Hello retrogamers!
cross_bearer_02 here, although I might as well have an alias of "Mississippi Mike". As you might guess by that, I hail from the state of Mississippi. I'm a software developer, and by day I work for a regional healthcare provider as a programmer. In my spare time, however, I'm often working on my own personal projects or just gaming and enjoying country life to the full.
I keep promising myself that one of these days I will buckle down and turn my attention toward game programming, as that's always been a dream of mine. With the advent of mobile platforms, the field is ripe for that sort of project. Perhaps someday soon.
All that being said, I've been a retrogamer all my life. My older brother owned both an Atari 2600 and Commodore 64, and later we graduated to the NES (and I received an Atari 7800 one Christmas as well). After his untimely passing, I inherited his Atari 2600 and C64 collection, and have continued to grow it down through the years into what I have today. It's a meager collection, and nowhere near the massive collections you see online, but what I do have is a whole bunch of games that I thoroughly enjoy playing, and I regularly rotate systems in and out of play on my television (modern and retro alike).
I've been listening to the podcast fairly regularly since July 4th weekend, and I am currently up to episode #40. I thoroughly love the format, the content, and the interviews. It's all very interesting information, and quite a bit that I did not know. Looking forward to listening to all the rest of the episodes and catching up to the most recent podcast, and I'm looking forward to participating more in the forums here and getting to know all you fine folks as well!
So again, greetings from Dixie. And I'll answer to just about anything, whether it's my handle (cross_bearer_02), "Mississippi Mike", or just plain Mike (although I gather that might throw a bit of confusion into the works).
Cheers!![]()
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