About
Last modified: May 27, 2008 | 11:52 am UTC
Game Couch covers video games and related geek culture.
Terry Bosky, lead writer
My career as a video game writer started at MobyGames.com where I reviewed games and wrote Something About Interactive Fiction. Now with Game Couch, I finally have an outlet to convince people that Fallout is the best game ever.
Anthony, webmaster
The first video game I remember playing was Pong, which I’m guessing my parents acquired at Radio Shack. It was the early 80s, I was 5 or 6 and fascinated by the ability to control something on our tv. Later there was the Atari 2600, where I spent many hours with my friends, Joust-ing and trying to understand E.T. At Game Couch I am the web guy, the Mac guy and the video guy. I am also working on my bachelor’s degree at Art Institute Online.
Amanda, writer
I am a children’s librarian wannabe extraordinaire, aspiring young adult novelist and animal lover who happens to be married to Terry. I first got hooked on gaming at the tender age of eight when my parents bought a Commodore 64. Soon their grand plans for using it in their home business floundered and it became my very own lean, mean gaming machine. Among my friends, I became known as the kid who refused to play Nintendo games, except for the boss battles–I could usually beat those in two or three tries. My favorite games then: Forbidden Forest, Beam Rider and Ghosts n’ Goblins. My favorite games now: Oblivion, Animal Crossing: Wild World, and every possible iteration of the Sims games.
Aramis, writer
Stable was I ere I saw El Bats. Currently Playing: Oblivion, Half-Life 2, Indigo Prophecy, Eternal Darkness (again) and Paper Mario 2
Jamie, writer
I am a 15 year old general geek who lives in Kansas that likes tinkering with random technologies. My early beginnings with computers were at the age of 5, fixing old Apple II systems at my elementary school. (For those who care, they were essentially terminals that weren’t configured so well.) I’ve always had a strange fascination with technology. My initial interest in anything electronic probably started at the age of 3, when I had a strange tendency to stick my collection of magnetic letters in the VCR. About the time I was 5, I inherited my older brother’s NES. I’m also the youngest staff member here, which makes me feel weird.
Paul, writer
I started playing games in the mid 80′s when an old buddy of mine got his first Nintendo set with the Mario/Duck Hunt combo cartridge. Over the years I moved into Tabletop RPG’s ranging from Dungeons & Dragons to White Wolf’s World of Darkness line. I’m also a huge comic book nerd so I’m eagerly awaiting Ultimate Alliance and the Justice league game. Currently I’m playing Oblivion, World of Warcraft, and Civ 4.
Steve, writer
My first experience with video games was with an Atari 2600, which was given to my brother and I as an attempt to soften the impact of being told we were moving to another state. I grew up on Nintendo systems after that, although we finally got a Sega Genesis about two years after the SNES. Nowadays I mostly play my PS2, Wii/Gamecube, and PC. Currently I am playing Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim, Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime, and random PS2 games.
Two Geeks, webcomic
In a not so far away land, not so long ago, two geeks joined forces to create what could possibly be the best comic in the world (of Warcraft). Her name was Meg; notorious for melting faces, living vicariously through Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and fighting off regenerative demons from hell with a graphics pen. His name was Josh; the struggling writer, the sarcastic susan and Vladimir Nabokov enthusiast. Some subject matter is actually based on real life events but mostly just exaggerated versions of our geeky shenanigans.
William, writer
They tell me it’s an addiction, but I insist it’s a great way to build up hand/eye coordination. Still, is it normal to shake uncontrollably after a few hours without my PSP? I’m the technical guy for VR5 Online and am responsible for a myriad of things having to do with the area of creating virtual worlds for online use. I knew this was what I was good at since I was about 8 years old, when I first started game programming. Later in the years I got into this new fangled thing called virtual reality, and I knew I was hooked for life. In my spare time I enjoy the finer points of classic gaming, as well as some newer titles. I’m a hardcore tech-head at best with a tendency to hang backstage with the bands at concerts. A Rock N Roll Geek with a unique perspective on the gaming industry as a whole. My ideas are unorthodox but effective, like blowing on the cartridge when the NES is blinking.