Introduce Yourself!

[digitalpress]

Welcome to the forums!

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

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

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

Let us begin.

[digitalpress]

I'm Joe Santulli, from scenic Pompton Lakes, NJ.

I'm the Editor-in-Chief of a small but enduring publication known as Digital Press, which is a hybrid of many different forms of media that caters to the gaming elite - those who love the classics. We started in 1992 and have done several books, over fifty periodicals, a ColecoVision game (Ms. Space Fury) and a music CD (courtesy Tony Fox NYC).

I'm the originator of the Tips & Tricks magazine column, "Collector's Closet" which started with the September 2001 issue. I did that for over three years. I still get a kick out of the fact that I was getting a paycheck from Larry Flynt.

I'm also a co-organizer of Classic Gaming Expo which runs frequently in Las Vegas, established in 1999. You can find out more about this convention at www.cgexpo.com

I left my "real job" in corporate America in September of 2005 to open my own videogame store. You can find out lots more about that from just poking around the site here or reading my myspace blog (http://blog.myspace.com/digitalpress).

As you might guess by this, I get bored pretty easily. Which leads to my little hobby. I've been collecting videogames since 1977, though I still have an Odyssey1 system from 1972. I don't know how many games I have in my collection, but as most collectors know, it just never ends. I've taken over several rooms in our house (as discreetly as possible). See www.videogamecollectors.com/gallery/digitalpress for a visual.

Always happy to mingle with other gamers, especially die-hards. See you on the forums!

[punkoffgirl]

My turn, my turn!!

I'm Jaime, 24, from Maine, and a GIRL thankyouverymuch (Darn androgyneous name!!) ;)
First system I ever played was the Atari 2600 back in the day. Seems we fought over whose turn it was next more than we actually played, when I think back! One of the banes of having to share with four siblings =) However, we eeked in enough game time to pull the rubber coating off all the joysticks we owned.
We didn't get our next system until about 6 months after the NES debuted, as a birthday present for my oldest brother. Ahh.. the joys of SMB! Once he hit puberty, he discovered the job of taking his gaming rage out on the console, and we quickly went through four consecutive consoles until he decided NOT to wear his boots when playing anymore.
I don't collect much, more for financial reasons than anything else, so I'm a gamer if you need a label. You'll most likely find me spamming the HECK out of the off-topic forum, but I like to add my two cents in other places now and then.
Okay, who's next?

[Dire 51]

I'm Dire 51, otherwise known as Rob. I run one videogame website, have a couple others that are archived and write. A lot. I'm also a father of three.

[YoshiM]

My name is Dan and I hail from Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. I am a PC Tech Administrator for a small electrical wholesaler. As a side hobby I am a PC game designer/creator (strictly 2-D, can't quite get the knack of the 3D stuff) and my current project is at saviorknight.com/ (I know, shameless plug).

I stumbled upon the DP site some time ago when looking for classic video game reviews and information and have been coming back ever since. For gaming I'm an old school Nintendo fan (hence the nick) but also I have interests in the newer-yet-dead system category (Jaguar, Saturn, soon maybe a 3DO). Out of any genre I must say I am a big platformer and arcade fan. And I seem to be one of the few who think the TRS-80 Color Computer was a fun gaming platform.

I began collecting games around 1989/1990 when I had both a NES and an SMS. Other than games, I like to write (fiction mainly, but I also do technical writing if needed like instruction manuals and such), cook, and have a strange affection for hand puppets.

[ShinobiMan]

Hey there everyone, I'm Tyler, and I discovered this wonderful board way back in February of 2001. I currently work in TV Production / Marketing for a local business company.

I am 23 years old. Movies, Music, and Games are the glue of what holds my head on my body and keeps my mind thinking. I love to write songs and play guitar, work on screenplays...

I own over 18 consoles, from Intellivision to Virtual Boy and even the new consoles... I have 'em all! Drop me a line!

[den68]

My name is Den. I'm 34 years old and live in Michigan. I've been married for 6 years (Carol) and have a 2 year old daughter (Allison). I also have a dog (Stevie), she's a lab/rott mix. For the past 8 years I've been Creative Services Manager for a marketing firm that specializes in logoed apparel and merchandise. My degree is in graphic/advertising design.

I've been a video game fan since my first Atari 2600 in 1980. From there I went to the Commodore 64 then NES, then Genesis, then PSX. I still have all my original systems and games and for the past year and a half have been actively collecting for any video game item I can find. As a result my basement has become quite cluttered.

Oh well.

[Mayhem]

Back to the grindstone...

This is Mat living it round about in England (like you couldn't get that from the side!). The title kind of gives away which system I'm most involved in! So much so that Joe is kind enough to let me head up that section in the DP guide :)

Not just the C64 I work with however. The 7800 also gets some attention from time to time, especially as I have just secured myself a complete copy of Tank Command and some of the HES releases.

Been playing for too long perhaps... ever since the parents got me a Pong type console at the back end of the 70s. From there the VCS came and went, and in its place sat the C64. And it's been there for the last 18 years. I'm also a Nintendo fan, so most of their consoles have been through my hands also.

Jobwise, I work for HP now (used to be Compaq until the merger) doing some support work. But as the Dire Straits song goes it's "money for nothing". Sadly I don't get my chicks for free! :p

Not that I wouldn't mind PoG, Atar1g1rl or QoF giving me their attentions now ;)

Oh, before I forget... go visit www.mayhem64.co.uk and see what you think...

[LinkNZ]

My name is Jonathan, I'm 18 and I'm from New Zealand. :)

Like many of you I've been playing Videogames what seems like my whole life, I have no real special affiliation to any one company - I do have a soft spot for certain Nintendo games, The Legend of Zelda being my favourite ever since I can remember.

I'm so glad I was never one to sell off my old game stuff, it would be almost impossible (either that or too expensive) to get it all again, especially here in NZ where there's hardly any good stuff but a lot of people around that want it. :x I'm just very lucky I guess.

Collecting games is very fun, but it's just playing them that gives me the most satisfaction. I am just so sick and tired of all the constant console bashing that goes on in other forums, I don't understand why people can't just play and admit when a game is damn fun - despite what console it may appear on!

Anyway that's my rant over. I found this site while looking for a games list I think it was awhile back, been around ever since. I've changed my board name but I didn't post much anyway so it's no biggy.

Umm yeah, new forum looks awesome. I'm happy to be here. :)

PS: If anyone could help fix my icon i'd be even more happy, it was originally 80x80 but when it went down to 50x50 it got that stupid outline thing, PM me or something if you know what to do - Cheers.

[NoahsMyBro]

The below excerpt is copied from a previous post to an older, less sophisticated message forum. If you enjoy reading it, new posts by the author will be available often at the NEW Digital Press Retrogaming Roundtable. Don't miss an issue!


For a very long time I'd been meaning to check out the 'Introductions' thread. I couldn't remember if I had ever posted to introduce myself, and meant to do so if I hadn't previously. Of course, I am a champion procrastinator, and I never got a round tuit (well, since that time in the 6th grade when my Dad gave me one...).

So here I am, taking advantage of the fresh start on the topic and presenting myself to the world here at DP.com.

I'm Steve Jacobs. With a not uncommon name like that, it's awfully hard to think up an easy-to-remember, unique AOL screen-name. What would be easy for people to remember and associate with >me<, that hadn't already been thunk up? Hence my screen-name - NoahsMyBro.

I'm in my mid-30's. It's been nearly 20 years since I was good at videogames, but at least now I can afford to get them, and I plan on getting in serious practice time 35 years from now when I'm retired!

I live in West Orange, New Jersey, with my wife Jessica and my son Nate, currently 17 months. During working hours I am the System Administrator/Helpdesk/Tech Geek for a web-consulting company in Little Falls. Our company is involved in ERP, CRM, B2B, etc... Don't ask me to explain the terms, but if any of our people needs help with their email I'm the Man!

I like tinkering with electronics, and (when I have the time) enjoy messing around making custom controllers for the old game systems. Some of the most fun I ever had with my 7800 was fabricating 2 controller adapters that allow you to use Sega Genesis controllers on the 7800, with 2 fully-functional, independent fire buttons. My favorite systems are the 5200 & the Dreamcast.

I have a small, crude but functional vanity website located at http://www.jacobshome.org. You may find out more about my interests there.

Lastly, I enjoy sci-fi, music of almost any kind, and until I moved to NJ and got well-acquainted with their overly present troopers, driving (fast).

[Arrrhalomynn]

I'm Mark, 19 (12-30-1982) years old. I live in the small town of Elburg in the Netherlands. In september I'm going to study Notary law (or however it's called in english) so I can make lots of money and buy happiness.
In general I collect for all sega systems and the psx, but I try to focus on the Saturn. Most games for the system suck, but it's the most fun/easy to collect for here.
Some of my favorite games are Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Castle of Illusion, Shenmue, Tekken 3 and Sonic.

[kainemaxwell]

Here we go again...

I'm Chris, also known as Kaine23 or Bahamut in the Internet community. I'm 25 and living in NJ, graduated a community college with an AAS in computers, trying to look for any work right now, may be going back to a school soon enough.

My first system was an Atari 2600, then a Commodore 64, Atari XE and then I entered the NES era. From there I got a SNES, Sega CDX, N64 and a PSX. I've recently gotten more into retro gaming with my SNES, and been playing my PSX and N64 more. Also deciding to start collecting, perhaps with the NES or Atari 2600 since I still have it.

I also have a Dragonball Z site at:
http://shenlon.cjb.net

[MankeyMan]

I am Josef, a.k.a MankeyMan. I am from America's 52nd state, which is generally called England.
First things first, i am in no way associated with Pokemon or monkeys. I have just finished my GCSE's (annoying english tests, 14 of them) and I am now free to laze around all summer, spamming these boards.
I have many projects on the go, all half finished, most of which will never see the light of day. Some of these include my website:

http://crapgames.tripod.com

as well as looking for a job. If anyone has one that involves not doing very much I'd be happy to do it :)

I am mainly a nintendo man, as I have all of their consoles except a Virtual Boy (they always miss us out !"$%"£).

Wow, I ramble,
Josef

[SaitoH]

Ummm ... I don't really like talking about myself with people I don't really know. Buffy DP is probably my best online friend (I think I'd glue myself to her if I could =P ), I know POG quite well ( cause she's a sweetheart) and I used to play PSO with Joe ( which I miss very much), but other than that I don't really know anyone else. I used to post her, but I quickly tired of the lamers that infected this board, so I've been waiting till things were cleaned up. It seems alot nicer around here now and I should start posting here a little more frequently.

If you wish to find out some stuff about me use the "--> \^w^/ <--" link in my sig. It's my first attempt at a homepage. Just shows pictures of my place, some stories I wrote (one of which is video game related =P ) , photos I've taken and other junk. It says alot about me, so that should suffice (I hope).

Anyway ... the new place looks great and I look forward to posting here.

^w^

[bigdaddychester]

Hey Everyone. My name is Brian but somehow the nickname bigdaddychester was given to me and has since become my alias. I'm 31 and I live in Milton, West Virginia with my wife Amy and our 6 month old daughter Caitlin. I'm a process machinery designer and during the summer weekends, I work for dirt race track in southern Ohio. Money was tight as a kid growing up but my first console was a Bally Astrocade (Which I still play!) I don't have a preference toward a particular system but I like to collect games that I will play. I have only been collecting since about January. Joe, this website rocks. I'm not sure how I found but I'm glad I did!!

[Raedon]

Hey,
I'm a game collector from East Texas. My name is Wes Southern. If your from East Texas and wonder why it's so dry it's because all the games are at my house.

I got into collecting games before I even knew what game collecting was. While at RIT (Rochester Institute of Tech.) I left all my old gaming equipment at home in my closet. Well, At college computer gaming and internet gaming were the big things with DOOM and later Quake.

After finishing up and getting a job my parents said, "come home and clean all your crap out or it's going in the trash!" well, maybe they didn't say it like that but I remember it being close. So I went home and started going threw boxes of old love letters and clothes so out of style that just touching them could cause permanent virginity.

Well, I came across something wonderful! my old NES! there it was! I thought I traded this old POS for a quarter bag of weed and a Metallica tape in '88. Guess I explained why my memory of that period was fuzzy.

So I continue deeper into the closet.. Some NES games here, an Intelevision cart there. Then a box of Amiga Floppies. My Amiga! I remembered that somewhere was my old Amiga 1000. I had left it somewhere at home 5 years prior and it "must" still be here. I looked everywhere. I went to the garage, there it was! In it's box! I remember how I had sold my neighbor my old (and loaded) C64 back in 86 for $500.00 so I could afford some of the $800 the Amiga cost me.

I loaded it all up and took it to my new pad. Broke off my ass working that first resume job; Which is sort of like being in boot camp.

I only had a 25 inch TV and some old games.. I couldn't afford $199 and $60 for the newest games. I couldn't afford that $4.31 movie rental! I was bored out of my mind!

I hooked up the NES and played threw Zelda, it was WONDERFUL. I was young agian! I didn't cheat and it had been so long. I burned all the bushes, bombed all the walls. I was in gaming nostagia heaven.

I hooked up my old Intellevision and played some Snafu, "damn these controllers suck! I love it!"

So one weekend I'm out looking for some games.. everything new is to much for the guy with the car payment, rent and *insert more debt here*

So I figure I'll go to a pawn and see if I can score some cheap games. I find NES games for $1.99! Megaman! Adventure Island! Dragon Warrior! SMB3! I had just scored 2 months of entertainment for pennies on the dollar!

From there it was just a small jump to a weekend flee market and 100's of Atari, snes, genesis Colecovision games later..

.. I was a Game Collector..

[sniperCCJVQ]

Hi!

My name is Pascal Reeves, i'm a Canadian living in the city of Saint-Jerome (Saint-Antoine) in the province of Quebec. I'm a member of the CCJVQ/QVGCC (Quebec Video Game Collector Club).

Right now i'm still in college to get my diploma in Networking/Telecomm.

I collecting everything for the NES system since the end of the 80's and thrifting and flea marketing to find cool/weird/unusual stuff from the 70's and 80's is one of my favorite activities.

I remember some of my early gaming exploit with Donkey Kong on the Trash-80, PONG and Asteroids on the 2600. But it's the NES that really caught me.

My favorite game is WWF Superstars at the arcade. Since the game was release in 1989 i always haved the dream the get the game in my basement one day and i make my dream come true last year by buying a near complete game in a mint cabinet :-)

I found the forum via SLYDC (aka Sylvain de Chantal) that some of you know by his FAQ. One cool thing is SLYDC is living only at 15 minutes from my home.

I've been to the last two Phillyclassic and it was fun to meet some of you (Joe, Jaime, Will, Christian Scott etc etc). I try my best everytime to improve my talking english skills and have better conversation with some of my US neighbours.

[jaydubnb]

*steps up to bat*

Hey boys and girls, the name's Jay and i hail from Brooklyn, NYC ("Hey yo!"). I'm 28, a medical biller/collector, college student majoring in English (no i do NOT wish to teach :) ) and writer for a real website that's set to debut this fall, not the Miscellaneous Crap [tm] featured in my sig.

I've been gaming since the early 80s with Atari systems, handhelds and whatnot. However, my hobby turned hardcore when the NES debuted! SMB had me hooked like crack, and took my love for gaming to the next level. Well here are some miscellaneous facts:

Systems that get the most play time:
PC Engine Duo-R
SNES
Genny 3 (sexiest system ever made. if onlyit had a broadband port so i could make sweet, sweet love to it...*ahem*)

Systems getting some time here and there:
Top Loading NES

Systems getting the gasface:
PS2

My holy grail system would be to score a NEO GEO system, which i plan to start diving into when i finish college this fall. Being in college and collecting for that expesnsive a$$ system do NOT mix.

Favorite Games: Star Parodia (PCE CD), Dracula X (PCE CD), Baseball Stars (NES), Sympony of the Night (PS1), Gunstar Heroes (Genny), Contra (NES), Bonk series (PCE/TG16), Outrun (any system!), Chrono Trigger (SNES), Downtown Nekketsu/Kunio seires (various systems), R-Type Delta, Kid Icarus (we need an update!), Goonies II, and probably a few I forgot :)

[buttasuperb]

My name is Nick, im from Brookfield, IL suburb of Chicago and home of the wonderful Brookfield Zoo. I've been playing videogames since I was 6 years old, when i got a NES on my birthday. (that was a glorious day) Over the years, ive always sold my old system to get the newer better systems, mainly because at the time that was the only way i could affort it. I started missing all my old systems about a year ago, and thats when I started really getting into collecting. So I bought a genesis off of ebay, and traded my friend a ps2 game and pc game for his snes and a few games. That was start of the hobby that now leaves my wallet empty most of the time. :) I now collect for the nes, snes, genesis, neo geo aes, neo geo pocket color, saturn, playstation, dreamcast, and ps2. My collection starts with the nes because thats what i started my gaming career off with. I will someday get into collecting the sega master system and 2600, but thats not a priority right now.

I'm a huge fan a 2D fighters, and a fan of fighting games in general. Shrouyouked! http://www.gamegen.com/fightgen/characters/ryu-animation.gif I've got a pretty good collection of fighting games, although i got a long way to go in terms of neo geo games. SNK for life! Im now starting to get into saturn imports, mainly 2D shooters. (i still need to find radiant silvergun)

I stumbled upon this place on christmas of last year, and im very glad i did. By far the best group of people ever assembled on a message board. The people here made me feel welcomed, and that's why im still here today.

[Kid Fenris]

In the intrusively bothersome thing known as real life, my name is Todd and I'm working at a newspaper company in Dayton, Ohio. Aside from the requisite love of gaming, my hobbies include reading, hiking, and animation.
For much of my childhood, my experiences with video games were limited to arcades and the houses of friends, but my parents eventually capitulated and bought a Nintendo Entertainment System for their spastic yet insistent son. My interest in gaming then grew to the point where I now find myself the owner of my still-functional NES as well as a Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, Dreamcast, Saturn, PlayStation, Super NES, GameBoy, Neo-Geo Pocket Color, Sega CD, Nintendo64, PlayStation 2, GameBoy Advance, Virtual Boy, and a TurboGrafx-16 that I nicknamed “Pukey.” Don’t ask.
Though I try to play a bit of everything, my favorite games tend to be Japan-bred console RPGs like Chrono Trigger, Popful Mail, Xenogears, Emerald Dragon, Valkyrie Profile, Vagrant Story, Secret of Mana, and Final Fantasy Tactics. Also plentiful in my collection are shooters, puzzle games, platformers, and members of the highly inclusive “action adventure” genre.
I stumbled across Digital Press while poking around the Tips and Tricks webpage, and I’ve visited these boards on a near-daily basis ever since.

[ManekiNeko]

You may remember me from such fanzines as Project: Ignition and The Gameroom Blitz!
Anyway, I've known Joe Santulli for a long time... he's a big reason why I started writing about video games in the first place! Ten years later, I'm still doing it. I no longer edit newsletters (too expensive), but my site The Gameroom Blitz is still updated from time to time.
Annnyway, my favorite games are mostly arcade titles from the 80's. Sure they don't have a lot of substance, but fast intense action is what video games are all about in my opinion... the rest is just filler. I strongly resented it back in the late '80s when game companies took popular arcade titles and turned them into generic adventures on the NES. The Nintendo Entertainment System had plenty of these frustrating, convoluted games as it was... Capcom and Tecmo didn't need to add to the pile with so-called arcade "translations" of Strider and Ninja Gaiden.
That turned into a rant awfully quick, didn't it? Heh heh... anyway, here's a list of my personal favorite games...

NightWarriors
Street Fighter (series)
Galaga
Gyruss
Gradius (series)
Aleste (series, includes MUSHA, Zanac, The Guardian Legend, and others)
Gunstar Heroes
Radiant Silvergun
Grandia
Suikoden (usually I won't touch RPGs, but these ones were so good even I couldn't resist them)
Mega Man (early games)

Anything else? Well, I can't think of anything offhand, so I'll wrap up this post right now.

JR

[MrRetroGamer]

MrRetroGamer here, loving all things pre Nintendo era. Stay Tuned 8) ....

[Ascending Wordsmith]

My name's Mike and I live in North Carolina. My state runs on NASCAR, cigarettes, and Smokey & the Bandit marathons.

I'm a student at Salem College in Winston-Salem. I love this school; there's 1,200 students and the classes (when full) total about 14 people.

I'm not a die hard video game collector.; I collect series. My current collection goal is to gain all Bonk games complete. I am missing only two titles, and they're imports! This will be a time consuming experience. In the meantime, I'm leaning toward console purchases.
Sega CD and N64 being my two most likely candidates.

I enjoy reading, writing, and especially drawing. I have a few works that I hope to see as video game characters one day. If not, then I can take solace in knowing they're my own creations. :) If I could somehow get them online, I'd post a few of them. Of course image hosting isn't free any more!

Thanks for listening (reading) and stop by your local convienience store for those refridgerated sandwiches I enjoy so much!

[ventrra]

I'm Charles Morgan from Muncie, IN.

I found these forums by trying to find a replacement for my aging Digital Press Collectors Guide 4th Edition.

My favorite games are usually the ones that are disliked by most other people (i.e. Sssnake for the 2600).

I collect for all of the systems that I own and several that I don't (basically, if I find a game system or something for it, I collect it.)

Unlike a lot of people in these forums, I don't really do ANYTHING in "real life". (Before anyone goes ballistic, it's not laziness or unemployment, it's more on the level of Muscular Dystrophy and nerve damage.)

Other "interesting" info includes: I'm 30 years old right now, I'm off line about as much as I'm on because I, rather poorly, built my own computer which breaks down constantly, and my avater comes from a series of comics and stories that I'd played around at making in high school.

[jdllama]

Name: Jeffrey "J.D." Lowe
'Net Names: jdllama or Jedi Drunken Llama
Age: 19
Location: Central Ohio, USA
Job: Game Advisor for Gamestop
Hobbies: Doing voices. I do a wicked Cartman/Stan/Garrison/Mackey/Hankey/Grandpa/Satan/Phillip/Ned/Wakko Warner/Jimmy Stewart impersonation (but not all of the voices combined; what, do you think I'm crazy?)
My Collection:

98 NES games
8 SNES games
40+ Atari 2600 games
3 Atari 7800 games
1 Lonely Playstation game
4 Game Boy games
And a partridge in a pear tree

Oh, and I'm also one of the new referees over at Twin Galaxies; my specialty is NES, Super NES, and the handheld Nintendo systems.

I also maintain Snipercade during what little spare time I have.

Hope that's satisfactory :)

[liab1228]

-Lia B (single/fem/34 in Nov.)
-live in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
-dont remember how I found the forums(must be old age)
-favorite games: Ladybug(colecovision), Turmoil(atari 2600), Elevator Action(NES), Shining Force II(sega genesis), and Dr. Mario(N64).
-buy anything for any system when I find it cheap
-work full time(32 hours) as a stocker at a discount store and I went back to college...eventually want to get a degree in computer science.

-also like to collect Monopoly games and anything to do with the game. currently have around 20 -30 different Monopoly game sets, 2 comforters, bed sheet, pillow case, 2 pc monopoly games & a mug. :)



-Lia :Fade-color :olympic:

[morphx]

My name's Chris, I'm 22 and live in hot and humid Virginia Beach, VA. I found DP one day when looking for some kind of master list of every system/game out there. I own over 750 unique pieces of Video Gaming equipment. Current collecting goal is to have 1 of every system in the box with a few of its most popular games.

Recent addtions are a RCA Studio II, TI 99/4A.

Main focus right now is on Atari and NES.

I was born into the Nintendo Generation and have been a poster child for it ever since.

[Raccoon Lad]

:twisted: :wink: If you don't know who I am by now, you suck!

[Cheese]

Hey there all, My name is Cheese Hasselberger I am a 30 year old cartoonist outta the New York Metro Area, Jersey City to be exact. I've been a player as long as I can remember, as a matter of fact one of my first memories from my childhood is playing in the arcade.

Last year I published a comic book with a bunch of friends called "House of Twelve" ( http://www.houseoftwelve.com ) and I also host the New York City BBM Comic Jam (more info here: http://www.houseoftwelve.com/jam ). I also pay the rent by being the Assoc. Art Director for a major metropolitan newspaper.

I have no idea how many games I have, but the systems are:

Atari 2600
Odyessy 2
Coleco Telstar Pong
Vectrex
Intellivision (hence the avatar)
NES
N64
Sega Genisis w/cd w/ 32X
Sega Saturn
Playstation 1
Playstation 2
Xbox
gameboy color
and I keep thinking I'm missing something

But there ya go.

[crivit]

My name is Julie. I'm 30 yrs old and live in Ky. I'm currently a student and will (hopefully) be a clinical lab tech when I graduate. I was a long time lurker at the old board, and that probably won't change much here :D I've been playing games constantly since the days of the 2600, and I've been collecting for about 5 years now. I collect for anything I can find cheap. I have roughly 30 different systems now and a couple thousand games (maybe more, I'm too disorganized to count them). I'm in serious need of more space :lol: I have a special fondness for the 5200 and any sega system. My main collecting goal right now is to collect all the U.S released DC games while they are still fairly cheap and easy to find.

