Introduce Yourself!

[VertigoProcess]

Hellooooo

I am Vertigo or VP for short, I live in burning hot hell south florida where my biggest enemy is the sun and I have daily battles with it to prevent it from yellowing my lovely systems.

I was looking for a forum for classic gaming and what nots and you guys just kinda came up.

Although I do collect games I've always been more into collecting the systems themselves and other hardware. My current goal is to own every variation of 2600 (i'm up to 8 of them). I do like to collect SNES carts more then any other though and my NES carts seem to be growing larger in size as well...

I went to college for computer animation, with a focus in digital lighting and texturing. Wanted to go into video game creation (mostly make environments) however after working in the industry (movie not video game) I realized that I don't like taking orders from other people when it comes to my art work, so I'm currently looking to open a video game store and keep computer animation as a hobby. I am also currently do pretty well as a refurber, breathing new life into old video consoles....

look forward to posting with all of you I'm off to play mega man, see ya around.

[SonicBoom]

I'm Kelly, From Jersey City, NJ. I Am 14, Yet i am very classic gamer type. The first system i had was the NES. It was actually the NES that my aunt had when she was a kid. I Don't like newer systems however i do have the wii simply for emulators. My favorite series of games is definitely the Zelda series. I Am going to be Zelda this Halloween. All of my time is spent playing games, Watching games reviews, Being on this forum, Ect.

[superfamicast64]

Hello forums! This is SuperFamicast64 speaking, from scenic Northern Virginia!

I found the forums just a few hours ago with a google search (gotta love google) and being a classic gamer, this seems like my kind of place ;D

My favorite games go over many-a-genre. Just to name a few, Final Fantasy VI and VII, Romancing SaGa, the Sonic the Hedgehog series (at least all the ones on Sega consoles), the Super Robot Taisen series, Shin Megami Tensei I and II, Persona 4, Panzer Dragoon, Super Smash Bros. (the N64 version being my fav), etc. etc. etc. (The list goes on for an extremely long time =P)

As my name suggests, my fav consoles are the Super Famicom (SNES for those of you who are wondering what the hell a Super Famicom is), the Sega Dreamcast, and the Nintendo 64. I'm always collecting for these systems, which i jokingly refer to as "Holy Trinity of Video Game Consoles" ;D However, currently I am also collecting for the new Bandai WonderSwan that i got recently.

Outside of video games, my nerd-dom continues into anime and manga, Warhammer 40k, and model building (Warhammer 40k and Gunpla). However, i also have been playing keyboard since i was 12 and guitar since i was 14, so when i need a break from the nerdier side of my life, i got my instruments to go to

An interesting fact, I started collecting originally in 1999, after getting my Sega Dreamcast for Christmas. My serious collecting however, didn't begin until 2002-2004, when I began buying lots of games for the Dreamcast when GameStop was trying to get rid of their Dreamcast library (anyone else remember that?) Since then, i've bought quite a few consoles to add to my collection.

Thank you for your time, and i hope to talk with you all on the forums!

[LuigiBlood]

Here comes LuigiBlood (AKA Seru-kun and KiiroBomber), ROM Hacker, Programmer, and leader of the BS-X Project (which i'm alone, actually ^^').

I know this forum a while ago, but i felt it was needed to talk at some point.
I'm 17, and avid retrogamer guy from France.
I have quite many game consoles, mostly Nintendo ones.
I tend to like Mario and Megaman games in general, but i play some other games too. I'm also interested in alpha, beta and prototype stuff. And rare stuff too.

For now, outside this stuff, i'm a high school student (i wanna stop, i feel bored).

Well, hoping for the best by staying here.

[rocky_5200]

Hey fellow die hards, I am rocky east bklyn and philly kid to the heart, lil about me i was born in 72 yes me and the console market are the same age but i pray that is all i will ever share with the magnavox oddity lol. I am a child 70/80's which i consider the best time to grow up in modern history boy, 80's had it all and i had most of it lol. From optimus prime with a pepsitrailer to action max....dam you worlds of wonder lol. The first home console i ever played was a vcs/2600 which i begged for for two yrs in a row after seeing it on jaws and in oct 82 my parents went to toys r us and got one for me with the understanding that it stay closed till Christmas,but. there was a very big 200$ gorilla in the room atari pulled a sega 95 e3 saturn fast one on me a dropped the 5200 which of course i had to have,mom took the vcs back lied about not finding a 5200 and i cried myself to sleep hating the world and everything in it espically coleco lol. Well humble pie is best served cold i know because after seeing the biggest console box in history [outside] of the tg-16 cd rom box lol, under my tress i ate a lot of it that day and that day i fell in love with gaming . I dont flame or bash gamers who grew up in the post golden age but i will always stand proud and defend us old gamers lol, the kids that went to see the wizzard and super mario bros. knowing they would suk lol. after the 5200 love affair ended early thanks to the 83 crash,and jack the jackass tramiel,i loved on to the monsters that are the nes and master system ,long live kid nikki and segascop 3d lol. I will not go on forever but i must say one day i would love to help the world understand the importance of the atari lynx it was indeed the fist backlit 16bit color portable console and had scaling and rotation{stun runner anyone} almost three yrs before the snes and its mode 7 hype machine, anyone who is serious knows that epyx sold the handy/lynx to atari but only after making the mistake of showing it to nintendo first who never had any intentions on using the tec or buying it but ironically or sneakily depends on how you view used the lynx inspired sprite trickery in the snes i guess thats life for atari who also in that decade blew a chance to have the atari name on the nes and sega genesis talk about dumb makes you wonder if the whole commodore success thing was a fluke jack! Well thanks for having me and thanks for being here for me and all die hards of the gaming world. o yeah ps Long live sony lol.

