Name: David James Halligan
Age: 27
BD: 05/09/1977, Born in the Beautiful Mile-High City of Denver, Colorado!
Education: BA in Political Science, University of Northern Colorado
First Shmup That I Fell in Love With: Sky Shark (Arcade rev.), circa 1988
First console: Atari 2600 in Christmas of 1981
Favorite Pastimes: Fellowshipping and socializing, shmupping, reading, and taking walks.
Favorite Food: It's a tie between cheese and nuts.
Favorite Song: "Take On Me", by Aha
Favorite Movie: Transformers: The Movie
Faith: Follower of Christ (the term "Christian" has just become too devauled here in the US, IMO)
Favorite Quote: "You must never hit your head against a wall when the Lord works His delays. Good things always come from it"-Prof. Washington Okumu
Profession: None at the moment; I desire to work in the video game industry, on the business side of things-whether that means working my way up to become manager of a store, or something else.
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dave4shmups
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- Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
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ArrogantBastard
- Posts: 1044
- Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:45 am
About Me
Name: Ryan
Birthday: 9-9-1981
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 150-160 pounds
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Nationality: Mostly Irish, but white all over
Education: College drop-out
Arcade Initials: RAR or R@R (when there's '@' symbol available)
Location: Washington
Status: Single and loving it
Bad Habits: Drinking too much alcohol, biting my nails too much, swearing too much, and watching too much movies
Random Tidbit: I just recently quit smoking cigarettes for the hundredth time, and I haven't touched a cigarette in over a week now. I'm starting to cave in already.
Favorites
Favorite colors: Black
Favorite food: Pizza, anything with chicken, hamburgers, hotdogs, and miscellaneous junk foods
Favorite alcoholic beverages: Hefeweizen, Fat Tire, Drop Top, Sapporo, Guinness, Black Butte Porter, Pabst Blue Ribbon (for when I'm being cheap), and Bombay Sapphire Gin (hard liquor)
Favorite non-alcholic beverages: Water, sodas, and orange juice
Hobbies: Music, photography, reading & writing, video games, drawing, tattoos, and brushing up on my HTML / PHP / SQL skills (still far from being proficient in PHP / SQL stuff)
Self-Description: I vary from day to day basis which would make me a random person
Favorite Books: 'Invisible Monsters' Chuck Palahniuk, 'Survivor' Chuck Palahniuk, and 'Filth' Irvine Welsh
Favorite Authors: Chuck Palahniuk, George Orwell, Terry Pratchett, David Sedaris, Irvine Welsh, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Ray Bradbury.
Favorite TV shows: Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Favorite films: American Beauty, American Pie series, Blade series, Blade Runner, Boondock Saints, CKY series, Dawn of the Dead, Fight Club, Jackass the Movie, Lord of the Rings series, Matrix series, Memento, Pi, Porky's, Requiem for a Dream, Se7en, Snatch, Trainspotting, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Dazed & Confused, Eurotrip, The Girl Next Door, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, and Napoleon Dynamite
Favorite artists: H.R. Giger, Justin 'Spider' McClintock (tattoo artist), Ton (tattoo artist), Gotch (tattoo artist), and Kozuru (tattoo artist)
Favorite music: Punk / metal / speed metal / death metal / alternative / retro rock
Favorite bands: Too many to list
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Video game systems owned: Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Microsoft XBox
Favorite shmup games: Batsugun, Armed Police Batrider, DonPachi, DoDonPachi, ESP ra.de, Guwange, G Darius, GigaWing 2, Mars Matrix, Zero Gunner 2, Battle Garegga, Ikaruga, Shikigami no Shiro II, Einhander, rRootage, Parsecs 47, and Torus Trooper
Favorite non-shmup games: Final Fantasy II (US), Final Fantasy III (US), Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Katamari Damacy, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Resident Evil 2, F-Zero GX, Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, and tons more that I cannot remember at the moment...
Name: Ryan
Birthday: 9-9-1981
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 150-160 pounds
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Nationality: Mostly Irish, but white all over
Education: College drop-out
Arcade Initials: RAR or R@R (when there's '@' symbol available)
Location: Washington
Status: Single and loving it
Bad Habits: Drinking too much alcohol, biting my nails too much, swearing too much, and watching too much movies
Random Tidbit: I just recently quit smoking cigarettes for the hundredth time, and I haven't touched a cigarette in over a week now. I'm starting to cave in already.
Favorites
Favorite colors: Black
Favorite food: Pizza, anything with chicken, hamburgers, hotdogs, and miscellaneous junk foods
Favorite alcoholic beverages: Hefeweizen, Fat Tire, Drop Top, Sapporo, Guinness, Black Butte Porter, Pabst Blue Ribbon (for when I'm being cheap), and Bombay Sapphire Gin (hard liquor)
Favorite non-alcholic beverages: Water, sodas, and orange juice
Hobbies: Music, photography, reading & writing, video games, drawing, tattoos, and brushing up on my HTML / PHP / SQL skills (still far from being proficient in PHP / SQL stuff)
Self-Description: I vary from day to day basis which would make me a random person
Favorite Books: 'Invisible Monsters' Chuck Palahniuk, 'Survivor' Chuck Palahniuk, and 'Filth' Irvine Welsh
Favorite Authors: Chuck Palahniuk, George Orwell, Terry Pratchett, David Sedaris, Irvine Welsh, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Ray Bradbury.
Favorite TV shows: Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Favorite films: American Beauty, American Pie series, Blade series, Blade Runner, Boondock Saints, CKY series, Dawn of the Dead, Fight Club, Jackass the Movie, Lord of the Rings series, Matrix series, Memento, Pi, Porky's, Requiem for a Dream, Se7en, Snatch, Trainspotting, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Dazed & Confused, Eurotrip, The Girl Next Door, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, and Napoleon Dynamite
Favorite artists: H.R. Giger, Justin 'Spider' McClintock (tattoo artist), Ton (tattoo artist), Gotch (tattoo artist), and Kozuru (tattoo artist)
Favorite music: Punk / metal / speed metal / death metal / alternative / retro rock
Favorite bands: Too many to list
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Video game systems owned: Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Microsoft XBox
Favorite shmup games: Batsugun, Armed Police Batrider, DonPachi, DoDonPachi, ESP ra.de, Guwange, G Darius, GigaWing 2, Mars Matrix, Zero Gunner 2, Battle Garegga, Ikaruga, Shikigami no Shiro II, Einhander, rRootage, Parsecs 47, and Torus Trooper
Favorite non-shmup games: Final Fantasy II (US), Final Fantasy III (US), Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Katamari Damacy, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Resident Evil 2, F-Zero GX, Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, and tons more that I cannot remember at the moment...
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ArrogantBastard
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Oh, believe me, I love that book to death, but it's by no means my favorite.Neon wrote:Just had to pop in and say (somebody had to)'Invisible Monsters' Chuck Palahniuk, 'Survivor' Chuck Palahniuk
What, no Fight Club?
A useless tidbit: I have the autographed 'Fight Club' book from Chuck Palahniuk himself.
A big DUH, I forgot "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" as favourite book... yes, America: The Book as well, both are my favourite.
GIR: This is my favourite show!
I've noticed some of y'all saying Christian/Follower of Christ, but not Methodist or Presbyterian or Southern Baptist or those. Are you guys just Unitarian?
GIR: This is my favourite show!
I've noticed some of y'all saying Christian/Follower of Christ, but not Methodist or Presbyterian or Southern Baptist or those. Are you guys just Unitarian?
"This is not an alien life form! He is an experimental government aircraft!"
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No_not_like_Quake
- Posts: 772
- Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:22 pm
NAME: Stu Finlay
LOCATION: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
AGE: 27
THINGS I LIKE: listening to music, videogames, architecture
FIRST SHMUP PLAYED: Defender on the Atari 2600
FAVORITE SHMUPS: R-Type Final, Guwange, TF 4
FAVORITE NON-SHMUPS: Y's 1 and 2, Magician Lord, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
FAVORITE FOODS: shrimp, BBQ hotdogs and hamburgers
FAVORITE DRINKS: water, pepsi, beer
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Simpsons, Trailer Park Boys, Crossfire on CNN ...cuz it's so stupid
FAVORITE MOVIES: Dr. Stangelove, Halloween, 12 Monkeys
FAVE MUSIC: A bunch of shit..........no more questions.
LOCATION: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
AGE: 27
THINGS I LIKE: listening to music, videogames, architecture
FIRST SHMUP PLAYED: Defender on the Atari 2600
FAVORITE SHMUPS: R-Type Final, Guwange, TF 4
FAVORITE NON-SHMUPS: Y's 1 and 2, Magician Lord, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
FAVORITE FOODS: shrimp, BBQ hotdogs and hamburgers
FAVORITE DRINKS: water, pepsi, beer
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Simpsons, Trailer Park Boys, Crossfire on CNN ...cuz it's so stupid
FAVORITE MOVIES: Dr. Stangelove, Halloween, 12 Monkeys
FAVE MUSIC: A bunch of shit..........no more questions.
