE.
My Favorite games by system are:
NES: Super Mario Bros
SNES: F-Zero
N64: Conker's Bad Fur Day
Gamecube: Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door
Wii: Resident Evil 4 and Metal Slug Anthology
MD: Sonic
MCD: Snatcher
Sat: Daytona USA
DC: Shenmue
Xbox: Deus Ex Invisible War
PS1: Command & Conquer Red Alert
PS2: GTA San Andreas and Deus Ex The Conspiracy
N-Gage: Sega Rally Championship
Atari 2600: Missile Command

[Ando]

What better place for a first post on the forums, eh?

So anyway, I'm Ando (which doubles as a username AND my real name!). I'm living here in the USA.
My top three games are The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker, and... I don't know. TESIV: Oblivion, maybe? But believe me, if it's Zelda, I love it and want it ALL.
Right now I'm in the midst of deciding which system to collect for. I want to do a Japanese system, but which? Maybe continue my Japanese N64 stuff? SF? GBA?
But yeah, that's me. I mean, there's more, obviously, but this is it for now. :D

[PoutineJunky74]

Hi everyone,

My name is Aline,i'm 33 and live in La Belle Province De Quebec aux Canada!I am here on this site for my mom,Annette,recently turned 58,who is an NES gamer and avid collector.I also am a fan of the NES but don't own one.I have an Xbox.My mom has been playing NES games since my father first got a job as an apprentice electrition as a young lad at the age of 20 something.She baught,collected,traded and sold many many NES games over and over,built and sold her entire collections,until now (finally quit selling everything and then starting over from scratch,LOL!)She has a somewhat extensive collection of classic and rarer NES games and her goal is to try and finish off her collection buy obtaining the manuals for some of her rarer games,wich is turning into quite a task!I on the other hand,am a stay at home mom of a 2 year old daughter named Jasmine.I like being ourdoors (when I can),the net,playing games on pc and xbox,nes to when i'm at my moms.I like flowers and gardening,even though i'm nowhere near a green thumb.I love music of almost any kind and I like watching animated movies for children with my daughter,over and over again,LOL!

[Lady Jaye]

Salut! Bienvenue à bord! Tu vas voir, c'est bien ici. :)

[MrSparkle]

Hi guys ive been posting on your forums for about a month or so now but i just ran into this thread so i figured i would introduce myself. My name is dan and i live in warwick new york but i work as an insurance agent in fair lawn nj which is about 15 minutes from the digital press store (which rocks). i stumbled onto the forums whilst researching nintendo clones i believe though i dont really remember. as for a favorite game thats a pretty tough question and im sure many of you would agree lol. right now ive been hooked on old school text adventures namely zork, and ive gotten back into playing nethack and adom. i collect for a few systems the biggest part of my collection being made up of nes games i have about 150 different carts probably around 175 total if you include all the doubles (probably have 10 copies of mario 3 lol). other than that sega genesis and its awesome add-ons, gameboy in all its iterations, nindo ds, playstation 1 & 2, n64, intellivision, gamecube, snes, computer (dont really collect computer games i just play them). possibly a few others that are escaping my memory right now (sitting here at work trying to picture all my consoles laid out on the floor). though nes was my first real console id say my gaming days started out with the ibm xt, as i didnt actually have any games for it i spent untold hours making terrible text adventures in basic that i would then play through. yea i guess thats about enough for a decent introduction anyway looking forward to getting to know the members of this community better. -Dan

[Natty Bumppo]

Greetings earthlings!

I am an old geezer at 55 - been collecting video games since 1991 (when I bought an SNES along with Tetris and FFII).

I favor RPGS, puzzle and strategy games.

I collect all sorts of stuff besides vintage games - laserdiscs, board games, books, bookends.

[Pantechnicon]

Greetings earthlings!

I collect all sorts of stuff besides vintage games - laserdiscs, board games, books, bookends.

You, sir, get bonus points for having a literary-inspired screen name. Welcome aboard.

[Natty Bumppo]

You, sir, get bonus points for having a literary-inspired screen name. Welcome aboard.
Yeah - I had to wade through those books in the educational system's vain attempt to make me literate in my errant youth.

[Randomized]

My name is Kevin, I'm 25 and I live in St. Louis, MO. I found this place from a site that linked to the rarity guide. I've been playing video games since I was 4. I'm not much of a collector, but I've never gotten rid of any video games.LOL

I work for an online store that sells XM radios and accessories and I'm also a manager for a fun park in a boring tourist town. I only average 1 day off per month but I manage to find small amounts of time to play video games.

[alice_curiouser]

An introduction, eh? Alright, I can do that...

I am Renee; I'm in my 30's and I live with my husband and daughter in the eastern United States. My husband plays the occasional RPG, and my daughter (now 7) has been a Pokemon junkie since she was about 3. I found these forums by the almighty power of Google; the reason I was looking was because the forums I'd been been hanging out on were either too slow, or full of illiterate wankers and their third-grade spelling. Now, onto the GOOD stuff...

I started playing video games on my cousin's Atari, and eventually ended up with my very own NES. My first game was Dragon Warrior I... I loved (and still love) that game - they say you never forget your first. For me, DW1 became the game by which all other RPGs are judged. Later, I got a Sega Genesis (omfg, 16 whole bits - revolutionary!), and my new favourite game became Shining Force I and II. I still play those a lot, too. But then! A miracle happened. Gameboy Color (and later, Gameboy Advance) came along, and suddenly I could play some of my old favourites in a new miniature format. I have Dragon Warrior I & II, Dragon Warrior III, Lunar Legend, and Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon, and I am anxiously waiting for more!

My favourite games are Dragon Warrior 1-3, Dragon Quest 4-5, Shining Force 1-2, the Lunar series (minus the sucky DS version), Vay (Sega CD), and Phantasy Star 4. When I'm not playing classic RPGs, I like Mario and Sonic, and some of the newer RPGs for DS. You can see a list of all my portable games here (http://club.ign.com/b/list/custom?lid=100018&owner=alice_curiouser).

When I'm not playing video games, I like like taking long walks on the beach (no, seriously), photography, saltwater aquariums, web design, messing with my Mac, and hanging out with my family and my four cats.

...And that's about it! I look forward to getting to know you guys. :)

[rodarkone]

Hello all,

My name is Ionut, I'm from Romania and I'm 29 yers old (30 in a few days :) ) I collect games and consoles from 2 and a half years now

Anyway - i'm glad that I found this site :)

[smii]

Well, I've been lurking around here for a few weeks now, so I feel as though I should produce some type of introduction! I live in the South of England, and have been collecting games for about 15 years now I guess - my first ever console was a SNES with Streetfighter 2 and the ill-used Nintendo-scope - I still own the SNES, and bits of the scope :roll:

A year later I came into possession of a Mega Drive (or Genesis, I believe some prefer to call it ;) ) with Mega CD, which my dad won and didn't want, and have been collecting games for it ever since. I think I must have around 700 MD games now!

Anyway - hello. Nice to be here :evil:

[FrakAttack]

Hey, I'm Kevin, AKA FrakAttack, and I've been gaming since the '70s. My first arcade love was Gun Fight and my first console was the RCA Studio II.

[Dukert27]

Hello my name is Chris Falkner from Fayetteville AR. I have been collecting off and on for 5 years im 20 now. my main interest is NES console. but i own almost ever common system.

Nes - 170 games 20 complete
Snes 75 games 3 complete
Sega Genesis/CD 7 games (all but two sonic)
Playstation 2 slim - 7 games all complete
X-Box - 15 games
X-Box 360 - 3 games
Nintendo Gamecube - 10 games
Nintendo DS - 6 games
Nintendo Wii. - 21 games
Gameboy Advance - 5 games
I sold most of my stuff about a year ago a this is a list of what i have regathered.

[Dukert27]

Edit --
FC Twin
Nintendo 64 x3 (one is green) -16 (4 complete)

[BakaTanuki]

Hello, I'm Baka. I'm more of a gamer than a collecter, but I love classic and modern games. I'm only 16, but my brother had the NES and SNES, and I played those as a child, along with the N64/GBC that I got later on. These days I have NES, SNES, N64 (DK64 edition), GBC (special Pikachu edition), GBA, Gamecube, Wii, and DS. I'm looking into getting a PS2 or a Dreamcast sometime, since I've only ever had Nintendo consoles.

While, I don't really collect games, I have started getting into collecting gaming (and also anime) merchandise. I decorate my room with gaming memorabilia. I also run a small gaming website.

[parker619]

hey longtime lurker first time poster,, well lets get to it

my name is peter im 16 and come from england.. im also part of www.sega-16.com forum under the same name

i love old consoles,, new too but i dont collect although on my modded xbox... shhh i have a nes,snes,megadrive,sms,gameboy,atari,amiga,and mame emulators which i game on :D

[Reps911]

Hi all, my name is James. I live in sunny CA (909), I found this page one day looking for info on SEGA Saturn Rarities. I collect almost Anything I can Find! I love collecting SEGA Though. I'm a Service Advisor in my "Real Life" This Site is great! I'm Glad to be a Member. O and my latest Kick Is the Ever so Forgotten SEGA Saturn Netink. Ever since i found out you can still play the games over the phone line I've been all over it!

[guitargary75]

My name is Gary, I currently live in Akron, Ohio and I am working on my DMA in Musicology. I have been an avid collector for about 5 years.
I collect NES, SNES, Genesis and Master System.
My Favorite Games are:
Contra
The Legend of Zelda
M.U.S.H.A
Mario 3
Qix
Choplifter

[DataDriven05]

Hello everyone!! My name is Chris.

I am a long time gamer who for some reason never though of video games as collectable. Boy was I wrong. Now I am both, but will always be a gamer first.

After reading these boards for the better part of a few months there is certainly a lot for me to learn, but I am looking forward to it. Almost every post new or old is worth reading. Not many forums you can say that about.

My gaming interests: are RPGs (Action, Traditional, and Strategy), 2D Figthers, 2D/3D platformers, sports sims and stealth action games. Not necessarily in that order.

Anyway, I am glad to be here and looking forward to chatting it up with all of you.

- Chris

[Falconhood]

i love my Atari 7800, and my first game system was the Odyssey2.
fave systems:
Atari 7800
Coleco
Turbo Grafx
Sega G
Intellivision.

[Bandicat]

Hi everyone,

I've been reading your forums for awhile now, and have finally registered. I am a fellow collector, and look forward to learning more about this hobby.

Tell us any or all of the following:
- Who you are - Dave
- Where you live - Near Minneapolis, MN
- How you found the forums - Google
- What your favorite games are - Tetris, Super Mario 1,2,3 Grand Theft Auto Series, Final Fantasy 7, and Wii Sports.
- What systems you collect for - Right now mostly just the original NES, but I have ranging from the original PONG up to the Wii.
- What you do in "real life" - Computer Programmer
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc. - Not quite sure... Maybe just my love for the NES and my pack rat nature.

[Melina]

Hello Everyone!, mi name is Melina, I'm 21, and I live in Dominican Republic. I play videogames since I was a girl, and I'm into collecting any rare item that I find, my favorite games are SNES Rpg's, Beatmania Series, Any 2D Plataformer, and rare accesories for classic Consoles.!!!!!!

[Toxique]

Hello my name is Sarah and I'm 25 and currently live in West Virginia. Once upon a time I was a collector of fine vintage gaming systems until my love at the time left and left with the Intellivision, the Sega Master system, the Nintendo and N64. :puppydogeyes:

I literally Stumbled Upon these forums (www.stumbleupon.com)
I enjoy first person shooters but I'm more of voyeur.
I'm currently trying to build up my 3DO and Sega collections and trying to get a handle on the Atari collection.
I'm an artist disguised as a Massage Therapist just starting my career and I plan on one day getting my degree in art education so I can one day teach.

I am now the proud owner of an Atari 2600 Jr, a 7800, a Sega (gen3 - the tiny one), a 3DO, XBOX, XBOX 360.

I have a sick sense of humor and a false sense of modesty will try to hold my tongue if nothing else.

[Koa Zo]

Hi everyone!

I've been to this site many times over the years, but just decided to join the forums. I probably won't post much as there usually isn't anything I can add that hasn't been said before.

I've been a game player since the paddle game days. Back in '82 my brother bought a 5200 with his paper route money, and soon after lost interest in videogaming, so the system became mine. Somehow Miner 2049er, Pitfall 2, Star Raiders and Defender, among others continued to hold my interest right on through the NES days. Throughout that era other kids around the neighborhood had the Intellevision, ColecoVision, Vectrex, SMS, and NES, so I never missed out on any of the best games. The 5200 was sold at a garage sale sometime in the summer of '89, and I put that money towards a Sega Genesis. Most of my Genesis library was sold to purchase a SegaCD, and so on.

It wasn't until the late 90's that I became a true blooded collector. While living in Arizona without any videogame consoles, I played a demo of Panzer Dragoon Zwei at a department store and was hooked. On rails shooters have been a favorite of mine since Space Harrier, but nothing was of interest since StarFox. Anyhow, I found a Saturn lot in the newspaper for $200 (w/ like all the good games at the time) and gaming fever has been in full effect since then. I like to think at this point I have a rather robust library of worthwhile games for the following systems: Atari 5200 (multi cart + originals), Master System, PC-Engine (HuCard and CD), Genesis/Mega Drive, Sega CD, SNES/SFC, Saturn, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PS2/PSX, Gamecube, Game Gear, Lynx, Game Boy Advance, and WonderSwan.

In just the past few years I've taken an interest in collecting different controllers that were released over the years. Paddle controllers, trackballs, joysticks, etc. That may be my one area of holding uncommon knowledge, if you've got a question about a controller hit me up, I'd be glad to track down the answer with you.

This has gotten rather long (will probably be my longest post ever!).
Cheers to all who enjoy a good game!

[Dreadstar]

My name's Duane, I'm 35, and I live in Ohio. I'm a network admin/desktop support/all around computer guy by day. I've been a casual to intermediate gamer for most of my life, and a collector for the past few years.

First experience with video games goes back to the mid to late 70's...some pong/skeet shooting variants at friends' houses, and I had a cool uncle that had a 2600 and a weird Atari pong/pinball machine. Got a Sears Super Video Arcade (Intellivision) for xmas around 79 or 80, a NES Power Set in the mid 80's, and bought my own Genesis when it first came out. Also had a Radio Shack Color Computer II that was used for a lot of gaming. I think we had 4 cartridges for it lol.

As far as newer stuff, I have a PS2, a PS, and a GC with a handful of games for each. (No current gen systems yet...price point is just too ridiculous for me.) I play them every once in a while but I also have been more of a retro collector/scrounger lately. I've picked up a ton of classic systems just at Goodwill this year...a Dreamcast, at least two Genesises, a couple SNESes and NESes, an N64, a 2600, and on and on. Also dozens of cartridges, especially Genesis. Some stuff l've added to the collection (like the DC) while other stuff I've either sold, traded, given to friends, etc. That's actually how I found the forums, searching for information about some Genesis stuff I picked up at GW.

Interesting, or not so interesting note, I played in the Nintendo Campus Challenge when it stopped at my school in November or December 1990. I came in second, won 100 bucks, and I might have a couple T-shirts and plastic cups stashed away somewhere. Also got paid 8 bucks and hour for 2 hours for helping the Nintendo folks tear everything down and load it into the truck afterward.

But enough about me. Do you come here often? ;)

[98redM6]

Hello everyone. Glad to be a part of these forums. I've been lurking for a couple of weeks, ever since my SNES started acting up. I've always enjoyed playing video games. I never had a console until Christmas of '99 when my parents got us a Nintendo 64. By then I was already a Sophomore in high school. I guess they always thought we would go brain dead. We had a computer when I was younger so I did enjoy PC games like Wolfenstein, which kept me entertained for hours upon hours. I've even downloaded an emulator (Little John Player) to my treo 680 for snes, gb, sega, sms, and nes.

At about March of 2007 my wife stumbled upon her SNES at her parent's house that had been sitting on the top shelf of her closet, under some blankets. It wasn't dusty at all, just yellow. She said she only played it about 2 times when she first got it because she didn't know how to hook it up. She assumed it was broken or it needed another cable. We took it down and I called up a cousin of mine to let me borrow some games. We got hoome and I showed her how to plug it in properly and popped in Super Mario World. It worked on first try. Fast forward to December, I had some cousins over for some gaming and pizza. We try out Top Gear and pass a couple of levels. I noticed that the graphics would slow down but the sound and gameplay would still go on. Also on Madden I can't see the score at all times and the time and number are incorrect at times. NBA Jam is impossible to play because you can't even shoot the ball. You just run around with it. This problem with the SNES brought me here and I'm kind of glad it did, but I want my SNES fixed. I'm sure someone on these forums is more than capable of diagnosing my problem. Thanks for the forum.

[Bort]

Hello, Richard, 26 and from England.

Lurked around here for a while. Usually only once a week or month.

I'm a regular over at NTSC-uk. I collect N64 items mostly, also interested in wonderswans.
Just bought a cheap vectrex and I'm on the hunt for all of the various accessories and dev items. *wallet cries*

[LOL]

j / 20 / london england.

i'm into collecting games that are R8 and above, preferably unusual or unique titles. my first notable rarity was Chase the Chuck Wagon, which i turned into a medallion and still wear frequently. i hope to eventually amass a modest collection of holy grails to impress the ladies. oh and i design games in my spare time. i'll take that seriously some day.

[marvrj]

Hi my names Mike. I'm from Ohio. I'm 34 years old. My first system was the Atari 5200. I currently own a ps1, ps2 and a wii. I want to get a ps3 but its to expensive. I enjoy playing JRPGs.

[MvM]

I would like to say hello, and introduce myself. My name is Rob, otherwise known online as MvM. I have been playing video games ever since I was able to hold a controller, and haven't stopped since.

I am a major Sega fan, and I am currently working on completing my collection of USA released Dreamcast games. I still have a long way to go.....lol

I am also a huge fan of old school NES, and I also have a PS1, PS2, XBOX, Game Cube, Gameboy Advance, SNES, and my Dreamcast.

I have recently dove more into collecting to go along with my gaming, and that's what brought me here to this site. I was looking up information on some of my PS1 games (SLUS numbers actually), and I stumbled across these forums. I have to say that this site is a treasure trove of information for gamers and collectors, and I am glad to be here. :)

I am also a hardworking single father of a terrific 5 year old, who is also trying his hand at video games. Whew!........lol

Sorry for the long post here. Anyways, thanks for letting me be here, and I look forward to getting into great conversations with all of you fellow gamers and collectors!

