Introduce Yourself!

[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! 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.

[JZ456GAMES]

Hi Everyone, name is John but you can call me JZ (or JZ456games). I love talking and learning about all retro video games. I am a serious collector that plays their games


I am not partial to one console over another, I love them all. I am on a Nintendo (NES & N64 specifically) and Sega kick these days, so I will be posting WTB on them. In my real life, I am a project manager and would love to take part on some of these Go-Fund Me unofficial-official ROM prototype projects. I am a very laid back and open person; so don't be a stranger.

Thank you all for letting me be a part of this great community.

[Sparky8937]

Hello everyone! My name is Tom and I am from CT. I am an avid retrogame collector. I probably should have joined this years ago. Nice to meet everyone.

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[jeffstark]

Hey everyone,
This is more of a reintroduction than anything. I've been away from the boards for a long time. I used to idle in the irc room moreso than post here, though. Although I haven't been to the site in a long time, I go to the store in Clifton every once in a while.

I'm getting ready to try to beat all 715 licensed NES games. I decided that I want to do the 715 game challenge on my original NES from when I was a kid, so I'm gonna be giving it some love and installing an NESRGB in it soon. I'll probably make a video about the refurbishment process. I plan to do a few upgrades while I'm in there.

Nice to be back, hope to get involved in some threads soon!

[gbpxl]

I gave up on trying to do that mod when I couldnt find an RGB cable

[jeffstark]

I’m putting a multi out port on mine. The same kind used on the snes and n64, so cables are easy to come by, fortunately.

[Late_2_The_Party]

Hi.

Sorry I'm late.

I'm a fairly ordinary chap in his 40s who started gaming way back in the 80s. I think my first ever gaming experience was at around the age of seven; either some kind of very simple horse racing game on my friend's dad's Sinclair ZX80, or possibly on my Nintendo Game & Watch (Donkey Kong II). I'm not sure which came first tbh.

As I grew up, I was lucky enough to own a ZX Spectrum, for which Jet Set Willy II was by far my favourite game. Later on I had an Amiga (still have my original Shadow Of The Beast t-shirt!), a GameBoy, and then a PC.

From my mid-20s on, I had a big break from gaming, and even (I am ashamed to admit) went through a period of looking down on gamers as basically wasting their time on something that didn't improve their lives at all. These days I once again recognise the joy and passion that gaming can bring, and I would never dream of disparaging a fellow gamer. It was when I was in my early 30s that a friend persuaded me to download the free demo version of Battlefield 2142 that I got back into gaming. I ended up buying the full version, and then poured my heart and soul into that game. When EA killed the servers for multiplayer, I felt a huge sadness.

I currently live in Poland of all places, where I came because of a Polish girl.

I think I found these forums by googling for a game-related question to do with SNES multi-tap games.

My favourite game of all time is Tetris, which I have on the NES, GameBoy, Amiga emulator, and SNES. I suppose Dungeon Master for the Amiga would be a very close second though.

I don't really "collect" for any system, but I do own a Japanese and a European SNES, and also an NTSC and PAL NES, and I am slowly accumulating some cool titles for those.

In real life I work as a voice artist, doing voiceovers for video stuff, and also reading audiobooks. I can edit my own recordings too, so feel free to hit me up if you need a British voice with received pronunciation for a project.

I guess I will come back and edit this if I think of any "interesting facts" about myself that I have left out, and which might be worth talking about here. Thanks for having me!

[gbpxl]

welcome to DP. It's always awesome meeting forum members from outside the U.S. where I live.