RF Generation Message Board

After reading Bickman2k's "A Personal Thank-You" blog (http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/bickman2k/A-Personal-Thank-You-2761.php#NEW), I'm curious to know how other members found out about this place.

In my case, I was about 2 years into serious collecting, and my collecton had gotten to the point where I had some trouble keeping track of it all. I figured there might be a source on the internet to help me out, so I headed over to Google, typed "video game checklist" in the search field, and RF Generation was the very first result. Turned out, it would be the only result I'd need, and I've been hanging around here ever since.

So, what's your story?

Mine is the exact same story. Except with more trial and error because I used a few collection programs and sites first but they all had awful interface and weren't as detailed in their database.

I was looking for new podcasts to listen to and I had just gotten bitten by the collecting bug.  I went to Digital Press and found the podcast there.  At that point there were only 2 Collectorcast episodes and I blew through them immediately and learned most of what I know about collecting and the online community because of it.  Thank you Duke and Crabby!  (And later Bil, and to an even lesser extent Banana)

I checked out the RfGen website after downloading the episodes and never looked back.  It may not be the biggest community, but it's by far the most polite and friendliest group of folks around.

I was in college and was looking for a good online database to post and preserve what all I had. My collection was all spread out at the time. My SNES, PS1, most of my PS2, and older handheld stuff was at my parents house, and I just had my newer DS games and some PS2 games I wanted to show off. I wanted to catalog everything I had after going on trips home, and finding some old PC games I had at my grandmother's house as well. I ended up working with VGCollect and IGN for a bit, but was unsatisfied.

The tools here at RFGeneration just felt more powerful as I could specify what boxes, manuals, and extras I had with my games. That was helpful since most of my childhood collection is CIB. I remember the old RFGeneration Nation podcast (http://rfgeneration.podomatic.com/) from my earlier days. My collection has swelled since then, probably influenced as much by the Small Scores as my own love of games. Most of my major gaming discoveries that changed my life happened before my time here though.

I think I started posting and blogging almost immediately after joining. After rechecking my first blog post (this ancient and badly designed piece right here: http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/sirpsycho/Why-did-I-play-this-Volume-1-1752.php) I posted my first review here 2 days after joining the site. Now I'm closing in on 2k posts and am a living legend in my own ego!

I got here through a referral by JJ Hendricks, the founder of the Video Game Price Charting website. I (as many collectors) used the Price Charting tools and about a year prior to joining RF Generation I was a member of his site and used his sites forum (now defunct) to chat with other like minded collectors.

I remember on his site there was a forum topic asking what tools do you use to track your collection. RF Generation was mentioned by several members as a preferred site, so naturally I checked out this site first and instantly fell in love with it. Honestly I never checked out the other sites that were mentioned because this site has all the bells and whistles I need to track my collection. Just the fact that this was a user generated site was the hook that got me.

I really didn't dig into the forums on here instantly, mostly just lurked and simply used this site for tracking. But the more I lurked the more I became interested in chatting with the great members of this site. I feel like RF Generation is a tight knit community in a small town where I really got to know what each and every member likes and dislikes, which makes trading games and systems a cakewalk.

I may have simply "Judged a book by it's cover" when I saw this site, but it was a cover worth opening.

I honestly cannot remember, but I would assume it would have been a simple google search for something like "Video Game Collections" or "Video Game List". I found the site as I was focusing my collecting on Gamecube titles.

I heard about the Collectorcast when it was mentioned on the Racketboy podcast.

Another member and collector from my hometown, Deviant, recommended it to me several years ago.

I was initially involved on Digital Press's forums for about 2 years. When trying to discuss details about some of my games (which I later came to be known as 'variations'), most of the people there had no clue what the hell I was talking about. Nebrazca, one of the SegaAge folks, was kind enough to answer most of my questions and let me know that the folks at RFGeneration kept track of that information and had a collection tool to boot (instead of my huge 3" binder that I carried around with highlighted games and rarities, which I still have in a closet).

After the Digital Press forums went down for an extended period of time, I decided to devote my time to updating my collection on RFGeneration. After causing a schism in the staff about variations, I found out that I enjoyed contributing to the database and had found new friends that shared my enthusiasm (or, in Tynstar's case, curbed my enthusiasm a bit). Even though it'll be close to 5 years come June, I still contribute to the database daily as my stress relief activity - who would've thought that?!

