One of my best friends owns the place. I've been here since the beginning. I've watched the site grow from a little add-on idea on our old website into a full-fledged and thought out self contained database of awesomeness!
To expand on this...
An abridged history of VGCollect.com
VGCollect really started about 12 years ago. I was a young college student who worked part time at a Software Etc. who also was big into collection anything Sega and Nintendo. I was always interested in software development and was working towards my CS degree. I wanted to get into web development and actually registered icollectvideogames.com. I spent a few months working on it but not really being a web developer, I quickly gave up. The thought of having a database of EVERY game EVER published was frightening. That project was quickly abandoned.
Fast forward a few years and I decided to start a little video game news site over at digitalsomething.com. DS grew and grew and for a short period of time, we actually felt like we were a part of the gaming journalism community. Hell...I got to go and cover E3. At one point I added MySpace-like user profiles. Users could build out a list of games they were playing based off a staff created database. This feature was never full baked and around this time, maintaining DS became too much work and we all but abandoned it.
Shortly after DS fell apart, I copied over our games database and began working on VGCollect. I felt like I had a good idea and was also completely unsatisfied with any of the other options out there. I was also confident enough in my development skills to no longer fear the large data set. I created a few accounts for friends and posted on both digitpress and reddit for testers. Most people were pessimistic at first (remember kids - anonymous internet people are always assholes) but that quickly changed after they saw my dedication to making it simple and accurate. The rest is history!
Fun fact, the games table in our database is actually still called "ds_games", as it is the same database that ran the games section of Digital Something.