2016 North American Retro Gaming Survey

[game_escape]

Hey all, I've always be interested in collecting some data on the retro gaming community/market in North America, but I have never found anything that insightful, so I've created my own as a small pet project. Now, this is by no means scientific, but it is fairly comprehensive and will hopefully capture the pulse of the community. It does require a google account to respond, but email addresses/user names WILL NOT BE COLLECTED with the responses.

I know this is the not the type of post that is typically appreciated from a new user, but I have been a lurker here for a while and I have always enjoyed the content on the site and in the forums. And while I am new here, I have established a reputation on other forums and on YouTube (search wcladley). Anyway, I think the insights of readers/forums users here would make the survey data much better, so please consider responding.

Here is the survey: http://goo.gl/forms/Yv5TjqwvRo

Respond or ignore as you see fit.

[ElkinFencer10]

Surveys are funnnn. I'll do it!

I'd suggest you add "Genderqueer" to your gender selection, though it's awesome you put transgender. I don't know if we have any genderqueer users here or not, but you know, inclusivity and all that.

[TSTR]

EDIT: I did take the survey, btw. Didn't just drop awesome Scott Hall gif and bounce.

[Exhuminator]

A rather in-depth survey. I filled it all out.

If you're using us as guinea pigs that's fine, but you'd best post a link here to the finished results when it's over. Otherwise it's just rude dude.

[game_escape]

A rather in-depth survey. I filled it all out.

If you're using us as guinea pigs that's fine, but you'd best post a link here to the finished results when it's over. Otherwise it's just rude dude.

I will absolutely post the results here. I am not trying to use people as guinea pigs for my own benefit, but rather to gather some meaningful data on the community-to share with the community. I have every intention sharing the results as broadly as possible. I anticipate those results to be in by the end of March.

[game_escape]

I'd suggest you add "Genderqueer" to your gender selection, though it's awesome you put transgender. I don't know if we have any genderqueer users here or not, but you know, inclusivity and all that.

I got burned recently in my professional life for not adding a transgender option to a form I was circulating, so I didn't want to repeat the error. I will add the "genderqueer" if I do a survey in the future. I just don't want to change the form now that it has so many responses.

[Kidpanda]

What are retro games? You mean the games I played when they were new?

[Tanooki]

game_escape -- Don't bother it's fine, not your fault if someone can't decide.

I'm going over that survey now, it's pretty big. I'm surprised there was no option under the sealed games ones for -- buy them and open them. I've got 3 sealed, 2 of which will be opened when the time permits to play them.

I wonder what the spread will be on the open answer questions, that could get hard to tabulate all that stuff.

[ElkinFencer10]

game_escape -- Don't bother it's fine, not your fault if someone can't decide.

Gender is a social construct, not a natural definite like sex, and as a social construct, not everyone fits neatly into a rigid binary.

[samsonlonghair]

I took your survey.

For the purposes of future surveys, may I suggest "non-binary" as a catch-all term? If you have separate options for transgender, genderqueer, et cetera each option will have an increasingly smaller slice of the already small pie.