The Forum Will Expire April 2023

[Pickaxe Brad!]

It's officially May 2023 and the forum did NOT expire in April of this year!  I'm so happy we're all still here.

An excellent April Fools' Month joke!

[DennisNL]

I feel like I am a little late to the party, when it comes to the forum. I grew up having a Videopac G7000. It was the first computer we had in our house. I have fond memories of it, even though I was really young at the time. A couple of years later the Videopac got replaced with the Commodore 64. Both of them are my biggest loves from my childhood.

I have tried to become a member of this forum before. For some reason, it did not work. Maybe I did something wrong, or maybe I just wasn't patient enough in waiting for approval. I honestly don't know. But reading this topic, I feel like I missed a lot of fun things. The forum is not so active at the moment, but I do hope this will change for the better.

I have been collecting retro games for somewhere in between 10 to 15 years. Even as a teenager I bought a second hand Videopac, I always kept interest. When I became older, I just wanted to experience everything. Things I had, and things I never had. So now I have a lot of computers and consoles at my house. NES, Sega, Atari, you name it.

The Commodore 64 was all about copying stuff. For example: As a kid I did not even know the C64 took cartridges. We never owned them. We only had a handful of official games on tape. The rest was copied. First on cassette tapes, later on floppy disks. This was entirely different with Videopac. The cartridges, the large plastic boxes: I wanted to own them, all of them. I basically collect for all systems, but the Videopac is the only system I want all games for. So from the start of my collecting, I tried to complete the original Philips set. But I am looking at other Videopac stuff now as well.

I wish I found this forum sooner and I wish I could have been a part of the stories I have been reading here. Thankfully, the forum continues to stay online and I hope I will get to meet some (or a lot) of the people that made those stories. I know collecting retro games has become more a business model than a hobby for some. But I am still playing games and having fun. Trying not to spent hundreds of euro's, but still make the collection grow, one step at a time. In the mean time, I will be reading the old topics and read all the information and learn new things.

So again, thanks for keeping the forum alive!