I made the jump from "Wikipedia reader" to "Wikipedia editor" in March of 2006 when I saw a bit of vandalism and hit the edit button to fix it. Later that year I registered an account and wrote my first article.
I became an administrator in 2011, a bureaucrat in 2012 and a global renamer in 2014.
I am a software developer and retro game enthusiast; the Atari 2600 platform is a favorite of mine. I even wrote a game for the platform myself a few years ago. As a regular reader and big fan of The A.V. Club, seeing them say nice things about my game was a dream come true.
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... that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack!, have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
... that Miami-based producer Ish Ledesma was the lead songwriter for two different one-hit wonder bands in the 1980s?
... that billionaire businessman Mark Cuban funded the operations of the investigative reporting site Sharesleuth by short-selling the companies the site reported on?
... that three years prior to last month's massive plastics fire in Indiana, a court determined that the site was a fire hazard "unsafe to people and property"?
... that ten years after releasing an entire album of 18- to 21-minute songs, progressive rock band Yes won their first Grammy for "Cinema", a two-minute instrumental?
... that in the extremely rare 1983 video game Mangia, the player controls a boy whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode?
... that "You Are the Girl" was The Cars' first – and last – Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a three-year hiatus in 1987?
... that after battling over who could use the name "Yes", the musicians involved reconciled and released "Lift Me Up", a number-one mainstream rock song about homelessness?
... that despite telling a reporter in 1997 that he would "never" reunite with The Cars, singer Ric Ocasek relented in 2010 to record Move Like This, the band's first studio album in 23 years?
... that when the 1983 arcade game Up'n Down was ported to the Atari 2600, its "bluesy" background music was replaced with "a very unsettling version" due to limitations in the 2600's sound capabilities?
... that although it gave the game a "C" rating, The Video Game Critic praised A-VCS-tec Challenge for "some of the best graphics and audio you'll experience on your 2600"?
... that in the rare 1984 video game Gremlins, the player must either prevent the furry Mogwai from eating the hamburgers at the bottom of the screen, or shoot them after they transform into gremlins?