Good topic, sir.

It has been almost 10 years since I joined. I had just started collecting and was looking for a list of all the Genesis games made. I started on DP posted there for some time. I wanted to help but couldn't break into the core group of DP at the time. I used IGN's collection tool but it sucked. So I started to post about stuff needing to be add to this site. Been here ever since. While I wish more people that use the collection tool would post in the forums I am somewhat glad they don't since I have seen what happens to sites when a lot of people post. All the people on the site now are good people...except Zagnorch.........jk

Here is to 10 more years.  :drunk: :drunk: :drunk: :drunk:

I started off way back in the before time over on the old Video Game Bible site which I found when I was looking for some kind of video game price guide.  That had to have been late 2002/early 2003.  When RF Generation started I was one of the first few people that joined up and I've been around ever since.  Granted I lurk more than I post these days, but kids and work wear me out.

i can't remember for sure but i think i was one of those who was brought here from a google search. i was somewhere around 100-150 games in my collection and felt the need to track them all. at first i was using excel which worked fine, but i wanted to find something easier than manually typing out everything, and something i could maybe access on the go. i don't remember how fast i came across rfgeneration but it was the only one i actually tried. it was exactly what i was looking for and i loved that i could edit the database myself if i saw mistakes. this would have been approximately 4 years ago, and i think i started collecting about a year before that.

GrayGhost recommended RFGen to me late last year after doing a couple of trades through the now defunct VGFive.

I checked it out a couple of times but wasn't really interested in joining an internet forum.  I think it was the community playthroughs that eventually piqued my interest (big surprise, right?), so I signed up.  The collection tools were a nice bonus since I probably had about 800 or so games in my collection at the time.  I had been toying around with the idea or writing my own collection software/app to help me keep track of it all, but RFGen gets the job done nicely.

I used to track my collection on IGN way back when and they decided that was no longer important to them so I went searching. I wasn't as much of a collector back then but it certainly spiraled out of control since then. I think I found a forum somewhere that pointed me here. Nearly 3 years later here I am.

By doing a Google search for video games list/collection site. One thing that really hooked me up here is that we could specify more precisely the type of releases, whether by region, packing and label variation, or even where it was manufactured. That's really cool! It's something i couldn't do when i tried to catalog my games on IGN or gamefaqs. That was really upsetting me, because the photo of the box or other detail of some particular games weren't the same as the ones i have. Gamefaqs thinks that every country in South America has the same release, but we DON'T! Some editions are exclusive to Brazil and our boxes are in portuguese, not spanish, so they cannot segment everything as a single region release. That's annoying.

Beside that, i like the interface: clean,  easy navigation, color pallets are pleasant for the eyes;  communication with the staff is much better that the other sites... well, i'm happy to be part of RFG

On or about July 05, 2004, 01:14:49 AM i was chatting with my cousin (danvx6) on AIM and for whatever reason started looking up information about RF Switches/Shielding and stumbled across the site.

Pure crazy dumb luck lead me to be (AFAIK though i would love for one of the other old timers to prove me wrong) the first person to actually register to the site. I believe the previous 44 had already been carried over or informed about it before/during the splinter from and then collapse of VGB.

I had actually been to DP (T&Ts Collectors Closet let me know there were other people besides me collecting games...) but i don't think i joined until after signing up here and driving everyone crazy with my short lived average of 40+ posts a day for the first couple days. Down to a measley 5.798 per day average now.

I found RFG after purchasing the Video Game Bible and researching for the next volume (that would contain handheld systems or something).  I didn't dig in immediately but rather bookmarked it for alter consumption (as was my custom at the time).  Now I cannot pinpoint the exact date, but it was likely 2006-2007.  A few years later I ended up doing the same amount of research (this time by following one of the authors, Michael Collins) and re-discovered RFG, but this time I decided to stay.

Allow me to expand upon my story that I had in the blog.

At the time when I only had a couple of hundred games, it was fairly easy to remember what games I had, what I was missing, and what I wanted. Once this got out of hand, I began to look for a utility that would let me keep track of everything that I had.

I tried Excel, Access, Collectorz Game Collector, Cart Commander, and IGN (of course). IGN lasted the longest because it was online and I didn't have to worry about losing anything with a format. Everything went well with my GCN games. Even back to the NES, I had no issues. It wasn't until I started to go back to the Intellivision when I had issues. I remember the game even that caused me to start looking for a new tool. It was Racquetball by Apollo. That game became the litmus test.