Name - Josh Dieckmann
Location - Aurora, NE USA
Age - 27
Hobbies - Shmups/gaming, computers/electronics, music, Jaycees
First Shmup Played - Galaga
Favorite Shmups - Thunderforce 4 (duh), Galactic Attack, Galaga
First Shmup owned - Thunderforce 4 (Lightening Force)
Favorite Shmup Character - TF4 ship, Flying Pancake
Favorite Shmup Bomb - Tatsujin 2
Shmup Most Wished to Play - DDP:DOJ
Favorite Food - Mexican!!!
Favorite Drink - Squirt (soda)
Favorite TV Shows - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias, Law & Order
Favorite Movies - original Star Wars Trilogy
Favorite Music - heavy metal
Favorite Singer - James LaBrie
Hilary Duff or Lindsay Lohan - Hillary Duff
Other things of interest:
My job: http://www.abswebb.net/
My band: http://www.hamilton.net/~josh/DeadSerpent/
My service to humanity: http://www.hamilton.net/~josh/Jaycees/
Location - Aurora, NE USA
Age - 27
Hobbies - Shmups/gaming, computers/electronics, music, Jaycees
First Shmup Played - Galaga
Favorite Shmups - Thunderforce 4 (duh), Galactic Attack, Galaga
First Shmup owned - Thunderforce 4 (Lightening Force)
Favorite Shmup Character - TF4 ship, Flying Pancake
Favorite Shmup Bomb - Tatsujin 2
Shmup Most Wished to Play - DDP:DOJ
Favorite Food - Mexican!!!
Favorite Drink - Squirt (soda)
Favorite TV Shows - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias, Law & Order
Favorite Movies - original Star Wars Trilogy
Favorite Music - heavy metal
Favorite Singer - James LaBrie
Hilary Duff or Lindsay Lohan - Hillary Duff
Other things of interest:
My job: http://www.abswebb.net/
My band: http://www.hamilton.net/~josh/DeadSerpent/
My service to humanity: http://www.hamilton.net/~josh/Jaycees/
Name: kev (see if you can work out where i got my forum name from 
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Arcade Initials: ICE (yeah, I'm cool
)
Last used them: Summer before last, after a session on Silent Scope, one handed without using the scope. Go me
Age: 22
Location: England
Occupation: Student (Computer Studies)
Status: Single... since last weekend...
Interests: Video games, films, music, books, martial arts (jiu jitsu, wushu), food, history, foreign places, coming up with money making schemes which fail for any number of reasons, cars, various sports (watching, or playing in a non-serious manner), probably some other crap too.
First shmup played: er, depends how anal your definition of shmup is. If Space Invaders counts, there you go. Or, at least, some PC shareware clone of it. If not, then Silpheed (and NO not the Mega CD version, the ACTUAL original Silpheed, well, a PC port of it at least).
Favourite shmups: Silpheed (aforementioned version), Giga Wing, Donpachi, Ikaruga, Gradius V, Psyvariar, Defender.
First shmup 1CC: Super Aleste
Last shmup 1CC: Super Aleste
Other favourite games/series: Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter, Grandia, Rez, Ring of Red, DDR, Ico, Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug, old school Sierra and Lucasarts stuff, Zeliard, Ridge Racer Type 4, One Piece Mansion, Powerstone, Daytona USA, Sega Rally, Time Crisis, Sensible Soccer, Wipeout, Fear Effect, Shenmue, Harvest Moon, F-Zero, Mario, Sonic, Doom, Half Life, Civilisation, Starcraft, Fantavision, GTA, Metal Gear Solid, Zelda probably lots more I haven't mentioned.
Game systems owned: PC, PS2, GC, DC, Megadrive, SNES (but I broke it...), NES (trying to fix it), N64, Master System II, PS1, GBA, BBC Micro (trying to fix it), Atari ST (trying to get wires for it), ZX Spectrum.
Other interesting stuff: Metal DDR mat, DC arcade stick.
Favourite Books: War & Peace, Catch 22, Crime & Punishment, Battle Royale (the novel, although what I've read of the manga is pretty cool too), Norwegian Wood, Dance Dance Dance, Wind-up Bird Chronicle (those three are what I've read of Murakami's books so far, a few more lined up when I have time...), Gorky Park, Catalyst, Game Over (the Nintendo one), probably Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but I need to read it again to make sure, haven't read it for years, Dune trilogy.
Currently Reading: Nicholas & Alexandra
Favourite Films: Swallowtail Butterfly, Amelie, Hard Boiled, City on Fire, Drunken Master, Kill Bill vol 1, Fight Club, Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Stalingrad, Perfect Blue, American Beauty, A Better Tomorrow, Legend of Fong Sai Yuk, Once Upon a Time in China, My Sassy Girl, Battle Royale, Delicatessen, All About Lily Chou Chou, Godfather, Star Wars, Desperado, Pulp Fiction, Terminator, Rambo, loads more stuff I will have forgotten
Favourite music: Trance, psytrance, happy hardcore, post rock, classical, indie, rock, metal, hip-hop (good stuff, not the fucking shit filling up the radio all day), house, decent pop when it manages to appear, foreign stuff with catchy tunes (stuff that would probably be ruined by dire lyrics if it was in English, but hey, I can't understand what the hell they're saying, so it sounds good to me!). Er, anything good, really.
Favourite foods: Chicken Kiev, steak, hamburgers, home made french fries, lobster, all sorts of curries, garlic chicken, pasta, lasagne, roast lamb, various chinese and mexican things, loads of fruits and a fair few veg, depending on what is done with them. Generally just freshly cooked food (none of this microwave meal shit) that tastes nice and I can cook, I guess. Would like to try sushi, but from what I hear, the stuff they sell in supermarkets here is shit, and the stuff they sell outside supermarkets is bloody expensive and usually in London. And Tar-Palantir - I know exactly where you're coming from with the onion samosas... mmmm
Favourite drinks: Tea (I'm English, what the hell do you expect?), water, vodka, wine, sangria, most fruit juices. Pepsi is nice, but I don't really drink it anymore. Rootbeer is lovely, but hard to get over here.
Favourite football team: Tottenham Hotspur
Places I most want to visit: Russia, Japan, Czech Republic, Spain (went a few years ago, but just to a touristy part where I swear literally EVERYONE in Europe goes at some point, want to see the rest!), China, Ireland (feels silly that it's so close, half my family was originally from there, and it's so cheap to fly there, its supposed to be really nice, but I've never been. Well one day I'll go), Sweden (other half of family originally from here, many years back. They're in America now, it's great there, but I've been there plenty of times already! Still, will go back at some point...)
Favourite TV shows: hardly watch any TV nowadays, but Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Futurama, Sopranos. And of course old stuff like The A-Team and Knight Rider!
Time spent writing this: Too long
edit: oh yeah, and Lindsay Lohan EVERY SINGLE TIME. as if there's even a debate!
)Arcade Initials: ICE (yeah, I'm cool
)Last used them: Summer before last, after a session on Silent Scope, one handed without using the scope. Go me
Age: 22
Location: England
Occupation: Student (Computer Studies)
Status: Single... since last weekend...
Interests: Video games, films, music, books, martial arts (jiu jitsu, wushu), food, history, foreign places, coming up with money making schemes which fail for any number of reasons, cars, various sports (watching, or playing in a non-serious manner), probably some other crap too.
First shmup played: er, depends how anal your definition of shmup is. If Space Invaders counts, there you go. Or, at least, some PC shareware clone of it. If not, then Silpheed (and NO not the Mega CD version, the ACTUAL original Silpheed, well, a PC port of it at least).
Favourite shmups: Silpheed (aforementioned version), Giga Wing, Donpachi, Ikaruga, Gradius V, Psyvariar, Defender.
First shmup 1CC: Super Aleste
Last shmup 1CC: Super Aleste
Other favourite games/series: Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter, Grandia, Rez, Ring of Red, DDR, Ico, Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug, old school Sierra and Lucasarts stuff, Zeliard, Ridge Racer Type 4, One Piece Mansion, Powerstone, Daytona USA, Sega Rally, Time Crisis, Sensible Soccer, Wipeout, Fear Effect, Shenmue, Harvest Moon, F-Zero, Mario, Sonic, Doom, Half Life, Civilisation, Starcraft, Fantavision, GTA, Metal Gear Solid, Zelda probably lots more I haven't mentioned.
Game systems owned: PC, PS2, GC, DC, Megadrive, SNES (but I broke it...), NES (trying to fix it), N64, Master System II, PS1, GBA, BBC Micro (trying to fix it), Atari ST (trying to get wires for it), ZX Spectrum.
Other interesting stuff: Metal DDR mat, DC arcade stick.
Favourite Books: War & Peace, Catch 22, Crime & Punishment, Battle Royale (the novel, although what I've read of the manga is pretty cool too), Norwegian Wood, Dance Dance Dance, Wind-up Bird Chronicle (those three are what I've read of Murakami's books so far, a few more lined up when I have time...), Gorky Park, Catalyst, Game Over (the Nintendo one), probably Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but I need to read it again to make sure, haven't read it for years, Dune trilogy.
