If I were born in any previous era, I would be completely fucked. That's because I've been a video gamer before I even owned my first console. When I was growing up my parents never bought into the whole "video game" fad, and my first console was a Game Boy Color that I got the year before the GBA was released. My first game was Link's Awakening, and I cried at the ending.

I owned two games for the PlayStation before I owned the console, (Monster Rancher 2 and Final Fantasy IX) and three games for the PS2 before I owned that console (Kingdom Hearts, Xenosaga, and Final Fantasy X). I even bought strategy guides for games I didn't own, so I'd be able to play them vicariously. I finally caught up to the current generation with the Wii and PSP, which I bought on their opening days. I was finally a full-blown member of the community I had belonged in all my life.

I still mostly play SNES and PS2 era games, I guess trying to make up for lost time. I get all my knowledge of current gen games from this here website. Ah well, destined to be eternally a few steps behind :P I'm better at talking about games than I am at playing them anyway.

I'm 20 years old and a Creative Writing student at UCSC, which has a surprisingly well run game design program. I made my own game for an introductory class, Ozzie's Quest, which got first place in the class and spotted me a free DS! Play it if you have Windows; from what I've heard it's quite a bit of fun. I hope to use my background in creative writing to write for and eventually design my own games professionally.

I suppose that's all there is to know about me for now. I want to try to be a more active part of this community since I'm on the site every day and I'm already on the same network as the IRC channel (whoo #earthbound), so I'm starting a blog and lurking the forums. Follow me on on twitter, and I hope to see more of you all very soon :)