Who am I?

Nice to meet ya. I'm Jacob York. For lack of a better term, I'm the EIC of...my blog. I make that designation because there will (hopefully) be other people writing on this as well. You'll meet them soon enough I'm sure, but let me go ahead and give you an idea of who I am and why I'm doing this.

I wanted to start this blog as a way to supplement my writing on Not a True Ending, a division of Inside Pulse. I feel like I've got a lot of thoughts in my head about the current video game landscape, and my work there isn't conducive, necessarily, to the short blog information that I'm going to be writing here. It's like Stephen Totilo writing at MTV News and on his personal blog. Only, you know, we aren't as high profile. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only people reading this will be friends that I ask nicely to and my mom. Hi mom.

So, to give you an idea of who I am, gaming-wise, here are some arbitrary questions that one might ask. This'll just give you an overview. I imagine you'll find yourself figuring out who I am more from the content I put up here than anything else.

Favorite Game Of All Time: That's far too difficult to answer. I'll give you a Top 5, though, in no particular order.

Suikoden III (PS2) - In my opinion, the pinnacle of my favorite RPG series. The different perspectives was great and I had no problem sinking 100+ hours into this, just fooling around.

The Civilization Series (PC) - "Just...just one more turn." As an aside, I wish, wish, wish they would release a Colonization II.

Sam and Max: Hit the Road (PC)- If any game has helped to shape my sense of humor, this is it. Still one of the funniest games around. It amazes me how many people just haven't played it.

WWF: No Mercy (N64)- I write on a website that is primarily known for its wrestling coverage, so I try to avoid the subject, in order to differentiate the different sections of the site. I don't play many wrestling games or follow it as much as I used to, even as recently as a year ago, but this is what wrestling games should be. Period. I find it interesting that, seven years later, people are still saying, "Why can't you give us a wrestling game like No Mercy?"

Super Smash Brothers: Melee (GC)- The quintessential party game. There is nothing more fun than kicking everyone's ass with Yoshi. Nothing. And I don't even own this game. By the way, it's "may-lay", not "mee-lee." As in, "Yes, you may lay down while Pikachu has his way with you."

Least Favorite Game Of All Time: Final Fantasy VII. No question. I may expound upon this later, but I hate FFVII. Not with the impressive vitriol of some, but I hate it nonetheless. Also, Xenogears. But I loved Brave Fencer Musashi, so it's not just a matter of me having a bias against Square games released around then. Honestly, I don't get games for free, so I'm not in a position of being able to drop money on something I don't think I'm going to, at least, like.

First Game I Beat: Super Mario Brothers 3. Also the first game I purchased with my own money.

Favored Genres: I tend toward sims, RPGs and sports games, but I'm actually trying very hard to expand my horizon and become a more discerning gamer. So, really, this is irrelevant. I'll try anything. Except for driving games. None of that.

Hobbies: Writing about games.


With that out of the way, maybe we'll be able to get down to business. In short order, I plan on having a blog up about why I think Nintendo is forsaking it's primary supporters. We'll see how this goes.