Who is VGCL?
The team of VGCL consists of a group of individuals who all share the common interest for video games and the hardware that delivers it to our respective living rooms.  We are are all console collectors\enthusiasts and collectively own every main system being reviewed here, but first off we are are all gamers.  Like you, we share the same passion - video games.  A little bit more about us...
Marriott_Guy
     Console Reviewer \ Article Writer \ Web Programmer \ Admin
     MG@videogameconsolelibrary.com
I have been extremely interested in video gaming since my first experience with the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A back in 1979.  I wouldn't consider myself a huge gamer, but I thoroughly enjoy RPGs, golf simulations and FPS.  Regarding hardware, the complete opposite applies - I am a hardcore CIB collector.  I am not into handhelds or pongs  - just true consoles.  Before I write any review, I fire up the respective system and invest a number of hours of game play to provide the most objective feedback.  The prize of my collection is probably the Toshiba Super Vision 8000 along with the Panasonic FZ-35s (3DO M2).

Favorite Gaming Systems

Nintendo NES

Sega Genesis

Sony PlayStation

Microsoft Xbox 360
Favorite Game Series

Quest for Glory

King's Field

Suikoden

Elder Scrolls

Dark Watcher
     Console Reviewer \ Article Writer
     DW@videogameconsolelibrary.com
We are He who cast shadows in darkness.  We are a lover of video games.  The Dark Watcher has been an avid gamer since the early 1980s.  In the 1990s, we became a lurker on the internet.  Since then we have made many contributions to the online gaming community, but it is this site that became our true passion.

We came from a poor family and computers were something we would never own till we became much older.  Perhaps this is why we developed an affinity for console gaming rather then computer gaming.  Other then some PONG units that we do not have much recollection of...our real thirst for console gaming began with Atari 2600.  We have since been privileged to see console gaming evolve over seven generations (as of this writing).  A trip to Japan sparked even more interest with consoles we had never seen on US shores.  We dug into magazines, books, hands-on, and internet websites to help quench our thirst for knowledge.

Favorite Gaming Systems

Nintendo NES

Nintendo SNES

Sony PlayStation

Sega Dreamcast
Favorite Game Series

Final Fantasy

Street Fighter

Resident Evil

Burnout

98PaceCar
     Console Reviewer \ Article Writer
     98@videogameconsolelibrary.com
I've been a gamer since the Atari 2600 days and spent way too much time on every game I could get my hands on.  I later moved into the world of Commodore with a C128 and eventually, an Amiga 500.

I had a brief foray into the 3DO world only to drop back out of consoles until the Xbox.  Nowadays, I find myself trying to collect all of the hardware I always lusted after along with the consoles I've just discovered.  I have an extensive collection of hardware of all types, along with games for every console, handheld, and computer I own.  I'll play pretty much any game I can get my hands on, good or bad!

My prized collectibles are my RDI Halcyon, AdventureVision, SNES M.A.C.S. setup, and Pepsi Invaders 2600 cartridge (that my girlfriend gave me for Valentine's Day in 2008).

Favorite Gaming Systems

Atari 2600

Microsoft Xbox 360
Favorite Game Series

DoDonPachi

Mortal Kombat

Bioshock

Dead Space

Tan
     Console Reviewer \ Article Writer
     Tan@videogameconsolelibrary.com
My earliest, fond memories of gaming reach back to the days of the ColecoVision and the Intellivision when bleeps and bloops blew our eardrums and blocky characters blew our minds.  When Arcades were dark, hazy, noisy dens of electronics and flashing lights that were crammed with kids of all ages.  Over the years, despite the twists and turns my life has taken, gaming has always had a place in the forefront of my self-interests.  Whether I was stopping by the RadioShack TurboGrafx kiosk as a kid, playing Samurai Shodown at summer camp, adding Goldeneye to the friends/beer/pizza equation in my first apartment or participating in clan gaming with Mechwarrior 4 shortly after proposing to my (then) girlfriend, a controller has never been far from my hand.

However, it was only five years ago (2004) that my passion for gaming had reached the level it is at now.  Nostalgia is a powerful thing.  When the clarion call of childhood memory made me yearn for those old games of my youth, eBay presented me with a new avenue to sink my money into: Collecting.  While my collection is small, I'm proud to say I own all of the games that contributed in making me the type of gamer I am today.

Favorite Gaming Systems

Mattel Intellivision

Sega Master System

Sony PlayStation

Microsoft Xbox
Favorite Game Series

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Colin McRae Rally

Elder Scrolls

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

applemctom
     Console Reviewer \ Article Writer \ Video Producer
     applemctom@videogameconsolelibrary.com
I'm a European gamer and I played my first video games in the 80s, on a black & white Apple Macintosh, but my first video game console was a Sega Master System. Since then I got hooked on video games and have always been following Sega closely.  Besides console gaming I also really like handheld gaming – that's where I have always been committed to Nintendo.  Of course, I like owning game software and hardware, but I'm not really a hardcore collector.  I'm especially interested in the history of video games and the amazing development in games in such a short period of time. I also enjoy the way video games can bring people together and evoke nostalgic feelings of the past.

Favorite Gaming Systems

Nintendo NES

Sega Master System

Sega Mega Drive

Microsoft Xbox 360
Favorite Game Series

Bubble Bobble

Sonic the Hedgehog

Streets of Rage

Bioshock


 

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