The indie video games neighborhood is so small… let’s get to know one another! In order that once we find yourself assembly in individual it is not too horrifying. You understand, like I wish to know that DrDerekDoctors is a conjoined twin with a nipple on his brow earlier than I really see him dwell.
Tell us what you are all about… how did you get launched to gaming? What are your passions? What makes you tick? Let’s go! Be at liberty to pimp an internet site or artwork or something right here, too.
I will begin, and I’ll rock it so arduous so that you will all be shamed to rock it even more durable:
My identify’s Derek, and I am the editor-in-briefs of TIGSource. Everlasting Daughter, I am OK, and Aquaria are the video games I mostly related to.
I appear like this after I’m driving the subway with out having slept:
How did I get into video games? Once I was very younger my uncle purchased a NES for my cousins hoping he may get into it with them, however it ended up being ME that bought hooked. Tremendous Mario, man! It was superb. From then on, I began designing video games on paper with my mates. When my mother and father bought a pc, the very first thing I did was begin making video games on them. The remaining, as “they” say, is historical past.
I have a tendency to love a number of various kinds of video games. My all-time favorites are usually that approach as a result of I affiliate them with good reminiscences with household and mates… because of this, my (incomplete) record could appear a bit pedestrian. Oh properly! 
When Zelda 3 got here round, wow! That first sequence whenever you’re wandering round within the rain, attempting to comply with Zelda’s voice, actually blew my thoughts after I first performed it. What an extremely tense introduction.
The Zelda sequence has all the time had a fond place in my coronary heart due to the time I spent enjoying it with my dad as a teen.
Phantasy Star II – Great RPG for the Sega Genesis and one other one I performed with my dad. Together with having nice presentation, it additionally contained one of many saddest occasions in videogame historical past (a minimum of for me): the dying of Nei to Neifirst. *Sniff* 
Road Fighter II – My buddy’s dad would make us say Buddhist mantras 1,000 for a single quarter to play this recreation, and we might fucking do it simply because we had been so obsessed! Significantly, it was all we talked about for like 3 years. Till this recreation got here alongside:
Doom II, natch! I will not say a lot about this one. I used to be approaching my teenagers when this got here out and, what can I say, I dug the nice graphics and excessive violence.
Castlevania: SOTN – Pure 2D gaming bliss after such a drought of excellent 2D video games. I used to be like an previous man being launched to Viagra after years of impotence.
To be trustworthy, I have not performed an indie recreation that I’ve fallen in love with the best way I did the video games of the NES/Tremendous NES/Genesis period. Undecided if that is as a result of I am too previous now to be wowed the best way I used to be after I was a child or whether or not I simply have not performed that magical recreation but. Cave Story positively got here shut:
One of many issues I (and I do know Alec, too) wish to seize with Aquaria is that feeling of bliss when enjoying these video games of yore. While you get so caught up in a narrative or concept that you just lose observe of time. If even a single participant skilled that from the sport, I would die a contented man.
In order that’s me in a (game-oriented) nutshell. What about you?
Good to satisfy you! I am Rossy, and I stumbled into gaming by means of a basic Mario Bros. console. Keen about storytelling in video games and am presently hooked on indie titles like Punch Hero. Excited to be a part of this neighborhood!
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Indie Retro Information: STUNTMAN SEYMOUR