My first moment is really easy: finding out that Samus was a chick. As a kid, that seriously blew my mind. Another is when Metal Gear Solid came out for PS1. Me and my friend skipped school, bought the game, beat it (I beat it like five seconds before he did), called him up at 4am screaming about ho...

Nice write up. I'm actually just getting back into retro games, many of which had no part of my youth. Since the Sega Genesis onward, I had just about every video game system. I played Gradius for the NES at a friends house (four years ago) and was immediately hooked. As much as the games progress t...

I'm incredibly addicted to old school games and used the guides on the site to help me plan what great games to acquire.

I feel kinda like an idiot because I never noticed the forums link even though theres threads on the main page.

I just got the Retro Duo in the mail yesterday and finally got to relive my treasured SNES days: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/Rickenbasser/Games/retropackage.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/Rickenbasser/Games/retroconsole.jpg The controllers are pretty solid although the D-pad doe...