I'm homeless...or rather forumless...after Nintendo decided to do away with their NSider boards. I was a forum user there for about 4 years and since they removed the boards from the site, I have been wandering aimlessly looking for a new place to call "home".

I guess it doesn't hurt that I've also been a regular reader of the Gamespot site so it's by no accident that I ended up registering a profile here at Gamespot.

A little bit about myself. I've been a Nintendo fan for 21 years since the NES first arrived in 1986. I remember spending my lunch hour skipping meals to play Super Mario Bros. in the Walmart electronics center where I was working at the time. Ever since then, Nintendo has always had a special place in my heart, but nothing could compare to the first time I played Donkey Kong Country.

I still remember the exact day!!! It was July 7th of 95 and I was preparing to entertain with a barbeque because it was my son's birthday. We were in Germany at the time and gaming over there at that time was both scarce (in the amount of titles available) and extremely popular (because we had one television channel to watch unless you paid $50 a month for cable which had 13 channels...what a deal huh?).

A friend of mine at the time brought over his SNES to kill some time while we were grilling and he popped in Donkey Kong Country. I'm not sure I ever made it back to the grill that day, but I've been a huge fan of DK ever since.

Ok, so how did I come up with the name "Kaiser"? Easy! The German word for King is "Kaiser" and since KingKong is a little too cliche, I thought, why not use Kaiser instead of King and voila...KaiserKong was born...or whatever it is when an avatar is created.

Anyway, my son and I still play Nintendo consoles with 2 Wii's, 2 DS Lites and an N64. Sure I've taken a break from the Mario factory and played my share of the Halo series and some of the best titles on the PS2 such as Okami and Shadow of the Colossus, but I always return to gaming the majority of the time on Nintendo consoles and handhelds.

I'm not sure if this is widely accepted or even noticed here on Gamespot due to the insanely huge amount of users here, but I intend to throw in some reviews of my favorite games (yes...Donkey Kong games included) in hopes that many of you will continue to give those 16-bit games a second look from time to time. Very few games have been as fun as the what was common place on the 16-bit systems and it would be a shame to completely forget our rich videogame past.

That's enough for now. I'm off to swing on some vines and krack King K. Rool's ka-noggin! See you out in the jungle ;)