Difference between revisions of "NiktheGreek"

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NiktheGreek is a British video game journalist and a long-time member of the Sonic scene, who made a quiet debut in September 2001. With bagloads of enthusiasm and considerably less skill, he joined the staff of the original SSRG in 2002 and spent a few years doing that sort of thing. He was also a regular at Sonic CulT and later Sonic Retro, where he mainly spewed venom. While Nik now spends far less time on forums (and not without reason), he's known to consistently attend UK scene meets, having started with the first CulT:UK meet in 2003 and moved on to Retro's own Barcade runs. Nik interviewed various people for this site at Summer of Sonic between 2011 and 2013, including Yuji Naka, Takashi Iizuka and Jun Senoue.

Outside of Sonic, NiktheGreek's interests include politics, metal and electronic music, comedy and card games. In years past Nik ran a Dreamcast fansite, which gained a mild amount of interest as it actively followed Japanese developments from 2003 onwards. From early 2008 he wrote for Arcade Heroes, venturing out to follow rumours of new location tests or cover trade shows. In 2013 he joined Retro Gamer magazine as a staff writer.

Community Status

Sites in the Sonic scene that NiktheGreek has been a member of, past or present:

Current Infestations

Tester for Shadowsoft Games (2003 - present)
Oldbie at SWS2B/Sonic Retro (April 2003 - present)

Former Haunts

Member of Sonic Classic (2003 - Jul. 2008, aka Edgecrusher)
Sonic CulT Family member (Sept. 2002 - Mar. 2008)
Maintainer of the SSRG Rom Hack Archive (Nov. 2002 - Nov. 2005)
Message board administrator at SSRG (2003 - Nov. 2005)
Member of Area 51 (2001-2002, 2003)
Member of Sonic Secrets Center (Sept. 2002 - Feb. 2003)

Trivia

At the first 2010 UK Retro meet-up, he broke an arcade punching game by punching it.
Regularly beats the Under Ground Zone boss, on the Game Gear. For fun.
Has never been called "young lady" by any politician, current or former.
Not to be confused with Nik Jam.

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+'''NiktheGreek''' is a British video game journalist and a long-time member of the [[Sonic scene]], who made a quiet debut in September 2001. With bagloads of enthusiasm and considerably less skill, he joined the staff of the original SSRG in 2002 and spent a few years doing that sort of thing. He was also a regular at Sonic CulT and later Sonic Retro, where he mainly spewed venom. While Nik now spends far less time on forums (and not without reason), he's known to consistently attend UK scene meets, having started with the first CulT:UK meet in 2003 and moved on to Retro's own Barcade runs. Nik interviewed various people for this site at [[Summer of Sonic]] between 2011 and 2013, including [[Yuji Naka]], [[Takashi Iizuka]] and [[Jun Senoue]].
-'''NiktheGreek''' has achieved little of note since his community debut in September 2001. A couple of scans, an X-Cult page here and there, that's it. The main purpose to his existence in the Sonic community seems to be filling that gap for the guy that lies outside of the conversational mainstream, the embittered elder who occasionally enjoys pouring vast quantities of scorn, sarcasm and egotistically-applied opinion into forum dialogue. Inevitably, these rants consist of words which are read but not taken to heart, or given the dignity of adequate response. If he is drawn into an actual conversation, NiktheGreek will often be content to kick back and argue until blue in the face rather than doing anything of actual use. As such, he will occasionally be drawn into disputes, which from time to time drag out into long-running feuds.
-When not lurking on the fringes of the Sonic community, NiktheGreek enjoys arcade games, politics, rock and metal (and related broadcasting duties), great sitcoms (mainly British ones and Frasier), and words.
+Outside of Sonic, NiktheGreek's interests include politics, metal and electronic music, comedy and card games. In years past Nik ran a Dreamcast fansite, which gained a mild amount of interest as it actively followed Japanese developments from 2003 onwards. From early 2008 he wrote for [http://www.arcadeheroes.com Arcade Heroes], venturing out to follow rumours of new location tests or cover trade shows. In 2013 he joined Retro Gamer magazine as a staff writer.
-If you wish to contact NiktheGreek, well, the details are to your right. It's your life, man.
+==Community Status==
+[[:Category:Fansites|Sites]] in the Sonic scene that NiktheGreek has been a member of, past or present:
+===Current Infestations===
+* Tester for [[Shadowsoft Games]] (2003 - present)
+* [[Oldbie]] at [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta|SWS2B]]/[[Sonic Retro]] (April 2003 - present)
-== Trivia ==
+===Former Haunts===
-* Owns over 750 video games.
-* Has frequently attended scene meet-ups organised by [[Overlord]] since 2003.
-* Regularly beats the [[Underground Zone]] boss, on the [[Game Gear]]. For fun.
-* Has never been called "young lady" by any politician, current or former.
-== Current Infestations ==
-* Tester for [[Shadowsoft Games]] (2003 - present).
-* [[Oldbie]] member of [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta|SWS2B]]/[[Sonic Retro]] (April 2003 - present)
-== Former Haunts ==
 * Member of [[Sonic Classic]] (2003 - Jul. 2008, aka Edgecrusher)
 * [[Sonic CulT]] Family member (Sept. 2002 - Mar. 2008)
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 * Member of [[Area 51]] (2001-2002, 2003)
 * Member of [[Sonic Secrets Center]] (Sept. 2002 - Feb. 2003)
-[[Category:Sceners]]
+==Trivia==
+* At the first 2010 UK Retro meet-up, he broke an arcade punching game by punching it.
+* Regularly beats the [[Under Ground Zone]] boss, on the [[Game Gear]]. For fun.
+* Has never been called "young lady" by any politician, current or former.
+* Not to be confused with [[User:Nik Jam|Nik Jam]].
+[[Category:User pages]]

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