Gaming has always been a part of my life.  I started with Intellivision as a kid.  We accumulated around 30 games or so, before the crash.  The console stopped working from heavy use and abuse and I remember my parents telling me that Intellivision was essentially out of business, so no replacement.  I was kinda growing out of it anyway, so held on to the games for years, but eventually gave them to a buddy of mine who also had one as a kid.  I never had an Atari or Colecovision back then, although recently I acquired both.

By this time, around 1986/1987, the same friend who I played Intellivision with as a kid, now had a NES.  Instantly loved it.  I finally convinced my parents to buy me one for a birthday present, so we went to Target to pick one out.  I got an Action Set (which I still have CIB) and Metroid.  I played it hard.  Favorite games....Metroid, Mega Man, Kid Icarus, Faxandu, Dr. Mario, Contra, Lolo, Zelda (too many to name).  I whittled down to around 10 boxed games after loss/theft/abuse through the years, so during college I began collecting again (mostly not boxed).  I'm now up to around 110 NES titles.

After NES, I skipped Sega, SNES, N64, PS1 (Outgrowing video games and chasing girls) and finally sprung for a PS2.  Went through a pretty intense GTA3/Tony Hawk Pro Skater/Grand Tourismo phase, but then I found PC gaming.

So in 2003, a friend of mine introduced me to Unreal Tournament 2003 for PC.  It was my first mouse/keyboard game experience.  Tough learning curve, but I fell in love.  I upgraded to 2004, but for some reason resisted online gaming.  Getting tired of killing predictably moving bots over and over in Deathmatches, I finally went online and fell in love with the game again.  I still play multiple times per week.  UT3 is also cool.  I dabbled with COD4 a few times and I'm sure I would love it if I put the time into it but UT2004 is my all-time game of choice.  It's just  so familiar and comfortable.  It's not crazy to stick with something "outdated" that you love.....[cough] Intellivision.

So recently I've been in a pretty intense collector phase.  Going back to my INTV roots, I decided to attempt to collect as much of the orig 125 titles CIB as I could.  I'm up to 119 (120 including loose carts).  Also have 28 Sears titles, boxed I, II, Super Pro, Sylvania, and Tandyvision consoles, an INVT System III, the ECS, the System Changer, a loose Music Synthesizer, and boxed Intellivoice with a pretty low SN.

I joined the community to network, trade, share, and possibly take a whack at HS challenge  :-)