Introduce Yourself!

[Frankie23]

Hi, I just registered to answer someone's question, but I'll probably post every once in a while. Been using the dp guide for a while to search out unusual games. I'm just a big fan of games in general, not caring much for genre or system distinctions. Just very easily amused, I suppose.

Oh, my collection is here, if yr curious: http://www.tempco.org/games-list_ex.htm

[DreDBanGeR]

- Who you are
I'm DreDBAngeR . DreD for friends 29 year old PC gaming freak with a very wide interest in games, I try allmost all types of games and thus sometimes have a game or 2 I don't like... but I bought it anyway ( bargain bin sales are Stalked Ferociously by me )

- Where you live
I'm From Holland bout 15 minute drive from Deventer, in the nice town of twello

- How you found the forums
I was looking up a link for The Kunkel Report and ended up here

- What your favorite games are
The Panzer general series ( + all mods ) Patrician 2 & 3 Railroad Tycoon 2 & 3 ( just picked up 2 in the bargain bin ... wooohooo ) Civilization series , Neverwinter Nights, Morrowind, Diablo I & II, etc .. etc... etc....

- What systems you collect for
PC only, My first PC was a commodore pc10 III ( with a whopping 5mhz processor ) have tried some consoles .. but never got the hang of all those buttons... and Pc games tend to be relativly cheap compared to the consoles these days.

- What you do in "real life"
I work on a Farm as a helping hand and in a showgarden as a gardener ( besides sitting behind my computer i like to be outside once in a while)

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Not really a collector But a games fanatic, So I buy a lot of games for 5 Euro, some good some bad... oh well I can allways use em as anti stain plates under my hot cups of coffee


in short I hope to do a lot more gaming in my life

[Amy Rose]

Wheeee, first post!

- Who you are

I'm Emma and I'm a 19 year old female gamer.

- Where you live

AUSTRALIA, babeh! Perth, Western Australia to be exact. Hellhole of game lovers. It's super difficult to find games here.

- How you found the forums

My friend showed it to me. We've got a smaller sort of thing on a forum we're both a part of, where he is mod, and I love posting there so much I decided to find a bona fide fully fledged retro forum.

- What your favorite games are

I AM A COMPLETE SEGA NUT. My collection is really lacking at the moment since I've been poor pretty much my whole life, but I'm struggling along as best as I can =) Top 10 games of all time:

Final Fantasy IX, Bubble Bobble, Fantasy Zone, Sonic & Knuckles, King Of Fighters EX 2: Howling Blood, The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Super Mario 2:Yoshi's Island, Sonic CD, Soul Calibur II, Maniac Mansion.

- What systems you collect for

NES, SNES, N64 (cart only), Mega Drive/Genesis (bless you converter!), Master System, Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Sega CD, Neo Geo Pocket Colour, Gamecube, PS1, PS2 (complete or as close as I can get), all the Gameboy types

- What you do in "real life"

I write, look for work, hang out with my friends, typical boring stuff. =)

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

I've been collecting since I was about 8 years old. The Mega Drive and Sonic The Hedgehog changed my life forever. I <3 Sega. I also have an unhealthy obsession with Dance Dance Revolution.

I guess that's it. Cheers for reading!

[Tatsu]

Here I go with my first post. Hello to everyone!! Some interesting (?) facts about me:

- Who you are / - Where you live
I'm 26, female, living in Bern / Switzerland, playing videogames for about 15 years or something. I love my NES and S-NES but have other Consoles like PS1 and 2, Mega Drive, GBA, Dreamcast and Saturn.

- How you found the forums
Link from another Forum

- What your favorite games are
RPG but also plattform games / scrollers like Probotector, Mega Man, Mario, Sonic and so on. And shooters like Life Force, Darius Gaiden... What I dislike the most are sports games and first person shooters.

- What systems you collect for

I'm not really a game collector. I do look around for new games for all of my systems, especially the NES, but most of the times I don't buy games just for the collectors value. Ok, if I see a cheap rarity I but it but I allready spend to much money for my vinyl and CD collection, so I have to slow down with games.

- What you do in "real life"
I work in a tax office.

