Welcome to the Bio Page. Self-grandizing? You bet!

September 7, 2003

I thought I would introduce myself a bit since you're taking the time to read my opinions and such. I've had a fairly normal, comfortable life, replete with your standard childhood: little league, high school cross-country & track; I sang lead in a ska-punk band and I'm a fully licensed and insured motorcyclist. But although I received decent marks in class, ran fairly well & enjoy biking the open road, it never really held my attention, inflamed my passions the way gaming has. I've been an avid player of video games for a solid fourteen years now and if anything I'm more enamored with the media now than ever before. And who can blame me? Over the past six years we've seen more advances in gaming technologies than in the previous 10. But what interests me most is the idea of gaming as literature. I feel that story driven games can be as immersive, descriptive and moving as any book, look at games like those in the Final Fantasy series or Shenmue and you'll get what I'm talking about. These games are a good first step in the right direction, establishing the argument that games can be art. Not all games mind you but some of them.

My web-writing endeavor started when I started contributing my game reviews to pajamo.com. Pajamo and I have tried to bring the site to a prominence that would allow us to become full-fledged critics but we have yet to realize that vision. However I also must say that I'm very proud of the advancements that Pajamo has made to that end.

This site was originally intended to be a penny-arcade clone, complete with comic strip. And while that has yet to happen I am glad to say that I do feel that I have provided some decent content over these first few months via my commentary.

My goal for this site is to provide you, the reader, with a bit of information or perspective on gaming that you hadn’t had before. If that ever happens, please let me know =)