mike99mccarthy

I am a Lifetime videogame player/collector located near Gainesville, Florida. My videogame intrests vary from time to time, but my mainstays are:
1. Nintendo NES
2. Atari 2600
3. Nintendo gamecube
4. Nintendo Classic Arcade cabs(DK/DKJR/DK3/Mario bros/Popeye/Vs. Unisystem)
5. Nintendo Handhelds(even tho I don't get to play them too often)

At the moment I am very interested in Atari 8-bit and would like to learn how to program games. I use to
collect anything I could get my hands on, but now I am all about quality over quantity. I use to own over
50 consoles with about 600 games, but I hardly played any of it other than a little NES and 2600. Now I
am down to 2 2600 vaders, 2 NES's, 2 gamecubes, 2 dreamcasts, a Wii and a few handhelds. I only collect
first party NES carts(I play everything else on the powerpak) and mostly first party 2600 carts(gotta have me some activision in there too tho!). I have around 250 games and own mostly everything want.

I love coin ops. I have a really tasteful mame cabinet and a DKJR right now, but I will eventually also own:

1. Donkey Kong
2. Mario Bros.
3. Vs. Duck hunt
3. Tempest
4.TRON
5. a nice pinball

I am a big family man. I love my wife and daughter soooo much. I am also a professional level rollerblader.
I compete actively in aggressive inline and I also dabble in competitive speed skating.