A 2010 Graduate from the University of Notre Dame and a resident of the Houston area, Jeff has been always been an avid gamer. Jeff's love for gaming started with the Intellivision his Dad had bought before Jeff could even remember. After that Jeff would become a Nintendo Fanboy for the better half a decade. Aside from being denied an SNES Jeff, or rather his parents, would purchase every Nintendo system, and would purchase games for them in excess. If Nintendo games were cocaine, Jeff would be doing time in a Texas state penitentiary for 10-20 years for the sheer quantity the cops would have found in his cabinets. But starting in his Freshmen year of college, Jeff would finally step off the Nintendo train and his mind would be opened to the wide world of other consoles and characters from other systems and producers. After purchasing an XBox 360 from a friend at school Jeff soon found that every game could have something new to offer. Continuing the drug metaphor, its as if Jeff stepped up from Marijuana to meth, and after adding a PS3 would become a full blown heroin addict, metaphorically. The point is Jeff loves gaming, and truth be told really hates the whole drug culture, it just serves really well as a metaphor for an unreasonable love for gaming.
Spencer “Batman” Andrews -Writer
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Eric Secviar – Writer
...is a current student at ND, from the Chicagoland region, and feels weird writing about himself in the third person.
“I never was a console kid. Despite the fact that my parents were closet video game lovers—my mom and dad used to play Mission Impossible on a Commodore 64—they never bought me and my brother a console until Christmas 2009, when we got a 360. The first actual console we had in the house was an N64 that our aunt smuggled in for us; mind you, that was about a year and a half after it was released. But anyway, for the majority of my gaming career, I’ve been a PC gamer. Now that doesn’t mean that I was up to date on the latest hardware to run games when they came hot off the presses—I had to make do with what I had, which for many years was a piece-of-crap eMachines. The limitations meant that I indulged in my fair share of abandonware, indie games, and pretty much anything that wouldn’t make my graphics card smoke like a hot bowl of Ramen. While console development has thankfully stalled for the time being so I can catch up on all the quality releases over the past few years, I still stick to where my heart’s always been: the cheap, forgotten games that I’ve dug up from my basement or the corners of the internet.”
GT: striker2790
Eric Secviar – Writer
...is a current student at ND, from the Chicagoland region, and feels weird writing about himself in the third person.
“I never was a console kid. Despite the fact that my parents were closet video game lovers—my mom and dad used to play Mission Impossible on a Commodore 64—they never bought me and my brother a console until Christmas 2009, when we got a 360. The first actual console we had in the house was an N64 that our aunt smuggled in for us; mind you, that was about a year and a half after it was released. But anyway, for the majority of my gaming career, I’ve been a PC gamer. Now that doesn’t mean that I was up to date on the latest hardware to run games when they came hot off the presses—I had to make do with what I had, which for many years was a piece-of-crap eMachines. The limitations meant that I indulged in my fair share of abandonware, indie games, and pretty much anything that wouldn’t make my graphics card smoke like a hot bowl of Ramen. While console development has thankfully stalled for the time being so I can catch up on all the quality releases over the past few years, I still stick to where my heart’s always been: the cheap, forgotten games that I’ve dug up from my basement or the corners of the internet.”
GT: striker2790