[shifted]

I'm Paul, I'm 20 and have been collecting since I was 16.

First system was a SMS and later a PSX before getting a PS2 and then collecting begun.

Don't really collect prototypes/betas but I do collect games and consoles of anything SEGA, Nintendo, PlayStation and possibly XBox. Was thinking of hitting Atari up but then realised I'll never finish any collection the way I want to if I divert too much! haha

Hopefully gain some more insight and knowledge from being on these boards.

[okretromix]

Note: lol. I found this Intro thread after my first post. Well, what I can I 'say' it was the red & white glare on my tired eyes.

Tell us any or all of the following:

<> Who you are - okretromix

<> Where you live - Brooklyn, NY

<> How you found the forums - searching for answers to a most annoying problem. That's trying to remember the name of a video game from one's youth. * But, as started looking around here, it seems like a really cool spot for gamers of all sorts, in general.

<> What your favorite games are - When I used to play more often, it was RPGs, Puzzle, Simulation, Non-linear Racing games, and random assortment of others.

<> What systems you collect for - Nintendo, but not so much anymore, other 'priorities'.

<> What you do in "real life" - "real life", lol. The 'net is my life. Just kiddin'.

Take care all and keep on gaming 'til ya' knuckles cry uncle and then game some more.

[Arctica121]

Hey this is Arctica121, found this site trying to find specific games. I like to be active and im not much of a modern gamer (I feel like i dont have the time to play a game like Assasin Creed anymore) so i still stick to the classics.

Im actually a fan of sports but more RPG.

For the record if anyone could help me, If anyone ever played FAXANADU for the NES, Im actually trying to find more games like it, like to the T. My only concern was that the EXP rewarded you with better passwords. I wanted something where you level up. Im not talking Zelda II either because the "Tales of . . . " series style of random combat where you fought someone in a new window was annoying. Basically a platformer action adventure RPG just like Faxanadu

[A_Locomotive]

- This is Bret aka A_Locomotive(I go by this on a few other forums and online games)

- I'm from Spring Valley, CA. For those not familiar with Spring Valley its a parts of San Diego.

- I've heard the forum mentioned a few times else where but decided to join since PCengineFX went down and I heard some of the guys had migrated over here.

- I have to many favorites to list!
Legend of Legaia
Bonks Revenge
Donkey Kong Country(all 3)
Secret of Mana
The Legend of Zelda series
The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
Oddworld series
As you can see I have a hard time choosing favorites, there are so many I love.

- I collect and play quite a few systems.
Atari: 2600, Lynx, Jaguar.
Microsoft: Xbox, 360
NEC: TurboGrafx-16 and hopefully soon Duo-R
Nintendo: GB, GBC, GBA, DS, NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Virtual Boy
Sony: PlayStaton, PS2, PSP

- I work in costco doing food and product demos, my friends call me a food cart lady, I wear that title like a badge of honor!

- Can't think of anything to interesting... I survived being electrocuted by very potentially lethal levels of electricity when I was a kid, hows that? I'm not sure really when I started collecting. Maybe it started when my older brother gave me his GameBoy and a copy of Mega Man and Links Awakening. Maybe it happened the day my dad bought me and my brother our very first console a Super Nintendo w/ Donkey Kong. Maybe it started later. Who knows, I'm not really sure when the collecting bug bit me.

[SNESAustin]

Hey everyone! My name is Austin, and I am a lifelong gamer who has a love for retro gaming, and the 16-Bit Generation in particular. I have been collecting for the SNES for about three years now and have finally taken the advice of friends and created a fansite for it.

In real life I am a Meatr Merchandiser for a midwestern Supermarket chain. It is a lot of travel but I get a chance to see a ton of retro game stores! So it's all good!

Looking forward to connecting with my fellow retrogamers!

