Hello there everybody!
Holy crap, I've been lurking for almost 2 years and I finally signed up!
I started visiting this site some time in '04 (I think the fall months) to read the GC/GBA sales data, and have been checking in weekly to check JP hardware/software and the discussion on those, as well as all the other lovely links (French, Australian, UK data etc...), and monthly for NPD (when it gets posted). Tracking the entire DS life so far here has been interesting, to say the least.
Anyways, the reason I lurked was because I tried to sign up (eons ago) but never got a confirmation mail or something like that, and each time I tried to sign up it said "username already taken" (believe me, I can't use another name besides this one), and even when I tried to have it email my address with login info, it never would work.
But I mailed the admin and here I am now, so it's all good.
So yeah, some props to Mario and some of the other posters who I've seen each time I come here, but never been able to interact with! I'm finally in and I'd like to get to know this community.
I'm a huge fan of many different styles of rock and metal (if you want to talk music), otherwise, as far as games go, I'm pretty inline with the Nintendo leniance on these boards (though I am an owner of all current-gen systems, but only for a couple games on the PS2/Xbox). I'm mad into classic NES/SNES games, the RPG genre (though I don't have much experience with the 32-bit era), and my favorite franchise is Metroid (contains 2 of my #1 games ever, yes, I have more than 1 #1 game).
So, hi

EDIT: 5 minutes in and I already got moderater-owned. I'm not used to no images in sigs

Sorry, should've checked the guidelines first...
For reference, it has Samus (MP2 Dark Samus), Ryu Hyabusa (Ninja Gaiden), and Bobbery (Paper Mario: TTYD) in it. Generally representative of my tastes