Hi everyone !
I'm a child of 12 in the body of a man of 40. I'm french, and was born during the best moment in humanity : the NES/SNES era and the fantastic growth of video games, which have basically taken over my life ? I'm also the proud father of 6 kids, 2 of them are lost to the cause and are spending my salary in Fornite VBucks. But 1 of them is building 16-bits sprites in hama-beads, collecting retro-consoles and speedrunning Shovel Knight in about an hour. He has something like 3000 hours of playtime on Terraria. He is THE chosen one...when I die needless to say : he gets my collection of rare video game figures. We've been watching documentaries about video games for a while now : King of Kong, Halfcoordinated, the youtube channel Summoning Salt, lots of stuff about esport and video game culture in general (noclip and from bedrooms to billions are some of our favorites), and although my speedrunning days are long gone -used to clear megaman & sonic quite fast, though- I always found that the speedrunning was the quintessence of video games : whereas most esport athletes are in for the money and glory, speedrunners are in for the beauty, making speedrunning a form of art. I am currently in charge of esport in one of the main european investment bank, which, under the impulsion of my team, was the first to sponsor a european League of Legends team. Mainstream esport may have the spotlights and investments, but speedrunning is my first love, and with a couple of friends, we are experimenting something around non-official achievements. This is a bit of an early stage, but my intuition is that speedrunning communities have long been creating their own non-official challenges, and I feel that feedback of the community here might be valuable when we have something to show. Hence my introduction :) My favorite games on the scene are any Zelda & Megaman, Spelunky, while more recent titles would be Cuphead and Celeste.
Glad to be among you !
Welcome aboard! You're never too old to run buddy, no need to pass the sticks yet. Rare video game figures eh? I'd like to hear more about that.
Not so rare but quite a lot of them :D I was quite happy with the play arts kai of grey fox which is fetching quite a price those days. I also have a beautiful commissionned replica of grimoire-weiss from Nier. And of course the mandatory hama-beads sprites from my kids, a life size bust of iron man, and a few dozens of figures for my man cave :D
spedran es luv NES Kreygasm Looks like you play a lot of neat games! I'm sure you'll get a lot of attention around here! :)
Thank you for the warm welcome :)
Honestly NES is really old school for me...suffered too much when I was young lol, I'm too old for this shit :D. I prefer games that are specifically aimed at speedrunners with training tools such as Celeste or Shovel Knight.