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Community Manager for Tomopop.com.

Random gaming facts about Haxan

Legitimately beat Mike Tyson and went through Another World Circuit undefeated.

Beat the original Contra without dying. Twice.

Can land the damn plane in Top Gun and can also refuel in midair.

Can't beat Ghost & Goblins without the level select code and has never lied about it.

Thinks Friday the 13th is a great game even if the physics, controls and weapons are garbage.

Mario Paint caused him to buy a Super Nintendo and largely leave his Sega Genesis behind. He has played it more than most video games and wore down the mouse pad so that the grid only shows around the corners.

Has beaten Street Fighter II: The World Warrior and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers on the SNES on the hardest difficulty without losing a single round. Multiple times.

Is still friends with the girl who worked at a local game store and sold him Street Fighter II nearly 17 years ago.

Beat Final Fantasy 2 in a weekend when he was a kid, yet can't get through a role-playing game these days if his life depended on it.

Has never beaten Final Fantasy VII.

Prefers pads to sticks.

Likes the N64 controller.

Prefers the Duke to the S-controller.

Doesn't think that Super Mario 64 is all that great.

Got an Xbox mostly for Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. And thinks it's a damn good game. Really.

Swore he would never buy a Game Boy Advanced SP, but immediately broke down once the NES edition came out. (And regarding the NES Classics series, true in-store dialogue: "Dude, are you serious?! They seriously expect people to pay 20 dollars a piece for games they can just downlo...Ooh! Zelda!")

Really liked the first Halo. (Well, there goes my dtoid cred.)

Can rock out Dynamite Rave in Dance Dance Revolution like it's nobody's business.

Played the hell out of Animal Crossing: Wild World and hid that fact from nobody.

Stomped Brad Nicholson at Street Fighter IV, but had to resort to the cheapest of tactics in order to do so. ;)

Thinks you're really, really, really smart. And pretty.

Top ten favorite games (in no particular order):

•The Legend of Zelda (NES)
•Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (NES)
•The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64)
•Phantom 2040 (SNES)
•Street Fighter II (any version)
•Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2)
•Final Fantasy 3/6 (SNES)
•Ico (PS2)
•Sin and Punishment (N64)
•Picross (DS)



(NVGR)

I love drawing, though I realize that I'm not very good. I figured early on that drawing my own header art would help my blogs stand out. Thanks to Destructoid, and to the scanner that Carollelogram got me for my birthday last year, I feel like I've developed a unique style that's distinctly my own.

Outside of games I've got a DVD collection that is exploding out of a 5'x6' shelf (over 400 titles). So suffice it to say that I love movies. I'm a huge horror fan and I host an annual Dusk Till Dawn Horror Movie Marathon nearly every October. My top ten favorite films in order are as follows:

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cativo, 1966)
2. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
3. Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai, 1954)
4. The City of Lost Children (La Citι des enfants perdus, 1995)
5. The Apartment (1960)
6. Strings (2004)
7. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
8. The Big Lebowski (1998)
9. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
10. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Music-wise, my top 3 bands are The Pixies, The Velvet Underground and Radiohead. I listen to damn near every genre of music (except modern country. I yearn for the days of Hank Williams, Sr. and Tammy Wynette). Hit random on my mp3 player and you'll get everything from darkwave to hip hop to 80's synthpop. I karaoke pretty regularly. I can't sing, but I surround myself with people who can. Still, you've not experienced all there is in life until you've seen me proper butcher True by Spandau Ballet.

Then, as for the literary interests, my love lies with pulp detective novels of the thirties and forties. Raymond Chandler is simply the greatest ever. And Dashiell Hammett is just fantastic. Lately, I've been reading through Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles at Carollelogram's recommendation. Two books in and I have to say they're astonishing.

If you do the Twitter thing, Haxan1 is my handle should you want to follow me.

Feel free to friend me to your console of choice should you ever want to play a game of Street Fighter. Just be sure to let me know that you're from Destructoid and you'll get the royal treatment.



