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Title: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Atariboy on August 04, 2006, 03:45:13 AM I was born in 1972 in NYC Bellevue Hospital (what was called The Nut House at that time) ANYWAY my first helf of my video game life my famley mostly my mother got me alot of the old gaming system when they first came out, my mother Rina came to the US in 1960 from Puerto Rico and lived in Manhattan but my father Mario (Thats right MARIO) was left to stay in Dominican Republic.
Anyway if some are you are wonderingwhen I got some of these units here's a short BIO of my time life in video gaming: 1972: Born in NYC, Atari was open for the first time with Pong. 1976: Mom gave me Atari Super Pong. 1977: Got the Atari Video Computer System for my B-day from Mom. 1979: Uncle gave me all the Odyssey units he had from first to Odyssy 2. 1980: One of my mom's friend got me the Intellivision and 4 games. 1982: The first 2600 game I got was Barzerk. My aunt got me the 5200. 1983: The last two console mom got me was the Colecovision & Vectrex. 1984: Got alot of used pong units from the flea market in Brooklyn. 1985: The first console I got by my self was the Nintendo NES with Rob. 1986: Found Famicom with 20 games in China town. 1987: Got Master System, Atari 7800 & XE. Also found more old consoles. 1989: Sega Genesis, Gameboy, Lynx, Plus got lots of 2600 games for .99 1990: Game Gear, dad and uncle got me the Neo-Geo and two game. 1991: Super NES, found more old units Arcadia 2001/Telstar/Channel F. 1992: CD-I , more old games like 2600/5200/7800 carts 4 for a dollar. 1993: 3DO, Jag, and got more imports in downtown like Super Famicom. 1995: Saturn, VirtalBoy, PS1, plus found lots of used carts & units. 1996: Got both Japanese and US N64. 1997: Metal Gear Solid is my all time fav PS1 game EVER! 1998: Got the Japanese Dreamcast. 1999: Got the US Dreamcast on 9.9.99 2000: Y2K came and left, still alive, plus got the PS2 both Japanese & US. 2001: Got the Gamecube both Japanese and US units. And the Xbox. 2002: I got my own plase to live in Brooklyn. Good for me now! 2004: Last game unit I got sofar is the GBA SP (NES Classic) 2005: The PS2 (smaller unit), PSP and DS. 2006: Soon Ill have Xbox360 and PS3 after I first get the Wii. LIST of some of my video game collection: Atari Pong Atari Super Pong Atari Ultra Pong Atari Video Computer System (6 buttons) Atari Video Computer System (4 buttons) Atari 2600 (Darth Vader) Atari 2600 Jr (Small Rainbow) Atari 2600 Jr (Lager Rainbow) Atari 5200 (2 Controller Port) Atari 5200 (4 Controller Port) Atari 7800 Atari Lynx (second model) Atari Jaguar Atari Jag CD Atari 400 Atari 800 Atari XE System ---------------------------------------- ------------- Arcadia 2001 Sears Tele-Games Pong Sears Tele-Games Super Pong Fairchild Channel F RCA Studio II Magnavox Odyssey Magnavox Odyssey 2 Mattel Intellivision Mattel Intellivision 2 Mattel Intellivision 3 Coleco Tel-Star Coleco Tank Colecovision Coleco Adam Coleco Gemini Video Game System GCE Vectrex Commodore VIC-20 Commodore 64 ---------------------------------------- ------------- Nintendo Famicom Nintendo Entertaiment System Nintendo Super Famicom Nintendo Super Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo N64 (Jap) Nintendo N64 Nintendo Gamecube (Japan) Nintendo Gamcube (US) Nintendo Game Boy (Japan) Nintendo Game Boy (US) Nintendo Game Boy Pocket Nintendo Game Boy Color Nintendo Game Boy Light (Japan) Nintendo Virtual Boy (US) Nintendo Game Boy Advance (Japan) Nintendo Game Boy Advance (US) Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP (Japan) Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP (US) ---------------------------------------- ------------- Sega Mark III (aka Master System) Sega Master System Sega Master System 2 Sega Mega Drive Sega Genesis Sega Genesis 2 Sega Genesis 3 Sega Mega Drive CD (First Model) Sega Genesis CD Sega Genesis CD (Second Model) Sega Game Gear (Japan) Sega Game Gear (US) Sega 32X (Japan) Sega 32X (US) Sega Nomad Sega Saturn (Japan) Sega Saturn (US) Sega Dreamcast (Japan) Sega Dreamcast (US) ---------------------------------------- ------------- NEC PC Engine NEC TurdoGrafx-16 NEC Turbo CD NEC Turbo Duo NEC Turbo Express SNK Neo-Geo SNK Neo-Geo CD SNK Neo-Geo Pocket Color Phillps CD-I Panasonic 3DO Sony MSX 1 Sony MSX 2 Sony PlayStation (Japan) Sony PlayStation (US) Sony PlayStation (Smaller Unit) Sony PlayStation 2 (Japan) Sony PlayStation 2 (US) Microsoft X-BOX. And Remember I didn't got all of them in one day I been collecting them for 20+ years. Here's my picture gallery of some of what I have. - http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?action=profile&name=Atariboy&folder=Collection Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: UNFORGIVINGPAIN on August 04, 2006, 06:40:42 AM That's an awesome collection you got, about ten times the size of my collection. But that's OK I have only been collecting games for about six months now.
