Monday, 12 October 2009

• Profile Spotlight: Meet Icecold4u

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  A collector of gadgets & electronics, anime addict, sports addict, and all around gamer. Standing at 5'8", 6' including the fro. Loves to play all his games while rocking out to his music. Professional marksman in real life and in games, I are the man of zee minute.

  

  (The Laughing Man!)

  Name: Johnathan O.B.

  Age: 19 yrs. young (D.O.B. June 20th, 1990)

  Gaming Alias: Icecold4u(Original), XEQtioner666, Deus Ex Glacies, King_Icecold (most recent, most used)

  Your Video Game Style: All-around/Natural-born (Read more below?)

  Why are you passionate about gaming? I've grown up watching my family play games on PC, grown up watching people play at arcades, grown up watching consoles be played, from birth till 6 yrs. young. At this point, I was joining them to play games, with friends, and it wasn't a beginner's luck kind of thing, I just plain won all the time.

  That is when I officially got my first system, Game Boy Pocket with Tetris, Dr. Mario and Pokemon Blue (later down the line). Tetris was played to the point that the blocks started to turn into glitches, and eventually, the cartridge burned out (black marks all on exposed metal).

  Multiple tournaments, 24-hour arcade sessions (try spreading money over that much time), multiple subscriptions to gaming magazines (I miss EGM). I was pretty much the supplier of gaming info to my schools, all the way to middle school.

  Gaming is just way too interesting a field to ignore for me; I love to learn about technology, how things are made, how they work, how interactive they are, etc. If not for my want to be an architect, I'd either go into game reviews (which I have practiced on my own time) or game designing.

  Console that you can't live without (and why): Since a PC isn't a console, and this may make a few people go "Boooo!", but probably my PSP. Sadly I have to pick PSP over DS, there's just way more games made for me, and I honestly get tired of the stylus sometimes. Plus the PSP has so much more interactiveness, customizablity, etc.

  What Can You Do Without in the Gaming World? Any sort of annoying sexism, racism, or other forms of prejudice. I can also do without the obsessed in online play. What is more annoying than a cheap player? A person that knows everything single thing about a single game, and tells you to play with him daily. You Halo-whores and COD-heads are the BIGGEST violators. There was a time when you played people face-to-face, 4 controllers in one system, and games didn't require this feature to be considered great. Now every game essentially needs it to be at least a good game (Read reviews EVERYWHERE, they all think this). It bothers me dearly...

  Finally, What Is Your Hardest Level? Even though I am an all-around gamer, I do have a Kryptonite that I am hard at work to get better at....classic games. For some reason, games like Donkey Kong, Burger Time, Q*Bert, and other have eluded me on being able to play at high level (Tetris is the exception). The strange part of this, is re-makes of games, like Pac-man Championship Edition, and Space Invaders Extreme give me no problems at all.

  
  (Maybe its the neon-techno feel to it?)
  

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