Post by soup on Dec 4, 2015 17:15:31 GMT
...I'm Soup. I'm in my mid-thirties and live in the UK.
I've been lurking about for a little while and finally decided to join.
So here I am... Hello!
When I grew up the SMS was the first console that I owned, I have many happy memories with it that until recently were forgotten.
About a year ago my parents complained that their loft was still full of my old toys, basically telling me to clear some out or they'd be donated to charity. Upon clearing the loft I rediscovered a number of my old consoles. (SMS, NES, SMD/CD) From here a newborn affinity grew and before I knew it I had sourced other consoles and was spending much of my spare time tracking down and playing various games on each.
The Master System I have is my original mark II. (Alex Kidd MW built in) Sadly no sign of the box, I brought this home with roughly 15 games (Although I'm sure there were more) Since then, with the other collections this has grown and led me into a decision that I'd like to start edging toward a full PAL collection for one of my consoles with more focus. After much debate the SMS was the winner.
That leads me on to what I'm here for! Encouragement really. I don't have a lot of money to throw at this and fully understand that there are a few titles (Quite a few!) that are currently way out of my reach. As I'm a gamer first, collector second, all I'm really aiming for is a full set of boxed carts, CIB is great but I'm not in a position that I can currently be that picky.
This mission of mine is going to be a slow burn, I've targeted that I want it complete within 10 years. (A whole decade!) As I dare say there will be months, maybe years that life will simply get in the way. I intend to create a thread on the main games board further highlighting this where I can post updates of progress towards my goal.
Thanks for having me
I've been lurking about for a little while and finally decided to join.
So here I am... Hello!
When I grew up the SMS was the first console that I owned, I have many happy memories with it that until recently were forgotten.
About a year ago my parents complained that their loft was still full of my old toys, basically telling me to clear some out or they'd be donated to charity. Upon clearing the loft I rediscovered a number of my old consoles. (SMS, NES, SMD/CD) From here a newborn affinity grew and before I knew it I had sourced other consoles and was spending much of my spare time tracking down and playing various games on each.
The Master System I have is my original mark II. (Alex Kidd MW built in) Sadly no sign of the box, I brought this home with roughly 15 games (Although I'm sure there were more) Since then, with the other collections this has grown and led me into a decision that I'd like to start edging toward a full PAL collection for one of my consoles with more focus. After much debate the SMS was the winner.
That leads me on to what I'm here for! Encouragement really. I don't have a lot of money to throw at this and fully understand that there are a few titles (Quite a few!) that are currently way out of my reach. As I'm a gamer first, collector second, all I'm really aiming for is a full set of boxed carts, CIB is great but I'm not in a position that I can currently be that picky.
This mission of mine is going to be a slow burn, I've targeted that I want it complete within 10 years. (A whole decade!) As I dare say there will be months, maybe years that life will simply get in the way. I intend to create a thread on the main games board further highlighting this where I can post updates of progress towards my goal.
Thanks for having me