- MvM

[TonyTheTiger]

Hi, I'm TonyTheTiger. I shopped at the store a number of times and lurked this site for a while now.

[pyro-insane]

I'm Pyro..
I live in the U.S..
I found the forums looking for Oregon Trail..
I collect for PS2..
I learn in real life..
I have no real collecting needs except I go for RPGs..

[Dreamc@sting]

Hello all - my name is John, I live in the Western NY area

Im a huge sega fanatic - and I collect everything and anything based on Sega

I've been gaming since I was 4 on the NES

Also I'm a big RPG fan and anime gamer - so if you have any sega,anime,rpg related games import or domestic I will trade/buy =P

[Poorfamily]

Hi Everybody! I'm Art and my situation is a little different. I've been collecting classic stuff casually for about 7 years. Got started once I realized I could buy tons of stuff for a fraction of what it cost when I was a kid. Ended up with dozens of consoles and accessories and hundreds of games. I was just collecting to gather stuff and not really playing.

Got hooked on World of Warcraft and finaly got a 360. I decided to sell-off all the stuff I hadn't played in the past year. I've always known about DP but was never a serious vintage collector. Now I'm just visiting your site to see what some of my stuff might be worth. I might be posting some stuff for sale once I pass my 10 day probationary period.

I grew up on RPG's, also enjoy RTS and racing games. Not much for sports games or shooters, which leaves me high and dry in most of today's gaming climate.

[bunnybum]

I'm new here (at least as a registered user) so an introduction is in order.

I'm a 27 year-old Dane working in a record store trying to rack up enough cash to feed my retro addiction. I have too many fond memories of many childhood years spent gaming to let it go.
So, what am I doing here? Basically just hanging out and enjoying the discussions but also looking for other people willing to trade/sell games and other retro goodness that I'm missing. Hey, any other Danes around? :D

My primary focus when looking for games and systems are NES, SNES, C64 and Amiga but hey, you're never too old to add another system to the collection! :D

Enough babbling already. I'm looking forward to taking part of the forums, thanks for letting me in ;)

[OTEM]

The name's OTEM, from England. I am only a casual collector and hunt games that I want to play but somehow overlooked in the past (at the moment, X-BOX games). I also collect vinyl. I play on average one night a week for about 4 hours, or whenever I can - not often, but I can still hold my own when it comes to gaming chit-chat.
I am almost 20 and I am a student.

[Dastardly Dylan]

Hey Everyone!! my name is Dylan, Dastardly Dylan is my name that i have been known as for many years on the internet
i am also on another gaming website (www.ScrewAttack.com)
im usually at Digital Press gaming on sunday, when i have off i go there, in Clifton NJ, its awesome and theres alot of cool stuff there, i will be returning shortly, cause i am currently looking for a game gear.
its a gaming website made by gamers, for gamers! unlike g4, which sucks
well, i love meeting new people and be sure to add me on xbox live!!

-Dylan

[pugmagician]

Hello I'm Eric from Mercer, PA. I've heard about this quite a bit at Gametz, but never really checked it out until recently. I'm known as pugmagician at every site that I'm a member of, and I'm currently a Truck Driver but hoping to have my own store one day. I love all Sega, Turbo, and Neo Geo Syetems, and I'm big into RPGs.

[Ajax]

I am AJ and I am from Canada. I found the forums looking for a sega 32x video cord. My favorite game would have to be . . . I can't choose I love them all. It's probably for the SNES though. I have just realized that I have enogh games and systems to consider it a small collection. I have been buyng old systems off my friends for a couple years now. In real life I am a lifeguard and college student.
so yeah hope to learn lots from this site and get to talk to you guys.

[[S]2012]

Hey everyone,

My name is Steffi and i am from Germany. So, my English isn't very well. But I work on it. I found the forums looking for a marketplace because I want a lot of US RPGs for PlayStation Two. :)
Maybe I'll buy a SNES because it has great RPGs. I only have modern consoles because I borned in 1992.
I am collecting RPGs for GBA, DS and PS2. In real life I'm learning for life... Haha. Well, I'm going to go to school and I lke to hanging out with my friends, shopping like other girls ;) ...

Yeah, I think you understand this text. I tried!

Steffi

[Trevelyan]

I'm 24yo from the UK, I own pal versions of the NES, SNES, Genesis & N64 and collect games I'm interested in playing for these consoles.

I happened across this forum whislt tracking down information about a video game and decided to join. Most members of this forum are obviously really knowledgable about video gaming lore, history and technology which is something I have a vested interest in and generally find fascinatingly enjoyable.

My favorite video game's are Goldeneye, Zelda:OOT and Super Mario Bros. 3. I love Half Life, Dungeon Keeper, Thief and classic games of all kinds for my PC.

[AZ Legend]

Name: Brandon
I live in Tucson, AZ. I go full time to school for a business degree. I also work full time. Im married with a son.
I love to play video games of all kinds. I recently just started to collect them. I use to sell every game after i beat it, but for some reason just started to collect. I love playing on my 360, but love going back to genesis and NES aged games. Nothing like it.

Here the starting of my collection. http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?name=AZ%20Legend&folder=Collection&action=profile

[ooXxXoo]

Hello There!..My name is Aze..I'm a stay at home parent and a Proud father of a 5 month baby girl....while my wife works as a Doctor during the day,I take care of my daughter and cleanning at home....When I was a child,living in a third world country,I always wanted to have a video game system or someone to give me one,unfortunatelly that never happened..Now at 27 living in the US, I can say that I have almost every video game console out there and keep coming!....During holidays,when I have an spare system I comeback to my homeland and bring it to kids in need as I once was....

[Vagrant]

22 year old, from Portugal....err what else to say. Big Sega fan, PC gamer as well. Currently trying to fix my Saturn.

[DJ Daishi]

20yo DJ in sunny (currently rainy) SoCal! Love gaming with friends and currently working on creating the ultimate gaming room in my house.

[Press_Start]

23 yo here. Advocate and collector for games and systems then went unnoticed or underrated by the cruelty of time. Hopefully, I'll start a video series that we will bring these sleepers to light.

I am a proud owner of Sega Saturn, Sega CD, NES, Genesis, and more as the collection grows.

[Wirestone]

Hello all. In lovely, frigid New Hampshire here. 29 years old, member of the media, reintroduced to gaming about seven years ago after a decade or more away.

Systems on hand:

NES
SNES
N64
Wii
PlayStation II
XBox 360
Game Boy Advance
DS
And a PC that's juiced up just a little to play games from 2-3 years ago.

Have a couple of hundred games on hand, I guess, although I haven't bothered to count them lately. Am currently buying multiple versions of Tetris across the platforms.

[glorfindel]

im 16 from Indiana, got nes, n64, wii, color gameboy, gameboy advance, and a 360.
play alot nes at the moment and im trying to collect alot games and odd add-ons to my nes like the power glove and nes robot. i do xbox live somtimes (tag- Packers17)
im pretty good with computers and help with various troubleshoot forums and websites with computer games and software. Im a bit obsessed with douglas adams and have read most of his books a few times and own the mini-series. watch it way to much and im active on H2G2 (bit like wikipedia but more active and conversational)

[jahvybe]

Ok, so I have been reading the posts on here for a couple of months and I finally decided to join. I met swlovinist from a craigslist ad and he told me about this forum. I have only been collecting for about 6 months but my collection got a lot bigger when I went to the NWCGE in portland a few months ago. So a quick list of systems I have are:

Atari 2600
Atari 800
Atari XE (In box from when I was a kid. My dad thought this was a great compromise when I told him I wanted an NES. It was cool though.)
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx

Commodore Vic20
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Commodore Amiga 500
Commodore Amiga cd32(with Sx-1)

Sega Master System (1 & 2)
Sega Genesis (1,2, & 3)
Sega 32x
Sega CD (front and top loader)
Sega Nomad
Sega Game Gear
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast

Nintendo NES
Nintendo Famicom
Nintendo SNES
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Pocket
Nintendo Game Boy Advanced
Nintendo 64
Nintendo Game Cube

Panasonic 3do

Turbo Grafx 16

Neo Geo AES

Tandy TRS-80 (CoCo 2)

Sony Playstation
Sony PS2
Sony PSP

Xbox
Xbox 360

I recently realized that my collection was growing way faster than my playing. So Ive decided to slow down a bit on collecting and enjoy what I have.

[strassy]

hello all,

i thought i would join this forum, since i have only ONE person to play Nintendo with, and all we ever play together is RBI Baseball and Tecmo Super Bowl. As you may guess, I am primarily here for NES reasons, but I do enjoy SNES and Genesis as well. I have tried/still try to get into modern consoles, but I have accepted that I will never get my money's worth out of them...so I try not to buy them.

Anyhow, I am 26 and am interested in hearing about how people find NES games other than eBay and craigslist. A few pawn shops here in Chicago sell them, but they usually have a very poor selection. Anyways, since everyone else seems to do it, here's what I own:

Nintendo (~300 games. I used to have ~400 but I sold off a lot of the truly horrible ones)
Super Nintendo
Genesis
Sega CD
PSOne (that was a waste of fifty bucks)
PS2 (got it for free from my roommate)
GBA Micro

In the past, I owned the following at one point or another:
Virtual Boy
N64
Gamecube
Gameboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance SP
Game Gear
Sega Master System
32 X
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Atari 2600

[DemonicDante]

My names Chris.

Big gamer for the last 2 decades, collector, poor guy cause of it but always love playing what I want

systems I currently own:

GBA SP
Nintendo DS
Wii
Snes
Xbox
Ps2
Ps3
Saturn
Wonderswan color
N64
PSP x2

[Riba]

Hello All - while looking for some info about Sharp X68000 I have stumbled on this forum and decided to join in as it seems to be anice and lively community.
I am 35, living in Croatia. Have been collecting vintage computers for a while, which culminated in the opening of PEEK&POKE (http://www.peekpoke.hr) museum/club late last year. If you ever find youself in the vicinity make sure you stop by! :)
At the moment we are setting up a "game room" featuring a lot of old game consoles.

[Sudo]

I'm Dennis from New Hampshire (Massachusetts, originally), and I'm 23. I found the forums a while back, though I'm not quite sure exactly where or when. Some of my favorite games include:

Asheron's Call
Castlevania (series)
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy (series)
Ico
Legend of Zelda (series)
Metal Gear Solid (series)
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Snatcher
Super Mario World
Suikoden (series)

I currently own a Super NES, Gameboy Color, Game Gear, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Gamecube, Xbox, DS Lite, Wii and PS3 (and a lot of emulation on the side ;)). My gaming collection began as a wee child with the Atari 2600 and NES, and grew steadily from there. I'm currently looking for a job so that I can proceed to buy more games for said systems, though it's slow going at the moment unfortunately.

I look forward to being part of the community, as it's a refreshing change from the system wars and fanboy drivel of the IGN boards which I usually frequent.

[Artican]

My name is Joel, but you can call me Artican. ^_^
I live in Greenbrier, AR, which is just north of Conway.
I found these forums after checking out the publisher of the rarity guide I recieved with my Generation Nex.
I like so many games that listing just a few would be nearly impossible.
I am primarily an NES collector, though I buy for all my systems. I also am a system collector, and am about to branch out into some computer models (C64, Amiga, etc.)
In "real life", I am a 24 year-old secretary with a government agency.

I started collecting around '97, when $10 used NES games became more frequent, and I discovered some used gaming stores. The NES that started this renaissance was Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, which I paid $15 for at a video store. Since then, it's been onward and upward.

[Gogan]

Hello everyone, Decided to join after reading a couple diffrent threads and really liked the way the forum felt. Anyway.

My name is Mike, 34 yrs old from Ky. Started video game collecting in 1990 when I purchased my TG-16. Really into the 16 bit era of video games but play alot of Gamecube and 360 with my two sons.

[randis112]

Hello, my name is Randy. I'm a 39 yr old truck driver residing in Colorado and have been playing video games since I was a kid. I discovered this site while searching for rarity guides online.

I had an extensive PS2 collection going when I happened upon an old Sega cartidge for Road Rash 2 in a bargain bin for 5 bucks about a year ago. Since then my quest to re-collect all my old systems and games quickly turned into an expensive (but fun) obsession.

I currently have 14 differant systems, most complete in the box, and over 450 games spread between them, most cib as well. I'm quickly running out of room for all this stuff, but am not letting that slow me down too much. There is so much more out there it is unreal.

[CallmeAl]

Hi all, my name is Al and I live in the UK. I can't recall how I found the forums as it was some time ago. I've been playing and to a lesser extent collecting games for over 30 years now (I'm getting on a bit LOL).

My favorite games are rpgs or shoot em ups, I also like playing first person shooters on the Pc. Favorite systems are the Snes and the Pc Engine.
I've kept quite a lot of systems over the years such as Intellivision, NES, Mega Drive, Master System etc but I don't collect for them anymore. These days I concentrate on sealed games, mostly Playstation Rpgs which is rather an expensive hobby :)

Most weekends are spent going around a few car boot sales looking for games. As anyone here from the UK will know, you never know what you will find.

Cheers,

Al

[jedimind7]

Hi my name is Eric and im 24 from San Antonio, Tx. I hapened to come across this site when I used google to find some forums about classic games. Im not really a collector but I would like to get very into it some day. I do own a Playstation 2, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo 64, and a Super Nintendo. I want to purchase a Sega Genesis soon.

[TwinChargers]

Hey, my name is Brian and I reside in beautiful Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lakes. I found the forums in search of information on games on older systems. I currently own a Playstation 2, SNES, N64, Genesis, Mastersystem and an Atari 7800. I also have about a half dozen Plug-N-Plays and an old Pong system from the late 70's. Absolutely love classic gaming and hope to find out more about older systems and meet some cool people along the way. If I was to have a "videogame" dream come true, it would probably be owning an arcade cabinet. I love classic arcade games.

[MRC]

Who you are? Matt
Where you live? Iowa
How did you found the forums? Twin Galaxies
What do you do in "real life"? Build tanks, not the armored vehicle kind.

[g2000]

My name is g2000 and I live in the wonderful state of Texas. I found this forum from a local guy who was selling some games on craigslist. I work in finance.

I've been collecting games ever since I was kid. Most of my stuff has been kept in pretty good condition through out the years. I'm not really an all out game collector, I purchase games that I personally find superb. Quality games is more my route..... But hey, if a crappy game is $1.00 who am I to judge.


All boxed with instructions, most of my boxed systems are in new condition:

Atari 2600. 35 games.
Sega master system/3D glasses boxed/Control sticks Boxed/ 80 games.
Sega cd 1 & 2. 25 games.
Genesis. SMS Adaptor New in box/New controller boxed/ 106 games.
Sega Demo system DS-16.
Saturn 1 -round oval buttons /Saturn 2- round buttons. 16 games
Dreamcast 3 systems. 30 games
Game gear 3 of them. 30 games. Tv turner boxed/New screen magnifier boxed.
Sega 32X. 6 games.
Sega Pico. 5 games.
Playstation new in box. 50 games. I have 3 other PS1 systems.
PS one
PS2. big deck. 30 games.
PS2. slim
NES. 100 games. 3 systems. Power glove/headphone shooter/Advantage controller all boxed.
SNES 2 sytems. 20 games.
N64 10 games.
Gamecube. 18 games.
PS3. 10 games.
Turbo Grafx 16 10 games.
Lynx. 6 games.
3 Gameboys. 20 games.
Neo Geo AES 3 games.

I want a clean boxed sega Nomad if someone here is selling one let me know.

[YrGod]

Hey, I'm 20 and I reside in Pennslyvania.

Right now I own:

Atari 2600
NES
Gameboy
Gamegear
Snes
Sega Genesis
Atari Jaguar
Sega Saturn
Nintendo 64
Playstation
Dreamcast
Playstation 2
Xbox
Wii

and around 500-600 games in total. And way to many books/guides/accessories to count.

[Breakman]

Sup everyone

age 20 here and from central FL

Hmm, lets see what I own...

Atari/Caleco
Nintendo
SNES
Sega Genesis
Sega Saturn
Nintendo 64
Playstation
Dreamcast
Playstation 2
Gamecube
Xbox
Xbox 360
Wii
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advanced
Gameboy SP
Nintendo DS
PSP
Sega Nomad
GameGear

...I think that about covers it..as far as games go, I don't even know wayyyyyyyyyyy mucho. But anyways HI!!! I love almost all types of games, I found this site through someone I know and if there is anything else that you would like to know, just lemme know.

[Hyper_Sonic]

Hello, everybody. I'm 25 years old in Illinois. I've been playing video games since I got my Sega Genesis when I was about 9 or 10. One of the first games I got was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and to this day I'm still a Sonic fan.

I currently own a Sega Genesis and Dreamcast, an NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Gamecube and Wii, Sony PlayStation 1 and 2, XBOX and XBOX 360, as well as Game Boy Advance, DS and PSP. I don't have many games for my older systems yet, but I plan on getting more.

[xdaytime]

Como esta bitches.... ROFL I'm 16 from Indiana and I love playing video games. I am just now getting into collecting retro games but currently play lots of xbox 360. I am semi-pro in Gears of War for Major League Gaming and hope that I get some cred. :bigmac: Anyway, I am hoping to start off my collection with a NES and Dreamcast. PEACE!:band:

[CaptainFalcon13]

Howdy, the name is Frank.

I live in Medford Lakes, NJ aka the town confined inside medford, but we have to be stubborn and have our own community because we are difficultvill USA.

DKtheArcadeRat (Dave Kushina) is a good friend of mine and he told me about this site.

I have so many favorite games it is hard to choose from so I'll tell you one from each of my systems:

NES-Strider
PSone-Tekken 3
Xbox-Time splitters future perfect
Gamecube-Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects
PS2-Shadow of the colossus
DS-Phoenix Wright
GBA-Fzero
GBC-Pokemon BLue
Wii-No More Heroes
Psp-Star wars battle front renegade squdren

My systems are all listed above

other things:
I'm a huge movie fanatic. I don't like to brag but if you are stumped on a movie tell me about a scene and an actor in the movie and I will tell you the title. My favorite movies are Boondock Saints and the Punisher w/ Tom Jane.

