Who Are You Anyway, Atari 2600 Fan?

[froggger2]

I originally tried to get to use Frogger on eBay because I liked the sound effects and colorful graphics of the Atari 2600 game. Unfortunately, the name was taken as was Froggger. EBay suggested I use Froggger1, which is not the name of a game. I instead compromised with Froggger2. I bought Frogger2 from Sears in the 1980s but lent it to a friend who lent it to someone else who never returned it. I replaced it several years ago with one I bought on eBay. The seller was amused to be selling Frogger 2 to Froggger2.

[crunchysuperman]

A friend was playing a silly Robyn Hitchcock song that got stuck in my head ("Superman, superman, crunchy little superman . . ." ) and it seemed as good a name as any when I was setting up an email account a long time ago. It just kinda stuck and so I use it pretty much everywhere online I go these days.

 

The avatar just seemed appropriate.

Edited October 26, 2006 by crunchysuperman

[grimbasement]

grimbasement is Game Room In My Basement.

 

I built a classic arcade in my basement. Unfortunately when I decided yardwork at the house was too much to handle and bought a condo I had to sell off everything with an exception of a Crazy Climber cocktail.

 

For a looksee at the old arcade vist my poorly designed webpage. the pics are at the bottom of the page.

 

Since I no longer have space for the 300 pound behemoths I have really added to my Atari console collection and need to update my Atari page to add content other than my fanboy pictures with Nolan Bushnell.

[+bfstats]

My very first online experience came about when I created and ran fantasy baseball and football leagues. Hence, Baseball and Football STATistics, or...

 

bfstats

[RJ]

My 1st & middle initials. No fuss, no muss.

[neotokeo2001]

I use to use the initials ZAP on the high score list at the arcade. When I got into the C=64 scene I ran the BBS Forbidden Planet which was set up like a Space Cruiser orbiting the Forbiden Planet. Of couse I was the Captain(Captain Zap). When I got my initial internet connection in 2001 I couldn't use Captain Zap since all the versions I tried were already taken (Posers all!). So I had to come up with a new name.

 

Neo=New

Tokeo=Tokyo

2001 was added because Neotokeo was already taken. I still prefer Captain Zap, It has history. For those who know, Yes, That Captain Zap was me.

[mathwontmissyou]

My name, as with all user names I create, comes from a song. It started when me and my friends in Hawaii decided to all get AIM screen names of songs by the same band and, though the bands have changed, I almost always use song titles. Plus, they are rarely taken.

[nester]

Nothing to fancy here. Nester used to appear in Nintendo Power in a series of comics. I figured it was a good idea to pick a nintendo related name here at the Atari board.

[n8littlefield]

I'm just me.

[Difficulty A]

The name stems from my love for the 2600 and the fascination with how one can increase a game's difficulty level with the simple flick of a switch.

[Student Driver]

A friend and I were en route to a concert one day, and we decided that we'd try to scam our way backstage by posing as writers/editors of a 'zine. We were wracking our brains for a plausible 'zine title when we passed a car marked "student driver." She and I actually got backstage with the ruse, too.

 

A year or so later, I actually did a 'zine, and named it Student Driver. The name has tended to get stuck onto every project I've done since then, and when I finally decided to divest myself of a God-awful-Gothy username I'd been toting around since the mid-80s, it seemed most appropriate.

[dwh]

Mine is just my initials, but 'room34' on the forums here wrote that it stood for 'diabolical world hypnotist' which I guess I am a member of but have been hypnotised to forget...

[+Psionic]

<--- Not where you think it comes from...

 

Tempest

Tempest is your favourite Magic: the Gathering expansion, right?

[Biter]

I came up with my name because when I get angry at a game I have a bad habit of biting the controler.

 

Yes I'v chipped teeth, and yes I have a temper

[Zwackery]

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...p;game_id=10546

 

I actually got to play this game in the arcade (at the Fort Steuben Mall in Steubenville, OH) back in the day - what a crazy controller set up. I always thought it was a pretty good name for a wizard, too.

[TourqeGlare]

My name is two different words that Im found in the dictionery that make no sence at all

Its spelled like that so that I can track my progress on Google.

[plaidbrad3141]

i tend to wear alot of plaid, which rhymes with brad. "if it's not plaid it's crap!"

[plaidbrad3141]

i tend to wear alot of plaid, which rhymes with brad. "if it's not plaid it's crap!"

oh yeah, i forgot part of it is that i used to have a 1979 buick station wagon, it was green and a real piece of crap, so i painted it plaid...that made it a little better.

[Dragnerok X]

My username explained!!!

 

Dragnerok = Some word I use in place of ragnerok a.k.a. the end of the world in norse mythology but I made up the word so I can use it whenever I'm speaking german. (I live in the U.S. however, I know just a little german)

 

"Ich kann Deutsch sprechen."

 

X = ten

 

So Dragnerok X = The tenth end of the world in germany (I'm not sure how that fits together )

 

--Dragnerok X

[Captain Beard]

Captain Beard is my nom de rock - I sing for The OuttaToons, the best all cartoon song cover band in the Midwest - and I was so named because (wait for it) I have a beard.

True story.

 

The cartoon cover band connection is also why I chose the Gigantor image for my avatar - we had just learned the Gigantor theme the week I joined this forum.

Edited October 28, 2006 by Captain Beard

[MattG/Snyper2099]

I tend to go with MattG. as of lately which is my real initials (MAG actually). When I made my account on atariage my e-bay account was snyper2099 and I suppose my real reasoning was so that people knew it was the same person. Snyper2099 came from a few different places. I was into comics as a kid and enjoyed spiderman2099 quite a bit. I was told they used the number in a few other Marvel comics as well. Snyper was my "tag" as a graffiti artist years ago.

Edited October 28, 2006 by MattG/Snyper2099

[whowantschips]

everyone wants chips.

[ozatariprincess]

I'm Australian, I obviously love atari and I'm a princess!!!

Edited October 29, 2006 by ozatariprincess

[uosipa llamxew]

"Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly..."

[Deteacher]

Simple:

 

DE = Delaware

Teacher = teacher