My gaming name is Neon, and I have been gaming for too long! I started with games like xwing vs tie fighter/sim ant back in the DOS days. Gaming played a very large role in my career choice of becoming a software developer. Officially I am a principal software engineer working on emergency systems. I work every day to try and keep people safe and save lives. After a too long career working with the DOD doing the opposite, I thought it was time to help the world :) If you were ever curious why I chose Neon for a tag I'll fill you in. When I was a kid we bought a Nintendo 64 after my family and I spent a week rolling pennies into wrappers (we were told if we did this we could buy one). Our first game was clearly Mario followed closely by the much beloved Zelda Ocarina of Time. Among the large list of games we played was one called Extreme G. The game is a simple racing game with bikes, the twist is you have weapons just like in Mario Cart (a game we also played too much). Anyway I digress, in Extreme G there was a bike you could unlock with a code, but to get the code you had to do perfect in a series of races (always coming in first) in a lesser bike - I still remember the code 61ggb5; this bike was called the Neon. To me, this embodies why we play games. The desire to succeed that leads you to fail forward and be better while reaching toward that one goal. The Neon was the culmination of all this effort in my youth, proof that I could do anything I set my mind to if I just worked hard enough and stayed diligent. Today I still do my best to remember these lessons, but I put that effort into new things - this community of all you Good People for example! I'd love to hear more about who YOU are and what it is about games that you love :)