I love anime. It is a great media to watch. I'll watch any anime as long as it is not bobobo-bo-bobobo which just sucks.

I play any sport. I'm diverse. I'm a jack of all trades when it comes to playing sports, but I'm not saying that I'm always good. The two sports I devote time to are Soccer and Lacrosse.

I don't think I'm missing anything else, so I'll talk later and I usually show up at Next Level Video games in Blackwood in Today's Plaza on 1031 Little Glouster Town Rd. you can also go to NLVideogames.com

WAIT!

a few more things, sorry...

My favorite video game character is Captain Falcon as you can tell by my name and avatar. I am also a huge Oakland Raiders fan don't ask why.

[deteacher]

Greets!

My name is Pete. I've lurked around DP for quite some time (mostly interested in the Easter Egg section) but I've found myself browsing the forums lately. So I felt I should make myself known to the community.

I'm a music teacher in Delaware. I teach music to elementary students, grade 1-5. Hence the nickname 'DEteacher'. I might have to change my nickname, though. My family is planning a move to NH, hopefully by the end of the summer.

My only hobby is my Atari 2600 collection. My collection is hovering around 200 loose carts. Other than my trusty heavy-sixer, the only other console I own (and have ever owned) is a Wii. I've never had the desire to own another console until the Wii came along. :) I also own a DS and a PSP, but I don't really count them as 'consoles.' ;)

Well, that's enough rambling from me. I look forward to chatting with you folks. Heck, hopefully I'll make it up to the DP store in the near future. :)

[Amnion-Chorion]

What's up guys?

I'm Mike, a 19-year old college student from Long Island. I've lurked around here for a while and I figured it was time to finally start posting. I wouldn't really say I'm a collector per se, but I have a ton of games (over 1000 at the moment, though I'm downsizing a bit) and an innate desire to own every game I feel is worth playing on a particular console. Of course, I don't have nearly enough time to play them all!

My favorite games include Earthbound, Mother 3, Chrono Trigger, the Phoenix Wright series, the Mega Man series, and far too many more to list here.

Looking forward to chatting with you folks. :)

[rikk7111]

New here, but love the place already...........A man could get lost in all those post you got there...........Man what a wealth of knowledge this site has..........I'm in 80's heaven.

[hush]

hello hello well new here just found the site am very excited to go exploring
am new to serious game collecting i only have about 200 games but that will start growing
look forward to meeting all you people out there :D

[bacteria]

Hi guys,

I am 41 years old and live in Hampshire, UK.

I am active in the BenHeck forum and a "Portablizer Extrordinaire" there. I stumbled on this forum when I noticed a fellow modder, Life of Brian, was here.

I like modding and hacking old console systems, you can see my work on the BenHeck forum.

I will be looking at this site in more detail when I get some time.

John.

[Steve_the_tiger]

Hi everyone, My name is Steve, I'm 26 and live in Kearny, NJ. I found this place by stopping by the Digital Press store. I drove by it by accident on thursday. I saw video games on the sign and it wasn't gamestop or Eb games so i wanted to check it out ASAP. I made a quick U-turn, but it was only 9:30am so it wasn't open yet. I must have stared in throught the window for like 10 min. I could not wait to get out of work so that i could come back and get to go inside. This place is better then I thought. I have been starting to collect older games, mainly NES and SNES for a few months now, but now that I have a store very close to me with this and more I know i am going to be spending a lot of $$$ there. I spent $100 just on NES games and a price guide. As for a real job I work in Fairfield NJ at Raymour & Flanigan as the warehouse Mgr.

[The Old School Gamer]

Hi everybody!

My name is Tony, I'm 29 and live in Oak Lawn IL, Found this site while looking for reviews of classic games. First game system was an Intellivision back in 1984. I was late jumping on the Nintendo Bandwagon, didn't get an NES till 1989, and since then I've been a die hard gamer. I just started collecting old games and systems that I missed out on when I was younger.

[loop006]

Hi Guys,

My name is Gerald, I live in Renton Wa.
I found these forums, because I am a software tester, and a good chunk of my day, is spent searching for info about old obscure games.
My #1 favorite game of all time is Snatcher for the Sega CD.
Some of my other favorite games are: Panzer Saga, Odin Sphere, Psychic Assassin Tarumau, AvP (Jag), Tempest 2k, Yoshi's Island, Alien Soldier, Ranger X... there are alot of them!
I am a Sega guy at the core, my favorite system to collect for is Saturn, followed by Duo, then Jaguar, then Sega CD and Super Nintendo.
I mainly collect games that are fun to play from NES to current gen stuff.

I once found (and bought) a MIB Hello Kitty Xbox on CL!!!!!!!!!!
I probably know a bunch of you guys from the NWCGE.
I was a vendor at the 07 one, and I have attended the convention for the last 6 years.

-Gerald

[Rogue]

Hi!

I'm Rogue.
From Brasil.
I found some time ago, looking at collections, I think...
Famorite games: Tomb Raider, Diablo, Super Mario 64... yeah, 96' was a great year! ^^
My favorite systems: Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, GameCube... ^^
In RL I'm very very busy... not really... =/
That's right. ^^/

[ThoughtBomb]

Long overdue, I know:

My name is Chris, I currently live in Fl. I was practically born with an NES controller in my hand. It started with the old Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt double cart for me and it doesn't look like it's ever going to stop. I'm hooked, what can I say. You'll find me mostly in Off-Topic & in Buying & Selling, which has gone pretty well for me so far. I have a fairly humble collection of PSOne & PS2 games, as well as a few Super Famicom, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, DS, Dreamcast, and Nintendo 64 games. I search for mostly obscure games or games that I never got to play for one reason or another. I also collect videogame related stuff; mostly action figures or soundtracks.
In the "real" world I'm an assistant manager of a high-end retail store who's name I will not mention for the sake of protecting the guilty...I mean innocent, tee hee hee. I also am persuing a music career which I will not shamelessy plug by telling you to click the following link http://www.myspace.com/embraceaudio and let me know what you think, maybe add me. Nope, not gonna do that! Other than that I'm mostly random and I will do things that will make you scratch your head, but I'm harmless. Like that old hobo that talks to himself on the corner of your block.
Some of my faves:
Streets Of Rage 2
Metal Gear Solid
Super Mario Bros.3
Metroid
Silent Hill
Resident Evil 2
MTV Music Generator
Final Fantasy VI
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Super Smash Bros.
Valis 3
Gitaroo Man
Parappa The Rapper
Amplitude
Frequency
I could go on, but it's your turn!

[Clownzilla]

Hey, my name is Keith and I'm a
Scorpio from Athens, G-A and i like
to find the essence from within

[brusnes]

Um...hey, I'm Andy and I live in scenic (boring) Northern Virginia.

I'm a big fan of 16-bit gaming, although I'm partial to most anything that came out when I was too young to appreciate it.

[splex]

Hello folks. First of all I'd like to say that I'm happy to see such a lively retro-gaming focused forum to exist. Believe me, I've seen a plenty of those dead and long forgotten sites. It sure is strange how great sites like this are usually found by accident; I was looking some information about Edgeemu.com and stumbled upon... here. I felt instantly at home and got myself in the bandwagon.

Sooo... I guess I'd better tell you guys something about myself before you think I'm getting totally off topic and get my precious post deleted. I'm a student from Finland, and I just love those old SNES games, predominantly J-RPG's. Hmm, what else... I enjoy music in most of its forms and I play guitar in a band.

Time will tell what this community can offer for me, and more importantly what I can offer to you guys. ;)

[Tony Lama]

Hello! My name is Anthony and I am from Chicago, IL USA. I found these forums through Sean Kelly's video game store (VIDEO GAMES ETC.) here in Norridge, IL. My first video game console was a SEARS TELEGAMES system. Although I lost that system in a flood years ago, I was lucky enough to find one recently at a flea market and purchase it. The working systems I own are as follows: Atari 2600/Sears Telegames, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS, NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Nintendo Wii, Sega Master System, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PSP, TurboGrafx-16/CD, Xbox, and Xbox 360.

I started seriously collecting games when I was searching for an old Sega Master System and carts. I had originally shunned the system when I was a kid (big NES fan) and now I wanted to play the games my neighbor (big SMS fan) had enjoyed back when we were young. After that I started collecting for all my retro systems (I never traded or sold any of my old stuff!).

My favorite genre is 2D fighters. My all time favorite fighting game is CAPCOM VS SNK 2. I do love RPGs as well but haven't had the time to really sit down with one. My largest collection is probably for my NES, of which I have hundreds (someday I'll count!). I hope to collect the entire US NES library! We shall see.

When I'm not playing video games I am a retail manager at TARGET. I also enjoy weight training and fitness. Avid gym rat here. Who says video gamers can't be well built looking guys? LOL!

[Drakon]

hi I'm Drakon. I'm located in Toronto Canada. I've been a hardcore gamer since 1989. I'm 27 years old. I collect my favourite games as a hobby. My collection is more about quality than quantity (although usually I only care about having the carts and systems and not the boxes/manuels)

[thedeityofhardcore]

I'm John. I'm sick of gaming forums with biased fanboys and people that don't appreciate my sarcastic and off kilter sense of humor. That is to say nobody really wants to take time and think about what it is I'm trying to say.

I'm 26, From Rhode Island, I have an anxiety disorder (that's been diagnosed as like EVERYTHING BUT) and I loveith the Old School. I've been a gamer since before I could walk weaned on an Old Radio shack computer and then a Tandy before I got my first console a Sega Master System then an NES, then I actually bought my first console an SNES which I still have and Use to this day.

I'm a Sega Nut and love everything Sega's done before the Fall (IE the Sammy Merger) I'm also a Fighting game and Shmup nut.

Right now I'm playing,

Nights On PS2
Rock Band
Lost Oddessy
REZ HD
Trigger Heart
Omega Five

[sarah1980]

I'm Sarah from B.C. Canada,27 years old and I'm not a huge gamer but I am one none the less

I had the old NES system for years until last one where the system finally just died :(

Right now I've got a PS3 and a Wii (which I lucked out on getting) and plan to get an X-Box :rocker:

[Tep]

Wonderful. The first time I've missed a welcome thread; I'm used to just posting in the general chat, whatever it may be.

Hiya. Name's Tep, and I've been messing with games and the words "Game Over" since I was about 3. This was very late to gaming, considering I started off with Super Mario Bros 3 in 1996. (!) I'm 14, by the way. Not sure if that makes me "hardcore".

[tag274]

Hi,

I am Thomas Bull, I live in the Usa. I am a business manager and I collect 8 bit games. I own alot of atari 8 bit games and Master System suff. I began collecting after i found my old Atari 400 and 8 games.

[madcookie83]

Hello my name is Chris and I live in Brookfield, Wisconsin
I found the Room of Doom website a long time ago and I checked this part out a few days ago when I was able to get my hands on a copy of Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt for the NES. I know I'm late but I never really considered it.
My favorite games are the ones that remind me of my childhood (lack there of) So I decided to start and collect and go to almost any place I can in order to start in my mind a baby collection and grow from there.
I was getting games from only two really and that was a PSOne and PS2 but now I'm trying to get games and systems NES/SNES/Atari/N64/GB/GBC well just about every system before this new modern era.
I work at a market research company on the weekends (we don't sell you anything, people always ask me that)
I started a collection when I was growing up of Atari games and comic books (I was only 8 and I had boxes and boxes full of stuff that I could collect) but when my brother sold everything to buy whatever we wanted I lost faith. Not anymore, I'm more determined than ever before to start collecting. If anyone wants to see exactly what I have please check out my collection here:

My Collection (http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?action=profile&name=Video Game Collector&folder=Collection)

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

[Skipper_Lucky11]

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.

Hi. My name is Mike "Skipper". I live in Buffalo NY. I got into this collecting thing on the NES long story short I saw my first CIB game and thought "wow it would be cool to own all my favs for every system CIB"! I started collecting NES CIB games and that is what I mainly collect. However I am moving into SNES and Genesis. But right now its NES and SNES. My favorite game of all time is Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES. I also like Adventure Island for the NES. I work part time and go to school, I love playing sports and I get to the gym often. I run and love to learn new stuff. Anyway thats me.

[oldbits]

Hi,

I am Frank, I live in the south of Germany. I am working as a product manager in pharmaceutical business and I collect homecomputers and videogames for years (OldBits homepage since 1998).
I own a lot of obscure retro systems ;) and I especially love original japanese units like X68000, FM-Towns, X1, NEC PC98 ... and the games as well.
http://www.oldbits.de/collection.htm
The collection consists of roundabout 600 different systems and "some" games from all over the world.
And I think this not the end ...

[jjgames]

My name is JJ. I live in Denver, CO and run an online video game store (http://www.jjgames.com) and the website VideoGamePriceCharts.com (http://www.videogamepricecharts.com). My favorite consoles are the SNES and N64, but I enjoy pretty much every console or at least some of the games from them.

My favorite game of all time is Metroid Prime. I played it so many times and interesting fact: I got my name in Nintendo Power for one of the fastest speed runs (now it is no good at all, but I was pretty happy).

[consolecrusader]

- 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.

Name : Roberto aka Bertybert to my friends. 27 years old

I live in Union City, NJ. I found the forums by visiting the website off the card I got at the DP store.

Favorite games of all time would be Xenogears, FFVII, Bubble Bobble, Ghostbusters, Xenosaga III, Call of Duty 4, Metal Gear Solid 2, Wild Arms, and the Persona Series.

I collect for PS3/360/ds/psp/ps2/NES

I am a Senior Systems Analyst in Fairfield NJ for a Pharma Software company.

I have been gaming since the age of 5. My father above of all people (RIP DAD) would feed my habit by taking me to the Toy R US in North Bergen every Saturday and buying me an NES game. I love to watch sports, I love to play baseball/softball, and Bowling. I love online gaming such as World of Warcraft (70 warrior black temple w00 w00t) My girlfriend Cyndi is a gamer just like me so its good to be with someone you can share the same interests in. Shes more of a Katamari Kingdom hearts type of girl.

And thats about it, glad to be here.

[COUNT SMRIFNACK]

My name is Jason and I live in Texas.

My console collection includes:

Atari 400
Atari 2600 (2)
NES (2)
Sega Genesis
Turbo Grafx16
Turbo Grafx CD
Super NES (2)
PS2
XBox360

I collect Splatterhouse games and just recently got into TG stuff, and love it.

[jjreason]

Hey gang, I'm Jim from Canada, 35 years old, and I've been "buzzing" since my brother and I got our Atari 2600 back in the early 80s. I graduated to a Commodore 64, then took a bit of a break during the "Dark Ages" leading up to the NES.

I got back into gaming with the TG16, then went HARD at the Genesis for a good number of years. My first foray into the gen after that was the N64 (I'm a sucker for Star Wars, so Shadow of the Empire quickly parted me from the $400 it cost for the system and one game back then!!!!), but I switched to Playstation within a few months. I've been in the PS family ever since, having purchased a PS2 on launch date and a PS3 just a couple of months ago.

My favorite game is Metal Gear Solid - and yes I realize this is not original!!!! I'm also a fan of the Final Fantasy series but cooled my jets on those by humping around on FFXI for hours on end, basically to no avail (I still haven't much more than even started part XII). I think I'll stick to the older ones, thanks very much!

I finally realized a dream - I was able to hook up a TON of old systems in my basement after we moved into our most recent house. Sadly, my Genesis has a few parts that are TU, so it's not working. My hope in joining here is to make a few connections that will help me trade some extra systems and games I've picked up over the years for stuff that I can really enjoy - my Genesis and N64 systems and games to be specific.

I'm hoping to post a very nice Saturn starter kit for sale here shortly, as well as a like-new Dreamcast system with a few games to raise funds for the parts I'm needing to get up and running, and am glad to have found this place.

[Flack]

It's great to see so many fresh new faces popping up around here. Welcome aboard, everyone!

[turbokon]

Hello I'm new to digitalpress but I've been a member at the pcenginefx.com forum since january. My only love (besides my wife & kids) are the turbo systems. I'm currently starting to collect turbos again. The systems I have right now are:

Turbo Duo
Turbo Express
Sony PSP
Sege Genesis
Nintendo Wii

[TOE-NEE]

Hello everyone, my name is Tony and I'm 30 years old and I live in Arizona. I am a huge Playstation fan and collector. I hope to meet a lot of new people on here and talk some gaming.

[vikingscool]

I'm Keith. I am big fan of Super Mario Bros. 3 since my friend playing video game with me; and my parents bought this game for the Christmas in 1990.
I am here for posting about Super Mario Bros. 3 beta. That why I need to register for this here. Because, a few days ago. I found something new screenshots from Japanese Magazine. That I can seen on Yahoo Flickr about Famicom for Super Mario 1 and Super Mario Bros. 3.
I was surprised :o I am shocked about one new beta shots at the bottom of the screen.

[DragonmasterAlex]

Hi.
My name is Milton, I live in Brazil and I'm a student of biochemistry and pharmaceutical sciences :)
I've found this forum while searching for a price-catalog for rare Atari 2600 games (I don't buy many atari games, but I was curious about the most expensive games in this system)
My favorite game era is the late-32-early-128 (when the dreamcast was released).
I collect games that I like, no matter the system, so when I buy a game, I know I'll play it sometime. One thing that I like to collect is Japanese Mega Drive rpgs, but I won't play them because I don't know how to read Japanese. :|

[Bulletnyourass]

My name is Phillip. I have heard of this website for some time over at neo-geo.com . I actually decided to register today when forum member Bibliophile sent me a Pm regarding a scammer known as David Kaplish. Anyway, I know the neo geo website has a reputation for being snobbish/elitists but that is not the case with all of us.

[Giant]

Hi, my name is Lee. I joined the forum last week after using the digital press guide to sort through the gaming stuff I already had. I'm a college student in South Texas. I currently have: Atari 2600, Genesis, SNES, Game Boy Color, N64, GBASP, PS2, and PSP. I also have a few games for 32X, Sega CD, NES, and 7800 despite not having the consoles yet. Right now I'm working to expand my collection. I don't really care too much about completeness, its more about being able to play games the way they were meant to be played. I was the webmaster for the Link Cable of Time website which will be relaunching as an online magazine within the next couple months *crosses fingers*. Anyway, hello all.

