Hello, everyone!
Here goes for an introduction...
My gaming life started as a youngster in the 80's with the family Commodore 64. I loved that thing to bits, but eventually the Genesis came out and I was suddenly always visiting my neighbor's to play it, so I saved up for a Game Gear. It's the only console I owned as a child, though my brother had an SNES and I played that a ton, too. In the early 2000's I started picking up PS1 games because they were cheap since I finally had the money to actually buy stuff, and then got into the Neo Geo and well... suddenly it all became "retro gaming" apparently.
I spent the last decade or so abroad, so my gaming was relegated to the Nintendo DS until relatively recently, but I'm happily getting into console gaming again. Prices are crazy, but I don't care too much. I don't drink (anymore) nor smoke, so I figure if I want to blow money on old games, who can judge me, right?
By the way, I'm a moderator at neogeoforever.com in case that's of interest to anyone.
I look forward to chatting with all of you!