Hello everyone!!

I'm Paolo, 47, Italy, retro gamer and indie developer.
Afaik the first videogame I met in my life was
Aztec Challenge for the Commodore 64 at friend's home, I was like 6 or 7, in the same period my parents occasionally used to take me to the arcades where I met games like
Rampage or
Contra while they were just released.
One episode I particularly remember happened at elementary school once my very rich schoolmate (he really seemed the kid from
Silver Spoons TV series) invited me at his home to play his new Atari 2600 (the best console around in these years), hence I had the honor to play games like
Pitfall!,
Yar's Revenge but most of all
Adventure without knowing yet that these games were about to become timeless classics. They looked just amazing to my eyes, however.
My first home computer was a very obscure french machine and my first home console was the epic Atari 2600, but nowadays I own a wide range of 8 and 16 bit machines in my room.
While growing up by playing games and coding with my home machines, at first I became an IT developer, since there was no real game industry in my country at time. I quitted that job like 10 years ago and became a full-time indie developer. I like to work mostly on personal or small team projects, hence I split my time between being a freelancer for the gaming industry and working on personal projects with my tiny team. I work mostly with Unity, but so far I coded stuff in many languages from ASM 6809 to C++.
I was looking for places to share my same passion, hence nice to meet you all
