HAI THAR! I couldn't find an introductions thread anywhere, so I'll use this to introduce myself!
This is me and my cat. She's totally into it, honest.

I'm 30, live in the UK, and am a life long gaming nerd (trufax) As a kid I liked to play with the code on games on the BBC Micro to make level skip cheats, and I'd draw sprites for games, and my brother would code them. I also did some basic programming in DOS, then I somehow noticed boys and nail polish and things and got out of the loop of programming and stuff and never learnt more than the basics of Basic, (basically) but I married an IT guy, so I don't need to know that any more as I have my own personal code monkey

I'm not really so good with the coding side, and haven't really coded since I spent ages typing Blue Meanie into my beeb... I'm more of artist. I had dreams of a kid that I would be the person who paints the backgrounds for computer games, then when I got old enough it was all 3D rendering and was maths and I sulked for years. That is until I discovered that there was still a thriving retro gaming community, and then I found AGSers! :O
I've been lurking around on the forums for ages now, like the creep hiding in the bushes in someone's garden, but I thought it was time to say hello, and I hope I can actually step out and do some artwork for a game one day, and fulfil that childhood dream! My favourite era of games is around MI2, SQ4 etc.. That was the peak in my mind.
Ok I'll shut up now as this is a pictures thread not a "bore everyone to tears" thread...