Get To Know The PALGN Members *Re - Opened*

[Big Pete]

I decided to make this thread in order to create a little more understanding with members, a way to get to know you straight off the bat. All members are encouraged to contribute to this thread. If we could make it a sticky it may help too.

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General
Username: Big Pete
Real name: Robert William Beaumont
Birthdate: 29/3/90
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Likes: Rugby League, Cricket, Most Sports In General, Movies, Music, Video Games, Wrestling, Mates.
Dislikes: AFL, Most Top 40 Music (eg. Music on Channel V), Pricks, Clothes Shopping (rather be nude ), Crap Movies, Bad TV Shows, A lot of pop culture.
Occupation: Student Grade 12 (2007)
Talents: Being a goonball
Places Lived: Brisbane (1990 - 1996 96-Now) Perth (1996)


PalGN
First Browsed: Late 2003
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Looking at one of Matts reviews of GameFaqs I noticed he had PalGN in his profile and noticed more reviews. Intrigued I joined and became PalGNs biggest noob.
Memores: Being a pest, losing a Game Cube and blaming Npie, when PalGN was becoming a buzz word in my inner circle at school, feuds with mangaman, the failed NRL tipping comp. with Nismo, Owning Nismo on a daily basis , the arrival of punk boy Jibbs, the_cro becoming a man The Cro! So many
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: mangaman, LordI, Npie, Nate, bubba SIN, Trowe, some others


Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: Nintendo 64!!!
Favourite Game: Yoshi's Island (SNES Version)
Favourite Genre: Platformer/RPG
Favourite Series: The Legend of Zelda
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, PS1, PS2, X Box, Sega Mega Drive (Can't remember which one), NDS x 4, GBA SP, GBA, GBC x 2
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 300

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Almost Famous, Edward Scissorhands, It's A Wonderful Life
Favourite Bands/Artists: The Killers, The Strokes, Placebo, David Bowie many more!
Favourite Songs: Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Favourite Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Hudson, Winona Ryder, Bruce Willis, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Jessica Alba, Mike Myers
Favourite TV Shows: NRL, Trigun, Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, One Piece (Jap), Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, MXC, Backpackers, Bug Juice, Monster Rancher, Made, Disney Cartoons, Spongebob, South Park, WWE, Frasier, Just Shoot Me, Who's Line Is It Anyway, Music Max, rage.

If you can think of anything else to add then go right ahead.
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[TheAnswer]

General
Username: TheAnswer
Real name: Jason Cowley
Birthdate: 12/6/79
Location: Sydney, Australia
Likes: Cars, Women, Video Games, Movies, Basketball
Dislikes: Emos, Smokers, Yuppies, Hippies, AFL, Wanker drivers
Occupation: Accounts Payable Clerk
Talents: Good memory, making people laugh
Places Lived: Balmain (1979-1982), Granville (1982-2000), Eagle Vale (2000-2001), Mt Druitt (2001-2004), Colyton (2004-Present)

PalGN:
First Browsed: Early 2005
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: People used to comment about the release list over at Gamebiz, so I kept coming to check it out
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: None

Gaming:
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: Super Nintendo
Favourite Game: Super Mario Bros 3 (was such an innovation when it was released and what other game can claim to have a movie produced just to promote it's release )
Favourite Genre: Platformer/RPG
Favourite Series: The Legend of Zelda
Consoles/Handhelds Currently Owned: NES, SNES, N64, Wii, PS2, Sega Mega Drive 2, NDS Lite
Consoles You Have Owned: Hanimex, Atari 2600, SMS, MD 1, Saturn, PS1, DC, Neo Geo AES, GB, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, GCN, DS, Famicom, PSP
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 300

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Clerks, Mallrats, Menace II Society, Friday, American History X, Almost Famous, Plenty more
Favourite Bands/Artists: Notorious BIG, 2pac, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Jodeci
Favourite Songs: David Banner feat Lil' Flip - Like A Pimp
Favourite Actors: Samuel L Jackson, Terrence Howard, Arnold Schenhoweveryouspellit , Sandra Bullock, Adam Sandler
Favourite TV Shows: Prison Break, My Name Is Earl, Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Everybody Hates Chris, South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, The Simpsons, 30 Rock, Sleeper Cell
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[Lord Halo Nerd]

General
Username:Lord Halo Nerd
Real Name:Declan
Birthdate:31/10/93
Location:Perth,Australia
Likes:Videogames,Reading,Spending time with friends,Movies
Dislikes:Tryhards,Smokers,Liars,Reality TV, Religion
Occupation:Student
TalentsCrummy Joke Telling,Speaking Infront of Large Crowds,Impressions,Halo
Places LivedBunbury(1991-1994), Perth(1994-Present)

PALGN
First Browsed: Late 2006 (October)
How did you hear of PALGN:Retroman told me once we got killed of GT
Members Met and KnowEl Taco

