I just learned the other day that my application for a Professional Badge to attend the 2016 New York Comic Con was approved, and let me tell you, I have been geeking out ever since.

My very first video game system was an Atari. I still have fond and wonderful memories of Frogger, and Donkey Kong, and of course, Pac Man. These were good, good, good times, but the moment I became a gamer— a real, true, crazy gamer—wasn’t until I bought my first PlayStation way back in the fall of 1999. And it was all because I had to save Agent Mulder.

I was living in New Orleans at the time, a bartender at one of the many, many bars on Bourbon Street, a “writer” who had grand aspirations of penning the next great work of literary excellence.

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