[sh13ld]

Hi. My name's Jyri and I live in southern Finland. I'm a project manager in a ad agency. I'm responsible for all website projects.

I've been using the Online Rarity Guide for some time now and now I finally registered to these forums.

I currently own 300+ games to the following consoles:

* NES
* SNES
* Game boy
* Game boy Color
* N64
* Gamecube
* Mega Drive (+ Mega CD 2)
* Saturn
* Dreamcast
* Game Gear
* Sony Playstation
* DS Lite

You can find my blog at http://www.kilpelainen.info .

[Rarehunter]

Uh hi. Names Rarehunter, but you can call me Matthew. I am a 3rd generation gamer and have been playing for 21 years. I own an unofficially small distribution company outside of San Jose called Rarefindit. I try to specialize in rare games. What makes me unique is I usually find rare games on foot instead of going online. That means going to local stores and indie game shops that may have rare games. I hear everyone say it's on ebay or amazon, but I say bullocks to that. I can prove to those naysayers that I can find it on foot.

Unfortunately, I've almost exausted all my resouces and now I seek guidance. I'm going to the retrogamers for help since you guys share the same interest as I. I'm asking for help outside of San Jose, but still keeping it like it's local. If you have a rare game I need, I'll pay you.

Let's negotiate.

[deltoidsteep]

Hello everybody, my name is Todd and i'm from Hamilton, Ontario. I've been reading these forums for a while now and i figured it's about time that i got involved in them. I've been gaming for the past 15 or so years, though it's only in the last few years that i've seriously started collecting. I collect for almost 30 systems but i focus more on quality than quantity so my library isn't enormous. Anyways, i hope to learn and have a good time here!

[Sin Cargo]

Hey everyone! My name is Brett, I'm a 26 year old film maker. Originally from Buffalo, NY, I moved to Queens in the summer of 2005 to pursue work in the entertainment biz. In November of 2006, I joined together with some college buddies of mine and shot a pilot to an indy web series called "The New Adventures of Captain S." The show was meant to be a mash-up of saturday morning TV shows from the early 90s (think Saved by the Bell, Captain N, and Superhuman Samurai-Syber Squad.) A month later, we formed PBC Productions and made 9 more episodes of Captain S.

Since launching our site in January of 2007, we have released over 70 videos, many of them with a gaming theme. We're featured on screwattack.com, and soon to be featured on goodgameTV.com, which releases its first beta today. Check out http://www.pbc-productions.com for new content every friday!

You can catch us at NAVA each month, ogling Joe's collection, drinking beer (in red plastic cups, of course,) and shooting the breeze with everyone that's come out.

[Nodtveidt]

Nodtveidt's the name, you can call me Nodt or Rover (The Old Rover is what people on pcenginefx know me as). I currently hail from Isabela, Puerto Rico, but am originally from the USA mainland. Came here tracking a scam, actually...but found out I couldn't see the page. Oh well. Anyways, to keep with the format of new posts here...my favorite games are pretty much all on the TurboGrafx 16...Neutopia, Exile, Parasol Stars, Cadash, Lords Of Thunder...I could go on and on for hours. Not a lot of love for newer console games with a few exceptions, such as Genji on the PS2 or Castlevania POR on the NDS. I collect only for the TurboGrafx, but my console is region-modded so I've picked up a few select PC Engine titles as well. In real life, I am a trading card merchandiser full-time and a programmer part-time, doing websites professionally and retro video games as a hobby; I'm the lead coder of the PCE coding group Frozen Utopia and also code for Eponasoft as an NDS developer. I intend to collect the entire US TurboGrafx 16 collection someday...I was actually almost there, with a solid 100 titles in my possession...and then I had to sell off most of them because my wife and I needed the money for our soon-to-be-born baby girl. Well, I can collect them anytime, but our family is more important. Anyways, I'll hang around here for awhile I reckon, but I'll try to avoid conflict...I hate fighting on forums.

[thepiratemonk3y]

Hey everyone. My name is Dan and I'm from Flemington, NJ

To be honest I'm not quite sure how I found these forums, and I only found them about two weeks ago, but I'm happy I found them. They are pretty much everything I've been looking for in a gaming board.

Its tough to say what my favorite game is. I'm a big fan of the Contra series and the frustration it causes. I've also been a follower of Pokemon since the early days.

I've recently started collecting again because I made friends with some people who also like video games. Right now I own a NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance SP, and a DS. Basically I buy games that I've heard good things about for all those consoles and I'm always looking for consoles and cool accessories that I don't already have. I just love collecting all that kind of stuff.

Right now I'm just a student but I just applied at Gamestop so hopefully that will go well. Despite my normal views on their store, I figured that if I like games, the job might be bearable as opposed to other options.

I started "collecting" when I was around 6. My Uncle bought a NES for his two daughters that they never played, so he handed it down to me along with SMB and Tetris. I VERY RARELY got new games and after all that time I still only have around 30. I was almost always one or two gens behind on the latest technology but it gave me a greater appreciation of the classics.

I guess thats it, probably over did it with all of that.

[Dantesinferno]

Hey everyone, my name is Dustin, I am from the midwest, Iowa to be exact. I am 33, I'm married, and I am a pretty hardcore gamer and sports fan. As for systems I have..

One SNES I got for christmas when it launched
One Super Famicom
One turbo duo that I got at a yard sale in the (very damaged) box
One genesis with sega cd with the s-video cable mod
One slim cermaic white pstwo
One white import sega saturn
Two dreamcasts, one still NIB for when the launch system croaks
One halo edition xbox
One silver gcube
One xbox 360 pro
One import xbox 360 arcade edition
One PS3
One Wii
Two DS lites, one white, one baby blue (import)
Two GBA SP with the bright screen

The ps3, wii and 360 are played on a 42" panasonic 1080p plasma and everything else is played on 32" jvc iart 4:3 tv. My favorite games are 2D and 3D fighters, 2D shooters, FPS, RPG and Racing games..actually, I like games period. I'm glad to be here!

[Krook]

Im 23yo from Sweden. Found this side like two years ago or something and have been coming back here once in a while when im looking for something. And today finally registred myself, hehe.
I'm collecting Final Fantasy titles, NES and SNES games. I'm not a huge collector and i'll probably never be one. I'm more of a retro gamer then a retro collector.
Well, it's nice to be here.

[Roufuss]

Hm, a quick introduction - I'm 25, from Tampa Bay, FL. I had always known about Digitpress, even had myself a nice 1,100 + game collection, but for many reasons I had to liquidate =/

Eventually, I hope to put most of it back together, but in the mean time, I'd love to talk about the games I've owned, played, and discover new gems in the mean time!

Luckily I kept all my working systems :D

[GreatBazunka]

Hi, GreatBazunka Here.
I am a Nintendo collector, anything Nintendo. I like all types of games but pretty much anything with mario in it is my favorite. I have a decently extensive NES colelction including a caltron 6 in 1. In real life (if there is such a thing) i am a computer technitian. Having no bills right now sure makes collecting easy.

[Krook]

Hi, GreatBazunka Here.
I am a Nintendo collector, anything Nintendo. I like all types of games but pretty much anything with mario in it is my favorite. I have a decently extensive NES colelction including a caltron 6 in 1. In real life (if there is such a thing) i am a computer technitian. Having no bills right now sure makes collecting easy.

I'm probably not the right person to say this but, Welcome to the bunch!

[Dr. Dib]

Hi, I'm Dr. Dib. Well I'm not a real doctor, but its just a name I came up with as I was naming myself in Zelda. Yes my name is inspired by Invader Zim.

Anyways, I've been a gamer nearly all of my life. My older brother and father already had a NES when I was born and they got a SNES shortly after A Link to the Past came out.

I got into collecting games sometime in the summer of '04. This was caused by me finally getting a T.V. in my room. I decided I wanted to hook up my SNES which had not been used in ages (as I would later discover, I could have used it since I used the N64 A/V cable). As it turned out I had the worst of luck because Gamestop and EB Games stopped carrying anything older than a N64. Thankfully a GameCrazy opened up nearby me.

Anyways, since I officially started collecting in 2004 (although I've of course kept some consoles that I was an original owner of) I've accumulated 300 some games. Of course this isn't as much as others, but I take pride in what I have. After all, for having a little paying job it isn't too bad.

I came to this site after someone recommended its collector's guide to me.

[NayusDante]

Who you are
Hello, I'm Sean.

Where you live
Florida. It's too damn hot. >_<

How you found the forums
Google search on RetroDuo reviews

What your favorite games are
SNES RPGs, Megaman/Rockman, Katamari, Unreal Tournament, and anything really unique, bizarre, or relatively unknown/non-mainstream

What systems you collect for
Mostly NES, SNES, but I love everything

What you do in "real life"
In college (pursuing engineering), work part time at a wheel store (different, but interesting)

Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I grew up with my NES, which fascinated me to no end. It just kept going from there.

View my collection (http://nayusdante.mybesthost.com/page.php?2)

[Gandalf42]

Hi.. Gandalf42 here,

I've collected systems and games for the better part of a decade. The systems I currently own the Atari 2600 (4), Atari 5200 (1), Atari 7800 (2), Atari XE Game System (1), Colecovision (1), Intellivision (3), Odyssey 2 (2), Playstation (4), Playstation 2 (3), Playstation 3 (1), XBox (2), Xbox 360 (1), Gamecube (2), Saturn (3), N64 (3), Wii (1), PSP (1), NDS (2), NDS Lite (1), Genesis (2), TG-16 (2), TurboDuo (1), 3D0 (1/Panasonic), GameGear (1), NeoGeo Color (1), Gameboy Advance (2), WonderSwan (1), Sega Master System (2), SNES (2), NES (10). I'm probably forgetting a few. :)

The games I mainly collect, play and trade are shoot'em ups and I also run a Shoot'em up fansite called Shmuptacular (http://www.shmuptacular.com).

Looking forward to some good classic gaming chatting.

[raptor94k]

Hey.

My name is Jordan. I'll be 21 in like two weeks and I'm in college at LSU. Two more semesters and I will be out with a double major in electrical engineering and computer engineering. Then I'm going to be a musician. :D

I've been collecting games since I was 14 or so. I started out collecting games for the NES and now I collect anything that I can find. I'm a big RPG fan, but I definitely love a good side scrolling fighter or shooter.

[Meltd0wn]

Greetings and Well Met.
My name is Mike and I'm 43 and been a video gamer since 1972 when my father brought home the first Odyssey, When I moved out I took all the gaming consoles with me. At first I never thought of it as 'collecting' video games, I just thought of it as keeping them so that I could hook them up and play them whenever I got the urge. It wasn't until I started hearing people talk about the "old" days when they first played on their NES or SNES that I realized 2 things. I'm OLD, and I have an extensive video game console collection. LOL.

I'm a single father raising my 2 daughters who are both also gaming adicts, I'm currently trapped in Florida, and thats not as great as many think it is.

I found this site on a Google search, as I recently got fed up with the 2 gaming forums I was a member of and decided to search for another place that was established and covered all ranges of video games, and Here I am.

My favorite games of all time are Donkey Kong(arcade), Joust(arcade), Gyruss(arcade), Both Animal Crossing games(GCN,DS), Mass Effect(xbox360), Lost Odyssey(xbox360), and both Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic(xbox) As you can see I favor the so called "RPG's" even though none of them actually feel like true Role Playing Games.

The following are consoles that I own, although most are packed away in storage because I dont have enough space now to display them.


3DO
Atari 2600 x 4
Atari 400
Atari 5200
Atari PONG x 2
C64
ColecoVision
Gamecube
Intellevision
N64
NES x 2
Odyssey
Odyssey 2000
Odyssey 2
Sega Genesis
Sega MasterSystem
Sega CD
SNES
TurboGrafix 16
TI-99/4a
VIC20
Xbox
Xbox360
Wii


DS x 3
DS lite x 3
GB
GBP
GBC
GBA
GBA-SP x 3
Sega GameGear
Virtualboy


And before anyone asks NO I do not own any SONY systems, Once SONY screwed up my computer I vowed to never allow their products in my home ever again, with the exception of CD's and DVD's which now NEVER go near my computer.

For the past 2 years I was the home caregiver for my grandfather who has Alzheimer's which was pretty much a 24/7 job, but now he is in a nursing home so I can return to the working field, now to just find a company that is actually hiring. lol

spare time for me is spent playing with my daughters, playing video games, and puppetry. yes I'm a professional Puppeteer.


Well I guess thats enough "Intro" for me, now I'll go check out some more boards.

[marbs]

Hey, I'm marbs, some of you may already know me from 64Digits (http://www.64digits.com?refer=marbs).

I'm from England (pip pip, tally ho), I'm almost 17, and I've been collecting game consoles since about '96 when me and my sister bought a SNES off of a friend for £50 because he wanted to get an N64 instead.

I've known of this site for a while, just never got around to signing up until recently. I either found it through google or the ben heck forums.

My favourite console is the SNES, since it was my first one, and I have the most games for it, and I'm hoping to make a SNESp soon! I have around 61 games for my SNES (unless you include the 3 games I took apart for various reasons).

My rarest and most valuable game has to be "Starwing Competition" (PAL), which I picked up from a boot sale (flea market/whatever) for just £1, and apparently it's worth something betwenn £50 and £150, not a bad find if you ask me :D

I used to think I had a big collection until I saw some of the other peoples stuff on and around this site.

I've never documented my whole collection, though from memory I think I have over 26 consoles, including NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, PS1, XBOX, Dreamcast, G700, 2600, some other console which I can't find any information about online, load of segas, and some handhelds.

If you want pictures, here are some from a while back (excuse the untidyness of the collection :P)
Top down view showing big controllers and boxes (http://64digits.com/users/marbs/collection_i3.JPG)
Some of my SNES games among other stuff (http://64digits.com/users/marbs/collection_i1.JPG)
View from further back (http://64digits.com/users/marbs/collection_i2.JPG)
Though note that that isn't my entire collection - I have stuff scattered around the house, and my collection has grown since then! :D


I have a load of exams in a few weeks and coursework to do, so I'd probably better end this here. Cheerio, have a nice day.

[mike0601]

Hi my name is Mike, I'm 20 and live right outside Philadelphia. I have probably over 700 games for about 15 different systems. My favorite system to collect for is the SNES. The main types of games I like to collect are beat em ups. I don't know why but for some reason I just love them and really wish the genre would come back.

I've always enjoyed video games but I didn't start collecting for older systems until one day gamestop had a 75% off sale on all N64 games. I bought a ton of them and got hooked on getting more. One day I hope to make it to the digitpress store but who knows when that will be.

[JunkTheMagicDragon]

hi, newb here.

my name's jon. i'm 24 and i live in irwinville, ga (us). you history buffs will recognize that as the location where jefferson davis was captured. everyone else will wonder what i'm rambling about.

i ran across the forums while searching for info on my new pippin.

my first console was the 2600, but i've only been collecting seriously since 03 (where finances allow, that is). much like marbs, i thought i had a decent collection till i saw some of the galleries here!

right now my collection stands as such:
atari 2600 (heavy sixer)
mattel intellivision (with box)
commodore 64 (with box)
colecovision & exp mod 2 (both with boxes)
sega master system
genesis model 1
saturn
dreamcast (black sports model)
nes
snes
n64
gamecube
ps2 slim
xbox
xbox 360
turbografx 16
bandai pippin @world

i recently got cases for all my loose carts and am now in the process of building shelves to hold them.

[waru]

I'm Zack, and I'm crazy about SNES RPGs. I think I've hit all the major and many of the minor ones, so I'm looking for more! Japanese OK! Even some non-RPGs are pleasureable too, sometimes.

But all my gaming is on ROMs. Will I be accepted here if I'm not collecting systems!?

[nat]

Hi. I'm an admin over on www.pcenginefx.com/forums

I've heard Digital Press is all the rage these days, so I'm here to see for myself.

[LensLarque]

Hi ! I'm LensLarque, a shmup addict usually hanging on shmup.com, the french site dedicated to shoot'em up games (not shmups.com wich is the N°1 english shmup site, cool guys ^^).

Began playing with the Atari 2600 (or even a Pong clone, don't remember) but true love came with the MD/Genesis.

I currently own these systems:
-Super Game (chinese famicom clone ^^)
-SNES Pal
-GBA SP (broken ^^)
-MD1 Pal (w/ region & frequency switches)
-MD2 Pal (w/ region & frequency switches)
-Mega CD Pal
-Master System Converter
-Saturn Pal (w/ frequency switch + ST-Key v1.0)
-PSX Pal (fat grey, w/ modchip)
-PS2 v9 '50004' silver Pal (w/ modchip)
-GC Pal (w/ FreeLoader)
-DC Pal (w/ DC-VGA BOX)

I plan to do various mods to my systems (mainly MD/Genesis, by far my fav' system :embarrassed:) but also to do some arcade sticks mods:
-Hori Fighting Stick 2 (add seimitsu or sanwa stick + sanwa buttons, will be tough ^^)
-DC official arcade stick (add seimitsu or sanwa stick + sanwa buttons)
-MD/Genesis Arcade Power Stick II (6 btn) (add sanwa stick + sanwa buttons: I have no clue if it is even possible. actually I still have to FIND a pair of those ^^).
And finally to build a solid MD/Genesis collection 'again' as I recently fell in love a second time with Genny. :love:).

Another thing I want to try is a VGA -> CGA adapter (there are schematics around, looks hard). :smash:

:cheers:

[aus_e]

Greetings all,

just joined, this is my first post.
i'm a 38 yr old IT Helpdesk manager in Sydney, Australia.
my one and only console was a Atari 2600. following that was a Commodore 64 and an Amiga 500 and Atari 1040ST. Favourite joystick was the Tac-2. Indestructable. perfect for Daly Thomson's decatholon. I also had an Australian made joystick, cannot remember it's name. Was Arcade quality switching. bloody expensive to buy at the time. I also still have my Atari Lynx.
I used to work at a Dept store computer section, so used to play everything. had to you know. needed to demonstrate to customers : )
Currently still so retro I was still playing CivII on my laptop till recently. Or more retro, a big MAME player.
just bought a MXT DVD player which has a VCD of NES games.

Cheers,
e

[StBob]

Hello to all you old retro atari folks.

I started with a Sinclair 16k way back in?? not sure when.
My first game system was a 2600
My second computer was a Atari 400 upgraded to 48k.

