I may be Retro, but my heart is still NextGen!

[VGM-UK]

Hi All,

This is an introduction post rather than a show-off.

I thought it was time to join the forum community after stalking it for the past few months.

I was a child of the video arcades during the late 1970’s and a teenage gamer when the Home Computer market took off in the UK during the early 1980’s. My love of fantasy and Sci-Fi books pushed me towards text adventure games back then, and I kind of followed the path through Point and Click adventure games to the huge RPG’s we now have like Skyrim, that incidentally I am currently waiting to be delivered at some point today. So although I love other games, action adventure and RPG’s are my favourite genre.

At the age of 40 I went through a bit of a bad patch with gaming, perhaps you could even call it a bit of a mid life crisis. I sold nearly everything I had; it was mostly retro era systems and games. For the next couple of years after this I felt a little empty inside trying to find something to fill the void before finally I realised that video games had not just been a hobby to me, they were part of my life style. So at 43 years old – here I am back enjoying something that means as much to me as Football, Cricket, or Golf does to others my age.

I haven’t got a huge collection due to this year being a gaming rebirth for me, but am slowly picking items up, and I have a great time here feeding of other people’s enthusiasm, passion, and gaming collection pictures. You have all turned me into an addict of CE’s.

Game on! ... Guys,

VGM-UK