Oobgarm | 6 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 (edited) Hello all. I haven't been around game forums much since the late aughts, was very active on the Digitpress forums back then. It'll be a challenge to add forums back into my daily Internet routines, hopefully I can get the habit to stick. I like what I see here. My original foray into collecting was NES in the late 90's. I was close to a set of carts back then, mainly missing unlicensed and SE of course. I never expected to really stick to collecting and sold a large chunk of it off before 2000 hit. Of course most of us can all lament silly choices like that with the knowledge we have now. I worked for FuncoLand/Gamestop for close to a decade, so that was my main driving force to collect. I was around games all the time back then. I've kinda meandered on since, grabbing things that caught my interest - hoping to have time to play all of the cool games but never actually having time to dedicate to them of course. I've never been much of a set collector otherwise, as time/money/space have pretty much dictated that I steer clear of such an endeavor. Not as heavy of a collector as I used to be, as I'm doing the single parent thing these days and don't have as much time for it, but I do find that there are times the pendulum swings pretty heavily towards this hobby and I get those collecting desires I once had. I'm still a fan of NES (back to collecting for it again), also have a fair number of Atari 2600, Famicom, PS2, and Xbox 360 titles. Sitting at over 3,500 physical titles at the moment. Could very easily be a much higher number without all of the sales I've done over the years, but only a few serious regrets among them all. I have most of those regrets in the form of an old cash trade-in receipt from FuncoLand from 1999 (Snow Bros. and Rescue Rangers 2 for less than $10 cash each? Ugh) I have a few heavies on different systems, like Snatcher, Burning Rangers, and Rule of Rose. Lots of desirables and mid-tier stuff in there, too. Fairly well-rounded, I suppose. Just recently moved into a new house, so I've been working at getting things organized to my liking - and realizing that I have a ton more gaming-related stuff than I realized. Even still, I'm always adding to the pile, so I'd imagine these forums will facilitate that. Edited June 16, 2020 by Oobgarm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DefaultGen | 5,724 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Welcome buddy! I loved DP in the mid 00's, although gravitated towards this fine group of folks over the years in my internet lurking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oobgarm | 6 Posted June 16, 2020 Author Share Posted June 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, DefaultGen said: Welcome buddy! I loved DP in the mid 00's, although gravitated towards this fine group of folks over the years in my internet lurking. And I don't think I'd have even known about it without you guys and your podcast being my entertainment while commuting, so thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.A. | 1,141 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Welcome! Key is to get your kid interested, it's fun to introduce them to the old stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Welcome! Hope you find lots of time to explore and have fun here. Good luck rebuilding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TendoTime!! | 2 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 From one single parent to the next-welcome in. Like mentioned above it’s an awesome feeling when you have a youngin playing old hardware with you. Seeing them swap carts or smashing the reset button prior to a rage quit brings me back to when I was a lad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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