[portnoyd]

Being as that I never did this in the first place, now would be a good time.

My name is Dave, I'm from the P. Lakes, NJ (home of DP). I collect NES mainly, and need, as of today, 4 to finish my US NES collection. I like games, girls, and living the high life, Hoooo ahh.

I'm 22, and currently sort of employed by Kraft/Nabisco, yay.

[Reverend JagDiesel]

Hey all, your buddy Jag here.. My name is Chris and I am from the desert here in Arizona, where I live just outside Phoenix. You can call me Chris or Jag or JD or anything else that is somewhat more creative...
I have been playing games now well over 20 years, my first system was an Odyssey2. I also had several pong systems, a ColecoVision Adam computer, an 8 bit NES, a Genesis, and a SNES. Believe it or not, my dad kept all the systems and games, which my little brother is now using.
I have owned all the above and: a Dreamcast, PS1, Atari 26-52-7800, Atari 400 & 800, Intv, Colecovision, Fairchild Channel F, and my current Xbox. I dabble a bit with all systems, but consider the Odyssey2, Intellivision, and Xbox my systems of choice, with the Xbox being my only modern system.
I am married, happily, since 1994, to a woman who doesnt fully understand my gaming obsession(as she calls it), but who supports about all that I do.
I work on old electronics, cars, and gaming systems in my limited amount of free time. I raise sport horses (thoroughbred/warmblood crosses) and truly believe in natural horsemanship over hardhanding, it is the only way to have a real "relationship" with your horse.
Anyways thats it, who's next..

[zemmix]

Hello my name is Todd and I'm an alco... err I mean game collector from Disneyland. Thats where I work and I am there quite often. Its not as great as you think.

I started collecting in 98 when My friend at work Jon Sieker told me about the hobby. He was the one that also introduced me to the DP guide. Since then just about every penny I have that didn't have to go to bills went to games. Same with every dollar in credit to my name (bad todd!).

I collect for just about every system but handhelds. I also collect a lot of complete DOS games. Currently though I am focused on getting the big box PSX games and other early rare psx games.

I also love Japanese women and Japanese cars.

[Felixthegamer]

Well, I suppose it is time I did this again. Here is some information about ME! I recently moved back to Kansas at the request of my roommate. (We are still roommates) I am back in the town and area I grew up. It is nice and pretty good for video game hunting.
I found this forum from the "old" forum. There was a link (Ha Ha) I actually found a link off of Atariage.com. I remember when I was growing up we had an Intellivision and a C64. I remember playing Pitfall! And generally enjoying both systems. When the Nes was new, I remember going to Children's Palace and buying the system, Ghost 'N Goblins and Castlevania. My brother and mother were with although my brother seemed uninterested. And for the record, my mother bought the system. I was also the first person in my neighborhood to have a SNES. I remember the kid across the street came over one day to look at it. I felt like a King.
Time went on and the Intellivision and C64 were gone. I had no control over it, yet I feel guilt for not putting up more of a fight to keep them. They were both giving away. I would like to think they have good homes now, but honestly I have no idea. I had the Nes, Snes and Genesis, so I managed to be happy.
I did not go to too many arcades and I feel remorse for it. I followed my older brother around and he was never inclined to go. I do recall Crystal Castles and Galaga. Galaga is one of my more favourite games. I still trudge down to the "arcade" to play it.
A few years ago, I felt the urge to play my Nintendo. It was something I had not done in a while. I found it not to be in working order. I searched the web and did a home repair. It works now, at least somewhat. However, looking around the web made me wonder why I had a brief absence from gaming. I elected to "get back" into gaming. I finally have an Atari 2600. I never had one growing up. The kids down the street did and so did my friend Patrick. Why didn't I ever have one? I don't really know.
As far as making a living, I don't I am a student. I am not sure when I will graduate or what I will major in. I am looking into a finding a job and going to school. Somebody needs to support this habit!

[6502]

My name is Daniel, 27, from Texas. I found the forums thanks to another member's post in another forum. I started playing games with an Atari 800 computer. The first actual console I owned was an NES. Most of my attention is focused on the Turbografx-16, Dreamcast, and Neo Geo Pocket Color. I'm also still fond of Atari though my 800 has long since given up the ghost. I enjoy reading about and remembering the many home computers from the 80s before "home computer" meant a PC.

[udisi]

My name is Gary and I'm from the berbs outside St. Louis, Mo....I a video game completist....I will own every game for every system someday...anyway I have about 600-700 different games right now....not to bad for just starting this trek in march if I do say so myself.

[le geek]

Hello All,

I am Ben Langberg, a graphic designer in Atlanta, GA. I am 28 and live with my Girlfriend and our two cats.

My first system was an Atari 2600, followed by a VIC-20, C64, and Amiga 500. I started collecting Atari in college and diccovered the 2600 Connection newsletter. I typed in a bunch of Atari manuals for Greg Chance's Videogame museum, many of which are now at AtariAge.

I collect 2600 mainly, then I get games that are fun to play for most of the NES and above systems. I'd love to have a complete NTSC Atari collection one day, but it seems that too many of us have the same goal... :wink: My Amiga 2000 still works, and after the Atari 2600 it's probably my second favorite "game machine".

So in summary, I collect for 2600, C64, NES, Amiga, Gameboy/Color, Genesis/CD/32x, Lynx, Turbo Grafx/Duo, SNES, 3DO, Jaguar/CD, Saturn, PSX, N64, and Dreamcast.

I run my le geek website (http://www.abscape.org/legeek/), which hopefully someday will be a good review archive for classic games. Some of my favorites include (in no particular order): Space Taxi, Times of Lore, Blue Max, Tempest 2000, Legend of Zelda, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Metroid, Final Fantasy 2, Lemmings, Out of this World, Prince of Persia, Rocket Ranger, WizKid, Seaquest, Pitfall, Enduro, Gravattack, Pinball Dreams, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Airball, Fool's Errand, Mr. Do, Gyruss, Rampart, & Time Pilot.

Well that's probably enough from me! :lol:

Cheers,
le geek

[Kidnemo]

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


Hiya all!

I'm Kidnemo, from the ole' midwest of the US. I'm a 24yr Multimedia Designer/web designer/programmer.

I found the forums from a link that was posted on another forum (www.the-nextlevel.com).

Favorite genres:

rpgs
shooters
fighting games
any thing thats quirky, or all sexy n' 2D :)

Lately I've been playing a ton of Warcraft III for pee-see, Tactics Ogre on GBA, Fire Pro Wrestling on GBA, Sky Gunner on Ps2, and dabbled a bit with the Arc the Lad Collection on psone.

I'm more of a gamer first, and a collector second, but I have a pretty huge selection of games. I'm not really the type that will pay a ton on ebay to "complete my collection", but if it's a game that I want to actually play, I'll shell out the big bucks.

I'm currently putting togther a game zine/online videogame publication site, so you may see me talking about that from time to time.

*phew, got a little longer than I expected! :)*

[congobongo]

Dan, graphic designer from Oakville, Ontario. Relatively new collector but seriously hooked. Been all over this board for several months. Formerly Congo Bongo 69. Current favourites include Saturn, 2600 and Genesis.

BTW, here is the story behind my Avatar: I got interested last year in possibly developing a GBA game and "Mullet Man" was one of the characters I had developed for it. If anyone is doing some GBA dev and could use help with artwork, let me know. I'd still love to get involved in that.

[dsullo]

Dustin Sullo
From New Jersey

I have been playing video games since birth..well almost since birth. Currently I have about 15 different systems and trade , buy and sell. I also run a small website where I repair Nintendo Systems

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dsullo/nes.htm

Glad to be a part of this terrifc group!!!

[Rogmeister]

Hi, I'm Roger, AKA: Rogmeister...I'm one of those guys who's basically been into gaming since Pong though I did have a gap of about 5 years or so where I didn't play any games so I went from Atari 7800 to the Super Nintendo completely bypassing the whole NES period...of course, I would later get those retroactively.

I live in West Virginia...have my entire life...and I work in a steel mill. I found out about the Digital Press publication probably through a plug in one of the slick gaming mags back when they used to plug those kinds of independent efforts. That eventually led me to the DP website and I found out about this board there.

As far as games go, I like mostly platform and action/adventure games going from the original Pitfall games to today's Spider-Man games. I don't care too much for most sports games except baseball...I've probably owned 50 different baseball games at different times.

I don't collect as much as I used to...I did have a recent spurt of Dreamcast game purchasing but I see myself buying mainly for my GameCube now and only getting games for the older systems as I come across them which isn't too often these days. My systems include Atari 2600, 5200, Lynx & Jaguar (I no longer have my 7800), Sega Dreamcast, Saturn & Genesis, Playstation (just the first), TurboGrafx-16 (if you count having one game for a system HAVING a system), ColecoVision and most of the Nintendo systems except for Virtual Boy and Game Boy Advance.

My other hobbies include movies, photography, reading and being controlled by my two cats.

[Anonymous]

Hi, my name is Nathan and I am a video game collector.

Well maybe not, more like a video game player with a penchant for playing obscure titles. This naturally leads to amassing a rather large collection of older titles that I have just to say "yeah I've played that." I'm 24 and I live in Seattle, currently switching between working for a Large redmond based video game company's call center, and being a student at the University of Washington.

I have a tendency to buy games as I see them, so my collection is very varied, to say the least. I found DP when I was looking for a way to determine whether or not I was paying too much for a game, and have been here ever since.

I also had the pleasure of Meeting DP himself at E32k2, and look forward to meeting the rest of you at CGE2k2.

That is all for now.

[BHvrd]

I'll try to make this as painful as possible.

I like classic games, and grew up on mainly the NES, and Arcade, but I also experienced early years of Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc...

I play classic games occasionally, but have more collected than played, I am more into the Xbox at the moment, and can't wait to play with some of you guys on Xbox Live "heh."

Other than playing games, I work, and take care of my 7 year old son, and enjoy the beuatiful beaches on the Gulf O' Mexico "not really", but I occasionally go out there at night, and get drunk =)

Well, there are more mysteries to myself, but I will only reveal those when i'm really intoxicated, until then, get lost!

[BenT]

My name's Benjamin Turner, and I am a gamer. I was born in PA and grew up in Collegeville (near Philly), but dropped out of college there to take my current job in Irvine, CA. I guess I'm now a Californian, though I don't feel like one. I don't own any sunglasses, for one.

As gaming goes, I'm pretty damn hardcore about neo-classic stuff, and enjoy post-crash systems the most. That's not to say I don't appreciate Atari and whatnot, but I was raised on the NES, and still have a lot of gaps to fill in my more modern system libraries before I can shift focus to the original classics.

I'm a bit of a collector but for the most part only acquire games I'd like to play. I'm fastidious about game condition, and won't buy anything that's less than near-mint. I have somewhere over 500 console and PC games, though that number was higher a while back before I picked out the non-mints to sell off and re-acquire. That's nothing compared to some of your amazing collections, but I'm happy with it... particularly the quantity to quality ratio. :)

Traditional platformers, fighters and shooters are my primary interests, with the latter skewed toward horizontal games like Thunderforce III. Most of today's manic vertical shooters aren't as fun to me. Fave games include Thunderforce III, Axelay, Doom 1/2 (PC), System Shock, Bionic Commando (NES), Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting (AC), Castlevania: SotN, Super Metroid, Metroid, Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy IV, Gunstar Heroes and Contra III.

As you might infer from that list, I don't like the direction games have taken since the late 16-bit days. Many 3D games just don't do it for me like the classic 2D games did, so I'm pretty jaded and cynical about modern gaming. Devil May Cry? Not fun. Final Fantasy VII? Mediocre. Resident Evil? Badly-controlling crap. That's not to say I'm a complete gaming curmudgeon, but in general I no longer get excited about most new game releases. It's too bad. I miss the old fun. Thankfully, there are still a ton of older games that I've yet to acquire and play, and I still have fun with some modern releases... just not as many as I'd like. I *am* looking forward to Mario Sunshine, however.

During the day I work at GameSpy Industries, as the PS2 editor for GameSpy.com. We're going places -- keep an eye on us. :)

Anyway, I think I've bored you all enough. I'll just end by saying that I'm glad to be a part of this nice community. Between this and TNL (www.the-nextlevel.com/board/index.php), my gaming message board needs are more than covered.

BenT

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Greetings, programs. I'm Earl Green, languishing in the economic backwater that is western Arkansas. I first dropped by here out of curiosity about eight or nine months ago, having already visited the DP site semi-frequently, and now this is just about the only part of the site I visit - go figure!

For me, pinning down one specific favorite game is like trying to nail smoke to the wall. In the arcades, I have to give the top honors to two incredibly obscure titles: the forgotten SNK/Rock-Ola classic Fantasy (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/fantasy.html) and the best (but also likely most obscure) of the Mr. Do! (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/mrdo.html) games, Do! Run Run (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/summer99/dorunrun.html). At home, my all-time favorite still remains the mighty Odyssey 2 (www.thelogbook.com/odyssey), for which I have a darn near complete collection (and I don't mind tell you I'm proud of that). I also collect for the Atari 2600 (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/atari26/), 5200 (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/atari52/), 7800 (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/atari78/), Intellivision (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/mattel/), ColecoVision (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/coleco/) and Apple II (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/apple/). I'm also getting a good head start on an NES collection as well. I have a Playstation, but got it primarily to play good ports of the classic arcade games (i.e. Namco Museum (www.thelogbook.com/winter99/namco1.html), etc.) and the updated remakes of them. Same goes for the Game Boy Color that goes with me everywhere. So I'm an old fogey.

In real life, I'm a TeeVee news promo writer (www.thelogbook.com/work/) in an exceedingly small market, working for an ABC station. The hours are frequently long (and they get even longer due to circumstances I can't control and with little notice), and there's a lot of downtime followed by huge rushes of activity - very much the "hurry up and wait" thing that a lot of people mention in regard to TV. I also maintain and write most of the material for theLogBook.com (www.thelogbook.com), my own little web site (well, okay, not so little), which covers everything from science fiction (www.thelogbook.com/log/) to video games (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/) to soundtracks (www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/disc/indexst.html) to vintage sci-fi-related toys (www.thelogbook.com/toy/) - everything a growing geek like me needs. I also do some outside web work (including at the TV station, for whose site I do non-national updates), run a small video business (home.ipa.net/~egreen/) whose main purpose is to convert PAL videotapes to NTSC and vice versa, and I also do a fair chunk of writing for All Game Guide (www.allgame.com) and This Is Not News (www.notnews.org). I've also written for Classic Gamer Magazine (www.classicgamer.com), where my challenge to an early issue's assertion that "the Odyssey 2 is there to give the Atari and Intellivision fans something to laugh at" led to me becoming the on-staff Odyssey Evangelist.

I'm married to a woman who spends a huge amount of money raising horses (www.timberlakefarms.com), and we have three cuddly kitties (www.thelogbook.com/catboyz.html) between us, two of which live in my own room of doom, guarding my collection while I'm gone at work.

Whew. I think that about covers it.

[kevdeeshields]

Hello,

My name is Kevin Shields and I have been playing video games since 1988 but I just started collecting this year. I love all video games from classic to modern. I am in the Air Force and I am stationed at Andrews AFB. I am a vehicle dispatcher and I have been in the Air Force for five and a half years. I am married to a wife that is cool with video games but she doesn't play them. I found this website when I was looking for classic games on the yahoo search engine. This website gets view by me about 3-5 times a day and it probably won't stop.

[TRM]

He's back. Name is Dave, runs track and plays mainly NES games, as well as other consoles. Been playing since I was introduced at age 3 at my cousins house.

[Nescollector]

Hello
I'm Dave, from Michigan.
I love collecting games for the Nes. My favorite game is Blaster Master.
This forum has some very cool, and helpfull people :D


http://www.bmshrine.com/

[dodsworth]

Hi
My Name is Barry
I live in eastern Ontario
I have been collecting for about 4 years now but lhave been an avid gamer since I got my first Atari when I was 8
I collect for every system esp. imports and have amast over 45 systems and 1800 games.
My favorite games are tempest, crazy climber, kaboom and any first person shooter.
I found out about this place in 1999 at the classic gaming expo, but have been regularly visiting for about a year.
In my real life I am married with 2 boys and work nights in as a manager in a grocery store.

[Revolt]

:roll: Hi Im Revolt...and im a member of the liars guild....in fact im....the president of that organization...right...right

Im a fighting game master. Give me tekken..give me streetfighter, and im ok for the moment.

[DDCecil]

I'm James aka DDCecil (DD - Doomsday Dream, Cecil - Hero of FF4), 29 (as of 8/25/09), and from Idaho Falls, ID. I love collecting and playing video games. My goal in life is to open my own used video games business, just like the one my father owned a few years back (I finally did it, though it only lasted for a year (5/5/06 through 4/30/07), but mission accomplished!).

When I'm not playing video games, I'm either eating, sleeping, on the internet, or working.

My favorite games include:

Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
Final Fantasy I-VI
Gitaroo Man
iS: internal Section
Parodius Series
Super Mario Series
Time Gal
Prehistorik Man
and I also like Drakkhen and Hydlide.

[Kroogah]

I'm Karl, aka Captain Yashiro...it used to be a combination of the Japanese Navy Captain Rokuro Yashiro and the SNK character Yashiro Nanakase, but now it's a combination of Yashiro Nanakase and the DDR artist Captain Jack. Just look at my signature. ^_^

Anyway, I'm 17, from Rockford, Illinois, and I'm currently in the midst of DDR obsession. Found a bunch of cool locals to play it with, but I am not NEARLY as good as they are.

Other favorite games besides Dance Dance Revolution:
Capcom Vs. SNK 2
Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike
King of Fighters '97 & '98
SNATCHER
Mario's Picross
Super Metroid
Chrono Trigger
Lots of old Genesis shooting games
Final Fight trilogy

[o2william]

I'm William Cassidy -- please call me William or Bill, but not "Will," thanks.

Some of you may know me as the former director of ClassicGaming.com (http://www.classicgaming.com). I'm the guy who took over for Fragmaster and oversaw the big site redesign that happened in June 2001, including the launch of the forums. Unfortunately I had to leave that job, but it was great while it lasted. While at ClassicGaming, I was able to get to know a lot of the people who make this hobby really "happen," even help them out, and it was a fantastic experience.

You also may know me from the Odyssey2 Homepage! (http://www.classicgaming.com/o2home), which is probably the biggest and oldest O2-only site around (six years and counting...). I'm aiming to build an "AtariAge" for the O2, not only because I like they system, but because I'm really into the history of gaming -- I feel it's important, and often the obscure systems get overlooked in favor of the mighty 2600. (I don't mean to detract from the 2600 though -- it's also one of my favs).

I've also been a contributor to The 2600 Connection, Retrogaming Times, Allgame.com, Van Burnham's Supercade book, and the JerryG Guide to the Classic Video Games. I'm also a freelance writer for GameSpy.com (ClassicGaming's parent, where I worked with BenT222), and currently handle their Hall of Fame (http://www.gamespy.com/halloffame) segment in addition to the infrequent GBA review.

I have just about every system from PSX on down, with the notable exception of TG16 (I'm still looking for one at a good price). Basically I will collect anything game-related if the price is right. I'm originally from southern Ohio, which is a great place to find old stuff. Now I live in Southern CA and don't find nearly as much. But at least now I can be a Southern California Classic Collector (http://www.classicgaming.com/sc3)!

Full-time job-wise, I'm now an assistant webmaster for a company that specializes in high-end collectibles like coins, stamps, and sportscards. No video games though!

- William
The Odyssey2 Homepage! (http://www.classicgaming.com/o2home)
Full Sync-Sound Action!

[kokiri]

I'm Katie, I live in Peoria, Illinois. (With my parents :( ) I was hornplayer6 on the other board, but I decided to re-register under a new name. In real life I work at JCPenney. I am attempting to join some branch of the military, but they are not cooperating.

I collect for the NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy, C64, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, and Xbox. Lately I have been picking up mostly C64 & N64 stuff.

[Kid Ice]

I am jeff. That is all.

Kid Ice

[scooterb23]

Hey everyone...

My name is Scott Bolderson, I'm 27 years old, single, and I live at home with my parents in beautiful Circleville, Ohio.

I work at COSI in Columbus, Ohio. It's a science center, think one part science classroom, one part amusement park, and one part anarchist state.

My collection started in earnest in 1992 when I finally convinced my parents that I could handle having more than one system at a time. I have been playing / collecting games since my first 2600 in 1980, and my first TI994A just a couple of years later.

My collection now consists of about 25 systems, and over 1,000 games. My favorite system is probably the Sega Genesis (today at least). My favorite game (that I own today) is Parsec for the TI994A computer.

Thanks for reading.

[Atariguy]

My name is Dustin Cooper, I'm 16, and I live in western MA.
I had an NES since I was little, and my parents picked up an Atari 2600 at a tag sale. After spending about 10 minutes of laughing at the graphics, I realized that the games weren't half bad. That started my obsession with game collecting. I'm not as into classic era games as I used to be (I still love them though). I collect for everything, but lately I've been playing 16-bit-era stuff and Saturn.
Favorite Games:
Shining Force Series (best games ever!)
M.U.S.H.A.
SNK fighters
Capcom Fighters (not as good as SNK fighters)
Virtual On series
Galaga
Galaga '88/'90
Robotron 2084
Asteroids
NiGHTs: Into Dreams
Kunio series
Crono Trigger
Mario RPG
Mega Man X
Crystalis
Super Baseball 2020
You may recognize me from: www.neo-geo.com, [/url]www.the-nextlevel.com/forum, and if you were at the last NAVA meeting, I was the guy who brought the Coleco Adam.

[Boboduo]

Hi, My name is Bob, I'm a 31 yr old single male living in Minnesota. I've been a lurker here for a long time- I cannot remember how I found the site. I've been collecting about 4-5 yrs now, got hooked through the Emulation scene. Anyways -I collect for almost everything from Atari on up through X-box. Systems I own:
atari: 2600,5200,7800,lynx
colecovision
intellivision
NEC: TG16, TurboDuo
nintendo: nes,snes,n64,gamecube,gameboy,gameboy advance
Playstation one, Playstation2
sega: Mastersystem,genesis,cd,32x,saturn,dreamcast
gamegear
XBOX

Thanks for the great resource DP! :D

[mythicon]

My name is Jake, I'm 28, and I live in Portland, OR. I used to go under the name tapemountain, but I thought I'd change my user name to something less prosaic. Actually, Mythicon is kind of the spiritual ancestor of Tape Mountain (my record label) and I like Sorcerer a lot, though mostly for the music.

I'm into 4-track recording, old technology (currently into mimeographing), the way the air smells at night, independent comics and zines, Circus Atari, Odyssey^2 Basketball!, lots of other things.

[Achika]

My name is Adrienne, I'm 20 and go to school/live in Detroit. I'm a junior in Photography at CCS. I love videogames, especially the Dreamcast, and I have a soft spot for Ulala.

I took a semester to study in New York so that's where I'll be until the end of may 2003. I quite my 3 year term of Funcoland and came out here. I've got an internship with Polaroid 20x24 studio, so I'll be working with any big name artist that comes in there. Plus I get to make some 20x24 Polaroid shots for myself.

My bf honestly doesn't mean my videogame collection any harm, it just seems that way sometimes, but he starts out with good intentions.

[mecca]

mecca, 22 years old, live on oahu, hawaii.

into all types of gaming, avid everquest player, etc etc..

like to surf, play raquetball, long walks on the beach, yadda yadda :)

[Captain Wrong]

OK, I'm Rob from Indianapolis. 27. Gamer since the Odyssey 1 (which I know is 2 years older than me, hey, I was retrogaming long before it was cool!) Mostly into pre-crash stuff. Why? When your gaming time comes in five minute chunks, you don't have the time to watch 10 minutes of cut scenes. Plus, having been around for the "golden age" of the arcades, that's stilll the main style of gaming that appeals to me.

I'm a student, I'd rather not talk about that.

Gaming is actually my number two hobby. The other one is record collecting. I am reluctant to call myself a collector, more like a scavanger. Interests there are jazz, funk, reggae, and "incredibily strange music". What? Check out my site http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~rguernse I hasn't been updated in a looong time, but that should get you started.

I doubt anyone is reading back this far in the post, but if you are, hello. :P

[pontifex_maximus]

I am John Scribble, aka pontifex maximus of the church of burgertime. I love the game and have an Incomplete History I maintain at our site. I live in foggy San Francisco and spend my days doing Web QA, hanging out with my girlfriend and my dog, and writing subversive things for our site and for other projects I'm involved with.

Glad to be here. Nice to meet y'all.

