Hello! I've been casually lurking these forums for a really long time as someone who likes learning about and unearthing game history, probably about a decade now. Having started to make my own contributions to those sorts of efforts bit by bit, I thought I'd finally make myself known here so as to connect with like-minded folks and whatnot, so here I am! Anyway, not to completely regurgitate my profile info, but I'm a freelance Japanese->English game translator who also runs a few game blogs on the side when time and sanity permit. (I won't delve into what I've worked on professionally here, especially since a lot of it is NDA'd, but I have a work site here if you're really curious.) One of my blogs is Demoban, which is where I collect old Japanese demos of all sorts and dump/upload them for posterity since those aren't always well documented and preserved, even on the Japanese Internet. I also run another blog called the Atlus Atlas, where I document and translate pieces of Atlus-related ephemera past and present. It doesn't get updated nearly as often as Demoban since new posts tend to require a lot more research and translation time by comparison, but it's fun to help keep that history alive when I can, too. I'm not hugely a forum-posting type, especially since I write a lot as it is for work already, so I'll probably primarily be here for marketplace stuff for my blogs and whatnot, but you'll probably see me pop up elsewhere sometimes since I really do enjoy reading the dev and game history threads here. Looking forward to getting to know this place and its people better and hopefully even collaborating on stuff on occasion as time permits!
I enjoyed reading about the Gamecube Demo Disks, hopefully someone will translate Homeland to English one day
