Hello from Bavaria...

Dampfwalze

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... or Franken, to be exactly. :)

Warning! Warning! A huge text is approching fast! ;-)

First I have to apologize in advance for my english. It's obviously not my native language and I am afraid there will be dozens of grammatical and literal errors in my texts.

My love with arcade games started with Space Invaders in a little inn here in Erlangen. I was about eight years old and hardly big enough to be able watching the screen. I still know that I begged my father for another coin to continue my fail as I lost my ships very fast. When christmas came and I saw a handheld version of Space Invaders in a mail-order catalog, I bothered my parents till I got it. (and still own it, but thats another story)

My arcade collecting story starded in the mid-nineties when I worked in a video game store and one of the customers tried to sell a MAK and some PCBs to us. There was one reason to buy his package: In The Hunt! And so I entered the world of arcade collecting.

The next step was even weirder: a local arcade had this Galaga 88 game inside a standard Jamma cab and I asked the owner to sell the game to me, since I loved this game so much. He said "Sure, but only if you buy the game with the cab together."
Well, since this was before ebay became big, I bought the whole cab and since I had a real cab now and ebay became big, one PCB after another joined my collection.

Today I have 2 cabs (the Nova Big Screen from the Galaga 88 deal, and a Astro City cab I recently buyed), a MAK and many PCBs.
The ones I am most proud of:
- In the Hunt
- Nebulas Ray
- Space Invaders 95 (US original F3 cart)

I wanted to join KLOV because I hope to find same-minded people and to be part of a community that tries to preserve an arcade culture that seems to be dead outside of Japan.

Thank you for reading my sermon and I hope you will accept me here. :)

Best regards,
Dampfwalze
 
You're fine. Anybody using English as their second language gets a pass. My home town of Melrose actually has a 'sister city' in Bavaria called Legden. We also used to exchange students with the high school in Bühl. My High School German club was pretty big in the 80's and 90's. I never made it out there but had several friends that did. Welcome.
 
Thank you for the welcome. :)

Since nobody complained that they got physical damage by reading my text, my english can't be that awful. ;-)

Your English is better than half the posters here so no worries. :)

Welcome to KLOV!
 
*blush*
Thank you for the warm welcome.

@Phetishboy: it is allways nice to hear that someone studies german. :) But I also heard that it is quite hard to learn and when I reminisce about the dictations we took in school, I quite believe this. For example, even for us native speakers it isn't easy to set the commas right etc.
 
Hey, I was in Bamberg from 95 to 98. I think I went to a fest in Erlangen once.

I miss the food and the hefewiesen.....:(...:D

Wilkommen!!!!
 
Welcome!

I lived in Neu Ulm from '87 to late '89 (about 2.5 years). Spent a lot of time in Munich and Stuttgart. Went skiing all the time on the Alpspitz and Zugspitze.
 
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