Racketboy

I originally shared my gaming information in message boards such as SegaXtreme, but in 2004, I started my Blogger project named RetroGaming with racketboy. I find that having my own site motivates me to keep good content flowing. I’ve expanded my site on racketboy.com in order to better help old-school gamers of all levels enhance their gaming lifestyle and build a specialized community. As for my gaming habits, I grew up being the kid that never had the latest and greatest gaming consoles. I started out being an arcade junkie in the late 80’s and early 90’s while my friends had their NES systems.

Around the time the Sega 32X came out, I finally got my first console — the Sega Genesis. That was one of two times I’ve owned a console for which games were still being produced for. I lived off of Funcoland purchases to build my collection. After the Genesis left the retail scene, I picked up a Sega CD and that kept me occupied for a while. Once the eBay scene bloomed in ‘98, I picked up my first Sega Saturn. I finally had some excellent reproductions of some of my arcade favorites.

It wasn’t until Sega announced that it would be giving up on it’s 128-bit console in 2000 that I picked up a Dreamcast. I actually bought most of the affordable retail games I could find for the DC, so you can’t blame me for it’s demise. And finally, my wife got me a Gamecube for our anniversary in 2004.

Now, while I still play games, I still think I enjoy talking/writing about them more. I may be far from being an expert in the newer systems and games, but I feel that I can be a valuable resource when it comes to the older systems that I am familiar with.

I’m far from a final source on these topics, but I’ve been learning A LOT as I research topics I think are interesting — then I enjoy passing that information on to my readers I hope you find this site beneficial and if you have any ideas or comments, I’d love to hear them!

FYI: In case you were wondering, “racket” is the name my freshman college roommates gave me because they got tired of trying to pronounce my last name — racket was close enough.