Hello!
I’m a huge fan of retro video games and computers; I've been collecting them almost all my life. My dad brought home the NES with World Class Track Meet, Duck Hunt, and Super Mario Bros in 1990 and I was hooked. I was 7 years old. I used to draw maps of Metroid areas on graph paper and I remember calling the Nintendo Power Hint Line once when I got stuck in Super Mario Bros 2.
After that, I got really into Atari 2600 in 7th grade (around 1994) and while my friends were playing Super Nintendo and DOS games, I was enjoying my Commodore 64 and Atari 1200XL. I once coded an entire computer game in BASIC from a copy of Antic magazine.
Even with all the cheap retro fun I was having, I couldn’t escape the hype train that was the Ultra 64. I saved up and bought an N64 on the day it launched in North America, but I kept my retro game collection and it grew and grew. In 2009 I got serious about collecting and started out to find everything I either used to have or always wanted.
In time, my N64 became retro. Somewhat recently, I had the opportunity to teach English in Tokyo and was able to send home about 8 boxes of games and systems in 2014. I now have a massive collection, almost too big for my living space. I'd love to share some of it with you!
Please have a look around and please don't hesitate to send me a message.
Nick