Gaming
Prefered Company Bungie or Nintendo
Fav GameHalo 2
Favourite Genre:Platform,FPS,Adventure
Favourite SeriesHalo
Owned Consoles Now:Wii, NDS, XBOX, PC,N64
Had OwnedSega Megadrive,PS1,PS2,Gamecube
How Many Games You Own 25-30

Entertainment
Movies: Austin Powers,Mission Impossible,Too many to say
Bands: Sleepy Jackson, The Strokes, Panic! At The Disco, Radiohead,The Beatles,Ben Folds and anything of Triple J
Fav Song: Sleepy Jackson-God Lead Your Soul
Fav Actors: Jack Black, Andrew Hansen, Chris Taylor, Chas Licadello, Julian Morrow, Charles Firth, Craig Rusceall, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Favourite TV Show: Chaser's War on Everything, CNNNN, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Family Guy, Seinfield, Fraiser, Cheers,Spongebob Square Pants,Scrubs, Arrested Devolpment, Lost and many more
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[El Taco]

General
Username: Brian Fantana (whispering)..El Taco
Real name: Alex
Birthdate: *mumbles under breath*
Location: My computer..in Perth, Australia
Likes: Games,Movies,Reading, Socialising,Jokes
Dislikes: Bad Jokes, Annoying people,emos,druggies,SMOKERS,hippies
Occupation: Rabbid exterminator (Nah Student)
Talents: Creative,drawing (I could show you)
Places Lived: Perth (All my life)

PalGN:
First Browsed: When I joined (look at profile)
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Retroman
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: LHN

Gaming:
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: N64
Favourite Game: Super Mario 64
Favourite Genre: Platformers
Favourite Series: MARIO
Consoles/Handhelds Currently Owned: DS,GBC,GBA,GB,N64,NES,SNES,GCN,PS2,PS1
Consoles You Have Owned:^

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Flying High! ,Rain Man, Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite
Favourite Bands/Artists: Cat Empire, Jamiraquia (?)
Favourite Songs: Look above
Favourite Actors: I dont have one-Will Smith?
Favourite TV Shows: Chaser's War on Everything, Simpsons,Futurama,Scrubs,WLIIA,CYE, Arrested Development,FG
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[ObsoletE]

General
Username: look to the left a little, lazy
Real name: Mike. i'm too cool for surnames.
Birthdate: 6th April, 1980
Location: Perth, Australia
Likes: WRC, Videogames, Movies, Music
Dislikes: Sport. idiocy. Religion.
Occupation: Geophysicist by training, current job doesn't really deal with a great deal of that though.
Talents: um... wasting money on DVDs and CDs?
Places Lived: Perth.


PalGN
First Browsed: April 2003
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Googled something. nfi what now though. at the time i found the site, it was April Fool's PAL Girls Network gag.
Memories: being asked daily if i was Peter Russell Clark.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: none afaik.


Gaming
Prefered Company: probably Blizzard.
Favourite Console: cheating a bit, but PC
Favourite Game: Quake
Favourite Genre: FPS, RTS and western RPGs
Favourite Series: Warcraft and Quake.
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, SNES, N64, Wii, PSX, PS2, NDS-L, Gameboy, Atari 7800
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): too many to estimate

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Natural Born Killers, Snatch, Se7en, Fight Club, Star Wars, Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix Trilogy
Favourite Bands/Artists: Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine
Favourite Songs: Hurt - Nine Inch Nails, Hurt - Johnny Cash.
Favourite Actors: Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Sacha Baron Cohen
Favourite TV Shows: The Sopranos, Oz, Veronica Mars, Buffy TVS, Angel, House, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Alias, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell
Added: The Office (UK > US), Extras, Whose Line is it Anyway (UK > US), Spaced, Arrested Development.
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[Kaboth]

General
Username: Kaboth
Real name: Joshua Parker
Birthdate: 28/6/1984
Location: Shellharbour, Australia
Likes: Piano, Videogames, Napoleon Bonaparte, History, Exercise, Learning, Classical music,
Dislikes: Raunch culture, people who fail to recognize their own ignorance or potential, Bullies, rock, pop, country and rap music. Anything with lyrics.
Occupation: Bachelor of Arts History major student
Talents: Organising, Planning, TBS gaming
Places Lived: Shellharbour my whole life


PalGN
First Browsed: Late 2004 maybe
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: From members on vooks.net
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Nobody


Gaming
Prefered Company: Blizzard
Favourite Console: Nintendo 64
Favourite Game: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Favourite Genre: Turn Based Strategy
Favourite Series: Civilization
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: SNES, N64, GCN, GBP, GBC, GBASP, DS Lite
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): Over 100 but I've been cutting the size. Maybe 80 now.