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

My first console was the NES, which I still have. A lot of games for that console are just great!! Like Castlevania, Life Force, Probotector... The NES and the S-NES are sort of my favourite consoles but the new generation stuff from Nintendo is not my cup of tea. Don't like the styles of a lot of the games that are coming out. So I'm more into PS2 and I'm also thinking to buy an X-Box if I can get one for cheap. My latest buy is the Saturn, I only have two games for it but I can allready say it is a great machine.

Anyway, hope I will have a lot of fun with all of you!

[snoopthree]

Hi Everyone!

My name is Evan Malik, Im 37 and Live in Las Vegas, Nv. I've been into video gaming since I was a kid thanks to parents who didn't understand the games but couldn't resist a good beg from me!

In the past I used to do a lot of collecting for the 2600, and some handhelds I wanted as a kid but could not afford then. I don't do that anymore in earnest unless I see something in the wild for a decent price. Ebay killed most of the market for me, as my version of collecting includes playing and paying several hundred dollars for something that may get beat up I couldn't justify. So I decided to go for (literally) broke, and now I collect arcade games, I only have 4 now, and will probably have to have a 5th be for a Mame setup as there is simply no room. Except of couse unless I find a full-sized pinball game! The games I have now are:

A Gyruss cocktal machine I got at a swap meet for $50.00, I also found a fully woking Circus Charlie board for it in an "Arcade Graveyard" in the desert.

An upright Battlezone machine

A Tempest Machine

And a cocktail Pinball Game called Family Fun

I currently have an X-Box, Gamecube and Dreamcast hooked to the big screen downstairs, and a Jaguar with Tempest 2000 in the upstairs game room. (Yes like a fool all my Arcade games are upstairs). I Hope to get a Nuon DVD player so I can have each "generation" of Tempest in the game room.

In real life I am a customer service rep for a credit card company, basically when you have a problem with a bill or a late fee, I'm the one on the other end of the line to help.

I've been married over 9 years to my wonderful, and understanding (she made me say the 2nd part), wife Michelle. I have two great Kids, my son Kyle is 6 and likes football soccer and Xbox. My daughter Kira is a bit over 2 and loves to watch and play with the Tempest machine! (The chip doesn't fall far from the circuit board in my family!)

Other than Video Games we love action or sci-fi movies, and going to Disneyland park whenever we can!!

That's me for now, updates as upgrades happen in life!!

Evan J. Malik

[FireTiger]

I'm also Jamie (and also female )
everything is in my profile but:

I'm a student in Jax FL
I'm about the consles of Atari
I got refered here by another forum

Ummmm- check my sig for trades and the consolidated AA recomended trader's list, will be doing that for this board also.

[hobbes13]

My name is dan....yeah

All I really collect is Nintendo stuff, especially NES

this is all i got to say

have a nice life, all!!

[hswwsh]

Hello there, I'm Howard Scott Warshaw.

I'm a videographer/photographer/writer in San Jose, CA but most of you might know me better by some of my products from back in the early '80s

I designed and coded Yar's Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the infamous ET game, and the finally-now-being-released Saboteur for the 2600.

I also created and distribute the documentary "Once Upon ATARI" (www.onceuponatari.com) which details all the amazing stuff that was going on behind the scenes while we were making the games. All the things Atari tried to desperately to hide

Joe Santulli told me about this quite a while ago, and after only 32 pages of introductions since his, I'm here!

It's cool to be on now and I'll be popping in here and there to say hello.

Dig you later,

HSW

[EricRyan34]

Eric from Rochester, NY and i like games, to bad i dont have much time to play them

[tmlfan]

Hi

Phillip, I am in Ontario Canada. am a member of cgcc.ca.

collect snes and nes and dabble in all other kinds of games

[Tribaldemon]

Who you are
Steve, 19

Where you live
Perth, Western Australia. AmyRose lives with me ^_^

How you found the forums
AmyRose said good things, I've been using the rarity lookup for a little while

What your favorite games are
Ooh, hard. Fantasy Zone series, Panzer Dragoon series, Bubble Bobble, Worms series, Capcom vs SNK 2, King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood, Danan the Jungle Fighter (), Sonic Series, Mystical Ninja (one, two was ok but no where near the comic genius of goemon's first 64 outing :P), Operation Winback... I could probably go on. I love games

What systems you collect for
Pretty much every (mainstream) console from the NES and SMS onwards.