[consoledatabase]

Hi, my name's Dale. I've been posting at the Roundtable for almost 2 years (started out as an unregistered user) but I'm just re-introducing myself for the new boards.

My first game console was a NES, which I got when I was 8 years old. After that I received games mostly as presents and sometimes I'd buy them myself. I guess I really got into collecing when I was about 11 or 12 because I found that NES games were disappearing from store shelves so I madly bought all that I could. I then got another system, then another, and another and so on and I'm still collecting today and have hundreds of games and about 15+ or so consoles (haven't counted for a while).

I started up a website almost 2 years ago because of my interest in games. The website is called Console Database (thus my username) and the address is: www.consoledatabase.com. I also have a messageboard at http://pub65.ezboard.com/bgameandconsoledatabasemessageboard

I visit this forum from time to time when I get the chance. Talk to ya soon!

[Marc Oberhäuser]

Hiho!

My name is Marc Oberhäuser (or in short form MaO, don't mix it up with MarcoK, who is always one step ahead of me:). I am from Germany and for a living I am a freelancer in the computer game business (Game- and Leveldesign, Consultant, Producer with a track record of more than 20 released games). My age is 34 and I am an active collector of videogames scince 1991.

My fav console is the 2600 (1533 games, 952 boxed, highlights are Combat II, RealSports Basketball and Snow White). I also collect 5200, 7800, Lynx and INTV.

I also love the Atari 8Bit, C64 and the ST line. My fav classic games are Adventure, Yars' Revenge, Riddle of the Sphinx, M.U.L.E., 7 Cities of Gold, Air Support, Bruce Lee...

On the modern side of gaming I am addicted to Everquest and love Heroes of MM 2+3. I also have a Gamecube which is a pretty good system.

See you in Vegas,
Marc

[maxlords]

I'm Nate, and I live in Ingersoll, Ontario...just north of London. I found these forums thanks to good ol Jaydub who hooks me up when I'm too dense to notice things ;)

I collect for a lot of systems, including the SMS, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, DC, Game Gear, Game Boy, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES, N64, GC, 3D0, TG16/PC Engine, NGPC, PC, Lynx, Jaguar, PSX, PS2, 32X, and anything else that comes along that I like. I mostly collect RPGs and shooters, and some of my favorite games are:

Thunderforce 1-5, Suikoden I and II, System Shock I and II, Deus Ex, Star Control 2, Soldier Blade, Image Fight 2, Military Madness, Mega Man 1-6, Ogre Battle, Landstalker, anything by Treasure, anything by Working Designs, Dynasty Warriors 2 and 3, Silent Hill 1 and 2, and many more.

In real life I dig graves. Really. I also run a website that sells large stacks of PC Engine, Saturn, and SFC imports amongst other things. For a shameless plug, check the URL: http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/maxlords/ but do it in IE, as it doesn't work with Netscape. I also work (gratis) for www.turbografx-16.com although it's a startup and is just getting going.

I collect games (over 500 at last count), SF and Fantasy books, DVDs, fish, and tabletop strategy games, and really get into anime.

I started gaming strangely enough, by selling my games. I sold them back in the heyday of the SNES (my first system after the C64) and then a month later, REALLY wanted to play them again. So I bought them again and made a vow never to sell a game that I liked ever again, unless it was a duplicate. I've kept to it, and as my wife will agree, my collection is breeding at an alarming rate. :) I guess that's about it!

[Jet]

I don't know what to say~
Im Robin, Im an Artist, I make models for video games and do some
programming with WDL, RAD, VC++ and VB6.. my fav color is
blue and I like long walks on the beach and cold Margaritas, Im married
to a great guy named Mike and we have a beautiful 3 y/o son named Jade..

and thats me~ 8)

Jet~ :wink:

[zektor]

My name is Bruce, I'm 27 years old, and I live in good ol' Northern NJ, USA. I'm a PC technician, but for some reason I spend most of my time as manager of a Rite-Aid Pharmacy...bah! I'm absolutely nuts about videogames...all of them! Any game I can get my hands on and play basically. I am the moderator of the emulation forum right here at DP...a spendid way of playing all of your favorites right on your PC, most of the time looking, sounding and playing just the way you remember them. That's about all I guess!

[Revolt]

:D Hello Im Revolt storming from the world capital..New york city. I have a BA in Fine arts.Been playing video games for a good while now.

My first system was a pong machine..i forgot the brand, but i still have it. My second was an Intellivision that i still have with 2 games. I have donkey kong and venture. The next system was the nes, then the snes, ps1, n64, and finally the ps2.

I started back playing video games in 1992 when i was at a party and i was watching one of friends sons play Streetfighter2 on the snes. I was like, "Damn, thats a cool game". So I went out and got myself a snes and Streetfighter2 game. :D I think i played that game to death...i still play it :P I guess thats why im mostly into fighting games. I love to play any tekken game, Streetfighter, or virtua fighter4. i also like Air combat games. And i cant forget the whole Saturday i spent playing Doom on the snes :lol:

Ohyeah, I stumbled upon this site from a search engine. I was looking for information about Emulators, didnt know what they were :shock:

[Kess]

I'm a newbie, as you can see from my post count of 21. What? The count is over 500? Bah! Get your eyes checked, foo!

I'm Kess. I have a strange and obsene obsession with Seaman.

I collect for the NES, Genesis, and DC.

My best finds for each system

NES: Tengen Tetris Loose - 15.00
Genesis: Golden Mega Game 35-1N-1 - 0.00
Dreamcast - Kao The Kangaroo Complete - 9.99

[Nespit]

Hi there,

I am new here so most ppl don't know me yet..:-)

I am Niels Pit, a 25 years old dutch nintendo collector totally addicted to the obscure nintendo (console/games) stuff. My website is www.nespit.com. I only have things on my site that were in, or are, still in my collection.

My main focus at the moment r the demo cartridges for the Nintendo various consoles. As it is not known what games where ever made in a demo form, it is always nice to find out about a new title.
Next to that I love the prototypes and Test cartridges for all Nintendo consoles consoles!

I started about 5 years back with collecting Nes. But after gettin the most of the rarest stuff, (NWC, Prototypes, test cartridges, some rare cartridges) i lost the collecting spirit for it.Not only because of that but also of the following: it is not difficult to complete the collection, it will only cost money. The prizes have increased a lot over the last 5 years. A panesian gets more money today then a proto. (!!!!) So I decided to get some Snes stuff as well. I only focussed on snes -prototypes, -test cartridges, -demo's, and -competition cartridges(starfox&Donkey). Soon after decided to collect all Nintendo stuff. Handhelds, rare gameboy stuff, and N64 as well. The nicest thing about N64 these days r that there rn't a lot of collectors at the moment.

Well dunno what to tell more, u can always mail me if u have questions, or rare nintendo stuff that u wanna trade/sell ( i prefer the last..), or just wanna have a chat about stuff. nielsp@worldonline.nl

As I am very busy with work and my "offline" life, my site doesn't get updated much and looks a bit neglected..:-)

Grtz,

Niels

[Buffy DP]

My name is Sara, I'm 22, I live in London and I'm a buyer. I don't collect anything (except handbags and shoes) and I don't really play many games. In fact, I don't really fit in here at all!
I met Joe on PSO.
I graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in Commerce and European Law. I live in a nice flat in a nice area and I quite like my car.

I'm pretty sure that my original "introduce yourself" post was both funnier and more enlightening ...

~B.

EDITED by admin:
Our rather modest moderator has left out a few things that I think are quite important!

1. She's the owner/moderator of our "Happy Hours Pub". Feel free to visit, but don't forget to leave your conscience at the door:
http://www.nullunit.com/dpforum/viewforum.php?f=14

2. She's got a musical gift that I can't imagine why she doesn't mention. We have a dozen or so of her creations on the DP website:
http://www.digitpress.com/mp3.htm
(note that these were created using MTV Music Generator 2 and extreme acoustic sensibilities. I have her CD in my car stereo)

3. She may not be a collector, but she's certainly a gamer. We met playing Phantasy Star Online in 2000 and she was a great player. Now she plays a bunch of FPS titles online, recently/notably Unreal Tournament, on a rather high-end PC. Not a gamer!? HA!

4. Our firstborn has already been named. "BradBrad". The duplication is simply to emphasize the commitment to a name that might not otherwise be acceptable here in the US (with apologies to anyone named "Brad" that might be reading this).

And if this doesn't get re-edited, I'll be shocked.
:P

[Marco]

Youguessed it: My name is Marco. I turned 32 on July 20th, and I live in Holland, just about the coolest place on this planet :lol:

I collect Atari 2600. I used to collect for all the older systems, but one day I decided to specialize. I started to sell everything else, and never looked back. Now I have some 1,500 games, of which a thousand are boxed. I own many cool prototypes too, like Tempest, Stunt Cylce and Ewok Adventure.

I think I may quit collecting when I've gathered 2600 boxed Atari 2600 games. My estimate is that will be in 2036. Then, I will have time again to start playing my favorite games again: Yar's Revenge, Warlords and Circus Atari, along with my arcade favorites Mr.Do!, Lady Bug and Pengo.

Oh, and if you think NES is a classic - think again! :P

Cheers,

Marco

[chrisballer]

My name is Chris, I live in michigan, I am 23 years old. I work for the largest printing company in the world Quebecor World Printing. I been playing games for as long as i remember. My first sytem was an Atari 2600 that i still have, Then just have worked my way up from there. I pick up stuff for all sorts of systems and still play my old computer games from the old text rpg's where you had to use graph paper for maps to leisure suit larry. I played lots of games when i was a kid but only collected sports cards back then. Now i collect mostly for the nes which is my personal fav. I have been doing that addictively for about a couple of years now. I am not only into the older games, I play new stuff also and enjoy them both equally as much. I have a lil site just for my nes collection. itsmysite.com/nesgames/ .

Thanks,

Chris

[Jorpho]

And I would be Jorpho. I'm presently south of the border, but I'll be moving back to Canada soon.

Message boards generally frighten me deeply, but for some reason I spend an awful lot of time reading about classic games, and so I attempt to contribute while desperately attempting not to scar myself emotionally. Please don't hurt me.

Over the years, I've accumulated too many PC games, both legitimiate and less so, and since it will take me years to get through them all, I do not generally seek new games. However, there are still a few N64 games I'd like to take a crack at, and perhaps I'll manage to get there some day if I make the right trade.

Science is my life. Chemistry is good, but it lacks a certain mystique posessed by physics - possibly the math...

[uzplayer]

Wont let me go back..

Name: George
Age: 24
Location: Northern NJ
Occupation: Internet Marketing Coordinator
Misc: Been gaming since I was a little kid with my colecovision. Run two web sites (www.gamersuplink.com & www.cenetworks.com) which need staff. (Contact me if interested..)

(Joe.. Nice board..)

[SuperPsycho]

Hello,

My name is Matthew. I've been into videogaming since around 1990...a few years after my family got an NES in 1987. The other System's that I bought (or was given) new are my Genesis and N64.

It's only been the past couple years that I've really gotten into retrogaming...it started with downloading an emulator in 1998...after a while I got bored with emulation and decided I wanted to get the real thing.

Now I have the following game consoles:

(1) NES
(2) GameBoy
(3) Genesis
(4) GameGear x2 w/link
(5) Nintendo64
(6) Fairchild Channel F
(7) Atari 5200
(8) Atari 2600
(9) GameCube
(10 Odyssey^2
(11) SuperNES
(12) Dreamcast
(13) SMS
(14) Sega CD
(15) Atari 7800
(16) Sega 32X
(17) Saturn
(18) GameBoyAdvance:SP
(19) Atari Lynx x2
(20) Intellivision
(21) Neo Geo color Pocket
(22) PlayStation

[updated as of June 14th, 2005 for complete console/handheld list]

As for old computers I have an Apple IIGS, a Commodore 64 and a portable Commodore SX64.

The Commodore 64 was what got me into collecting old computers and game consoles. I inhereted mine just over a year ago.

I'd say that for Computers, the Apple IIGS would have to be my favorite of the ones I've ever used (either the real thing or emulation).

I'm going to say that the NES is my favorite game console for now.. When ever we have guests over I pull out Galaga just in case....

Oh and I almost forgot, I also have an original model Game Boy,
A Sega Game Gear, and I just recently got a Lynx at goodwill

[Metrackle]

I am known as Metrackle (real name classified for privacy reasons), and I live somewhere in Texas. I found this place six weeks ago (back on EzBoard) when lurking the Video Game Bible forums.

I have been playing video games since I was about three or four when I got my NES with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt and Marble Madness. Some of my favorites include Actraiser, Galaga, DonPachi, Shinobi, Circus Charlie, and Bubble Bobble. I tend to prefer shooters and platformers. I usually collect for NES, SNES, Gameboy (regular, Color, and Advance), and Playstation, but I'll collect for other systems soon.

In my spare time, I either watch TV, lift weights, run, eat, play with my pets, or sleep. My favorite shows include Married With Children, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Red Dwarf, and Mystery Science Theater 3000. I'm somewhat of an insomniac. I have trouble sleeping during certain times in certain conditions. My pets include a black cocker spaniel (dog, female, over 14 and still going strong), an Australian Blue Heeler (dog, male, over a year old), a Golden Retriever (dog, male, under a year old), and a Russian Blue (cat, male, 8 years old).

[Lizard]

G'day,

I am Lizard from Australia - Queensland. I am 31 y/o. I have just signed up. But I mostly frequent www.lemon64.com. A Commodore 64 web site.

I have been playing games since about 5 years old or so since I got my first Pong TV game machine. I haven't stopped playing games since.

I collect mostly Atari 2600, Lynx, Atari Computers, Commodore 64, Amigas, Vectrex CBS Colecvision, Game and Watches and those coleco tabletops. What I'd really love to get into is Arcade machine collecting but is too expensive and I dont have the space. :(

My first computer was the Commodore 64 and still love it to this day.

[flugle]

Gday everyone from Australia.

My name is Jason and I'm a 32 yr old game collector. I've been into this since I got my Atari 2600 in Christmas 1978. I still have it and still play it to his day.

While I work on high end computers in real life, my real love are the old systems I grew up with, a Vic 20, TI-99 and C64 and Amiga. And I can't stop collecting Atari, Intellivision and Colecos either.

And I hope I never stop :)

[usk84flip]

My name is Matt Roberts and I live in Southern California. I'm 18 years old and a sophmore in college. Everyone has that one system that they remember playing when they realized they loved games, mine was NES. I got my NES from my dad for Christmas when I was about 6 or so who had traded my mom a bicycle to obtain it. (divorced parents) My mom had originally won the system from a picnic that her work had that year. Mario/Duck Hunt was the pack in and Zelda was the other game I owned at the time. I still remember the load up of mario/duck hunt like it was yesterday. Zelda was my cream of the crop, my kung fu chicken, my burger and fries with cheese on top. I played that thing till my fingers bleed, well, maybe not bleed, but they were numb. I still remember yelling at my cousin for erasing my saved game on zelda, that little 4 year old bastard. But inside, I was thrilled to start the whole journey over again. I went through the "sell your games" phase as many did, and only really played the new stuff until around the first of this year.(2002) I was at a friends boyfriends house with my girlfriend picking the other 2 up to go watch a movie when I looked at 2 shoe boxes full of NES games he had on the floor, and I was taken back. I had only about 15 or so NES games total in my life at that point, and he had here about 45, and I was in heaven. I was so stoked as I thumbed throught the titles that I only dreamed of having as a child, and then it was done. I set a goal that day to find a nes system, and collect 100 games by the end of the year! I was on a mission! When I completed that 100 game goal in the first month, besides having an empty bank account, I had only a desire for more NES! The months went by, and so did the cash, and I have never had so much fun in my life. In the first month I decided that my goal had to be raised, cause 100 had come and gone. I found 2 lists of every nes game ever made, and combined them so that all the known variations were accounted for and was on my way. With an 18 year old's income, I have been able to acquire to this minute 603 unique NES games out of the 849 I have in my list. I have 300 unique boxes and 350 unique manuals. In all I have exactly 874 nes games, with 35 in the mail to me as we speak, and a database to tell me all this information at the click of a button. I sell motorcycles on ebay for my uncle and NES games on ebay for myself as my entire income. I used to be a pizza delivery guy, and recommend it to anyone who hates there job, cause it is the greatest. My goal now is to acquire 839 out of the 849 on my list by december 31, 2002, leaving the last 10 open for stadium events, the panesians, 6 in 1's, and the few I just don't come by. I plan to start a website eventually to sell these doubles I have here, and need to also get into trading more. Besided NES I have 11 other systems with 5 or so games for each. Not sure yet as to if I will get sucked into completing another systems library of games, but at this point, my focus is the NES! I hope someone somewhere reads this so it will be worth having typed it. ~Matt

[Emperor Zhao Zheng]

Hi !
My name is Simon. I`m a 21 years old guy from Germany. My first game ever was Pong, which my father bought for my older sister. In 1986 I got a C64 and it really changed my life forever. Later I got a Gameboy, Master System, SNES ... and today I own almost every console + homecomputer ever made. Even today I enjoy a good round of Mars Saga, one of the best games ever made (IMO). My favourite genre are RPG`s, perhaps that`s the reason I don`t collect anything pre C64/NES, there just weren`t any real RPG`s on the 2600 or Collecovision :)
I chose my nick because of BoF4, as it was one of the few newer RPG`s that I *really* enjoyed. Right now I`m working to get my "Abitur" (don`t know what it`s called in English) done, so I can go studying and become "Master of Science" (heh, what a cheesy title :) ). Right now I have about 450 games in total and I`m buying as much games as I can afford.

I hope we`ll have many good conversations on this board

- Simon

[asharru]

My name is Brian McCarthy, and I'm from pittsburgh, pa. I'm 33 and am a proud father of 1. Anyway, I've been playing games since my atari 2600, and computer games since my apple IIe. I'm currently collecting dreamcast, nintendo 64, game gear, and intellivision games. I also love dungeons and dragons(but my group just disbanded) and a game called Frag, so if anyone in the pittsburgh area reads this and wants to play, drop me a line.

[theaveng]

Okay...

Troy Heagy
Age: 30
Gaming History:
1977- Atari 2600
1984- Atari 7800
1985 - Commodore 64
1989 - Commodore Amiga
2002 - Sony Playstation 2
And of course, emulation.

[Gitaru Man]

Hello Minna Sama...
Im new here.
Big Retrogames fan, I own 2 NES frontloaders, both versions of the Mastersystem... and say all the best games were made before 94

[Gwalyn]

Sup guys, Big T here in Indiana. It is good to see a good collectors forum. I just happened to stumble upon this site looking for porn. Ok, not really.

I am a NES head. I have been picking up games off and on forever it seems. My wife hates my collection which is only a couple hundred strong but I make her deal with it. I should move it into her shoe closet.

Anyway, I work at the local Babbages and get to deal with the locals telling me I don't know what I am talking about, SOB's. Well thats about it.

[Kennedy]

Hihou..

Name: Jukka Kivinen
Location: Europe / Finland
Collecting: MSX(, VideoPack, DC and many other plarforms) old pong's
Age: 23
Occupation: Computer something (like helpdesk but better job :) ).. have no idea what it is in english :shock:

Trying to build Finnish language retro site. my collection -> http://www.projektori.org/~kivinen/retro/kivinen.html

[Nature Boy]

This is what, the fourth time I've done this now. Stupid ezboard...

I live in Brampton (home) and Mississauga (work) in Ontario.

Blah blah blah.

I'm the artist formerly known as jggruetz.

Blah blah blah.

"Nature Boy" comes from my first days on the net: I stole the name from a Primus song.

Blah blah blah.

My turn ons include women in tight pants and shiny things. My turn offs include fat men in tight pants and Bea Arthur.

[Dr. Morbis]

I've been lurking on this Digital Press message board since summer of 2000 with no problem. But after the change-over, This board asks me to 'login' every time I try to view any posts (much to my chagrin). So I've finally been forced into registering and this will be my inaugural post:

I live in Calgary, Alberta and I'm 25. I started gaming on Christmas Day 1987 when I got a NES for christmas. I subsequently matured to SNES. Then around high school graduation I kind of stopped gaming and entered 'the dark ages' of my video game history. I don't think I played a single videogame from 1994 till 1999. Somehow, I thought I had to leave it all behind and 'grow up'. But when I started University in Calgary in '99, my roommate had brought his NES and all of his games. My gaming tendencies came back with a vengeance and now I'm a huge gamer and a bigger NES collector. Luckily, I had all my childhood NES stuff still buried in the attic when I went back to find it after the 'awakening'. That's my story, and I'm sure there are a lot more lost gamers out there just waiting to be awakened by us: the faithful gamers.

[GENESISNES]

I am Geoff G**** of Minnesota.

I found this site mentioned in the collectors closet section of Tips and Tricks magazine.

I personally like the early zelda games, and Toejam & Earl games. oh and GTA3

I own about 10 systems.
They are:Commodore 64, Atari 2600 (Wood Grain 6 switch), NES(2), SNES, N64, Sega Genesis, Sega Dreamcast, PSX, PS2, & all versions of game boy.

I mainly collect for SNES, Genesis, and NES.

I am a student in 8th grade.

I began playing video games for as long as I can remember. From when my dad would hook up the Atari 2600 every now and then, to playing duck hunt and Super Mario Bros. on my babysitters NES and Genesis. My stepbrother later got an SNES which he bought 5 or 6 games for and later passed it on to me, which i have collected over 70 games and going.

[Mr. NEStalgia]

Hey everyone!!!

My name is David, and I live in Louisiana, 'bout 45 mins from New Orleans. I am only 15 years old, but I am a collector of all things NES.

I remember playing SMB, and even after getting my SNES I would ask my dad to hook the old Nintendo back up...well my dad got tired of messing with the darn blinking box, and threw it away along with all my games!

Now I've purchased another NES and have about 120 games. My fav games have to be Contra and Battletoads 8) !

[WiseSalesman]

Hi, my name is Justin. I'm 19, live in the Cleveland area of Ohio, currently attending the local community college while trying to decide where to further my education.

First system I owned was an NES which I received for either my sixth or seventh birthday (or maybe it was later, can't remember). I now own:

NES
Genesis
Game Gear ($10, missing battery cover, but came with 5 games)
SNES
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Saturn
PSX
N64
Dreamcast
and a Gamecube

I collect mainly for NES, SNES, Saturn, PSX, and Dreamcast. I found this board while searching for some info on my newly aquired Saturn. I keep a keen eye out for games devleoped by Treasure, and 16-bit Square and Enix RPGs.

I'm just getting started with the Saturn, so if you have any suggestions for imports or classics I should pick up, or any misc. tips, feel free to PM me. Currently, I own Nights, Guardian Heroes (Treasure!), Clockwork Knight 2, Darius Gaiden, and Baku Baku for saturn.

EDIT: Also, I DDR, but I'm not too good. (about a 5-footer)
EDIT -02/22/03): Bull! Bwa ha ha! Now I'm a 9-footer! Take that!
EDIT (11/27/03): And now I'm a 10 footer! What else has changed? I'm 20 now, have acquried a PS2, decided on Baldwin-Wallace college, am majoring in English with a minor in Vocal Music and am slowly learning Japanese! A lot can change in a year, eh? Also, my collection is now viewable from the WWW link at the bottom.

[briskbc]

Hi, my name is Shawn. I live in (your guessed it) Canada. In the beautiful province of British Columbia. I have a wife and a 2 year old son with a second on the way.

I collect just about anything for any system. Whatever I can find at a garage sale or pawn shop goes into the collection. I rarely buy games on ebay or at games stores becuase of the higher dollar amounts. I prefer the hunt. There's nothing like coming across a 1000 in 1 NES multi cart in the wild. That just makes my week. There happen to be very few collectors in my area. As you can imagine that's a big plus.

There have been times when I had to sell my entire collection on ebay. Twice in fact, but no more. I am working on giving my collection a little direction. I will either star collecting for a single console or a specific genre. Probalby sell off some old & uncommon PC games and C64 games to get a cash reserve.

I heard of this site years ago but came back looking for a forum with older users (I'm 30). I'm so tired of video games sites populated by 14 year olds.

Thanks for reading

Shawn

[Tetsu]

Location: Queens, NY
Age: 21
Blood Type: B


Long time videogame fan here: I'm calloused, jaded and sick of gaming. I've played all the games I ever wanted to play: the old school beat 'em ups, shooters, fighters, action adventure games, and platformers. None of the new games do it for me: with a few exceptions, all modern games are in (badly done) 3D, and too elaborate for their own good. The golden age of simple gamelay has come and gone, and taken my youthful enthusiasm for gaming with it. It's a hard habit to kick, however, especially with gaming being a part of my life for so long. My current collection is a spectre of what it once was, but I'm still a walking encyclopedia of videogame knowledge, as I'm sure most of the other board members are. When not posting on the board, I spend my time finishing off my PimpStick Pro 8000 (TM) [tentative title]. It's an arcade-style joystick with an intergrated SFII/SNK button layout, and when it is done, it will work with EVERY SYSTEM. It's currently getting a facelift: I'm moving the guts to a new, heavy-duty wooden shell, and retrofitting the electronics for keypad support (so it can work with CV, 5200, Intv). As you might have guessed, I spent a couple of years of my life as an electrician, and know quite a bit about the insides of game systems and their controllers. My non-videogame related activities include inline skating, horrible guitar-playing, and freelance journalism.

