Raffle: Japanese Sega Saturn Console with a dozen games

[lukester]

I want to remind people that the prompt is 500 words or less. Imagine this like a college application.

Evo and schweaty, nice stories! But you guys will need to revise in order to be considered. Schweaty, yours is about 900. Evo, yours is over 600.

Use this site to double check

https://wordcounter.net

[EvilEvoIX]

I want to remind people that the prompt is 500 words or less. Imagine this like a college application.

Evo and schweaty, nice stories! But you guys will need to revise in order to be considered. Schweaty, yours is about 900. Evo, yours is over 600.

Use this site to double check

https://wordcounter.net

FIXED!!!  500 on the nose.  Thanks again, I actually enjoyed reminiscing and how good things were, I never new how good I had it my dad was right.

[bartre]

I'm not gonna post my life story, just my PCEFX story.

I joined in 2010, after discovering how much of a shithole Digitpress.com was.
it really bugged me how much those folks were motivated by rarity or the money they spent on the gaming hobby.
I decided to make an account here to see about finding some games that i didn't have for the PC Engine Duo-R i had just bought (Ys books 1&2 being the favorite of the games i did have)
but i guess i found more than that, i pretty quickly found myself hanging out in the shoutbox (when the site had it) and talking to the longtime members more and more.
later, in 2011, i brought up to my girlfriend at the time the Midwest Gaming Classic.
to my surprise she was all about going and we attended that year, finally meeting in person several members here.
I've since gone to MGC every year, seeing the same people grow (along with myself) and I would do anything for the friends I've made here.
This is my second home; I can't f*ck up for this.

[Lost Monkey]

Thanks for the raffle.  Too bad you don't feel the Saturn is your cup of tea - It is pretty much a SMUTs or SMCHMUMPS or SMBS and BEMP or BEMUP or BTSOUS paradise though.  Good luck to the entrants.

[bob]

if i win, i have concerns about how you might package it for shipping.  can you 100% guarantee that it will arrive safe and working?  can you insure it so you dont waste my time?

[MrBroadway]

Thanks for the raffle.  Too bad you don't feel the Saturn is your cup of tea - It is pretty much a SMUTs or SMCHMUMPS or SMBS and BEMP or BEMUP or BTSOUS paradise though.  Good luck to the entrants.

Technically he only said that the games that came with it aren't his type, which is fair. 3D fighters aren't my thing either, and NiGHTS is a divisive game (I won't say love it or hate it, since hate is a strong word, but you either really like it, or it is only a neat tech demo).

But yeah, Saturn is awesome for shewties.

[Medic_wheat]

if i win, i have concerns about how you might package it for shipping.  can you 100% guarantee that it will arrive safe and working?  can you insure it so you dont waste my time?

Not sure if trolling or being honest in expression of opinin.

[EvilEvoIX]

if i win, i have concerns about how you might package it for shipping.  can you 100% guarantee that it will arrive safe and working?  can you insure it so you dont waste my time?

Not sure if trolling or being honest in expression of opinin.

Probably a little of both.  The Saturn is a great system.  i had one for $50 after it died and the three pack in games.  Got the second panzer dragon and played it to death.  Never went deep with it cuz I had a PS1 at that point.

[BlueBMW]

I grew up in the suburbs of Denver Colorado.  My father was an engineer, my mother a nurse.  We were well off but not exactly wealthy.  I was always kind of that geeky smart kid but I wasn't exactly socially adept.  I started playing computer games and board games at a really young age.  My first PC game was Civilization in around 1991.  I would sit and watch my dad play that game for hours and hours.  Eventually I just flipped the machine on and started playing.  I would have been about 7 years old at the time. 

So youth turned into adolescence and then into young adulthood.  I attended Littleton High School and graduated in 2002.  Following graduation my folks retired and moved to Knoxville, TN.  Being 18 and clueless at the time I moved with them.  I attended technical school for automotive technology and after a year I started working at a BMW dealer as a technician.   Less than two years later a friend offered me a job with his father's plastic injection mold-making company.  I ended up working there for three years.  While the work was interesting and I was really quite talented at it I decided that seventy hour weeks were not the way I wanted to spend my life.  It was then that I decided to return to college.

