CHRIS'S BIO

Name: Chris Shade

Favorite Genre: Platform Adventure
Favorite Game at the moment: Driver (PSX)
Why? It is the closest thing to Dukes of Hazard that you will find at the moment. Plus I like the funky music.
Favorite Game of all time: Mrs. Pac-Man
Looking forward to: Football season and football games.
"I'd Rather Be Playing Video Games Than...": Sitting at some dumb beach in the hot sun.
"If I Were a Video Game Character I'd Be":
The kid from Ape Escape.

My Life History As It Pertains to Video Games:

Like most people my age I started with the Atari 2600. My mother was against video games becuase we only had one TV and she did not want me hogging it with games. I had to play at a friend's house. I spent a lot of time and a lot of allowance at the arcade's until my neighbor got a NES. This was much more exciting than my Apple IIC.

Finally we got a new TV, and I got the old one and a Genesis. I tried to play as many games as I could. I also got a Gameboy, one of the big clunky ones, but I was damn good at Ninja Turtles.

Then I took a hiatus through the Sega CD/32x/3DO Era. Once the Sega Saturn and the PSX became big, I got back into the gaming scene, in full blast! My roomate Josh, a former reviewer for the site, got a Saturn and we spent countless nights kicking each other's ass at Virtua Fighter or racing in Sega Rally. Then I got a Playstation and well lets just say that began a mad crazy addiction. An N64 followed with a Super Nintendo not far behind, and now a Dreamcast.

Health, exercise, girlfriends have all taken a back seat to the allure of the video game. Now whereas I do not have the most extensive collection by any means, I play a lot of games and I just want to play everything else.

Personal Top Five:
1. Driver
2. Gameday 2000
3. Soul Calibur
4. Ape Escape
5. WWF Attitutde