Welcome to the forums! Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Atariboy on August 04, 2006, 07:02:08 AM That's an awesome collection you got, about ten times the size of my collection. But that's OK I have only been collecting games for about six months now. Welcome to the forums! Thanks and same here even with my collection I know three guys that has like 20% more then what I have cuase they have real jobs:D But like many Ill never stop collecting in fact Im starting getting old Japanese games from Famicom to Mark 3. Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: AndyC on August 04, 2006, 08:17:52 AM That is one hell of a collection you've got there.
Are you more of a hardware collector or just have one massive collection? I don't envy your task of adding all of your games in the collection tools :o Anyway enjoy your time at RFGeneration, and I'll hopefully see you around the forums. Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Speedy_NES on August 04, 2006, 10:04:38 AM Very nice collection you got there, and a great history to go along with it! Given that history, I would say you define the word collector ;) There's always discussions going on at various forums regarding what defines a true collector, and I would say someone who's been going at it for 20-30 years is definitely a true collector ;)
Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Tynstar on August 04, 2006, 10:08:07 AM Very very nice!!!!!
Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Atariboy on August 04, 2006, 10:28:06 AM Very nice collection you got there, and a great history to go along with it! Given that history, I would say you define the word collector ;) There's always discussions going on at various forums regarding what defines a true collector, and I would say someone who's been going at it for 20-30 years is definitely a true collector ;) Gee thanks^_^ Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: ganonbanned on August 04, 2006, 11:54:25 AM you dont have all of your collection loaded up yet, do you. i can tell by just looking at you 2600 games and NEs stuffs.
Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Atariboy on August 04, 2006, 01:12:38 PM you dont have all of your collection loaded up yet, do you. i can tell by just looking at you 2600 games and NEs stuffs. Yea most are boxed away and Im trying to check on them one at a time once I have time to list them and yea thers a lot of NES and others to go:P Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: captain_nintendo on August 04, 2006, 01:48:11 PM Very nice post. Thanks for sharing that bit of history with us.
Also while I am at it, welcome to RF Generation! :freakboy: Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: ganonbanned on August 04, 2006, 04:32:12 PM how many rooms of games do you have? how many tv's do you have? do you have any estimation of the total games (i was looking at the pictures and thought my god this guy probly has more then den!)
Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Necrosaro420 on August 05, 2006, 10:34:32 AM Nice stuff =)
Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Pop Culture Portal on August 08, 2006, 09:48:16 AM Pictures!! Pictures!! We need pictures!!
Oh, and your Atari list rox! Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: RetroYoungen on August 08, 2006, 10:09:18 PM D00d, that collection definately be pretty. Very nice. :-)
Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Atariboy on August 09, 2006, 11:21:25 AM Pictures!! Pictures!! We need pictures!! Oh, and your Atari list rox! http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/collection.pl?action=profile&name=Atariboy&folder=Collection Title: Re: The "Forret Gump" Of Video Gaming. Post by: Pop Culture Portal on August 14, 2006, 08:55:43 AM Awsome!
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