Introduce Yourself!

[TinyTheGiant]

Hello I'm Dave.

I live in Georgetown Ontario.

I heard about this website from someone working at my favourite retro gaming store.

My favourite games would have to be:
Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic for Xbox
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie for Game Boy
Resident Evil 3 for PlayStation 1
Resident Evil Code: Veronica X for PlayStation 2
The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle Of Ages for Game Boy Color

I collect for all the consoles I have:
Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo 64
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Color
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo DS
Nintendo 3DS
Sega Master System
Sega Genesis
Sony PlayStation 1
Sony PlayStation 2
Sony PlayStation Portable
Microsoft Xbox
Microsoft Xbox 360
Atari 2600

My collection is currently somewhere over 700 games. I began collecting when I recieved my Game Boy Colour back in 1998 with Donkey Kong Land and soon afterwards Pokemon Blue Version. But I didn't start seriously collecting until about 2007.

[NostalgiaHunter]

Hello Everyone!

I'm Nostalgia Hunter and I'm a video game hunter. I love the rush I get when I find a rare game at a Goodwill and Swapmeet. It's almost orgasmic. I have a blog on tumblr (link is in the signature) and I'm mostly a SNES and NES collector. I'm looking forward to this place. Thanks for reading!

[Phanstar]

Hello, my name is Gregory, and I live in Lexington, KY. I am 36 and work for the government in Computer Services. I work with databases for Parks and Rec and Risk Management. Except for weds, that is my favorite day. On Weds, I get to ride my skateboard around the parking lot of Waste, and fix XP machines mounted in all the dump trucks. Weds is awesomel.

I used to collect vintage games a LOT. I had a pretty nice collection, but I have pieced it off since becoming a father and a homeowner. I do still love to play vintage games however and found this site looking for like minded individuals.

[NoDanaOnlyZool]

Hello, my name is Gregory, and I live in Lexington, KY.

Nice to see someone else from my neck of the woods!

[binici]

Hey, my names Robert!

Live in warm, hot, then cold, then scorching hot Cali

Found these forums years ago, but never registered (used other gaming sites, but I have a feeling I will adapt well here)

Any Zelda game is my favorite, but outside of the Zelda realm, I would say Final Fantasy VII is my favorite RPG.

I have a nice collection started and will continue collecting from all sorts of different consoles, just check my sig for my items!

Web Developers have some much stress to deal with. I think I want to become a Game Developer now...

I restarted collecting once I figured out I had a bunch of rare games and items when I was younger. I really messed up and to redeem myself, I am collecting everything and anything I can!

Thanks for the warm welcoming!

[Duncan Idaho]

Hey there. I'm Chris. The GBA is the most current system I own, so... I guess I'll be lurking the Classic Gaming section a lot. It's not that I'm an elitist when it comes to video games, and only play old ones... it's just that I'm kind of poor, and all. Oh well.

Anyway, see you fellows on the boards.

[mike_the_red]

Hey. I'm really bad at these, but I'll give it a shot.

My name's Mike, I'm from Northern Virginia. I stumbled onto this forum from YouTube in one of Little Miss Gamer's video descriptions. I've been sort of forum crawling looking for some good retro gaming communities.

I'm not a physical collector per se, just an avid retro gamer, nostalgiac and video game enthusiast.

Nice to meetcha! I hope to make some friends here.

[JimmyJ]

Hello my name is Jimmy im a HUGE super nintendo fan I also play the PSP,PSX,NES and im very happy to join the Roundtable and I hope to be a great contribution to the forums!

[PlayerWM86]

Name: D.F.
Age: 25

My story:
When I was growing up, there was an Atari in my parents' bedroom (around 1989 or 1990), but I didn't understand what it was, as mom was typing some things on the TV screen.

Later growing up, I started to play the NES, but by the time I was 7, I could never understand how to play Pac-Man. Curious, I ask my cousin who was about 10 or 11 at the time what the Ghosts do. "They're trying to kill you!" she shouted. I wasted all my lives figuring out what to do - and I regret that now.

December 25, 1993 was when a first in my life came - my first video game system was a SEGA Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog 2. As years passed up to 1996, I got the rest of the Sonic titles up to 3D Blast (except for Flicky, Ristar or Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine). Around 1994 or 1995, I received Tecmo Super Bowl II: Special Edition, but get this--it was a Japanese Megadrive cartridge that required a converter to play on an American Genesis. I also had a cartridge from 1994, X-Men, but lost it in Maryland (I don't know if someone borrowed it and never returned it, or was lost altogether). I made some mistakes with video game consoles along the way until 2004 when I got a PlayStation 2 as a high school graduation present that came with ATV Offroad Fury 2. I still have this memory of waking up early one weekend around 1995 or 1996 to see my dad playing Ms. Pac-Man on the Genesis--when I woke up, he had just cost Ms. Pac-Man her last life and got a Game Over!

But then disaster struck in 1995 with a minigame from the Genesis version of Cosmic Spacehead--the bumper car race. I didn't know what I was doing, getting the yellow car into the hole, running out of time, leaving me so frustrated. This kind of explains why most of my games right now are filled with cars--as I learned how to drive better with Ridge Racer Revolution on the PS1 and Daytona USA on the Saturn around 1996-97...until the day Gran Turismo arrived. The "driving" weakness was history after that.