I think the reason I wanted the Atari was to play a game called ZORK I. I had seen it on a home built CPM machine. I think it was 1979 when I first played ZORK. I had to have it. I remember the Percom floppy drive was 350.00 back then. When I got it I was in heaven.

M.U.L.E. quickly became a cult classic. My beer drinking friends love to have MULE tourneys about once a month. We either had 4 or 8 people, if 8 we set up two 800s and the top two of each match went on to the final four. There was a loser round for the basement dwellers too.

I went on to get a ST, STE, MEGA, 486PC etc. I don't think any of those systems was a dear to me as the 800. Probably because of MULE, ZOMBIES,
ARCHON etc. We have not played in about 2 years but from 1983 till 2006 we had at least one MULE tourney per year. Beer was needed to help people mess up and YAh MULEs by accident, fun stuff. They have been asking me to dust off the 800 and get some MULE going. My wife is trying to throw them away as junk. She just does not get it.

I've been pretty sick as of late, not working for past two months due to medical tests etc. I dug up my old 800 and played some Archon and Miner 2049er. Brought back some great memories.

I am glad I got to ride the technology wave. My kids really do not get what we had to go through back in the day. Tape drives, slow floppies etc. It gives you an different perspective on the evolution of computers and games.

If I get better I think I will go to one of these retro gaming conventions, it sounds like fun.

[niolani]

Hi. I'm new to this forums. Finally, I've found a place were I can share my love for retro video games. I actually own 20 games consoles. Here's a list:

Atari 2600
Atari 7800
ColecoVision (x2)
Coleco Gemine (Atari 2600 clone)
Sega Master
Sega Genesis (x2)
Sega GameGear
TI-99A Silver
GameBoy Original (Red)
Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64 Jungle Green Edition
Nintendo GameCube
GameBoy Advance SP
Nintendo DS Link (Pink)
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2 Slim

That's all. :-D

[darkslime]

Hi, I'm Jake.
I'm 14, and have gotten into collecting retro games after going to yard sales.
I have been modding for myself and friends for a couple years now.

The systems I own are:

PS2
GC
360
WII
GENESIS
GAME GEAR
DC

I know its a crappy collection, but I can't seem to find a NES/SNES that's reasonably priced, and play most of my games off roms.

[t2kd2k]

My name is Masaru. I live in Tokyo, JAPAN.
I found DP site when I was searching about Atari 2600 games.

My favorite games are
Tempest 2000 (Jaguar), Defender 2000 (Jaguar), Out Run (SS),
Ridge Racer (PS), Marble Madness (Genesis), Tetrisphere (N64),
Shooting Gallery (SMS), Pac-Mania (NES), Balloon Fight (FC),
Tapper (2600), Star Wars: The Arcade Game (2600)

I'm a gamer/videogame historian, maybe.
I love classic videogames especially cartridge-based games.:hail:

[LGB]

Wonderful. The first time I've missed a welcome thread; I'm used to just posting in the general chat, whatever it may be.

Hiya. Name's Tep, and I've been messing with games and the words "Game Over" since I was about 3. This was very late to gaming, considering I started off with Super Mario Bros 3 in 1996. (!) I'm 14, by the way. Not sure if that makes me "hardcore".
You're through. Do it again and you're toast.
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Oh hello. Name's Terrance. Found my way here by... well actually, I found my way here by a random welcoming e-mail I got a few months back...

Anyway, I was poking around the forums since then, and saw it seemed to be safe ground, so I joined. Also, there seems to be a lot of (good) shmupsforum members (Hello Ed!). I'm not anything special. 14 years old, and I've got this mental block that I'm way too young for half the things I take interest in, even though it's just obscure video games, and to be more precise, shooters. Which I'm not the greatest at anyway.

[gewky]

Sup guys, my name is Win and I just recently started collecting sealed video games, most ly NES/SNES/PSX/PS2 - as I live in the NJ area I'll probably check out the store and maybe attend an event or two.

[thom_m]

Hey there. I'm Thom, from Brazil. I'm 27-year-old journalist, and have been playing videogames since I was 6, when my dad bought me an Atari 2600 (it came with Missile Command and Enduro).

I'm especially fond of the old (ooops, I meant "classic") systems; currently, I own a beaten up Super NES, a Mega Drive, and a Megavision, which is a really cool brazilian genesis clone. Oh, and also one of those crappy "Polystation" famiclones. My wife thinks I'm nuts for spending money on this "junk"... but never refuses to spend a whole sunday afternoon trying to beat Kid Chamelelon again. My little daughter is already learning to play, and hopefully she'll follow her gamer dad's footsteps.

I ran into this forum while trying to find information about the differente models of SNES controllers, and it was very helpful, so I decide to join. Hope I can contribute too someday.

[WaverBoy]

Hello all,

I'm Jeff, 39, from Seattle WA. My first game console was a Coleco Telstar Alpha. Black-and-white, self-contained, with tennis, hockey, handball, and Jai Alai:

http://www.pong-story.com/coleco_alpha.htm

My first real console, though, was the beloved Atari 2600, wood-grain four-switch model, which, I remember distinctly, set my poor parents back $139.95 in 1981 dollars. Nearly wore my thumb out playing Asteroids & Space Invaders. Also loved the extremely underrated Activision Fishing Derby. The next year I asked for the 5200 for Xmas, and got it (YES!). Still have it. Love that system. Montezuma's Revenge...many many hours playing that one. Space Dungeon too. Skipped ColecoVision and Intellivision. Picked up the NES for myself with pizza delivery wages (still living at home) in 1988. Became addicted to Legend Of Zelda (who wasn't?), Double Dragon, LifeForce, and Super Dodge Ball. Other NES faves include Punch-Out, Kings of the Beach, and Gyruss. Never picked up a Super NES or Genesis originally, but played the Genesis quite a bit at a friend's. I think that the greatest Genesis game of all time just may be Streets Of Rage. (I just got Streets of Rage 2, but have yet to play it...) The last game console I bought at the time of its release was the Playstation. I only really ever liked Battle Arena Toshinden, Road Rash, and, especially, Tempest X3. Guess I'm too old-fashioned for most polygon games. My original Telstar, Atari, NES and Playstation are long gone; I've since gone back and gotten another mint 2600 wood-grain 4-switch, an NES (which I'm about to send out to be completely overhauled), a Genesis (original model, though it doesn't say 16-Bit High Resolution Graphics on it for some reason), a Saturn (just for Legend Of Oasis), and a redesigned PSOne. Oh, and I have a GameBoy Color too, that my nephew gave me years ago. Revenge of the Gator is great on that. So, that puts my collection at:

Atari 2600 (4-switch woodgrain)
Atari 5200 (original 4-port model)
Nintendo Entertainment System (original toaster model)
Sega Genesis (original model)
Sega Saturn
Sony PSOne
Nintendo GameBoy Color (Yellow)

It's great to be here!

[steven78]

Hi

i am steven and i am 27 years old,and from the netherlands. Nes freak from i whas a little kid.So i only collect nes,specialy PAL-B.But i got a small ntsc want list.Me and a friend have a dutch NES forum.So you can check it out at

www.palrocks.com

Hope to meed some new people here ,and maybe do some buy/sell/trade's :)


thats it..

greets

steven78

[Zora Mystery]

Hello, my name is Zora Mystery! I just found this site looking up old Xbox and Nintendo 64 games on Google. My favorite games are Mario and Zelda, but I like anything that is fun, old and new.

See you around!

[nimblenumbersned]

Hi all,

My name is Michael Worrall and I live in San Francisco, CA

I am strictly a late 70's/early 80's player and collector. I was one of the few kids in my school that had an Odyssey 2. I always wondered what would have happened if Atari did not win the appeal on the KC Munchkin suit. (Besides no flicker, you could program your own mazes!)

Besides an Odyssey 2, I have an Intellivision II with the whole ECS. I still play and collect games for the Odyssey 2, Intellivision and Atari 2600.

Some of my favorite games: Yars Revenge, Attack of the Timelord, Tron Deadly Disc, Pick Axe Pete, Bugertime, UFO, Microsurgeon, Berzerk and Showdown in 2100 A.D.

[The 1 2 P]

I'm 1 2 P but my friends call me...1 2 P. I love playing an collecting demo disc, import games and wrestling games. I'm also into anime, wrestling, and the UFC.

[PH5]

Hello Everyone,

I just signed up here, but I've been reading posts here for a while now. I'm a cg collector from Iowa, and I've been collecting for several years now. I focus most of my attention on the NES, because it was the one I had growing up, but I'll gladly pick up games for any system that I find for cheap. You can find a list of the games in my collection at my website (http://www.alpinecom.net/phackmann/vgc/index.php) . I do most of my game buying locally from my favorite thrift stores as I enjoy the challenge of the hunt, though I do occasionally use eBay.

In addition to collecting, I've recently gotten involved in modding donor carts to hold various homebrew roms. I've made NES carts of the roms from Challenging Lolo 1 and 2, and the latest Tecmo Super Bowl 2k7 rom. I have no doubt that I will be making more in time.

Paul

[timewarpgamer]

I'm a huge retro gamer fan. I'm not sure any era of video games can top the 8- and 16-bit one. Anyway, one of my goals is to create a site that provides definitive lists and information for the 8- and 16-bit golden age. Here is my early attempt: http://www.timewarpgamer.com. There's a long way to go, I know, but I appreciate any feedback.

[Naota]

Hey!

My name´s Rafael I´m 25, I live in Hysterical Mexico City MX. My very first Game System was an Intellivision then an atari 2600 and so on... till PS3.

I began collecting games/consoles seriously around 1996 / 1997 both: classic and modern age.

About collecting...well Right now I use to look and dig in a flea market near my job which sells NES/SNES titles, besides that I check regional e-bay site for some PSX deals and when possible I check in den den Town or Akiba for DC and Import Games.

I work on my free time as Editor, but work as a Production Assistant in a Didactic Editorial House.(where I´ve learnt a lot) I dream of Publish some retro Gaming Mag here in Mexico sometime.

My faves:

-Earthbound

-Radiant Silver Gun

-Super Metroid

-Parodius

-Final Fantasy VI and VII

My favorite Company´s: SEGA undoubtely.


And well I guess that´s It for Now, Thanks for Reading, your time and all of your creative ideas here at Digital Press. You are the best Guys!

Game On!
Rafael (Naota)

[groovetuber]

Hey. My name's Anthony. A few months ago I started collecting NES and SNES games and also some PS1 games. The collection is fairly small right now, but I hope to continue to expand and collect, it's definitely a fun hobby. I'm currently working my way through Chrono Trigger which is becoming an all-time favorite of mine. I'm about 3 hours in and it's just a super fun game. Anyway, I've been checking this site out over the past 2 months or so and I thought I would join. I've been a member over at NintendoAge for 3 months or so now as well. I look forward to talking games with you guys. Peace!

[modest9797]

Hey, I am Dylan Bond. I live in PA. I collect games for all the systems below.

Currently, my favorite system is my 360. My favorite game is Dead Rising. I really want to buy all the old Nintendo Games. I go to flea markets about once every two months looking for games.

[BadEnoughDude]

Hello. I'm Adam. It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm 26, unemployed and a culinary student in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I'm a frequent poster over at RFGeneration under the same user name. Unfortunately, their site has been in and out of the hospital lately, and I needed something new to satisfy my forum-posting needs. That brings me here. I hope that I end up enjoying this community as much as I do theirs.

I started collecting seriously probably 8 or 9 years ago. A friend and I got in during a down time and were able to pick up large quantities of games for dirt cheap, mostly from a going-out-of-business rental store that gave us as much as we wanted for $2 a game. Those were the good old days. Obviously deals like that are much harder to find now, but I still maintain hope.

My collection right now consists of around 35 systems and 750+ games (closing in on 700 unique games). Lately I have been trying to fill in the remaining Playstation 2 titles on my want list (down to about 20), and, as always, the classics from my era: NES, SNES, Genesis and PS1. Being that I am unemployed I don't get to buy nearly as much as I'd like, but I find ways to buy games as often as I can.

[Bigziggy]

Hello,
I am new here. My name is Shaun and I am 36 years old.
I collect just about any thing to do with games. The things I collect the most are Nintendo and Atari. Hi to everyone and have a great weekend.

[Tenjikuronin]

Hey,

I'm Rick and I'm new here. I live in the greater Seattle area and I've been collecting games since approx. 1992 (although back then It was primarily for playing them as opposed to collecting them for the sake of collecting). After 15+ years I've decided to call it good and due to space/time limitations I'm looking to get rid of 50% of my collection (basically any game that I'm not actually going to play...lol). I'll post some things here when I get access to the selling forum. I Look forward to posting here and getting to do business with you all...

[Optigrab]

Hey, now....

I'm Joe from Boston. I'm 30, married, two kids, and I still play video games. I'm kind of stuck in the past -- NES, Genesis, Super NES are my go-to's for a quick game. I own a Wii (again, two kids), but haven't made the next-gen leap to PS3 or 360 yet. I also have a DS, PS2, GameCube, even a TG-16.

I like collecting old video games and systems, and have a decent NES and Genesis collection. Mostly whatever I come across at thrift stores and yard sales. For example, I have an Odyssey2 system, but no games!

I am a staff member on VGR, where you can see my game list (http://vgrebirth.org/community/games.asp?list=1&id=Optigrab). Try to contain yourself.

Now that I've said hello, I'll likely keep to myself and continue hunting down barcodes for every single video game known to mankind (I'm also OCD, ADD, sometimes ED, and every now and then RLS).

Bye for now...

[Goatjuggler]

Doh, forgot to introduce myself. With links for added bonus!

I'm Goatjuggler. I own a farm of "fainting goats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fainting_goat)" which I scare the bejeezus out of and proceed to pick up and juggle. So far 3 is my max. Four at a time was a disaster. (Kidding about all that, btw) My nick on the interweb used to be Goatherder based off of Eddie Murphy's fake occupation in "Coming to America" but I ran into situations where the nick had already been taken, so I pulled this out of my *ahem*.

I'm a 30 year old Software Quality Engineer in the vicinity of Harrisburg, PA with my 4th consecutive season pass for Hersheypark (http://www.hersheypark.com/index.php). They still have an awesome arcade with plenty of classics, of which I plan to take plenty of pics soon. (Rampage!)

My first experiences with gaming/computing were the TI-99/4A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99) and the Apple IIc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II#Apple_IIc).
That's where it all started. WYSIWYG on the Apple IIc anyone? I typed up all my reports in I think WordPerfect back then, and remember 1 fateful day where it locked up after ~4 pages of work lost. My sister laughed her ass off at me, so I chased her around with a knife! (I was about 10 yrs old!) I'd NEVER harm my sister, but that's what lockups used to do to people. Now it's a bit more common, meh.

I then graduated to an Atari 2600, but after that, the folks told me that video games and computers were too expensive and wouldn't get me anywhere. LULZ!

As much as I'd like to collect EVERYTHING they didn't let me have, I'd much rather have the original of all the things I DID own back then. So that's my current collecting ambition. I've matured a little bit above teenager level, so I know unpacking & playing a game I haven't played in 25 years isn't going to solve my current problems, but it certainly gives me a high that no drugs ever have, and believe me I've tried ;D.

Aside from classics, I got a launch day Wii, second-hand, a few days after launch day on a spur of the moment, and although I haven't played it much since Wii Sports, I've been messing around with Wii Homebrew and loving it. Getting back to C after ~12 years is like meeting up with an old friend with whom you've had differences in the past, but you're willing to look past that and move on. LULz! (geek, I know).

So I've got a lotta searching to do, but I love doing it and I'm hella glad there's a community like this out there for us types ;) CHEERS!

[Retrosondre]

I have visited this forum several times before, but I finally decided to register :) This is me, in short:

Sondre, 17 years old, Vestby, Akershus, Norway, Tellus, Milky Way.

I grew up with two older brothers (and a little sister) having no more than a NES console and a, at that time, high-end laptop my dad used to take home from work. The games I played the most, were Super Mario Bros. and Super Pang! (Sachen), aswell as Mega Man IV and Street Gangs. My favourites on the computer were Day of the Tentacle, Police Quest and Kings Quest.

I started collecting video games and video game related stuff for about 5 years ago, when I found out that it would be fun to get hold of a NES and bring back some memories from my childhood. Although i started collecting about 5 years ago, I did not take the hobby "serious" until a year or two later. Other than having a huge interest in video game and video game culture, I love taking photos in my spare time. In the winter seasons, I go twin tip-ing with my friends.

My handhelds:
Gameboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy Advance SP
Gameboy Micro
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS Lite
Sega GameGear
Atari Lynx
Sony PSP

My consoles:
Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo 64
Gamecube
Nintendo Wii
Sega Master System
Sega Megadrive
Sega Megadrive II
Atari 2600
Atari 2600 Jr.
Amiga 500
Commodore 64
Commodore 64c
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k
Philips CD-i 450
PlayStation
PlayStation One
PlayStation 2
Xbox 360

Most of the consoles are complete with box and manuals/inlays, and I do have several variants/bundles of most of them :)

Other than being a member here, I am currently an active forum admin for www.retro1.no. I am also registered at www.cowabunga.se.

[SpaceHarrier]

So I've been lurking here for a month or so and I am just getting around to registering.. gosh everyone seems so knowledgeable here..

Anyway I'm 28 from Orange County, California. Been playing games since the NES days. I'd say my favorite 3 consoles would be SNES, Dreamcast, and PSX in that order. I miss all the arcades that have disappeared in recent years, and still visit the ones that are still around in my area when I can. I wouldn't say I'm a hardcore gamer, I rarely beat the games I own. Nor am I a hardcore collector (at least compared to everyone here). I tend to think I read about games alot more than I play them. Either way, they have been my pastime and hobby for over 20 years and that is saying something. Alot of times I can hear a song on the radio and it will remind me of the game I was playing at the time... i.e. Desert level of Mario 64 is recollected when I hear "Going the Distance" by Cake; and Foo Fighter's "Everlong" always reminds me of Rage Racer.

anyway my consoles and game counts:

ps2 - 48 games and 24 psx games
jps2 - 1 and 1 jpsx
gamecube - 17
xbox - 11
dreamcast - 28
32x - 10
genesis - 14
snes - 21
nes - 33

handhelds with game counts:

psp - 5 games
nds - 7 and 12 gba
atari lynx - 5

Not too shabby, not too sizeable... I prefer to think of it as a "really well-balanced" collection, with a good cross-section of all the best games for each respective system. I'm always on the hunt for great "in the wild" finds, in factory-sealed or mint-condition whenever possible. I just enjoy the chase I suppose. I have an unhealthy urge toward those factory sealed games in particular, I dunno... just something -special- about de-virginizing a game. :popcorn:

[Drixxel]

Drixxel is my universal internet pseudonym, and I've been frequenting this site for years, mainly to reference the ever-swanky online rarity guide. I'm a fourth-year business student with the dream of starting a gaming retail haven along the lines of the DP Store. Retro gaming is a longtime passion of mine, existing alongside a love of music. The two naturally combine and I greatly enjoy composing using tracking software and NES-styled synths in an attempt to recapture the audio magic of the 8-bit age.

