my history at message boards is quite long.
In the middle of 1999, I joined the ShinForce message board after looking around for import Saturn games and looking around at Final Fight Revenge news. After a couple weeks of looking around at the page, I joined and posted frequently at the board, which is still up today, just in a shadow of it\'s former self. At the time I joined it was a very popular board, for it\'s time, Chris, Kelly, Shinobi, MGX, Crash, etc were very frequent there and we had our in depth discussions about sega and the rest of the videogame world. Crash was a big time Sony and Nintendo fan (we finally converted him THIS year to buy a DC and he has never been sorry for that fact, especially with all the cheap games you can buy now!)
During the summer months, though that board always cooled down, so I ventured out looking for other Sega boards, as my fanhood lied after my third PSX broke down (always been a Sega fan, I was just more open to buying console from other companies at the time) I went to Webcrawler, my ONLY search engine and typed in Sega messageboard. I joined under the name NeoSega, my name as it is on EVERY board besides this one (I registered on NeoSega here first, then forgot the password

) Immediately I fell in love with the members there. The moderation was swift and exact, therefore there was no fanboyism, no fanboy fights and no crap on the main forum. Some notable posters we had were Sonic (a Sega worker, provided many usefull facts and help), Egg Robo X (a kid who got caught lying about his uncle working for Capcom

), Ktulu / Wiseblood (used to frequent this board, the most knowledgable, unbiased poster in my experience! H3@t, (a fun guy!) DC Hypno (jumped out of window in every post!) including everyone else.
I was highly revered there and did a weekly feature on past Sega rpg\'s that was a fun topic. I miss that place and was deeply saddened that one of my hobbies closed down at the beginning of this year when it closed down,as the owner was tired after all these years.
During this time, to fill my insatiable appetite for posting, I also joined UGO\'s board, DC tech pages, and a couple of others I never really posted at.
Than in Jun,I started looking around again,a nd had heard good things of this board, originally as a high basher of Sony and an informer of the wealth that Sega brings to all that succumb, I posted here. At first, I argued with many (and usually won, btw

) but then settled down adn decided to take the mellow road and decided to buy a PS2, as Sega decided to make for it, and TM:B was coming, among others. I realized all platforms have good games to play, but still love to argue with fanboy sover anything, which is the reason you will usually only see me post in the console debating section, and not the main forum as it has become boring as of late.
thanks a bunch!
Eric Jacob