Biographies
Nick “Kaz” Kosareo
Blood Type: B negative
Likes: “AWP noobs,” sauerkraut, the scout
Dislikes: CoD4’s martyrdom, losing
Kaz is a mechanical engineer, his hobbies include talking about nuts and bolts and the merits of reaching minimum thread engagement. Clearly skilled enough to be a judge of what makes a game good or bad. Hailing from the great city of Cleveland (Official Motto: We were cool once!), he knows how to root for the wrong sports teams–like any team from Cleveland and the NFL 2K series. Nowadays, he deals with his city’s sports impotence by blasting away fools in First Person Shooters and hurting friends’ feelings in Virtua Fighter matches.
Top Five Games
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1. Diablo II (PC)
2. Final Fantasy V (SNES)
3. StarCraft (PC)
4. Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution (PS2)
5. FreeSpace 2 (PC)
Tom Sheppard
Blood Type: AB negative
Likes: dnL, sofas, a dartboard
Dislikes: monkeys, sauerkraut
Tom Sheppard real strong. He lifty box. Hobbies include getting all of the useless items that developers put in video games to make sure people like him never interact with the rest of polite society, impressing Nick with his amazing Japanese skills, writing to long-dead fictional celebrities like Stick Stickly and Beakman, trying to convince Justin and Kaz that “Lost” is still good, and other Sisyphean challenges. He is majoring in Anthropology, the “gentleman’s major”, because he enjoys scholarly pursuits such as sleeping in and eating cold refried beans straight from the can.
Top Five Games
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1. Rez (DC)
2. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX)
3. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)
4. Silent Hill 3 (PS2)
5. Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC)
Honorable Mention: Bill Cosby’s Combat Football (Fairchild Channel F)
Nicolo Accordino
Blood Type: A
Likes: Nihon no subete, Working out, One Piece
Dislikes: Umeboshi, G4, Ooey-Booey, Fanboys, Mr. Fe
Born with a joystick in his hand, Nick Accordino’s a strong believer that there’s nothing a good dragon-punch-to-the-face can’t fix. Spending his childhood destroying punks twice his age at the local arcade, he quickly fell in love with anything he could find that was blasted out of the land of the rising sun. After returning from
Top Five Games
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1. Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC)
2. Super Mario RPG (SNES)
3. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)
4. Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! (DS)
5. The King of Fighters 2001 (NeoGeo)
Justin Hemenway
Blood Type: O
Likes: Raisin Bran, The Wire, artsy-fartsy platformers, Mandarin Chinese
Dislikes: Diddy Kong, World War II Shooters, “squatty potty”
Justin Hemenway is a budding journalist (he hopes) and a lifelong gamer. Over the years, “Angry J” has made many foolish purchases (the Virtual Boy, Steel Batallion, the Trance Vibrator), but none of them have deterred him from continuing to seek out the weirdest and most original games. In addition to collecting obscene peripherals, he loves reading crime novels and butchering the Chinese language. Speaking of which, Justin recently returned from a year-long teaching gig in scenic Shijiazhuang, where he acquired a taste for donkey burgers and chicken feet. Beginning in August, he will be studying at the University of Illinois.
Top Five Games
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1. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island (SNES)
2. Earthbound (SNES)
3. Skies of Arcadia Legends (GC)
4. Phantasy Star Online (DC)
5. Pikmin 2 (GC)
Tony Divito
Blood Type: Laden with Cholesterol
Likes: Sleep Deprivation, Getting Sexy, The Miracles of Nature and Science
Dislikes: Ignorance, Corporate Greed, Hyper-Liberals, Every driver on the road other than me and Red Frosting (it tastes funny)
Originally raised by wild buckbeaks and bugbears, Tony was trained on pack instincts and how to horde gold coins on him at all times. He was soon picked up by two kindly strangers that gave him a home and a Nintendo. After seeing this “Magic Box” in action, he and the gaming industry became intertwined. He has evolved just as the game controllers have; from clunkly, little squares to sleak, sexy, hand-conforming love machines. Now, having graduated with a double major in Biochemistry and Political Science from Case in 2007, he lies in that intermittant period where work consumes his life but allows for a healthy gaming habit. After playing 70 straight hours of Trauma Center on the DS, he has determined that medicine will be his future and hopes to find his calling at some Med School in the near future. No fears though, gaming will still be around in his life…constantly.
Top Five Games
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1. Final Fantasy III(US)/VI(Japan) (SNES)
2. Chrono Trigger (SNES)
3. Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (PC)
4. Super Smash Bros. (N64) and Melee (GC)
5. Diablo II (PC)