Having bought at house at age 21, and having left what was relatively high paying employment I needed to earn a decent wage while working out the means to return to school.  I ended up returning to the BMW dealer and continuing to work as a technician.  In 2008 I started taking college classes at a local community college there in Knoxville, TN.  Six years passed while I toiled away as a BMW mechanic and took college classes at night.  It was a slow and difficult process.  The truth was it was taking too long.  In 2013 I made the decision to move back to Colorado and pursue full time school.

Summer of 2014 I finally made arrangements to move back to Colorado.  I moved in with a friend and essentially sold my home to my parents who were looking to downsize.  One year after moving back to Colorado I resumed school at the University of Colorado at Denver.  This time I was attending full time while I worked a full time night shift manufacturing job.  So that brings us to today.  I am in my second semester of attending full time and have just recently left my manufacturing job for an internship.  Last week I started work at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO assisting researchers in whatever projects they are working on.  In order to afford the intern life I moved back in with my parents who moved back to the Denver area this year.  My goal is to finish a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and then continue on to graduate school for energy research.  I hope to graduate by age 36.

[slinkyturd]

I was born in Pittsburgh, Pa to a heavily Mormon family. I’m told I was a sociable kid. We moved a couple of times when I was young. At age 2 to Virginia outside of DC and June 28, 1990 to Boston. Now I was very much on my way to becoming the typical backwood rube that populates the mid-atlantic Appalachian countryside. The Northeast is a different animal though. The typical person there is sarcastically sharp and quick of wit. A slow talking bumpkin like myself was like the lamb in the lion’s den in Boston and in truth I didn’t assimilate well or at least quickly. I can remember in forth grade giving up on the morality of not swearing. I actually practiced in my room so that it sounded natural. In high school that assimilation process was completed. I was the class clown and king of freaks’ corner. My folks divorced shortly thereafter and when my dad met a woman on line, I moved with him to northern California which is where she was in 2003. I lost my faith and had to leave. The whole situation was sour. Our moral outlooks on life didn’t match anymore, and she was (and still is) a complete cunt. I became a door to door salesman of pest control in Arizona in January of 2005. I failed miserably at it. 2 weeks, no pay, no sales all in the hot sun. I decided to try my hand at spraying instead of selling. I excelled at it! I bounced back and forth over the next 4 years between northern California working at Blockbuster and a city of my choosing to spray bugs in the summers. I was so good at it that salesmen still call me to come spray for them. I was able to travel all over as a result -Arizona, Colorado, Washington state, Idaho, Utah, Chicago, and Baltimore. I loved the work, but the hours were too demanding. It’s an 80 hr/week job. I don’t have the patience for it now. So I worked retail. Blockbuster became Harbor Freight Tools when they all went out of business. I injured my back there and was bed-ridden for 6 months. I’ve not worked since then. I realized that I was underutilizing my mind and could no longer work a job that required my physique more than that. I’ve re-entered school. I got my associates last year -something that took me 8 or 9 years to do. I brought my low 2 GPA up to a 3.2 in the process and hope to be attending Berkeley in the fall for History. I think I want to teach while writing books. Not sure yet if I want to write in regards to history and religion or history and economics but both seem interesting. For now I play the waiting game till the fall. Between gaming (primarily PS2 at this point) and torturing my friends with the best bad movies I can find, I keep busy.

[lukester]

if i win

How about you actually post something first, and then we can talk.

I'm excited to hear your story Galam!

Note to everyone, pictures will be up tomorrow.

[Koop]

Life story

Wow. Well, I guess here is my entry.

I too was raised in the suburbs of Central NJ. I too came from a mixed Irish and Italian family. My Grandfather also fought in World War II, in fact, he was at pearl harbor during the attack from the Japanese- he lost partial hearing in one of his ears that day. My parents honestly were honestly not well off, but my father worked in many trades- carpentry, electrification, building maintenance... We certainly did not have a backyard like yours I can say that much!

