Jaicee Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Seriously though, hey. I'm a 38-year-old woman from a magical place called rural America and a massive success, having graduated high school and wound a grocery bagger, but let's get on to what you really want to know about: I've been gaming since I first played the original Metroid when I was 5. My dad had an NES he'd bought the year before, but he hadn't succeeded in getting me into games like Super Mario Bros. or Ghosts n' Goblins. Metroid's more exploratory nature though made me want to play and I've been gaming ever since. Well with some pauses here and there. Really I'd say you could divide my peak points of interest in gaming into two time periods: the fourth console generation period (essentially the early 1990s) and the last decade or so. The leap to 3D was actually tough for me to adapt to initially. Most of my favorite games these days are indies. Think I'm biased in favor of the often more free-spirited nature of those. In the old days when I was focused on pissing off my parents, I was mostly into tournament fighting games like Street Fighter II, Killer Instinct, and the classic Mortal Kombat games, brawlers like the Golden Axe and Streets of Rage games, and some first-person shooters like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. My parents wouldn't even let me buy a lot of those games, so I had to liberate some of them from the store (security wasn't what it is today) or aggressively borrow them from friends and hide 'em. But once I discovered Out of This World and Final Fantasy VI, I also began to see video games as a storytelling medium. I've also retained a soft spot for the Metroid franchise over the years, though I have...thoughts...about how it's been treated of late. Super Metroid remains one of my all-time favorite games to this day. Here are my favorite video games organized by year of (American) release: 1977: Surround 1978: Adventureland 1979: Adventure 1980: Zork I 1981: Utopia 1982: Zork III 1983: Kangaroo 1984: Girl's Garden 1985: A Mind Forever Voyaging 1986: Leather Goddesses of Phobos 1987: The Great Giana Sisters 1988: Phantasy Star 1989: The Guardian Legend 1990: The Secret of Monkey Island 1991: Out of This World 1992: Alone in the Dark 1993: Doom 1994: Super Metroid 1995: Chop Suey 1996: Tomb Raider 1997: Tomb Raider II 1998: Magic Knight Rayearth 1999: Drakan: Order of the Flame 2000: The Longest Journey 2001: Ico 2002: Metroid Prime 2003: Beyond Good & Evil 2004: Yume Nikki 2005: Psychonauts 2006: Okami 2007: Portal 2008: Mirror's Edge 2009: Muramasa: The Demon Blade 2010: Heavy Rain 2011: Portal 2 2012: Papo & Yo 2013: Gone Home 2014: This War of Mine 2015: Crypt of the NecroDancer 2016: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor 2017: Butterfly Soup 2018: Celeste 2019: Knights and Bikes 2020: The Last of Us Part II Favorite Multi-Year Release: Kentucky Route Zero So that is me. DC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Once again, welcome to VGR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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m76 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) Sorry, but when I read your name I keep hearing this in my head: JaiCee. Denton In Da Fresh! Edited January 30, 2021 by m76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Welcome to VGR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaicee Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, m76 said: Sorry, but when I read your name I keep hearing this in my head: JaiCee. Denton In Da Fresh! Lol! Well they tell me I am da fresh. My screen name is a childhood stylization of my real name (Janice) that I adopted shortly after learning that "Jaicee" was someone's real name. I accept others as well. JC, Jaycee, J-Ice, Jan, J, Janiss, Jan-S, or just plain old Janice will also do just fine. Edited January 30, 2021 by Jaicee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