What you do in "real life"
I study Software Engineering full time at university and work two customer service casual jobs- one at a liquor store and one at a game store that specialises in second hand games.

Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I've always had a soft spot for games, but I couldnt really collect until I got a job when I was 16/17. SMS was my first console at age 8 and as such it holds a special place in my heart As you can probably tell I have very similar tastes to Amy, which is a blessing when it comes to gaming sessions but a curse when it comes to trawling op shops and the like

[atwwong]

Hi Everyone!

My name is Tony. I started classic videogaming with the Atari 2600 and still own the one my parents bought for me back in 1980. I'm mostly into hacking now, and frequent AtariAge. I just finished making the Haunted Adventure series (with lots of help), and you can take a peek at it here:
http://atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61074

I also work full time, attend grad school, and am married, but no kids yet!

Cheers!

[InsaneDavid]

- Who you are
InsaneDavid, 23

- Where you live
San Jose, CA originally

- How you found the forums
I've read them for awhile but I came across an article that Sean Kelly wrote when looking for something unrelated in a Google search. I hadn't stopped by his page in a long time, went to do so, found it wasn't there. - figured it was time to register for the forums!

- What your favorite games are
Illusion of Gaia (SNES), Starblade (Arcade), StarTropics (NES), Sprint series (Arcade), Aero Fighters series (Arcade / NeoGeo), Ridge Racer series (multi), Shenmue (DC), Grandia (PS), Daytona USA (Arcade), Virtua Racing (Arcade), Sega Super GT / SCUD Race (Arcade)... pretty much anything - favorite genres are shooter, platform, driving, action, and good ol' multiplayer beat-em-up.

- What systems you collect for
Nearly anything from the Atari VCS forward, mostly NES stuff. Small collections on each platform (although I dumped the Jaguar stuff last year) but nothing super spectacular compared to the extremely hardcore game preservationists out there. I collect what I find (and care to seek out) and enjoy, I think that's pretty much the root of every gamer's collection.

- What you do in "real life"
Ack.. "real life" .. forgot I had one of those. After a rocky parting of the ways with my former employer I've been somewhat self-sufficent painting and repairing consoles and selling games. I also to freelance writing about the industry from time to time.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
I started my affair with video games at age 2 with the Activision classic Grand Prix on the 2600. (that actual cartridge that started it all is my most prized gaming posession) Got into NES collecting because as I began to get older and 16 bit gaming came and so forth I began to realize that the universal appeal of games to everyone wasn't there like it was during the NES days. (at least to someone my age) I remembered back when every kid at school (including myself) would either know themselves or know someone who knew every NES game that was currently out... and missed that.

[JesterDev]

- Who you are

Michael Baca

- Where you live

Pueblo Colorado

- How you found the forums

I acutally found them years ago, and registered. I don't remember how I found them. However I lost track of my username/password and been lurking for about a year or so.

- What your favorite games are

RPG's, Arcade.

Robotron 2048, Tempest, Bogey Manor (anything that has to do with ghosts, haunted houses etc).

Ghost House (TG16)
Just about any 2600 game.


Big fan of Arcade Classics as I pracically grew up in an Arcade.

- What systems you collect for

Atari 2600
SMS
NES
SNES
TG16
3DO
Arcade
PC (Abandonware (Actual games not just the files))
And anything Odd (I.e. Costom NES's from Japan etc)

- What you do in "real life"

I'm a Addictions counselor. Everyday I see people addicted to drugs and try and help them, yet for some odd reason I can't fix my addiction for carts.

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

I suppose it all began for me the first time I stepped into an arcade perhaps 25 or so years ago. I was about 7 years old and the smoke filled, darkly lit room filled my senses like nothing before. Shortly after that for X-Mas my uncle bought me an Atari 2600 with 30 some odd games at a flea market. I fell in love. So I guess that's when I started collecting. I still have almost every game I have ever bought/was given, traded for...