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Star Wars Return of the Jedi, Shine, Goldeneye, Napoleon (2003),
Favourite Bands/Artists: Chopin, Mozart all the old classical composers.
Favourite Songs: Nocturnes by Chopin
Favourite Actors: Hugh Lawrie, Chris Metzen, Diane Neal, Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Vincent D'nofrio, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Richards
Favourite TV Shows: House, Veronica Mars, Law and Order, Seinfeld

[Sin Ogaris]

General
Username: Sin Ogaris
Real name: look it up
Birthdate: 85
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Likes: Music (specifically Bass guitar), Movies, Games.
Dislikes: Sport (sans Ice Hockey), Pricks, Clothes Shopping, Reality TV Shows.
Occupation: Bussy/tudent
Talents: none (yet)
Places Lived: Melbs (2003-now), Wodonga (1995-2002), Chiltern (1985-1994)


PalGN
First Browsed: early 2006 (I think)
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: A mate directed me to a review.
Memores: Don't really have any, I haven't been involved in anything that memorable yet (as far as I can remember).
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: none.


Gaming
Prefered Company: Origin Systems (sniff), since they're kaput then Bioware (waaaa), now that they're defunct I guess Looking Glass (oh God I think I'm going to break something).
Favourite Console: SNES
Favourite Game: Planescape: Torment (PC)
Favourite Genre: Adventure or RPG
Favourite Series: Ultima
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, SNES, NGC, PC
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): only about 50 at the moment.

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: The Boondock Saints, The Machinist, The Shawshank Redemption, Snatch and many more.
Favourite Bands/Artists: Coheed and Cambria, Tommy Emmanuelle, The Mars Volta, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Live and many more.
Favourite Songs: Impossible for me to answer.
Favourite Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Dexter Fletcher, Johnny Depp, Kathy Bates, Helena Bonham Carter, Christian Bale.
Favourite TV Shows: Rage, Scrubs, jtv, The Shield, Full Frontal, My Name is Earl, A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

[838 La]

General
Username: 838 La
Real name: Wil La
Birthdate: 12/10/90
Location: Sydney, Australia
Likes: Movies, Star Wars, Lego, Video Games,
Dislikes: Star Trek, Anrgont people who always gets there way.
Occupation: Student Grade 10 (2007)
Talents: Under 12 second in 100m (back in the days) Now, nothing.
Places Lived: (90-95)Sydney, (95-00)Hony kong/China (00-present) Sydney


PalGN
First Browsed: Feb 2005
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Google, I was looking for porn at school & somehow I stumble arcoss this site.
Memores: Winning Winning 6 games on consoles that I don't have
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Non of the real active members here : ( Meet Dare though.

Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: Gameboy
Favourite Game: Pokemon Gold
Favourite Genre: Sandbox type games
Favourite Series: The Legend of Zelda
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, GCN, PS2, Sega Mega Drive (Can't remember which one), NDS x 4, GBA SP, GBA, GBC x 2
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 150

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Star Wars V, The Prestige, Children of Men, Indiana Jones
Favourite Bands/Artists:Jet, The Beatles, etc
Favourite Songs: Hold on - Jet
Favourite Actors: Jude Law, Clive Owen
Favourite TV Shows: Cheese TV, Futurama, The Simpson's, many more.
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[Jim Dash]

General
Username: Jim Dash
Real name: Jim
Birthdate: 9/7/87
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Likes: Rap Music, Video Games, Mates, Cars.
Dislikes: Wankers
Occupation: Tafe Student
Talents: Yet to decide
Places Lived: Only Adelaide


PalGN
First Browsed: Late 2005
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Found it looking for Aussie gaming info.
Memores: Finding this place and wondering if I'd fit in or not.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: None!

Gaming
Prefered Company: Microsoft
Favourite Console: Xbox 360
Favourite Game:Gears of War
Favourite Genre: Platformer/Action/Adventure/FPS
Favourite Series: The Legend of Zelda
Consoles/Handhelds Owned:Past: SNES, N64, GCN, PS1, GB, GBC, PSP
Current: PS2, Wii, 360, DS, GBA
How Many Games Do You Own: 15

Entertainment:
Favourite Rappers: T.I., Jay Z, Nas, Kanye, Lupe Fiasco, The Game, Dre, Snoop, UGK, Lil' Wayne, Young Buck..list goes on..
Favourite Songs: Don't Have 1 Fave..

Computer Owned: 24" iMac Core 2 Duo

[Gtpod]

General
Username: GTPod
Real name: Chris Blake
Birthdate: 29/7/90
Location: Cornwall, England
Likes: Gaming, linguistics, music, cycling, spending money.
Dislikes: Popular culture, stupidity, all sports without rackets/sticks(/pedals ), the sea (+ everything in and on it).
Occupation: Sixth form student
Talents: Linguistic ability? I can study at least 3 languages at one time to the same competant level.
Places Lived: Always in Cornwall (Truro and Falmouth).


PALGN
First Browsed: Late 2003
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: I saw Hyperworm and Quinsisdos browsing at school.
Memores: Being called a stupid troll by Hyperworm, living up to his claims by making several different accounts for more trolling; Padfoot; helping Hyperworm to steal the Cube off Pete; pikmin&pikmin ; that nazi take-over WM did ; the female-makeover sonicwired did; the list goes on...
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Hyperworm, Quinsisdos, Miito, Sandrah.


Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: Xbox
Favourite Game: The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
Favourite Genre: Racing (or adventure...)
Favourite Series: Grand Theft Auto
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: SNES, Mega Drive (+ Master System plugin), Gameboy Colour, N64 (x2), PS1, GameCube, Xbox, PC, GBA:SP, DS, DS Lite, Wii.
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 200? Hard to say.

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, Matrix Reloaded, Mononoke Hime, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Jackass Number Two.
Favourite Bands/Artists: Symphony X, Opeth, Home Made Kazoku, Bonnie Pink, Digital Underground... etc.
Favourite Songs: The Grand Conjuration (Opeth), Thinking of You (Bonnie Pink), Sea of Lies (Symphony X), Life (Yui).
Favourite Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen, Hugo Weaving, Ben Stiller, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant.
Favourite TV Shows: South Park, Who's Line Is It Anyway, The Office, The Office US, Heroes, American Dad, 8 out of 10 Cats, Extras, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Bleach, Evangelion, Excel Saga, etc.
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[sonicwired]

General
Username: sonicwired
Real name: John Buck
Birthdate: 11/07/1984
Location: England, United Kingdom
Likes: Shiny things, Jaffa cakes, Gaming, Buying stuff
Dislikes: Hot weather, people that don't think for themselves, Cigarette smoke
Occupation: Looking for a new job (not the best time of year for it)
Talents: Flaring nostrals
Places Lived: Right here


PalGN
First Browsed: Early 2002
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: I came up with the name.
Memores: Starting out at IGN, The great server crash of 2002, Zemaj's easter egg hunts, GTPod's early trolling days (he must have been about 8 at the time)
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Haven't met/known any member in real life yet


Gaming
Prefered Company: Sega
Favourite Console: Dreamcast
Favourite Game: It says Sonic Adventure in my staff profile so I'll stick with that
Favourite Genre: Platformer
Favourite Series: Sonic the Hedgehog
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Sega Dreamcast, PC, Neo Geo Pocket Color
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 250-300

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Short Circuit, Starwars 1-6, Star Trek 1-10, Pirates of the Caribbean, Old School
Favourite Bands/Artists: Jamiroquai, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, P.O.D.
Favourite Songs: Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
Favourite Actors: Don't really have any
Favourite TV Shows: Star Trek (any of them), Battlestar Galactica (old and new), 3rd Rock from the Sun, Spaced, Scrubs
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[LooneyVoltage]

General
Username: Phoenix89
Real name: Scott Macfarlane
Birthdate: 20/08/1989
Location: Pittsworth, Qld, Australia
Likes: Sports, Movies, Books, Gaming, most other stuff in general
Dislikes: AFL, Crap Drivers, Crap TV Shows, Crap Movies..really anything thats crap
Occupation: Uni Student in 2007, just finished year 12
Talents: Creative, Make people laugh, I just know stuff
Places Lived: Pittsworth (1989-2006), Brisbane (2007-?) (If I get into uni)


PalGN
First Browsed: Late 2005
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Looking for Australian Game Release Dates on google and ended up finding PalGN, I havn't gone back since
Memores: None Yet. Ask in a year
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: None - at least ive got the record of the only PalGN member from Pittsworth (Don't know if thats a good thing or not)

Gaming
Prefered Company: Sony
Favourite Console: PS2
Favourite Game: Metal Gear Solid 2
Favourite Genre: Action/Adventure
Favourite Series:Metal Gear Solid
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, SNES, Original Gamboy (The Brick), GB Colour, PS1, PS2, Computer
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 50

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Back to the Future Trilogy, Serenity, X-Men Trilogy, Old School, Borat!
Favourite Bands/Artists: ACDC, Artic Monkeys, Beastie Boys, Blink 182, Bob Sincalr, Bon Jovi, The Chemical Brothers, Moby, Eskimo Joe, Evermore, Wolfmother, The Killers
Favourite Songs: Woman, Black Fingernail/Red Wine, Mr. Brightside
Favourite Actors: Johnny Depp, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Tony Sholub, Kate Winslet, Jack Black.
Favourite TV Shows: Firefly, Smallville, Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, HEROES, Lost, Amazing Race (not the new family season), Spongebob, South Park, Stargate SG1/Atlantis
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[Huseyadaddie]

General
Username: Huseyadaddie
Real name: Steven
Birthdate: 28/10/89
Location: Perth, Australia
Likes: Cricket, AFL, Computers, games, chix
Dislikes: Emo's
Occupation: PC Technician
Talents: Awesome at games
Places Lived: Perth


PalGN
First Browsed: Early 05
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Ummmm Cannot remember 4 the life of me

Gaming
Prefered Company: Sega
Favourite Console: SNES
Favourite Game: Alex the kid in miracle world
Favourite Genre: RPG/MMORPG
Favourite Series: None
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES,SNES,64,Wii,GBColour,GBAdvanced,GBSP,NDS,Master System,megadrive,Dreamcast,PSX,PS1,PS2,PSP,Xbox,Xbox360, Kik ass gaming PC.
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): Lots

