Hi everybody!

I just want to introduce myself a little bit. My name is Svavar, a 24 year old from Iceland. Since I can remember I have been into what you would call classic gaming, loving everything about it (of course depending on the game), the graphics, sound, gameplay, and more importantly something a bit more intangible... the feel of the game. I have two older brothers that kind of steered me into having appreciation for classic games, for which I can't be too grateful for since I wasn't even born when the NES first came out.

Most of my life I have stayed playing only NES games mainly out of prejudice against anything else seriously. The Mega Man series has always had a special place in my heart. I have been collecting consoles throughout the recent years that have intrigued me but never really played any of them with a lot of passion... I kind of feel like I'm cheating on a girlfriend when I play something besides NES (writing this thought out seems a lot more sad than I pictured it hahah). Growing up in Iceland I had never really been exposed to the glorious scene of arcade gaming. I think I can only remember seeing two arcade machines in Reykjavík... A Jurassic Park shooting game and Tekken, both of which I thought really sucked (I'm sorry if I'm offending someone)

How I came to be obsessed with arcade gaming is a very similar story to a lot of other people that weren't exposed to it in their daily environment. In 2007 I went to see The King of Kong in a small theater and it absolutely captivated me. I couldn't stop thinking about how awesome Funspot looked and how deeply people felt about these classic arcade titles. After seeing the movie I thought to myself: "Is this game really as difficult as they make it out to be... let's see about that."
 
I got MAME on my PC and started playing. After about 2 and a half months of playing I had reached a PB of ca. 290k and kind of gave up and started playing other arcade titles on MAME. Around that time I got another huge jump in my interest in arcade gaming when I saw Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade. I started to dream about being able to experience being in an arcade, and well it didn't happen in 2007 but it eventually did happen.

I got a Bachelors degree in physics early last year which led me to move to Copenhagen to continue my studies for a Masters degree. Little did I know that my time was not going to be used a lot for doing physics haha... Just out of curiosity I googled "Copenhagen arcade" and stumbled upon a website for a small arcade in Copenhagen called Chassis Arcade. My main thought was "F***ing A man!! And they have Donkey Kong machine... Holy f*** sh**"!". So I went to check it out and absolutely loved it. I started going there more and more often both because of a really awesome group of people that regularly go there and of course to do some serious gaming.

Since last August I have been playing Donkey Kong actively, slowly progressing my PB. Finally, something I use to joke about actually happened, on February 4 I got to level 22 in Donkey Kong a.k.a. the "kill screen" with 824,300 points. From there on I felt a strong urge to keep playing and up my score. I got two higher kill screens (both on the same day) with scores of 896,900 and 919,100. But at that point you kind of have to ask yourself: "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"...  So I started point pressing a bit more until I reached my goal of a million points on May 29th with a score of 1,008,800. I'm still trying to push for a higher score.

I'm on this forum because a friend of mine told me about it and Eurocade and suggested that I should check it out. This is a pretty awesome forum so signing up is obligatory . I'll be going to Eurocade next month with a group of regulars at Chassis Arcade and I'm freakin' excited about it!!

That's all. Peace out