[zabarvers]

Hi, I am a french curator based in Marseille. The first console I played at home was Pong on the black and white family tv set!
I curate exhibitions related to games and I curated two retrogaming shows, one in Paris, Playtime the Villette Numerique's gaming room, in 2002 and the last one in Marseille in 2011 about Game Heroes.
You will find some informations in english on my website : isabellearvers.com

For a project that will be held in Canada in 2013, I am looking for canadian collectors of computers, consoles, games and arcades.

If you could help me to find contacts, it would be great,
really thank you in advance,
Best

Isabelle

[8-bit-dreams]

hi guys! been lurking on the site for quite sometime now. but i just got to register recently
i am a retro gamer but more of a collector here from the Philippines . My collection is not huge really, just a little.
there's not really that much retro gaming stuff here in my country compared to other places but, its okay. I enjoy everything that i have and
i enjoy visiting forums and websites seeing others collections.

i m looking for ward to learn more and enjoy in this very nice website

[VertigoProcess]

Was thinking of hitting Atari up but then realised I'll never finish any collection the way I want to if I divert too much

That's no fun don't ya know the fun part is the collecting not so much the collection???.... oh wait the collection is pretty fun too... well either way, welcs!

[RadRacer73]

Hi. I am finally getting around to doing this. I've been lurking for a year or so.

My name is Wade and I live in Southeastern, CT. I am 38 years old. I own by own business as a painting contractor.

I have been collecting video games for about 7 years, but have been buying and playing since Atari2600 came out. I like hunting yard sales and flea markets for them - something to do w/the wife. I slowly started displaying my collection in a spare bedroom, which I have since outgrown to put it lightly.

I am attaching (to the best of my limited ability and really crappy camera) some pics of my collection. Five pics just doesn't do it but here's 2 walls worth.

[RadRacer73]

Here are 5 more pics.

[Blatte]

Hey guys,
I'm Thierry aka La Blatte (cockroach in french), 33 yrs old, Mac technician, freshly arrived (from Paris, FR) in Joysey one year ago. So, excuse my crappy english grammar (but I'm working on it
My first computer was an Apple II Euro+, in 83/84, followed by an Apple IIGS and finally the Amiga in the beginning of 90'. I spent millions of hours on these machines (specially the Amiga ! my Machine). I used the Amiga as a main computer until 97....crappy date of my first PC (). Finally, in 2004, I came back on Mac and finally never stopped using my Amiga(s).
I started to collect old machines (computers, consoles, games) in 2001 to finally get almost 250 machines in my collection (Acorn, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair, Amstrad, Sega, Nintendo, Thomson, PET, crazy stuffs, etc...). Unfortunately, before moving, I had to sell a (too big) part of my collection. I kept the ultimate precious part, the Apple IIs and Amigas (and my rarest piece, an Atari ST Book).
I'm a member of old video games, computers, consoles and digital art french associations : Silicium.org (I go to their convention in the south of France every year) and MO5.com (the biggest french Association, with as honor members the creator of Tetris, Double Dragon, Captain Blood and main goal, the creation of a real computer science and video games museum, like in Mountain View, CA)
I should be crazy....no, "oldies geek fan", that's why I'm here actually !

[Game Hoarder]

Hello fellow gamers! I'm Jason, 30 years old. I started playing video games around the time of

the video game crash of 83, which means I was like 2 years old. I remember it like it was

yesterday. I was sitting on the living room floor, right in front of a wood grain tv with a 2600

joystick in hand, playing asteroids or whatever and in walks my mom. She said to the family that

games were mere cents! We got about a hundred games! It was awesome. I remember playing

Asteroids, Q*bert, Chopper Command, Sea Quest, Berserk and a bunch of other good old games. A few

years later my dad sold the old 2600 and all the games with it.

I was . But then my brother got a NES and Super Mario Bros with Duck Hunt. I played that thing

like crazy . I played through SMB hundreds of times. My Brother still talks about me

wearing out the reset button .

After seeing how much I was playing his NES and having to hear him complain about it, my parents

bought me a Sega Master System! Although I no longer have a SMS I never stopped playing games

since.

I have about 16 consoles and getting close to a 1,000 games. My absolute favorite console though

is the PS2. I don't think I'll ever get a full set of PS2 games but I'm gonna try and get as much

as I can.

I am glad that I have finally joined this great site and I look forward to talking to all you

awesome gamers!

[wongojack]

I have an older brother and I would play 2600 games with him and his best friend. The friend had a way to pirate 2600 games that I still don't understand, but as a result, I got my first experience with classics like Space Invaders, Pac Man, Asteroids and Missile Command on the 2600.

Since I was just as vulnerable as any 5-7 year old to the Chuck-E-Cheese phenomenon, I got sucked into the arcade as soon as I could reach the controls. Glowing, hypnotic images of Dirk the Daring later brought me back into the arcades of Virginia Beach's malls when the newest game was a whopping 75 cents and my parents usually refused to pay.