Excel sucks for larger collections unless you begin with it while you have a small collection. Access just sucks.

The Collectorz tool was and still is too expensive, especially for only having (in my mind) a decent amount of information. Cart Commander I walked in to knowing that it was going to be a full manual entry. It was okay, but tedious and slow and I had a growing collection to enter.

Leaving the collection tool aside, I had sort of been looking for a new place to discuss games with fellow gamers and collectors. I had a good time back in college posting on the GameFAQs boards, but the areas I frequented had quickly lost the crew that was usually there and I felt that I needed a different place to go. I knew of Digital Press, but in a few times of posting there, I really felt lost in a very established community. I had asked there what people were using and it was actually Kevincal who recommended RF Generation. I had used it maybe a time or two before, but that was only during a time of trying everything out.

I came back and began entering my collection. Racquetball was there! Hey, it's Super Mario Bros.! Oh... it's 5 different versions of Super Mario Bros... Guess I better start paying more attention to carts.

I also began posting. I had questions for staff and they answered. I read blogs. I read posts and commented. I jumped in to the IRC! And I felt like I was really contributing to a community in a way that I hadn't before. I was hooked!

Since then, a lot has happened. I became a director, helping with the server side of things to take some load off of the folks helping out with programming and database work. I have had times of outbursts of posts and plenty of times of going without posting. But even if I don't say anything, I still load up a tab with RF Generation every time I launch a browser. I even recommended setting up Tapatalk for easier mobile browsing before I had the ability to just do it. I wanted to be able to easily get to this community everywhere I was.

I try to be accessible to anyone that wants to talk, new or old. I remember what it was like when I was new both here and other places. I'm an introvert and a shy person around new people. There's a reason that my contact information is public in my profile. I enjoy communicating with folks who share a similar interest, no matter the method. I've even been fortunate enough to have had phone calls with a couple of people, hosted a podcast with a member here without ever having met him, and even had a meetup face to face with 3 members.

Honestly, with my family schedule and work schedule, I don't have time to go out and meet a bunch of people myself or with my family. I've met a ton of friends through RF Generation though and I hope to make it more.

Sometime in 2008 I began looking for a way to track my growing Virtual Boy collection, and I found RFG with a Google search.  After playing around with the collection tools, I became a member.  It's been my favorite sight ever since.

Back in early 2006, I was driving home from High School, and stopped at a garage sale just for heck of it. They had a box of NES games (something I hadn't seen since my originals were packed away years earlier) for $10, so I bought them so I had a reason to drag out my old NES. A few of the games I had never heard of (actually it was probably all of them since the only NES games I knew of as a kid were the ones I owned or played at friends/family's houses). I figured the best place to research these old games was from the source, the Nintendo website.
That's where I found the NSider forums, specifically the Legacy Systems board. That's where I started getting into collecting and pretty much lived on that board, even if there were only 1-2 new posts each day. It was also there that I learned about Digital Press, either from the forum itself, or the resident moderator, TERRISUS1.
I browsed DP for a while, but I just never felt at home there and only posted a handful of times. But I did read a lot of the topics, specifically one of those "how do you track your collection?" topics. I kept seeing RFGeneration listed so I figured it must be the best and I was right. Ever since I slowly spending more time on RFGeneration and less time on DP and NSider.
And as so many people have found, once you find something missing from the DB, you just feel compelled to add it, just to be a part of something so great. After Tynstar told me all my submissions were wrong, I started making better submissions, and they started to get approved.
After a couple years of making submissions and blog entries, I was made a Blog Contributor, then a DB Contributor, then DB Editor and finally, a Director.
Its hard to believe I've been here almost 8 years, but I'm so glad I did find this place, aside from the collection tools, its really become my online family.

Reading though the posts so far it's surprising how many people are mentioning Digital Press. I too learned of this site from there.

It was back in 2004, I was enjoying my growing NES collection and trying to find somewhere online that shared this love of games, not just old games or new games but all of them.....recently I was listening to a podcast were the people were asking each other what their first console was and when it was finally "retired" from being hooked up to the TV. I thought, that's weird, why would you stop having a console hooked up? Seriously, my NES has always been hooked up. It followed me to college in the late 90's even.....it's just always been there. But I've also always liked current games too, I have no age-bias when it comes to games, if a game is fun, who cares if its old or new or retro or cutting edge or popular or graphically challenged?

