Meet the Reader: Mystery Guest

This week’s a bit of a special treat for people. Not only do we have a Mystery Guest for you, but it’s an audio interview (loosely transcribed below), and we have Bunimomike on hosting duties. Can you figure out who our interviewee is?

Before we start, though, our Meet the Reader guest suffers with dyspraxia. The ins and outs of that can be found on Wikipedia but in the voice interview it can sometimes catch the motor functions out, so speech can often prove a bit trickier than normal.

Meet The Reader – Mystery Guest by TSAMTR

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What we’ve got here is a double-whammy of a delight for you. We have a special guest interviewee, who I’ll not be naming until the end of the interview, just to see if you can work out who it is by the end. If not, then shame on you as he’s a pretty unique personality to TSA.

Try not to spoil it, Mike!

I won’t, though you’ve given it away already, you’ve let them know who I am. But seriously, I know you well enough so this is just a bit of fun to keep this a secret from everybody. So what we’ll do is bypass the usual opening questions, and skip right ahead to how you came across TSA?

I think I discovered it through Amazon’s video game forums, and I used to nick the article for the PSN Store updates of TSA and put the link in. I just decided one day “Oh, what the hell. Might as well check it out.” Liked the look of it, signed up, and the rest is history.

History that future generations can learn from, never to repeat the same mistakes again, to allow you into the fold! That’s quite curious that you came in from that direction. Were you a member of any other gaming websites?

I think TSA was my first.

Oooh, there was a first love. There’s more to come, isn’t there?

Yeah, TSA’s got a good community, there’s barely any fanboys, though we do get the odd idiot every now and then. The Community Team usually beats them up, and shows them the door!

Speaking personally, I think TSA’s really allowed you to… flourish, as a personality on there, and also that you’ve enjoyed yourself a huge amount. This is a bit of a clue, but you spent an awful long amount of time there, possibly a bit too much. I could just chat for hours, but I’m trying desperately to stick to the questions. So, our delightful anonymous guest, how old are you?

18.

Said with such confidence! Do you remember your first gaming experience? What was a big factor in you gaming in the first place?

I think my first experience was with Street Fighter. I know my first proper venture into gaming was on the PS1, but before that with the Mega Drive, well… I saw it and weren’t interested at the time. A few years later, I wondered what the PS1 was like, played a few games, enjoyed it, and ever since then I’ve been a massive gamer. Perhaps too much of a gamer!

I’m so glad you said the word ‘gamer’ after ‘massive’. I guess you were drawn to the glitz that Sony brought with the PS1, they were pretty instrumental in making video gaming and console gaming what it is now.

Yeah, I think Sony basically came along and said “Right, this is what gaming is. It’s not for kids, it’s for everyone.” Then just went and dominated in the PS1 days.

Yes, and massively with the PS2. It was good to see them bring a fresh attitude to the market.

Unfortunately, the accidentally killed the Dreamcast and Sega off, but I didn’t really know that even existed until a few years ago. I thought it was just the three companies, Microsoft, Ninty and Sony.

Well you can just sort of replace Microsoft with Sega, back then, I guess it just provided a bit of healthy competition. So, you were enjoying the PS1, and were there any franchises from back then that you still enjoy?

I wasn’t really that big a gamer back then. Looking back, I regret not playing, and am trying to get some of the big games that began back then. Metal Gear Solid, the PS1 Final Fantasy games, Silent Hill and Resident Evil.

So basically, all those big classics that are still held in such high regard, you want to go back and see where they started?

Yeah, it would be nice if Sony in Europe would get off their backsides and put them all up on the PSN Store. I know there’s legal issues, but…

Oh yes, of course. We’ve seen some stuff not hit the store from legal wrangling.

I think Silent Hill 1 was on there, but then it was taken off.

Well, it’s a big franchise, and I think we had a little bit of news at E3. A sneaky preview that a new Silent Hill was coming, but I think some people have become a bit disenfranchised with that franchise.

Well I’ve heard that it’s gone down hill a lot, Silent Hill, but I haven’t really played it so I can’t say if it’s gone down hill or not, in my opinion. It’s just one of those games you’ve only heard of, but you want to play it to see what it’s about.

Yes, it’s just the curiosity that gets the better of you. It’s a massive franchise and you just want a little taste. Right, you know what? Once again, I’m going to have to behave, and ask structured questions.

It’s not the NuTSAck Podcast, Mike.

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29 Comments

  1. This was a good read and listen. I had a vague idea who it was throughout though.

    • same here audio is a nice touch good job Mike & Steven.

  2. Good listen, it’s a good touch to have the audio to listen to rather than read the interview, it definitely adds a personal touch to the ‘meet’ articles, which in themselves are already way above and beyond the community aspects of what is the norm.

  3. It’s great to meet the man behind the lone Steven, you’re just as i pictured you ;)
    Well done on getting your opinions across so clearly and coherently and to Mike for leading the interview, although i’m glad he stopped behaving himself towards the end. :P

  4. I quite enjoyed this one.
    Thumbs up for the audio and transcription; since I’m at work, I’ll listen to it later :P
    And it’s actually fun reading/listening to Buninomike :)

  5. I’ve only listened to five minutes of this, but I really really like the audio interview. This is a fantastic addition to the site and more importantly the community. Will listen to the rest tomorrow, but right now I gotta sleep before being up for first day at work tomorrow.

    Hope there are more audio interviews to come! Good work!

  6. Thanks for the kind words guys. I am glad that TSA has such great community that is also understanding.noone tried to kill me for my opinion of COD yet.:D

  7. Hahah fantastic read, you are all right Steven *removes his name off the black book*
    Interesting read there.
    I hate Call of Duty too (The multiplayer that is) But I still like some Zombie action though 0_o
    Nice to know you a bit Steven ;)

  8. Wow I actually realised who it was right the moment I heard his voice. And I’ve never heard it before

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