mlfoxjr@yahoo.com
NES_Rules
Youngstown, Ohio
Bio
I am currently 21 years old and am a student at Youngstown State University majoring in Environmental Studies. I hope to get a job in Wildlife Research or Management for the great state of Ohio. But we'll see how it goes, as long as I get to spend my work days outside I'll be content.
Besides collecting games, I'm also a huge music lover. I mainly collect records but am not adverse to the occasionally 8 track although I despise cassette tapes. And of course I've got a good number of CDs as well. I only listen to one genre, but it's a large one - Classic Rock. I can listen to anything from the 50's to the 80's - Johnny Cash to Devo. But I stay away from the 90's pretty much altogether except for the bands that started before then and just continued through the 90's.
I would say my favorite band would be the Beatles, with Led Zeppelin close behind.
I also enjoy hunting and fishing, although it's been a couple years since I've had time to fish seriously. I always make sure I'm out there hunting deer in the winter though. My best deer was a good size 8 point buck I shot while it was running from about 20 feet.
What Got Myself into Collecting?
My family got our first NES for Christmas of '89 when I just under 2 years old, so I grew up playing Nintendo. We usually got the newest system a year or two after it's initial release. After the N64 I fell out of gaming completely, packing up all my old games and system and burning all my old game boxes (I thought they took up too much space). Shortly after the GameCube came out I started getting back into gaming but not the classics.
Eventually, I slowly started dragging out my old systems and setting them up in various rooms in the house. I also started buying more systems; first was the Genesis then an Atari and eventually a PlayStation. After that, it's just a blur of garage sales and awesome deals to me.
As of this writing (July 26, 2008) I'm at over 1,600 total games with 1,200 being unique. And 80 total systems including duplicates.
Although I have a lot of games, I rarely play them. Between time constraints and a generally lack of enjoyment from playing anymore, I'll play maybe once a month. I really enjoy collecting them more. From seeing what I can find and for how cheap I can find it to researching it to filling in missing scans and info in the database.
I joined this site because (like 99% of the people here) needed a way to track my collection, but I stayed because of the awesome community and the thrill of submitting stuff to the database. Within a couple days of joining, I thought to myself "now I would LOVE to be a member of the staff for this site someday" and on July 22, 2008 Dave (TraderJake) made my dreams come true and made me a Staff member. Although I always thought my writing wasn't all that great (thanks a lot, oppressive English teachers) but apparently a few people here enjoy it, so I was made a Blog Writer.
To be honest, when the blog system first came out, I thought "there's a useless feature I'll never use" but I tried it once and didn't really get why everyone likes blogging so much, so I didn't do it again for a while. Until this past Winter/Spring I decided to keep a log of what I bought at garage sales. I had always posted in the small scores thread, but it was hard for me to go back through and see what all I bought in a year. So I decided to make a weekly blog and entitled it the Treasure Hunt Chronicles.
After about #10 I started getting bored with it because I wasn't getting a lot comments so I thought no one was reading it. But I soon found out that a lot of the regulars were not only reading it but were enjoying it. It was after lucky number 13 was posted that I was asked to join the ranks of staff.
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