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Existenz
Favourite Bands/Artists: Killswitch Engage
Favourite Songs: Life to Lifeless-Killswitch Engage
Favourite Actors: None
Favourite TV Shows: Invader Zim

[Qbert]

General
Username: Qbert
Real name: James
Birthdate: 02/03/89
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Likes: Most Sports In General, Movies, Music, Video Games, Mates.
Dislikes: (some)arrogant people, things not working when they should
Occupation: Probably starting uni in 07
Talents: I'm OK at sport.
Places Lived: Brissie boy all the way


PalGN
First Browsed: Late 2004
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: nfi, maybe google, maybe linked from somewhere
Memores: I know he hates it, but the Dare and Little Brittan comparison is my fav. thing to happen on the foums. General healthy debates with people. Meeting up with people in AC:WW.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: none


Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: Nintendo DS
Favourite Game: Resident Evil 4 - Nintendo Gamecube
Favourite Genre: Action/Platformer
Favourite Series: The Legend of Zelda
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, PS2, X Box, Sega Dreamcast, NDS, GB Pocket
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 150?

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Napoleon Dynamite, The Castle, The Replacements, Forest Gump
Favourite Bands/Artists: The Beatles, John Lennon, Powderfinger and many more
Favourite Songs: Something by John Lennon, too many to name.
Favourite Actors: Can't think of this atm
Favourite TV Shows: Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, Arrested Development, Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, CNNNN, South Park, Prison Break.
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[Karai Pantsu]

General
Username: Karai Pantsu
Real name: Lachlan Mason
Birthdate: 27/12/84
Location: Victoria, Australia
Likes: Music, Games, Movies/TV, Friends, Booze, Hats
Dislikes: Prongs (most people), pop culture in general, summer, most everything else
Occupation: QA
Talents: Being a smartarse
Places Lived: Frankston for life, yo...


PalGN
First Browsed: Early/mid 2006
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Searching for an Australian release list.
Memories: I'm still a noob
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: None


Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: NES (Dreamcast nipping at it's heels)
Favourite Game: Chrono Trigger
Favourite Genre: FPS
Favourite Series: Kirby
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, PS1, PS2, XBOX, X360, DS, DS-lite, GBA-SP, GB, PSP, Dreamcast.
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): Including PC? roughly 250?

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Fear and Loathing, Eternal Sunshine, Lock Stock, From Dusk till Dawn
Favourite Bands/Artists: Clutch, AFX, Meshuggah, McLusky, Lamb, TV on the Radio, The World/Inferno Friendship Society
Favourite Songs: Interpol - Stella was a diver and she was always down
Favourite Actors: Steven Segal... The man is a genius!
Favourite TV Shows: Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, Who's Line Is It Anyway, Scrubs, Black Books, Red Dwarf
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[celerystalksme]

General
Username: Celerystalksme
Real name: Chris
Birthdate: 18/2/1984
Location: Mackay, Australia
Likes: Music, Gaming, Drinking with Mates, Computers, Sports & Women.
Dislikes: Customers, Miners...I'll just say a lot of things =D
Occupation: Video Store Clerk & Bachelor of E-Commerce Major in Marketing Student
Talents: Drinking games, Cricket & Socialising yet having a huge hate for people in general.
Places Lived: Brisbane (1984 - 2001), Mackay (2002 - 2003, 2005 - Present), Nanango (2004).


PalGN
First Browsed: Sometime during 2003.
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: A friend told me that their was a site dedicated towards gaming in Australia.
Memores: I havent been that big of a poster since i joined so i really dont have many.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Nein.

Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: NES
Favourite Game: Super Mario Bros 3.
Favourite Genre: Platformer or Racing
Favourite Series: Burnout
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, SNES, GCN, Wii, DS, GB, SMasterS, Saturn, Atari 2600, XBox, Game & Watch Donkey Kong & Various PC's
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): Around 70 (i sold a lot of them lately because i no longer play games that much)

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Kevin Smith Films, Guy Ritchie Films, Super Troopers, Club Dread, Bad Santa, Empire Records, High Fidelity, Serendipity, Fight Club, Once Were Warriors, The Warriors, Team America and the Comedy genre in general.
Favourite Bands/Artists: Social Distortion, Against Me!, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Flogging Molly Jawbreaker, Alkaline Trio, Stone Temple Pilots, Jeff Buckley and a lot, lot more.
Favourite Songs: Social Distortion - Dear Lover & Against Me! - Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners.
Favourite Actors: Johnny Depp, John Cusak, Scarlett Johanson, Jessica Alba & Jeff Anderson (plays Randal in Clerks)
Favourite TV Shows: South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, That 70's Show and any John Safran series

[Capoeira]