Right now I own a PlayStation 2 and 3 and happily enjoying them. I've been a fan of the PlayStation lineup since 1996.

I am also working on a video gaming writing project called Insert Coin as well, which chronicles young people and veterans who have at least one love of video gaming trying to stop an evil competitor known as Player 4 (inspired by arcade gaming great Billy Mitchell), who is bent on corrupting every video game tournament and exhibition around the world.

Then again, my video gaming adventure is not over...

[speedybruin4]

I'm Chris and the old NES sports games like Tecmo Bowl and RBI Baseball rock! I also enjoy many other games such as just about any of the Star Wars games.

[SONY]

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:

- Where you live
- How you found the forums
- What your favorite games are
- What systems you collect for
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.

1. Hi, I live in Australia.
2. I was searching for retro game images and found a few images, which in turn brought my attention to these forum boards.
3. Hehe, too many to name...Tetris DX on Nintendo GameBoy color.
4. Nintendo GameCube
5. No, sorry, nothing at all, lol.

[binici]

Not sure if my first attempt was removed, not submitted or whatever, but here I go again...

- 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.

My name's Rob, how you all doing?
I live in Sunny California
Been visiting the website for years and landed here from another website
Love the Legend of Zelda series and of course Final Fantasy series
Collector for all systems, but mostly for PSX (gotta have them RPG's)
Web Developer for a small company and Founder of TheTradeBox.com
Loved playing video games since I was six. Had many great items, sold them and now I work on creating a nice collection since I plenty of cash!

[binici]

Oops, not sure why it double posted???

[Retro_gamer36]

Hi! ^^

I'm Natán, I'm from Argentina.
The reason that why I suscribed to this forum is that I would like to improve my English by talking with people in this forum! I'm so excited! I love talking with people from other countries! ^^

OK, I'm 15 years old (don't laugh please <;( XD )
I LOVE collecting Yu-Gi-Oh cards, playing video games and drawing manga (I WILL DRAW A MANGA OWO, but I only draw sketches).
I'm a Kingdom Hearts very big fans I played all the games and now I'm playing in my PSP Kingdom Hearts birth by sleep O.O ^^ I LOVE IT!!

Well, that's all. I'm looking forward for your friendship

[SONY]

Does anyone ever greet new-comers around here?

Anyway, welcome and enjoy your stay to binici and Retro_gamer36.

[Colorado Rockies]

Hi, I'm Andrew from La Jolla, CA.
I'm a 22 year old college student at Chapman University.

I have been gaming since the ps1, but I started to seriously start collecting games about 2 years ago.

I collect games for every Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Sega systems (Excluding Sega Master System and Game Gear...). I also collect for the Turbografx-16/CD, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo Pocket, Atari Jaguar, and the Atari Lynx.

I only collect games CIB and I currently have about 1800 games or so.
Right now I'm trying to collect more ps1 and gamecube games.

Some of my favorite games/series are: Metal Gear Solid, Secret of Mana, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Syphon Filter, Chrono Trigger, Tactics Ogre, Grandia II, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Metal Slug, Eternal Darkness, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, Halo, and Earthbound.

Other than playing games I also play water polo and beach volleyball. I am a finance major and I will be graduating next spring.

This is the first online forum I have ever joined, but just by browsing the threads it looks like it is the only one I will ever need to join!
There seems like their are a lot of cool people on this site and I look forward to contributing.
Definately hit me up if you want to chat or buy/sell etc.
Thanks!

[lauraleebm]

Hi! I'm Laura

- I live in Carcaixent (Spain)
- I found these forums looking for gamerooms and Room Of Doom
- My favourite games are the PC retro big box games and specially Lucas Arts games
- I collect PC, SNES, TG16, Game Gear and Neo Geo Pocket but I also collect games that I like
- I began collecting since my parents bought me my 486 PC

[weaponepsilon]

- Where you live
- How you found the forums
- What your favorite games are
- What systems you collect for
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.


I live in Minnesota. I found out about the forums through my regular surf sessions. I collect every game for every system, minus PC stuff. I started collecting when I was 4 or 5, so like 1984 ish. My sig is the truth. I could go one about other relevant facts and tidbits, but 99.999999% of the internet doesn't care. Um, I'm in a band, like my Dad and brother?

[Darklink18]

-I am Trent, living in Virginia currently.
-I found the forums after using the online rarity guide.
-My favorite games are those from the Legend of Zelda series.
-I recently started collecting, so I don't have that much stuff at the moment and I don't really collect for any one system.
-I can't really think of any interesting facts at the moment. I am attending middle school at the moment, and I've been playing games since I was very young, probably before I was 5.

[nameless hero]

Hi, my name is Tim and i´m from Berlin, Germany.
Don´t know how i found this forum, but i was lurking a long time already.
There are many games i adore, you can call me a Gothic-Fanboy though. Gothic 1 + 2 + Addon ofcourse, after that the series died.
I don´t collect, i only buy to play.
Interesting facts about me? , you must be kidding.