Gaming History of SLANUNS
I have been involved in online gaming for over 15 years but have had a rich history in early console gaming in the late 90s and early 2000s. Super Nintendo was one of the earliest systems we had when I was growing up and I spent many years only getting to watch my older siblings/friends play. With the introduction and release of N64 (Nintendo 64) and having at least 2 more people playing with a 4 player split-screen, there was more opportunity to literally burn a hole in my hand playing classic mini-games in Mario Party. (Not sure if you remember that terrible game in which you rotated the center stick to keep flying the longest distance.. aka the ruiner of not only the palm of your hand but making every control have a semi-broken center joystick)
I got involved in playing my first online console game with Playstation 2’s SOCOM II U.S. Navy SEALs. At this point, I didn’t really have a handle for what I was going to be called in-game. I was able to select SLAN, but a 4 letter name would be impossible to maintain in new games as it is most likely taken. Something that didn’t seem to be taken was SLANUNS – or an original iteration of SLAN – United Navy Seals or SLAN-U.N.S. or SLANUNS.
Shortly after playing SOCOM II for about a year, I got interested in using our home computer to try a new game that was coming out in 2004. World of Warcraft. I only played a bit of Vanilla when it first came out and was more active in later vanilla missing all of BC and going back for Wrath onward. I built my first computer to ultimately play WoW and to try this new game that was going to be coming out in 2005, a little title called Battlefield 2. To date, these 2 games are responsible for my passion and love of gaming in general. There were a lot of early games that also helped spark this passion, but overall, the community of people I started to meet was what got me excited to launch the game each day.
I played about 200 hours of Battlefield before I found a few solid servers that caught my interest for 2 reasons, the community that ran the servers and the teamwork that ended up happening on these dedicated servers (RIP). After about 50+ hours dedicated to a group of servers run by a Clan NBK, I applied to join their admin team. I felt that, if I was on, I was willing to help manage the 40-60 people who were on these servers 24/7. They were the most ‘poppin’ servers consistently in Battlefield 2 and had a lot of respect from many of the largest clans playing BF2 at the time. I remember getting invited to TS2 (TeamSpeak 2) for an interview based on the app that I submitted. It was clear I was young at the time, but [NBK]DethRok accepted me on terms that I was there to help and after an evaluation period. I became a full admin shortly after and helped manage the 4 primary NBK BF2 servers.
Over the years, I have played with groups through Battlefield 2,3 & 4, COD, World of Warcraft competitively and play games now that spark my interest while keeping me engaged. I am always down to give a game a try to see if it piques my interest and play primarily with my good friend Frunction.
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