"Alter Ego" Contest... who were YOU?

[digitalpress]

The contest is officially over and our winners announced:

GOLD: "Stanley"
SILVER: "Hiroshi Yamauchi"
BRONZE: "El Suave"

Congrats to the winners, who we shall soon find the hidden identities of... but to EVERYONE who played, WELL PLAYED! That was great fun to watch:

It's time for the official unmasking. Who were you? How did you choose your character? How did you think it went and what would you do differently next time?

You KNOW me. My characters are sort of "forum secrets" that only newbies wouldn't recognize. Let's start the unveiling of everyone else now.

[kainemaxwell]

This may come as a shock, especially to those who giessed who I was, but I, Kaine23, was Stanley.

[Ascending Wordsmith]

Y'know, sometimes people forget about the classic arcade characters. I went with everybodys' favorite gazette slinging bicyclist, the Amazing Paperboy. It seemed appropiate enough. He's a game character and a classic one at that. Besides, he was pretty funny... even after getting sideswiped by cars on the road.

There you have it; PC Kwaj was the Amazing Paperboy.

[The Manimal]

I joined as 'Marion's Boobs' but shortly thereafter dropped that and became 'Princess Gwaelin'.



DOES THOU LOVE ME?


BUT THOU MUST!


Admins, can you delete both these accounts? I can't reregister ever under these emails again, and who knows....I may need to use them at some later time! One of the addy's wasn't even MINE

[scooterb23]

You chose greatness!! I was El Suave...

I chose El Suave because I was playing Outlaw Golf at the time...and he's my favorite character in that game. He has great lines (Look at my crotch, that is me you smell!, you have chosen greatness etc.), and in that game, when you start playing poorly, you can beat your caddy up, so I thought it would be fun to play a lousy Latin Lover with bad lines, raging hormones, and a wicked violent streak

I felt I played it fairly well for the most part (although when I suggested Outlaw Bowling, I was sure I'd blown my cover, those of you who have been around for a long time know how obsessive I am about Bowling video games).

When it went into the second, and third days, I began to lose my edge and lost focus on my goal (to nail every damn female or moogle on the board) and got caught up in the Hiroshi and Stanley soap opera, I could have played that better It also became a lot harder for me, as a very shy person, to be as bold and brazen as I was, even as an alter ego it was just a very difficult thing for me to do.

Overall, it was a blast, and I can't wait to find out who some of the others were...

Kaine23 = Stanley?? Noooooooo really?????? [/sarcasm]

Good job everyone

[Dan Iacovelli]

Who were you? My Alter Ego was(is) Ace Mcloud.
How did you choose your character?
Ace is actually my Alter ego that I came up during
the 80's when I first played Gunship (thought that most of you would get that hint) on my PC. when ever I got a high score I didn't put down my name but I would use Ace Mcloud. But that wasn't the end of Ace, He later showed up again in the high score of most of Jaguar games also.
He also eventionaly showed up in some past issues of the AVC's Atari zone newsletter where he wrote an article about gaming tips(I did reveal my self later on). He still shows up from time to time when I play video games.
(I have thought of using Laserman as alter ego which actually based on the game I made for the ti-99/4a (later on I made a keystone kappers hack based on the character for the 2600(which was posted on AA,some people might have figured that out right away)

How did you think it went and what would you do differently next time?
seeing how limted my post was I think I did pretty good (the only battle I had was with robotnik which was toward the end of the forum days)
what I would do differnetly is prob post more asking for people to battle me.
(I came to the aid of others in this one)

Dan Iacovelli
(AKA Ace Mcloud)

[AB Positive]

Well, I guess it's scooterb23 who gets the unfortunate pleasure of finding out I wasn't a woman. Really now, everyone picked every female past or present on the boards for my alter ego.

No, the Moogle was I, AdamG *bows*


Let the insults and beatings commence! Kupo!

-AG

[WiseSalesman]

I was "The Troll". I thought it would be cool to rekindle everyone's memories of -=Jet=-, TheAveng and Blake. I would have had a lot more fun with it, but we got slashdotted and i couldn't get on for an entire day (as you well know), and then I had school and work the next two days. Ah, well, such is life.

[Bratwurst]

I was NINNYTENDO

[Dire 51]

Since no one either could or wanted to guess who I was, I think I did a pretty good job of keeping my true identity hidden. So okay, no more suspense. Tell me, does this sound familiar?

STAY AWAY FROM MY URN, DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL!!!

Yep, it is I who was Old Man Graves' Ghost. Why that particular character? I've always loved the 2600 game Haunted House, and when I was a kid I thought the ghost in the game was the coolest looking character I'd ever seen. So, when it came time for this, I recall running a list of alter-egos I would have chosen through my head, but all of them seemed too obvious. Then I remembered Old Man Graves' Ghost, and... here we are.

I was also his foil, I Stole The Urn, but I guess that's pretty obvious by now.

[Oobgarm]

MWAHAHAHA! Nintendo is the most dominant force in the Videogame industry today!!!

It is I who sported the moniker of Hiroshi Yamauchi. :P I picked him because I wanted to be different and not pick a videogame character. I enjoyed playing the part, but I did start to lose my wit after the first couple of days. I decided to try and do what no one would expect of him, and it looks like that wasn't the greatest idea. Still, though, lots of fun. I'm glad most of you thought I did a good job.

I also jumped in the forum a few times as Mr. Nutz. I think it's the funniest character name ever, and it gave me an excuse to show off that silly picture of the squirrel and his yabbos.

Wow, Scooter! I am in complete amazement. I thought it was Butta all along...especially after that bukkake statement.

[Queen Of The Felines]

I'm Poo.

I just wanted to SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII NG!

Kristine

[scooterb23]

Wow, Scooter! I am in complete amazement. I thought it was Butta all along...especially after that bukkake statement.

That's exactly why I made that statement...

If I told you everything I was doing to try and hide my identity...you'd think I was nuts...

No, the Moogle was I, AdamG *bows*

This makes El Suave very sad...

[Dire 51]

El Suave, you do not have my urn.

[scooterb23]

I got your urn right here ...and I'm still trying to get the thought of the taste of the pee-lined urn full of tequila out of my head

[Dire 51]

No, here it is - see?

And that was damned funny. Disgusting, but funny.

[NE146]

I was 'Beat up Guile'.. I think I posted like 3 times. Then got too busy the rest of the weekend and never posted again

[Kid Fenris]

I was Rock, RAWK, and Johnny Turbo. Yes, all three of them.

If I'd known that Rock was popular, I'd probably have posted more as him. As it was, I decided that Rock was going nowhere, so I went with a completely stupid Alter Ego for my own amusement on the second day. Then, upon realizing that nobody else was going to do it, I started up Johnny Turbo.

[scooterb23]

Oh, and now it makes sense Oobgarm, you are in Cincy, so that's how Hiroshi magically knew exactly how much gas was in Dayton on Saturday in the Hummer thread...

And that's why I thought Hiroshi was Kid Fenris.



I spent wayyyy too much time thinking things through in this contest.

[AB Positive]

and yet you still hit on the male effeminate moogle. I'm so sorry.

-AG