Hi folks, David LaMont here, though you may know me better as the sarcastic and smarmy sounding Cooper Hawkes.

Yes someone called me smarmy.

I'm currently 37 years old, make your "Clerks" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" related jokes now, but believe me I've heard them all. I'm happily married to a gorgeous woman named Heather, who, thankfully, infused enough of her genes to produce an even more beautiful boy named Liam.

I am currently a Network Admin/Technical Support Rep for a large corporation. Gamer Andy is just my second favorite hobby.

No offense Andy, I'm a gamer first, a gaming journalist second, that's why we're here right?

All Time Favorite Game:
Ask me what my All Time Favorite Movie is and I'll give the same answer: It depends.

I mean I cover my distaste for Genre later, but this is something that has to be broken down:

Puzzle: Tetris You just know you killed many hours with this thing.

FPS: Unreal This was the first FPS I played that not only showed me what creative thinking can do in the weapons category, but it also is the first game to ever make me need to change my underwear.

Action: Ninja Gaiden - Yes, the new version is amazing, but I'm talking about the original. I spent DAYS getting through that game, and loving every split second of it.

Sports: EA NHL Hockey for the Sega Genesis You've seen it in "Swingers" the one were you can "Make Gretsky bleed!" Many many matches were played between myself and friends.

RPG: The Bard's Tale Not the recent one, the original for the Commodore 64. This game drew me in for many hours of pointless dungeon searching. It was weak in the graphics department, but it was the time. When game play was still king.

First Gaming Memory:
Walking up the that tall sleek looking box that my dad swore to me was a game of some sort, with strange creatures pictured on the site. And having to stand on a little step ladder to reach the three buttons that made up the controller for the original "Space Invaders".

Favorite Genre:
This is a tough one, since I tend to gravitate towards games that are fun less than genres. I would say that a very well structured RPG is always a lot of fun. But it needs to have a good story and it needs to be well paced and evenly powered or else it's just not fun. I like FPS, and RTS, and all the other acronyms that describe games.

I guess my current mantra is: "If it's not Xbox Live Arcade, it better have a good story attached to it."

Pet Peeve:
Closed minded individuals. People who hate without merit or giving good expression as to why, people who instantly have a distaste for something without ever trying it, who refuse to pick up the fork/controller/book simply because he/she heard or he/she just knew that they wouldn't like it.

In short: Fuck you Fanboys!

Reason for Writing for GamerAndy.com
Because I've always wanted to be a journalist, but circumstances and a bad reporter left me adrift in a sea of unrealized dreams, wading through a nightmare period of what I thought was happiness.

Or the short answer could simply be: Because Andy said "Sure."

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