Fast forward a few years - My father buys an Amiga 500. Finally I can start games by myself! Plug-and-Play basically. Lots of pirate-ware! I remember playing Ports of Call, Civilization, "Special Forces", "Settlers", "Sword & Balleons"), Defender of the Crown - and many more! Sensible World of Soccer.

One day my father goes to buy cigarettes... it was usually us kids who were sent to get them. He was gone for several hours...
When he came back he had bought his first PC - an IBM Apriva, later another one, then building his own - me following the ideas.

I am still hooked on the old games! Back when games were not about being the most beautiful and life-like games, but where a good gameplay actually mattered! Where a game had to be fun or interesting to play - and would only tuely be beautiful if run on an Amiga (suck a joystick, "Atari"! - pun intended). I like playing newer games too, but finding gaps in the games I played as a kid - as well as titles I bought in my newer collection days where I now have more original Amiga games than cracked ones, I have "specialized" in adding oldies - but also some of the smaller games that seems to be forgotten on VGG - maybe even on purpose.

A lot of my games added have come from the unending steam of games bundles. They're making games faster than we an add them! :) Thanks to Forbidding, andrewhodkinson and _Kael_ for their diligent approval of my entries!

Sometimes I wonder whether I was made an admin simply to stop be contributing so much. :D

With regards contributions, I make an above-average percentage of my contribution score from characters and series. It seems lots of series of games get submitted to VGG, but not the actual Series entry itself. Strange as it's such easy pickings. Ah well - all the more for me!

Description to be completed by user once he is finished submitting VGG content for antique computer games. Click link below for status updates!

https://www.videogamegeek.com/geekgold/collected/The Maverick

It's still relatively easy to pick up bundles of 8-bit games on eBay for a reasonable price. But that won't last forever. These games need to be recorded and preserved. I'd encourage anybody to pick a system - especially a relatively obscure one, and pick up some games to add to the geek. I'm pretty sure that you'll come across something you enjoy that you hadn't played before.

I prefer not to copy descriptions from Wikipedia. I want us to be a unique and useful resource, not just a duplicate of other sites. Researching a game - what systems it was on, when it was released, who wrote it - can be time-consuming, but also rewarding.