So back to 2003-4, I was lurking on a few sites, learning more and more about older games, Digital Press was one of the main ones for me for sure but there were others. At the time, my collection was small enough I could remember everything I had, it was all PC and NES at the time, but I could see it was going to start becoming a problem to keep track of. I was using a printed out NES rarity guide, the one that used letter grades for rarity, checking off games as I bought them. A thread came up on Digital Press announcing the launch of RFGeneration. It sounded like my kind of thing. I started lurking on DP and RFG. I lurked for about a year. I'm not one to take committing to joining a group lightly ;)   Finally, on June 14, 2005 I joined, about a year and a week after RFG was founded.

I've since tried to go back and find the thread that brought me to this site. I've had no luck. I'm not sure who it was that made the post but it seems like it was one of the sites founders, I want to say it was Lord Nep himself.

Back in late 2005/early 2006 I decided to pick up a large 50 game NES lot off of ebay. It had a few games that I remember playing as a kid, namely Hydlide, and a lot I had never heard of. After finding a few hidden gems in that box I looked for other gaming stuff I'd never played. Didn't ever know anyone with a Sega Saturn when I was a kid so I grabbed a Saturn off of ebay with a dozen games to try out. Then a Virtual Boy, then a Dreamcast, etc etc.

After getting a few new systems and around 200 games under my belt I started looking online for other games/system I'd missed out on and started lurking on racketboy for more gaming info. After accidentally picking up a few doubles I decided to start looking for something to track my collection with. Noticed a few people recommending rfgen from the racketboy forums and came over here to check it out (got it right the first time and didn't have to mess around with IGN and others like you suckers ;) ).

Just kind of lurked for a while and then started paying special attention to the small scores thread. Started learning where to find things locally from it and started hitting up pawn shops and garage sales. After getting a few good scores I finally posted my own findings and found it very enjoyable to share my triumphs with other members. Found an N64 with a bunch of games at a garage sale, but the system was missing it's AV cords. Asked on rfgen about where to buy one and ended up purchasing the cords from BadEnoughDude which was my first private transaction online. It was a magical experience that had me largely cut out ebay ever since in favor of the much more personal touch you get from sites like this. After a few pats on the back for good scores, a couple successful purchases and sales and many many hours spent chatting in the IRC I was hooked.

Eventually started writting up blogs that eventually made it to the front page, competed in submission contests, was asked on as a guest of Slackur and Bickman's podcast, started podcasting with Duke and eventually Bil, and finally opening my own game store all thanks to the wonderful community right here :D

I was over on the Nintendoage forums when Duke posted a thread about a new podcast over on RFGeneration. I found the forums were full of helpful members and the collection tools were much better than what I was using at the time. Since joining RFGeneration I've learned a lot about Skylanders (too much?), pinball, and much more.  Thanks to everyone on this site for making this site a great community and resource.

Actually that sounds right to me.  There might have been one or two people that signed up before you, but you were the first non VGB member to actually make your presence known.

Met Crabmaster, when he opened up his game store, here in Prince George last year. We discussed things gaming and I eventually asked how he kept track of his collection. He directed me to RF generation and the rest is my short history here.

I'm still waiting for my recruitment cheque........

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About time!!!

A Zero-cheque? like Marvel's no-prize.

Well geez........I just realized how boring this was, so I'll have to add to it:

After being recruited by Deviant and actually joining on 7/19/2010, I quickly logged my "smallish" collection which consisted of basically 3 paper boxes of 2600 carts and about as many boxes of NES carts all stowed under the bed in our guest bedroom. I started under the guise of "necrom99" (a slightly altered tribute to the animated movie "Wizards"), but soon learned that another member was using the actual character's name from the movie, Necron99. To avoid confusion, I chose the name "singlebanana" and that has really stuck.  You'll still see "necrom99" appear quite often on the front page in the "Updated Collections" box; that would be me and the reason you never see singlebanana. :)

While out searching for NES and 2600 games at flea markets and pawn shops, I kept coming across other systems at unbelievable prices and the "Oh Why The Hell Not" Syndrome quickly evolved into a collecting addiction.

