Nice to meet you. I'm Ryan, 24, from Seattle. I caught a link to Destructoid a few months back from (I think it was) Joystiq and I've been coming here exclusively ever since. There is always something interesting to see or do here and as such I figured it was high time I sack up and join the community for real.
Between my roomates and I, our house sports an Atari 2600, NES, SNES, N64, 360, PSone through 3, 3 Dreamcasts, and one of those funny little boxes you play Zack & Wiki on. My heart still belongs to the NES; I've been amassing a collection of games since I was a young tyke, which is around two hundred games now. Admittedly though, most are cheap games from the NES bins at Funcoland back when both of those things existed (ex: Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf). If you asked me what my favorite game was, my gut reaction would be to say Chrono Trigger, but then I would think about it and say Sqoon, the main reason being its description in The Official Nintendo Player's Guide.



"Mayday! Mayday! The Neptunians, and underwater race of nasty alien beings, have invaded Earth in search of their favorite food - manham! Their ploy: melt the polar ice caps with hot water from heir underwater bio-factories, sink the continents, and imprison humans in underwater domes for good eating later. Ironically, Earth's last hope is the dastardly pirate, Narikeen. Convinced that he should finally do something for the good of the human race, Narikeen sets out in his submarine, Sqoon, to rescue the imprisoned Earthlings.



Gameplay: Sqoon can only carry nine people at a time, so you must work quickly to save each country of the world. Scan the ocean depths for the hot water factories that are melting the ice capes and the bio-factories that continuously create more scary Neptunian warriors. Hit the Neptunians with your horizon missile. Destroy undersea domes to free the humans and transfer them quickly for another rescue. How many people can you save? Can you stop the Earth from sinking into the hands of the Neptunians?"

They just don't write them like that anymore. And did I mention you control a pink submarine?
Hopefully joining up with this crowd will inspire me to work my way through some of the old NES games so I can relate just how wonderfully bad they can be. So long as I can pull myself away from binge drinking paired with Rock Band 2.