New Members: Introduce Yourself!

Post by **marurun** » Fri May 16, 2008 6:40 pm

Holy creepgasm, Batman, that avatar icon is just... um... creepy!

And welcome! :)

Post by **Johnny Mnemonic** » Fri May 16, 2008 8:08 pm

Haha, I'll take that as a compliment. I saw it when I was playing through pokemon crystal (I'm not ashamed) and I thought it was funny, so I looped it into a gif.

edit: it looks alot better at 125x125, but I had to scale it down.

Post by **Happenstance** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:11 pm

Hey people. Found this site through goaferboy who just also recently joined. My name is Phil and im 23.

To be honest ive been a fan of retro gaming for years, basically prefering it to the stuff I play now on current generation consoles but rarely looked further into it. Since goaferboy started his collection its made me very nostalgic so ive pulled out all my old consoles and games.

At the moment I have:

Atari 2600
Gameboy
NES
GameGear
Playstation
Gamecube
DS
Xbox
Xbox 360

Used to have a lot more actually but over the years I tended to trade them in a lot more than I should have.

Tue May 20, 2008 7:55 pm

Hi All,
I'm glad I found this forum. I've played all types of games for the last 25 years, and I've kept all my consoles (at least one from each gen from the Atari 2600 thru xbox 360). I'm not so much into the "retro" scene as much as there are simply games that I'm still playing and trying to beat despite playing them for 20 years! Ghosts and Goblins on NES and R-type on the Turbografx come to mind.

Seriously, I'm thinking of moving from being an accumulator, just never getting rid of games I get new to actively collecting some old stuff and expanding my library of retro titles, so I'm glad I found this site, it's got good traffic and seems very well done!

Post by **ott0bot** » Thu May 22, 2008 8:44 pm

psychodiagnostik_255 wrote:I'm not so much into the "retro" scene as much as there are simply games that I'm still playing and trying to beat despite playing them for 20 years! Ghosts and Goblins on NES and R-type on the Turbografx come to mind.

I've never been able to beat Ghosts and Golins either! Damn that game.

ohh.. and welcome to the forums!
You'll find lots of people here that like to trade!

Post by **marurun** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:45 pm

Yeah, welcome. While there are some "collectors" here (Racketboy sometimes slips in that direction), most of us just like to play our games and a lot of our games just happen to be older.

Post by **black flag nc** » Sat May 24, 2008 1:06 am

Hello all!

Glad to join up. I'm a definite classic gamer. I have a Genesis, SNES, Dreamcast, GBA, Virtual Boy, PS2, and Xbox. I like all games, especially shmups and sports games.

Post by **Tithis** » Sat May 24, 2008 1:01 pm

Alrighty I'm Tithis and I'm and 18 year old college student. I've been playing video games as long as I can remember. Since we were relatively poor my game collection has stayed pretty small I never had a Super Nintendo and I feel I missed out on a lot of good games. I first started to use emulators around when I was 14. I did it originally to play Harvest Moon, however since then I've downloaded many more emulators and games and made myself a nice setup. I run my emulators on my TV and play them using a 2-player PS2 adapter and I run the front end Maximus Arcade. So once I start up the front end I can play any of my games without leaving my bed.

I guess thats basically it. So nice to meet you

Post by **pompeyparsons** » Thu May 29, 2008 10:54 am

Welcome Tithus, welcome to the forums of Racketboy.

Post by **Zer** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:47 pm

Sup.
I guess one could say I'm a classic gamer; I play a lot of NES games on my DC and PC, and don't have any "next-gen" consoles. I have a DC, GC (black), a N64, and a NES I never use. Favorite genres would be FPS, shmups, and platformers.