Game Rave Presents: An Interview with Trip Hawkins

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Game Rave presents our first ever Reader Interview, where we focus on the player, not the industry.
Personal Data Track
1. How old are you?

I'm 21.

2. What do you do for a living?

Currently between jobs.

3. How long have you been gaming?

Eighteen long years.

4. Where do you call home?

Wisconsin. Want to go cow tipping?

5. Favorite gaming snack?

BACON

6. What systems do you enjoy besides PlayStation?

I'm mostly a SHMUP [shoot-‘em up games] freak, so the Genesis and the Turbo-Grafx 16 are definitely my systems of choice. Beyond that, I'm a big fan of ps2, Colecovision, and most Atari systems excepting the Atari 5200. I DON'T LIKE NES.

PlayStation Onslaught

1. First time you ever saw a PlayStation?

The first time I ever SAW an actual playstation was 2004, at the midwest gaming classic.

2. First game you saw playing on one?

The first game I saw playing on a Playstation was Castlevania : Symphony of the night.

3. First PlayStation game that made you go, "WOW"?

That would definitely be Philosoma. I fired it up and was like...holy shit...that's a PLAYSTATION GAME?!

4. The 5 PlayStation games you couldn't live without.

Philosoma

In the Hunt

Metal Slug X

Qix Neo

Medal of Honor

5. The 5 PlayStation games you couldn't break fast enough?

Crash Bandicoot

Jet Moto 2

Road Rash 3d

Wipeout

Tomb Raider

6. Tell me your favorite PlayStation moment, be it game, purchase, or other related.

I was on the way home from Video Game Kingdom with a fellow gamer, and we were discussing the R-Type games for PSX, R-Types and R-Type delta.

We decided to stop into a GameStop in Manitowoc, WI - And I stumbled across both games rather cheap at that location.

7. What's sitting in your PSX / PS2 right now?

PSX: Mobile Light Force, PS2: Medal of Honor Frontline

8. How many games do you currently own, both PSX and overall?

PSX - 30, overall, somewhere around 1400. It's been a while since I bothered to tally up; like, at least a year.

Completely random questions

1. What do you do for fun outside of gaming?

I waste a lot of time on IRC. Other than that, I like to fish and shoot guns. I haven't had much time for either in a few years.

2. Favorite food? And in what environment?

BACON. Anywhere.

3. Soda or Pop?

SODA.

4. If you could make that ONE game you always wanted to make, what would it be?

Well, my traditional answer would have been, oddly enough, a game where you control the bad guy in a large city, and can run around and kill a lot of people for no good reason. However, Rockstar games already did that a few years back. So, I'd want to make a Grand Theft Auto game set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

5. Ever had 15 minutes of fame in the gaming community?

Yes. Aside from owning hardcoregaming.org and being on the event staff for the Midwest gaming classic, I'm a well known console modifier, and very soon the GOAT store will be selling my line of custom arcade sticks.