[atarifan49]

Greetings new to the DP Forum! Long time visitor of Jag Interactive 2 and some newsgroups.

Name: Glenn Bruner
Live (currently): Vandenberg AFB, CA

Found the forum through mentioning by Joe Santulli during this past weekend CGE show. Question he asked me: "How come you don't visit DP's forum?" Didn't know it was there. Mainly visited Jag Interactive 2 since it's the most active for Atari Jaguar along with alt.atari-jaguar.discussion (but that has really died down). And Atari Age has some pretty good Jag discussion without the trolls that JI2 gets.

Favorite games. Love the Jaguar (if you can't already tell). Have a complete development setup for that. Also a fan of the 8bit Atari machines (own a 1400XL and 1450XLD) and 7800. Also enjoy the Dreamcast a whole lot (that is the newest system that I own). And just recently got myself a decent TT030 setup but still very new to the ST stuff.

Enjoy Battlesphere on the Jaguar. MULE and Star Raiders on the 8bit. Xevious on the 7800. But you'll find me doing more technical stuff than playing games. I do a lot to help John Hardie and company with various technical stuff related to some of the classic systems (might have seen the document I wrote to explain how to use the 7800 encryption software and the Jaguar Universal Cartridge Encrypted Header). I just recently was given a 7800 dev board that I need to restore to it's original condition (currently its wired as a 2600 dev system).

Collect for the Jaguar mainly. I have some other systems but tend to not really keep much for them. Hard to move around in the Air Force with a lot of stuff.

Real life job: I'm a Master Sergeant in the Air Force. I'm a Space Systems Operations specialist and work at 14th Air Force. We tie our history back to the original Flying Tigers of World War 2. And I'm slowly (and I mean slowly) pursuing a EE degree.

My Atari history really began when I was going to High School at Santa Clara H.S. My computer class teacher introduce me to Bruce Carso of B&C Computervisions. At that time I would help Bruce out with disk drive testing for when he was selling the B&C 810 disk drive. Also would go to trade shows with him on some weekends and help man his booth a few times. And years before that I used to play 2600 at the local Sears or go to a friends house to get some time on his 5200.

Didn't get my first Atari until September 1984. Bought a 800XL at the BX on Lowery AFB, CO. Paid $220 for it and then found out a month later I could've got it for $79. Went to my first assignment at Fairchild AFB (Spokane, WA) and built my 800XL up from there. Got my disk drive (810) from Bruce of B&C when I helped him with the transfer and disassembly of over 1000 Atari 400's that he bought from Atari (that was a fun week; got to run around inside one of Atari's warehouses seeing all kinds of treasures - that was February 1985).

Later joined the user group in Spokane - F.A.C.C.S - First Atari Computer Club of Spokane. Got more and more into the Atari. Met a lot of great people there. Frequent the thrift shops there (it was a gold mine during my tour there).

Acquired my 1400XL through Bruce. Obtained my 1450XLD from the Federated liquidation in Silicon Valley (friend from H.S. spotted it for me and grabbed it).

My first job in the Air Force dealt with electronics (avionics tech on B-52 bombers - tail gun weapon system). So that's were a lot of my technical background came from. Air Force has sent me to places like Spokane, Colorado Springs, Sacramento, Fairbanks, etc. Go TDY at times and visit thrift shops all over the country. Never been overseas.

I really enjoy digging into schematics and reverse engineer stuff. Also dabble into assembly/machine language in 6502 and 68000 / Jaguar GPU & DSP.

In a nut shell, that's me.

Glad to be on-board and see y'all in the forums.

[omnedon]

Hope a crash doesn't eat this one...

I'm a newbie collector, old gamer. Been collecting 6 months. Brother in law got me started, when he sold me one of his 2 ebay acquired IntelliVisions. Then I bought an IntelliVoice from sylentwulf on E-bay. Then I couldn't stop..mostly sourced locally.. on the cheap:

Atari 2600 (woodgrain heavy 6'er)
IntelliVision with Intellivoice (2609)
ColecoVision with Atari changer
NES (front load with Zapper, and PowerPad)
SMS (original 1986 model)
SNES
Genesis (both types, Menacer, and heavy joystick)
TG16 (TurboTap)
N64
GameCube
Game Gear
GameBoy Colour (kids)
GameBoy Advance (kids)

and various games for each, many Inty, only a coupla rare.

I now mostly sell on E-bay. I am skilled with a soldering iron, and have had some great success fixing controllers and consoles. I've refurbished two Intellivisions, and two ColecoVisions, and made enough money on them on E-bay to buy the Gamecube! =) I hadn't planned on this being profitable, but hey, it changed the wife's tune on the hobby pretty fast! I'm after very console I'm missing, that's all. :D

I'm married, with 5 kids. I'm 31 years old, and operate vending machines for a living, plus do some PC building and LAN work on the side. I regularly haunt the Goodwills and thrift shops here in Edmonton, looking for treasure, broken or not. I found this place Googling a rarity list.

I hope to share what I've learned about repairs and such, and hopefully learn even more from the old timers here.

"old gamers never die, they just need their contacts cleaned"

[Atarinvader]

Some of you might know me from AtariAge or even Atarinvader.com, I've been collecting for over a couple of years now (is this sounding like an AA meeting?) and building up my website.

I'm currently unemployed and am trying to squeeze a few greenbacks out of eBay.

The systems that I currently own:

2600
Master System
Mega Drive (aka Genesis)
Dreamcast
Jaguar
Lynx

I've probably got about 200+ games in my collection, including some right little gems

Favorite game: BMX Airmaster (2600)

Least favorite game: Double Dragon (2600)

Likes: Food, beer and sleep.

Dislikes: Nintendo, R&B and Nintendo.

[RJ]

Hey all! Isn't this "in-ter-net" great? I stumbled over from a neighboring forum & may rest here awhile. A little about me:

Have loved video games since early 80s & still going strong!
Married w/ kids: Atari 2600, 7800, 800XL computer system, Lynx, Jaguar, Sega Genesis, PSX, & PS2 but consider myself a gamer more than collector.
Turn-ons: Anything Atari, forums that let me log on w/out disconnecting, games that don't "cheat"
Turn-offs: Anything Nintendo, slow computers, 3DO games (die, Crusaders of Might & Magic!!!)

Hope to be helpful & humorous to everyone here! -RJ

[TurboGenesis]

Hello, new guy here.

Well my name is James, I'm in my mid 20's, and I'm from Detroit.

My video game intrests are classic games and the ocassional new game.

Systems I own:
Mattel Intellivision
Atari 7800
Nintendo Entertainment System
Sega Master System
Sega Genesis w/Power Base Converter
Super Nintendo w/Super 8 converter
Turbo Duo
Atari Jaguar
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Sony Playstation 2
Microsoft Xbox
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo Gameboy (original)
Turbo Express

I'd say that I'm a collector. I personally enjoy the classics much more and always like to talk about them. Classic gaming is one of my hobbies and its way cheaper than my other hobby (cars).

I don't know what else to say but I'll be postin here and there. I found this place by accident and I think I'll stick around for a while.

[Funcojoe]

Hello my my name is Joe, and I work for Gamestop, I've lived in South New Jersey my whole life, I'm 23 years old, and I love all things Nintendo. I found out about the site through a good friend of mine Donald Evanoff, he was my manager at Gamestop through the summer, until they sent him packing to a mall store,lol, poor Don. Anyway nice to meet you guys, and gals.

[Shompola]

Hello,

My nick name is Shompola and my name is Sherman.
What I do? I am a CS student. A couple of years worth of school work left.

25 years old living in Sweden. Been exposed to videogames since I tried out Pong at a friends birthday party for the first time. Later on I was introduced to the Atari 2600 - What a wonderful system.

I am a big shmup fan and virtually play any sort of shmup and enjoy them. But so far Megadrive/Genesis is my favorite console for shmups and my all time favorite console to date.

Right now I have:

Atari 2600(the second version?)
NES
BootLeg Famicom, a green one.
GB
GBC
SMS MK II
Megadrive Jpn from 1989-1990. <- So far it can read any games I have tried with our without converter.
Multimega(the CDX in Europe)
Snes
Playstation
N64
Dreamcast
Gamecube

How I found this place? I searched for shmup+ezboard on google and found it. Pretty luck :)

[MrXanthis]

Hi! My name is John, I from Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada (just outside Vancouver), Im 34, and I love retro gaming since I bought my first Atari 2600.

I enjoy collecting carts for it (up over 200 now) and other old gaming stuff pre nintendo.

I also enjoy Arcade gaming via an emulator (MAME) which I find alot of fun.

Ill probably die with a joystick in hand and burried with my games.

later all

[flicky]

Hi everyone

My name is Jon, I'm 31 years old, live in the UK, and am married with a baby daughter. I work as a college administrator. I've been visiting the DP site for years .. finally got around to registering today.

I've been playing games for as long as I can remember, and have been actively collecting them since 1995.

My favourite system is the Colecovision (I contributed to the Coleco section of the new DP Guide). I am now just one cart away from having a complete set of the released games - the one game I still need is It's Only Rock & Roll, so if anyone wants to trade or sell me one, do get in touch :)

Once I've got my hands on that one, I'll be aiming to get all the boxes and manuals I don't already have (I probably have about 70% of them at the moment).

I also collect carts for the Vectrex, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit computers, Megadrive (Genesis), SNES and N64. I also have a Playstation, Dreamcast and Gamecube.

My favourite games are

Antarctic Adventure (Colecovision)
Minestorm (Vectrex)
Demon Attack (Atari 2600)
Spy Hunter (Atari 8-bit)
Tetris Attack (SNES)
Wave Race (N64)
Monkey Ball (Gamecube)
Flicky (Genesis) - my favourite game of all time
Samba de Amigo (Dreamcast)
PaRappa the Rapper (Playstation)

Oh, and before I forget, my website is here:
http://www.geocities.com/j.legg

Cheers
Jon

[gulag picture radio]

Hiya,

My name is Bohus (BOH-hoosh) in real life. I met Joe Santulli over the weekend and he got me to join this board! I'll be 31 in a month and I got into videogames in 1982 or so when I won a local contest and first prize was an Atari 2600. I've never been terribly good at throwing things away so I've kept my 2600 all these years.

In high school, newer games were off my radar (heck, my family only got a color TV a few years earlier), and lots of my friends just gave me their old Atari stuff as they upgraded to the NES. I was still playing Atari in college alongside my Amiga computer (the Amiga is such a fantastic gaming machine that I never felt the need to pick up a dedicated console).

I had amassed such a pile of 2600's that I put on a massive Atari Party in 1994 or so. All three floors of my house were running Atari. We ran out of TV sets, but were still entertained by several bands and Warlords Arena- four Atari's side by side with 16 people playing elimination rounds of Warlords until we declared The Warlord.

Throughout college and later, I discovered the miracle of thrifts and picked lots of other consoles for next to nothing. I think that my friends got sick of playing old games, so they got me a Dreamcast- my introduction to advanced gaming. I love the DC way more than I thought I would.

I don't collect for any particular system obsessivly. Mostly I have Atari 2600 stuff, but I have pretty healthy collections of Intellivision, Coleco, Odyssey 2, and Sega Master System. Nothing rare or of much value. I mostly like weird games- stuff that's far off the beaten path like the SMS 3D games, or Caution Seaman on DC. Anything that shows imagination.

My favorite games are 2600 Kaboom!, Synthcart, Warlords, Pitfall 2, Freeway, and Kool-Aid Man. On the Dreamcast they're Seaman, Samba De Amigo, Jet Grind Radio, and Crazy Taxi. On Game Boy, it's the Camera cart.

As for a job, I have my own production company for television & film. Mostly I make corporate and educational videos that no one wants to see, but that's all changing this fall- got some interesting jobs coming up. The only thing of mine that anyone might have seen is a commercial that I did for American Science & Surplus in Chicago.

I do a lot of writing as well, both technical and creative. I have a regular spot in a popular Chicago-based webmagazine, but used to enjoy having columns in newsstand print magazines some years back.

I also play music- that's what "Gulag Picture Radio" is... the name of my "group". I've played piano for years, but find myself wheezing away at the accordion and cheap Casio keyboards lately. I also LOVE the music cart for Atari- "Synthcart". I can safely say that Paul Slocum's cartridge has totally changed my life. I've also got the homebrew music carts for Game Boy and the music synthesizer add-on for Intellivision.

If any of you are fans of "Baldur's Gate", I did some voices for some popular homebrew expansion packs that just came out. I don't play the game, I just engineered most of the sound and added a few voices to the main game. I do voiceover work from time to time and would love to get into the game world with sound editing and voice work.

Oh, and I have a "Carnevil" arcade cabinet (because one of my best friends did all of the background graphics for the game) and an old "Cleopatra" pinball. I'm not rich, I just know how to garbagepick at the right time. Oh, and I paid WAY too much for an Atari Video Music once... it's heaven. :)

Yeesh, this turned out long. Hope that I can prove interesting enough in the future to be worthy of this much space!

[Tick]

Hi, everyone.

My name is Matt and I'm new here. I've been reading posts for awhile, though. Let's see, where to begin? I'm 20 years old and I live in Fort Worth, Texas. I collect games for the NES mainly, but also the Genesis, SNES, Playstation, Game Gear, Game Boy, Neo Geo Pocket, and most recently, Atari 2600.

As a kid, I was infatuated with video games and devoted almost all of my spare time to them (what was left of it went to comic books). But, as I got older I sort of grew out of them. This was honestly probably due to the fact that I didn't want to be considered a nerd. About a year and a half ago, however, I got to play a Playstation and was reminded of what I was missing. I dug out all of my old systems which had been collecting dust in my closet and hooked them up. The first one I wanted to play again was the NES, my favorite system as a kid and my current favorite today. Next thing I knew, I was hitting up all of the flea markets, pawn shops, and garage sales in my area in an attempt to find all of the games that brought me happiness as a child. But, I couldn't stop there. You know what I'm talking about. The whole collecting thing is very addicting. I'm now broke and have since turned my girlfriend onto the whole thrift store/garage sale scouring lifestyle as well.

Aside from collecting games, I collect records (mainly hardcore punk and some metal, but none of that radio crap) and play in a band. Audio recording is also a hobby of mine. I love to cook (vegetarian food, that is) and I love to travel. Hopefully, I'll be a welcome addition to the boards.

[xbamx]

my name's zach.

i live in bakersfield, ca. right now i only got a ps2 and dc, cause i lost my genesis and broke 4 nies' and sold my n64 cause i'm a dumbass.

[MC-PeePants]

My name is Rich, I live in Flushing NY

I own too many consoles I never play

I attend game geek meetings in NJ that Mr Santulli frequently goes to too and I finallly got bored enough to investigate his here messageboard thingy. ;)

[M.Buchan]

Edit, Early Example of my Moronic attempt to post here..

[GoldMember]

- Who you are
Chris Foster

- Where you live
East Yorkshire, United Kingdom

- How you found the forums
I found it while looking for Sega 32X bios.

- What your favorite games are
1. Super Mario Bros. 3
2. Deus Ex
3. The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time
4. Half Life
5. Super Mario World
6. Illusion of time (Illusion of Gaia)
7. Sonic the hedgehog
8. Shenmue
9. Goldeneye / Perfect Dark
10. Number 10 is always a debate, at the moment it's probably banjo Kazooie

- What systems you collect for
Anything and everything. Most usually Snes, Nes, Genesis and PC.

- What you do in "real life"
At the moment I'm in College studying film, Media and Video production.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Nothing much to say really, I've been into games my whole life. As well as movies, which I also collect.

- Chris:)

[Ancient]

I'm from holand
22 years old,
I collect games for:
NES
SNES
N64
N game cube
PSone
PS2
Dreamcast
Commodore VIC 20
Gameboy
Gameboy color
Gameboy advance

And i'm interrested in buying every other machine available.
My favourite games...

Megaman 3 (NES)
Turrican 2 (amiga)
Mortal kombat 2 (snes) (i 'm still lookin' for an Arcade machine on this game).
Deus ex (PS2)
Final fantasy IX (psone)
House of the dead 2 (dC)

In daily life i work in biotechnology.

I started gamin in 1986 (or 87, i dont remember)
Owning an old IBM pc and a NES.
First games probably...
Prince of persia
super mario bros.
Ducktales
Calafornia games
Space, kings, police, etc. Quest

[autobotracing]

wassup my names corey im 21 i live near gaineville florida .i work for dell doing tech support on the phone .ive been collecting for 6 years but have sold my collection many times thats why its so small now but here is what i got now for systems and games




systems

2 virtual boys both need stands

2 n64

1 sega cdx complete

4 sega cd model 2 {only 1 works the rest need mobo's}

3 sega genisis model 2 {1 custom painted baby blue another custom painted to look like a bowling ball cady apple reg and saphire blue metalic will have to gets pics }

4 psx systems {1 is broke 1 is modded and has a clear case and the other is being custom painted tonite once i decide what color}

1 broken saturn

2 atari 2600 woodgrains{1 is 6 switch the other is 4 switch}

20 broken nes systems

1 master system model 1

1 top loading nes

1 broken jaguar system

1 snes model 1

1 black gamecube


i think that all for systems
on too the games


over 60 nintendo game boxes
over 100 game manuals for genny,nes,and snes

over 50 loose nes games

about 100 dc games

about 60 psx games

20 ps2 games

10 genny games

8 snes games
20 atari games

2 virtua boy games
3 sega cd games
20 n64 games
1 pirate game boy advance cart with 17 game {got in ny in chinatown}

game and watch hand helds both dual screens

donkey kong 2
bombsweeper

mini arcade

donkey kong .


i think thats it might have more



some of my rarer stuff from my older collections that i have sold are

a comlete maxi 15
and a action 52 for nes and sega

also some rare atari games
later

[tynstar]

Hello,

My name is Scott and I live in Surprise Arizona.

I do not remember how I found this forum but I have been around for years now.

I can't say I really have a favorite type of game. Just any game that is fun.

I am trying to focus on collecting Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Odyssey 2 and Intellivision. But I will not pass on a good deal for any system.

In "real life" I am a computer tech at a medical college

I began collecting sometime in 1999-2000. I have always had my Genesis. I then got a Playstation and Dreamcast. I then took back an Intellivision from my brother (we had it since I was a kid).
Then my Grandma gave me a Atari 2600 Vader model with about 70 games.

Talk to you in the forums.

[smile_walle]

Digtal Press did requested to me to introduce about me....

Hello!~ :D

My name is Jason Walle, from beauitful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada! I am Deaf with American Sign Language (ASL), but I grew up usally with oral voice, but until when I was 9 years old, I learn with Sign Language at school.

Since my first Atari 2600 video game in 1984 when My dad gave to me brand new Atari 2600Jr. So far my Atari 2600 Jr. is still alive and no problem! I still love with Atari games, but I dont mind to play with PS1 and 2. NES and SuperNES, but I never tried play with XBox?? Ummm. oh well.

I will look forward to hear from you!

Thanks

Jason :D

[geekgirl101]

I'm Melanie Hoyle, aka geekgirl101. I'm 24 and from Stockport in England. I don't have a job yet, love to have one. I specialise in web design and run a couple of game community sites.

I found these forums after I got an email to update the link to this board on the VGS webring.

I'm a die-hard Dizzy fan and have my very own Dizzy shrine right next to me. Pictures to follow. :D I also collect Blitz Games and other retro games produced by the Oliver Twins. For some strange reason I collect Final Fantasy games too, even though I'm not overall keen on it. Must be because I have a Seiken Densetsu fansite....

I'd list all the systems I currently own, although I don't want to take up too much space on this page if I do so. ;)

As for what I do outside the four walls, I go to church, Linux user groups, the occassional nightclub and geek bar, any local cannabis campaigns, and Greenbelt (a Christian rock festival for all those who didn't watch Songs of Praise last week , and for those who did you were greatly mislead. ;))

[Neo-Jorge]

Hello Everyone my name is jorge and Im From Chicago Ill. I am 26 years old and I have been a gamer Ever Since The Days of Atari.
I currently Collect And own most every Platform Of Game System out there from the Current to the oldest .I especially like to collect Japanese games in General. Im glad to see a site where We all have a common Interest. My Passion Would have to be 2D games especially games from SNK and the Neo-Geo. I look forward to sharing my Stories And games expiriences with you all. Here are a Few pictures of my collection Perhaps They can be added to the game collection Section.


Thanks

Neo-Jorge



http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/28a06f84/bc/Neo+Carts++4+sale/games+galore.jpg?bcTFrs9AIRa9.3VR


http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/28a06f84/bc/Neo+Carts++4+sale/Games+Galore+2.jpg?bcTFrs9AvmF_LPwm

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/28a06f84/bc/Neo+Carts++4+sale/some+nes+games.jpg?bcTFrs9AaQWeBWqP


http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/28a06f84/bc/My+Photos/toys.jpg?bcTFrs9AYigMvwjr

[Iron Monkey]

I must remain without name. English is not good but Bought Book from "DIGITAL PRESS", I very much enjoy Video Games and saw this Web Site. So I have arrived.
I am sometimes fighting for a living and enjoy games of fighting as well. Street Fighter Games are the best! HAAAAAAA!
So hello to everyone! And to Joe!
I hope that Altavista Translation works well! HAAAAAA!

[Nikkita]

Hi~! ^^

Well, I'm new here (Whee! Captain Obvious strikes again~!) -- my name is Nikkita, and I'm 16. ^^v I like forums, and I like talking. :D I hope to meet some people and make friends~!

Oh yes, how very mean of me. <:{ I made a friend~! =D Mr. Joe Santulli~ ^_^ He's quite nice. =D And yes. He owns you. But pacman owns him... which means... Pacman owns the world x_x;

PS: Who wants to join my "~" (tilde) club~? :D Heh. ^^;

*sneezes*

[Zman]

Hello. I have been reading these message boards for some time now and really never had anything to add. I always said if I found something in the wild that is *really* worth braging about, I would post it in the "weekly finds" post. I thought I would introduce myself first. Male, 26 from Alabama. Anybody else from 'Bama? I collect for NES, 2600 and Virtual Boy.

[Pheidippides]

Howdy, Im A.J. and I live in Tennessee. Im 18, male.

I learned about the forums from the Collector's Closet article in Tips & Trips.

My favorite games are:
Zelda series
Dragon Warrior(NES)
Phantasy Star Online series
Shenmue
Halo

I just recently decided to try and get the entire dreamcast library.

- Im a security gaurd in real life.

[DBOZ]

Hi all, as probably everyone here knows, I'm a newcomer to your forums. I acutully stumbled upon it seaching for sega 32x protos. It was your old forums auctully that interested me and I was brought here. I will let you all in a few deep deep secrets about me.
I am currently an 18 year old male living in Appleton, Wiscosnin.(Near Green Bay) My First Name is Darrell and I've been collecting video games since I can remember. My Favorite games have to be the Breath Of Fire 3 and 4 for PS One. I also enjoy every freaking online game there is for Dreamcast and now XBOX Live. I collect everything, and for being only 18 I have a very huge collection thought my short life time so far. I have the vectrex with 15+ games mib with sleeves and box and price tag still on them, that I got for free from someone i know. :) I own every system that came out to the U.S. except for a Sega Master system(working on it) and an Intellivision. EveryAtari + the old Atari computer with the disk drives i got 500 + games for which i got at a thrift store for only 12 bucks. :) I really don't know what else to say except anyone near Wisconsin Give me a jingle we'll play some classics in my Room of Doom I have. I can post some pics if anyone really wants to see it. :) Oh ya i also got addicted to prototype games a few years back when i got my hands of some on ebay for cheap cheap. Now its just a drug, i have to have more and more. Thats right nesman85 your dead of ebay. :) Any other Q's Just give me a jingle
Peace
DBOZ aka Darrell

[bargora]

I guess the most recent site outage ate my original introduction.

I'm Alan, age 30, from Cleveland. I'm a lawyer. I don't remember how I found the forum, but I'm glad I did. The forumers here are friendly and knowledgeable.

I like games in which you shoot things. Fortunately, several video games of this type have now been released.

I'm collecting for Atari 2600/7800, NES, Genesis, SNES, Saturn, PSX, Dreamcast, GBA, and PS2. I've got an N64, too, but I don't think having two games for it (Perfect Dark, Conker's BFD) counts as "collecting". I generally only collect games that I think I would like to get around to playing one day (e.g., retirement?). This means that I don't get sports games or RPGs, although I fully respect the rights of other *people* to enjoy such...*things*. (OK, I've got a soft spot for 2600 Realsports Football. Unalloyed nostalgia, I guess.) I don't think of myself as a "completist", but I do have most of the arcade game ports released for PSX. I'll know that I've crossed over to the dark side, though, the day I finish "NAMCO" and buy Namco Museum Vol. 5, which contains only games that I'd never played, seen, or heard of. At that point I'll know the disease is terminal, so I'll probably start importing Namco Anthology, too.

