Hi!  I'm CCC-Shiner, the guy who made all these videos.  You may have heard of the Life Force and Gradius 1 no-death videos.  I realize that few people who have seen them have no way to contact me...whoops!

As of March 23, 2004, I plan on buying a Game Boy Player and making a no-death Gradius Galaxies video...you know, the awesome Gradius game for the Game Boy Advance.  It's going to take a while to learn, as I started out playing on Hard mode and haven't gone down since!  I officially classify it as a manic shooter, you should try it sometime.

You can e-mail me and reach me on MSN at lord_shiner@hotmail.com.

I don't use AIM because it's evil and corrupt.  Okay, the truth is, it's evil and it messes up my computer.  Deal with it.

My ICQ Number is 205992767, though I never use ICQ anyway.

I also use mIRC in the channel #ikaruga on the irc.gamesurge.net server.  I don't visit other channels because...well...I don't know any others.

Before being enlightened by the glorious game that was Ikaruga, my gaming life was filled with void.  Tetris Attack could not satisfy me any more.  I was bored to hell and back of tons of overrated RPGs.  Then Ikaruga made me remember the greatness of the shmup genre.  Currently, my five favourite shooter games are:

1. Border Down (Dreamcast)
2. Ikaruga (Dreamcast, Gamecube)
3. Gradius Galaxies (Game Boy Advance)
4. Gradius III (Super NES, Playstation 2)
5. Silk Worm (NES, Arcade)

Life Force made me kind of mad and frustrated...500+ failed attempts kind of drove me insane.  Gradius 1 had lots of bullets, but was kind of slow, weepy, and unexciting.  But Gradius Galaxies has me pumped...;)

Maybe a few years from now I'll actually successfully make a no-death run of Gradius Galaxies on Loop 1...and maybe after that I'll do it again on Loop 2!

That's about it, enjoy the Platinum Series Videos!