

Really, it's mood dependant - sometimes I'll play only enough PlayStation in a day to keep my streak going and then focus on something else.

Which consoles do you predominantly play at the moment?PS4 and PS5 mostly, with some emulation, PC, and PS3 thrown in. I've been untraining that part of me with Bean Dives and deliberately tanking my completion percentage, but the goal of one day recovering it completely still floats in my mind. This was potentially dangerous for my productivity, as the completionist is a strong voice inside me. My gaming horizons widened with my first true RPG, Breath of Fire IV, which we rented for 15 consecutive weeks from our local Blockbuster store, and I played a lot with emulators through the 2000s and early 2010s.Ģ016 saw me buy my first PS3 shortly after moving out of home, at which point I became aware of Trophies. We got the first PlayStation when I was 7 or 8, with Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Wipeout 2097, and a little game called Klonoa which remains to this day one of my favourites. I do have a very clear memory of borrowing a video game book from my school library with game code scripts inside, and trying to copy it character for character into the system to play some new games - back when video game piracy was sometimes literally photocopied. How did you start gaming and trophy hunting? The first games I remember playing were on an (antiquated even then) Commodore 64 at about age for - we had Pac-Man and Pitfall, and a few others that I've got less memory of. Hopefully what follows isn't too uninteresting!

Of these, the assistance I'm able to provide TrueTrophies (which is less than I'd like, but I'm working on that) is probably one of the privileges I take the greatest pride in, as a site and community I both respect and appreciate. I also try to give back to online communities I'm a part of and participate in managing a few online boards, some of which have become defunct. Any average day might find me doing any number of different things, and I'm rarely if ever bored or stuck for something to do. I enjoy cricket (particularly at the moment with the Aussies back in ascendency), tabletop gaming, puzzles and enigmas, and the study of languages, into which, as a singer, I've sunk quite a bit of time. Luckily, I have time to pursue some of my hobbies thanks to insomnia and on-call being only infrequently demanding, and a lot of my gaming tends to be late nights anyway as a result. I work in IT Security, on-call through the day, and then teach private music lessons through the afternoon and evening. I'm 29, and I live in Brisbane, Australia, which often makes things interesting playing with friends halfway or more across the world. Hey all! I'm DJ, or Dan if you prefer - though I'll answer to "Oi you" in a pinch.