The sheer amount of gaming knowledge permeating this forum is staggering, and I hope I can contribute to the Digital Press community.

[Phénix]

Hi, my name is Phénix (Phoenix), and I am 36 years old. I have three children that love videogames. One absolutely loves fighting games on my NGPC, one cannot lives without Super Smash Bros (and doesn't mind a little Spiderman GBA session from time to time), and the other has put a lot of hours into Excite Truck and Mario Kart.

I try to only collect games that I like, so my collection isn't too big, like 10-15 games per console. For the moment, the only console I would like to complete is the NGPC. I would also love to have a consolized neo geo MVS.

[Justice UK]

Hi I'm Justice UK, as you can tell from my name I'm hail from across the pond.

I'm a huge game, and completely love reliving my childhood memories and continuing to enhance my gaming collection. My first system was a Commodore 64, but didn't get a proper console till I used some Chrstmas money to buy a Super Nintendo with Killer Instinct.

I found this site when searching for info regarding the JVC X'Eye just purchased. (That InsaneDavid seems to know lots on the subject)

[OMF2097]

Hello Digital Press!

My name's Pedro/OMF2097 and I hail from beautiful Northern NJ. I found the forum back while I was serving with the military a while ago. Once I got back into the swing of civillian life, I decided to start collecting systems. My favorite systems include (but not limited to) the C64, NES, Intellevision, TG-16, Dreamcast and of course the Neo-Geo. Growing up, I was really big into Commodore 64 and moved onto PC gaming. My favorite games back then for the PC were adventure games(Sierra/Dynamix, Access, etc) and flight simulators. Thank God for shareware back then also. BBS gaming and MUD's passed the time during the 9600-14000 baud rate days.

As a big fan of arcade titles, I was always spending way too much time after school @ Electric Circuit in Bloomfield, NJ. This fueled my love for the Neo-Geo platform and hence my purchase of a Big Red cabinet this year. As for "real life", I work in the network operations department for a major cellular service provider. I've been working in the telecom field since I was 18 and currently still love it.

My love for collecting led me to the Digital Press location in Clifton, NJ. Hopefully, I'll meet more of the board members at future NAVA events. Last one was fun and I met a lot of cool people.

[Wabs]

Good morning everyone!

I'm Wabs from France. My english is pretty average so I hope you can all forgive the mistakes I'll do and I hope my posts will make sense. :ass:

I don't have a huge video games collection and I don't really consider myself as a VG collector, I just try to collect the games I liked when I was young.
I own just a few systems : GB, GBC, SNES, Megadrive, N64 (and a 64DD), PS2 and NGC. Nintendo 64 is my favourite system, the one I played the most thanks to what I call the Triforce : Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Mario Kart 64.

There are two particular things that I collect :
_ all possible items related to Perfect Dark N64 (I don't want anything related to Perfect Dark Zero) : different versions of the game, guides in all possible languages, soundtracks, posters, caps, promotional items and so on. Feel free to tell me about any PD item you're selling, I'll be interested if I don't have it already. :-D
_ Metal Gear Solid items, well some of them at least since there are too many.

I hope I'll have a nice time on this board and I hope you'll all be kind with a little frenchman. ^^
Thanks!

[NytroSkull7]

Wassup!

I'm NytroSkull of the Jersey Shore. I don't call myself a serious collector, but hey i do collect games and that is all that matters! (P.S. all my systems are listed below) I am also into paintball so sadly only half my paycheck goes to this hobby. I love N64 because i grew up on it, but and also very big into NES. D.P. i love the store and have bought a system everytime i have gone. Thanx for making my day every day with this site and the support that there are people out there like me who were also anal about throwing out there boxes at age 7.

[TanookiSuitSam]

Hi! My name is TanookiSuitSam. Or you can call me RMC. I was referenced by my friend Cryomancer to come here. I heard a lot of great things about this place, and I hope to become a active member :)


As for games, I like to collect NES/Famicom and Sega Genesis games. Mostly NES however, as I grew up with playing the NES. I recently started dipping into import gaming, so I'll probably be hounding around japanese games auctions for a bit.

[Lios]

Hey everyone, my name is Nicholas and I am an avid video game collector. I am 21 as of the posting of this message and attending UTD for Computer Science. I live in the Dallas area of Texas. I've known about these forums for years and have been meaning to sign up, but I am just now getting around to it!

I have been collecting since I was 13, it all began when someone gave me an NES and no accessories or games. I commenced in going crazy collecting nes stuff, you wouldn't believe all the stuff people started giving me! Years later I pulled out the system I grew up with as a kid and had been neglecting for years: the Turbo Duo, which we traded in around our TG-16 for in '93. It didn't take me long to remember how awesome that system is! Nowadays I collect for anything and everything arcade, console, and hand held related, just no sports crap please. I also love to experiment with hardware mods/upgrades on systems. My up to date collection is listed here (more or less): http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?action=profile&name=Lios&folder=Collection

Oh and the old stuff beats the living hell out of all the new shovelware crap we get nowadays. Oh and I really miss gorgeous 2D graphics!

[retro junkie]

I'm a noob here. I've dropped by on many occasions to read and browse. Finally decided to enlist. I'm really hooked on those blasts from the past, especially the SHMUPS. Love games like Crisis Force, Gun Nac, Gradius, Life Force, R-Type, Zanac, Blazing Lasers, Gyruss, Galaga, etc. I could go for a long time naming SHMUPS that I enjoy. Portable gaming is my passion and the retro consoles come in second place.
I've been gaming for a while. Some tell me that I am too old to be playing video games, others just stare. I started playing when I was a teen, when pong was the only video gaming console you could buy. My family and I maintain a video gaming atmosphere. The family favorites are Bomberman and Bubble Bobble.
Here at home sitting at my desk, it is cluttered with portables, game console controllers, rechargeable batteries, games, Marvel Super Herod Squad characters and a few other figurines. I seem to consider this as being normal for a gamer. Isn't it? :eek 2:

[Lostdwarf]

Hello everybody my name is Mike and i'm addicted to video games.
With that being said here's a lil background of me. Born and raised in NJ. Full product of the 80's. I like vintage systems and games as well as some of the newer stuff out their. I love anything Zelda related. Also very much into the whole Guitar Hero thing. But to me the original NES is my absolute favorite.

Here are a list of the systems that I own:

Original NES
Re-Issued 1996 NES Top Loader
Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64
Gamecube
Wii

Sega Genesis

Playstation 2 fatboy model
Playstation 2 slimline
Playstation 3

Gameboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance (nes limited edition version)
Nintendo DS (original)

Atari 2600 (wood grain model, 6 switch)


I've been collecting games since I was a child, I've bought and sold a lot of them and do regret selling my SNES collection =( but times were tuff. The SNES system is the system I have the least amount of games for as I only sold the collection about 2 years ago. My 2600 collection is very impressive with over 160 different games =)

Feel free to PM me with any questions

mike

[the.golden.ax]

If you shop on eBay, or hang out on Atari Age, then you may have seen me around. I've not been on your forum here at DP yet mainly because the black and red is kinda hard to stare at. Yeah... I guess I gripe allot.

HI.

[Trevelyan]

If you shop on eBay, or hang out on Atari Age, then you may have seen me around. I've not been on your forum here at DP yet mainly because the black and red is kinda hard to stare at. Yeah... I guess I gripe allot.

HI.

Hey, just thought I'd say that you can change the forum color by going to Edit Options in your User CP. The tabs right at the bottom of the settings.

[banjomartin88]

Hello everyone. My name is Daniel and I am 20 years old. I recently just got done with 2 years at a local community college and will hopefully be going on to a university in the fall.

Here is a list of my consoles:

NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
Gamecube
Wii
Original Gamboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Color
Playstation 2

As you can tell I'm a Nintendo man. :) I'm currently on a quest to collect as many different game consoles as I can. My first one I am searching for is the Atari 2600.

If you want to know anything else feel free to ask.

[Dave1507]

Hello everyone. Names Dave 46 yrs old, american living in the UK and still gaming:rocker:

I would name all my systems but the list is too long.

Hope to see ya on the forums:)

[retrogarden]

Hi everybody! My name's Rhys and I'm a 20 something year old gamer from Colwyn Bay, North Wales.

I found this forum from a blog I read on Retro Games.

I don't really collect too much, but am a big fan of Retro Games, and my favourite ever are Paradroid and The Detective Game for the C64, and Super Metroid for the SNES.

I'm a web designer by trade, and blogger by night ;)

[IMJ]

Hello gamers! I'm John, 30 and have haunted this forum for a while. A recent discussion over at the Racketboy forums have led me to finally post here. I'm currently a PS3 nut, but all of the old classics have a place in my hear (especially SNES and TGX16).

[AllSchoolGamer]

Hi, my name is Peter, I chose this usename because I enjoy ALL kinds of gaming...if you stick it in front of me I will play it. I started gaming in '84 when i was 4 years old with the atari and commodore vic 20 (my favorite game at the time was voodoo castle on the vic20, it was a text based adventure game though for some reason I remember always getting stuck in a chimney lol.) and have had a passion for gaming ever since. :love: I have had all the major systems through my life and loved every minute.

I hail from the east coast of Australia. Where games are the most expensive of anywhere in the world. :bad-words: thank goodness for imports
I was introduced to this forum from a collector i trade with online and, after having tried out various other gaming forums, think i have found my home here. This site is fantastic for what I've seen so far and (except for trading purposes) won't need to go anywhere else.

I am using the formula given at the start of this thread and the next question is What your favorite games are....that is a toughy. I guess my least favorite genre is rts. Thats really about as narrowed down as I can get LOL. I really do enjoy any kind of gaming.

I currently have most of systems that are of a maior release with the exception of the NES (soon though)...I will have to see if I have posted pix of my collection here yet and link it here in an edit cause I dont want to have to type it all down lol. Though by some of the collections I've seen here I guess I'm at a beginner level of collecting.

Outside of gaming my life revolves mostly around my wife and kids, work and study. But I guess my other hobbies are music, I am a drummer, computers, movies.

That will do for now I have bored you all enough.
Cheers:monkey:

ps when i pass i plan to have my consoles given to either gamer friends or charity but i am getting buried with my dreamcast lol

[porkchop_pt]

Hello,
I am new here,
all the way up from Canada

[BadChad]

Hey Everyone!

My name is Chad. Im all about the Classics of my childhood. (NES, SNES, Sega Genesis) I have roughly about 60-70 games for each, and am still adding new ones everyday. With all the newer systems Im "Out with the old, In with the new" But when it comes to my NES, SNES, and Genesis Im looking to collect and build my collection.

Systems I Own:
- NES
- SNES
- Sega Genesis
- XBox 360
- PS3
- Gp2x
- Nintendo DS

Dont really feel like listing the names of games.

[Captaintim]

HEELLLLLOOOOO NURSE!

Ok hi everybody!

My name is Tim, I am 26 years old and I love retro gaming.

Right now I own a Genesis and a NES. I also have a 360 (i just got the red ring of death :( ) and a PS2 and a Wii. I plan on getting a Dreamcast and SNES and perhaps a PS.

I am a giant SW nerd and I am active in the fan community, If you like SW I would recommend listening to IHN Radio. You can check them out at www.IHNradio.com .

[gummo]

Hello. My name is s.davis. I'm from Norman, OK USA, and found these forums looking for a list of the best famicom games unreleased in the states. I've been interested in retrogaming since before the games were retro, and were just "games I can't afford, and have to read about in magazines."

Favorite Games:
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario 3/World
Yume Penguin Monogatari
Mortal Kombat 2
Galaga
Monopoly for Nes (This is still my favorite digital version, and a major drain on my productivity at work)
Doom
Wolfenstein 3D
Yo! Noid (stop laughing, that game rules)
Photopia
Simcity
Duck Hunt

Systems I collect for:
I don't collect much. I mainly like to play roms of either games I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, or obscure/prototypes/hacks. I already own physical copies of most of my mainstream favorites, but I love coming across a Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree cart or some other terrible unlicensed platformer or pornographic puzzle game at a flea market or pawn shop. I also love the Virtual Boy, the world be damned. I just wished I had waited a few months before I bought one when it first came out. It never gave me a headache, and had some damn good games.

What I do in real life?
I work at, and am in line to take over a Marina on an artificial lake in Oklahoma. I mainly work the convenience store. I am a clerk serving drunken lakefaring folk. I'm also a writer, yet this has yet to make me a dime, so I stick to the story of being a clerk.

Interesting Fact (Anetdote):
This has been disputed by everyone in the damn world, including Boon and Tobias, but I know what I saw. I was once playing a game of MK3 (I think it was "Ultimate" MK3) on the SNES, vs. a friend of mine. We played round after round after round. Eventually the game messed up, and characters were able to keep fighting for a short while after the "Finish Him!", before dropping dead. We kept playing, and more glitches kept showing up. The point of this story is that as playing as Shang Tsung, I morphed into Raiden for a short bit, and was even able to do his flying move before turning back into Tsung. Call me a liar, but I swear his code is in there somewhere, if only partially.

-s.davis

[TheRealist50]

Hey everyone. I'm Kristian, I'm 20 years old and I live in Canada.

I don't even know how I stumbled across this website but I'm glad I did haha.

My favorite games would have to be...wow there is just so much to pick from but I would have to go with the Final Fantasy series, only because I could just play those game for the whole day and not realize it. other games would have to be Vectorman 1 and 2...sheesh I know there is more but nothing else is coming to mind!

I mainly collect whatever I like or appeals to me or if its a game I've never heard of and just look strange and odd. I try to look for sega genesis games that are still boxed (its my favorite system)

my Collection started to grow when I was a wee little boy...started out with a NES then a Sega Genesis moves onto a N64, PS1, DC, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Xbox 360 and a Wii. I would have loved to have got a Saturn and all those other systems but when I was younger we couldn't afford those things. Now that I'm older I will be looking to buy one.

My collection went from being a fairly large size to nothing but the systems...the games somehow disappeared, I believe somebody within my family (Uncle) took the box I had my games in and I didn't notice for around a year or less...we were in the middle of moving and most of my things and my parents things (that we didnt need) were stored in the basement until we found a place for them and got settled in. my systems were in a different box in a different part of the basement so i still kept those. so for the past 3 years I have not been adding to my collection but rebuilding my collection. I'm sitting at about 124 games, and still have my original systems minus a couple of gameboys. My friend knew I was collecting video games so he gave me his Game Gear, PS2 and Gamecube. None of them worked but I fixed them myself so they are all working now.

[Sabz5150]

Looks like it's my turn at bat :)

I found the forums by looking around to find a rarity guide. I found one :) I decided to register to get some questions answered about a prototype cart I got my hands on.

I collect for just about anything I can get my hands on... little bit of this, little bit of that. Mostly post Atari 2600 and up. I'm always looking for oddities, obscure games, so on and so forth... like most of you. I also display my collection proudly, everything is set up neatly and fully playable whenever I choose. Gotta get my fourth switchbox soon :D

I'll look for a "post yer collection" thread before I jack this one with pics.

[charlie-butters]

Hey all im Charlie from Melbourne, Australia.
I found the site and forums after doing some research for information about Electronic Arts and their early releases on the Mega Drive. But since then I haven't left the site for a couple of days now. So much to read from people who really really know what their talkin about.
Some of my favourite games aye?, I guess you will have to pop on over to our game review show and see for yourself.
My first console was a Colecovision, then a Super Nintendo, Then My Fave Console,, The Sega Saturn.
In real life Im a Computer Techie, slash Bartender. if that can be a slash..
Ok, So my friend nick and I begun watching AVGN on GBS.TV back in late 06 i think, the first episode we saaw was the Ep when he was asking for ideas for a theme song. Anyway a long time ago,, and over a short peroid of time we became great fans to the point where we would find ourselves telling friends more about AVGN than Pure Pwnage....
Until the Sega Cd Ep,, me being a lng time collector of sega cd since 1998 was a bit disgruntled and took more out of that episode than i should of and went to work writing a rebuttle.
Without any video editing/directing skills i made a vid about the lighter points of the sega cd that made the device so ground breaking at the time. And my friends suggested that I should do more of those videos.. So in time its evolved to a weekly toutube show we do called Strictly Sega, my editing/directing skills haven't improved much but we either talk about certian collections of games, EG: am2 for sega driving series. Or like NFS and its overseas release overdrivin etc or go into detail about just single games..
Most collectors know most of whats in the show but i thought hey if i would watch it then thats what i should make.
Anyway. Nuff about me. Hope to see u round...
Charlie. -=Strictly sega=-

[8bitCaged]

- Who you are 8bitcaged
- Where you live Canada
- How you found the forums some blog
- What your favorite games are Metal Storm Mega Man ect
- What systems you collect for nes
- What you do in "real life" school
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc. none

[erik]

Hello,
My name is Erik and I have been gaming since about 1989 when I got my NES for Christmas '88. After that I became a true gamer(I don't really count the Atari days as gaming because it just doesn't hold up all that well today.) I have approximately 205 games from the 8-bit NES to the Xbox 360. I own the following systems with the following video connections:

NES - Wii-VC in Component
Genesis/Sega CD(X'Eye) - Component*
SNES - Component*
Turbo Duo - Component*
Saturn - Component*
PSOne - Component
N64 - Wii-VC in Component
Dreamcast - Component'
PS2 - Component
Gamecube - Component
Xbox - Component
Xbox 360 - Component
Wii - Component
GBA - RGB??
DS - RGB??

