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Alright, so I'm not as old as many of you that regularly patrol this site. I was born at the turn of the century, and I'm still in high school.
However, I involved myself in emulation when I was around 8 or 9, and learned the basics of how emulation worked back then. I'd just go around GBATemp, Emuparadise, etc. in 2009 and just read threads, or try and figure out new things. I never actually created an account, or interacted with anyone.
----- read on if you want a lame summary of why i'm sitting here today -----
Unlike kids my age that were obsessed with Fallout 3, a new Call of Duty game, etc., I'd be playing on my Wii or DSi, or going online and downloading some old SNES games or Gameboy titles and enjoying the crap out of them. I moved to the US from India when I was 4, and we didn't have Fallout or Call of Duty in India. We had MS Paint, Minesweeper, Solitaire, etc. My dad had an old NES that I played. So, I grew up on bits and pixels while other kids my age were born during the big change to 3D games, and to this day, I love bits and pixels. I've torn up my PC, experimented with code, and was generally inquisitive of everything. I recently build a PC of my own, actually. First time.
Even now, I prefer a good tabletop RPG or JRPG to the AAA titles of today. Because in India, we didn't have anything better than tabletop games. The only things that were "better" were pirated titles on old hump-back Windows PCs, like Counterstrike or Doom.
So I'm sitting here today, and my mouse pointer rests on some old ROMs gathering virtual dust on my desktop for years. Impulsively, I race over here, and create a new account. Don't ask me why, because even I don't really know.
If you read this, thank you.
tl;dr: Millenial, moved to the US when I was 4, immense love for old nostalgic titles, virtual hawk on forum boards in 2009, decided to involve myself henceforth. Hello
However, I involved myself in emulation when I was around 8 or 9, and learned the basics of how emulation worked back then. I'd just go around GBATemp, Emuparadise, etc. in 2009 and just read threads, or try and figure out new things. I never actually created an account, or interacted with anyone.
----- read on if you want a lame summary of why i'm sitting here today -----
Unlike kids my age that were obsessed with Fallout 3, a new Call of Duty game, etc., I'd be playing on my Wii or DSi, or going online and downloading some old SNES games or Gameboy titles and enjoying the crap out of them. I moved to the US from India when I was 4, and we didn't have Fallout or Call of Duty in India. We had MS Paint, Minesweeper, Solitaire, etc. My dad had an old NES that I played. So, I grew up on bits and pixels while other kids my age were born during the big change to 3D games, and to this day, I love bits and pixels. I've torn up my PC, experimented with code, and was generally inquisitive of everything. I recently build a PC of my own, actually. First time.
Even now, I prefer a good tabletop RPG or JRPG to the AAA titles of today. Because in India, we didn't have anything better than tabletop games. The only things that were "better" were pirated titles on old hump-back Windows PCs, like Counterstrike or Doom.
So I'm sitting here today, and my mouse pointer rests on some old ROMs gathering virtual dust on my desktop for years. Impulsively, I race over here, and create a new account. Don't ask me why, because even I don't really know.
If you read this, thank you.
tl;dr: Millenial, moved to the US when I was 4, immense love for old nostalgic titles, virtual hawk on forum boards in 2009, decided to involve myself henceforth. Hello
