Age: 22
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada.

Profile: I'm a longtime gamer, and started playing video games during the transition from the NES to the SNES. Although I like retro games, I play mostly newer games on the 360. Still, my favourite gaming memories are from all-nighters filled with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Smash Bros. in the late 90s.

I'm graduated this spring with a B.A. Honours (History) at the University of Saskatchewan. I'm starting work on my M.A. this fall at Carleton University in Ottawa, and guess what my thesis proposal is...the use of history in VIDEO GAMES!!! Maybe this will make up for my shattered dreams of being a video game programmer (I was a Comp. Sci. student in my first year), and hopefully let me get research grants to play games!

Systems: NES, Super NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo 64, Wii, Sega Genesis, Playstation 2, Xbox 360, PC, Colecovision (my dad's). Also, many other systems (including arcade) that I not emulate.

Some Favourite Games:
Retro: Megaman 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario All-Stars, Sonic 3, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Robotrek, Illusion of Gaia, Megaman X, Strider, Metal Slug, Twilight Zone pinball.

Retro Limbo: Ogre Battle 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mystical Ninja starring Goemon, Goemon's Great Adventure, Descent: Freespace.

Modern: Call of Duty 4 and World at War, Fallout 3, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metroid Prime 1-3, Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam, Hearts of Iron II, Europa Universalis III, Civilization IV.

Other interests:
-History, of course. Particular fields: military, Canadian, counterfactual, museums and public history
-Politics. Card-carrying, though not very active, socialist.
-Anime. Favourite series: Anything Gundam, Evangelion, Macross, Code Geass.
-TV (i.e., mostly through torrents): Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Mythbusters, Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV series, not films).