*using RGB-YUV transcoder
' using VGA-YUV transcoder

In the last few years, I have jumped up Component. Composite video really does suck ass on any set bigger than 20". No hardcore gamer or videophile should have to put up with it! I have a SCART-YUV transcoder to get component video out of the RGB-ready systems. I now have a vast majority of my NES and N64 running in 480p on the Wii-VC and couldn't be happier!

Friends don't let friends play their games with bad picture quality!!

Now if they would only release Contra, Goldeye, Excitebike 64 and Beetle Adventure Racing on Wii-VC or XBLA I would have 100% Component Video on all my games...

Erik

[aclbandit]

I never got around to this, so now's as good a time as any.

My name is Zack, from WV, USA. I collect classic consoles and games, mostly for the NES. It was the game system I had as a baby and small child; I only had one game (Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge), and I played it relentlessly.

Years later, I realized that I needed my old NES console and games back (they had been given away many years earlier so that I could get a SNES for christmas). So I went questing for the console and some games, and the rest is history: I never stopped looking for classics.

I have an NES, Famicom/Disk System, SNES, N64, PSOne (though I can't find it-- where IS that thing?), PS2, XBox, and Wii. I also intend to pick up one of the awesome emotion-engine-possessing 60GB PS3s in the next few days. They're ALL hooked in (except the lost PSOne, of course) through various converter boxes and a VCR to my 32" TV. The two surge strips into which it all hooks in are in need of an upgrade. ^_^

My current favorite games are the Dragon Quest/Warrior series, though this tends to rotate to other favorites like Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, or Final Fantasy.

[Nightwing]

Let's see...where to start???

My name,I guess - which is Calvin. I'm 39 years old and hail from the biggest little state in the Union,otherwise known as Rhode Island. I am a professional driver by trade,& currently drive a school bus. (therefore,I'm now on vacation :) )

I have a wonderful wife & daughter who are into videogaming as well,with Rock Back being our game of choice at the moment. We own all the current systems & play with them all,though we spend most of our time on the Xbox 360.

My other hobbies include movies,dvd's,sci-fi,&comics. I also co-host & co-produce a local cable access show that discusses said material.I've been doing it for a number of years now & have had many wonderful experiences because of it.

Of course,though - DP is about retrogaming,& I have been playing games since I was a kid.I used to really be into it - collecting,playing and whatnot.I even signed up for the Intellivision webring,and my page is somehow still there (though woefully outdated - I made the site up on a WebTV). It's here if you really want to see it,but believe me,it isn't anything special. (http://members.tripod.com/~Nightwing007/myintvpage.html)

Over the past few years my retrogaming desires have been pretty dormant.But a combination of things have stoked the fires,so to speak - and now I'm back & loving it! I do have some nice gaming rarities that I'll post in their proper area when I'm able - but I have a fair amount of old systems & I hope to someday have a complete set of Intellivision & Sega CD games.

In closing -I will tell you that part of the reason that I'm back into this is because I'm finally putting all of my games,both modern & classic - into a database so that I finally know exactly what I own.I fully expect to be over 1000 games when I'm finished.

The other reason will go into the finds area when I'm allowed to post there.Let's just say it's a very lucky find,something I didn't realize just how lucky until I got home and looked at my old DP guide. :D (I didn't do too bad today either!)

Looking forward to chatting with you all!

[-dustburn-]

My real name is Tony. I play music in the bands HOLY SHIT! and TRUTHDEALER.
I have been a gamer ever since my dad bought the family a 5200. I have worked at Electronics Boutique for 4 years, Been the manager of a TILT arcade, worked at an arcade and amusement machine distributor, and also was the assistant technical manager at a chuck e cheese. Games have been with me most of my life.
I plan to open a used video games store in Riverwest Milwaukee.
This place seems like gamers paradise.
To the future!
-Tony

[Jisho23]

I AM INTRODUCING MYSELF (again... its been a couple years I believe)!!

[3rdman]

Hello. I'm a painter and recovering student. I enjoy collecting gameboy carts, with a particular soft spot for cute imports, classic arcade, and unlicensed pirate trash.

regards,
Jonathan

[blackride]

Hello Everyone. I am 31 and work in IT and specialize in VMware,SMS,Linux/Windows,C#, etc..... I have been collecting games since I can remember. I really enjoy all types but I have been focusing on collecting NES,Super Famicom,PC-ENGINE stuff.

[drunkninja]

Hello everyone, I'm an avid gamer living near Springfield, MO. I currently am working IT support and obviously enjoy gaming as a hobby. I started way back on NES and have been hooked since :D . I started reacquiring older systems a few years ago, and have been collecting since. Hope to return here often for some good discussion and advice!

[PaddyTheChump]

I don't think I've ever done an introduction, but here it goes.

Tell us any or all of the following:
My name is Paddy, or PaddyTheChump

I live in Nova Scotia, up in Canada. It rains a lot here.

I remember being on DP using the price guide, and one day I registered.

Favorite games: 1080 Snowboarding (childhood classic), Double Dragon, Battletoads, Jeez, tons more, but when you have to think of some it never comes to you.

I collect primarily for NES/SNES/N64. That being said, I am not opposed to any other systems. I have a bit of Atari/Colecovision/Intellivision/Odyssey2 stuff as well.

I'm still in High School (last year, woot!). In my spare time I either play video games, workout, paddle, or pursuit my newest hobby, lockpicking.

I grew up with an N64, (I'm 17, so I got it when I was around 8ish). In a sense, I now feel like I missed out on some gaming, so I guess maybe that's what I'm trying to do... play catch up. I sold all my n64 stuff when I was around 13 or so, which I kinda regret. In a sense, it was a bad decision, but thanks to www.cheapassgamer.com , I essentially bought all the games back for less than I sold them for. After that, I started visiting the local pawn shop and yardsales, and less than a year later I have over 500 games.

[ClassicGMR]

Hey all - guess the easiest way to introduce myself is to just show you. :)

http://i35.tinypic.com/351sryt.jpg

As some of you may remember - and most won't - I used to be this guy standing opposite Dave Newman in this PhillyClassic2k1 picture(I'm on the left side... just in case;)). Well ... I'm technically STILL that guy but I'm older(I doubt I'm wiser), lost about 30 pounds and have MUCH better glasses now. :D

Well anyway after working two shows with Dave, Jeff and Chuck I took PC4 off as I was going through a divorce and didn't have the time to devote to it. When PC5 rolled around I sent a few emails about the upcoming show but was never replied to so I let it go. I was exceptionally disappointed to find out the show had been "commercialized" and quite literally sold out to mainstream media. I found this to be a major turn-off and just stopped paying attention to it after that. Is it even still running? :deadhorse:

I lost my collection long ago to the 2-headed hydra problem known as the dreaded "Bills & Space Syndrome" but I have my pc, GP2X and PSP so I have been playing everything anyway via emulation... It's not the same but it has sustained me! I miss my collections. SO....

I just recently got back into collecting after numerous moves and issues(booooring!). I am finally settled, recovered financially from my ex-wife's attempt to bury me in debt and happily in a place I can finally call "home".

I thought I'd look up the site and see what I have missed in my 3 year absence from collecting. I must say I like the look! :)

I'm thinking I should run down to Chuck's show (http://www.toomanygames.com) and check it out as well as find out what/if any shows are going on in my neck of the woods(New England-ish area).

*sniff* I missed you guys('n gals)!

[RampantOctopus]

Hi, I'm Mike Jennings-Offen from Los Angeles, CA; originally from Washington, DC. I don't remember how I first found the forums here, I think I may have been in search of a Wico Y cable and googled my way into insanity-- and no, I still don't have that cable thank you very much, and for that matter, where the hell is my CD-i gamepad; but I digress...

I'm more of a hardware junkie than an actual connoisseur of vintage games, though I do enjoy a good game of Joust or Burger Time, I spend a lot more time with my PS3 than my Vectrex. I guess I enjoy the hunt a lot more than the reward... I'm sure I'm not alone. I've got a link to my 'room of doom' in my signature, please come on bye and check it out.

In "real life" I'm a "Video Production Manager," but it's the editorial work that I get a real kick out of. I'm also an avid homebrewer and general diy freak. If anybody here is interested in home brewing beer, check out my website, I've got a page about Zymurgy, the whole how to thing and a huge tome of recipes well worth the (free) download.

That's it for me-- see you in the forums.

[Therealqtip]

Hey guys, my name is Justin I'm 15 (I may be young but I'm not an idiot, I mean look at my typing :O) I've been collecting ever since my grandma gave me my first SNES when I was 6 or so.

I currently own:

Atari 2600(loose)
NES(complete)
SNES(loose)
N64 (loose)
PS2(complete)
Gamecube(loose)
Wii(complete)
Xbox360(complete)
GBC(loose)
GBA(loose)
GBA SP(loose)
DS(complte)
PSP(complete)

(I had ALOT more then that but I hit a stage in life where money was everything and sold almost all my collection sadly)

My favorite games are Metal Gear Solid, Kirby, Sonic, and Pokemon Yellow Special Pikachu Edition.

[BobaFettHotep]

Hello my names Donny Im from Portland Oregon
My good Friend DigitalSpace Told Me about This Site
Some OF my Favorite Games Include The Zelda Series, Final Fantasy,Batman For the Nes, And Im Pretty much Obsessed With RockBand Right now.
I pretty much collect Games For All Systems though i Lean Towrds Nes And Snes and Playstation 2 games If Interested I Document my Collection at www.Freewebs.com/bobafetthotep please Visit and if inclined Drop me a line and let me know if im missing anything good.
When im not gaming im a custodian for the Portland Public School District its not my dream job but it gets the bills payed
long story short i love video games and i love talking with fellow gamers
Thanks
donny

[evilucas]

Hi everyone! My name is Lucas, and I'm from Oregon. As of now the consoles I own are dreamcast, wii, gamegear, xbox 360, genesis 3, Atari 2600, and NES. I am new to collecting classic games, but I have been a "gamer" for most of my years.

It's good to be here, and I hope to have a good stay on these forums.

-Lucas

[eskobar]

Forgot to introduce before :P

I am Josue Escobar from Monterrey Mexico, 28 years old videogame freak.

Love RPGs and love collecting. I am very close to Texas and whenever i can, i love traveling to U.S.A.; Love New York and love the garage sales.

Right now i am dedicated to atari and snes again :D

[Rathiain]

Hi I'm Penny I'm 18 and from Michigan. I found this site while browsing through a discussion on cheapassgamer about rare games and I thought I'd check this site out.. My favorite games would have to be anything in the Zelda series from the n64 and onward. I'm a student at the moment. My first system was the atari 7800 but we couldn't find any games for it other then ms pacman and it eventually got lost in a couple moves. I just got in to gaming, and am buying back some of the stuff I owned as a kid and eventually lost. I'm currently working on buying all the diffrent colors of Us n64 console and I have about 4 so far and I'm working on building up a decent collection of games. I'm also collecting games for the gamecube( my favortie system) and most recently the snes. This will be my first time owning one so it'll be interesting.I also have a 360, a ds which I just got rid of and a psp. Those don't get nearly as much playing time though. I love rpgs and hate fps.

[Dungeon Master]

Hello all, I'm Will; twenty-one year old native Texan from the Dallas area. I'm big into the SNES, specifically SNES RPGs. I guess you could say my first foray into collecting of actual "rarities" would be with my recent purchase of a pre-market prototype of Earthbound. Not much to be seen that's different so far; probably nothing, but it's the culmination of a thirteen year enjoyment of the game - being dumped this weekend, as well, so we'll see what that turns out. I own a couple of arcade cabinets (Street Fighter II CE and Galaga III) and dozens of gaming and antique computer systems. It's my goal to open a museum in the Dallas area one day for computing and gaming history (you can stop laughing now) and I'm always on the lookout for the old stuff. I enjoy going to the Saturday Sale (DFW residents know what I'm talking about!) and my hobbies are pretty dang vast. I'm a senior at Baylor about to go into law school (hopefully) and prefer Shiner Bock. Found the forums by recommendation (PredatorXS) and glad I joined. :)

[Mimi Nakamura]

Hi everyone!

My name is Mimi, I am a half Japanese / half English retro game addict from Tokyo, Japan (born in London though).

I've been reading this forum for a few months now and though it was about time I revealed myself!

Well, I hope I'm welcome here, although I understand if not.

I wanted to register with the username 'Mimi' but it appears there already is a Mimi here! :yipes:

[InsaneDavid]

Nice group of new users as of late, welcome all. :)

[theChad]

Guess I'll just try to run through the basic questions here...

My name is Chad, I'm 20 years old and live in a small town in Ohio.
I found the forums looking for an online video game rarity guide one afternoon.
Favorite games...well I guess I'm a sucker for the traditional favorites - Ocarina of Time and Yoshi's Island are two off the top of my head that I could play over and over any day of the week. A couple other games I think are great are Cosmic Chasm for Vectrex, Ghosts N Goblins on NES, Tomba! on PS, and Fable on Xbox but there are a lot more games out there I enjoy. I collect for any system I own which leaves the door wide open in that regard, but I am more about collecting the systems than the games.

"In real life" I attend OSU (but I wouldn't exactly call myself a "buckeye", having been born in Michigan and making frequent trips back there because I like it much more than Ohio). I started off majoring in Computer Science, but switched to Sociology last year and have maintained a 4.0 since then so something's going right. I also spend a lot of time creating music and drumming with anyone who's down to jam. I've been drumming for about 10 years and while I try to keep myself humble, popular opinion seems to be that my playing is "incredible" so I put myself out there as much as possible.

The start of my collecting: The first system I owned was my Super Nintendo, given to me by my teenage aunt when I was about 4, I'd guess. After that I got a Gameboy when I broke my femur to keep me busy in the hospital. From that point, I got games sporadically up until my brother got the N64 for his seventh birthday and I got the Playstation a few months later for my tenth birthday and those would have to be the systems that really woke me up to gaming. Fast forward to when I began really collecting...well one day I noticed that I had mostly Nintendo systems and I decided I only had a couple more to get in order to complete the collection so that's what I set out to do. I had a SNES, N64, Gamecube, Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, and Gameboy Color. Not much more to get, right? Well after a little bit of research I found out just how wrong I was, but fortunately most of the remaining systems were donated to me by good friends who wanted to see me fulfill my goal. During the time I was gathering the missing links, I acquired a couple other systems that I wasn't really looking for, but was willing to take off people's hands and then decided I'd have to fill those lines as well.

I'm now up to 52 systems, I believe, and a little over 400 games with the collection growing by the week at this period in time. Links to my collection databases can be found in my signature if you're interested and the following is a video I made barely over a week ago to showcase my collection and it's already out of date: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQalpoWM_uk

Nice to be here

[Narifia]

Well, after viewing Digital Press for some time, I finally decided to register! Great site and great forums, by the way. Searching around here has even helped me with some previously unanswered questions (such as how to fix the speaker in my Game Gear, among other things), and I am especially fond of the Prototype section!

Now after saying all that, I bet you're wondering "who the heck is this person?" So, I'll just take a cue from the first post in this topic and really introduce myself:

- Who you are: I'm Narifia, silly.

- Where you live: STALKER! :help:

- How you found the forums: Actually, I've stumbled upon this place several times over the years, mostly from searching for info on prototypes.

- What your favorite games are: Batman for the NES, though I haven't beaten it yet. Others include the original Final Fantasy (not so much the newer ones), Legendary Wings, Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers (hey, childhood memories!), SMB3, Chrono Trigger for SNES, The Lion King for Game Gear, Chip's Challenge for Atari Lynx, Desert Falcon for Atari 2600, Pokemon Crystal for Game Boy Color, and--so far--Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS, *just* to name a few highlights. If I listed them all, it would take pages...

- What systems you collect for: As far as consoles go; Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, SNES, and recently Playstation and a little bit for Playstation 2. As far as handhelds go; Game Boy (all variations up through Advance), Game Gear, Lynx, and DS (although I rarely care about newer systems, the DS is actually a pretty impressive system. That, and I love to collect handhelds. I still have no PSP, though).

- What you do in "real life": Currently, I'm working and attending college to become an English teacher (real exciting, I know ^^; ). I also write and hope to publish my books one day, and I play around with drawing in my spare time. Aside from collecting video games and researching video game history, I also love to read up on old film and music technology and the history behind it.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.: I remember my very first system was an Atari 2600 Jr. that my parents had just laying around gathering dust, and after that my brother bought me a NES plus around 50 games from his friend. Sometime after my parents got hooked up to the internet I started digging on what games I could potentially (get my parents to) buy for my NES and (somehow) stumbled upon System Failure, an old site that I don't think is even around anymore (although I know the Wayback Machine has scraps of it) that began my interest in prototype games. Since then, I've been an enthusiastic "researcher" of prototype games for most early systems and the history of video games as a whole.

Well, after that long (and probably boring, lol) introduction, I'm ready to post in the forums, darn it! *Scuttles off to go find a thread to jump into*

[Sergeant Sega]

Hi!

I found this forum sometime ago, but forgot all about it for a while, because of work and moving and such.

Now I'm recently moved in to my new appartment on the top floor, in the middle of Lillestrøm, a medium size city, but with the Norwegian Trade Fair just meters away the tourist are coming in by the busloads (litteraly) :D Lillestrøm is located about 8minutes from Oslo by directtrain or 30minutes by localtrain.

I used to be a hardcore collector but sold off my collection about two, three years ago due to me getting a new job and needing to clean up my place at that time. Now I'm back to collecting once more, and building my collection everyday. Before I used to collect just about everything that I could get my hands on, but now I try to be more focused on my collecting.

The systems I collect is primary Sega systems, but I do have some Nintendo systems as well, and of course all of the three next-generation consoles (I'm a huge Xbox fanboy, and the Forum Captain for Microsoft Norway on Xbox.com). I also collect gaming memoriblia, and that was the only part of my collection I did not sell off, so I have quite a collection of those. I used to be a webjournalist for TV2 Interactive, and was the editior of Norways biggest Dreamcast Magazine online. TV2 is Norways biggest commercial TV-channel, and working for them made it really easy to get cool freebies and such :)

In addition to collecting and playing videogames I now work as a Department Manager at Spaceworld, the biggest Norwegian chain of game, movies and small electronics. I've handled mostly mobilephones for two years now, but we've just rebuilt our store and we're opening one of the biggest gamedepartment in Norway (if not the biggest) next week and I'm going to run it! I'm super excited!

