InstantAction Spotlight

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

Comments

[Trainwrekk]

lol you played tribes?! i still play tribes 2! it is very sad how it has died, but there still is a community that still plays no matter how many times the master servers go down, (which is becomeing often -.-) there are still allot of servers up...and some are populated lol mostly arena which is what i play should get back on there i'm Ricta or Trainwrekk ;o

[BeeHay]

VND = apcizzle :)

[apcizzle]

hey, thats me!

[Hybrid]

I know this apc character. dont let him fool u!