Meet the GamePros: Find Out Who We Are!


Chris Morell

Senior Editor - GamePro Media


Meet the GamePros: Find Out Who We Are!

What is your favorite game of all time?
It used to be Super Mario World mostly for fulfilling my dream of riding an extend-o-tongued dino, but Halo 2 ousted it for providing me with almost two years of online fun. Halo 2 was so utterly addictive that I eventually had to limit my play sessions so they'd end before 10pm or else suffer a terrible night's sleep.

What is your favorite console of all time?
The NES, simply for the sheer amount of memorable games. So far the nostalgia alone from games like Super Mario, Kid Icarus, Bubble Bobble, Street Fighter II and countless others is still wonderful.

Normal or inverted?
Inverted. All you normies are wacko, in my opinion. I can barely move in the normal setting without walking off a cliff.

Most Memorable Gaming Moment of All Time?
Back in college, we'd have Halo tournaments in my friend's house, backing up two couches to play 4v4 matches via Xbox system link. I remember one night that was so intensely close that when my roommate and I walked away victorious, you could taste the bitterness in the air. The friends we shamed didn't speak to us for a week.

Favorite movies?
Airplane, Swingers, Get Shorty, Casino, Wet Hot American Summer, Wall-E, or any movie where the Wayans Brothers play any of the following: white women, gangsters, slasher victims, babies, or actors.

Favorite TV series?
Oh, you're kidding me, right? It's an three-way tie between The Simpsons (pre-season 9), Futurama, and Seinfeld. More recently, though, it's Scrubs and Entourage.

Favorite books?
Fast Food Nation, which is the first book that made me nuts about health food, organics and all that good stuff that makes me an honorable hippie. Since then, The Game taught me to treat women like objects. And anything by David Sedaris makes me chuckle.

First review for GamePro?
Oh no. I have absolutely no idea. It was probably something like Mario Tennis for GBA. I do remember trashing Mark Ecko's game, and then reading about how he hates the gaming press. Guess it's fitting that I'd never wear his clothes, huh?

Most embarrassing gaming moment?
Easy. Anytime a girl walks into my apartment and I'm sporting the super-cool and attractive Xbox Live headset while screaming at a 12-year old who just spawn-killed me in Halo 3. I hear girls are into that sort of thing.

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Tae K. Kim

Reviews Editor - GamePro Media


Meet the GamePros: Find Out Who We Are!

What is your favorite game of all time?
Half-Life 2 probably takes it, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the first PC game I ever owned: Quest For Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero by Sierra On-line.

What is your favorite console of all time?
That's a tough one. It's probably a toss up between the original NES and the SNES.

Normal or inverted?
Normal. Inverted is for weirdos. But really, we shouldn't even be having this argument because mouse + keyboard > console controller for FPS games.

Most Memorable Gaming Moment of All Time?
Probably when I first got the NES. I was like eight years old and I remember taking it home and playing Super Mario Bros. all night long. Awesome.

Favorite movies?
I have to pick one? No way.

Favorite TV series?
Seinfeld, the Simpsons before it got dumb, and Firefly rank up there. Again, picking one or two is way too hard.

Favorite books?
Geez, same dilemma. But I'll pretty much read anything by Neil Gaiman.

First review for GamePro?
I can't even remember. By this point, every single review I've worked on since I joined GamePro has merged into a single blur.


One thing you could eat for breakfast every day for the rest of your life? Two eggs over-easy, toast, hash browns, and bacon with a cup of mint tea

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Travis Moses

Previews Editor - GamePro Media


Meet the GamePros: Find Out Who We Are!

What is your favorite game of all time?
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

What is your favorite console of all time?
The Xbox 360 kicks ass because Xbox Live lets me connect with friends and family (in that order). But the Nintendo 64 left the biggest impression on me as a child.

Normal or inverted?
Normal is called "normal" for a reason. Inverted is for backwards people.

Most Memorable Gaming Moment of All Time?
The entirety of Act 5 from Metal Gear Solid 4. So f-ing EPIC!!!

Favorite movies?
Fight Club, Snatch, The Dark Knight, Wedding Crashers, Pineapple Express

Favorite TV series?
Dexter, Heroes, VH1 Celebreality BS (it's a guilty pleasure)

Favorite books?
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Scratch that... everything by Chuck Palahniuk. Cell by Stephen King. Watchmen by Alan Moore. Celebrity gossip rags.

First review for GamePro?
I don't remember (ed. It was Metroid Prime Hunters for the DS), but I will tell you something rather revealing: I regret giving Halo 3 a perfect score... : (

Most visited gaming site, besides GamePro?
Kotaku and Joystiq for all my game cake needs.

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Patrick Shaw

Features Editor - GamePro Media


Meet the GamePros: Find Out Who We Are!

What is your favorite game of all time?
It's a dead heat between God of War and God of War II. Resident Evil 2 and 4 also rule.

What is your favorite console of all time?
The Wii. Wii-haters can rot in Heaven.

Normal or inverted?
Normal.

Most Memorable Gaming Moment of All Time?
When I was playing the original Metal Gear Solid. I was literally seconds from beating the game for the first time. You know, the scene where you're riding the Jeep down the tunnel, firing the vehicle's mounted machine gun at Liquid. I make it out of the tunnel, stoked that I just beat the game when out of nowhere my f-cking Cocker Spaniel runs across the room because he see's something outside and trips over the controller cord, causing the PlayStation to bounce, eject the game disc, and ruin everything.

Favorite movies?
A Clockwork Orange, Lucio Fulci's Zombie, From Beyond, The first four Hellraiser films, Phenomena, The Blob, Return of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, The Thing, the original Amityville Horror, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Army of Darkness, The Brood, The Fly, Cannibal Holocaust, Hostel, Hostel: Part II, The Invisible Man, Dead Alive, The Exorcist... is there a cap on how many movies we can list here?

Favorite TV series?
HBO's Oz: grisliest show ever made. Great writing too.

Favorite books?
Anything by Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene, Clive Barker, or Richard Laymon. Horror Fiction FTW!

First review for GamePro
I can't even remember what I did at work last week, much less what my first review was, but it was some horrible piece of crap. I once reviewed Miami Vice for PSP, but my first review was way before this and I have a feeling it was somehow worse than Miami Vice.

If I could only take only album with me to a desert island?
Emperor's Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

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ShortHairedOffender

DGeneral wrote:

I would still like to hear a podcast done by you guys.

I want to hear LHO's voice.

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