I grew up on the 2600, but I only started collecting this year. In fact, I didn't even play any console games (strictly arcade and computer) post-crash until I got a PSX as a wedding present (wedding present!) in 1997. It took me THAT LONG to get over my D-pad aversion. (Why didn't anybody TELL me that they made a joystick for the NES?)

Even so, the PSX just sat in a corner for a few months after I got it until finally Colony Wars (the first one) got its hooks into me. It was the beginning of the end once again, thank goodness. Once I finished school and got a job, I realized that even after the student loan payment I had a couple of dollars left over to pick up some used games (no, not enough to get new games). And that I could pick up a Genesis, a Saturn, and a Dreamcast for about $100 TOTAL. And I discovered that from 1983 to 1997 I had missed several good games, and I thought that maybe I should check them out...

Anyway, I've found that when you get more than a couple of games a month in the mail, it's better to have them delivered to work and then smuggle them into the house. The cats haven't ratted me out yet, and I keep buying the economy size tubs of catnip.

[cspixelmonkey]

Hi. My name is Chris and I'm a computer animation student who devotes too much of his time to playing old video games. I'm a big fan of adventure games like zelda and final fantasy, but I'll play about anything. Sometimes my friends call my Guybrush Threepwood, because apparently I resemble him. I am also a mighty pirate. At the moment I'm into old nintendo and arcade games. I'd like to get into newer games as well, but until I graduate and get a job I'm po. My girlfriend and I just beat bubble bobble on the nes with "the good ending". Cursed level 57.

[Six Switch]

Well my name is Scott Davidson,I hope there are no stalkers here....
I(think)I am one of the youngest people here,well I was at AtariAge,at at ripe age of 15.

All my life I have liked video game,and I never sold them,for an unknown reason,even to me!I just got into classic games about a year or two ago and have been getting as much of the mas I can find,or pay for.
I have been posting at AtariAge for about a year now,and it has been too much fun,just like posting here for 5min has been!

I collect both classic and modern games,and also like to hango ut with friends,liek every 15year old,go to movies,and play lacrosse.

My fav kind of music is punk rock,with my fav band being the Ataris,I can't wait to see them!

Well I have typed too much,and now my hands hurt....Oh well see you around the boards! :D :) 8)

P.S Yes,I always end my posts with threeemoticons,don't ask why.

[Zettaijin]

Currently residing in Montréal and hailing from the cold northern nights I am known by one of two names - Asplagis or Zettaijin.

I was a member of the old EzBoard version of the DP message board but failed to make the switch over to the new version out of a lack of time.

Seeing as the owner and operator of DP is a pretty spiffy fellow who came to post over on VALIS more than once, I figured I owed him. Thus, I'm back with my own brand of peculiar analysis of videogames and related issues (i.e. VR/Polygons vs. 2D/representation; a certain lack of creativity in the current video game world due to the oversaturation of capitalist think tanks within the industry).

As far as videogames go, I'm quite fond of the Super Fire Pro Wrestling series as well as many more obscure Japanese SNES titles such as Clocktower and Demon of/Diable de LaPlace. I also enoy a good RPG from time to time, though I find that too many are overlooking the potential for politically charged storylines such as those found in game like Fallout II and its obvious but still interesting anti-U.S./Bush stance.

Outside of videogames you'll find me discussing Marxism, Anarchism as well as other political theories, defending non-essentialism and deconstructing reality - that's when I'm not running from riot gear-clad policemen/women during a protest.

I also happen to to enoy Dario Argento and David Lynch movies and my musical tastes are odd to say the least...

Any other questions?

[DeanoCalver]

I'm Deano, currently 26 years of age and my first memory at age 2 was of a Grandstand/Fairchild channel F. Gives you an idea of the type of person I am :shock:

Games are my life, no I really mean it. Been in the 'business' for over 5 years as a programmer. I started collecting about 2 years ago and have managed to acquire 30+ systems and hundreds of games from Pongs to Gamecube.

Google found this site (I've lurked for a while).

The worst thing is all the things I didn't collect back then (why didn't I keep my CD player? It was a Dreamcast DevKit for some time). I also make a habit of storing various cancelled projects I've worked on, unfortantely I have a tendency to mislay the CDs.

I also know more about video games hardware (both old and new) than is healthy.

I almost forgot to mention I live near Cambridge, UK

Deano

[lionforce]

Hello, this looks like a rockin video game board so I'll give it a try

I Guess all you fellow gamers need to know is that I have been gaming for over 17 years now and I am always amazed out out the industry advances itself:) Game On!

[jcahall]

My name is joe, my frindes call me Big JC.
I have been collecting nintendo stuff since age 8...im 22 now

i was at NWC in cincy ohio...still have vip passes and all that :)

i just graduated college....i am a computer geek by trade...web monkey if you will

i collect for all things nintendo, some sega, some atari

i have
180+ nes games
6 Virtual Boy games
7 Sega
85 snes
80 atari

i started getting np when i was a kid and have renewed every year
favorite game of all time is duck tales for nes

i live for the thril of the hunt ie...last week found final fantasy for nes mint with box instruction and map for $3 at flea market...it mad my week......

also i have World of nintendo display cas that came from swallens when the went out of biz....

[Jill Valentine]

Hi, I'm new. And my name's Carla. Umm, I like games and stuff. Been playing them since I was pretty young. Though, I may not know everything about gaming and such. I can always learn more. :o

[Spike]

Hi. My name's...... Spike, ya, that sounds good........

I've been living off of videogames all my life. I'm 21. I have short hair....... sexy eyes...... ahem, never mind that..... I, uhhhhh, I useto work at CMGSCCC.com making Code Breaker codes round the time PSO started up..... let's see..... Feb of...... a few years ago? I don't know what else to say...... I write fiction? I have a car? Ummmmmm........... I mean, I'm just ME! You'll just have to find out if you like me or not. :D

[Black Rose]

:lol: Name: Dave something or other, Rose, Black, Mark, JR, Knight, Ali, Gypsy, Rhody, Carric, Jarik, Kat, Whistler, Skunk, Encyclopedia....

:evil: Location: Derry, PA, a teeny tiny little town, about 20 minutes from the absolute middle of nowhere

:twisted: Sex: Male

:lol: Marital Status: Single, 'cept for my '79Jeep CJ5

:shock: Hobbies & Interests: Adrenalin, caffeine, nicotine.......in that order, Warhammer 40K, Renaissance Festivals, coital interaction with persons of the feminine gender, good conversation (and we all know how hard that is to find,) blades, Asatru, almost anything new and nifty

:wink: Favorite Gadgets: My waffle iron (it makes BIG waffles,) my crepe maker, and my electric blanket, wait, was I supposed to talk about my computer?

:mad: Occupation: You name it, I've probably done it.......and I got paid for some of it too, at the moment, I build TVs for Sony

:? Personal Quote: There's no such thing as too much of a good thing....this is called a flogger....to err is human, to really frell things up takes a guy named Dave who calls himself Rose....yes, those are real handcuffs....I'm not immature, you're just uptight....

[Chakan]

Hey, my name's James, I'm a 20 year-old male from central Ohio. I've been playing video games ever since I was an infant (no kidding, I beat my first game when I was 2 or 3. Deadly Towers for NES, with the help of a NES Advantage. Heh).

I'm a really big Sega fanboy, and it really shows sometimes. I've been playing Sega games since the Master System, and I also play just about anything else I can get my hands on.

I've seen Digital Press before on the web and in print form (including the nice plug in an EGM), but never bothered to register to the forums. I felt like doing so now. :)

[IntelliSteve]

OK, to the intro!

I'm Steve, residing in Austin, TX, and run INTV Funhouse. I hail from Wisconsin, and after moving to Austin, rediscovered my passion for Intellivision after too many years of grad school and no money.

I hang out on r.g.v.c. and can ramble on about the Inty all night.

The Atari VCS - or, as you latecomers insist on calling it, the 2600 ;) - is also special to me, but only for getting fun games to play, not collect. I've been meaning to pick up a Colecovision and Odyssey^2 for some time now, but never seem to find what I'm looking for.

So, that's all, folks!

[nookscranny321]

Salutations! My name is secret, and basically, so is everything else about me. I just got into collecting, only for Nintendo Systems. I only buy new and sealed items, so don't try to sell me something that is used. As you can see, I love cows! Well, I guess that is all.

[nookscranny321]

Salutations! My name is secret, and basically, so is everything else about me. I just got into collecting, only for Nintendo Systems. I only buy new and sealed items, so don't try to sell me something that is used. As you can see, I love cows! Well, I guess that is all.

Edit: Sorry about the cow thing. The avatar was too big. Anyways, did I mention that I'm obssesed with Animal Crossing?

[MightyMagnor]

I have been asked to come forward.

Yet there is none among us who does not know of me.
I am the hand of justice.

Internet evil-doers beware and fear the might of Magnor.

--THE MIGHT MAGNOR

p.s. When not defending the DP homefront, I collect stray video games. Releasing them from the clutches of the would-be thrift store villains.

[Mikau]

yo. im a nintendo fan, and i love all video games. my current favorites are timesplitters2 and animal crossing!

[mutante]

mutante from cologne,germany
i`m into seti@home (http://seti23.org) , discordianism and collect for commodore 64 and 128.

[das]

- David Steyer
- Watertown, NY (ugh...)
- Forgot
- That's kind of hard :oops:
- SNES, Dreamcast, Genesis/32X, PC, Saturn, PSX, etc etc
- 9th grade student
- I'm only 15, and it all started around '93 (or was it '92) when I got a Sega Genesis for Chrismas. I became a fan of games, but didn't get addicted till '96 when I got my first compute.

I'd play tons of PC games, then I became a PC only person, because I was bored with console games for the next 3 years. I found emulation in '99, and slowly (but surely!) I became more intrested in console games, and then I bought a PSX in 2000.

I've since then started to collect old games, but it's hard in my city to get games. I make do with what I can get. Yet, even more depressing, I have no job or allownece, but I still make at least $50 a month. I do a lot of other things in my spare time. Like: spend time with family, write, play soccer, watch Super Sentai, etc etc. Oh yeah, one last thing. I post news for a site known as "SegaFans".

[=physicalboy=]

Once again......

- James from Peterborough England, age 20.
- Currently a Film & Media Student / lazy-ass bum!
- Found this board through someones 'me' page on ebay - thanks....! :D
- Been playing Video Games on and off since the age of 7.
- Favourite system has to be the old NES - so many memories!
- The Spectrum 48K also has a special place in my heart (my first computer)!
- Love going out with friends drinking......music......sport......mountain biking......cartoons.......film......I'm also a bit of a nostalgia
freak......! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[spoon]

Hello, I am the Notorious Spoon!

What's that, never heard of me? ok maybe I'm not so Notorious, maybe quasi Notorious.

I'm 19 and I've been gaming now for about 16 years! I'm pretty sure I was born with a controller in one hand and a light gun in the other.My first game was Super Mario Bros. 2 and the last I bought one was Bubble Bobble 2.

I once bought Dash Galaxy for the NES for $50 when it was new, I'm convinced that game is the meaning behind life.

I just recently got back into collecting NES games and have over 500 titles, I'm almost there on my complete NTSC collection. So Hi to whom ever reads this and Hi to those who don't.

[hades]

Who am I? Well I'm a Penn State student ... I should be graduating this spring but of course being here has me on the 5 or 6 year plan. :-)

Where do I live? Happy Valley... State College, Pennsylvania.

How you found the forums: Googlie Google.

What systems do I collect? Well, I'm a NES-head, but I've been getting into a lot of other systems lately. Mainly Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, Colecovision, Intellevision and the Oddsey 2... Althought I do dabble into collecting Genesis carts too. I'm hoping to branch out and pick up a lot more, but money is tight.

What I do in real life? Well, besides trying to come up with excuses to NOT go to classes ... I work for a Residential Computer helpdesk. Basically I listen to students whine about their silly problems and how important they are ... then I fix them. It can be fun at times. :-)

Oh well, I figured I'd shoot out a post here to get it out of my system.

[DEBRO]

Hi all, I go by the name of DEBRO. Some of you may know me from the AtariAge message board. I have visited here many times but I had never registered. Currently I live in Atlanta, GA.

I got back into the Atari scene when my son was born. I noticed my nephew liked video games (like his uncle :)) but I thought the PSX had too many buttons for a youngster. I also didn't want my CDs to get scratched.

I bought an Atari7800 and my love for those games came back instantly. I think I play it more than my son :)

Later I found that people were developing for the system. I always wanted to do something for the 2600 so I started reading and got a love for getting Stella to do anything.

I don't consider myself a collector. I see myself as a game player. If a rare cartridge finds it's ways into my hands, it will get played.

I have a love for other retro systems as well. My list consists of:
Atari2600
Atari5200
Atari7800
Colecovision
Atari 8-bit
Nintendo 8-bit
Sega Genesis (my favorite)

[nesguy]

My name is Jonathan. I'm 19, live in Wisconsin, and am a student in the cursed UW system. I've been gaming since I was 8. I played lots of NES at my friends house. At age 12, I secretly bought an Atari at a garage sale for $5. My parents had always deemed video games evil, so I had to keep it at the grandparents house. After much deliberation, they finally caved and let me buy a Nintendo at 14.

I was an avid gamer through high school, but college has taken a bit of the fire out of my gaming. I'm too poor to enjoy the new systems, and Whitewater (that's where I go to school) has nothing in the way of gaming anything, and it's in the middle of nowhere.

I still own a toploading NES, and a PSOne, but for a while I'm just a casual gamer. It kinda sux, but hey, so does college.

Right now my favorite games are Lunar and Lunar2 for the PSX. Great games.

[jasonorme]

Howdy
My name is Jason Orme.

I originally signed up to Sell my Atari 2600 with 52 games.
Nothing yet though.

I like collecting many consoles and my Favourite being my
Neo Geo CD.

I also collect Arcade Machines and PCB's for them.
I have a 4 player Teenage mutant Hero Turtles Machine
A 4 player The Simpsons Machine
Vendetta 4 player PCB
Turtles In Time 4 player PCB

And am looking to get a 4 player X-men PCB.

MY Arcade machines are my pride and joy.

ANd am looking to sell my atari in order to buy another PCB.

Check out the Atari I have for sale
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3414

Thanks For Reading

[bonaccorsi]

My name is Luiz Bonaccorsi, I live in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The first time I hearded about the Digital Press was with my friend Ianoid. In fact, Ian was one of the first guys who I met using the Internet.

I try to collect only the best games, for each system. I like strategy games, shooters and action games. I do not like fighting and sports games.

I don't care about having more than one of the same console (with different styles, colors, shapes, sizes, etc). I like to collect the games.

I collect from Atari to Xbox (not all the systems, only the ones that I really enjoy). I have about 800 games.

Some of my favorite games are: Adventure (2600), Tarmin (Intv), Montezuma's (CV), Contra (NES), Gate of Thunder (PCE), Alpha Mission 2 (NGCD), Tempest 2K (Jag), Road Rash (3DO), Master of Monsters, Star Control, Dune 2, Toejam & Earl (Gen), Silpheed (SCD), Space Megaforce (SNES), Galactic Attack (SAT), X-Com (PS1), Turok (N64), Frequency (PS2), Halo (xbox)...

I work with insurance (broker) and I sell brazilian games on Ebay.

Greetings from Brazil,
Luiz Bonaccorsi

[Felyne_SNK]

Hi, I'm Felyne_SNK, an oldskooler retrogramer since 1982 :wink: I expect to expand my knowledge, have a good time, and remember the all-time immortal classics... btw, I love quizzes and contests, and I will be posting some of them occasionally...

[gameinsomniac]

Whatz up fellow gamers! The name is Guy. Guy Ellis. I'm from California. I love all types of games. My favorite games are John Madden Football, FF [all of them], Legend of Legaia, Shogun, rollercoaster tycoon, Sim City, Parasite Eve, and parappa-da-rapper, oh yeah 8) !

[ROBOTRON]

Hi, my name is Kinn Henderson...I am a collector and player of video games.

I own:

Atari 2600-20+games
Nintendo 8-Bit-10+games
Super Nintendo-10+games
Turbo Grafx 16-7 games
Sega Genesis-20+games
Sega Saturn-20+games
Neo-Geo Console-40+games
Sega Dreamcast-30+games
Nintendo64-1 game
PS1-20+games
PS2-10+games
Nintendo Gamecube-5 games
NeoGeo pocket 2 games
:D

[Memona]

Hello, my name is Matt and I'm a rpgaholic. I enjoy RPGs more than any other game. If you have an RPG question or need of an oversight in a game, I'm the man to talk to. I play games from Adventure to Dragon Warrior to Morrowind.

I am 21 and own a small ice cream/snow cone shop in Louisville, Ky called Summer Snow. I've had that copywrited so I'm waiting for someone to try to steal it.

I'm very honest sometimes, almost on the verge of being untactful, so if you can stand my view on the world we are all good.

I'm also an emulation geek. I think it's the best thing still fried chicken. So before I go any futher I will say this, emulation is a medium to test the game before you decide to pay for them. This has saved me a few chucks not wasting money on subpar games.

I also have a found saying of the phrase, "Blazing Apple" and "Uberl33t". Must be the Everquest Player in me.

[Roagie]

I've been collecting since the days of yore. Started in '94 when I sighted an Atari at a flea market. I remember my first 10 carts and the little holder I made for them. That was when it started... you all know what I'm talking about... the... "sickness". Yes, my closets are now full of games for every system as well as my storage space and garage. I'm saddened to say that I purchased an IBM PS/2 "portable", circa 1988, and that I'm actually going to keep the thing. There is not stopping me now! Luckily I'm a student right now and lack of funds keeps me from getting too out of control, but I fear the day when I'm working and making good money and start flipping out on ebay. Ok, nuf said... nice to meet ya'll.

[Master_System]

Hi, i´m Matias Bianco, a vg collector from Argentina, here in my country this collection is not very common. I´m 17 and i have started collecting since December. My first console was a N.E.S. clone, but then a Genesis and then a Game Boy and then a Game Boy color and then and then and then....
Nowadays, i don´t have very much things, but this is for the money (Argentina have very bad economic problems) and not because i don´t want it.
I have some strange games like Out run 3D for Master System and Atari 2600 carts from Brazil and Argentina.
My favourite system is the Master System (obviously) and Atari 2600
My favourite video game character is Peter Pepper (Burger time)
I think that´s all, if you want to e-mail me, ok.
I have started building the first vg southamerican collectors site...soon.

[fcw3]

Fred Wagaman
Denver, Pennsylvania USA

Been checking DP website for quite a while. Was enticed to join the boards by a contest
Favorite Game - Robotron (Arcade)
I have most of systems from RCA Studio 2 to the Gamecube. It is a shorter list of what systems I don't have as compared to what I do. I lost track of how many different games I own when I crossed the 2,500 barrier. I intend to get back on track soon.

I have four arcade machines, a pinball machine and a MAME cabinet in my game room.

I'm a frequent contributor to Retrogaming Times (http://www.tomheroes.com/Video%20Games%20FS/Retrotimes/retrogam.htm).

[OptimusPrimeVCS]

Hi, I've been a fan of DP for a while and just recently decided to check out the boards. I collect for 2600, NES, SNES and Genesis and currently have one coin-op, the mighty Centipede, now if I can just get it to work, I'll be alright. Someday, eventually, I hope to collect the other atari systems that I haven't quite had the chance to nab yet, as well as a few others that intrigue me, such as the master system. That about sums it up so, Happy Gaming!

[mikec_ct]

Hi, it's good to finally post here. I've been reading the Forums for about a month but wasn't able to sign on (I'm assuming because of the site problems mentioned in the email) until now. I live in Connecticut but am currently attending college in the NYC area. Can't wait to get into some great discussions on here!

[8bitweapon]

Who you are: The 8-Bit Weapon :D
- Where you live : Los Angeles, cA
- How you found the forums : Joe Told me I'd win a prize of I posted here...where is it? hmm?
- What your favorite games are : C64 games- Bards tale 1,2, &3, Wasteland, Delta. NES (8-BIt)- Metroid, Kid Ikarus, and castlevania 1, 2, & 3, and any megaman.
- What systems you collect for: NES (8-BIt) and C64, some Vic 20
- What you do in "real life" : I play "Regional Sales Manager" For a medical corporation... www.prestigemed.com
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.:

Well I started collecting when I found my SIDplay sid tune emulator. I started to long for that warm fuzz sound of a REAL SID chip! So I hunted down all my favorute games for their music!

-8-bit weapon

[Chunky]

Let's See, Chunky is the name. Last time i posted, was on the old system, time to rereg.

anyways i don't really collect much anymore, still looking for a decent nintendo and some other snes games. have alot of trains, atari games, laserdiscs to get rid of.

but i still have and use a N - GC/64/GBadvanced/SNES, Dreamcast, PS2, Atari 2600, various pachinko, game and watch, handheld games.

I out here in Palatine, IL - near that other Atari newsletter.

[Ed Oscuro]

Who r I?

I'm yet another student-type who likes getting ahold of games. I finagled myself into a moderatorship at the "CastleVania Dungeon Forums" though I knew little about the series; now I know a decent amount.

List?

16-bit systems
Neo Geo AES Gold System w/box (Max 330 Mega, Pro Gear Spec) with two junk games (one is Fatal Fury 2) and a baseball game. Gonna get more someday. Also am strongly anti-NGF in terms of collection policies.

Own a few Super Famicom games, one Genesis (Megadrive actually) and a PC-Engine (TG-16 compatible) title. Need more...

Own a Sharp x68000 game, (the system that was better than the Turbo Grafx 16, and nearly on par with the Neo Geo, all while being close to a DOS box) the most expensive in my collection.

8-bit systems
Own a mostly perfect MSX2 system (with bad, new scratches on the keyboard from shippin') and a prototype HP95lx handheld DOS machine (the ones that started handheld computing,) c. 1991

A good number of sealed Famicom cartridges. 12 titles in all.

Feel free to check out mah gametz.com profile (Ed_Oscuro) but know that I don't sell.

[fergojisan]

I don't think I've introduced myself yet. My name is Ferg (Robert Ferguson), from beautiful Uptown Felton, DE (originally from NJ). I got the idea for collecting video games on my honeymoon, actually. Sarah and I went to a junk shop which had 2600 games for sale, which I hadn't seen or thought of for years. I didn't buy any then, but later that summer (this is 1994) Sarah introduced me to flea markets and I went crazy buying 2600 stuff, then 5200 and 7800 stuff when I finally found out that they existed. Like many of you, I assumed I was the lone person in the universe who was crazy enough to be collecting games. Sarah again came through for me, giving me Leonard Herman's address that she saw in a video game mag at her work. I ordered Phoenix from him, and he gave me info on Digital Press and the 2600 Connection, and he also brought me to my first NAVA meeting, I think in January of 1995.

I think that I got into it just at the tail end of the "Golden Age" of collecting. I found a lot of great stuff in the wild back then, especially at garage sales. You didn't have to go to too many to find games. I also had a pretty good amount of doubles, which I traded mainly with Mike Etler for more good stuff. I think I have amassed a pretty sizeable collection for not wanting to pay a lot for games, and I collect for a lot more systems now than just Atari. But my interest has waned in the last few years, probably because it's more work to collect these days. I still enjoy it though, and I have met a lot of great people in this hobby. Hopefully if I ever get my house in order, you all can come over for a weekend and play games!

As for real life, I'm 32 years old, married, no kids, 3 cats and a dog. I am a baker at a Mennonite store in Dover DE. If you have the Digital Press CD-ROM, check out the pic of my Pac-Man cookies. I used to make them to sell in my Dad's bakery back in 1982. I also do some video game related crafts, a lot of which is in the hands of many of the frequent NAVA attendees. I hope to have a web site up sometime in the future with pictures of the things I've made and instructions on how to do them yourself. Sometime.

Sorry for being so long and boring! I hope to post here a little more often. See y'all soon!

Ferg

[BillyKaneIsGod]

Well now....time to give introduction.

I am: Guy Taylor, The Son of Hol Horse, etc,
I hail from: formerly Rockford, IL, I now reside in Fontana, WI.
Currently 17 years of age and a senior in high school, I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember. I was raised on a TG-16, up until the PSX came out. I now own and use: SNES, Genesis, PSone, DC, TG-16, GBA and NGPC. My gaming passions include action games, fighting games (esp. Capcom and SNK/Playmore), and most recently bemani (I have DDR Konamix, 2 soft pads and go to play DDRmax2 in an arcade in Rockford[yashiro can vouch for the Max2 machine]). I can't think of a game genre I dislike, although some sports titles seem...lacking. I someday hope to own a Gamecube and give my life up to Animal Crossing and SSBM. I'm not really a collector by any means, more a gamer in general with a passion for the characters and game music!!! Not many seem to understand the latter.... :cry: . I was introduced to pretty much all of the online gaming community I know by Yashiro, and get most of my knowlege of gaming trivia and imports from him. Thanks for reading all of this!!!