My parents actually really enjoyed video games. They had Pong, they bought an intellivision- to them a video game console was a sure gift. Growing up my older brother and sister (my sister being the oldest) both got game consoles. My sister started with a master system while my brother got an NES. I honestly cannot remember a time in my life where a video game console was not easily accessible- for better or worse. Eventually my sister got a Genesis and my brother got a TG-16, and eventually even a Turbo Duo. Whenever they weren't playing I would be. My father busted his ass to actually make a really great entertainment center in our basement (now a mess ever since hurricane sandy) where the Duo was set up. First console I ever got to say was my own was a SNES I got for my birthday. My grandfather every weekend would take me down to the game rental store where I'd rent Genesis or SNES game for the weekend.

My dad tried to get me to do a lot of sports like my older brother. Baseball, football, all that sort of stuff. Honestly though I absolutely hated it, mostly because my dad was always the coach.

 I don't really remember when, but obvious sometime in the mid 90s my Uncle bought us our first gateway computer with windows 95. I guess it goes without saying that the internet was absolutely life changing. So with the world's information at my fingertips of course all I did was read about video games, emulation, and PC gaming haha.

Fast forward to 2001 with the release of the Gamecube. My father brought me to the nearby Best Buy- I'll never forget how cold it was. Looking back my dad got me that Gamecube for no reason other than to make me happy. I spent many afternoons with friends playing games like Melee with my friends, it really brought us all together.

Unfortunately after I moved out of my parents home I lost a lot of the games I grew up with to theft. That's a whole story in itself sadly. To this day I am trying to get back what I had.

I talked about my dad a lot because sadly he passed away. Yesterday was his birthday and I still miss him very much. Thank you dad for all the sweat, blood, and tears you shed your whole life to raise our family. Thank you.

[Medic_wheat]

Guess I'll post something real. Although I do like my rift on the quote vēnī, vīdī, vīcī.

Life story:

I was borne premature with my twin sister. My mother call us to Thai day her mirical babies as we were not expected to survive being born nearly a full trimester earlie. My parents would moment how we each could be held in the palm of their hand and dolls clothing fit us.

Going through school was "an experience". Being held back first grade because you couldn't read and being placed in special education due to a mixture of dyslexia and ADHD is so the way to become popular. More so when your mother is considered a ball buster of a teacher during your Jr high and high school years.

Eventually I graduated high school and entered college because my parents didn't want me to make the same mistakes they did. My father himself a high school dropped out only to later obtains bachelors in science mathematician. All this while inky taking night courses and working full time in a job he hated.

I attended community college but it wasn't for me. Feeling of directionless and doubts of my future lead me to drop out softly after 9/11. However I made a deal to complete a degree in something prior to enlistment with my parents. The following semester I obtained my associated of education in teaching.

I enlisted in the Army fully aware that it was no longer "party" time like it was for many family members who joined right out of high school. I like to think that mentality prepared me for combat as a medic and infantry Army solider.  It didn't.

I served eight years and eventually grew tired of it. I was to driven to excel and too stupid to play the game for promotion. So after separation I returned home and completed graduate studies. In-between service I obtained a bachelors degree in psychology and was half way done with graduate studies.

After completion of my graduate studies I went to work for the state as a rehabilitation counselor. This meant I helped those with disabilities such as myself ovarian and retain employment. This also meant I became a desk jocky developing long narratives as to why this person or that was found entitled or not for services and what those services entailed.

Recently I made the leap from state to federal with the VA. I also married two years prior and Annie a father of an 11 month old. This has now brought with it new challenges and introspective insights as to what future I now see for me.

I plan to enter into doctoral studies in 2018. Why 2018?  Well firstly I wish to cement my new job and my own confidence in my abilities. Secondly being a parent especially for a young child is draining. Best to be prepared for the efforts of a doctoral program instead of barging head long squandering effort money and potential before I am ready. The good thing is I still have 13 months of my post 9/11 education benefits remaining. I then have Hazzelwood Act for having enlisted in Texas for the remainder of school. Beyond that time will tell.

[MrBroadway]

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[cr8zykuban0]

very awesome raffle man! i absolutely love the sega saturn. i currently have 2 different japanese saturns (gray and white) hooked up to 2 different tvs so dont enter me in the raffle. just wanted to give you props on the awesome raffle