Hello, everyone. =)

Basically, I'm an 18-year-old who took an interest in retro gaming about two years ago, but began collecting and making it a hobby about a year and a half ago. (This considered, I may be a bit ignorant in some respects, so please forgive me in advance!) As of now, my collection is relatively small. I have approximately 120 NES games (licensed, unlicensed, homebrew - I'm sure you all know which one that will be *cough* Battle Kid *cough* - a reproduction, and a hack on cartridge), two Famicom games (Holy Diver is amazing), about 40 SNES games, 40 Genesis games, and I'm starting to work on an Atari collection. Of course, I have Gameboy games (including DS) and various Playstation, Nintendo consoles (except Virtual Boy), an Xbox360... all of the things everyone else is into right now. All in all, I have about 350 games, so nothing impressive. However, I'm very interested and deep into retro gaming/collecting so I wanted to join a community. I'm sure my collection will begin to grow more rapidly this summer and while I'm working in college.

Since I'm such a noob, and this is an introduction forum, I'd like to ask a few questions while I'm at it...

1) Not that it matters much, but am I going to be one of the younger forumers considering I'm only 18? I understand that a lot of individuals here are fans were young(er) when the NES was originally released, and that's where their love for the NES began.

2) I'm EXTREMELY interested in homebrew/NES Dev. I have worked with the program Game Maker in the past, and I found it to be very fun. Though it was a part of my hobby, making my own NES game would be an outstanding feat and a great part of my moderately new hobby if I were able to take a part of NES Development. There's a few major roadblocks that I'm having trouble getting past, though.

• I do not know Assembly.
• On guides/tutorials I read... I'll be honest, I don't understand many of the jargons.
• I have difficulty understanding where to begin, and if I were to attain knowledge, actually being able to put it into practice on a program or something. I'm ignorant, but I would love to learn.

Thank you for reading my post. =) I know it was lengthy, but I just thought I'd throw everything out there. I hope to have a fun time on the forums. =)

Alright. I skimmed through a few of the tutorials real quick. Assuming I learn it all, would this be enough to learn how to fully program a FUN game? Or would it be a simple engine or basic game like the first few NES games? I suppose I can make a dedicated topic on this later should I need any help. Thanks for directing me to that so swifty. =)

P.S. Thank you for all the warm welcomes so far. =)