Long time collector - first time poster from Sydney
Hi all,
For as long as I can remember I've been in this hobby, or as I like to refer to it as - a life-style.
I had heard of KLOV for a long time and most recently from listening to podcasts like Arcade Outsiders, Gameroom Junkies, Broken Token and many others. For some reason it's taken me this long to join the forum.
I won't go into my long history as it really is too long. But I'm a lifetime gamer, collector, competitor, enthusiast. In the last few years I've gone from video game collecting (majority C64 and Megadrive, but many many others), to building my own arcade. I fell into the deep well of pinball for a good while and have a few of those, but returning back to my roots and starting to gather more arcade machines - as of a few days ago I'm officially out of room!
I have been known in various communities (including Lemon64, NeoGAF, and Aussie Arcade) as Mar - but that name is taken here! So I've called myself after the name of my arcade.
I run a website that was until recently active in talking about competitive pinball. However I'm taking that in a different direction shortly and going to focus on my continuing passion of game rooms and the people that build them and play in them. You can see some features I've done of players and collectors by going to the following link - I plan to continue this series with a different twist: http://gamethesystem.co/people/
I'm looking forward to being involved in this community and the many great conversations to be had in the near future.
Marc.
Hi all,
For as long as I can remember I've been in this hobby, or as I like to refer to it as - a life-style.
I had heard of KLOV for a long time and most recently from listening to podcasts like Arcade Outsiders, Gameroom Junkies, Broken Token and many others. For some reason it's taken me this long to join the forum.
I won't go into my long history as it really is too long. But I'm a lifetime gamer, collector, competitor, enthusiast. In the last few years I've gone from video game collecting (majority C64 and Megadrive, but many many others), to building my own arcade. I fell into the deep well of pinball for a good while and have a few of those, but returning back to my roots and starting to gather more arcade machines - as of a few days ago I'm officially out of room!
I have been known in various communities (including Lemon64, NeoGAF, and Aussie Arcade) as Mar - but that name is taken here! So I've called myself after the name of my arcade.
I run a website that was until recently active in talking about competitive pinball. However I'm taking that in a different direction shortly and going to focus on my continuing passion of game rooms and the people that build them and play in them. You can see some features I've done of players and collectors by going to the following link - I plan to continue this series with a different twist: http://gamethesystem.co/people/
I'm looking forward to being involved in this community and the many great conversations to be had in the near future.
Marc.