General
Username: Capoeira
Reason for username: I love me some bust-a-groove!
Real name: Lahiru Karunaratne
Birthdate: 22/11/84
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Likes: TV, going out with friends, making films, watching films (although ticket prices are now a b!tch), drawing, relaxing to my favorite music, Mythology, adventure
Dislikes: Intolerance, assholes, discrimination of any kind, people who hurt kids/women, vag pop, posers, fanboys of anything, Mexicans (kidding!), people who won't listen to reason (see fanboys), video games
Occupation: On again, off again Student.
Talents: can play the piano & drum kit (at the same time! not), can draw pretty well, sings like an angel, generally creative.
Places Lived: Melbourne all my life baby


PalGN
First Browsed: according to my profile, 20 Jun 2005.
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: By translating a series of cryptic glyphs that I uncovered when exploring a deserted tomb in Egypt. In truth, I have no idea, but wow that would have been awesome.
Memories: There was that brief yet enjoyable stint as a writer for the site, oh and that little trip to E3, then of course the unpleasantness of those rumors, and the epic return.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: James the Palgn Overlord. To be honest he's one of the nicest guys I've met.

Gaming
Preferred Company: I am not a tool of the corporate world.
Favorite Console: PS2. I wub you...
Favorite Game: ICO/SotC
Favorite Genre: Action/Adventure
Favorite Series: Grand Theft Auto
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: Snes, PS1, N64, PS2, GC, Xbox, DS, Wii, Xbox 360.
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): Way, way too many but apparently I have 114 of the nasty buggers

Entertainment
Favorite Movies: City of God, There's Something About Mary, Fight Club, The Untouchables, Children of Men.
Favorite Bands/Artists: Cut Chemist, Jurassic 5, Opeth (thanks Nismo ), Soilwork, In Flames, Ugly Duckling
Favorite Songs: Angel with the Scabbed Wings - Marilyn Manson, Out Here - Pendulum, Dirty Harry - Gorrilaz, The Funeral Portrait - Opeth
Favorite Actors: Don't really have any although I'm always on the look out for anything Steve Carell is in.
Favorite TV Shows: The Shield, The Wire, Stargate SG-1, The Shield, X-men The OG Animated Series, Arrested Development, Lost.

Christ, I spent way too long writing this up...
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[Cro]

General
Username: The Cro
Real name: Callum R
Birthdate: 1/8/90
Birthplace: Canberra, Australia
Location: Perth, Australia
Likes: Sport, music, games and girls.
Dislikes: Dad, hip-hop, liars, Mum's TV shows..
Occupation: Student Grade 12 (2007) Cashier Waldecks (05 - now)
Talents: Decent Volleyball player
Places Lived: Brisbane (1990 - 92) Perth (1992 - now)


PalGN
First Browsed: Mid 2005
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Found it when I was trying to find a review for the up coming AFL game, I've since learnt of better games..
Memores: Wii a flop... Nuff said ohh and I decided I was ready to become a man, no matter how much Petey was against it.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: blank I should think..


Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: PS2
Favourite Game: Burnout (any of them)
Favourite Genre: Racing
Favourite Series: Burnout
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, N64, PS1, PS2, NDS, GBA, GBC, PSP and GB
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 50..?

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Casino Royale, Aeon Flux, Shrek's ...
Favourite Bands/Artists: Muse, Yellowcard, TRUSTcompany , Amity Lane, The Killers, Radiohead, Sevendust, 30 Seconds to Mars, Rise Against, Bloc Party, many more ...
Favourite Songs: Hysteria - Muse, Waiting for Goodbye - Amity Lane, Starlight - Muse
Favourite Actors: meh.. the hot ones..
Favourite TV Shows: AFL, Simpsons, Family Guy, Samuria 7, MXC, Spongebob, South Park, WWE, Who's Line Is It Anyway, rage, How I met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, Supercross, EPL.. I'm sure there is more..

[Greymist]

General
Username: Greymist
Real name: Tom Champion
Birthdate: 23/06/1971
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Likes: Sports, Movies, Music, Computer Programming, Video Games, Motorbikes.
Dislikes: Dance Music, Crap Movies & TV Shows, A lot of pop culture. Celebrities
Occupation: Network Engineer
Talents: Computer Programming, Analytical Thinking
Places Lived: Metung - Victoria 1999, Melbourne (2007)


PalGN
First Browsed: June 2004
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Search Engine
Memories: Helping code some of the features, some no longer being used.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Luke, James, Theory, Dark Yoshii, Mark, Tristan, Cerebral


Gaming
Preferred Company: None
Favourite Console: PS2, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii
Favourite Game: Bard's Tale (Commodore 64)
Favourite Genre: Platformer/RPG
Favourite Series: The Legend of Zelda
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: Vic 20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, NES, GCN, Wii, PS2, XBox, Xbox 360
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 80