Currently Reading: Nicholas & Alexandra
Favourite Films: Swallowtail Butterfly, Amelie, Hard Boiled, City on Fire, Drunken Master, Kill Bill vol 1, Fight Club, Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Stalingrad, Perfect Blue, American Beauty, A Better Tomorrow, Legend of Fong Sai Yuk, Once Upon a Time in China, My Sassy Girl, Battle Royale, Delicatessen, All About Lily Chou Chou, Godfather, Star Wars, Desperado, Pulp Fiction, Terminator, Rambo, loads more stuff I will have forgotten
Favourite music: Trance, psytrance, happy hardcore, post rock, classical, indie, rock, metal, hip-hop (good stuff, not the fucking shit filling up the radio all day), house, decent pop when it manages to appear, foreign stuff with catchy tunes (stuff that would probably be ruined by dire lyrics if it was in English, but hey, I can't understand what the hell they're saying, so it sounds good to me!). Er, anything good, really.
Favourite foods: Chicken Kiev, steak, hamburgers, home made french fries, lobster, all sorts of curries, garlic chicken, pasta, lasagne, roast lamb, various chinese and mexican things, loads of fruits and a fair few veg, depending on what is done with them. Generally just freshly cooked food (none of this microwave meal shit) that tastes nice and I can cook, I guess. Would like to try sushi, but from what I hear, the stuff they sell in supermarkets here is shit, and the stuff they sell outside supermarkets is bloody expensive and usually in London. And Tar-Palantir - I know exactly where you're coming from with the onion samosas... mmmm
Favourite drinks: Tea (I'm English, what the hell do you expect?), water, vodka, wine, sangria, most fruit juices. Pepsi is nice, but I don't really drink it anymore. Rootbeer is lovely, but hard to get over here.
Favourite football team: Tottenham Hotspur
Places I most want to visit: Russia, Japan, Czech Republic, Spain (went a few years ago, but just to a touristy part where I swear literally EVERYONE in Europe goes at some point, want to see the rest!), China, Ireland (feels silly that it's so close, half my family was originally from there, and it's so cheap to fly there, its supposed to be really nice, but I've never been. Well one day I'll go), Sweden (other half of family originally from here, many years back. They're in America now, it's great there, but I've been there plenty of times already! Still, will go back at some point...)
Favourite TV shows: hardly watch any TV nowadays, but Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Futurama, Sopranos. And of course old stuff like The A-Team and Knight Rider!
Time spent writing this: Too long
edit: oh yeah, and Lindsay Lohan EVERY SINGLE TIME. as if there's even a debate!
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FatalError
- Posts: 98
- Joined: Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:37 pm
- Location: Denver, Colorado
<B>NAME:</B> Murdock
<B>BIRTHDAY:</B> 04.25.72
<B>ARCADE INITIALS:</B> DNA
<B>FAVORITE COLORS:</B> purple, deep blue
<B>FAVORITE FOOD:</B> Cheesecake, Japanese, Italian, anything that is bad for me, really. Nothing for me beats a nice, thick steak and a sweet potato with cinnamon, sugar and butter on it.
<B>FAVORITE DRINKS:</B> Lemonade, Green tea.
<B>HOBBIES:</B> Video games, anime and manga, board games (I love playing mah-jhong), computers, doing films, watching DVDs.
<B>FAVORITE TV SHOWS:</B> Mystery Science Theater 3000, Space Gost Coast to Coast, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Red Dwarf, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, The Simpsons.
<B>FAVORITE MOVIES:</B> Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings
<B>FAVORITE ANIME:</B> Anything by Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, Cowboy Bebop, Maison Ikkoku, Kimagure Orange Road, Macross.
<B>FAVORITE MUSIC:</B> Industrial, Drum and Bass, Instrumental, Techno (Nine Inch Nails, Art of Noise, DJ Dara, Dieselboy, AK1200, Paul van Dyke, BT), and of course, Weird Al Yankovich.
<B>CAMERA:</B> Canon XL1S
<B>VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS OWNED:</B> NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Gameboy Advance SP, two Nintendo Gamecubes (one Japanese, one Domestic), Sega CDX, Sega Nomad, Sega Gamegear, Panasonic 3DO, JVC X'Eye, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, two Sony Playstation 2s (one Japanese, one Domestic), Neo Geo Pocket Color, Neo Geo CD, NEC Turbo Duo, XBox
<B>VIDEO GAMES OWNED:</B> 605 (not including any PC stuff)
<B>LIKES:</B> Peace and quiet, hanging out with girlfriend Karen, hamsters, bunnies, anything rodenty and cute.
<B>DISLIKES:</B> Sports, popular culture, pickles and coconut.
<B>FAVORITE GAMES:</B> Shooters (duh), Rez, Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Soul Calibur, Metroid anything, any and all Castlevania games.
<B>BIRTHDAY:</B> 04.25.72
<B>ARCADE INITIALS:</B> DNA
<B>FAVORITE COLORS:</B> purple, deep blue
<B>FAVORITE FOOD:</B> Cheesecake, Japanese, Italian, anything that is bad for me, really. Nothing for me beats a nice, thick steak and a sweet potato with cinnamon, sugar and butter on it.
<B>FAVORITE DRINKS:</B> Lemonade, Green tea.
<B>HOBBIES:</B> Video games, anime and manga, board games (I love playing mah-jhong), computers, doing films, watching DVDs.
<B>FAVORITE TV SHOWS:</B> Mystery Science Theater 3000, Space Gost Coast to Coast, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Red Dwarf, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, The Simpsons.
<B>FAVORITE MOVIES:</B> Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings
<B>FAVORITE ANIME:</B> Anything by Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, Cowboy Bebop, Maison Ikkoku, Kimagure Orange Road, Macross.
<B>FAVORITE MUSIC:</B> Industrial, Drum and Bass, Instrumental, Techno (Nine Inch Nails, Art of Noise, DJ Dara, Dieselboy, AK1200, Paul van Dyke, BT), and of course, Weird Al Yankovich.
<B>CAMERA:</B> Canon XL1S
<B>VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS OWNED:</B> NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Gameboy Advance SP, two Nintendo Gamecubes (one Japanese, one Domestic), Sega CDX, Sega Nomad, Sega Gamegear, Panasonic 3DO, JVC X'Eye, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, two Sony Playstation 2s (one Japanese, one Domestic), Neo Geo Pocket Color, Neo Geo CD, NEC Turbo Duo, XBox
<B>VIDEO GAMES OWNED:</B> 605 (not including any PC stuff)
<B>LIKES:</B> Peace and quiet, hanging out with girlfriend Karen, hamsters, bunnies, anything rodenty and cute.
<B>DISLIKES:</B> Sports, popular culture, pickles and coconut.
<B>FAVORITE GAMES:</B> Shooters (duh), Rez, Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Soul Calibur, Metroid anything, any and all Castlevania games.
Minzoku wrote:
I've noticed some of y'all saying Christian/Follower of Christ, but not Methodist or Presbyterian or Southern Baptist or those. Are you guys just Unitarian?
Hhhm. Well, I started as Full Gospel. But since the denominations have gotten into some conflicts in the past, a lot of people are pretty much non-denominational like myself. Correct me if I'm wrong, but pretty much the only "hardcore" christian church right now are the Southern Baptists.
Don't hold grudges. GET EVEN.
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captain ahar
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- Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:03 pm
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bullshit!
just wrote mine out, and when i submitted it i got the error window and mine profile got erased! i'll try again sometime
I have no sig whatsoever.
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ArrogantBastard
- Posts: 1044
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I'm Atheist.Minzoku wrote:A big DUH, I forgot "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" as favourite book... yes, America: The Book as well, both are my favourite.
GIR: This is my favourite show!
I've noticed some of y'all saying Christian/Follower of Christ, but not Methodist or Presbyterian or Southern Baptist or those. Are you guys just Unitarian?
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silvery wings
- Posts: 31
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American Megatrends AMIBIOS AM2VS V 1.6
ahem.. please excuse the stolen nerdy joke.
Name: Spencer
Old forum nick: Maagic
D.O.B.: Feb 7, 1981
Location: PA, USA
Arcade Initials: EOS (Ranger-X)
First Shmup played: Galaga when I was young, and Raiden II, extensively.
Favorite Shmups: Blazing Star, Armed Police Batrider, and maybe GV
Favorite Borderliners: Bangai-O, Tempest, and Space Harrier
Favorite non-shmups: Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit), Final Fantasy Tactics, Many Street Fighter iterations.
Systems owned: NES, SMS, Genesis/CD/32x, Game Gear, Playstation, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, GBA, and PC
Favorite Color: green
Favorite Food: oranges
Favorite Movies: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Professional, Princess Mononoke
Favorite Music: Dave Matthews, Phish, Ani Difranco, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yuzo Koshiro
Favorite Books: The Old Man and the Sea, Most R.A. Salvatore, some Dragonlance
Hobbies: Gaming, Art, PC stuff
Likes: open minds, food, shelter
Dislikes: closed minds, starving, inclement weather
ahem.. please excuse the stolen nerdy joke.