I started out on the threads discussing collecting with others and posting a few of my small scores until August 4, 2010 when I made my first blog post to share a New Yorker article, which no one commented on....... Deciding that my blog needed more of a theme, I revamped it on 1/17/11 by renaming it "A Boy and His Blog" and posted a small paragraph about my intentions to review titles for the 2600. I received some encouragement from several members at this time, namely noiseredux, dsheinem, slacker, and my now good buddy in NES crime, Crabmaster2000. Encouraged by the replies, I put up my first review of Jawbreaker on the first day and received further encouragement from other members. My next entry on Entombed (1/24/11) was promoted from the blogs to the front page and my subsequent posts (Space Cavern, Tapper, Dark Cavern, and Vanguard) were given the same treatment. Before my next post on 2/24/11, a little over a month after my first 2600 blog post, I was asked by a staff member (maybe NES_Rules???) if I wanted to join as a blog contributor. I assume they didn't think they could get rid of me anyway......

I soon became more comfortable with the site, started trading, and even posted my opinions about gaming topics without people throwing shoes at me. I made the mistake of telling someone, "You know, I think the playthroughs are a great idea, but we hardly play any retro titles." And the rest is history. Great site, great people, great part of my daily life.

You do realize how confusing it was to talk to both of you in PMs around similar submissions, RIGHT?! :P

I asked NES_Rules to promote a few of our blog writers for contributions on the front page, since we tend to be dull around here and don't update our front page too often on our own. You just happened to be in the group that I identified.  ;D  Speaking of which, I have some thoughts around this that I need to ask our staff members on...thanks for the reminder.

I loved your Atari reviews, which always had well thought out reviews, history, images, and gameplay videos (albeit not your own) involved. I typically ended up picking up the carts after seeing the reviews, which is how I ended up with ~300 cartridges.

Oh yeah, Happy 10 Years RFGeneration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X06HoBb2e0

Ah shucks! And I thought no one was paying attention. When I find the time, I like to post them. I'll have to make it more of a habit.

YAY I WAS FIRST!

Check the Staff board...you'll see what I was hinting to.

Real life friends with St0rmTK421, TheEvilLeon, and Lord Nepenthean, also known as three of the founders.

Were you on VGBible? I'm kinda curious who's left from that time.

First off, it's really interesting to read how everyone got here. It also makes me feel good about doing the show when we end up with great users here because of it.

I've never really been one to let go of games. Ever since my childhood, they have been a hobby I could count on to get away and enjoy myself, as well as a chance to make friends that enjoyed them as well. I've been a big NES fan since it came out, and would pick up games here and there when I saw them.

In 2002 I was diagnosed with a disease called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. It's not common, and I won't go into the details, but they only thing to do when you have it is wait for cirrhosis to hit and then hope for transplant. At the time I was a single father with a 3 year-old daughter, and a lot to think about. Fast forward to early 2009, I was fortunate enough to have met and married my wonderful wife, and had a new daughter on the way. Unfortunately my health was moving in the wrong direction quickly. I became very ill in late February, and thankfully received a transplant on Feb. 28th.

During my recovery I wanted to focus more of my time doing things that were important to me. Time with family, getting back to work, and enjoying a trip back to my childhood. I decided to get more active in my game hunting and focus specifically on the NES. After a bit it was getting difficult to manage my collection well using a spreadsheet, and I needed a place to go. Like others I did some looking around and ran across RFG.

Mostly I lurked for a bit, but chimed in more and more. I've never been much of a writer, but I did a little blogging at first. I remember getting pretty excited when my review of Voyeur for the CD-i made it to the front page. After posting more and more eventually Crabby and I started messaging a bit and decided to hop on Skype to chat. After that we kept talking regularly, and just sort of decided to start recording as we did it.

I've made a lot of what I would consider to be great friends here. It might be the games that brings people in the beginning, but it's the community that makes people stay. Happy 10th to RFG, and I am looking forward to being a part of the next 10.

I was looking for a way to organize the collection (still a work in progress) and I saw the community was pretty friendly. Although I'm not as active on forums as I used to be, I still prefer to post my finds here over other places. :)

Ahh Duke. How can I negative Karma you after that :(

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I think it started when I started devoting a lot of time and money into collecting. I was online really just looking for a community that I can get help from, share my collection, and meet some good people. I looked at Segaage and others but for some reason something told me this  was the right place for me. I liked the format of the collection database. I also felt very welcome and the podcasts were awesome. So I don't really have an exciting story other than I wanted to find a great community and that is what I found here. I hope I can contribute in a larger way to this community in the future after Grad School which is quite soon.  :)

It's been about a year since I clicked a link for Ryudo's collection in his signature on Shenmue Dojo. Around the same time I was on a major buying spree. Snatching up stuff from every corner of the internet & a lot of sales threads! I jumped in head first and started tracking my games & submitting scans...questions were asked, podcasts were listened to & some good friends were made! I still want to meet all my fellow RFG homies some day! Shout out to all the staff here, our awesome CollectorCast hosts, everyone I've traded with and just everyone in general for making this an awesome place to be a part of. RFG FTW!