[scmsx]

Hi,

My name's Sergio, from Brazil. I'm a 8-bit computer and videogame collector.

My first console was an Atari 2600 by Polyvox, and my first computer was a MSX (I used MSX computers during several years). I still own all Atari 2600 games I had during my childhood. I never purchased another videogame console until I really started to collect vintage computers and videogames. At this moment my most modern videogame console is a SNES. :)

I have a site about MSX computers since 1997, now is located at http://www.charin.org/
Recently I created a site about videogames in Brazil (specially Atari 2600 clones): http://member.newsguy.com/~charin/vgmuseum/
My trade page: http://member.newsguy.com/~charin/collection/trade.htm
My wants page: http://member.newsguy.com/~charin/collection/wanted.htm

Thanks to the international trades (and sometimes eBay when I have money) I have an interesting collection of vintage computers, including machines from USA, Germany, France, Australia, etc.

Sergio

[TheSmirk]

Hello all , I go by TheSmirk on here and AtariAge, my names Curt and I recently moved to Delaware, after spending the first 28 years of my life in NJ. I'm a moderate collector, I mostly get the games I like.....by no means am I a complete-ist :grin: all together my colection currently stands at about 500 carts/CDs/etc.

NAVA attendees may have met me, I'm the guy who shows up with Ferg on occasion.....

I've lurked around these boards for a bit and finally decided to register here as well, mostly prompted by the 'I'm here Contest' :D
which as it turns out I posted too late for, heh, but there's alot of good discussion here with alot of good ppl, so my registering here on the boards is long overdue....

[Happy_Dude]

What better way to introduce myself than through this thread.

Hello...

Well I'm Happy_Dude, I also hail from AA and have been
lurking here on DP for a while ;)
I'm not a complete-ist ... yet :grin: but I have collections
for Atari 2600, Master system, NES, Megadrive(genisis), Mega-cd,
Vic-20, C64, Dreamcast and Atari 2600 (Lable variations :) ),
Of which my favorite is 2600

So that's me.

Hi Everybody!

[robot717]

Hi,I'm Robot717.I've recently gotten back into gaming after a three year hiatus.Currently I only own a Game Boy advance but I will be recieving a Playstation 2 for Christmas and will buy a Gamecube shortly after.
Favorite games include Maniac Mansion,Zelda series,any and all fighting games,action RPGs ( such as Legend of Mana ) and believe it or not ET for Atari 2600.
Other things I think kick ass are Robotic Pets such as Furby and Aibo,Keychain Virtual Pets like Tamagotchi,robots in general,computers,AI and pretty much anything involving computers and technology

[Savedman]

Hi, I am Jay. I am 35 from southern Ohio. Please do not be alarmed by my username as I am not here to shove God down anyones throat (unless you ask for it;-). I believe what I believe and believe that you have the right to believe what you believe. But don't be a whiner if I make reference in a post (like the one on Columbine). I really enjoy reading what everyone has to say and respect your opinions.

I think I wondered across this page while stumbling across some sites
attached to www.gamerland.com I have a big chunk of my list saved on that site but l haven't been over there in a while to complete it. My collection is at the 1400 mark now. I collect for over 20 different systems but my personal favorites are NES (about 470) and 2600 (about 250).

In real life I work for a company that owns an ISP, Computer Repair, Web Design, blah blah blah....the job I do here FAR less interesting than any of those mentioned but it's cool and no I'm not the janitor.

I began seriously collecting a few years ago when my son (now 10) started showing some real interest. We just moved into a smaller house so we are in the process of building a game room to house our evergrowing collection. I just bought the lastest DP Collector's Guide(which I think Joe subliminally suggested that I buy in an email he sent to me;-) and it totally jams!! It will see many flea markets and thrift stores in the months to come. Thanks Joe!!!!

[lasasuna]

Hi all, I stumbled over these boards via a link from www.segamastersystem.com a couple of months ago. I have regularily read them with interest and today I decided it was time I worte something.

My main console is the Sega Master System and I aim to collect all the games released for it here in the UK for starters. I also collect for the Genesis, NES, SNES and 2600 and spend too much time on eBay trying to win elusive and expensive items for the above (with varying degrees of success).

In 'real life' I reside in the UK and am a full time college student. I really had no interest in console gaming until about 4 years ago and the extent of my gaming full stop was CBM Amiga. However when I found a SMS marked 'electrical write-off' in a local thrift, I decided to pick it up on a whim. It worked great and playing the built in verison of Alex Kidd was the start of a new passtime.

Thats pretty much it I guess; If anyone wants me to try and find them any UK games, then drop me an email, but i dont 'hunt' every week. Retro stuff doesnt seem too hard to come by around here, but it can be somewhat pricey.

[PriestJPN]

-Hi, I'm Pete. ^_^

-I live in Japan at the moment.

-Found this place via Google.

-Dreamcast is my console of choice.

-Network Engineer (but unemployed ATM) :(

-I collect and trade Dreamcast games and hardware, especially Japanese stuff!! If you need any games / hardware from Japan, give me a shout...

[nitebycandlelite]

OK, it's Newbie time...

- Who you are - I'm Jonny, From Derby.
- Where you live - Oops...
- How you found the forums - I'm a member of "The classic Videogame Syndicate". There's a link on there...
- What your favorite games are - Wouldn't like to say, Because I don't think I have a favourite as such. I just play what I feel like :)
- What systems you collect for - Anything I can get my hands on...
- What you do in "real life" - I'm a college student in the UK.
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc. - It's all on my website. There should be a linky-type thing at the bottom of this post to it somewhere. :)

I'd like to hear from anyone who likes my website, and you can contact me using the plethora of contact options below.

Erm... nice to meet you all :)

[Michael Thomasson]

Hello all,

I've been attending the DP boards for years as a silent viewer and reader. I've finally decided to get past my shyness and start particiapting.

Many of you may already know me form the Classic Gaming Expos and CinciClassics. If so, a friendly hello to you all!

I'm a 3D animator by trade, and just relocated to Buffalo, New York last week. So, if you live nearby please contact me as I do not know any classic gamers in my new home. I REALLY need a Mario Bros. fix and a Luigi to beat up on!

I'm pretty active in the classic gaming arena. Here are a few of the contributions that I have made to our hobby:

Owner, web designer, content director of www.GoodDealGames.com
Artist and Cover Designer for Classic Gamer Magazine
Pixel artist and cover artist for Songbird Productions
Station Manager of WGDG Videogame Radio
Committee member and contributor of the CinciClassic Game Con.
Sponsor of JagFest, Mid-Atlantic Game Festival and PhillyClassic
Beta-Tester and Cover Designer for Classic Game Creations’ Gravitrex
Cover Designer for John Dondzila's (CGC) Vectopia!
Cover artist of Ralph Baer’s upcoming autobiography
Logo designer and artist for Syzygy Videogame Magazine
Founding member of BETA Club (Beta EPROM Testing Association)
Volunteer for Bluegrass Electronics Center (service organization)

GDG PUBLISHED GAMES
Sega CD Citizen X, Sega CD Star Strike, Sega CD Bug Blasters: The Exterminators, Vectrex Vec Sports Boxing, Philips CD-i Jack Sprite Vs. the Crimson Ghost, Philips CD-I Go, Philips CD-i PlunderBall, Philips CD-i Space Ranger, Colecovision Cosmo Fighter 2, Colecovision Cosmo Fighter 3, Colecovision I.C.E. Igloo Construction Emergency, and more in the works!

[Hep038]

Well I have been surfing the DP board for over a year now. I guess its time I introduced my self. I live in Atlanta Ga, I am a Engineering tech for a company called http://www.nfini.com. I never thought of my self as a collector until I noticed I had never thrown out a system since my Intellivision. It really was not until a I found Ebay that I started collecting games from my youth. I just bought my holy grail of my collection a NEO GEO AES system. From here on out I will just be picking up stray dogs like the 3DO and others like it. I am interested in talking to people in my area , since all my friends are only into the latest systems.

[MacGurl]

- Who you are - MacGurl
- Where you live - Tx
- How you found the forums -fiasco at AA...some of you should know what I'm talking about.
- What your favorite games are -Right now I'm addicted to Vice City & Animal Crossing.
- What systems you collect for -All Atari, All Nintendo, DC, PS2
- What you do in "real life" -I work at Apple Computer in the Fraud dept. I catch bad guys.

I have a kitty and he's very cute.

[Tonate]

Hello fellow gamers.My name is Tanya and I live in North Florida.Im 28 and Im disabled/and a video pirater :o I started playing with the Atari 2600 and then moved on to Nintendo 8 bit,Sega Genesis,Turbographix,gameboy,Super Nintendo,Playstation,Saturn,Dreamcast and currently the Xbox.My favorite games over the years have to be:Legend of Zelda,Bonk,Toe Jam and Earl,Secret of Mana,Ridge Racer,Tony Hawk (series),Quake 3,and Halo.
I've been playing for over 20 years and have no plans on stoping anytime soon. O.o
Ive found the site on google search,and liking it!

[++Valis++]

Helloooo! Some of the "old timers" might remember me, Pete Rocha, aka ++Valis++ or Valis99999, I used to participate on the RGVC newsgroup and it's IRC channel a lot from about '94-'97 or so. I used to do a high score list for the newsgroup, which was stolen so many times, by so many people... oh well. I was at all the early NAVA meetings but haven't been to one in, jeez, probably 5 years now. Hey, Sunday's were good for me. Saturday night I like to get my drink on (or recover from getting my drink on the previous night). :D

I've been playing since the 70's (born '72) and "collecting" since, I dunno, '92 or '93, I guess. Most of my collections are complete, save for about a dozen top-shelf 2600 items (Music Machine, Cubicolor, Gauntlet, etc.) and various bits and pieces of the 90's systems.

I love the new systems as much as the old ones, which I'm very happy to see is a much more common opinion among "collectors" these days! A lot of people used to have a very narrow minded "old games good/new games bad" stance, which I thought was pretty lame. Some recent faves include GTA:VC, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Splinter Cell, Animal Crossing, Hitman 2, Mark of Kri, etc.

For the last 2-3 years one of my biggest collecting kicks has been Playstation games. Cheap, there's an absolute ton of them, and I've never heard of a bad game that costed me less than 10 dollars. ;) Dreamcast games, too - same deal.

Oh, I also live in a giant flying shark and I'm typing this post with my mind. (okay... not true, but this post was kind of dull)

[TheJuggala]

My name is George,20, i live in Maine. I found this board while doing a search. My favorite games are Goldeneye 007, Madden 2003, and Dune battle for Arrakis. I collect games for Gamecube, and ps2 right now. I am a full time college student. I have just recently started collecting older video games and systems.

[jhd7]

- Who you are

Jeff D

- Where you live

Central Pennsylvania, USA

- How you found the forums

I first saw DP mentioned on a newsgroup several years ago.

- What your favorite games are

On the NES: Bionic Commando, Mario 2, Zelda 2, Destiny of an Emperor, Blaster Master, Tetris 1 & 2, Guardian Legend.
On the CV: Frogger, Venture, Gorf, Carnival.

- What systems you collect for

NES, CV, Game Gear.

- What you do in "real life"

Computer programmer.

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

I was a college freshman when games took off in the arcades... Space Invaders, Asteroids, Galaxian, etc. When I should have been in class, I was pumping quarters into machines downtown. Bought a ColecoVision when it first came out (on sale for $180!), but sold it years later when it seemed home gaming was dead. Got the bug in '89 when others raved about the NES. Took a break from gaming from 92-97, but have been obsessed and compulsive ever since.

Jeff D

[Gunstar]

My name is Andy and I live in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I remember one of the first video games I ever played in the arcade was Lunar Lander at Aladdin's Castle in East Town mall in Madison. I've been hooked ever since.

I collect pretty much everything that procedes the "Great Video Game Crash of 1984". Although I do have stuff from after that, I guess I don't really consider much of it to be classic video games (yet).

My favorite 1984 and earlier game system is the Atari 7800 because it plays almost all of the 2600 games, plus it's own (flicker free!) games. But I still have to dig out the 2600 if I want to play the Starpath Supercharger games.

I also collect old computers as well. Atari, Commodore, Apple, Franklin, TI, Timex/Sinclair, and others make up that collection.

As far as post crash game systems goes, that would be the TG-16. As the first game system with a CD ROM drive, it gets my vote especially for the fact that the carts (cards) are the exact opposite of the NES carts (second only to the Neo-Geo for bulk).

All time favorite game is a toss up between Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (2600 or 8-bit Atari) or Bounty Bob Strikes Back (Atari 8-bit). Two amazing games for their day.

When not playing or collecting games, during the summer months you'll either find me at racing at the drag strip, or at the drive-in theater watching movies.

[anagrama]

Greetings folks.
I've been an on-off lurker for a while, but after recently hitting my first 100-club (Master System) I figure it's a good time to formally introduce myself.
I'm James, and I live in Newcastle in the UK. I've been collecting for about 3 or 4 years, and have around 20 systems and about 500 games. I specialise in PAL Sega stuff, but I'll pick up anything as long as the price is good.
Favorite systems are Dreamcast, SNES, Saturn & MD, and my favorite ga,es include Rainbow Islands, Nights, Centipede, Hunter (Amiga), PSO, Pang, SFII and Yoshi's Island.

erm.. hi

[Ruudos]

Hey I'm Ruudos.
Although I don't post here very long, I've been around since somewhere in 1999 I guess. I was a frequent poster at NESfan's forums, sometimes posted at NESescity (still do sometimes), went to RR's forums, and have been on NESWorld forum for quite some time now.
I have several consoles and games. Favorite systems are the NES and the SNES. I have a website to dedicated to the NES, http://nesfountain.silius.net
I'm also working a Australian/European SNES list. It can be found on my site, any help would be cool.

[Wavelflack]

I'm Wavelflack, the guy with the disgusting avatar and the perverse misogynistic slant to my posts.

[Bralgar]

- Who you are?

I'm a 31 year old that like's to fancy himself as a videogame collector/gamer. Sometimes more collector than gamer, because I suck at a lot of them. LOL

- Where you live?

Indiana USA

- How you found the forums?

Google. Is there any other way?

- What your favorite games are?

ICO for PS2, Syphon Filter for PSX...pretty much I like most 1st and 3rd person Action/Adventure games. I also like racing games such as Gran Turismo series and Need For Speed series.

- What systems you collect for?

Just to make this simple here is a list of my games for some of the systems I own: http://users.ign.com/collection/Bralgar
I also have the 'old stuff', meaning pre Atari 2600

I may reveal more in successive posts in these forums, once I get comfortable. Like anyone cares -_-

[Iron Monkey]

Iron Monkey GREETS "You"!
From China now Okinawa is Home.
I Teaches Japanese to Chinese Learn well.
Games of Video Joy popular very much in Japan.
Much is Learned Here.
HAAAAAAAAAI!

[Sodge]

My name is Oscar Campbell, I'm 13 and my nickname is Sodge (or DryNote)

I live in Canada. More specifically, Ottawa. It's really cold up here but I can take it. ;)

I found these forums through a GameSpy article (the shameful games one ;))

My favorate games are currently:


Half-Life (PC, really great game. Awesome singleplayer and very addictive multiplayer)
TimeSplitters 2 (GameCube, Monkeys!)
Metroid Prime (GameCube, Dispose of the Space Pirates, in 3D!)
Super Metroid (SNES, although I wasn't alive at the time of the SNES I have a ROM if the game and am playing through little by little)
Chrono Trigger (SNES, same deal as above)
Oni (over-hyped, I hadn't heard of it until a year after its initial release, but it's a good game)


The systems I collect for would probably be the PC and my GameCube. I'm not all that wealthy (come on, I'm only 13! ;)) but I have a few games. :)

My "real life" consists of school at the moment. Nothing much else.

I don't really collect games, I just play them and if I like them, I keep 'em. Of course, now that I have a console I guess, technically, I am now collecting, so I'd be very late 2002/early 2003. :) Yay!

[hydr0x]

Hi there

i'm Jan, 19 from Germany :)

I have no idea how i found this forum, i'm into emulation/collecting since 1997 but i didnt know of it until last month :(

My favourite games are rpgs from square i think, but i love every good game :)

I do collect for NES (right now PAL only), SNES, Mega Drive (2) (PAL-Genesis), Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Atari 2600, Schneider/Amstrad CPC 6128, Gameboy (Color) and PSX

i'm planning to collect neo geo, master system, 3do, cd-i and pc-engine

im a student of computer science (master) right now!

i only had a nes in my youth, though i always wanted a snes :(
i started collecting a few month after getting into emulation, i did not have enough money before that ;)

[Tom61]

- Who you are
Tom61

- Where you live
Missouri, USA

- How you found the forums
By doing a MSN search for gaming collection pictures, which brought up the Ultimate Game Room gallery of this site. Took me quite a while to get through all of them!

- What systems you collect for
Anything cheap.

- What you do in "real life"
Full time Bum... err... 'Student' ;)

- Any other interesting facts
Since I collect anything cheap, I've accumulated alot of stuff over the years. I have around 100 Atari 2600 carts, 50 NES carts, and around 30 for Intellivision. I have a few other systems, but most have less than 12 games each.

[Gunstarhero]

Who am I?
--Gunstarhero, or just Gun

Where do I live?
--I hail from Elkhart, Indiana USA

What I do for a living:
--I am qualified to operate numerous types of flexographic printing presses. I currently operate a 6-color Webtron, and we specialize in just about anything that requires a label application. If it were 1978, I am positive we would be doing ATARI 2600 cartridge labels.

I found these forums in a post on another BBS that I visit. I'm 27 years old, and I guess I'm a game collector since I rarely sell my games that I buy. So I've collected a decent mass of games over my years. I have 12 different game systems to collect and play games for, and my favorite of these is the Neo Geo AES. Quite frankly, its the pinnacle of 2-d gaming machines IMHO.

I registered here in hopes of adding games to my 5200, TG-16, SNES, Jaguar, and 2600 game systems, whether thru trading or buying. Also I'm always glad to express my opinions on anything classic gaming related, and this looks like a good place to do it.

My favorite games of all time--
a short list:

Metal Slug 3
Castlevania(NES)
Castlevania III
Super Castlevania IV
Warlords

[Darkstorm Zero]

Hello everyone

My name is - Benjamin Harkom.

I live in Melbourne Australia.

I am an avid game player and have been for most of my 21 year life.

I got word of this message board thru a friend's younger brother who is an X member of this board. (to be honest though, I hated the little B@st@rd, especially after what I read. Punkoffgirl was right for banning the brat)

Anyways enough with the history, I have a particular interest in fighting games, 3D shooters, and strategy games.

Keeping it real guys!

[Pressure Cooker]

Well I guess it's time to formally introduce myself.

Name:
Corey Knubley

Location:
Ft. Smith, AR

Hobbies:
Playing and collecting any and all games, playing guitar, reading and collecting comics, studying history and mythology
Currently, I am going to the UOFS for my Psychology degree.

Favorite Games (in order of System):
Atari 2600- Pressure Cooker
Commodore 64- tie between Maniac Mansion and Aliens
Amiga- Adventures of Willy Beamish
Sega Master System- Black Belt
NES- Megaman 3
SNES- tie between Final Fight and Soldiers of Fortune
Genesis-Shadowrun
N64- tie between Goldeneye and Robotron 64
Sega CD- Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side
Dreamcast- tie between Sega Smash Pack and Marvel vs. Capcom 2
PSX- Final Fantasy Tactics
PS2- tie between Activsion Anthology, Vice City, and Dynasty Warriors 2
GBA- so far Advance Wars, The Two Towers, and Castlevania: HOD
Arcade- tie between X-Men (4-player version), Steel Gunners, and Dig Dug
Pinball- Jurassic Park

And my all-time favorite games are Fallout 1 and 2 for the PC. I'm still waiting for Fallout 3.

[Evil E]

I just joined--nice to meet you all!! I live in Phoenix, AZ and love video games. I own several video game systems including Xbox, Dreamcast, ps1, etc. etc. Can't wait to hear all the discussion about video games, etc. !! E.---- :P

[Mr-E_MaN]

Hello all! My name is Richard Eklund, from Ontario, Canada.

I am 20 years old. I began collecting NES games back in August 2002. I started collecting because I wanted to play excitebike... I had the game when I was little but I sold my system at a garage sale...

Some of my favourite games are Excitebike, MicroMachines, Earthbound, and any Super Mario Game (but not the ones like Mario's Time Machine, Marios Missing, etc.).

I collect for the NES mainly, but I will buy any Nintendo game if the price is right. I also collect SMS... but I only have 2 games right now...

In real life I am a student in college, but I work part time as a Computer Technition...

[old_fogie]

Hey ya'll I'm new here...my name is Ryan Evans-Young and I'm from Houston, TX. (feel free to insert your TX jokes here LOL) I was looking up Atari stuff to get my kid for his birthday when I came on your site. Good to see people doing things to keep this trend alive!

Ryan

[TougherToast]

Hello my name is Chris and I'm 29, soon to be 30 (I feel old). I live in Ogden, Utah (and no I'm not Mormon and I'm not a polygamist).

I haven't been on this forum very long but I have been a Digital Press reader sence fith edition. I have been reading the forum for awhile now, but have never posted untell now. This will be my first post in any forum.

I collect anything that I can afford (which is not nearly enough), but I mainly focus on systems with good RPG's. RPG's are my games of choice.

What do I do in real life? As little as possible! No really I build car airbag inflators while I try to get through school.

When I'm not playing videogames I'm going to movies or watching DVD's. I also have a web site that I am in the process of building that will have reviews of movies, DVD's and videogames (there isn't much there yet but I'm working on it).

I just recently had a very good friend die. I know how Joe feels now, to lose a friend is bad enough but to lose someone you had that much fun with playing videogames is even worse. I couldn't even play any games for a long time. It was hard to get myself back into videogames but I finally did it. I miss playing videogames with my friend but I know his spirit will be with me always.

[RCorcoran]

Name: Ron Corcoran
'Net Names: RCorcoran, MrAtari or MCP
Age: 37
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Job: IT Applications Manager, State of Arizona
Hobbies: Videogame player/collector, Chess

My Collection (always growing):

Atari 2600 - 301 games
Atari 5200 - 35 games
Atari 7800 - 15 games
Atari Jaguar - 4 games
Atari Lynx - 18 games
Atari 800 - 6 games
Colecovision - 62 games
Commodore 64 - 30 games
Dreamcast - 40 games
Gameboy (B/W) - 5 games
GameBoy Advanced - 1 game
IBM PC - 150+ games
Intellivision - 52 games
Playstation - 13 games
Vectrex - 12 games

I am the Site Administrator and Chief Editor for Twin Galaxies. Additionally, I serve as the worldwide referee for; Atari (all platforms), Astrocade, Commodore (all platforms), Intellivision, Odyssey2 & Vectrex.

I am also the founder and primary admin for Snipercade.

No, I don't have a life... :)

[Moose]

After being here for seven years I thought it was time to re-introduce myself. (As if anyone will read it.)

My name is Luke. I have been gaming for twenty years when I got my first NES and have been seriously collecting since 2002. I guess you could call me a Nintendo fanboy since my favorite systems are the NES and SNES.
Here are the systems I collect for:
NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, GameBoy, Sega Master System, Genesis, Dreamcast, Atari 2600, 3DO, PSX

One of my favorite things to collect is strategy/game guides.

I started a group F.R.A.G. - Federation of Retro and Arcade Gamers - to be able to organize local events in southeastern Connecticut.

I have a wife and two kids, amazingly enough, even with this space devouring hobby.

[Mother]

Name - Jay

Location - Georgia (north of Atlanta)

How did I find this place? - Cant remember

Favorite games - Castlevania Bloodlines(genesis), Panzer General(psx), Sinistar(arcade)

Systems- I collect for all but this is what I have so far :

NES - 200 complete + 150 loose carts
Genesis-246
Sega CD-120 My favorite system SEWER SHARK! :P
Saturn-56
SMS-23
SNES-30
32x-14
2600-20

What do I do? I own a small business and go to college as well.

I havent been collecting a long time, Im still learning with the help of sites like this and the digitalpress guide but I have a long ways to go before I consider my self a knowledgable collector. Other than games my main hobbies are computers, science, cars, DnD. But Im not a geek.

