The GameFan history thread

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Originally Posted by Jetman

Did you guys eventually give him back his stuff or what?

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I didn't touch any of it.

I think he took what was left in the boxes. I don't know if he got anything else back or not.

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Originally Posted by djpubba

I've been teetering on whether I should post this because I don't remember some of the details clearly. Plus it just makes my stomach turn to think of how Greg must have felt.

Early in the life of the magazine, Dave invited a guy to come work on the staff who had been working at Prima writing strategy guides. He did the official guide for Sonic 2. His name was Tom Stratton. Tom lived in the San Francisco area, so he needed a place to stay to come work at GameFan. Greg Off offered to let him crash at his place until he could find his own place. At the time, Greg was working at GameClub taking and shipping orders, while writing for the magazine. There was always a little bit of a power struggle going on with Greg versus Andrew, Kei and Mas. Apparently, after a couple of weeks at the magazine, Tom decided to take sides and he went with the majority and turned on Greg. Tom went to Dave and told him that Greg had been stealing from GameClub and had amassed a collection of loot in his apartment that belonged to GameClub. Dave freaked out and told Tom to give him Greg's apartment key, which he gave to his girlfriend Julie and told her to take *I forget who she took with her* to go get the stuff from Greg's place. So the pair went to Greg's apartment and emptied it. They came back to GameClub later with two big boxes filled with every one of Greg's earthly possessions. Then Dave, Andrew, Kei and *at least one other person, I forget who*, proceeded to pick through all his stuff and take whatever they wanted for themselves. When Greg came back and saw what was going on, he was, of course, floored. Most of the stuff was rightfully his possessions and included some things he valued very much.

He admitted that he sometimes took games home but he felt that this was something that was understood as a perk of the job and that the vast majority of the stuff they had taken from his house was rightfully his. He felt that he was part of the "family" and since he routinely worked more hours than he got paid for, put his heart into the business, was treated like Dave's best friend and saw Dave do this himself, it was understood to be okay. It was like two friends sharing a pack of cigarettes (or a prostitute in Las Vegas).

When the dust cleared and everyone had their words, since, like everyone else there, Greg really wanted to be a part of the magazine he took it in stride and went on working there, still putting his best effort into making the magazine succeed.

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Wow, Tom Stratton?!? I remember him from Golin Harris, West Coast division (now at THQ these days). That's some crazy shit.

I hope Greg kicked Tom's homeless ass to the curb after that incident too -

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

The bastard has the nick Dangohead. He's been reading the thread, but we can't get him to post.

I'm going to textually kick his ass in if he doesn't eventually.

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Aye, I knew he had registered awhile back when we all offered our condolences to Jigen. Since then, he's never posted. :(

:eep: Thats just foul.

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Originally Posted by bahn

Chances are if Anthony drops on here to chat it up...he'll do so under his old nickname. ;) Actually, I thought he did have an account here (or at least he used to before the forum software got switched over to vB).

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Anthony's read the thread, he posted a hello note in the one over on my message board at VideoWrestling. He's stays pretty busy though...it's hard work keeping that head on his shoulders :)

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

If that was me, you'd all been dead. There would have been flipped out ninjas on fire action all over the place.

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Oh nice, even the people not involved... how nice of you to kill everyone.

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Originally Posted by djpubba

I definitely remember Dave and Julie's part in it and that Tom was the one who betrayed Greg. I don't remember if Tom had anything to do with taking Greg's stuff either.

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Yeah, there was a lot of ugliness that went down there. Usually I wasn't around when the shit came down. I was married at the time and I'd come in, do my work, put in my 8 hours, and go home. I was also kinda crammed into this corner of the room with my drawing table, airbrush and compressor, facemask on oblivious to a lot of the shit that went down. Except for Dave and Julie's stupid dog, Puggles. That thing would come right into my area at least once a day and lay the nastiest shits right on the carpet! Hated that dog! Then I'd go get Julie and make her clean it up and all she would do was pick most of the mes up with a paper towel and not use any cleaner. I swear they must've feed that dog bacon grease cuz the would be just this huge stain that I would then drench with windex (thats all they had) just to kill the odor... Dave and Julie just thought that was the funniest thing tho. "oh, Puggles just likes you."

Heh... I guess I was around when the shit came down lol

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

Oh nice, even the people not involved... how nice of you to kill everyone.

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You did not defend my honor, there for you must die.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

You did not defend my honor, there for you must die.

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I'm the one that carries a gun, remember, Ninja-boy?