I have loved video games ever since I went my dad's friend's house in the 1970's when I was a real young child and picked up an Atari joystick and played Combat, Pong, and Pitfall for the very first time. However, I came from a really poor family, and I didn't get my own console until I was in junior high school. My mom bought me the N.E.S. and this started my video game addiction. I had over 65 titles for the N.E.S. and almost every periphal you can think of. Then my house got robbed by two of my old so-called friends and they stole the majority of my Nintendo hardware and games, including my Nintendo GameBoy. The stuff was worth well over $2,500. After this I got hooked on the Sega Genesis, and Sega became my favorite console maker, and I currently own almost every console they ever designed. I'm only missing the Sega SG 1000, the Sega CDX, and the Sega Pico.

My first experience with online gaming was at a friends house back in 1996. His brother and him had Diablo, which was the hottest game out at the time. This drove me to get an internet connection in 1997, and I got my Apple Mac Performa 640CD online. It was a nice computer for it's time. It also had a Pentium 486 CPU in it, so I could dual boot Mac OS 8 and Windows 3.1. However, the only game I had at the time was Doom II, which only supported LAN play.

I didn't actually start playing online games until I bought a Sega Dreamcast on Sept. 9, 1999. My first online game was Sega Swirl, an e-mail-based puzzle game quite similar to Tetris. The Dreamcast led me to my very first gaming clan, the Coca Cola Cowboys. They never really accepted me because there were some guys in the CCC that I didn't get along with well. So I left and started my very own gaming clan called the BEB, the Black Eagle Barony, based on the Dungeons & Dragons Mystara Campaign Setting. This clan didn't last long, and I re-joined the CCC. After a short time, a guy named PiracyFan from the CCC left the clan and started up Clan VGA. PiracyFan used me to create a website for Clan VGA and then he planned on kicking me out. I read the actual conversation in the form of an AIM transcript between PiracyFan and another VGA member, RedGhostDragon, otherwise known as Ghosty, describing how PiracyFan was only using me. So I pulled a fast one, and did a hostile takeover of Clan VGA and kicked PiracyFan out of the clan.

I ran Clan VGA for quite sometime after this until about January 2003, when Clan VGA died unexpectedly. My only computer at the time died. I still got online with my Dreamcast to check my e-mails but updating the website was almost impossible with the Dreamcast. Shortly after this I lost my job and lost my internet connection. Without a computer, an ISP, or even a job or a place to live, Clan VGA quickly died. However, many loyal Assassins (they know who they are) kept VGA alive in some form or another for awhile. But it was inevitable, Clan VGA finally took its last gasp of breath sometime in mid 2004.

Since mid-2004 I was offline and Clan VGA lay dormant for about 3 1/2 years. I could only get online with my Dreamcast and Xbox, and I still played with a few Assassins, but once I lost my job, that was all she wrote in mid-2004. I have finally come back in August 2006, and I am rebuilding Clan VGA to its previous glory and power, and with the help of all the good friends and loyal Assassins that have come back, I know Clan VGA will finally succeed and will be around for many, many years to come. LONG LIVE CLAN VGA!!!

That's just how I roll.

Gaming - video games, board games, paper and pencil RPGs, card games, etc. Web design. And pwnin' n00bs.