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About Me:

Name: Jesse Brown

Date of Birth: Dec. 07, 1984

Birthplace: Elizabeth, NJ (United States)

Location: Mississippi (United States)

E-Mail: jeb223@msstate.edu



Having been born in the early-mid 1980s and growing up in the '80s and '90s, one of my longtime passions has been video games. Not only have I played them throughout all of my life, but lately (since the early 21st century) I have spent time, effort, and money collecting them. I have great respect for the Nintendo Entertainment System (released in 1985 in North America), a console which arguably defined the console market, its 8-bit competitor the Sega Master System (1986) with awesome games series such as Phantasy Star and Wonder Boy, the Super Nintendo (1990/91) which produced some of the best RPGs in the early-mid 1990s (such as Final Fantasy IV-VI, Seiken Densetsu III, Chrono Trigger, Tales of Phantasia, Treasure Hunter G, Bahamut Lagoon, and the 1996's incredible Star Ocean). Of course, I own the Sega Genesis (who can forget Sonic the Hedgehog, of which I have a prototype of on the MS?), and I do own more contemporary consoles, such as the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, GameCube, DualScreen (DS), etc.

My favorite game series include: Mega Man, Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda, Wonder Boy, Final Fantasy, and Super Mario Bros., but I definitely enjoy other games!

Of course, I have other interests! I am a fan of science fiction shows and movies, such as Star Trek (I love the movies and all the shows, although I did not really get into Enterprise) and certainly Star Wars (the long-standing debate: is the first or second trilogy better?). I also am a fan of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, both of which are very well-done shows. Still, there are some shows which are long-gone that I wish were still made...The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000).

I also really enjoy horror movies. Recent films I have enjoy include The Ring and The Ring 2, The Grudge and Ju-on: The Grudge 2, and certainly Saw and Saw II. Classics include the Ammityville Horror series of films, the Exorcist (the sequels certainly did not live up to the original), and Poltergeist.

Can anyone say anime? Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Ghost in the Shell: SAC: Second Gig, Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Hellsing, Cowboy Beebop, Inuyasha, .Hack//Sign, Samurai Champloo, and Fullmetal Alchemist include some of my favorite animes (but certainly are not all of them!).

Finally, I am interested in History, which is my major in college (I graduate with my Bachelors of Arts in Dec. 2006). I am primarily interested in the colonial empire building era involving Europian imperialists in East Asia in the 16th century and later. It was this period that proved formative to the development of most of Asia as we know it today. For example, the opium trade forced by Britain upon China created the Opium Wars of 1839-42 and 1856-60 that would "carve China up like a watermellon" and bring Western imperialists into China well into the 20th century, demanding land concessions. When Japan overthrew the Tokugawa Regime in 1867/68 and restored the Meiji Emperor, they began to modernize and by the end of the 19th and early-20th century they proved able to defeat the Westerners (i.e. Russia in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5). Thus, as you can tell, I love history.

Well, these are some of the things that I truly love, but I don't want to bore you by filling the page with a tremendous amount of information!