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, Highlander and quite a few more.
Favourite Bands/Artists: David Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd and many more!
Favourite Songs: Who wants to live forever.
Favourite Actors: Bruce Willis, Michael Kane, Ian Holm, Patrick Stewart and Kenneth Branagh
Favourite TV Shows: Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, Star Trek Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager, Thank God You're Here, American Dad, Red Dwarf, CNNNN, Chaser's War on Everything

[Eyce]

General
Username: <===
Real name: Sam _____ ______________
Birthdate: 28/2/90
Location: Geelong, Australia
Likes: Pro Wrestling, Photoshopping, Making Websites.
Dislikes: Mainstream Music, immature people, Sun, Summer.
Occupation: Student - Year 12 2007.
Talents: Erm... Misleading loads of people with Fake Photoshop stuff? Erm... I can Rollerblade alright... Uhh... Freaking people out.
Places Lived: Geelong (1990 - Present)


PalGN
First Browsed: Long ago.
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Blame Civ or Nis. Can't remember.
Memories: Spanca's Oboe post. EASTER EGG HUNTS. WHEN $POONS MEANT SOMETHING.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Erm... I've Met scythian, Theory, uhh... *thinks* Vook.... Ergh... Yeah. W/e.

Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: Atari 2600. Or Wii
Favourite Game: *thinks* Guitar Hero Series.
Favourite Genre: Anything with a Sniper Rifle or Drifting. Or a Rhythm game like DDR
Favourite Series: Not The Legend of Zelda.
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: Atari 2600, Sega Master System II, N64, PSX, GBASP, NDS, Gamecube, PS2, Wii.
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): *counts the ones on the shelf* 54 from what I can see, add about 25 Atari Games, 2 Master System Games and 5 PSX games.

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: I can't honestly think of one.
Favourite Bands/Artists: Children of Bodom, Dragonforce, Buckethead... Uhhh... Many More.
Favourite Songs: Any Live Children of Bodom song.
Favourite Actors: NFI.
Favourite TV Shows: Family Guy, Whose Line is it Anyway? (US), Neon Genesis Evangelion, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Initial D, The Mole (BRING IT BACK LOLOLOL).
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[?oe?oe]

General
Username: joejoe
Real name: Nikola
Birthdate: 24/8/88
Location: Illawarra, NSW
Likes: Film, video games
Dislikes: obsessed sport fans
Talents: cheeky persuasion
Occupation: Sales


PalGN
First Browsed: 2003?
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: I don't remember
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: ?

Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: N64
Favourite Game: Super Punch Out!!
Favourite Genre: action/adventure
Favourite Series: Mario
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: Master System, SNES, N64, GCN, Xbox, Wii, GB pocket, GBC, GBA, DS, DSL
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): over 300

Entertainment
Favourite Movies: Battle Royale, I can't think...
Favourite Bands/Artists: Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Tea Party
Favourite Songs: Star F*****s, inc
Favourite Actors: Johnny Depp, Harison Ford
Favourite TV Shows: Lost, Heroes, Futurama, Nip/Tuck, Simpsons... god knows how many more.

Enjoy, you perverts
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[theory]

General
Real name: Theo K
Birthdate: 1980
Location: Melbourne
Likes: hip-hop, women, video games, movies, books/comics, smoking, drinking, technology, electronic products
Dislikes: Society in general
Occupation: Currently unemployed
Talents: Rapping, writing
Places Lived: Melbourne. Same house all my life.


PalGN
First Browsed: Early 2005.
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Either search engine or link from another site.
Memories: Putting faces to the names this year at eGames.
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Kubikuri, detect, James, Luke, Mark, Tristan, Cerebral, Greymist, VOOK, scythian_reaper, chronorox, Eyce, admeister, EvilHayama, DarkYoshii, Yug, nikack, maybe a few others that I can't think of right now...

Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo by default (grew up around their products)
Favourite Console: SNES
Favourite Game: Metroid (NES)
Favourite Genre: Action Adventure
Favourite Series: Metroid
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: NES, SNES, N64, GC, DS, DS Lite, Wii, Mega Drive, Saturn, DC, PSX, PS2, PSP, XBOX
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 300 or so.

Entertainment
Favourite Movies: A Clockwork Orange, Austin Powers Trilogy, Bad Boys, Boyz N The Hood, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Dogma, Donnie Brasco, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, From Hell, Goodfellas, Half Baked, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, Mallrats, Oldboy, Requiem For A Dream, Scarface, Se7en, Shaun Of The Dead, The Shining.
Favourite Rappers: Canibus, Ras Kass, Chino XL, Big L, Big Punisher, Black Star, Nas, Royce Da 5'9'', Nine, Smoothe Da Hustler, Trigger Tha Gambler, Styles of Beyond, Mad Skillz, Danja Mowf, Dr. Dre, The Notorious B.I.G., Mobb Deep.
Favourite Albums: N.W.A. - 100 Miles and Runnin', Dr. Dre - The Chronic, Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle, Nas - Illmatic, The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die, Mobb Deep - The Infamous..., Chino XL - Here To Save You All, Ras Kass - Soul On Ice, Danja Mowf - Word Of Mowf, Big Punisher - Capital Punishment, Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star, Canibus - Rip The Jacker.
Favourite Actors: Johnny Depp. No buts about it.
Favourite TV Shows: Oz, Family Guy, Spaced, Chappelle's Show, The Simpsons, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Drawn Together, Extras, American Dad, The Sopranos, Robot Chicken, Futurama, The X-Files.

