Origins of Your Screenname?

[Ganelon]

Ahh, I see. Nice to know another big PSIV fan. Good call but I dunno, censoring your own username for any reason is a bit odd.

[SFKhoa]

my username:
ShooterFanaticKhoa

while Khoa is my real name.

[Nei First]

Well my username "Neifirst" is the name of one of the bosses in Phantasy Star II

The original Phantasy Star series I feel is not only one of the greatest, but also one of the most under-rated RPG games in history.
Out of the 4 games in the series I like Phantasy Star II the most, although I love them all (Yes, even PSIII has it's good points).

Anyway, Nei/Neifirst are two of my favourite characters in the game among others. Plus I love the name so really I had little choice.

[awc]

The initials of my birthname, middle name, and surname.

[SheSaidDutch]

Lyrics from 2 glassjaw songs combined together

[Specineff]

The name Vexorg came when I was trying to come up with a name for a character when I was starting Asheron's Call. Apparently I'd been reading Far Side cartoons or something, because I came up with Vexorg from the name a dog gives itself in one of the cartoons ("Greetings. I am known as Vexorg, Destroyer of Cats and Devourer of chickens.") I played Asheron's Call for well over two years, and the name stuck.
Warrior was eventually largely abandoned as being a bit too common. I've used Vexorg as an online screen name and a name for MMOG characters since then, although in World of Warcraft my dwarf hunter is known as Thunderhead (with my pet named Gilius, 50 billion Mars Matrix points for whoever gets the reference.)

Golden Axe. Woot.

I knew it had to be from the Far Side. 10 Billion MM points for you just for choosing your SN from there.

[Dartagnan1083]

Mine is from French Litterature...specifically the 3 Musketteers Trilogy.


The 1083 stands for the month and year of my birth, and usually finds its way into most of my usernames

[silvery wings]

Silvery Wings Again = Salamander 2 Stage 1 BGM, pure konami musical goodness.

My nick on the old forum was Maagic, but thats just a rather generic internet handle I use when I cant think of something better. I figured it was time to pick something more appropriate.

Thank goodness since its name is spelled Prophallus to go with the phallic reference introduced by Dark Phallus (AKA Dark Falz and Dark Force in the US). Strange the censors didn't pick that up.

Dark falz is a giant evil penis? I wonder if that's supposed to be some comment on patriarchal society.

[FatCobra]

FatCobra is a name suggested by my roommate when we were playing a game that required you to create a profile, so I liked the name so it stuck. I'm also a bit of a fat guy in real life, so it fits.

In the old forums, I used to be called Kris Typher, which was a play on my real name, Christopher.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Here's the origin of my PC Engine Fan X! moniker...I've seen the evolution of the early days of shmups (namely the Namco arcade shmup of Xevious that was distributed here in the USA by Atari Games in 1984) -- that is before some wee shmuppers' time here on the forum. When I first got my Turbografx-16 from a local Toys-R-Us back in January 1994 for a mere $30 and two shmup Hu-Cards: Cyber Core & Dead Moon...I was already a shmup fan before Shmups.com had come into existence from Malc.

I recall that the classic Video Games and Computer Entertainment magazine had a several page article spread on the "PC Engine comes to America" back in summer 1989 and decided on a whim that I would be known as the "American PC Engine Fan" after buying my TG-16 and would later modify my current moniker to what it is today.

In October of 1990, I attended a TG-16 Halloween game show at my local Good Guys store and they had some NEC Turbografx factory reps from Illinois (back in the day when they were originally based before it became TTI and based themselves in Southern California in summer of 1992) who were on hand to show off the new Turbo Express handheld prototype. I actually got to try it out with a copy of Devil's Crush pinball game. I inquired as to the price and when it would be available for purchase...the answer was it would be out in time for the Christmas 1990 holiday season at $249.99. In reality, the NEC Turbo Express didn't come out until after January 1991 at a jacked-up price of $299.99 instead of the original $249.99 price I was told earlier back in October 1990. I was given a cool big official Turbografx-16 sticker decal as a thank you gift for attending the TG-16 Halloween event along with some promotional TG-16 goodies in a Splatterhouse bag. I still have the TG-16 promo items to this day.

On the random chance of being one of the lucky few to try out the proto TE before the production model version TE came out, I was convinced that I'd buy a TE when the retail price went down. I eventually bought a brand new TE for $99.99 USD from the defunct G&G Captron video game mail order service company in February 1995 by calling an 1-800 number and asking if they still had any TEs in stock (the answer was yes they did have them in stock at the time).

I've had some fellow shmuppers ask me if I was the owner or associated with the pcenginefx.com site and the answer is a polite "no". It is just that I have useless PCE trivia info stored in my noggin and use it when it is handy. I once attended the World of Atari '98 show in Las Vegas wearing a t-shirt with a NEC Turbografx-16 sticker label on it just for kicks and a guy who was attending the same show noticed the sticker who asked me if the TG-16 was my favorite game console. I answered yes.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[captain ahar]

Lyrics from 2 glassjaw songs combined together

i could have sworn it was a comination of that cool as hell rockabilly song and the classic Ed O'Neil movie.

[chtimi-CLA]

the ch'timi, or ch'ti, are the inhabitants of a region located in the north of france. the name itself comes from the local patois. that region is special but it would be too long to explain..
i used to be ikari on these boards several incarnations ago but it was too common.

[jp]

Just my initials. Jonathan Patrick. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Zweihander]

Zweihander is German for "two-handed". Squenix needs to stop making shitty Fullmetal Alchemist and Drakengard games and make a sequel to Einhander, and what's better than a ship with one arm? a ship with TWO arms! thus the origin of my name. ^_^ here's hoping Squenix will make a sequel to Einhander someday...




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