The GameFan history thread

[kdeselms]

This thread is hilarious. So many GF'ers, so many stories. I was only back in North Dakota for a year, then Wyoming (!!!), then Denver, working for Jody. Been back out here for about 7 months now! It's great to hear what so many of you have been up to. Shidoshi, Wolfie, Waka, DJPubba, Hoagie, MVS, Deselms, Ryan, Cockburn (!), Han, Corby, how the hell you all doing?

You guys miss DH as much as me? LOL

I've got many happy memories of GF, and a few not-so-good ones (you reading this, Jevons? Heh...). Now, if only ECM would step up and post. And I mean that literally. He'd have to step up just to reach his damn keyboard.

Oh, and Tim, I told you I was in for the new mag thing months ago!!! And I'm not on your list of those currently interested! Hook me up with the info!! =]-~

Hey, Bruce! I didn't know you were working with Jody out in my home state for a while...shows you how outta touch I am! What are you doing these days? You're back in LA?

[kevincal]

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



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

OMG That's some funny stuff! Why the HELL did they let a dog stay at the GF office!!!! Didn't they have a BACKYARD!! Jeez...

And I think all of you GF guys should have a hand in the new mag. Go out for some drinks. Then tell us the funny shit you did.

[bahn]

Man, with all this nostalgia going around - I decided to post one of Hi-Fi's old video featuring some of editors from GameFan Online. It was developed for shits and giggles to celebrate their new office digs.

GameFan goes Hollywood

[Rumpy]

Man, with all this nostalgia going around - I decided to post one of Hi-Fi's old video featuring some of editors from GameFan Online. It was developed for shits and giggles to celebrate their new office digs.

GameFan goes Hollywood

I haven't seen that in ages. Did you keep a copy of it something? Don't think Kevin kept it on his page.

[Klonoa]

Reubus = Jet Moto

which equals awesomeness!

[bahn]

I haven't seen that in ages. Did you keep a copy of it something?

Yup.

[Reubus]

Hey, Bruce! I didn't know you were working with Jody out in my home state for a while...shows you how outta touch I am! What are you doing these days? You're back in LA?

Hey, Kev! Yep, I'm back in the L.A. area at last! Living in the Valley, Dude. These days I'm looking for steady work; Jody and Tim are both pretty slow right now, and I'm not gettin' enough work to get by, so I'm lookin'!

One story that comes to mind that made me laugh harder than I think I've EVER laughed in my life was the day someone (I think it was Greg Han) brought in some Dave's Insanity Sauce. (For those not familiar with this stuff, the back label says you can also use it strip cement floors!) After a bunch of guys chimed in their "holy shit that stuff is hot" type of comments, Andrew (Enquirer) Cockburn told us we were all pussies, and only a mexican like he knew what hot was. Anyway, long story short, we gave him enough crap that eventually he downed about a shot's worth of that stuff---STRAIGHT! And he was fine---for about 5 seconds! Then his face turned beet red, he started coughin' and sputtering, doubling over; God it was funny! Sorry, AC, but that was funny shit!

Needless to say, he spent the next couple hours in the bathroom, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, etc. while the rest of us were in tears laughing so hard.

RESPECT!

[RoleTroll]

Rumpy, love your avatar. Opie and Anthony rules on XM satellite radio.

[typefiend]

eedless to say, he spent the next couple hours in the bathroom, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, etc. while the rest of us were in tears laughing so hard.

RESPECT!

Holy shite, that was indeed a really funny moment. I remember all of us, including myself, were very careful and conservative with the Insanity Sauce. But Andrew drank shot full! Initially he was giving us all the cocky thumbsup pose, like it wasn't no big deal. I think it was roughly 30 seconds after he swallowed that the effects of the habanero peppers kicked in, and he looked like Linda Blair in the Exorcist. Tears of a clown, Smokey Robinson style.

Funny thing is that Rustin Lee had no problems with the sauce. He was eating it like it was just plain salsa.

[Wolfie]

You sure about that? Wanna reread where I live?

Ahhh... Mississippi, land of the Ninja. I stand corrected

Hola, its Gregory, your former cubicle neighbor for all of 5-6 months at the tailend of the 1090 GF years Hahaha, after all these years I can still remember us laughing in unison watching Higgin's lone engineer or motorcycle scouring the map in the hope of a crate when we played C&C. Do you remember how my tactic was to create a bazillion motorcycles and just overrun Gary until we could hear him curse across the office? I still remember when I got in early one day early the GF offices (when most of us had 11am start times) and changed everyone's Mac desktop with Rau's face photoshopped onto some fella getting a delivery in the rear. Man, those memories are cracking me up as I type it.

Ha haaaa, yes! Great days indeed. Rau and Jody used to love the engineer attack too. Oh those were the days! How's it going, my friend?

One story that comes to mind that made me laugh harder than I think I've EVER laughed in my life was the day someone (I think it was Greg Han) brought in some Dave's Insanity Sauce. (For those not familiar with this stuff, the back label says you can also use it strip cement floors!) After a bunch of guys chimed in their "holy shit that stuff is hot" type of comments, Andrew (Enquirer) Cockburn told us we were all pussies, and only a mexican like he knew what hot was. Anyway, long story short, we gave him enough crap that eventually he downed about a shot's worth of that stuff---STRAIGHT! And he was fine---for about 5 seconds! Then his face turned beet red, he started coughin' and sputtering, doubling over; God it was funny! Sorry, AC, but that was funny shit!

Needless to say, he spent the next couple hours in the bathroom, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, drinking water and puking, etc. while the rest of us were in tears laughing so hard.

RESPECT!

Oh God! I was totally gonna post something about that! That was the fucking funniest thing ever. "Will you pussies shut the fuck up if I drink this?", he says in typical Cockburn swagger. I remember us all saying, "oh yes!!" That look on his face after realizing what he had done... priceless!

Funny thing is that Rustin Lee had no problems with the sauce. He was eating it like it was just plain salsa.

Well Rus was a man