I whiled away the desperate months after the video game crash with my C64 which was the first computer that I (eventually) had in my own room. Years passed, and I only had inklings through friends of how great the mythical Amiga was. . . I did opt for a NES eventually, but as I got older and was distracted with things like basketball practice, school plays, and AP government tests, I found myself going back to the great games of the 64 - It was still hooked up when I left for college.

I took a break from gaming and was brought back to it (again by my brother) with the advent of 3d exploration and the pointy boobs of Lara Croft. The 'Playstation Era' lasted quite a long time for me and everything after that is not really retro gaming IMO.

I found Digipress with the help of member 98pacecar who recently took my entire (broken) Commodore collection off my hands. I was happy to find a competent collector here in Dallas who would give it a good home.

I play lots of "modern" games, but my love for the classics was reinvigorated in the past years by the GP32x. Wiz. I've done a fair amount of posting on gp32x.com, gamegavel, atariage, lemon64, gamefaqs and others as wongojack.

I'll add a personal top games list here as that seems like a good way to get some rep. These are not in order but are listed chronologically.

Pitfall 2600
Pirates! C64
Superstar Ice Hockey C64
The Legend of Zelda NES
Wing Commander PC
Tomb Raider PS1
Resident Evil PS1
Madden NFL 200x PS1
God of War PS2
Mass Effect 360

[Dreammary]

Many hello's to you all, I am JC but am known as Dreammary or The Uninvited Gremlin depending on the forum. I am a member of FamicomWorld, NintendoAGE, AtariAGE and quite a few other forums. Anyways... I am not good at introducing myself... so yea, hello.

[Guy Kazama]

hey all, i'm a US guy into US games!
atm, i'm getting pretty into my DC and my TG16, so i'm always looking for those.
other than that, I'm just a working class schmuck.

[Junkyrdsalesman]

Hey everybody! I'm Junkyrdsalesman! I'm a 17 year old novice collector who has been collecting for about 2 years now. My preferred systems are ps1 and ps2, some ps3, DS and Saturn. Hope we can get along and help each other learn new things

[Christopher]

Hey guys, my name's Chris I'm from Sydney Australia. I came across these forums recently while searching for information regarding ColecoVision games and figured I'd sign up and say hello.

I love all retro games and platforms, but my favourites are SMS I and II, Colecovision and SNES. My first game was Alex Kidd in Miracle World that came built into the Master System console. This was in the late 80's-early 90's and I've been hooked ever since!

The systems I own/collect games for are:

- Sega Master System II
- Super Nintendo
- Sega Saturn
- Nintendo 64

I work as a chartered accountant irl and actually began collecting fairly recently. This was because my parents had donated the consoles/games I had as a kid to relatives and family friends, and I was unable to track them down. Decided to try my luck on eBay and have since picked up SMS and SNES machines along with several games to start me off

I'm keen to join the various discussions on this board and talk about all things retro gaming.

Thanks,

Chris

[MisterRowland]

Hello, I"m MisterRowland. I'm 31, live in Central Kentucky and I work as a product engineer for a printer manufacturer. I've been playing video games since I was 8 and bought my NES. Right now I'm pretty much collecting for every system I've ever owned, since I still have all of them. Some of my favorite games are Punch-Out, Bart Vs the Space Mutants, Madden series, and the Assassin's Creed Series.

[Jamtex]

Hello there,

I am Jamtex also goes by the name of Barry, feeling far too old. Am a member of a number of other forums too. I live a nomadic existance as I tend to travel a lot, Japan now, Brazil in Janurary, England, Wales, Finland and Norway in Feburary, etc. A number of people I know on other forums are on here so i thought I would join.

I hate being asked what my favourite games are as I tend to get asked that question when I am at work. Needless to say I have lots of favourite games from Donkey Kong, Puyo Puyo, Sim City, Gridrunner, Daytona USA, Centipede, Ace Driver Victory Lap, Super Real Mahjong P3...

I collect games in general, although I generally perfer Japanese games and have reasonable collections for the Playstation, Megadrive, Famicom, Super Famicom, Sega Saturn and arcade boards.

In real life I work for an art gallery, helping install an exhibition and then running it for them, helping curate and work on it. This involves travelling a lot hence the nomadic lifestyle.

Been collecting since I could afford games, which seems like several decades ago. so I am a bit of a cynical old bar steward. Have helped out at a couple of gaming cons around the world and do like helping out.

[theresamooninthesky]

Hey guys! My name is Devry and I'm in DC. The forums came up in search of a Game Genie to Super Game Boy adapter. Does anyone have one available or where they can be found?

Probably favorite games ever would be Final Fantasy 3/VI, Super Mario Bros 2 and Zelda II.

I collect for NES and SNES right now and love old school games.