| Michael
Thomasson is an All-Around-Good-Guy! He started programming
games when he began to read at the ripe age of 6 on the Commodore
PET --later branching into the TRS-80, Vic-20, TI-99, and
eventually the Atari line of computers. Michael is currently
a full-time 3D Animator, so videogames are as much a form
of research, as they are entertainment. Dissecting the newer
3D games through their technology, and examining the classic
games he thinks such things as, "How did they do THAT w/ only
2K of memory!"
Contact Michael
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Steven DiIorio hails
from New Jersey, and strangely resembles Harrison Ford.
He is currently finishing up his Masters degree in Criminology
and working on a book, but has a love for videogames and
anything to do with Sega, RPGs, and Japanese Imports. His
favorite videogame is Shining Force 3 and his favorite system
is the Sega Saturn. Armed with his motto: "You're never
too old for videogames and cartoons", he writes Weekly
Trivia and Polls for GDG. His hobbies include bowling, shooting
pool, listening to 80's music, being a Hulkamaniac, and
doing volunteer work at homeless shelters. His basement
is clogged with about 30 videogame systems and over 1000
games. He often ponders why Ryo never liked any of the hot
women from the Shenmue games.
Contact Steven
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Marcel
only likes old stuff: classic video games, old television
programmes, etc. Yet some horrible mistake made him a researcher
at Ericsson. Luckily, thanks to his MSX and an old EPROM
programmer that only works on his old XT machine, he can
still spend some time programming some real computers, the
MSX-1 and the ColecoVision. If he's not working or programming
at home, he's probably kickboxing or spending another holiday
in Brazil.
Contact Marcel
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Amos Parker, aka
AnonAmos, is a resident of Danville, Vermont. The town is
small, the region is distant, but the Internet is everywhere.
He's been infatuated with video games since he could walk
through an arcade, and he wants to find some way to support
himself in their world. His talents lie towards editorials
and humor, not with news and what makes up much of traditional
journalism. But that's ok. There's a place for that here.
Contact Amos
STAFF
PROGRAMMER
Tony
Cord, once a normal child w/ hopes, dreams, and a sparkling
future… Upon hijacking the family 2600 and TI-99/4a
complete w/ it's state-of-the-art tape player , his addiction
led to creating such gems as an ANSI Christmas tree. Upon
learning that his TI tape deck wasn't as much fun as Wolfenstein
3D, he learned Pascal to create atrocities with enough
spaghetti code to strangle every resident in NY to death...
twice. With no animation and beeper sound, he took his creations
out behind the barn and killed them with an axe and started
editing Doom. Since, he has since spent far too much
time playing, modifying, or programming games. Tony finds
himself wondering, "How did he get the missile explosions
in missile command to turn black where they overlap?"
quite often. He plays games that you couldn't give away
to figure out how they were put together. Tony also plays
hockey, rollerblades, RPG's such as D&D and Vampire,
and sells kidnapped children to people in foreign countries.
Just kidding. He'd never play vampire. He *hates* that game.
Contact
Tony
GameJudges
Website
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So
amazed of his birth that he couldn't speak an understandable
word for a long time, his first word was 'a painting'.
Manu learned how to draw before how to walk, and his mother
wasn't very pleased of how the wallpaper looked after
his initial "experimental art" venture! Perhaps
that was why his parents quickly purchased him a home
computer. Since, there has been no going back. Manu teaches
other people how to use computers by day, and in the evenings
he uses them himself creating web pages and graphics.
Despite his heavy use of computers, he prefers his collection
of old video games over any PC.
Contact Manu
Manu's Website
STAFF SUPPORT
JoAnn,
Originally from Buffalo, NY, is only capable of playing
hockey video games well. Upon mastering Intellivision
Hockey in her diapers, she has since matured into
a beautiful woman. Currently under the dillusion that
Spyro is actually a buffalo, she spends her time freeing
dragons.
Contact JoAnn
Are you next
?
If
you know games and have skills such as writing, programming,
illustrating or some other noteworthy talent, you could
be next!
Contact
us!
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Earl
Green, the somewhat bemused voice of WGDG Radio, is an overworked,
underpaid television promotions writer/producer currently
working in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and has actually done real
live radio and TV voice work for many years. He is also
the webmaster of theLogBook.com, a large web archive devoted
to science fiction, classic video games (and a few select
new ones), toy collecting, music, movies, and a few dozen
other things - basically, all of his various hobbies, and
yet for some reason people keep flocking to the site day
after day. Earl divides his spare time between writing for
and maintaining theLogBook.com, collecting (and occasionally
playing with) classic video game systems and memorabilia,
collecting (but less frequently playing with) vintage SF-related
toys and action figures, reading, still and video photography,
watching movies, composing (and listening to) music, playing
with his cats, raising horses, and being blissfully happy
with his wife Jan. He is also a staff writer for Classic
Gamer Magazine. Between TV work, theLogBook.com, and other
projects, he writes around two thousand words per day (not
including HTML code). To paraphrase the bio-blurb from the
liner notes of an Alan Parsons CD, he almost never sings.
Contact Earl
STAFF CO-FOUNDER
Marty,
currently in pursuit of the 10 lb pac-man, is a true fisherman
at heart. Currently only playing classic Sega games such
as Afterburner, Space Harrier, and Outrun;
he last upgraded to Sega Bass w/ it's reel controller.
Contact Marty
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