It's time for another round of the InstantAction blog spotlight. Another extremely active and helpful user in the InstantAction beta.
Gamername - apcizzle
"Background:
As a little boy, i've grown up with 2 older sisters, 1 younger
sister, and an older half brother. My half brother was the gamer of my
family. He showed me atari at first, but i wasn't too interested at the
time. But Nintendo, on the other hand, really had me going. Mario
Brothers 3 had my life. My brother would show me all the secret
whistles in the first 2 worlds and all that good stuff. This started my
long gaming career.
Super Nintendo was next and i would
have to say, this may have been my favorite Nintendo out of the series.
From Zelda to Super Metriod to Mario Kart, all of these titles just
kicked *bumm*. From Super Nintendo came all the sequels, even to this
day. I'm a huge Zelda fan, even to this day. Super Metriod was my
favorite game on Super Nintendo, but sadly to say, it was the only
Metriod i played... damn what a great game.
When Nintendo
64 came out, i think that was about the time that i started to pick up
PC games. Playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time + Majora's Mask And Duke Nukem
64 (probably my favorite 64 game) was part of my gaming life, but so
was Wolfenstein, Doom, Commander Keen, Day of the Tentacle... PC gaming
kicked *bumm* from day 1. I picked up computer gaming from my Dad and
Uncle as they played over our phone line on our VooDoo 2 card, haha. I
started to pick up computer games from then on.
Finally
one day, i decided to go out and buy my first computer game. I saw my
friend play red alert and it looked fun... So i went to walmart to pick
it up. But looking at all the games, there were so many good ones: Half
life, Delta Force, etc. Mainly i was looking at either Red Alert or
Half Life, until i asked an employee what should i pick. This is where
i was first introduced to Tribes. Damn the case looked ugly when he
showed it to me, and i had NO intention to buy it either. So I kept
thinking which game to get. So what I ended up doing was grabbing Tribes
simply because i could not choose between those two games. My mom
wouldn't let me buy it because it was "T for Teen", but i got it anyways.
Tribes took my life away from day one. I would play it when I got
home until I went to bed, it was bad. So bad, that it lasted for years,
until Tribes 2 was released. I got it when it was released, but my
computer couldn't handle it well at all. So after a few months, I got a
new computer and played this game. If I wasn't playing in a server, i
would be in the in game chat. I was in there all the time, and checked
the browser many times daily. This addiction was disgusting to my
family, but no one could stop it. 
Slowly, Tribes began to die. Yes, I had games in between like RtcW
or CoD... but like us tribes players say "Once you got hooked to
Tribes, it ruins your taste for any other game." Which is so true to
me... I need a jetpack and skiing now (Legions Legions Legions ).
College came, Tribes died... gaming went down for me. No I've never
owned an Xbox or Playstation, i just don't like controllers and game
consoles. I did, in fact, own a Dreamcast... but only because i wanted
Crazy Taxi, great game for a week.
I tried Tribes
Vengeance, but that never got me hooked because of the bugs and lack of
popularity within the Tribes community. I played Counter Strike and
Team fortress 2 competitively and got in the higher ranking leagues,
but to this day, I'm pretty much done with competitive gaming.
So here I am today, reading and posting in forums, playing Call of Duty 4 or some Marble Blast Online occasionally, going to school,
and working. It's a simple life, but a good one I'd have to say. And
with Instantaction in the future and the hype for Legions, I'm ready
for this next phase of gaming in my life.
Interests:
Unlike the above, I'll make the rest of these short and sweet.
Interest's in my life goes as the following:
Getting wasted with friends, Girls, Video games (PC), Working (at my job), computers, and Meteorology (my major).
Games:
As stated above, I've played many Nintendo games as a child, but to
this day and age, I'm strictly PC gaming only. I played from Counter
Strike, Tribes 1 + 2 + T:V, Call of Duty 2,3,4, Day of Defeat, Return
to the Castle: Wolfenstein, Half Life 1+2, Team Fortress 2, Guild Wars,
World of Warcraft (only a month ), And Battlefield 1942 + 2142. I'm sure there were some others, but that's basically my whole PC gaming life. By far, my favorite
would definitely have to be Tribes 2, Tribes 2 Classic to be specific.
But i highly doubt anyone to care, nor should I expect anyone to haha.
So Instant Action, it's up to you to make my next step in gaming. DON'T LET ME DOWN 
<3."
Thanks apcizzle. That was quite a read...whew. Get in the beta, add apcizzle, and beat him down in a game of Marble Blast.
-Dr Wiley
) I changed the course I was heading and switched to a marketing/management study which I am enjoying quite a lot at the moment.