Name: Spencer
Old forum nick: Maagic
D.O.B.: Feb 7, 1981
Location: PA, USA
Arcade Initials: EOS (Ranger-X)
First Shmup played: Galaga when I was young, and Raiden II, extensively.
Favorite Shmups: Blazing Star, Armed Police Batrider, and maybe GV
Favorite Borderliners: Bangai-O, Tempest, and Space Harrier
Favorite non-shmups: Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit), Final Fantasy Tactics, Many Street Fighter iterations.
Systems owned: NES, SMS, Genesis/CD/32x, Game Gear, Playstation, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, GBA, and PC
Favorite Color: green
Favorite Food: oranges
Favorite Movies: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Professional, Princess Mononoke
Favorite Music: Dave Matthews, Phish, Ani Difranco, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yuzo Koshiro
Favorite Books: The Old Man and the Sea, Most R.A. Salvatore, some Dragonlance
Hobbies: Gaming, Art, PC stuff
Likes: open minds, food, shelter
Dislikes: closed minds, starving, inclement weather
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captain ahar
- Posts: 3182
- Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:03 pm
- Location: #50 Bitch!
me... again ya friggin' glitch
General
Name: Austin
Birthday: 11-16-1984
Social Security Number: erm... moving on
Sex: Male
Height: 5'11'' and some change
Weight: a girl never tells
Hair: Brown
Eyes: black, like the color of my soul (read like sooo-uhhl for extra effect). really, though they're brown. (not anymore, they seem rather greenish lately)
Location: Michigan
Religious Affiliation: Atheist, or not applicable, take your pick.
Little Known Fact: I am a wanna' be drummer.
Hobbies: video games, spending every cent I earn, reading, music, bicycling, and eating babies. mmm... babies *rubs tummy*
Favorites
Favorite TV shows: Buffy, Simpsons (haven't seen it in about six months though), the Young Ones, House, Prison Break
Favorite Movies: Snatch, City of Lost Children, Nosferatu, Love Actually, Amelie, Love Actually, Emperors New Groove, many others
Most Disliked Movies: Halloween III (uhh!), Titanic, many, many others
Favorite Saying: Fuckin' Jakes are always schemin'! -to be said while in a bad situation
Favorite books: Evasion, Battle Royale, Slaughterhouse Five, Hackers, Masters of Doom, The Divine Comedy (illustrated with the Gustav Dore plates), Tacky the Penguin
Favorite artists: Bosch, Breugel, Lichtenstein, others I don't know the names of.
Favorite bands: Bile, Blood Brothers, David Bowie, DEVO, Poe, Man or Astroman?, the Cramps, Portishead, Tom Waits, Run DMC, Dead Kennedys, Jet Set Radio (not a band, but the soundtrack kicks all ass), Del the Funkee Homosapien, Dizzie Rascal, Misfits, Lords of Acid (Voodoo-U), Mindless Self Indulgence, others i can't remember
Video Game info
First game I played: Ghost Busters on Colecovision
First shooter played: Dodonpachi or such like, can't quite remember.
Systems I own: Saturn (US & JP), PS2 (US & JP), PSone, Dreamcast, Xbox, Gamecube, PC Engine Duo, NES, SNES, Genesis, Odyssey 2, NGPC
Systems I want (like, now): arcade set-up (Taito Egret II)
Favorite Shooters: Zero Gunner 2, ESPgaluda, MUSHA, Salamander, Gradius Gaiden, Gradius V, DOJ
Shooters I most want to play:Apidya, Steam Hearts
Favorite games (that aren't shooters): Cool Cool Toon, JSRF, JSR, Grim Fandango (mostest favorite), the Shenmue series (japanese voice-cast), Super Metroid, Cannon Spike, too many others... oh oh and Earthbound
Games I am now playing:Gradius Gaiden, Dezaemon 2, and a few others
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that's me
Name: Austin
Birthday: 11-16-1984
Social Security Number: erm... moving on
Sex: Male
Height: 5'11'' and some change
Weight: a girl never tells
Hair: Brown
Eyes: black, like the color of my soul (read like sooo-uhhl for extra effect). really, though they're brown. (not anymore, they seem rather greenish lately)
Location: Michigan
Religious Affiliation: Atheist, or not applicable, take your pick.
Little Known Fact: I am a wanna' be drummer.
Hobbies: video games, spending every cent I earn, reading, music, bicycling, and eating babies. mmm... babies *rubs tummy*
Favorites
Favorite TV shows: Buffy, Simpsons (haven't seen it in about six months though), the Young Ones, House, Prison Break
Favorite Movies: Snatch, City of Lost Children, Nosferatu, Love Actually, Amelie, Love Actually, Emperors New Groove, many others
Most Disliked Movies: Halloween III (uhh!), Titanic, many, many others
Favorite Saying: Fuckin' Jakes are always schemin'! -to be said while in a bad situation
Favorite books: Evasion, Battle Royale, Slaughterhouse Five, Hackers, Masters of Doom, The Divine Comedy (illustrated with the Gustav Dore plates), Tacky the Penguin
Favorite artists: Bosch, Breugel, Lichtenstein, others I don't know the names of.
Favorite bands: Bile, Blood Brothers, David Bowie, DEVO, Poe, Man or Astroman?, the Cramps, Portishead, Tom Waits, Run DMC, Dead Kennedys, Jet Set Radio (not a band, but the soundtrack kicks all ass), Del the Funkee Homosapien, Dizzie Rascal, Misfits, Lords of Acid (Voodoo-U), Mindless Self Indulgence, others i can't remember
Video Game info
First game I played: Ghost Busters on Colecovision
First shooter played: Dodonpachi or such like, can't quite remember.
Systems I own: Saturn (US & JP), PS2 (US & JP), PSone, Dreamcast, Xbox, Gamecube, PC Engine Duo, NES, SNES, Genesis, Odyssey 2, NGPC
Systems I want (like, now): arcade set-up (Taito Egret II)
Favorite Shooters: Zero Gunner 2, ESPgaluda, MUSHA, Salamander, Gradius Gaiden, Gradius V, DOJ
Shooters I most want to play:Apidya, Steam Hearts
Favorite games (that aren't shooters): Cool Cool Toon, JSRF, JSR, Grim Fandango (mostest favorite), the Shenmue series (japanese voice-cast), Super Metroid, Cannon Spike, too many others... oh oh and Earthbound
Games I am now playing:Gradius Gaiden, Dezaemon 2, and a few others
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I have no sig whatsoever.
Name: Nick Bestor
Arcade Initials: NIK
Age: 18
Birthday: December 15th, 1986
Home: Newton, MA
Job: High School Senior
Sex: Male
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lbs
Hair: Light brown/dark blonde, pretty short, its been growing out from a shaved head a few months ago
Eye Color: Hazel, which is fancy talk for greenish brown
Pets: 1 Dog, Molly, and 2 Cats, Abby and Emma
Favorite Genres: Shmups, Turn-Based RPG, 2D Platformer, Puzzle, Pinball, Extreme Sports (not so much these days)
First Video Game Played: can't remember, probably Tetris or Mario or Duckhunt
First Video Game Owned: Sonic Spinball
First Shmup: can't remember, probably Strikers 1945 or Raiden. Maybe Galaga, if that counts.
First Shmup Owned: Sagaia on the GameBoy. Or the Galaga/Galaxian cart for GB if I count a proto-shmup as a shmup.
Favorite Shmups: Salamander, DonPachi, Batsugun, ThunderForce series, Parodius series, Game Tengoku, GunBird 2, Zero Gunner 2
Favorite Borderliners: Galaga, Sunset Riders, Sin & Punishment, Metal Slug series, Phoenix (on the TI-83 Graphing Calculator)
Favorite Non-shmups: Paper Mario series, non-Paper plain-old-Super Mario series, Skies of Arcadia, Legend of Zelda series (Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time in particular), Sonic the Hedgehog series, Wario Ware, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, Aggressive Inline, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Pokemon
Hobbies: Diabolo (a form of juggling), Photography, Writing
Favorite Movies: Wayne's World, the original Star Wars trilogy, The Big Lebowski, anything else by the Coen Brothers, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Blade Runner, Fight Club
Favorite Actors: John Cusack, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Jodie Foster
Favorite TV Shows: The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Futurama, NewsRadio, Third Rock From The Sun, Kids In The Hall, King of the Hill, The Daily Show, Mr. Show, The X-Files, Fraggle Rock, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Rocko's Modern Life
Favorite Music: Less Than Jake, The Ramones, Beastie Boys, Green Day, They Might Be Giants, The Donnas, any random techno, any random 80s Pop
Favorite Comic Strips: Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, The Boondocks, Foxtrot, Dilbert, Get Fuzzy, Doonesbury, Rhymes With Orange, Zippy The Pinhead
Favorite Books: The Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy series, the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series (especially ... Plunges Into The Universe), Naked Pictures of Famous People by John Stewart, Bart Simpson's Guide To Life, the works of Shakespeare, His Dark Materials trilogy, the works of Chuck Palahniuk
Favorite Colors: Green and Blue
Favorite Foods: Sushi, Pizza (with lots of meats), Lebonon Balogne, Bacon Cheese Burger, Curly Fries, Clementines, Mango
Favorite Drinks: Orange Soda, Root Beer, Raspberry Ginger Ale, Orange Juice
Arcade Initials: NIK
Age: 18
Birthday: December 15th, 1986
Home: Newton, MA
Job: High School Senior
Sex: Male
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lbs
Hair: Light brown/dark blonde, pretty short, its been growing out from a shaved head a few months ago
Eye Color: Hazel, which is fancy talk for greenish brown
Pets: 1 Dog, Molly, and 2 Cats, Abby and Emma
Favorite Genres: Shmups, Turn-Based RPG, 2D Platformer, Puzzle, Pinball, Extreme Sports (not so much these days)
First Video Game Played: can't remember, probably Tetris or Mario or Duckhunt
First Video Game Owned: Sonic Spinball
First Shmup: can't remember, probably Strikers 1945 or Raiden. Maybe Galaga, if that counts.
