Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: How did you get started??? Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 12:49:18 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 52 Message-ID: <354B4E8E.E49AD422@mail.datasys.net> References: <354a636a.1323252@news.scea.sony.com> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 314.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Just a small note before I start - This message is SUPPOSE to be in the "How did you get started??" thread; and it looks like it is from my newsreader, but I am aware that some people kept asking me why I always start a new thread when I knew I didn't. ANYWAY... Michael Klucher wrote: > What's your story??? :) Well, it goes back a few years when I was as Toys-r-us. I was looking at some new games to get for my shiny new n64. When we were leaving, a magazine caught my eye. It was next generation magazine, yellow with a big black PSX controller on front; "Sony's New PlayStation - Coming in '97: The console that lets YOU make the game". My brow raised with curiosity as I went to go pick up the magazine that would eventually change my goal in life. I opened up the cover and read the first page. "I can't believe it - I must be dreaming", I thought. But I read on and it kept getting better. I quickly bought the magazine, and read over the entire article. My first impression was "I want one!". Then after the initial euphoria wore off, I started to read through my shiny new magazine. I looked at the front cover for any other interesting headlines, and at the bottom of the page "REVEALED! Everything they don't teach you at the DigiPen videogame school". My brow raised again, and I quickly flipped to the page at the front of the magazine. That's where I also decided I wanted to go to DigiPen to learn to program videogames for a living. Since that time, I have gone to the 2 week summer programing workshop at DigiPen Vancouver, and I hope to go to DigiPen Institute of Technology (In Redmond, Washington) when I finish highschool the year 2000. And I have no doubt that if I hadn't saw that yaroze controller on the front of that magazine, I would still be planning on going to Georgia Tech and waste a few years taking stupid core classes. Now I have an opportunity to go straight into the video game industry. -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com Please replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me. UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) WWW: (sorry, page is down) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean that they are not out to get me."