The man I am most like name is Andy McNamara.  I am most like him because he beleives all the things I do and I hope how he is in video games, is the way I will grow up to be (by the way, if you dont know who he is. Then ill tell you.  He is the **** editor in chief of the Game Informer Magazine.  This guy is amazing.)  I will give a quote that he said for Feb. issue of 2006 to tell you how I hope to grow up to be.  First off I want to start out saying that when I grow up I want to design a very very good couple of games.  Like a series.  Then I want to be a magizine writer for games and cridick for games and have my own show like X-play.

          Well here is the quote that Andy said in febs 2006 issue.

          Qoute "As a product of my life experiences, I am a video game dork.  In fact, as I look through the rearview mirror, I see my entire life is not dotted with the normal landmarks, like when I first rode a bike or went to Senior Prom (though I'm pretty sure I wnet...I think).  Instead, it is filled with the thrills and wonders of games played.

          I remember playing Star Trek in ASCII text before games had graphics.  I remember playing Dragon's lair at the corner 7-Eleven.  I remember savint the princess.

          For all these wonderful thoughts, the most recurring memory for me is the great video game crash of 1983.  Watching my wonderful world of games come falling down around me was unlike anything I had ever experienced.  Video game historians blame Atari for its poor planning and lack of innovation.  I remember the whole thing differently.

          I saw the positive side of the games I was playing.  Especially when you compared them against my first gaming experiences, which were text adventures and ASCII constructs.  So when I woke up one day to find hundreds of games for sale at massive descounts, I thought Christmas had just come early.  Little did I know that this wasn't a bargain; this was a fire sale.  The games industry was collapsing and retailers were dumping product before the hobby blinked into non-existence. 

          I remember the time of nothing after the crash.  It's weird when I think about it; gaming literally fell off the face of the earth.  The all of a sudden one day, out of the blue, there was mario.  This wondrous machine called the Nentendo Entertainment System came into my life and saved me.

          Besides being a nice little video game tale, this story is a warnign.  One I think about during every generational transition.  Sometimes people get too caught up in graphics, or whether this racing game is better than that racing game, and forget the fun that video games are all about.

          Find games you like, and play them.  Because if you don't you could wake up one day like I did and find them gone.

          It's not cool.  Trust me on this one.

Cheers,

                                                                  Andy McNamara

End quote.  It is amazing how much this guy is like me.