My hobbies are mainly gaming, collecting games, movies, tv-series music, cooking and mixing drinks.

I've been to the USA two times (both times to E3 in LA) but next time I'm going to New Jersey to a certain videogamestore there, hehe... It looks freaking sweet! I really miss the Starbucks coffe and often get stuck on their webpage drooling over what I can't get. I travel sometimes to the UK to get my fix and to watch Manchester United, the best soccer team in the world demolish other soccerteams :D Too bad it's a costly trip for coffe and soccer, so I can't do it as often as I'd like to.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, I can only imagine how bad my grammar is, but please bear with me ;)

[Astrosmash]

Hi everybody, I'm Dan. I've been using Digital Press for awhile now and have stopped by to lurk on the boards once in awhile, so I figured I should just go ahead and start posting.

I'm from the Hudson Valley in New York; somewhere south of Albany and north of NYC. I work at a historic site as an interpreter, which is basically a fancy way of saying tour guide/researcher/whatever else I end up doing on a particular day.

When I was very young - age 3 or so - a pizza place (now long gone) in the local mall had an old Pac-Man cocktail cabinet; this was very likely the first video game I ever played. Several years later my dad gave me his old Intellivision, so despite being part of the "NES generation," I actually got my start on a previous generation system, and although having many other systems now I've always felt a certain degree of loyalty to George Plimpton's favorite console. (And of course the handle I picked here is a tribute to it.) A year or two later I got my NES for Christmas, and the rest is history.

Today, I've amassed a collection covering about the entire span of home gaming history, ranging from a Pong console to the Wii and Xbox 360 (in between I have a lot of the essentials, including but not limited to the 2600 and 5200, NES and SNES, Master System and Genesis, N64, PS2, and yes, I still have that old Intellivision too). And while I don't have nearly a complete set of games on any one system, I enjoy having a variety to collect for.

So anyway, there's my introduction. Looking forward to some good discussions on here, so I'll see everybody on the boards!

[Doles284]

Hey everyone, I'm from Australia. I found this forum just from googling about retro games and what they are worth and such.
It may suprise you, but I am a truck driver and deliver products to building sites.

My favourite sorts of games are long-winded, non-linear ones that take tens of hours to finish i.e. Zelda games (of course), Bully, The Godfather. But sometimes I love to pull out quick games like Mario Kart or Ghost Squad.

Systems I collect for - I have such a small collection as I haven't been collecting for very long. I have the PAL Nintendo console collection (no old handhelds), from the NES to the Wii and am now looking to finish the SEGA series but always looking for anything I can find at garage sales, auctions, antique shops, etc.
I started collecting about May 2008, when I found an N64 and was reminded of the good old days, and in July I was lucky enough to go to the GAME ON expo in Melbourne (opposite side of the country for me) which was very inspiring for me.

I feel I have a bit of an advantage being in a fairly small town and possibly the only video game collector in the area, yet I struggle to find stuff. Perhaps there IS another collector getting to places before me? It would probably be better if there was more of a collector scene rather than nobody but me.

Anyway, great site here and I'll be around the forums.

[Tupin]

Hello all, I'm from Missouri. I found this forum while looking up stuff for Famicom games.

My favorite games run the gambit, I'll play most everything except for RPGs. Even then, there are a few exceptions. (Mario RPGs, EarthBound, Terranigma) I mostly play platformers, shooters, puzzle, and fighting games, though.

I mainly collect NES/Gameboy and Dreamcast, but I am getting into collecting imports and Neo-Geo Pocket Color. I really like collecting obscure systems/games, too.

There are plenty of places around here that sell games, I can name several off that bat that specialize in classic games, so that's sweet. :D

[DeSt-Cyr]

Hi!

My real name is Eric (30 years old) and I live in Montreal. (Everyone : Hi Eric!)

It's Ladyjaye that convince me to registered in this forum for practicing my english and then write some good stories about... video game stores in Montreal :-)

I don't have necessarly a favorite game, but I really enjoyed arcade games like : Klax, Neo Turf Master, Windjammers and I collecting many retro compilations on the PS2 like : Midway Arcade Treasures 1-2-3, Capcom Classics 1-2, SNK Arcade Classics 1, Taito Legends 1-2, Activision etc.

Also, i'm very impressed by Okami (the first Action-RPG I completed ever), God Of War 1 and 2.

What I do in real life? Having fun! The real answer is : Return to school for good!

Now i'm registered and let's get practicing! :-P

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[.Singe]

Hey there, new to the forums. I live in Michigan, USA. I found the forums through my older brother known as G-Boobie. My personal favorite game is Half-Life 2, from the wonderful company of Valve. A close second is Bioshock, perhaps Starcraft.

I'm not much of a collector, but I have a decent amount of PC and PS2 games. Considering I prefer PC gaming, the majority are PC games. Considering console gaming has the worst online community I tend to stay the hell away from it.

"Real Life", eh? I'm a junior in high school, I do school stuff :P. I'm a rower on the crew team, which will more than likely claim my soul in the next year or so. As for a job, school takes up more than enough time.

[Walter_J64bit]

Hi all!
I have mostly Atari Systems The Jag is the biggest part of the collection :band: I do have a 360! I'm Playing H3 at this time! :snipersmile: :onfire:

[delf]

Hi! I'm Delf, I live in Oklahoma City. I'm 32 years of age, and am a Systems administrator. I have been collecting classic video games pretyt much all my life, but I didn't start actively collecting until the late 80s and early 90s. I collect mainly for the Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800 systems, but also pick up games for other systems if I find them at the right price. I currently have over 400+ games for all my systems, and I'm always adding to it. I don't collect Complete in Box (CIB), unless I just happen to stumble across it that or, or if it's something extremely special, where CIB is desireable. I like to PLAY my collection.

Some Gems in my collection include Qbert's Qubes, Demolition herby, and the original Numbered Cubicolor (number 41) (http://2600connection.atari.org/cube.html).

I've been a long time Digital Press Forum Reader, but am now to getting around to filling out my profile so I can post. I am also on Atariage.com, but go by the screen name "phuzzed"...

-Delf

[davegt666]

Sup people im davegt666 or David a am a young retro gamer and bairly got started but hope that my collection gets bigger. I live in CA and love the 16-bit era. happy gaming!

[LittleBread88]

Hey guys! How're you all doing? My name's Steve, I'm a 20 year old bartender living in London, UK. Stumbled across this place a few weeks back when I was trying to solve a problem with a flickering TV. (A problem that sadly has yet to be rectified).

Coming from a family of gamers, it was only natural that I gained such a passion for it myself. Keeping true to my roots, I've got a relatively small but growing collection of retro consoles: SNES, Mega Drive, Saturn & N64 and of course my trusty gamecube & DS. I've got something of a hoarding personality and I'm always on the look out for games and consoles both old and new.

My life is panned out with gaming milestones: from playing Space Invaders on our family's 2600, through completing Street Fighter II: Turbo on SNES for the first time, to being wowed by Ocarina of Time for the first time, right up to all-night Smash Bros. marathons in the near-present day.

Anyway, that's quite enough rambling for now. See ya on the boards!

[robo2]

hi, hows it going, im a 27 year old masters student from glasgow , scotland, i stated off playing games on the bbc computer and can remember playng chuckie egg, frogger, joust etc, then moved on to an atari st, my fav games for that were pirates, barbarian, bubble bobble and smash tv, i eventually got my first console for my 14th birthday in 1994 when i got my first snes with sf2, my favourite type of games are side scrolling beat em ups although, i like pretty much every type of game out there

my top 20 games ever would go like this

20. escape from the planet of the robot monsters
19.the simpsons arcade game
18. quake 2
17. tekken 3
16. pro evolution soccer
15. actraiser
14. toejam and earl - panic on funkatron
13. super punchout
12. speedball 2
11. streets of rage 2
10. golden axe
9.rocket knight adventures
8. pirates
7. dune 2 - battle for arrakis
6. zelda 2
5. undercover cops
4. chuckie egg
3. bubble bobble
2. GTA Vice city
1. Double Dragon2


im more of a video game player than a collector and have lists of the games i want to play or the systems i own, i plan to purchase about 220 games for the snes , 220 for the megadrive, 30 for the mega cd, 30 for the master syatem, and about 200 for the nes, i may buy other systems in the future once i have completed these games so that could be some time away (i have completed 70 megadrive games and 5 snes games so far)

my collection currently comprises a uk snes with a 50/60 switch so i can play prettey much everygame through it using an adaptor ( i plan to get a US SNES so i can play mario RPG) I currently have about 120 boxed games for it in various states from mint to about 6/10. rare games (for the UK) than i won for it are boxed complete undercover cops, sonic blastman 2, spike mcfang, chron trigger, megaman x- x3

i Also own a megadrive and 70 games and plan to get a nes eventually (i have 12 boxed games for this already

[kps67]

Bonjour my 80's companions!

I'm a 40 year old teenager, currently sitting at a table with the guts of my ColecoVision beside me. Just checked out my Atari, still works, and Intellivision, likewise, in my new home. Now I'm not gonna profess to be as SERIOUSLY warped as some of you with the million-and-a-half carts lying around some storage facility, but I do have a long and storied history with the video gaming industry, begining with the ever loving PONG.

In my Vault:
PONG
ATARI
INTELLIVISION
ColecoVision
Nintendo
Sega Genesis
Sega Dreamcast
XBox
XBox 360
PS 2
PS 1 (Somewhere)
TI-99

And I'm looking for my old favorites
Commodore 64, 128, Amiga
Timex 16K (forget the real name of it, but it was my first programming machine - I made it snow on the screen...)

And I'm waiting for admission to Cyber1.org so I can play on the PLATO system of old! (The internet before the Al Gore invented the internet).

That's about it from me. I'm also a writer (8 screenplays, a collection of horror short stories, and an intermediate reader's time travel book) and a musician (keyboards)

Look forward to hangin' with ya'll! (No, I'm not from the south)

[JohnD]

Hey Everyone -

I've been on here before but I decided to start fresh and sign on again. I'm John D from Retroware TV and I figured I'd jump in on occasion and even try to hock some items now and again. I love the TG16/PC Engine, the SNES and of course the NES. Favorite game is "Snatcher" or "Chrono Trigger" (as you may know if you've ever seen my review videos).

Im a collector always looking for anything. I'm more of an avid console collector as I seem to have a ton of them in various forms. I'm always looking for Atari stuff as well as anything PC Engine related. I really need to set some ground rules for collecting because I have no set goals.

Anyhow, hope all is wel with everyone - Keep gaming!

[SEGA_Queen]

Hello all!

I've browsing this site for the past year or so, and figured it was about time I joined. I'm 26 and I live in western Canada. My "real life" job is kind of hard to explain, so I'm not even going to bother.

Systems I Own: Genesis, Game Gear,Game Boy Color, Nintendo DS, PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, Sega CD, and a GameCube.

Number of Game I Currently Own: 115

Favorite Game Genres: Platformers and RPGs

Favorite Games: Sonic series, Klonoa series, Tales series of RPGs, Final Fantasy series.

Rarest Games I Own: A complete Japanese copy of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Tales of Destiny I & II, Both Lunar games for the Sega CD.

How I Started Collecting: I only got into collecting side of my video game hobby since I started my first full-time job 2 years ago. (Before then, I didn't have the money!) It wasn't really until I got my first PS1 that I really starting buying a lot of games.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to joining in all the fun discussions here!

Later!

[T3mpest]

Hello everyone, first of all sorry for any errors in my English, as i'm not a native speaker of the language.

My name is Alexandre and i'm from Portugal (soccer anyone? Figo? Ronaldo?)

I'm 27 years old, and my job is Technical Support for computers (software).

I'm a big Video-game collector (500+ games easly), maybe the biggest in my country (i dont think thats very difficult).

Anyway, my favourite consoles are SNES and N64 (my all time favourites are for this console, like Mario64, Zelda, Banjo..etc), so thats were my collecting is centered. These days i mainly play Xbox360 games, like Bioshock, Oblivion, Gears of War, Mass Effect, etc.. shocking as it may seem, i'm not a big Wii fan..

[Talmanec]

Hello everybody.

I'm Talmanec. I have been a regular NAVA attendee for quite some time now.
I know the staff at Digital Press very well. Some of you may know me for the
clips on Youtube. I am an old-school gamer (aka retro gamer) but I am quite diverse on my game collection (like my CD collection.) My favorite genres of games are 2D shooters (Xevious, Galaga), action platforms (Klonoa, Sonic) and a few old-school driving games (Out Run, Night Stocker)
I like a little of just about anything.

My favorite video game systems are NES, Intellivision and Turbografx but of course there have been many gems in recent years including
"Steambot Chronicles", "Rez", "Rock Band" (Obviously!!!)

Personal stuff:

My favorite kinds of music are...
Metal (Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Nightwish)
Techno (Bass 305, KMFDM, Kraftwerk)
and Smooth Jazz (Mindi Abair, Brian Bromberg, Allan Holdsworth)

My favorite movies are...
"Tron" "Run Lola Run" "Logan's Run" "Flash Gordon(1980)" "The Matrix"

10 Games I would want if I were stranded on a deserted island...
Super Mario Bros-1985 (Arcade version 1986)
Tron (Original Arcade Game)-1981 (released 1982)
Rock Band-2007
Dracula X-Rondo of blood-1993 (PC Engine Super CD Version)
Aero Blasters-1990
Devil's Crush-1990
Steambot Cronicles -2006(Released in Japan as "Bumpy Trot"-2004)
Gate Of Thunder-1992
Rez-2002
Bump N Jump-1982(Intellivision version)

Don't you feel like you know me?

[Arcade_Ness]

Hello everybody in tv land!

I'm Geraldo, 26 from Austin, TX. Well in the last few months I've been on a retro kick. I suppose it all started when I discovered this retro game shop up north called, Gameover Videogames. It wasn't a big store but man did it have a lot great stuff. So since then I've been slowly collecting what I can.

I would say I most like action platformers and RPGs. I'm a sucker for a good story. If I could only pick a handful of my favorite games they would be: Earthbound, Mother 3, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Bonanza Bros., Shadow Hearts, Vampire Savior, and Rondo of Blood. The main systems I collect for are PS2, Saturn, Dreamcast, NES/Famicom, SNES, and NGPC recently.

Well when I'm not at work I'm usually watching movies with my brother, playing games of course, watching anime, and listening to plenty of music. I'm sure like the rest of you guys I grew up playing games, as it still is a big part of my life. The funny thing is I got into gaming by wanting to be cool like my brother who was into it at the time, but now he hates playing games.

Well anyways that's me in a nutshell.

[Yukio]

My name is Yukio. I am from Brazil.

I like classic gaming and 8-bit machines.
I also like 16/32 bit architectures.

[boatofcar]

I can't believe I forgot to do this six years ago!

- Who you are
My name is John. My username comes from a They Might Be Giants song.

- Where you live
I live in Ulsan, Korea. It's an industrial city of about a million people. They make Hyundai cars here. It's also the biggest shipbuilding facility in the world.

- How you found the forums
Classic Gamer Magazine had a link to it, I think. This was back in spring/summer of 2001 when the forums were still on ezboard.

- What your favorite games are
My favorite games are old games :) The only newer games I really like are odd games like Katamari Damacy and Chulip.

- What systems you collect for
Since I moved to Korea, none. I only keep what I play and have nostalgic attachment to. My biggest collection is for NES. I have about 30 games for it. I do buy any Korean console games I see, though, just because they're so hard to come by.

- What you do in "real life"
I teach English as a Second Language to Middle School students.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
My story is typical. I got into retrogaming in an attempt to recapture my childhood memories.

[Sotenga]

I could SWEAR I introduced myself... more than once, even! However, there's no target symbol next to the topic title to indicate I've done so, so here I go... again, possibly?

First Name: Mike

Last Name: (Classified; it's quite unique)

Username: Sotenga (made from combining the first syllable of Sony, the second of Nintendo, and the third of Sega)

Age: 19

Residence: Central Pennsylvania

Profession: College student, currently double majoring in English - Professional Writing and Psychology (and about to be employed under the payroll of both departments)

Likes: Video games, music (mostly rock), films (mostly action), animated shows (I count Homestar Runner under this class), martial arts, writing (particularly the creative sort), rodents, lots of food and drink

Dislikes: Bigotry, war (except in video game form), pointless arguments, dishonest politics (which is pretty much 95% of politics in general), newsprint, social gatherings (I'm rather awkward in public)

General game preference: Fast-paced action titles, mostly from the 80's and 90's

Favorite games: Castlevania, Contra, Gradius, Gunstar Heroes, Bionic Commando, Splatterhouse, Axelay, Ninja Gaiden, R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Metal Gear, Shinobi, Metal Slug, Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown, way too much other crap to list

Favorite bands: Rush, Alice In Chains, Megadeth, Fear Factory, Dream Theater, Type O Negative, God Lives Underwater, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Rammstein, KMFDM, bt, Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan, a lot of other stuff and always willing to broaden my horizons

Favorite films: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Pulp Fiction, The Evil Dead, The Usual Suspects, 12 Angry Men, Batman (Burton and Nolan only), Goodfellas, Die Hard, Rocky, lots of stuff featuring Jackie Chan and/or Jet Li, currently gaining an avid taste for Hitchcock's and the Coen Brothers' films

Miscellaneous: I still don't have a driver's license, I've never been outside of the USA (travel isn't really my thing), I've never been in a fight, I had a few short stories published in my friend Rob's book Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman, I have an hour-long college radio show currently in effect on Tuesday night, and this is all probably more than you need to know about me! :)

[Sonicwolf]

I forgot to do this when I registered 4 years ago, anyways here I go.

Name: Sean

Location - Abbotsford, BC, Canada

Age: 18

Collecting Since: 1994

Oldest System (since bought/aqquired) - Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Latest System Aqquired - PlayStation 3

I have been enthralled with videogaming since I got my first system on December 25th, 1994. It was the Super Nintendo Super set that came with Super Mario World and the rebate for Super Mario All-Stars.

I currently Have over 250 games and over 51 systems (5 of which are vintage computers I use as game systems)

2008 as been the best year in video game collecting for me so far as I have aqquired some great stuff for cheap like these -
- Fully working GBA SP for 4.99
- Working Super Famicom for 6.99
- Working Sears Telegames for 15.99

And about other 15 systems. lol

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