First Shmup Owned: Sagaia on the GameBoy. Or the Galaga/Galaxian cart for GB if I count a proto-shmup as a shmup.
Favorite Shmups: Salamander, DonPachi, Batsugun, ThunderForce series, Parodius series, Game Tengoku, GunBird 2, Zero Gunner 2
Favorite Borderliners: Galaga, Sunset Riders, Sin & Punishment, Metal Slug series, Phoenix (on the TI-83 Graphing Calculator)
Favorite Non-shmups: Paper Mario series, non-Paper plain-old-Super Mario series, Skies of Arcadia, Legend of Zelda series (Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time in particular), Sonic the Hedgehog series, Wario Ware, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, Aggressive Inline, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Pokemon
Hobbies: Diabolo (a form of juggling), Photography, Writing
Favorite Movies: Wayne's World, the original Star Wars trilogy, The Big Lebowski, anything else by the Coen Brothers, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Blade Runner, Fight Club
Favorite Actors: John Cusack, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Jodie Foster
Favorite TV Shows: The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Futurama, NewsRadio, Third Rock From The Sun, Kids In The Hall, King of the Hill, The Daily Show, Mr. Show, The X-Files, Fraggle Rock, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Rocko's Modern Life
Favorite Music: Less Than Jake, The Ramones, Beastie Boys, Green Day, They Might Be Giants, The Donnas, any random techno, any random 80s Pop
Favorite Comic Strips: Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, The Boondocks, Foxtrot, Dilbert, Get Fuzzy, Doonesbury, Rhymes With Orange, Zippy The Pinhead
Favorite Books: The Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy series, the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series (especially ... Plunges Into The Universe), Naked Pictures of Famous People by John Stewart, Bart Simpson's Guide To Life, the works of Shakespeare, His Dark Materials trilogy, the works of Chuck Palahniuk
Favorite Colors: Green and Blue
Favorite Foods: Sushi, Pizza (with lots of meats), Lebonon Balogne, Bacon Cheese Burger, Curly Fries, Clementines, Mango
Favorite Drinks: Orange Soda, Root Beer, Raspberry Ginger Ale, Orange Juice
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TWITCHDOCTOR
- Posts: 1479
- Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:42 pm
- Location: South Texas USA
- Contact:
^ 6'3 at 215!!!!!! 
"Thats a HUGE BITCH"!!!! (no offense, think one of those Adam Sandler movies; WaterBoy, and the one with Rob Shnieder? with animal parts,,,he's a cop. Maybe some others)
Seriously though, you on steriods or something? Just about a year ago, you looked rather thin and small. Well, at least from the "Picture Day at Shmups.com" created by our old friend, Shmup-Boy...8 1/2.
DUDE, your an ogre!!!
"Thats a HUGE BITCH"!!!! (no offense, think one of those Adam Sandler movies; WaterBoy, and the one with Rob Shnieder? with animal parts,,,he's a cop. Maybe some others)
Seriously though, you on steriods or something? Just about a year ago, you looked rather thin and small. Well, at least from the "Picture Day at Shmups.com" created by our old friend, Shmup-Boy...8 1/2.
DUDE, your an ogre!!!
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Tar-Palantir
- Posts: 297
- Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:47 am
- Location: South-East India, now Cork
- Contact:
Je suis bon Catholique - lapsed.Specineff wrote: Hhhm. Well, I started as Full Gospel. But since the denominations have gotten into some conflicts in the past, a lot of people are pretty much non-denominational like myself. Correct me if I'm wrong, but pretty much the only "hardcore" christian church right now are the Southern Baptists.
(waits for requisite jokes about altar boys and birth control
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Name: Aurang Michael Shah-Stone
The Basics
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Location: Prescott, AZ
The Extras
Born: September 12th 1981 Santa Monica, CA
Grew up in: San Mateo, CA
Ethnicity: Scottish, Pakhtun, Norwegian, Irish, in other words I pass for white
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Blue/Green/Hazel (they change frequently)
Height: around 6ft
Weight: around 180-185
Marital Status: Single (white wimmins don’t like me)
Education: College Graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Studies, back in school for art
Hobbies: Firearms, Art
Religious affiliation: I’m more of a Unitarian/Universalist/Deist
Political affiliation: hard core evil Libertarian
The Favorites
Foods (damn it I can’t just pick one): Chicken Fajitas, Pizza (Uno, Amichi’s, Round Table, North Beach and Shakeys are my favorite), New York Steak, Breaded and Fried Chicken, French Fries, All Beef Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Pancakes & Bacon, Biscuits, Garlic Bread, Naan, home-made oven-baked Chocolate Chip Cookies (Mrs. Fields aren’t bad either), Milk Chocolate Bars, Brownies, Chocolate Cake (the good German stuff, not crap grocery store bought), Frosted Gingerbread Cookies, home-made oven-baked Sugar Cookies, Bazooka Joe
Shmup: Skyshark
Honorable Shmup Mentions: Soukyugerentai, Macross Scramble Valkyrie, 1943, Gradius II, Salamander, Task Force Harrier, Raiden 2
Other Game: Aces High
Western Movie: Dr. Strangelove
Western TV series: Deep Space 9
Eastern Movie: Macross DYRL
Eastern TV series: SDF Macross
Comic Strip: Calvin and Hobbes
Comic or Manga: Area 88
Book/Writer: James Michener, The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Journalist: H. L. Mencken
Band: Chicago
Honorable mention bands: the Beatles, the Who, the Animals, the Rolling Stones, Failure
Hardware Favorites:
All around Guns: Valmet m76 in 7.62x39mm, HK G3, FN FAL, Remington 11-87
Pistols: FN Browning Hi-Power, TT-33 Tokarev, Kahr K9
For Fun: Colt Commando, HK33E, FN FNC, Winchester 1897
The Basics
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Location: Prescott, AZ
The Extras
Born: September 12th 1981 Santa Monica, CA
Grew up in: San Mateo, CA
Ethnicity: Scottish, Pakhtun, Norwegian, Irish, in other words I pass for white
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Blue/Green/Hazel (they change frequently)
Height: around 6ft
Weight: around 180-185
Marital Status: Single (white wimmins don’t like me)
Education: College Graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Studies, back in school for art
Hobbies: Firearms, Art
Religious affiliation: I’m more of a Unitarian/Universalist/Deist
Political affiliation: hard core evil Libertarian
The Favorites
Foods (damn it I can’t just pick one): Chicken Fajitas, Pizza (Uno, Amichi’s, Round Table, North Beach and Shakeys are my favorite), New York Steak, Breaded and Fried Chicken, French Fries, All Beef Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Pancakes & Bacon, Biscuits, Garlic Bread, Naan, home-made oven-baked Chocolate Chip Cookies (Mrs. Fields aren’t bad either), Milk Chocolate Bars, Brownies, Chocolate Cake (the good German stuff, not crap grocery store bought), Frosted Gingerbread Cookies, home-made oven-baked Sugar Cookies, Bazooka Joe
Shmup: Skyshark
Honorable Shmup Mentions: Soukyugerentai, Macross Scramble Valkyrie, 1943, Gradius II, Salamander, Task Force Harrier, Raiden 2
Other Game: Aces High
Western Movie: Dr. Strangelove
Western TV series: Deep Space 9
Eastern Movie: Macross DYRL
Eastern TV series: SDF Macross
Comic Strip: Calvin and Hobbes
Comic or Manga: Area 88
Book/Writer: James Michener, The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Journalist: H. L. Mencken
Band: Chicago
Honorable mention bands: the Beatles, the Who, the Animals, the Rolling Stones, Failure
Hardware Favorites:
All around Guns: Valmet m76 in 7.62x39mm, HK G3, FN FAL, Remington 11-87
Pistols: FN Browning Hi-Power, TT-33 Tokarev, Kahr K9
For Fun: Colt Commando, HK33E, FN FNC, Winchester 1897
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In space, no one can sink your battleship!
