What got you in to retro gaming?

[Cauterize]

I'd say there were two things that got me into playing old games:

First, a visit to Majorca around 2000- the arcades there were fairly outdated, so they had a lot of older games, like The Punisher, Super Pang, Track & Field, and most importantly, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs. At the time I was heavily into 3D games on the N64 and Playstation, but I'd never heard of any of these games and was amazed by them. There was also Metal Slug 2 which completely blew me away- it was only 2 years old at the time but it looked incredible, so from there I started looking into old arcade games and the like... (To this day MS2 and C&D are some of my favourite games)

I'm pretty sure I visited Majorca around the same time and was also very pleasantly surprised by the wealth of awesome titles in the arcades. It was this family holiday that got me hooked on Marvel Vs Capcom.

[robertd]

I'd say there were two things that got me into playing old games:

First, a visit to Majorca around 2000- the arcades there were fairly outdated, so they had a lot of older games, like The Punisher, Super Pang, Track & Field, and most importantly, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs. At the time I was heavily into 3D games on the N64 and Playstation, but I'd never heard of any of these games and was amazed by them. There was also Metal Slug 2 which completely blew me away- it was only 2 years old at the time but it looked incredible, so from there I started looking into old arcade games and the like... (To this day MS2 and C&D are some of my favourite games)

I'm pretty sure I visited Majorca around the same time and was also very pleasantly surprised by the wealth of awesome titles in the arcades. It was this family holiday that got me hooked on Marvel Vs Capcom.

funnily enough this is true of myself, I also visited majorca & also teneriffe around 2000 several times (holiday apartment) & was also amazed by the arcade machines & spend a few hours in them !!

[jake1987]

When I was a kid (12) I had a hard time with my step dad so mum said to me to gt into cOllecting and take my mind off stuff so I started cOllecting VHS Horror movies then needless to say moved onto DVD now Blu Ray I have all the noticeable Franchises on DVD VHS N Blu ray and then I got bored with that .. Time went on and I met a girl who loves games as much as I do so it started going on from there then it happened I was struck down at 25 with a massive heartattack I was sick so bad for months then to take my mind of my heart and sickness my missis picked
Me up a Sega Mega Drive then I started collecting now I'm a few games away from obtaing all the MK series