[orrimarrko]

Well, not that anyone will read (or care), but here goes:

My name is Steve, I'm 31 and I live in Austin, TX. I work at the University of Texas at Austin, and moved here from Ohio (but grew up in Syracuse, NY.) My username is Orrimarrko, which for anyone who knows way too much about Star Wars realizes that it's misspelled. That's intentional, because the correct spelling is almost always taken. For those who don't know, Orrimaarko (correct spelling) is the official name of the Star Wars character commonly known as "Prune Face". That's all I have to say about that...

I have been a gamer since the inception of video games, but was never into "video computers" like the Amiga or Commodore 64. Nothing against them, just not my bag. I distinctly remember busting out marathons of Pong, Super Pong and the like, just before heading to Chuck E. Cheese (back when it actually had video games in it!)

First system I owned was the Atari 2600, but since then I have owned at one time or another (the following consoles):

1 Colecovision
3 Atari 5200 systems (all 2 port)
5 NES systems (4 original style, 1 top loader)
3 Sega Genesis systems (1 original style, 2 Gen II)
3 Super Nintendo systems (all original style)
2 Sega CD systems (1 motorized, 1 top loader)
1 32X system
1 Sega CDX system
3 3DO systems (2 motorized, 1 top loader)
1 Neo-Geo AES
2 Neo-Geo CD systems
2 Sega Saturn systems
2 SONY Playstation systems (both original style)
2 Nintendo 64 systems (both original style)
3 Sega Dreamcast systems (2 original style, 1 "Sports" edition)
1 SONY Playstation 2 system
1 Nintendo Gamecube
1 Microsoft X-Box
1 Neo-Geo MVS Dedicated 6 - slot standup
1 Nintendo Gameboy
1 Sega NOMAD (bought new for $29.99 at the time)
1 Nintendo Gameboy Advance

Yes that is a lot, and yes I am an idiot... Over the past 7 years, I have decided to "collect video games" 4 separate times, this most recent being the fourth. The first 3 times were interrupted by the need for cash, and very sad days when the eBay beast took it all away.

Now, however, I am comfortable career-wise, the only thing (other than my wife) that would cause me to stop would be lack of interest. Not bloody likely!

Anyway, my long range goal is to have a complete (complete) set of video games for each US system. A very lofty and sure to be expensive goal, I know. How realistic it is, I have no idea.

Since I am collecting for all major systems, my rule of thumb is to look for cheap (complete) games, and search for bargains on the Hard to Find titles whenever I am able.

I currently have the following systems:

1 NES system ("Sports Set" Brand New in Box - never used)
1 SEGA Genesis system (Version 1)
1 SEGA CD system (front-loading 1st version)
1 SEGA SATURN (Brand New - never used)
1 SONY Playstation system (original style)
1 Nintendo 64 system (original style) - TRU Excl. w/Light Green controller
1 Sega Dreamcast system (original style)
1 SONY Playstation 2 system
1 Nintendo Gamecube
1 Microsoft X-Box
1 Neo-Geo MVS Dedicated 6 - slot standup (my baby!)
1 Nintendo Gameboy Advance

Carts and games and discs too many to list. I appreciate the information that people are willing to share on this board. I have never really paid much attention to message boards, so this is my first. I have to say it's been cool so far. I happened upon this forum from a link on Google, so I guess I just got lucky.

Anyway, I hope to learn from those who know a lot more than I, but look forward to talking more about games in the future.

Take care!
Steve

[toddst]

After many months on this board, it's time to finally do this...

My name is Todd. I live in Boston (Roslindale). I'm 30 and work as a researcher in mental health for a university, but am also in school to get my Masters of Library and Information Science.

I mainly collect for the 2600, 5200, and Vectrex, but also am on the look out for SMS, 7800, Intellivision, and Colecovision carts.

Other interests: Old Vespa and Lambretta motorscooters—working on them, riding them, crashing them...

-Todd

http://www.foodtastesgood.com

[Duncan Macleod 2003]

- Who you are

Joe Olsen

- Where you live

Georgia, USA

- How you found the forums

It was mentioned in Tips and Tricks magazine, so I decided to check it out.

- What your favorite games are

Super NES: Super Mario RPG, Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, DKC 2, Super Mario Kart, Final Fantasy III

N64: Mario Kart 64, both Legend of Zelda games

PSX: Twisted Metal 2

PS2: Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy

- What systems you collect for

SNES and a little bit of NES

- What you do in "real life"

I work at a hair salon. I plan on starting my own video game business withn the next 2 years.

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

I've been in to video games since 1987.

[diskoboy]

Mike... Just joined.

I live in Dallas, TX.

Playing games since I was 4 (1977). The first game I remember playing was 'Space invaders'.

systems I have... Atari 2600, Odyssey 2, Intellivision, NES, SMS, Sega Genesis, SNES, Atari Jaguar, GBA, Sega DC, Sony PS2, Xbox, Gamecube.

I also own a Pac-Man and a Vs. Super Mario Bros. Arcade games.

[sidgoop]

Hey guys,
I'm Billy from New Orleans. Long time lurker, first time poster. I haven't really been a collector until I found this board. Reading all the posts about the classic systems really brought back some great memories. I'm 33, and remember when the Atari 2600 was the next big thing. Anyway, I hope to start collecting soon as soon as I make some room. I have a tiki mug collection that needs to make way!

[Pop Culture Portal]

Hello All,

My name is Ken and I'm from Kentucky. I've been "in to" video games since my dad brought home a Coleco Pong back in the day before we had a color TV (like it would have mattered with a Pong system). I had no idea what a "Pong" was and am very glad my dad introduced me to video games. Now at 35, I still play and still collect, although I've had to sell my entire collection many times over in order to survive (except the Pong, which I still have in the box with instructions :D ). Now with a steady job, I hope to built my collection back to its former glory. I'm an archaeologist and no, it's not as fun as you would think. Before being an archaeologist, I was in retail management for nearly 12 years (ugh). I stumbled upon DP by accident while being bored at work, ordered the guide, and now I'm hooked. I'm a little shy with new people and hesitant to post more until I know everyone better (just me being shy). Currently on an XBOX kick for some reason. Glad to be here.

[geelw]

name: greg wilcox
occupation: currently occupying negative space with a few million other unemployed cells seeking something to do to kill time for a reasonable wage (although, unlike a good deal of them, i don't blame the president)... the saga continues...

started gaming: well, it's a long story, but i was 7 or 8, my mom gave me my laundry, a shopping cart, some qyarters, and sent me out the door, 6 long blocks away to domesticate myself somewhat. there was a pinball machine in the laundry, and the rest is history...

collecting since: well, sporadically, in the early 80's- sold off/gave away all of it (about 200 or so 2600 games and a load of nintendo game/watches- some pretty rare, although i didn't realize it then!!!). started again late '91 or so with some master system stuff, but i really picked up steam about '95 or so. currently about 26-2700 games, give or take a few (i keep saying i'll count them, but i keep getting distracted when i do, and the counting session turns into a marathon of gaming). i'm posting a partial list on ign, but it's gonna be WAY short, as i don't have the time to correct and add stuff to their database for them, lol...

systems and add-ons i own/collect for: yeesh, here goes:
3DO, nes, snes, n64, game boy (all), game cube, famicom, super famicom, famicom disk, sufami turbo, sms, mark III*, genesis, mega drive, sega cd, mega cd, game gear, saturn, dreamcast, ps one, ps2, xbox, jaguar, jag cd*, turbo grafx-16/turbo express, duo, pc-engine, pc-engine duo, fm towns marty,vectrex, neo-geo pocket, wonderswan, supervision, pc (mostly DOS and windows 95/98 stuff, cd-i, and i have a colecovision (and one game which i haven't played in years, lol). i may be missing a few systems here, but i can always edit later...
(* means i have games, but ha-ha-haaaaa, no system to play them on- it happens...)

found the forums through: another long story- i used to self-publish a fanzine called [b][i]Continue? a few years back, sent a copy to joe, who put me on the back cover of an issue of DP, and i got a few more readers than i expected. so i sort of kept in touch on and off over the years, always wanting to do SOMETHING for DP, but i couldn't put my finger on what...so it's great of joe to actually give me a shot here, and i'm hoping to be around for a while!

hobbies: well, lessee now...gaming, writing about games, studying the 'language" of gaming, playing games. also, baking, art, thinking too much, occasionally attempting to learn the guitar, japanese, french, and a few other languages, and trying to locate some gal who can put up with all this...

if you need any more info, it'll cost ya five bucks... :hmm:

[Oobgarm]

Seeing as how I've been here for nearly 2 months and have not introduced myself, here goes:

- Who you are

Dustin Carter, 24 years old, been playing games since the early 80's weaned on an Atari 2600.

- Where you live

Milford, Ohio, which is about 35 minutes due East of Cincinnati.

- How you found the forums

Joe's Collector's Closet column in Tips & Tricks.

- What your favorite games are

I especially enjoy racing, puzzle, and FPS games; I intend to post a Top 100 "favorites of all time" list on my site soon.

- What systems you collect for

Any Nintendo console, Playstation 1 & 2, Atari 2600 on occasion, and just about any other post-NES system. Link to my collection is in my sig.

- What you do in "real life"

Currently working as a warehouse/inventory manager at a printing facility during the day, and a "3rd Key"(I resigned from my Assistant Manager status in July) at Gamestop at night.

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

I have Funco to thank for my entry in the collecting field. I originally tried to collect all NES games, but the lure of a high-end stereo and DVD player coaxed me to sell most of them. Now that I have more disposable income for games, that's where it's all going.

If you happen to be in the area, stop by the Gamestop in Beechmont. I can talk about games all day.

[josekortez]

Hi,

I go by Josekortez. I'm a college grad student who also writes about video games for the local newspaper. It's a really cool job because I get games for the modern systems to review for free! I also get school credits for it, so I'm living the American dream of playing video games for homework and getting paid for it!
I was weaned on my uncle's Atari 2600 at the tender age of 3. I remember loving Centipede because I got to blast everything! Later I got an NES, and that was all she wrote!
Currently, I collect for ten systems (Dreamcast, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Genesis, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Xbox, PlayStation, and PlayStation 2), but Dreamcast is my all-time favorite and the system I own the most games for. I'm currently looking for a Turbografx-16 system, but I'm not looking to pay a lot.
In closing, I'd like to say I'm up for trades and it's nice to be among friends!

[Arqueologia_Digital]

- Who you are

My name is Matías Bianco, 18 years old from Argentina, a country where collectors are a rare breed

- Where you live

Buenos Aires

- How you found the forums

I found it in Internet in an investigation about Classic gaming expo

- What your favorite games are

I enjoy racing games, RPG, platform and Arcade in general

- What you do in "real life"

By the moment i´m student and sometimes...DJ

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

I don´t know really how, i think i started collecting when i buy a complete Game boy for US$ 7 (the man was very stupid) so...i started, also, i started playing vg at the age of 4 :)

- What systems you collect for
Every systems, specially 8 bits sytems

Well, i´m also the webmaster of the first and unique argentinian website about classic vg, http://arquedigi.8m.com

Thanks and bye

Matías :morning:

[NEOFREAK9189]

Name: neofreak9189


Location:
new york tarrytown {sleepy hollow}

Hobbies:
Playing and collecting any and all video games
video games magazine {EGM} for 14 years

[jonjandran]

nm duh

[Eternal Tune]

-Who you are
For some reason this reminds me of an AA meeting. *stands up* Hi, my name is Betty and I'm insane. Rather 21 years old. Oh and yes female. wOOt. I'm a l33t biatch.

- Where you live
I'm currently a citizen in the land of.....err Cincinnati, Ohio. We have corn.

- How you found the forums
An asshate, from work, sent me the link. *ahem* Oobgarm.

- What your favorite games are
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete. If I could, I'd worship it as a religion. 'nuff said. I'm extremely obsessed with RPGs, as well as survivor horror. Throw in a few fighters from time to time, perhaps a little adventure.....and thats me.

- What systems you collect for
Mostly I just collect RPGs for the systems I own, heavy on the Playstation and PS2. That is all.

- What you do in "real life"
I work in the pits of hell...err Gamestop.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc..
I'm a huge anime fan..... Current favorites are: Star Ocean EX, Rizelmine, Love Hina, and Azumanga Diaoh. Plus I'm in love with Dante........

[Tunnel Runner]

My name is Jeff Adkins. Some of you may recall Classic Systems & Games Monthly (one of the original "fanzines" like Digital Press) that I edited with a great deal of help from Scott (I Am The Eggman) Stilphen, and the keeper and guardian of video game lore Russ Perry Jr.. I now reside in Streetsboro Ohio (about 30 miles south of Cleveland. You know the city where we throw beer bottles at football games) still working in construction. I was looking for my old game addicted fiend Joe Santulli around here at the DP site. I've been playing and collecting games for nearly thirty years now. But first and foremost I am a player. Some of my accomplisments include being the first to find the programmers initials in E.T.(2600),getting to Run 130 in Tunnel Runner(2600) and numerous other intense sessions. I live,breath,and die video games. At 41 I may have lost a step or two but I can still compete. The spirit and history of the classic games must NEVER be forgotten! Greetings to all my vidhead friends old and new!

[davidbrit2]

Hi. You may already know me from the Atari Age forum. The photo is a dead giveaway. :-) Anyway, if you're bored enough, just click the WWW button below the message and you can look at my web site. I hope you like DDR photos. Heh.

[z28in82]

- Who you are - Shaun from beautiful Philadelphia, ya know the place that loves your money back but not you

- How you found the forums - Actually found Dp thru AA and the whole jet Saga back in 02

- What your favorite games are - Anything that has to do with Hockey, and driving, and most sidescroller/platformers and mini RPGs

- What systems you collect for - ok now trying to rememebr the list : O2, 2600/7800, C=64, NES, SNES, Genesis (CD & 32X), Saturn, N64, PSX/1, DC, PS2, Xobox, GB(anything), NGPC, Game.com, and my most recent addition JAG and JAG CD

- What you do in "real life" - performing maintance work @ University Of Penn

- Began collecting due to a lonely childhood and it passed the time, been hooked ever since

[Kairi]

- Who you are:
My name is Dana. I'm 20 years old. Married. No kids. :-D

- Where you live:
I live in Florida

- How you found the forums:
Autobotracing showed me the forums when I was looking to find a game.

- What your favorite games are:
Final Fantasy VI (3 in US), Suikoden III, Starcraft (from computer), Final Fantasy X and Animal Crossing.

- What systems you collect for:
SNES, PSX and PSX2, & Gamecube.

- What you do in "real life":
I am a computer sales... erm person. I used to do computer technical support for two and a half years.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.:
Not really much of a "collector". I like to play RPG games and certain strategy games. :D

[Sleep Deprivator]

-Who are you
Kyle Guillemette

-Where do you live
Manchester, NH

-How did you find the forums
I was looking for an NES rarity list. I found one that was based off an online store domain, I typed in the domain, click the links section, and lo-and-behold, here I am.

-What are your favorite games
Mortal Kombat II(snes), Unreal Tournament(PC), Tengen Tetris, other games of addictive quality.

-What Systems do you collect for
Any I really feel like getting into.

-What do you do in "real life"
Fry/Broil cook at "The Yard" restaurant, and local High School Student.

-Interesting Facts
Many people here could put me to shame in the collecting department. However, I overrule everyone that I know in my area as far as my NES collection is concerned. Its almost depressing to see people drrol over it. I mean COME ON! its only about 250 games. :roll:

[Mr Mort]

Hi there, since this is my first post here, I figured this would be a great place to start...

-My name's Alex aka "Mr Mort", I'm originally from Quebec, currently living in Maryland.

-I stumbled across the forums when doing a search for "video game collecting", and I've been reading the forums for quite some time, and finally decided to join in on the fun. It's nice to come across a video game forum who seems to have a genuinely mature audience and meaningful threads.

-I've been collecting since the NES, unfortunately mostly the mainstream stuff. I'm currently collecting for the following systems: Nes, Snes, N64, GB/GBA, GC, Genesis, 32X, Sega CD, Saturn, DC, PS, PS2, NGPC, 3DO, and Xbox. My game collection is approaching 300 games, although I don't really have anything terribly rare or valuable. The rarest items I probably have are:
Spider-Man: Web of Fire (32X), Panzer Dragoon Saga, Radiant Silvergun. I consider myself to be a "true gamer" and love all my systems, although I have a soft spot for my Saturn mostly for its Capcom fighting games, and Sega's excellent arcade games. I'm also really enjoying the online gaming the Saturn, DC, and particularly the Xbox have to offer.

-As for "real life", I do office work in the Auto repair industry, and it's not really something I enjoy at all, so I'll leave it at that.

I look forward to chatting with you in the future...

[klimatron8]

Hi. My name is Mike, I'm 33 and live in SE Mass. I've been playing games for quite a long time but have only been collecting for about the past year and a half or so. Favorite games would include Anything Ultima, Final Fantasy3, Secret of Mana, Super Mario series, Sonic etc..... Currently collecting for NES,SNES,N64,Genesis,Saturn, and Intellivision. Don't remember how I found out about the forum but damn glad I did. In real life I'm employed as a saleman in the electrical industry.(yawn).

[EnemyZero]

Hello All! My name is John, I will be 19 on july 25th, and I live in Buffalo, New York. I started my gaming career with NES, i got it when i was 4 years old and ever since i popped in Mario for the first time...well what can I say, some people smoke, some drink, some do drugs....for me its video games, I collect everything, Currently the only systems I dont own , are Neo Geo (metal slug 1 AES in great condition sells for over 2 grand on e-bay lol, this will be fun). I also do not own commadore 64 or intellevision.

My favorite system of all time is without a doubt my sega saturn, my favorite company is definately sega. My favorite games of all time would probably be, nights into dreams, panzer dragoon, FFVII, the entire shinning force series, and then Arcus oddyssey. Currently I'm working on my Genesis\32x\CD collection.

Outside of my life on the internet and outside of video gamesd (what little there is anyways) I work in the electronics dept at target! GO ME!!! :P

Well the only other thing I wanna say is....kids these days *patooey* I get little snobs coming to me and talking to me about how great the xbox is and all the other stuff and I just wanna laugh because there so naive lol. For me no experience in gaming will ever be the same as opening my NES or my Genesis for the first time! Oh what a rush!

[lostsage]

- Who you are: i'm lostsage aka Alan from gallup, nm

- Where you live: uh, gallup, nm but going to school in santa fe, nm (on a shoestring budget)

- How you found the forums: searching for classic video games on google

- What your favorite games are: don't want to choose, but since i must... racing, adventure, the occasional platforming game, puzzles, music/beat based, arcade, pinball, and that crane deal where you can win the fake gold watches.

- What systems you collect for: recently aquired a game gear. have in my collection NES, SNES, N64, Playstation (before model change), Game Boy Advance, Sega Genesis, Sega Dreamcast (my pride and joy)

- What you do in "real life": I'm a student of creative writing

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc: uh, that you'll know with time. (i like having a low profile. that and it's late at night i should be doing homework instead. like that's going to happen)

[dreamcaster]

Hi, on these forums I'll be known as "dreamcaster". Don't let the name fool you though - I support all consoles, except Xbox! You can find my 'game room' in the identically named section of this website. Mine's 'Christopher from Australia'.

I currently reside in Australia, but have had the fortune to visit the United States twice - so far!

My favourite video game of all time is Stunt Race FX on SNES.

Here's my collection of consoles (seeing as I'm in Australia, these consoles are all PAL except one);
Nintendo 64 with 26 games
Atari Lynx with 4 games
Game Boy Color with 9 games (plus one b/w game)
Sega Game Gear with 4 games
Game Boy Advance with 4 games
Atari 2600 with 7 games
Nintendo GameCube with 5 games
Super NES with 7 games
US NTSC Nintendo 64 with 4 games
Nintendo Entertainment System with 4 games
Sony PlayStation 2 with 2 games (plus 2 PSX games)
Sega Dreamcast with 1 game (I need more dammit!)
Sega Saturn with 3 games

I'm currently about to start first year university doing a preparation course. I have to do this course because, while I didn't do well enough in my final exams, it was enough for me to get my foot in the door! Hopefully I'll then be apply for a Computer Science course. It is my aspiration to one day enter the video games industry as a designer, developer - anything!

My first console was a Super Nintendo, which I got shortly after my birthday in 1995. However, I was playing PC games for many years before that. Some of my first and favourite computer games were Captain Comic, SimCity and a grand prix racing game which was surprising titled - Grand Prix!

Oh, well, that's about it for me (well, as much as I'm willing to reveal about myself on the internet!).

Long live video games! Especially Sega! :D

[l_c_r_ant]

Well lemme see here....
I love the old NES. I still play it the most even though I own almost every system post NES. I even own all of the new gen consoles and I still play the NES the most. My favorite games are the Castlevania series, the Zelda series, and the Metroid series. My favorite game of all time I would have to say is Dracula X: Rondo of Blood on the PC-Engine.

In real life I'm a student for the moment, making my way through college for a EE degree. My name is James but I go by Jim normally. I look like I'm 37 but I was born well after pong was out. I live in Podunk, Ohio. And, I'm Catholic... Roman Catholic. (insert your own derogitory joke here) Lastly, I have a kind of "Tim Taylor" personality and life in that the folks at the local ER know me by name, hence the last two quotes of mine in my signature below.

Right now I have five REALLY big interests in my life. Collecting and playing Video Games, collecting old computers, I LOVE pinball, collecting swords, and hopefully building portable NESs and maybe other systems. If your interested in the last one I have a site, www.buyneonlights.com/jim/NESBOX/index.htm.

[TripppsK]

My name is Karl, I am 37 and live in Jackson, NJ with my wife and triplet daughters. I found the forums through browsing the internet for classic gaming sites and from attending NAVA meetings. My favoite System has to be my Atari 2600 and Colecovision, but I have stuff from as early as Pong and the RCA Studio II up to todays standards. I lean towards playing and collecting stuff from my teenage prime 1979-1986. I have recently finished converting a cabinet for MAME and have been occupied for hours reliving my youth. In real life I am an accountant, but who actually cares about real life when there is gaming to be done. Outside of video games and my family my other passion is playing wiffleball competitivley in tournaments about once a month from April thru September. I began collecting when I finally could afford all the games I wanted as a child.

[snorlaxnut]

Hello everyone! I'm snorlaxnut!

Yes, that snorlaxnut from the atariage.com forums.

- Where you live
Well I'm from Hoquiam, WA.

How you found the forums
Straight from the atariage.com forums.

What your favorite games are
Phantasy Star Collection, RPGs, and anything with Zelda or Pokemon in it.

What systems you collect for
Atari 2600, Atari computers, everything Sega except Saturn and Dreamcast, and everything Nintendo except Virtual Boy and Gamecube.

Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc
I started collecting I guess in 1992. I sold my Atari 7800 for $50 at a garage sale, and regreted it since. I have also been collecting free videotapes, DVDs, CDs and CD-ROMs in the mail. I also collect in the mail free samples of food, drinks, and drugs! I also watch a lot of anime. Too much that I would feel a whole lot better if everybody was talking in Japanese with English subtitles!
I also like going to the 99 cent/$1 stores, garage sales, and thrift stores.

I am looking foward to posting messages here, and have everybody tell me that the messages stink! :)

[Alex Kidd]

- Who you are
Brian
- Where you live
Newfoundland, Canada... for now
- How you found the forums
Was looking for a complete list of Sega Genesis games that incliuded year relased and company that produced it.
- What your favorite games are
in random order:
Alex Kidd series
Phantasy Star series
Mecha-robot-space-flight-blasteverythinginsightwithwhateveryouhave games
Mortal Kombat series
Space Harrier series
Fantasy Zone series
Shining Force series
Altered Beast
and more that I can't think of off the top of my head
- What systems you collect for
Sega Master System, Sega Genesis
to a lesser extent, Sega Dreamcast and GameGear
- What you do in "real life"
Well, I studied computer technology ion college, then worked as a cook for a while, now I'm working in a library untill I go back to school and take Culinary Arts
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I actually began playing video games when I was 4. My cousin who's about 5 years older than me had them all. He had Ataris, Colecovision, Intellivision, some computer dealy. after playing the death out of his my parents decided to buy me something.
My first video game system was actually an Atari 2600 which I got when I was 5 in 1986. kinda late, I know... you'd think I'd have gotten an NES, but no, Atari was cheaper and it didn't matter I fell in love. Then when I was 9, in 1990 my uncle gave me his old Sega Master System and a his games. I remember wanting a Nintendo cause everyone else had one, but then when I got the SMS I was glad I had that instead, I coouldn't believe, even at 9, how the SMS blew the NES out of the water in EVERY aspect. Then my SMS RF unit gave out around 1992. And I was waiting and waiting for my parents to buy me a new one, when lo and behold on my birthday they had bought me a Sega Genesis. and THAT dear friends was when I went from Video Game player to Video Game LOVER.
I mean, the Atari, I played when I was a 5-9, didn't really do much, keep track of scores, whatever, just kept me busy, the SMS while fun, was hard to find games for and I sometimes got bored with the few I had. But the Sega Genesis, games were plentyful, AND good, AND I was old enough to be earning money and buying MORE games with my own pocket money rather than waiting for birthdays and christmas. I loved that Sega Genesis, and still do.
Infact after the sega genesis The next system I bought was the Dreamcast!
I never have owned a PSX... one of my ex-girlfriends had one and I played hers a bit, it was alright... I've only ever picked up an N64 controller twice... once to play Shadows of the Empire, which I didn't like. and once again to try Zelda cause I was curious how a 'new' version would be, didn't like that one much either...

