31 years old. Live in LA and write telemedicine and clinical management software.
My hobbies include gaming, dropping out of graduate schools, drinking Guinness, and looking forward to drinking Guinness.
My 2 most prized possessions are my Continental frequent flyer card and an AC/DC dollar bill I got from the video shoot for “Money Talks”
I once poured a quart of salsa down my pants for a dollar. I guess that about sums it up.
In my real life I am a 35 year old technical engineer working here in Sydney, AussieLand. I get to play with things like digital cameras, printers, scanners, copiers, and fax machines.
Im my other life I am a 35 year old gaming fanboy who likes to blow things up. I like to spend weekends going to the movies, watching porn, and taking my wife to craft shows. I also spent 8 years in the Australian Army as an armoured recon crew commander blowing things up for real.
I also like to spend my time hanging out at QT3 waiting for Shoot Club installments, Wumpus comments, and trying to find out if Bruce Geryk is gay.
I have owned the following computers - Commodore PET 2001, Apple ][, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, IBM PS/2, 286, 386, 486, Pentium I, Pentium II, Pentium III, Athlon XP.
I like to buy the biggest and baddest video cards. My current video card is a GeForce4 Ti4600. My computer system generates enough heat to power a small brothel for 30 minutes.
Hi, I’m James. I’m a gameaholic.
I’m 27, and I sell computers for a living (shoot me). I’m sure I’ll get married someday, but I’m having trouble finding a woman who is into games. I suppose eventually I’ll have to settle for one who isn’t, and hope she can tolerate my habit.
I’m the youngest here after Stroker Ace. Born in Moscow, U.S.S.R., lived and living in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of my life. Played games pretty much that whole time and that’s my story. I’m executive editor of GameSpot, where I’ve worked for more than six years now, starting as an intern hired on by Mr.Ron Dulin, who also posts here and fortunately still writes for us. I finished a degree in English from Berkeley while I was working here. I’ve always intended to actually make games, though I do really enjoy writing about them. I guess my real intentions were simply to become very involved in the gaming industry.
I’m a Finance Analyst working on whatever my boss decides he wants me to do, which usually involves something that has absolutely nothing to do with Finance, at the largest mortgage lender in the U.S.A.
I have no connection whatsoever to the gaming industry except for it being one of my major hobbies.
Oh yeah, I’m 29 (today, dammit! please let this year never end).
27 year old Technical Services Engineer (fancy title for Software Tester and Customer Support) for a Louisville, CO company that makes geophysical survey design software. Married, Home owner with 3 cats and 2 dogs.
I’m just a gamer, my closest tie to the gaming industry is that I sent a resume to VR1 for a QA position like 2.5 years ago. Chris Floyd stole my industry job :wink:
I’ve been learning C++ programming through CU’s Continuing Education program in hopes of someday becoming a programmer at my current company, and possibly a games programmer. If I ever manage to stop playing video games at night, I’m hoping to learn enough Win32 programming to do a Tetris clone sometime soon.
-Trevor
I’m the RMA Manager at a small computer store in Sherwood, AR. Basically, I test parts that are brought back, and return the ones that are defective to whomever the store bought them from. I’m 24, married, no kids, and due to graduate in a year with a degree in Mgmt Info Systems. I don’t have any real connection to the gaming industry, other than buying their games.
BTW, do the Latin phrases below our names change with our postcount, or just randomly?
‘I’m a 30 year old database administrator in Reading, PA (yes, like the railroad). I work with something called Essbase and IBM’s DB2 OLAP Server which you’ve probably never heard of and probably never will again on these boards. It’s cool technology, though.’
Are they rolling Informix’s Redbrick into DB2 or what? God, Redbrick was sexy.
I teach 7th grade here in Wichita, am 29, and wish I could turn back the clock to 1987 and the glory days of the Atari ST ;-). On the side, I am pursuing master’s degrees in history and gifted education. I did a little freelance work in the past for CGM and ST Informer.
