Top 5 games
1: Mass Effect (Series)
2: Dragon Age: Origins
3: Harvest Moon 64
4: Halo (series)
5: Persona (series)

Top 5 movies
1: V for Vendetta
2: Fight Club
3: WANTED
4: Pirates of the Caribbean (series)
5: 007 (series)

Top 5 TV shows
1: Dexter
2: Stargate (all of them)
3: Burn Notice
4: Law and order (all but CI)
5: South Park

Top 5 Bands
1: Rise Against
2: MUSE
3: Our lady peace
4: AudioSlave
5: AFI

Top 5 books
1: Angels and Demons
2: Halo (series)
3: Enders Game
4: World War Z
5: Crispin


My name is Zack Shannon I'm 19 and I live in Aloha Oregon. I started gaming when I was 3 playing my dad's NES, but I never really got into "retro" games. I really got into gaming when I was given an N64 for Christmas. I played my N64 every chance I had. I would get a few friends together and have sleep overs and play Mario Party until 5 am. Playing Mario party, Golden eye, Zelda, Harvest moon, perfect dark there where just so many games we played on that system. The next system I got was the Ps2. I remember going to a Costco with my parents and buying Kingdom Hearts BEFORE I even had the system, but even up to then I would of still been been considered a casual gamer (maybe on the border) It was when I picked up Halo 2 on the xbox is when my gaming life really took off. I owe alot to Halo 2. (which I will get into in a later blog) in 2007 my parents got a new cable package that included G4. I started watching shows like AOTS and XPLAY and I realized that there was this online community of gamers that I didn't know existed outside of XBL. I started reading news sites like Kotaku and subscribing to Game Informer and going to the forums on g4tv.com and that's when I realized something... I love video games.