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I'm 28, been gaming for most of my life. Think I got started with the Atari 2600, but only started gaming seriously when the NES came out. I've played a bit of everything over the years, even a few PC titles though I'm really a console gamer at heart. Hard to pick my favorite genre, but I do seem to love beat'em ups(though I'm not particularly good at them LOL)and I enjoy platformers quite a bit, including action oriented ones like Megaman. I think the 16-bit era when Nintendo and Sega were going at and the arcades were putting out some of the most amazing games ever was truly the best time to be a gamer. I also think the Dreamcast was the last truly great video game system and it met its end too soon

I'm really going into a serious retro phase right now, hence my interest in this site. I'm somewhat of a video game collector too

I have other geeky hobbies too from dvd collecting, comic books, watching WWE wrestling, anime, listening to underground music and metal but gaming is my passion

I also work for an insurance company. Boring work that is, but it pays the bills

Hello Everyone,


I purchased a Saturn chip and stuff from Racketboy a while ago and just came back to the site to see what else he might have, decided to poke around the forums and join.

I am 35, happily married with children (second on the way!!), and work as and IT Manager in the Washington DC area. My hobbies include gaming, WRC, F1, working out and playing tennis.

As far as my gaming tastes go, I had recently started to become bored of the newer games and thought that I might give gaming up for a while but then decided to pull my Saturn out of the closet and give it a go. Let me tell you, I am having more fun playing Sega Rally than any of the new racing games that I have played recently! I have all the hard to find Saturn games but have only up to this point just started playing Sega Rally and Clockwork Knight. I am looking forward to playing Radiant Silvergun, PD, PDZ, PDS, Nights and the rest of the great Saturn games that I missed out on the first time around. Even though I have been gaming for most of my life, I skipped the Saturn, SNES and Genesis eras, and instead played the PSX, N64 and newer stuff. Anyways, I could go on and on but I am excited that I found some like minded people in the area of my new gaming interest!

glad to have you guys!
Hope you make yourself at home

Hi im claudio from new york. I owe alot of stuff but i recentally sold my Atari Jaguar CD with many rare games to fund for my 2 psp's. i do miss it but i love my psp's.

My favorite genre is shmups. My second is sports games. I love playing older sports games on my sega saturn, and recentally have been playing japanese babeball on my sega saturn.

My favorite shmup of all time is Radiant Silvergun, second is Under Defeat and third is Slipheed for Sega CD.

My favorite system is the sega dreamcast, the second being sega saturn and third is the PSP (if you can count the emulators i can play on it)

My favorite game of all time is Nude Barbie on the Nester NES dreamcast disc, my second is Radiant Silvergun.

games i love are (in no order)
virtua racing 32x
radiant silvergun
mlb the show psp
under defeat dreamcast
bushido blade 1 and 2 (best fighting game of all time!)
nude barbie NES
Soukyugurentai saturn
tekken 2 (beat it in the arcades in 2:45, the highlight of my video game career)
Ridge Racer PSP
Zelda
Super Mario 2
Mike Tysons puch out
Excitbike
RBI Baseball
Silverball Mania (arcade pinball game that i played in the 80's)
Spy Hunter at the arcade
Tetris for original Gameboy
and much much more!!!!!!

I'm not going to give my real name, well, because it's also my screenname.

I'm 25, and live in one of the more obscure areas of the east coast.

I currently have a degree in Criminal Justice, and I'm still trying to break into law enforcement.

Coming from a rural area, I have an interest in firearms and knives. I'm a geek for things that shoot and cut.

I'm also and avid eater, though you probably wouldn't know it from looking at me. High metabolism for the win..

Reading is another hobby, with the history of piracy being one of my favorite subjects. I guess I was just born a rapscallion at heart..

I just recently got into retro gaming. I started out on an Atari 2600, before moving up to the NES, SNES and Genesis. I spent so much time playing those systems...it could have been my first job..

Lately I've been drawn to RPG's. It was a genre I avoided in my youth, they just never interested me enough. My favorite games tend to be FPS and adventure games, as long as they have a good story.


My current favorite game has to be Beyond Good and Evil.

Hello Everybody. Well I saw this site once before. And Never thought anything of it. Until I was on ebay looking for a VGA cable for my dreamcast and i saw racketboy as a seller and i remembered this site. And he had %100 Good Feedback so i decided to buy from him then head over to his site. So here i am

Hello all. I just got my Saturn mod chip in today and it installed without a hitch. Under 30 minute install, including time for the soldering iron to warm up. I did the "short a to b" method instead of using the signal wire. Everything works great!

Hey all, just joined up.

I have had Racketboy in my RSS feeds for quite a while so I almost never actually clicked through to the site. I never realized there were forums here.

I have recently been trying to get more time to work on my gaming alot more, so I have been alot more gung-ho about trying to find some decent online gaming forums. I notice that in most instances I can't find enough good retro discussion so I am glad I clicked through to the site.

Hope to be able to come in and participate as much as I can. Kudos for running a great site.

Deefuzz wrote:Hey all, just joined up.

I have had Racketboy in my RSS feeds for quite a while so I almost never actually clicked through to the site. I never realized there were forums here.

I have recently been trying to get more time to work on my gaming alot more, so I have been alot more gung-ho about trying to find some decent online gaming forums. I notice that in most instances I can't find enough good retro discussion so I am glad I clicked through to the site.

Hope to be able to come in and participate as much as I can. Kudos for running a great site.

Cool Considering I have almost 1000 RSS subscribers, maybe I should post a forum article?

racketboy wrote:

Deefuzz wrote:Hey all, just joined up.

I have had Racketboy in my RSS feeds for quite a while so I almost never actually clicked through to the site. I never realized there were forums here.

I have recently been trying to get more time to work on my gaming alot more, so I have been alot more gung-ho about trying to find some decent online gaming forums. I notice that in most instances I can't find enough good retro discussion so I am glad I clicked through to the site.

Hope to be able to come in and participate as much as I can. Kudos for running a great site.

Cool Considering I have almost 1000 RSS subscribers, maybe I should post a forum article?

I don't think it could hurt. Then again, I may be the only one of the RSS subscribers who is a bonehead.