Carl
married
32 yrs old
native Houstonian (TX)
software engineer for Fortune 300 firm (we do auto dealership software)
spent 5 years as a bike messenger in mid 90s
graduated from Baylor University at 29
own two Atari 2600s, an Atari 800, a NES and an original IBM PC
played D&D until age 15; skateboarded until 16
committed to staying child-free (so is my wife!)
have been deep into music scene since age 14
stopped gaming at age 16; restarted at age 29
was addicted to Counter-Strike; now i call it Cheater-Strike and don’t play
own one current console: Xbox; need to own a PS2 (it’s a “need” i tell you)
own a PC i built; used mainly for surfing/gaming. i only “work” at work
enjoyed single player/multiplayer Dungeon Seige; enjoying Morrowind on the Xbox
drink like a fish, preferrably good bourbon or Guinness
avid baseball fan, esp Astros (at least until the next strike, at which point i quit)
glad Tom is updating the site with new content
:-)
32 year-old Coordinating Producer of Extended Play (the gaming show) on TechTV. I’ve got a lovely wife and 1 month old daughter at home.
Been playing games all my life. I remember jumping for joy when my Dad bought a Pong system. Got a degree in Mass Communications and it was just dumb luck I ended up doing TV about a subject I love.
I’m 35 and currently am an NT Admin in Dallas/Fort Worth. I’ve been into gaming since the days of the Odyssey and remember when the Atari 2600 first came out. I still have 2 or 3 2600s around the house, along with a Vic 20, an Atari 800XL, the 1st Nintendo system, a Sega Genesis, a Playstation and a DreamCast, along with about 5 or so computers. My closest tie to the gaming industry was when my ex-girlfriend worked at STB as an engineer. :D
My favorite games are Total Annihilation, the Wing Commander series and EQ. I like most genres though I prefer to play sports titles on the consoles.
I guess my only claim to fame is beating cancer a few years ago. Aside from gaming, I love women, reading (books, comics, magazines, the web) hard rock music and Shiner Bock beer.
-I’m 32 yrs old.
-I live in NorthWildwood NJ
-I live in a shore community, near the beach
-yes, we are packed in the summertime
-went back to College to pursue my degree in the Teacher of the Handicapped program
-single, I had a gf but broke up with the bitch because she was psychotic
-I will be graduating in one year!! yay!!!
-I love working with children
-I live on my own
-screw women. I will not date until I graduate college and start working
-I wish I made as much money as my dad does =(
-I’m against the death penalty (especially the mentally retarded)
-I’m a liberal commie
-fav. type of games are FPS, RTS and 3rd person action.
-I’m loving GTA 3 at the moment
btw, if anyone here ever plans on a career change might I suggest teaching handicapped children? It’s a rewarding experience and if your a male, you will immediately get a job. And the pay is good $32,000-$40,000 starting salary not including benefits and signing bonus. But that depends on the district.
We need good male teachers =)
btw, if anyone here ever plans on a career change might I suggest teaching handicapped children?
Doesn’t replying to a met_k post count? If not, it should.
I have a sweet apartment and car and soon to be new computer
I’m liberal commie
A liberal commie capitalist, you mean?
46, separated, based in SF (though probably not much longer). No kids, but have a mental dog, a sickly cat and a bird that gives both of them orders.
I’ve been writing about games full time sine 1989–first for Amiga World and mostly recently for the NY Times.
Along the way, I’ve written for more places than I can remember, and spent about a year and a half as an editor for the late PC Games magazine and for GamePro’s online wing (where I was Tom and Mark’s editor :) ).
These days, I’m writing books about games and gaming–the most recent being The Morrowind Prophecies–and a couple more are in different stages of development.
I took out the sweet car and nice apartment section. I just realized it made me sound like I am ungrateful for what I have.
But… I’m still a liberal
:D
How do you edit a post?
35 yr old IT Manager at a small non-profit organization in Louisville, KY. Orginally from Orange County, California, but came here to turn a long-distance relationship into a close one.
Love all sorts of games and still get far too competetive when I play them. :D
As for the gaming biz itself, I started out doing a column on Gamepen (Flight Sim Therapy) and eventually became a contributing editor for Computer Gaming World magazine, courtesy Denny Atkin’s recommendation (so it’s all his fault). On a sort of extended hiatus right now, but starting to get the itch to write again. We’ll see.
Other hobbies: Softball and water sports. Grew up as a swimmer/water polo player and miss it dearly (Kentucky is one of only three states in the U.S. without any sort of water polo whatsoever). I even used to be an ocean lifeguard at Newport Beach, CA, but I don’t miss that (Boring job! Baywatch it ain’t.). I’ve recently taken up lap swimming again so as to help promote weight loss and have really been encouraged by the results.
You should have a edit button next to your quote button. If you don’t then you might want to email administration about this error.