how did you find assembler?

I'm pretty drunk and i've been reading soo much about ww1 ,ww2 and aztec invasion by the Spaniards for around 5 hours, so im wondering, how did you all find assemblergames? I personally found it while looking up hl2 for the dc when it was released, and you?

 

I found ASM while looking for info and pics of the Halo 2 beta.
Google linked me to this thread:
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14495

EDIT: I joined about a year after I originally stumbled across the site. Random, but true

 

Around 2004, while assembler was still some sort of blog hoasted on "roarvgm". I appeared here looking for Galaxy Fraulein Yuna, and Assembler had some cool little ufo-catcher transparent figures of the girls. And well, all the cool hardware reviews updated every so often.
I found the forums much later.

 

I found this fourm around 2005, when Assembler posted aboud the MOTHER 3 Beta, but I registered here much later, in 2007.

 

I knew of his old museum site (found it online a few times) but, i think, I didn't come to Assemblergames till after buying up one of the acclaim NR-Readers off him on ebay. =)

After all these years, I now consider this one of my online homes. =)

 

It's all Tchoin's Fault

 

I found assembler whilst looking for info about the unreleased xbox game "the red star" finally got a boxed copy but it was lost with most of my xbox collection and debug hardware when my house was robbed...I did post a scan of the box though I believe.

 

Xbox Dev Equipment, this was the place to be

 

I believe I first heard about the site after Assembler acquired Sonic Xtreme and posted that video on YouTube. A year or so later, I signed up just for the hell of it (and have just started trading on here recently).

And here I am.

 

I found Assemblergames.com after the great retrogaming summer of 2001. I was in a videogame high and sites like TSR's NES Archive, benheck, NFGgames, and even eBay provided lots to look at and read on the retrogaming front. assembler.roarvgm.com was really like experiencing a museum, though. The feeling that these pieces of hardware are the few remaining remnants of times passed by. I would continue to visit the site for another four years, at which point, I joined the new forums...

 

Honestly, I completely forgot how I stumbled across it. I was around 16 at the time, so I was probably searching for porn and somehow ended up here.

 

Pretty sure that I found it back when I was interested in JAMMA stuff. Probably was looking for a place to talk about that sort of thing.

 

pikkon told me abt the place ~

 

Came looking for 1.5 back when there was hope it was hidden in some dark recess of the web.

 

I vaguely remember someone showing me a Neogeo emulator back in 2000 or so (I was fifteen or sixteen) and thinking, wait, so how many others are there that I haven't really encountered?

Around that time I stumbled upon the old roarvgm site. Certainly opened my eyes.

 

I obtained a messload of dev equipment and probably, "Yahoo'ed" around and stumbled across the "Room of Doom" page. From then on, I grew in my career alongside with this forum, stumbling into curiosities.

 

Some years ago while I looked for anything related to rare gaming stuff I found the old ASSEMbler museum, but I hadn't found the boards until Hawanja recommended me to check them. After some months in December 2006 I finally registered here

 

the time i registered would have been when i had finally gotten out of my first actual job and had some actual cash for about the first time in my life to spend on something nice... Was asking a friend of mine about the ps2 tools since i've been wanting one ever since i ran into a pic on google many, many years ago.

obviously i knew nothing of them and wasn't really sure if i should get one, but after the friend linked me to the markedplace here and i realized i actually could... (after 50 posts -_-) buy it, well, here i am.

im not really sure if it was the first time ever i stumbled into the place but that's the time i registered anyway... (seems to be march 14th 2009 according to my profile )

so yes, im one of those weirdos who joined up because of the marketplace, shameless, i know

i've been dead busy as of late, but i grew onto the site to a degree that whenever there's something im curious about, need help with or whatever, i always find myself browsing here. The community is made out of solid win and the amount of information here is not something that could be easily beaten.

 

XxHennersXx linked me to this pic:



I then crapped my pants and joined the forum.

 

Stumbled upon his Dreamcast firework video. Watched a few more in amazement and Joined up.