Currently Also Watching: Jericho, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Everybody Hates Chris, 30 Rock, Heroes, My Name is Earl.
Favourite Book: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
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[thebigm]

General
Username: thebigm
Real name: Michael B
Birthdate: 28/2/1988
Location: Sydney, Australia
Likes: Most things
Dislikes: Assignments, Exams
Occupation: Student, soon to be 2nd Year Uni(2007)
Talents: Not sure
Places Lived: Sydney(1988 - Now)

PalGN
First Browsed: Late 2002
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: From Cerebral / Civic / Ghazrat during the Hyperactive forums downtime.
Memores: The Easter Egg competitions, winning a fair bit of stuff on here
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: Fayechan, Rob_Jedi... so close to meeting EvilHayama a lot.


Gaming
Prefered Company: Nintendo
Favourite Console: Nintendo 64!!!
Favourite Game: Zelda: Majoras Mask
Favourite Genre: Platformer/RPG
Favourite Series: The Legend of Zelda
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: DS, GCN, XBOX, PC
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 30

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: The Matrix
Favourite Bands/Artists: Outkast, N.E.R.D
Favourite Songs: at the moment Gorillaz Feel Good Inc
Favourite Actors: Johnny Depp, Bruce Willis, Jim Carrey, Jessica Alba, Mike Myers, Angelina Jolie
Favourite TV Shows: Trigun, Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, One Piece (Jap), Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto, Bleach, D. Gray Man, Eureka 7, 24, Alias, Prison Break, Smallville, Heroes.

[Frozencry]

General
Username: Frozencry
Real name: Vedran Denny Markovic
Birthdate: 8th May 1989
Location: Sydney, Australia
Likes: Gaming, Beatboxing, Music, Art, Poetry, Girls <3
Dislikes: Idiots
Occupation: Employee at Games Wizards
Talents: Super quick adaptation to anything, good at beatboxing, insane reflex
Places Lived: Sydney


PalGN
First Browsed: Mid to Late 2005
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Looking for reviews.
Memores: Some arguements, and being welcomed when I joined the forums
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: None


Gaming
Prefered Company: Sony
Favourite Console: Playstation 2
Favourite Game: Shadow of the Colossus
Favourite Genre: Adventure, Action, FPS
Favourite Series: Legacy of Kain
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Sega Master System II, N64, Ps2, Xbox 360, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, PSP
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): Well over 100

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Fight Club, Sin City, Superman Returns, Star Wars
Favourite Bands/Artists: Sevendust, Opeth, A Perfect Circle, Evanescence, Dragonforce
Favourite Songs: The Outsider, Ready Steady Go, Just Like You Imagined, Waffle, Pieces, The Hollow, Reveries/Harlequin Forest
Favourite Actors: Johnny Depp
Favourite TV Shows: Family Guy
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[GooberMan]

General
Username: GooberMan
Real name: Ethan Watson
Birthdate: 24th June 1981
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Likes: Movies, music that isn't pop, reading, creative writing, game creation, walking, weights, my stuffed cats (do I have to mention playing games?)
Dislikes: Pop music, people who hate my stuffed cats
Occupation: Programmer
Talents: I can do art that isn't programmer art, I just don't have the patience these days
Places Lived: Sydney (1981 - 2001), Sunshine Coast (2001 - 2003), Brisbane (2003 - present)


PalGN
First Browsed: 2005
How Did You Hear Of PalGN: Internets and google
Memories: random arguments I've joined in to whilst drunk
Members You've Met/Know In Real Life: none


Gaming
Prefered Company: everything changes...
Favourite Console: I don't discriminate, even when I bash I console I usually own it
Favourite Game: Civilzation II, Doom, and Impossible Mission are about even
Favourite Genre: TBS (Turn Based Strategy, or, Time Becomes Sparse)
Favourite Series: Doom by default
Consoles/Handhelds Owned: (currently) PS1, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, Xbox360, GBA SP, DS, PSP
How Many Games Do You Own (Roughly): 200

Entertainment:
Favourite Movies: Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Requiem For A Dream, Braindead
Favourite Bands/Artists: Devin Townsend (and his projects), Orphaned Land, VNV Nation, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, The Killers, Regurgitator, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, The Who, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd... didn't we make a thread about this somewhere?
Favourite Songs: Pixellate - Deven Townsend (closely followed by Earth Day - Deven Townsend)
Favourite Actors: John Lithgow, Jonny Depp, Christina Ricci, Jennifer Connoley
Favourite TV Shows: Babylon 5, The Sopranos, Invader Zim, Futurama, M*A*S*H, Doctor Who...
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