| About Me : |
| 1999 - In favor of school and guitar, I quit video games for a decade or so when my Playstation got stolen including 72 hours of Final Fantasy 8. Then one day, a friend of a friend handed off to me a CD. On it I found emulators for 2600, NES, SNES & Genesis, along with massive rom-packs for each. I began exploring. And occasionally having Street Fighter II tourneys w/ friends. About a year later, I got into checking out every 2600 game I had never played growing up. (It blew my mind how many of these I had actually played!) After a brief spell krakking out on Yars' Revenge, I discovered Pitfall II and got hooked. Then when I found H.E.R.O. I got even more hooked. I began researching the histroy of video games. It blew my mind that Billy Mitchell maxed out Pac-Man in 1999!! Then my cousin asked if I wanted to go to the game store with him and when I asked, he said they would definitely have an Atari. From that point on (Fall 2012) I have never stopped collecting and massively gaming!! At first, I went for 2600 & NES games. Eventually that expanded to pretty much anything.
2012 - Joined 2600 High Score Club & eventually served as moderator for 3 yrs.
2013 - Joined highscore.com and accepted the invitation to serve as an admin. Participated in many contests and won a number of flash carts & gift certificates. What a blast!
2022 - After a 2 year hiatus from online activity, discovered lvlupscore.com and got on board!
Other interests: Music, Philosophy, Martial Arts, Strategic Board Games like Chess & Go, and most importantly, Knowledge about how to stay healthy and avoid disease.
About that. I grew up athletic and (I thought) healthy. It didn't occur to me as a sign of ill health the fact that I got sick from time to time. A couple years after graduating high school in 1994, I began carrying books in my backpack all the time, both for school and as a personal learning hobby. That meant no more running everywhere I went. A couple years later I began partying and drinking all the time. I became more and more careless with my diet. Working for years at a sedentary office job I began developing back problems. Sometimes I had so much pain that I had to take time off. By 2003 I had packed on about 50 extra pounds, got sick more and more often, and couldn't run more than about a block without gassing out & wheezing. At some point I began "bitching" about my back problems and one day a man told me he could show me some exercises which I could practice daily and never have back problems again. I let him show me. I followed through, and within 2 weeks my back pain was gone. To this day my back is fine unless I get lazy with these exercises. That little success got me on an improvement kick! After embarking on an intensive health-info quest I discovered a very inspiring piece of literature and after applying what I learned there, managed to transform my health! It took me 6 months to succeed at changing my habits. Then, within 30 days I lost 40 lbs. After about 3 months I decided to try running one day & found I could run for miles without stopping. And in nearly 20 years since, I've had lots of energy whether I work out or not, whether I drink beer or not, and haven't gotten even so much as a common cold.
Wow. So naturally I want to share the details with others! However, whenever I speak up publicly or to random people in my life I get an overwhelmingly negative response, with general disinterest as the runner up. So now I refuse to explain details, except in a private, one-on-one conversation with someone specifically interested to hear it. So, if anybody would like to hear more they can contact me via PM at AtariAge or on Discord. I'm not selling anything and I have all the time in the world when it comes to this topic.
Rock on gamers!! |