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dave4shmups
- Posts: 5630
- Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:01 am
- Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
"'ve noticed some of y'all saying Christian/Follower of Christ, but not Methodist or Presbyterian or Southern Baptist or those. Are you guys just Unitarian?"
Yeah, I'm not Unitarian either, BTW. My church is Evangelical Presbyterian. It's just like, as I said, the term "Christian" is too loaded and has become to common (in the sense of being watered-down) in the USA, for me at least.
Yeah, I'm not Unitarian either, BTW. My church is Evangelical Presbyterian. It's just like, as I said, the term "Christian" is too loaded and has become to common (in the sense of being watered-down) in the USA, for me at least.
"Farewell to false pretension
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns"
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns"
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stoneroses
- Posts: 125
- Joined: Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:04 am
- Location: Pittsburgh PA
Real Name: Bart
Age: 35
Occupation: Underemployed Interactive Designer / Retail Monkey
Interests: HDTV (I prefer 1080i over 720p), Movies in Widescreen (16:9 over 2.35:1) Cars (Japanese over American), Music (all except country) Games (gameplay over grafix) Sports (watching the Steelers fall apart in the playoffs and watching a sub-par baseball team play in nice park)
Disinterests: This whole carb craze, come on people. Gas guzzling SUVs, they are cool, but not my bag man.
Bands: My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Stone Roses, Charlatans UK, 3RD Bass, Eric B. and Rakim, KRS One, NWA, Ice Cube, De La Soul, Beck, Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd, Hendrix, Hovercraft, Love and Rockets, Pixies, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Raidiohead, Kula Shaker, White Stripes, Beasite Boys, Lush, Mouse on Mars, Labradford, Curve, Joy Division, Smiths, Morrissey, Incubus, Jane's Addiction, Audioslave
Movies: Being John Malcovich, Big Fish, A Christmas Story, Austin Powers Trillogy, The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones, James Bond (Connery and Moore only), Apocalypse Now, Citizen Kane, Goodfellas, Scarface, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver
First Console Owned: Atari VCS aka 2600
First kick-ass Console Owned: Coleco Vision
First love: Pac-Man and the 9th Key Pattern
First shooter: Space Invaders
Systems currently owned: Atari 2600 with original box, Atari 5200, a non-working Coleco Vision, NES refurbished with new 72 pin connector, NES top loader, Genesis 2 with box, Genesis 3 with box, SNES, SNES 2 mini version with box, Playstation with box, PSone with LCD, PS2 with box, N64 with box, Xbox with box (funny sounding), Dreamcast, Gamecube with box
Consoles I've gotten at launch Saturn (I later sold it), N64, PS2
Consoles that fall into the "what was I thinking category?": Sega CD -some people here love it and I respect that, but all I remember is a version of Sonic with cool cartoons and Sewer Shark. The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, I paid like $400 for it and all I got were cooler at the time versions of Road Rash and Madden. SNES, god why was I such a Genesis fanboy back then? I didn't pick it up until the later part of the 90s. I wish I would have gotten it in it's heyday.
Favorite shooter of all time: Gradius
Current favorite: Raiden
Favorite old school game: Robotron
Favorite mainstream game: Mario Kart Series
Favorite RPG: Final Fantasy 7
Favorite college pastime: Getting all smoked out and playing SNES Star Fox
Favorite current pastime: Getting all coffeed up and playing PS1 era games
Favorite borderliners: Rez and Panzer Dragoon Orta
Saddest gaming moment: Arcades... rest in peace. Dave and Busters is cool, but it's just not the same.
Gaming goals before I die: Teach my future childern to appreciate great games and 2D not just eye candy, play Radiant Silvergun, finish all those Zeldas I got stuck on, finish Super Mario Sunshine, get those last 3 stars on Mario 64, and to have boxed versions of every N64 Funtastic Color series console including the DK64 green one. EDIT: and to also someday visit Japan with a ton of money and buy all kinds of cool gaming shit and visit the arcades.
Age: 35
Occupation: Underemployed Interactive Designer / Retail Monkey
Interests: HDTV (I prefer 1080i over 720p), Movies in Widescreen (16:9 over 2.35:1) Cars (Japanese over American), Music (all except country) Games (gameplay over grafix) Sports (watching the Steelers fall apart in the playoffs and watching a sub-par baseball team play in nice park)
Disinterests: This whole carb craze, come on people. Gas guzzling SUVs, they are cool, but not my bag man.
Bands: My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Stone Roses, Charlatans UK, 3RD Bass, Eric B. and Rakim, KRS One, NWA, Ice Cube, De La Soul, Beck, Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd, Hendrix, Hovercraft, Love and Rockets, Pixies, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Raidiohead, Kula Shaker, White Stripes, Beasite Boys, Lush, Mouse on Mars, Labradford, Curve, Joy Division, Smiths, Morrissey, Incubus, Jane's Addiction, Audioslave
Movies: Being John Malcovich, Big Fish, A Christmas Story, Austin Powers Trillogy, The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones, James Bond (Connery and Moore only), Apocalypse Now, Citizen Kane, Goodfellas, Scarface, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver
First Console Owned: Atari VCS aka 2600
First kick-ass Console Owned: Coleco Vision
First love: Pac-Man and the 9th Key Pattern
First shooter: Space Invaders
Systems currently owned: Atari 2600 with original box, Atari 5200, a non-working Coleco Vision, NES refurbished with new 72 pin connector, NES top loader, Genesis 2 with box, Genesis 3 with box, SNES, SNES 2 mini version with box, Playstation with box, PSone with LCD, PS2 with box, N64 with box, Xbox with box (funny sounding), Dreamcast, Gamecube with box
Consoles I've gotten at launch Saturn (I later sold it), N64, PS2
Consoles that fall into the "what was I thinking category?": Sega CD -some people here love it and I respect that, but all I remember is a version of Sonic with cool cartoons and Sewer Shark. The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, I paid like $400 for it and all I got were cooler at the time versions of Road Rash and Madden. SNES, god why was I such a Genesis fanboy back then? I didn't pick it up until the later part of the 90s. I wish I would have gotten it in it's heyday.
Favorite shooter of all time: Gradius
Current favorite: Raiden
Favorite old school game: Robotron
Favorite mainstream game: Mario Kart Series
Favorite RPG: Final Fantasy 7
Favorite college pastime: Getting all smoked out and playing SNES Star Fox
Favorite current pastime: Getting all coffeed up and playing PS1 era games
Favorite borderliners: Rez and Panzer Dragoon Orta
Saddest gaming moment: Arcades... rest in peace. Dave and Busters is cool, but it's just not the same.
Gaming goals before I die: Teach my future childern to appreciate great games and 2D not just eye candy, play Radiant Silvergun, finish all those Zeldas I got stuck on, finish Super Mario Sunshine, get those last 3 stars on Mario 64, and to have boxed versions of every N64 Funtastic Color series console including the DK64 green one. EDIT: and to also someday visit Japan with a ton of money and buy all kinds of cool gaming shit and visit the arcades.
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Marionette
- Posts: 12
- Joined: Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:52 am
- Location: Rockford Il
Hi everyone. I used to browse the old board from time to time and thought I should make an acct. here.
Real Name: McKennah
Hometown: Rockford Ill.
Age: 22
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 154 lbs.
Hair/Eyes: Look at the avatar.
Ethnicity: I'm a mut
Favorite Hobbies: Swimming, Cycling, Drawing, Gaming, Movies, Girl stuff.
First Shooting Game Played: Axelay
Last Shooting Game Played: Gunbird 2
Favorite Games: Gunbarich, Gunbird, Super Punch Out, Axelay, Disgaea, Phantom Brave, Final Fantasy 3, Hyper Sports, Gold Medalist, any and all Darkstalkers games.
Favorite Foods: Pizza/pasta, grilled chicken, caesar salads, anything involving steak.
Favorite Drinks: Water, Crystal Light, Sunkist, anything but energy drinks.
Favorite Movies: Sky Captain, Swingers, 28 Days Later
Favorite TV Programs: 80's sitcom reruns, Simpsons, SNL reruns.
Latest Indulgences: Comics, cheesecake, lots of sleep, and pedi's.
That's all for now.
Real Name: McKennah
Hometown: Rockford Ill.
Age: 22
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 154 lbs.
Hair/Eyes: Look at the avatar.
Ethnicity: I'm a mut
Favorite Hobbies: Swimming, Cycling, Drawing, Gaming, Movies, Girl stuff.
First Shooting Game Played: Axelay
Last Shooting Game Played: Gunbird 2
Favorite Games: Gunbarich, Gunbird, Super Punch Out, Axelay, Disgaea, Phantom Brave, Final Fantasy 3, Hyper Sports, Gold Medalist, any and all Darkstalkers games.
Favorite Foods: Pizza/pasta, grilled chicken, caesar salads, anything involving steak.
Favorite Drinks: Water, Crystal Light, Sunkist, anything but energy drinks.
