Jim Smith

Deputy Editor

Bio: I've grown up with video games. When I was six years old I could just about reach the controls for Taito's original Space Invaders and that's where all my pocket money went. A dozen years later I'd gamble, and often double, my Saturday job wages down the local arcade playing Street Fighter II.

A decade later still I've got a responsible job, a mortgage, a special lady friend, a bad rock band I play drums for badly and loads and loads of skate trainers from all over the world. I still can't seem to stop smoking like a fish, drinking like a chimney and playing video games until the twilight hours every night, though.

Happiness is keeping things in perspective, I guess...

Location: London, UK

Forum alias: jim

Email: jimsmith@london.com

Platforms owned: PS2, GBA, PC, SNES, PSone, Spectrum 48K and Atari 1040ST

Favourite games: Timesplitters 3, Street Fighter II, PES4, Advance Wars, Vice City, Bomberman Kart(Jap), X-Wing

Favourite films: Time of the Apes, Evil Dead II, A Life Aquatic, Tron, Star Wars, Dawn of the Dead (both versions) and Shaun of the Dead - of course (I'm in it, you see)

News stories written: 344

Reviews written: 39

Average score given: 6.4872

Features written: 4

Previews written: 1

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