Oh, and once I saw a blimp.

Alex Kidd

[shompee1]

Hello I am Jamie from New York. I am 21 and love video games. I heard of this site from my friend and he got banned from here. I have Xbox, Playstation, SNES, NES, and GBA. My favorite game is Mario Kart for SNES. I absolutely love it. I do not have much time to play games anymore but I still love them when I get time. I am sure all of the guys with significant others know what I mean. My girl hates my sitting and playing games when I have time. I do not know what else to say so Happy Gaming

[Starcade]

- Who you are

Wes Whitehair, a 15 year old male

- Where you live

Muncie, Indiana

- How you found the forums

Searching for a collecting forum..

- What your favorite games are

Gunstar Heroes, Ms. Pac Man, River City Raid

- What you do in "real life"

Games, student

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

I just saw that I already had almost 100 games, and I just thought, "hey why not collect"

- What systems you collect for
Every system


Thanks

[Quintracker]

I'm Quintracker from West Virginia (please no redneck jokes....ugh). Currently I'm a college student majoring in accounting. Yes, it is boring. :roll:

I stumbled across these forums while searching for game trading sites. Right now I'm only actively looking for complete nes games and hope to one day (like most every other collector) own every one. I'm more of a collector than a gamer, simply because accounting sucks up free time like a hoover, and my nes system is broke. :/

Anyways I've been lurking around the forums for a couple weeks now and decided it was high time I introduced myself. ;)

[l_lamb]

Here goes...

- Who you are
My name is Lawrence Lamb, I'm 34 and have been playing since I was 7 years old.

- Where you live
Houston, TX for the last 26 years, but looking to move to NM soon.

- How you found the forums
Email I received after purchasing the Digital Press guide.

- What your favorite games are
In no particular order: Galaga, Tempest, Devil Dice, Tetris, Roller Coaster Tycoon, THPS 3, PS2 Rygar, Super Mario Bros, Final Fantasy X...
- What systems you collect for
I've got systems and games for: 2600, 5200, 7800, XE/8-bit, Jaguar, Intellivision, Colecovision, Astrocade, Odyssey 2, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, PS, PS2, Sega Master, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, Vectrex, Xbox, Game Boy/Color/Advance, Game Gear, game.com, Neo Geo Pocket Color, 3DO, VIC20, C64, Virtual Boy, Lynx, Turbografx-16, Tandy CoCo, TI 99/4A...probably forgetting something. I have games for Arcadia 2001 but no system yet.

- What you do in "real life"
For the last 18+ months, I've been a store manager for Blockbuster but I was a R-Zone "world leader" for Toys R Us for several years before that.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc
I started collecting when I was 13, just as the videogame bust began. I bought everything I could when the prices started to fall, at that point just to have more games than anyone else. :) I started actively collecting about 8 years ago and currently have over 3100 games and about 70 systems/variants which swallows up my guest room, attic, garage and some of the living room and bedroom. The best parts of my collection are the POP and store displays I've gotten over the years, including 2 SNES counter displays, 1 Game Boy Pocket (B/W with monitor), 1 Neo Geo PC shelf displayer with 2 units, 1 floor-standing Playstation unit (minus the clear door), 1 full-size World Of Nintendo display (TV and electronics removed). I've also got tons of standees, mobiles, oversized boxes, banners, counter easels, plush, T-shirts, pins, pens, magnets, etc., mainly for the newer systems, as well as the Vidpro plaques that TRU used to display games when they used the tickets for purchase.

[threeoclockhigh]

- Who you are
Buddy Ravelle, recently humbled and former high school bully. Just kidding.

- Where you live
With my parents. I'll probably be stuck here for years.

- How you found the forums
Looking for info on how much my old 2600 games were worth, back in 1999.

- What your favorite games are
By system:
NES: SMB games, Zelda series, Mega Man games, RBI Baseball 2, Dragon Warrior
SNES: Final Fight and SF games, Fatal Fury 2, MK1 and 2, SMB All-Stars, Zelda
3DO: Gex, Madden, Fifa
Jag: AVP, Club Drive, Checkered Flag, Tempest 2000, Cybermorph, Fight for Life
INTV: Burgertime
2600: Missle Command, Pac Jr, Centipede, Venture, Pitfall, Ms. Pac Man
Genesis: World Series Baseball 96, Sonic series, SF2 CE, Deadly Moves, Golden Axe, Beavis & Butthead, Altered Beast, PS4, Street of Rage series
GB: Pokemon Silver, Nemesis, SML series, GTA, Zelda games, Play Action Football
PS1: Evil Zone, Eternal Eyes, any wrestling games, Triple Play 2000, Resident Evil games, KOTF 99, fishing games
DC: Sonic games, RE Code Veronica, fishing games, Shenmue, Soul Calibur, NFL and NBA 2K games, NHL 2K
N64: Zelda games, Resident Evil 2, WCW games, Nascar 99, Indy Racing
Saturn: VF1 and 2, QB Attack, World Championship Soccer

- What systems you collect for
-unlicensed NES games
-Jag, Saturn and 3DO games.
-2600 and INTV games when I can afford them.
-SNES and Genesis games strictly for ones that are fun to play.

- What you do in "real life"
Teach kids

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I started serious collecting in 2001 when I picked up a used Saturn from a video rental store along with some games for roughly $30.
As for other stuff, I recorded a 15 song rock album back in 1999. 2 of the songs were covers but the rest were originals.
It was sort of an audition really, I sung over some tunes that some other musicians had laid down, they were looking for people but never did use any of the tapes. I think they tried out a few other guys, maybe 2 or 3. I checked out the tunes a time or two, wrote my own lyrics to go along with the songs and actually recorded it all over the course of 3 days. I do still own a copy, though. I don't know if Simon Cowell would have let me into the 'later' rounds but it was a lot of fun.

[phuzzed]

Hey Guys!

My name is Delf, and after a long period of inactive game collecting, I'm finally getting back into the game!

Well, I'm 27, living in good 'ol Oklahoma City, OK. To my knowlege, I'm one of the only people that collect classic video game stuff in Oklahoma.

I have been aware of digital press for quite some time now. I have the collector's guides.

Favorite all time system is the Atari 2600, and favorite games are Yars Revenge, Pitfall, HERO, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man (but not the 2600 version of Pac-Man!)

I currently collect just for the ATari 2600, 5200, and 7800 systems. I used to collect for the ColecoVision, INtellivision, Odyssey 2, but late last year, I decided I need to focus on just Atari systems. So, I sold off the other systems, and now all I have is Atari stuff.

In my real life, I work as a network administrator, and go to car shows. I don't have a wife, so none of that stuff to attend to :-D (yet)

I began collecting for classic game systems a long time ago, sometime back in the early 1990's, when I was still in High School. I was living in the Western Part of Oklahoma at that time, where no civilization exists--electricity barely exists there. I remember when Cubicolor became available, and I scrounged a $100 up buy a cartrdige. Collecting was hard, but I would make it to Amarillo, TX about every 6 months and I would load up at the Flea Market.

[Darth Vader]

My name is Danny, I am 30 years young and live near the town of Kewaunee, Wisconsin (If you go on yahoo maps, my exact town I live in is called East Krok). I am married and have 2 kids, Payton, 4 (daughter) and Brandon, 18 months (son).

I came across this site about 4 years ago which is when I started my serious collecting. I had all the good systems when I was a kid, but got rid of them when I got older. I started buying a few things here and there around town and bought items here and there, needless to say, here and there has become 4 rooms in my basement.

I collect games for many systems. I have about half of the Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision and SMS libraries. I am about 50 games away on the SNES and Genesis from being complete and only need 3 games for the complete NES collection.

I have thousands of duplicates, just need to go through all of them. So I plan on helping many of you out on your want lists.

When I am not collecting or playing games, I usually am hanging out with my wife and kids.

My real job is selling Potato Chips and other snacks for Jays Foods, a smaller competitor of Frito Lay up in beautiful Door County Wisconsin.

I look forward to working with many of you on this site and around the world.

Cheers!

Danny

[brandver3]

Hello. My name is Brandon. This Introduction is a little late (when I joined the forums this thread was on page 8).

I'm 21 tommorrow (as it is 3/11/03 upon writing this) and am looking forward to spending my entire day in Dave & Busters playing DDR for the first time.

I reside in Jax FL which is the best place ever to collect games. There are about 11 games stores that I know of, and 7 large flea markets all within an hour of driving distance. Plus since most flea marketers have no idea what Ebay is or how to work a computer, good stuff gets sold for very low prices (i.e. Shining Force CD complete for 10 dollars, Miricle Piano Teacher for Nes at 4 dollars, Puzzle Fighter for 15, the list is endless).

Yxonomei is my fiance, and for those of you who saw my Mario Towel Ebay Insanity entrant, that would be her.

I'm going to collage full time and am trying to get into rendering or multimedia design. I'm also a proficiant short story writer (Go look at "Ballad of the Urban Psycho" in the Kingdom Arts forum). But I will be the first to admit that my spelling leaves something to be desired, so bear with me.
I'm also a fantastic Puzzle Fighter player and whoop butt at Blackjack.

I work part time for Citicard making collection phone calls. Its not fun, but it pays very well so what the hey.

I also like Capcom....alot. My main collection goal is to get every Capcom game released stateside. I've got 121 right now.

That is about it for me. Um pleased to meet you?

[Neo_Veteran]

My name is Roberto, and I come from the Neo-geo.com forums.
I am 21 years old, and enjoy collecting fighting games. I have
approximately 200 different fighting games for various systems,
including almost all the SNK fighting games ( missing 5 ).

I am a huge fan of 2D shooters as well.

The systems I enjoy the most are:

#1 NeoGeo (Any system)
#2 Sega Dreamcasat
#3 Sega Saturn
#4 PS1 & PS2
#5 XBox

:-D

[zmeston]

N/A

[Dahne]

Howdy folks.

I'm a long-time RPG addict with a smattering of other games that have gained by interest by means of cute little gimmicks(being able to crawl around in a cardboard box, having talk radio stations where people complain about all the old floks in Florida) and found a place in my cold black heart.

I guess I'm a little young compared to a lot of the people here, as I was introduced with the NES, but didn't really fall in love until around the time I discovered Chrono Trigger.

Frankly, I can't remember how I found this place. Erm, what else is there? I'm your typical MS-hating, Squaresoft fangirl, anime nut(what I can afford, anyway. Which isn't much :) ), wannabe writer, smily-overusing, raving lunatic. Oh, and I have a sprite comic! Yay.

If any of this isn't quite coherant, it's because it's late and I'm tired. Granted, this is my usual state, but still :)

[Project_2501]

Aight.

Hello. My name is Chris. Im 23 and I work for microsoft.

*dodges tomatoes and other random vegitables being throw*


Ok, now that that's out of the way. I've been into videogames since I was about 4 years old. Atari owns. I started really getting into it around the time the SNES came out and I actually got to go to the Nintendo World Championships in 1994. It was called PowerFest '94. For those of you old skool enough you probably either remember it or actually competed in it. I've been mostly into computer games lately but I still enjoy fireing up the ol SNES and ownin down to china town.

Anyways, Im into mostly fighting games, but I like racing & RPG's as well. And other then a couple of exceptions, sports games can eat my ass. IMO they have no buisness being a videogame.

Ok, I think thats it. i r teh d0n3.

[Vectrex-Atari]

My name is Sonny Kyzer. Im 21 years old and live in Titusville, FL.

I came these forums by a friend over at Atariage. I was having some problems with TYGC and he showed me the mess he made over here.

I collect for the Atari 5200, Jaguar, and Vectrex. My favorite games are Zaxxon, Rayman and Rip off.

In real life, I am a Auto technician at a local dealership. I have a 2 year degree in general automotive service and just started taking courses in GM and Honda service. I also build engines and transmissions for friends and people who know of my work.

I began collecting recently. I was at college when someone started talking about how they sold there Atari. My parents bought us kids a 5200 back in the mid 80's. I remember sitting in front of our big TV playing Zaxxon and other 5200 games. In 91, the system quit working and they threw it away. We got a SNES after that and I forgot about the Atari. Now I am trying to get back what was lost and then some. This is more fun and cheaper than cars :D

[Evan_G]

I suppose I will introduce myself. My name is Evan and I am from Manitoba. I am a huge fan of the snes, and have created one of the largest snes sites on the internet. Currently my collection isn't too big (only 60 games) but it is slowly growing.

[ehall]

Greetings,
My name is Ed and I'm a collector of pretty much anything game related. So my collections are pretty much a little bit of everything and a whole lot of nothing so far. I collect for, and enjoy consoles, but my true love is arcade. I currently own an Atari 2600, NES, Snes, Gamecube, PS2, GBA, and about a dozen arcade machines. I have a few carts for each machine, nothing too rare.
I think my love for vids comes from not having too much money growing up, and of course no money = no games. I'm making up for it now. :D


See you around the forum!

[JWKobayashi]

Hi!

My name is Josh, I'm 18, and I once was a video game collector for just about any system I could afford to get my hands on. Lately however, most of my gaming stuff had been just collecting dust, so I decided to pawn it in favor of games I would play....which is really ending up to just be pretty much bemani games. Anyway, I guess you could say that I collect bemani stuff, and will go nuts over most of it. :D

I'm in Machesney Park, Illinois (It's about an hour and a half outside Chicago), and I found the boards thanks to a local friend (Captain Yashiro). I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about games and game systems, and am glad to be able to participate in the forums.

If you ever want to talk, go ahead and email me (ironjosh@ameritech.net) or AIM me (JWKobayashi).

[lautje]

Helloy everyone,

my name is Laurens and I come from the Netherlands. I don't now of any collectors in my country (I don't think there are to many) so thats why I love to see this forum with all these people who like the retro stuff as much as I do.

Right now my NES collection begins to grow the way I like it. I now have around 200 games for the NES. The games are hard to get here in the Netherlands..... Further more I have a SNES, SMS and Megadrive.

I have begon collecting not so long ago. I thought about the time I was playing Streetfighter II on the SNES and thought: wouldn't it be nice to have many/all the games for the NES and SNES. I still have a long way to go :D but I'm hopefully one day get to the point of having most/all of the games for at least the above systems.

In real life I'm working as a system engineer.

[Drexel923]

Hi everyone, my name is Nick, I'm 21 years old, and I am from South Jersey. I am currently a senior at Drexel University in Philadelphia and my major is Digital Media. Basically, my work at school consists of making 3D models and animations along with some smaller projects on the web and design. I plan to get a job in the videogame industry when I graduate in June...applications go out this week! Once my websites up you can see some of my work. I have been playing games since my parents gave me a colecovision and I haven't looked back since. I have just recently began my quest on collecting every system and the games on each that are appealing to me. Not sure what else to talk about. Hopefully I'll have the chance to become friends with the people here. If there's anything I can do for you let me know...I'm always willing to help. :D

[Saturn]

My name is Saturn and I live in South Central Texas. I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600 was released and that's where the addiction began.
I found this forum by chance (and a tip from a friend at another forum) and have enjoyed every minute here since! My favorite games are mostly survival horror and/or fast paced action titles.<--contradiction? Once I got my hands on Resident Evil for PSX, there was no turning back. Since then, I've enjoyed every addition to the genre that I can. I have around seventeen systems, most of which I still play when time permits. Although that seems less and less frequently with the insane hours I've been putting in at work. Oh well, knowing there's a good supply of unopened games gives me a great deal to look forward to. :D
-S

[jdllama]

Suppose I'll need to reintroduce myself since it's been ages since I've been on here.

The name's J.D. Lowe, I'm a 20 year old game collector from Columbus, Ohio. I work at a local Gamestop where I am Senior Game Advisor (in other words, Asst. Asst. Manager), and I love the NES! NES FOREVER!!! WHOO!!!

Oh, and I'm a wannabe voice actor. Whoo.

It's been too long, guys :)

[The Unknown Gamer]

My name is Ed, I'm from Chicago; home of D'ah Bears..Although I perfer
videogames to sports. I've been in to gaming since the early '80s.
And I can state this " I never played A game system that I personally
didn't like at least 1 game for that system". Although I rather new in
to PCs and games on them. I'm old in to gaming on systems that is...
Anyone who seen my post WHERE TO FIND would think otherwise.
For that is me in a nutshell I am curious about everything especially
where to find things. I have a side interest in Radio...Radio Shows
such as Jack Benny and The Shadow. I consider myself a pack rat
anyone who seen my closet would agree with me for I have gaming stuff
from way back...from when I started gaming....I never throw anything
out, and over the years I found plunty I took home including a
Radio Shack Color Computer and it's 2 joysticks also my 2 SMS
and a few games.

I am will to help those who need help, so please feel free to contact me.
Maybe I pass along a story or 2 I collected over the years from my dealings
with Atari and Midway.

[Lucifersam1]

How's it going everyone? My name is chris (lucifersam1 -- I'm HUGE Pink Floyd & Roger Waters fan), I am 25 years old and live in Massachusetts, in the Worcester area. I stumbled upon this site when I was doing a search for "massachusetts classic gaming". I found a site hosted here in Massachusetts called "New England Classic Gaming Headquarters," that made reference to "The Digital Press Guide." Naturally, I had to find out what it was all about :-). So here I am.

Here are the less boring details! The first systems I played were the Intellevision (which I found in perfect condition just the other day, along with 15 complete games!) and the Atari 2600 (the good old days of River Raid and Joust), of which I still have about 10 games (although the system smells horrible when i turn it on!).

Systems I own now include: Intellevision, NES (well my brother has it actually), SNES (w/ the super 8 attachment), Turbo Duo, Sega Genesis + Sega CD (just scored it for free!) and PS2.

My favorite series, hands down, is Castlevania. My favorite system is the SNES. I just can't get enough of it. Thankfully, all of our NES/SNES stuff has all the original boxes and manuals (we did something right when we were kids!).

Anyway, I hope this is not too long. I look forward to joining in on discussions and getting to know everyone.

thanks for your time,

lucifersam1

[Tepic]

What a great place this is!

My name is Pete. I am almost 30 and have been playing games since my 10th birthday. I got into collecting after getting the urge to relive my youth with a Vic20.

Since then I have collected a lot of bits I never had. I have 3 Vics, 1 Plus/4, 3 C64's, Spectrum 128+2, 3 Atari STs. In the past I never was a console guy, but now I have a few. Master System, 2 Mega Drives, GameGear, N64, Game Cube, and a PS/2. Phew.

Hope to have lots of interesting times remembering old games :)

Oh, and my GF thought I was mad until she saw some of the pictures on this site.. Thanks guys ;)

[Perkar]

Hello,

I'm Mike, 21, from Rochester MI. i just recently started collecting, and stumbled upon these pages while i was looking for checklists of games for various systems. and checklists i found...

i was brought up on the atari 2600 and later got NES for my 7th birthday. i actually sold the NES (BIG REGRET ... looking for toploader now =) ), but now have enough systems to keep me occupied for awhile: Atari 2600, Gameboy (b&w), SNES, Genesis, Game Gear, N64, Dreamcast, Gamecube. My current goal (which i just started, and have a looong way to go on, is to get the complete dreamcast catalogue.

I work at a mall-based record store (FYE), we also carry some games (we've been blowing out some dc games recently for $5-$10, not much left tho), but generally we lack in that dept. I also have 1000+ cds... another addiction of mine.

thanks for reading my BS!

mike

[ROCCO]

Hello my name is Nelson, from Puerto Rico, I am 28 years old, co-founder of one of the very few gaming sites in my area. My pages is www.palanquita.com and mostly we do reviews in spanish for every current platforms. Also we have a section of retro games, very cool page. I collect Oddysey, Atari 2600, NES, SNES, SMS, Genesis, Neo Geo MVS, Turbografx-16, Sega CD, Saturn, PS1 (mostly the big boxes), Dreamcast,Gameboy and Gameboy Advance. I have a PS2 and X-Box too.


While analyzing my list of Sega CD games I realized that in the complete list of Dreamcast games there is one game missing, or I guess that is missing: I have a Sega Classics 4-in-1 that includes a Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective game with it that do not appear in the complete DC game list. If anyone knows about this please let me know.

[ste]

I'm Ste (yeah it's hard to get used to, I'm the kid of some hippy Swiss-German post-war immigrants (my parents were barely 5 when they came over, but they were instructed in all manners of the culture...but I digress) it's pronounced SH-tay - like Stay but with a SH- first). I'm have XY chromosomes.

I currently live in Ottawa - the scenic capital of Canada.
I began collecting fairly recently. I was a late-bloomer as is were. I started playing on an APF-401A pong unit in the early 80s. My brother and I kept taking it apart and staring at the parts in amazement - there's not much in there by today's (or then's) standards. We destroyed a few units - but they were failry easy to come across - being produced in 1976 - the year I was born - and Saskatchewan being a pretty boring province to live in, especially if you lived in the rural areas - it seemed every yard sale had one for sale.

Fast forward a few years, and we were playing on our TSR-80 portable. That thing weighed a ton! But it was fun. We didn't have any games for it, so we programmed our own from a BASIC book we found. It wasn't much, but we had lots of fun.

We lived vicariously through our friends machines - the C64, Apple IIE, etc. Finally we joined the rest of the "world" and got a Tandy 1000EX. It played lots of Games in 16 startling colours, whith only 256KB. During this time, we never heard of consoles for some reason.

Oh, I remember why - we lived in a small village in rural Quebec by this time, and had no Television stations - receptions was horrible. One day I got a job babysitting some brats (they were!) and they had an NES. Love!

A while later, I moved to Quebec City and Radio Shack was having a sale on TG-16s. I lost in my various travels and it remains in myt heart forever.

Then I moved a fewmore times and finally settled here in Ottawa - I got a job working in records at the Registrar's Office at the local college, and I decided I needed a hobby. I started to look for one.

One day mom visited and dropped of a box she had found. PONG! It was in the box.. YEAH MOM!

The memories came back. I started talking about systems of yesteryear and a friend volunteered his old C64 games to me, though he no longer had a C64 to play them on. I accepted. One month later I found a C64! FATE!

Another trip led me to some vic20 cartridges. I said what the hell - one week later I found a complete system....

Well before I bore anyone else todeath with my sotry - I now own quite a few consoles and computer systems from the early 80s to the late 90's.

Then one day I was zooming around the net - a few weeks ago actually, and some how I ended up here and decided to make it home. I bought the book and started highlighting like crazy.

That's me in a nut-shell!

[RubbarDucklin]

Hi, my name is RubbarDucklin. I currently reside in San Diego, california. I was introdced to the forums by someone I ran across on IRC Sothy. I am pretty new at this collecting deal so I am looking foreward to reading up on as much as I can. My gaming expirence is fairly recent because of my young age. My first system I played on was the NES. NES still facinates me and I hope to find one that I can purchace (my old one was taken away :( ) When I moved to California I found my grandparents had a Atari 5200. That is alot of fun and I have about 15 games for it. Along with some consoles such as PS2, SNES, SEGA Gen. and N64 I also spend alot of time on my good old computer. I hope to learn alot here, meet some pals and eventually get into the collecting buissness.

[shai hulud]

Hi everyone,

my name is Matt and i live in Illinois near ST. Louis MO (anyone in this area contact me for some video game shopping/playing/trading, horror movie watching, or punk rock listening). I have a lovely girlfriend, Rachel whom i have brainwashed into enjoying games (baldurs gate and 2D fighters mainly). I work at a videogame/cd/dvd store and thats where i get most of my new stuff. I collect mainly for PSX and DC however i also have many games from NES, SNES, Gen, PS2, NGPC, GC, and a few from XBOX, N64, GBA, Atari 2600 and coleco. I will play any shooter, 2D fighter, or co-op game at least twice.

[AB Positive]

Heya all.

My name is Adam Gallant, I work at a video game store and I'm new on the actual 'collector' side of gaming, but have been gaming since age 4 when my mom bought me an old Atari 2600 to play around with. I wish I still had it :(

I currently have the systems in my signature, favorite games would probably be Final Fantasy I, Metroid, Zelda, FF 3/6, Stampede, Video Pinball, I*Robot (which I noticed the site covered in one of their past magazines, good show!) and anything King of Fighter related. Even 95. Really. *cough* Oh yeah, Phantasy Star IV, but I've yet to really get down and play the other three before it.

Um, so yeah. That's about it.

[AB Positive]

Shai, you lucky skunk... I got my fiancee to love RPGs, but that's about it. I'd love to get her into King of Fighters, Street Fighter, Guilty Gear but no luck. Damn!