Favorite Movies: Sky Captain, Swingers, 28 Days Later
Favorite TV Programs: 80's sitcom reruns, Simpsons, SNL reruns.
Latest Indulgences: Comics, cheesecake, lots of sleep, and pedi's.
That's all for now.
Name - John Nieman
Nickname - Nemo
Location - Cincy, Ohio
Age - 23
Ethnicity - German and Hungarian
Hobbies - Video games, music, sports, writing, anime
Occupation - Student and Retail
Height/weight - 5'10, 140
Initials For Score Entry - JPN
First Shmup Played - Life Force
Favorite Shmups - Gradius Gaiden, ESPgaluda, Life Force, Spriggan
Shmup Most Wished to Play - Ibara
Favorite Shmup Accomplishment - 1CCing ESPgaluda
Favorite Series/Games - Castlevania, Rondo of Blood, Terranigma
Favorite Soundtracks - Gradius Gaiden, ESPgaluda, basically anything from JDK and the YS series.
Favorite Food - Whopper
Favorite TV Shows - Simpsons, Cowboy Bebop, Family Guy
Favorite Movies - Predator, Dumb & Dumber, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Favorite Music - Rock, 80's music
Favorite Bands - Thursday, Interpol, Staind, Pat Benatar
Little Known Fact - I've had a celebrity crush on Tiffany Amber Thiessen since I was like 10.
Nickname - Nemo
Location - Cincy, Ohio
Age - 23
Ethnicity - German and Hungarian
Hobbies - Video games, music, sports, writing, anime
Occupation - Student and Retail
Height/weight - 5'10, 140
Initials For Score Entry - JPN
First Shmup Played - Life Force
Favorite Shmups - Gradius Gaiden, ESPgaluda, Life Force, Spriggan
Shmup Most Wished to Play - Ibara
Favorite Shmup Accomplishment - 1CCing ESPgaluda
Favorite Series/Games - Castlevania, Rondo of Blood, Terranigma
Favorite Soundtracks - Gradius Gaiden, ESPgaluda, basically anything from JDK and the YS series.
Favorite Food - Whopper
Favorite TV Shows - Simpsons, Cowboy Bebop, Family Guy
Favorite Movies - Predator, Dumb & Dumber, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Favorite Music - Rock, 80's music
Favorite Bands - Thursday, Interpol, Staind, Pat Benatar
Little Known Fact - I've had a celebrity crush on Tiffany Amber Thiessen since I was like 10.
Name - RoushiMSX (Sorry 
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Location - Oklahoma, USA
Age - 25
Hobbies - Running, Weight Lifting, Playing Games (just about everything except for console first person shooters and PC Real Time Strategy games), hanging out with my wife.
Initials For Score Entry - ROU (if I get the spot right under ROU, I put in SHI)
First Shmup Played - Been playing since Space Invaders & Defender; I damn near grew up in arcades
Favorite Shmups - Dodonpachi, Guwange, Raiden Fighters 2, Galaga/Galaga 88, Shienryu
First Shmup owned - Defender (Atari 2600, baby)
Favorite Shmup Character - I tend to pick whatever character other people don't play just to be an ass (see also: I used to play a mean Zangief in SF2 and a badass Ganryu in Tekken 2)
Favorite Shmup Bomb - No idea
Shmup Most Wished to Play - Ketsui. Dodonpachi on training wheels with helicoptors? Yes, please.
Favorite Food - My wife's fried rice.
Favorite Drink - Coca Cola
Favorite TV Shows - Don't watch much tv, but we're working our way through the Friends season box sets and it's safe to say that we're both heavilly addicted. Also watching Yakikate Japan as the episodes come out, and Hikaru no Go had us pretty addicted for the entire run. When she's asleep, I like to watch Batman: The Animated Series, but I think that's just because I'm flat out gay for good DC stuff from the era before they flat out sucked.
Favorite Movies - Seven Samurai, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Great Escape, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Bladerunner Director's Cut
Favorite Music - No preference; I love the evolution of KMFDM's industrial sound, but I equally love baroque-era classical music (Handel and Bach rock my world) and a variety of other musical styles, including hip hop / rap / r&b....which people find odd since I'm also a Tom Jones fan (saw him in concert nearly 10 years ago...in all seriousness the concert was as good of a spectacle as any of Gwar's shows)
Favorite Singer - Au Haruthai (hip shot on that one; i just love her voice. She looks like a man, but she can sing pretty damn well)
Hilary Duff or Lindsay Lohan - My favorite sock while downloading photoshops of either one.
Preferred Shmup Character's Attributes - Doesn't matter as long as it's the least selected ship. It's fun playing with the ships that no one else wants to use.
)Location - Oklahoma, USA
Age - 25
Hobbies - Running, Weight Lifting, Playing Games (just about everything except for console first person shooters and PC Real Time Strategy games), hanging out with my wife.
Initials For Score Entry - ROU (if I get the spot right under ROU, I put in SHI)
First Shmup Played - Been playing since Space Invaders & Defender; I damn near grew up in arcades
Favorite Shmups - Dodonpachi, Guwange, Raiden Fighters 2, Galaga/Galaga 88, Shienryu
First Shmup owned - Defender (Atari 2600, baby)
Favorite Shmup Character - I tend to pick whatever character other people don't play just to be an ass (see also: I used to play a mean Zangief in SF2 and a badass Ganryu in Tekken 2)
Favorite Shmup Bomb - No idea
Shmup Most Wished to Play - Ketsui. Dodonpachi on training wheels with helicoptors? Yes, please.
Favorite Food - My wife's fried rice.
Favorite Drink - Coca Cola
Favorite TV Shows - Don't watch much tv, but we're working our way through the Friends season box sets and it's safe to say that we're both heavilly addicted. Also watching Yakikate Japan as the episodes come out, and Hikaru no Go had us pretty addicted for the entire run. When she's asleep, I like to watch Batman: The Animated Series, but I think that's just because I'm flat out gay for good DC stuff from the era before they flat out sucked.
Favorite Movies - Seven Samurai, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Great Escape, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Bladerunner Director's Cut
Favorite Music - No preference; I love the evolution of KMFDM's industrial sound, but I equally love baroque-era classical music (Handel and Bach rock my world) and a variety of other musical styles, including hip hop / rap / r&b....which people find odd since I'm also a Tom Jones fan (saw him in concert nearly 10 years ago...in all seriousness the concert was as good of a spectacle as any of Gwar's shows)
Favorite Singer - Au Haruthai (hip shot on that one; i just love her voice. She looks like a man, but she can sing pretty damn well)
Hilary Duff or Lindsay Lohan - My favorite sock while downloading photoshops of either one.
Preferred Shmup Character's Attributes - Doesn't matter as long as it's the least selected ship. It's fun playing with the ships that no one else wants to use.
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- Posts: 267
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- Location: DC
Name: Chris
Age: 23
Location: Just outside of DC
Occupation: CS student, looking for a job
Ethnicity: Irish, Polish, French Canadian
Religion: Catholic
Hobbies: Games (duh), collecting ancient Roman/Greek/medieval coins, programming, electronics, collecting and fixing insanely old computers, collecting video games, playing guitar.
Favorite Movies: Anything by Kurosawa, anything with Toshiro Mifune and/or Tatsuya Nakadai in it, any of the Zatoichi movies.
Favorite TV shows: Simpsons, MST3K, That 70's Show, Mythbusters.
Least Favorite TV Shows: Anime, Anything on G4TechTV.
Favorite Music: Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Misfits, Beach Boys, Megadeth
Favorite author: Kurt Vonnegut
First Shmup I played: Uh, probably Tiger Heli on the NES
Favorite vertical Shmups: Gunhed, Strikers 1945 II, Spriggan, MUSHA, Robo Aleste, GG Aleste II.
Favorite horizontal Shmups: Gradius, Thunder Force III, Parodius da, Hellfire, Gaiares
Favorite Shmup companies: Compile, Treasure, Konami, Toaplan
Favorite RPGs: Final Fantasy 6, Phantasy Star II and IV, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Dragon Warrior 7, Ys book 1 and 2
Favorite TRPGs: Langrisser/Warsong, Shining Force III, Growlanser II, Dragon Force
Favorite Adventure games: Space Quest 2 and 4, Monkey Island 1,2 and 4, Sam and Max, Indiana Jones (forget which ones), Maniac Mansion
Favorite Action games: Contra Hardcorps, Castlevania SOTN, Dracula X: Chi no Rondo, Gunstar Heroes, Tempest 2000 and 3000, Guardian Heroes
Favorite video game soundtracks: Ys, Lords of Thunder, Gate of Thunder, MUSHA, Final Fantasy
Consoles:RCA Studio II, Vectrex, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Hanimex Pong clone, Magnavox Odyssey 1, Magnavox Odyssey 3000, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Fairchild Channel F, Atari Pong, Atari 2600, Atari 5200
Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Nintendo Famicom and Disk Drive, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Virtual Boy, Intellivision (1 and 2, plus an Intellivoice), Colecovision, Sega Master System (1 and 2), Sega Genesis (1 2 and 3), Sega 32x, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Neo Geo MVS, Neo Geo CD, 3DO, FM Car Marty, NEC Turbografx 16, NEC Turbo Duo, NEC PC-FX, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Nuon (Samsung N2000)
Handhelds:Bandai Wonderswan Color and Swancrystal, Sega Game Gear, Sega Nomad, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Gameboy (original, color,GBA, and GBA SP), Atari Lynx, Tiger Game.com, Turbo Express, GP-32
Gaming computers:Atari 400, Atari ST 1040Stf, Commodore PET 2016, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Plus/4, Amiga 500, MSX 2(Sony FS-A1), Matell Aquarius, Apple II (II+, IIe, IIc, IIgs), TI-99/4a, TRS-80, Tandy Color Computer, Sharp X68000, NEC PC-8801 FE
First video game system: Intellivision
Favorite console: PC Engine or Saturn
Favorite handheld: Neo Geo Pocket Color or GBA
Favorite computer: X68000 or MSX 2
Age: 23
Location: Just outside of DC
Occupation: CS student, looking for a job
Ethnicity: Irish, Polish, French Canadian
Religion: Catholic
Hobbies: Games (duh), collecting ancient Roman/Greek/medieval coins, programming, electronics, collecting and fixing insanely old computers, collecting video games, playing guitar.