Blogs I writed:


Reviews
•Virtual Console Review- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
•Review- Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop

Front Page
•Other Worlds Than These: The citizens of the land of Termina
•Community spotlight: Haxan goes above and beyond for the community

Monthly Musings
•Instant Replay: Street Fighter II
•The Start of the Affair: Solomon's Key

Editorials and assorted articles
•Does the Wii have RROD-type issues of its own?
•Okay, Nintendo. I guess that we can be friends again.
•Niero, do you have any idea what in the lobster milkshake you have done?! (dtoid 3rd anniversary post)
•10 things you might not have known about Haxan (but really only 8)
•Why Destructoid is awesome: Nilcam is the greatest edition (I honestly can't give Nilcam enough props for this.)
•Christmas shopping: Non-gaming, priest dad-style
•Bad Dye Job: A Darius Pickman Story
•"Congraturation" RetroforceGO!
•Nintendon't what?! Now you tell me just what the %#@$ Nintendon't do!

Neat stuff I played a bit part in
•The Destructoid children's alphabet book

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Destroy Haxan, Win Street Fighter IV Contest: Super Saturday Street Fighter Day
Haxan | 10:48 AM on 12.13.2008 11 comments




Hey, fighters.

Today is the first full day off of work that I've had since the contest began and I am devoting it all towards Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix on both systems. Starting at 1pm EST, I am going to be bouncing back and forth between consoles every couple of hours. This is the perfect time to join in the contest if you haven't done so already, especially since all missed days can be made up.

Today is officially the Blanka theme day for Xbox 360. But since I got on so late last night (exchanging christmas gifts with my ex-gf/best friend went later than expected [she got me a big green Legend of Zelda hoodie!]), I'm extending last night's PS3 matches with Fei Long over to today as well. Afterwards, so long as their aren't any additional challengers, feel free to stick around to make-up any matches from days that you've missed.

Things are getting very competitive and the top 3 is changing on a daily basis. I want to see your name up in there, so get started already! If you haven't jumped in on the contest yet, you've still got plenty of time to do so. Add me on your console of choice (XBLA:haxan1 PSN:haxan), and send me a challenge message when you see me online. 10 matches with the day's theme character, then 5 as your character of choice. Rankings are determined by your total wins multiplied by your overall win percentage.

Be sure to go here <rules> to read up on the rules really quick before beginning.

Here are the current top four fighters:

1st Place: DanMartigan (Xbox)
2nd Place: Y0j1mb0 (PS3)
3rd Place: Char Aznable (Xbox)
4th Place: Nilcam (PS3)

Complete results can be found daily in the forums.

I'll be on the 360 during the following times (give or take 15 minutes): 1-3pm, 5-7 pm, 9-11pm
and on PS3: 3-5pm, 7-9pm, 11pm-1am
All times are Eastern Standard. I'm going to stop taking challenges 25 minutes before the end of each shift to ensure that I won't be too late for the next console change.

I hope to see you today. And I'll be back tomorrow with the update for week 2.


(I finally have a place to put the Deku Scrub Mask charm that Rio McCarthy made! I love Christmas!)



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Cataract's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2008 12:06
Cataract
Add me.

GT: Ten Darculas

I'll probably be able to play in about an hour or so.
Y0j1mb0's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2008 12:42
Y0j1mb0
DanMartigan, I'm coming for you.
Infinite Obscurity's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2008 14:25
Infinite Obscurity
I need to get in on this, despite the fact that I have a shitload of studying to do.

GT: Lunacy55
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2008 15:35
Haxan
Remember, guys. You need to send me an invite or a message if you're up for playing. I don't want to risk bugging people during their gaming sessions assuming that they want to hear from me.

So, if you see me online, don't wait for me to contact you, because it won't happen. Also, apparently the PS3 side of things is a lot slower today than the 360 side. So, there may be less waiting during Playstation time, should anyone be interested. I didn't have a single match between 3-5pm.
nilcam's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2008 23:31
nilcam
Wasn't last night Deejay night?
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2008 00:26
Haxan
@nilcam,
yeah, it was. But I got on late, so I extended Dee Jay into today as well for anybody that I may have missed. We fought Friday night, so you didn't miss out on anything.
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2008 00:29
Haxan
Super Saturday Street Fighter Day (so not a catchy title at all) was a huge success. The top spot changed hands at least three times throughout the day. I fought 200 matches in competition today alone. We got three new competitors actively fighting. It was huge. I'll have the results up in the morning. Thanks to everybody for participating. This was an awesome day for fighting in the streets.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2008 02:17
TrailerParkJesus
That was frustrating and fun all at the same time. Good games good games
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2008 04:03
Haxan
@TPJ,
Dude, I know how you feel. Senisan and Chaz both smacked me around like a ragdoll tonight. The thing that I love the most about this game, I think, is this: when you get your face smashed in, you have to admire the artistry behind it.
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