In anycase my uncle worked in an arcade for several years and that's where I spent virtually my entire childhood. I later worked there also under the table for free games and $10 a day.. Hey I was only 12 years old. What more could I ask for?!

As the years went by I entered an won a local Temptest contest which first got me interested in Twin Galaxies and the like. Sadly like many of the arcades it closed down. I ended up with a few machines before the rest where taken to the dump, sold or some other uncertain end. Got my Tempest! Anyway, my collection is not huge by the standards placed here, but over all I have what I love and them some.

[Insaneclown]

- Who you are
My name is Jason and im 24 years old.

- Where you live
I live in Canada.

- How you found the forums
I found these forums from a member I know on another forums that told me to join...so I did.

- What your favorite games are
What a question...geezzz so many to list but Ill only list some. Metal Slug 2, Streets of Rage 2, Super Double Dragon, Halo 2, Contra, Wild Arms...etc.

- What systems you collect for
Sega Genesis, Sega Master System and Neo Geo AES.

- What you do in "real life"
I work at a grocery store doing price changes and stocking shelves. Yeah...Iam a hard worker...lol.

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Well I didnt start collecting anything till about 2001...anytime before then I was just a gamer 24/7. I kinda lost interest in games for about 3 years then I came back. I just started going to second hand stores that were selling used games...but they were in mint/near-mint condition and bought them up as they were cheap. Thats where it started when I bought my first Sega CDX...since then...I havent stopped collecting. Gaming has been my life.

[sven666]

- Who you are
sven the shooter king hehe 22yrs old.

- Where you live
way up in sweden

- How you found the forums
ive been a collector for years, for some reason ve never registered here tho??

- What your favorite games are
im a shmup nut, thats all i play, faves are probotector (NOT contra), ESPrade, Cybenator/valken and pretty much all of Raizings stuff..

- What systems you collect for
nes,snes,MD,DC,psx,ps2 and ofcourse arcade.

- What you do in "real life"
actually just quit my job as a technician at ericsson

- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
not really, big music and motorcycle freak..

ive always played videogames, but didnt start collecting untill roughly 4-5years ago, picked up a SNES and some games for a little retrofun and i was hooked..

[jasonegitto]

Hello, Jason Egitto here from Rome NY. I am 18 years old and have been playing games since I could pick up the controller, which was around the NES age.
I have a dream to collect all games for every system, but with my poor amount of money saved up I wont be acheiveing that dream too soon. Right now I am trying to find complete lists of all games released in the US, for any system that has stopped making games. I have all of the Nintendo lists (from Nintendo.com). Anything will do, but I want them to be pretty reliable. If anyone could find official lists, like the ones from Nintendo.com (or any reliable lists), please PM them to me.
Thank you... Egitto.[/img]

[anagrama]

Right now I am trying to find complete lists of all games released in the US, for any system that has stopped making games. I have all of the Nintendo lists (from Nintendo.com). Anything will do, but I want them to be pretty reliable. If anyone could find official lists, like the ones from Nintendo.com (or any reliable lists), please PM them to me.

Check the Online Rarity Guide link above (or on the DP front page) - here at DP we've got lists for just about every system you can think of, and probably a few you can't They're all more reliable then any 'official' lists which almost always have a few omissions or error in them.

[kaustik]

Well, after a long time reading, I have finally descided to post. My name is Stephen and live in St. Louis, MO USA. Came across DP a few years ago when searching for some part numbers for the Atari Jaguar. Games I am currently playing are Fantazy Zone II for the Master System, Tempest 2000 on the Jag and for some reason I am hooked on Kaboom! again.

I have a renewed interest again in collecting classing games and am starting from scratch... again.

Systems I am currently collecting are:
Atari 2600
Atari Jaguar
Sega Master System
Sega Gensis
Sega Dreamcast
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64
3D0
X Box
Playstation 1 & 2
Gamecube

Currently in extended layoff from a software company that was sued to death. Back to painting/rehab work for now but it has given me the free time to get back into gaming

I'm now kicking myself in the ass for what I have sold and given away over the years. If I could only have it all back.

Nice meeting you all.

[Maddrox]

I never did intro myself, but my name is ken and I collect all kinds of video game stuff. And especially Psychopathic Stuff.