Favorite Movies: Anything by Kurosawa, anything with Toshiro Mifune and/or Tatsuya Nakadai in it, any of the Zatoichi movies.
Favorite TV shows: Simpsons, MST3K, That 70's Show, Mythbusters.
Least Favorite TV Shows: Anime, Anything on G4TechTV.
Favorite Music: Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Misfits, Beach Boys, Megadeth
Favorite author: Kurt Vonnegut
First Shmup I played: Uh, probably Tiger Heli on the NES
Favorite vertical Shmups: Gunhed, Strikers 1945 II, Spriggan, MUSHA, Robo Aleste, GG Aleste II.
Favorite horizontal Shmups: Gradius, Thunder Force III, Parodius da, Hellfire, Gaiares
Favorite Shmup companies: Compile, Treasure, Konami, Toaplan
Favorite RPGs: Final Fantasy 6, Phantasy Star II and IV, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Dragon Warrior 7, Ys book 1 and 2
Favorite TRPGs: Langrisser/Warsong, Shining Force III, Growlanser II, Dragon Force
Favorite Adventure games: Space Quest 2 and 4, Monkey Island 1,2 and 4, Sam and Max, Indiana Jones (forget which ones), Maniac Mansion
Favorite Action games: Contra Hardcorps, Castlevania SOTN, Dracula X: Chi no Rondo, Gunstar Heroes, Tempest 2000 and 3000, Guardian Heroes
Favorite video game soundtracks: Ys, Lords of Thunder, Gate of Thunder, MUSHA, Final Fantasy
Consoles:RCA Studio II, Vectrex, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Hanimex Pong clone, Magnavox Odyssey 1, Magnavox Odyssey 3000, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Fairchild Channel F, Atari Pong, Atari 2600, Atari 5200
Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Nintendo Famicom and Disk Drive, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Virtual Boy, Intellivision (1 and 2, plus an Intellivoice), Colecovision, Sega Master System (1 and 2), Sega Genesis (1 2 and 3), Sega 32x, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Neo Geo MVS, Neo Geo CD, 3DO, FM Car Marty, NEC Turbografx 16, NEC Turbo Duo, NEC PC-FX, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Nuon (Samsung N2000)
Handhelds:Bandai Wonderswan Color and Swancrystal, Sega Game Gear, Sega Nomad, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Gameboy (original, color,GBA, and GBA SP), Atari Lynx, Tiger Game.com, Turbo Express, GP-32
Gaming computers:Atari 400, Atari ST 1040Stf, Commodore PET 2016, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Plus/4, Amiga 500, MSX 2(Sony FS-A1), Matell Aquarius, Apple II (II+, IIe, IIc, IIgs), TI-99/4a, TRS-80, Tandy Color Computer, Sharp X68000, NEC PC-8801 FE
First video game system: Intellivision
Favorite console: PC Engine or Saturn
Favorite handheld: Neo Geo Pocket Color or GBA
Favorite computer: X68000 or MSX 2
Name: James
Age: 31
Location: UK
Occupation: Systems Administrator
Religion: Rejected.
Hobbies: Games. Online games. Offline games. Retro games. Pinball (restored around 14 pinball machines), arcade stuff (had 20 cabs in the past), radio control cars, relentlessly hoarding cuddly frogs which is probably some childhood trauma thing. Cars. I try to avoid computer related stuff at home.
First shmup: Galaxian
Favourite shmup: Dragon Breed (and a hard decision)
First game: Star Wars
Favourite game: Midnight Club 2 (note: online, offline was 'ok')
Favourite film: Rollerball (the 70s one, not the new abomination)
Other good films: THX 1138, Silent Running, The Untouchables, Platoon, The Black Hole, Natural Born Killers, A Better Tomorrow, Dawn Of The Dead (original), Sleepless In Seattle, Master And Commander, Blade Runner (and so it goes on....)
Favourite band: The Cure
Other good bands: Depeche Mode, NIN, Mesh, Sisters Of Mercy, Muse, Genesis (pre-80s-drivel), Alan Parsons Project, Madonna, Apoptygma Berzerk, Nirvana, Sopor Aeturnus, The Smiths, Dreadful Shadows and again the list is huge.
Random stuff: Been playing games since I was old enough to reach the cab buttons, and even before then played Pong on a TV game system. Have hoarded/collected/played games of all types on pretty much every system except oddly the Dreamcast, currently addicted heavily to online gaming and clan antics in Rainbow Six. Ran a goth club for a few years in my mid 20s, lots of fun, did one of the DJ slots and still have a pretty large CD collection to show for it. Another addiction is cars, I've had too many, just got a BMW 540 now and a 1971 Trans Am for the weekend. Yet another addiction is women, 3 failed engagements so far, which has to be some kind of worthless unfortunate record. As I sit here typing this, I'm playing DDPDOJ while also dismantling a vintage RC car for repair. It's late, but work is so tedious right now that I booked a week off to save myself from suicide. Vices? Plenty- get me a hot goth princess in a nurse outfit, a bottle of rum, some coke, a dialled pizza hut and we're about there. No cigarette afterwards - not my thing, but there is Xbox Live.
Final comment: I don't suffer fools gladly. Stupidity, stupid people, and technical deficients giving advice annoy me. I don't have time for it, and I'll call people on it in an instant. I expect to be treated the same. I can be found lurking frequently in the Forest of the Jaded Bastards (IRC).
Age: 31
Location: UK
Occupation: Systems Administrator
Religion: Rejected.
Hobbies: Games. Online games. Offline games. Retro games. Pinball (restored around 14 pinball machines), arcade stuff (had 20 cabs in the past), radio control cars, relentlessly hoarding cuddly frogs which is probably some childhood trauma thing. Cars. I try to avoid computer related stuff at home.
First shmup: Galaxian
Favourite shmup: Dragon Breed (and a hard decision)
First game: Star Wars
Favourite game: Midnight Club 2 (note: online, offline was 'ok')
Favourite film: Rollerball (the 70s one, not the new abomination)
Other good films: THX 1138, Silent Running, The Untouchables, Platoon, The Black Hole, Natural Born Killers, A Better Tomorrow, Dawn Of The Dead (original), Sleepless In Seattle, Master And Commander, Blade Runner (and so it goes on....)
Favourite band: The Cure
Other good bands: Depeche Mode, NIN, Mesh, Sisters Of Mercy, Muse, Genesis (pre-80s-drivel), Alan Parsons Project, Madonna, Apoptygma Berzerk, Nirvana, Sopor Aeturnus, The Smiths, Dreadful Shadows and again the list is huge.
Random stuff: Been playing games since I was old enough to reach the cab buttons, and even before then played Pong on a TV game system. Have hoarded/collected/played games of all types on pretty much every system except oddly the Dreamcast, currently addicted heavily to online gaming and clan antics in Rainbow Six. Ran a goth club for a few years in my mid 20s, lots of fun, did one of the DJ slots and still have a pretty large CD collection to show for it. Another addiction is cars, I've had too many, just got a BMW 540 now and a 1971 Trans Am for the weekend. Yet another addiction is women, 3 failed engagements so far, which has to be some kind of worthless unfortunate record. As I sit here typing this, I'm playing DDPDOJ while also dismantling a vintage RC car for repair. It's late, but work is so tedious right now that I booked a week off to save myself from suicide. Vices? Plenty- get me a hot goth princess in a nurse outfit, a bottle of rum, some coke, a dialled pizza hut and we're about there. No cigarette afterwards - not my thing, but there is Xbox Live.
Final comment: I don't suffer fools gladly. Stupidity, stupid people, and technical deficients giving advice annoy me. I don't have time for it, and I'll call people on it in an instant. I expect to be treated the same. I can be found lurking frequently in the Forest of the Jaded Bastards (IRC).
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