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Erik spends his night and weekends saving worlds, slaying beasts and organizing mismatch shapes into straight lines. While First-person shooters (FPS),
survival horror and platformers are some of his favorite, there are no genre of game he won't play. From PC to PSP, Xbox to Wii. Erik is just as passionate
with playing games as he is talking about them.
J.R. is the sorta-completionist gamer. He almost always completes the main story arc in all games he plays, but seldom plays the "gamer's game" to complete everything. He'll never get all 120 stars or fight Emerald Weapon, but he will save the day. His favorite genres are RPG, Action/Adventure, Platformer, and MMO. He doesn't like fighting games and is rather picky about FPSs.
Ted has been hooked on gaming since the birth of the Atari 2600, when high fantasy adventure consisted of maneuvering a colored square through a castle maze while dodging pesky dragons that looked like 2D seahorses with beaks and wacky bats that took great pleasure in stealing your keys. To this day, while he enjoys platformers, first-person shooters and puzzlers, he is most passionate about RPGs and any other games which weave great stories into the overall experience.
Amethyst, a gamer that giggles at calling herself a gamer because she fits none of the glamorous stereotypes of female gamers, has been gaming since her father brought home the sparkly new Nintendo Entertainment System back in '89. Up until then she had dabbled with the Atari at a cousin's, but it was Super Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt and pounding with her hands on the Power Pad in World Class Track Meet that sealed her fate. Despite a three year stint that she doesn't talk about, she has been playing video games and other nerdly activities with enthusiasm. She enjoys puzzlers, RPGs, MMORPGs, certain shooters/fighters, platformers, magic carpet rides and um, mechanical pencil sharpeners. She hates, despite a couple of exceptions, racing games and sports games. Amethyst is married to Erik and is friends with J.R. and Ted.
You Sank My Battleship! Sorry!
jr.gameon
| 1/07/2009 6:54 am |
Game On
While I consider myself more of a hardcore gamer than a casual gamer, that's just a label. The label doesn't define me, but I do define the label. The label is address-label sized, sticky on the back, says what I am in an authoritative, but non-defining way, and has a picture of a panda on it. My labels are both informative and adorable.
As hardcore as I may be, I won't turn my back on a good casual game. I more than got my money's worth from Uno on XBLA, as it's the only game I own that I have claimed every achievement point from. I also enjoy the occasional hand of XBLA's Texas Hold 'Em poker or a round of Spades at games.com. These more casual games aren't how I typically spend my gaming hours, but I do enjoy them from time to time.
This all being said, I do have to admit I was surprised at the huge amount of excitement that I felt after EA's announcement yesterday that several classic board games are coming to a special XBLA channel later this spring. Scrabble, Battleship, Yahtzee, Sorry!, and Connect Four were all games I played a lot and loved as a kid, but haven't played so much recently because I live alone. I am really looking forward to the opportunity to play them on my Xbox 360 on the big TV against real opponents. I may even try Boggle, my personal nemesis that recent birthday girl Amethyst is just too damn good at. Boggle on XBLA just might be how I can practice on my own without being routinely destroyed by her wicked word-finding skills.
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