I think I was googling rare games and looking for lists of "hidden gem" games, which brought me to Racketboy and I think I found RFGen through that site.

I'm good buddies in real life with Krunch from Nintendoage. He told me about the collectorcast and said I really should listen. So I do and then found the forum through the show :)

When I started collecting a few years ago, I was only really wanting to center on handhelds that I hadn't played before.  An Atari Touch Me on eBay was actually the spark, and that was just because I was going to show it off like a crazy old man to a friend's kids that were "DSing" at the time.  The first two consoles that I bought were the WonderSwan and NGPC.  I bought some NES and SNES titles from when I was a kid and that blew the lid off, but I digress.  When I was looking into buying odd handhelds, I spent a lot of time on Youtube watching reviews and unboxing videos. 

Gamester81 pointed me to RFGeneration in the comments section of one of his videos.  And that is how I got here.

Speaking of which Techie, I found my NGPCs. I don't know if you have the random one I came across with the very bland box. I'll snap a picture tomorrow for you. Did you ever explain your original name that you signed up to the site with? Or the subsequent changes? ;)

The first NGPC I purchased was a CIB clear console, then I found a blue camo version for a good price on Amazon.  Keep in mind that I was really not a serious collector back them.  I was trying out the random stuff.  Since then, I found a nice loose clear console that I play now for cheap.  No consoles added since then.

The original username was an odd band name that I had come up with (and had always wanted to use somewhere) when I was working in Korea as a contractor, shortly after I got out of the Army.  Working in a NOC, a.k.a. network monitoring center, you have to find time killers.  The guys and I thought it would be fun to create a fake band and post it on a local events website.  We even got some groupies to promote us.  I can sing and play guitar, but the rest of the guys didn't have much experience in music - No, the clarinet won't get you a rock record deal, so Rob had to say he played the keyboard.  But we needed a drummer, so his wife could do it.  And I came up with Box In The Back.  If anyone wants to use the name, good luck in your quest for rock stardom.  I would appreciate the nod.

MetalJesus YouTube video

I'm sure that a lot of people will be able to say that now. ;)
I left a comment on his video thanking him for the coverage.

Yeah, same here. I had been using The Backloggery, but I like this better.

Welcome, glad that you are enjoying the site. :)

I am also glad to hear you are enjoying it as well. I am also really liking your choice in profile picture. TURTLES!!!

i found this site from this video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzViARzHQJw&list=UUEFymXY4eFCo_AchSpxwyrg

As did many of our new members. Welcome to the site!

Metal Jesus  :leo:

Welcome aboard!

If I remember correctly I stumbled upon this site through Google somehow back in the day

I found out about RF Generation through MetalJesusRocks' video about keeping track of your game collection. I watched the whole thing and of all of the places he mentioned RF Generation seemed like the best option.

I believe I found out about RFG on some random eBay seller's profile around April-May 2008. I eventually joined a few months later. :)

I found this from a while back, but some lurking on AtariAge chat convinced me to start posting and stuff

MetalJesusRocks posted a video with tips on how to keep track of your collection and I decided to check the site out. Glad I did!

We're glad you did too! Welcome.

Years ago, but I never signed up.  It wasn't until I heard Duke Togo on the NARC Podcast, which made me listen to the Collectorcast, which got me interested in checking the site out more.

Welcome stillplaynes! There are a lot of us on here still playing it too.

Well done, number 45. Let's all call each other by number from now on.

Welcome back 4.
Nice to see you for Xmas :)

It was around a year and a half ago when I joined, with the typical Google search story bringing me here.  I simply just wanted to catalog my growing collection, and I ended up here with no regrets.  :)

It's alive!  Welcome back from the dead.  I actually found this site about 8 years ago.  I found it in Tynstar's signature over on Digital Press.  And I've loved it ever since!

Metal Jesus Rocks told me to come here