Futureman

Yay Penguin!

SWFL Crew up in the VGS! oh man, they're multiplying! you gonna hit up the meetup this weekend? (hopefully someone invited ya)

Got married and then the wife wanted to have kids closer to her family. The funny part is the move to Florida basically kick-started my collecting since I didn't have any friends down here.

Oh snap, where in NJ? I lived a few places right outside NYC. Couple years in Jersey City and a couple years in Livingston.

I've dabbled in some NES programming and I did some of it for my college thesis when I made a GBA game demo. Don't have much desire to do more of it though. Finished the loose Licensed US set a couple years back. It's nice to not pay attention to NES games anymore.

Hi everyone, I'm Futureman, Spent 20 years collecting NES and now i'm just collecting what I can find for all systems. Other than that i'm an indie game developer working on a new game called #Blud, which i'll try not to spam info about here too much as development goes on. I also try to play games when my work/family gives me a breather.

man, forum has been live for just over and hour and you're already looking to ignore people

Awesome, whenever I find pickups that are in really good condition, even if the games aren't memorable, I remember the pickup. Just am always amazed at how random people keep them in such good condition.

Great pickup, and is it just me or do the cases themselves look to be in pretty pristine condition?

Oh man, those boxes are pretty awesome. In general I think most boxes can be made to look decent when put into a protector and on a shelf. The key to that being true is that you would need the spine to look decent enough, which might not be the case on those one. In my opinion any box is better than no box. But based on those ones, once I found upgrades I prolly would just give them to a friend that can use them, since I find it hard to sell horrible condition boxes. I wish I knew were I packed away 2 NES boxes I picked up a few years back in a large manual lot. They are missing a huge corner of each of the boxes. Basically looks like a dog took a bite out of them.

It was really hard not to choose ALttP. It's just such an amazing game, i'm using it as inspiration on the indie game i'm working on. I still found A Link Between Worlds to be fantastic, but since it's built off ALttP, its hard to choose it as better.

I know a lot of people know each other already, but it's interesting to hear where everyone is from. I love meeting local collectors in my area, so let's hear it, I've actually met some of my closest friends from a connection I made a couple years back through forums. I guess I'll start. I'm from South Florida, in the West Palm area.

I think i'm going to try and use this new forum as an opportunity for me to get more active in the collector community. I love talking about games and collecting (and making them) when I hang out with my friends locally, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to extend that to a forum setting.

Howdy!

Im so excited!!