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Sup D-toiders, Nick Moore is my name, video gaming is my... er, game. My console of choice is the Nintendo Wii, for I am as big of a Nintendo fanboy as you will ever find. Yea I like Nintendo, wanna fight about it? Anyway my favorite games include Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie, Paper Mario, and pretty much any Pokemon game, but my top picks gotta be Crystal and Emerald. I also love me some Super Smash Bros Series, LoZ:TP, Resident Evil 4, and pretty much all of the Fire Emblem games. Got me a Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Wii, and DS. Nice. I also like to game on the PC, my favorites including Fallout 3, Plants vs. Zombies, and Left 4 Dead.

Here's me in my natural habitat:

There's my Alienware m9750, love it. I'm pretty much on it 24/7, I do everything on it. But I get out, don't worry. See that tan? Yea you do. I hang with my friends most of the time I'm 'away from my computer', usually going to concerts, movies, or just partying.

I'm currently enrolled at The College of New Jersey (yea that's really the name) and my major is Interactive Multimedia, which is pretty much a revved up Gaming Major. Yup, one day I'll be a multi-million game designer, so you better not get on my bad side or you'll never get to experience the awesomeness of my video games... though I think I'm getting way ahead of myself.

Some of my other hobbies include movies, music, football (E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!!!!) and literature. My favorite directors include The Coen Brothers, Guillermo del Toro, Tim Burton, and Quentin Tarantino. Favorite movies include Reservoir Dogs, Barton Fink, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, No Country for Old Men, and Pan's Labyrinth. My favorite bands are The Killers, Blink-182, Green Day, Weezer, and Queen.

So there you go, a little bit about me, your humble neighborhood Myrmidon16.

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Start of the Affair: Banjo-Kazooie
Myrmidon16 \| 5:30 PM on 07.01.2008	3 comments

Unfortunately, I entered the gaming world later then most. The first game I played was not on the NES, not even the SNES. The very first video game I played was on the Nintendo 64, and it featured a certain dim-witted bear and smart-talking bird.

I played Banjo-Kazooie for the first time over my friends house during a birthday sleepover. He had received that and Mortal Kombat for the 64, and my thirst for bloody games hadn't matured yet, so the mild bear-based game got my attention. It was probably the most fun I ever had up to that time. And luck would have it on Christmas of that year...

My parents surprised me and my brother by getting us a Nintendo 64. Among some games unable to be mentioned (A Bugs Life) and others which started whole other affairs (Super Smash Bros, Paper Mario), Banjo-Kazooie exited me the most. I couldn't wait to pop that game in and continue the oodles of fun I had playing it over my friend's house. Banjo-Kazooie, in my opinion, is a masterpiece. It quickly turned into my favorite game and the one game that I have played over and over without boredom. Rare was definitely at the top of their game when they released Banjo-Kazooie. The great dialogue, the creative puzzles, the all around individuality which this game contained. For starters, it features a bear with a bird in his backpack! You learn different moves from a mole! JINJOS!

From the beginning to the memorable final battle, Banjo-Kazooie began the long road of my obsession with video games. The creativity and design of this game started my affair with game design and animation. This excellent game was followed by another great one in Banjo-Tooie. Many different games and a few system generations later, Rare is about to release another one, and although they abandoned Nintendo and I'm not really exited about what they've shown so far, the awesomeness of the first installment revives my expectations of this game. But that's for another story... Anywho, if it wasn't for that unforgettable bear and bird, my love for video games and hopefully future success in the gameindustry would not be possible.

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2 comments | showing # 1 to 2

KyleGamgee

Great little read.

One day late though...

SalvaPot

This game was also one of the first I passed by myself

Good Days...

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