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Miyamoto Shrine> Staff> Andy Robinson Name: Andy
Robinson At the moment I'm training to become a Computer Technician which will probably just involve solving computer problems over the phone until I become a bit more experienced and get a job at a company maintaining all the PC's they have. Pretty boring regular stuff. The way I see it at the moment my job will simply be paying for me to travel around the world and of course pay for my gaming habit. What do I do apart from games? Well I love water sports of any kind, I'm an experianced swimmer and I'm getting into diving as well. I wouldn't exactly consider myself a film-buff but I continually notice myself going to the cinema more and more often, although as an example of the extent of my knowledge I don't think the acting in Star Wars Episode 1 was that bad. However, there's nothing beats a night of clubbing. I started off making websites with easy to use web hosts such as Xoom and Homestead but the websites I made only really got read when I learned HTML and did them properly. My enthusiasm for Zelda got me a writing part on Hyrule: The Land of Zelda, one of the first websites I'd ever read, however I didn't have much creative freedom so I decided create my own website after HTLOZ lost it's free host and closed for good. There were hundreds of Nintendo fansites all copy and pasting the same IGN news stories so I decided to make a Rare fansite called 'Rare-Web' as the only one at the time was Rarenet and they hardly updated. The site went through several designs and forms and I learnt a lot from making it, I bought a domain name and coded the whole thing in HTML and PHP with the help of my good friend Mark Fidler (htwoz.com) but after I originally put the site up tons of other fansites sprung up and thus my own site became a little redundant. That's when I met Carl. I'd really enjoyed his features on Nintendorks so I cleverly hunted him out on an instant messenger and we became good friends. I realized how much we both had the same attitude towards Nintendo and in particular Mr. Miyamoto. I wouldn't say it was just love for his games or general enthusiasm, but we both seem to understand why the games are so great and why Mr. Miyamoto deserves our respect. After I met Mr. Miyamoto Carl asked me to become Editor-In-Chief of the Shrine and get it all up and running, and it took me a year of messing around with layouts (the hardest part if you ask me) and getting the content on there but here it is anyway. |
