The GameFan history thread

[AstroBlue]

He(Evan Dando) talked to Kate Moss on the phone though, apparently she 'gives great head'.

With lemon?

Sorry.

[Corebee]

Hoagy check your message folder... any other oldschool Halverslaves wanna catch up, my aim is COREBEE

[x2y]

Lol

This thread just gets better. I hope everyone comes together on here, if only just to speak their peace. I doubt anyone really hates anyone else or anything of that nature. From everything I've read, like homie said it is what it is man. I've also heard that "you're trying to be white" bit but it's all good. K Lee get in here and show & prove with a story or two.

Good times.

[typefiend]

Can we still refer to Halverson as "The Mullet"?

Internally he was known as ten-ninety (10% in front, 90% in the back), I believe after the release of the snowboarding game 1080.

One of my favourite Halverson moment was when we went into the supply closet where he stored some of his personal collection of games, toys, memorabilia where we found a CD from 80's new wave hair travesty Kajagoogoo. When confronted with his choice in music, he went into full denial mode, almost seeming angry that someone would claim it was his. Of course later he admitted to owning it.

In retrospect, Dave could be either seemingly the nicest man or a complete liar depending on mood or situation; I believe its in his nature to be both. He was personally pretty nice with me until the very end of my days at Gamers Republic, where he freaked out when everyone started to leave en masse because we weren't getting paid like in the GF days all over again (most went to Computec, I went to Imagine Media). I basically lost all respect for him when I witnessed his sexist and bigot side when we hired an asian woman to help production design. Now I can look back at him with forgiveness and just hope his team at PLAY are being treated well.

All I can say is that the people at GameFan and Gamers that I worked with day to day were very dedicated, passionate, and completely insane. It was amazing fun with those first two magazines.

[Dolemite]

He was personally pretty nice with me until the very end of my days at Gamers Republic, where he freaked out when everyone started to leave en masse because we weren't getting paid like in the GF days all over again (most went to Computec, I went to Imagine Media).

How exactly did he freak out? I mean, what did he expect his staff to do if they weren't getting paid? How many walked out at once? Details, buddy.

I basically lost all respect for him when I witnessed his sexist and bigot side when we hired an asian woman to help production design. Now I can look back at him with forgiveness and just hope his team at PLAY are being treated well.

What did he do to her? Did he call her a little jap bastard?

Hello everyone.

Chief, welcome dude! None of those stories you mentioned have been told, so feel free to spill it.

Geez...now all we need is Nick Rox and Takuhi.

Oh, and who was that Kodomo guy? Matt Van something?

[Corebee]

wheres the judge and nightmare.. party up in here

gea! grove street represent

[salmonax]

I basically lost all respect for him when I witnessed his sexist and bigot side when we hired an asian woman to help production design.

What did he do to her? Did he call her a little jap bastard?

Yeah, don't spare the details!

[Compass]

Hey, Kajagoogoo were good. "Too Shy" is a classic.

[Wolfie]

Hello everyone.

Sorry I didn't hear about this thread earlier.

EDIT: I'm reworking the list, so that only the stories I witnessed first-hand are there. Especially as the last days for us were tough, and I don't want to revisit stuff that's just heresay. Andrew C -- glad you've turned your life around, and good luck to everyone I worked with.

Soppy guff? Correct.

Hoagie!!! I've missed you, man! How the Hell are you?

[Wolfie]

Yeah except Gary was a big crybaby when he was losing, and Geoff Higgins was ultimately the first to die in every multiplayer RTS game. But yeah, those were damn fun times....

Is this Dango-Head? Greg?