Well, the game music bug bit me when I was very young and used to play with my NES. I especially liked Megaman music, something that still holds true these days.
It was around 1996 that I discovered that game music CDs actually existed. I was reading a game magazine and there were reviews for Squaresoft's latest RPGs, namely Secret of Evermore and Seiken Densetsu 3, and the reviewers commented about how good the music in those games was and how Square used to release the soundtracks to their games.
But it wasn't until I seriously got into the Internet, let's say, around 2001, that I finally put my sweaty hands on the real music. At first I could only find some amateur recordings of some games I liked. However, soon thereafter, there I was looking through some mIRC channels, hunting for games never released in Italy, and I happened to find some game music channels too. I couldn't believe it when I actually found those elusive Final Fantasy and Seiken Densetsu CDs I'd been dreaming about.
Eventually I found out about FTP servers and BitTorrent, and the real leeching began (too bad I have a modem that prevents me from forwarding ports, or I'd have the chance to share some of my collection, not to mention that it prevents me from entering a lot of servers)
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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