C. A. PASSINAULT

TAMPA VIDEO GAMES

VIDEO GAME SALES, INFORMATION, RESOURCES, EVENTS, HACKING, AND ANECDOTES FOR THE SERIOUS VIDEO GAME ENTHUSIAST.

A FRONTIER SOCIETY AND DREAM NINE STUDIOS PROJECT. COMING IN 2009.

ABOUT - VIDEO GAME CONSOLES - VIDEO GAMES - ARCADE GAMES - FEATURES - SPECULATION - VIDEO GAME RUMORS - MARKET - RESOURCES - CONTACT

RETRO GAMING - ATARI - NINTENDO - SEGA - SNK - SONY - MICROSOFT - MATTEL - COLECO - THIRD PARTY GAME PUBLISHERS

ATARI: ATARI 2600 - ATARI 5200 - ATARI 7800 - ATARI LYNX - ATARI JAGUAR - NINTENDO: NES - SUPER NES - NINTENDO 64 - GAMECUBE - WII - GAMEBOY - VIRTUAL BOY - GAMEBOY ADVANCE - NINTENDO DS - SONY: PLAYSTATION - PLAYSTATION 2 - PLAYSTATION PORTABLE / PSP - PLAYSTATION 3 - SEGA - MASTER SYSTEM - GENESIS - SEGA CD - SEGA 32X - SEGA SATURN - SEGA DREAMCAST - SEGA NOMAD - GAME GEAR - SNK - NEO GEO AES - NEO GEO CD - NEO GEO POCKET - NEO GEO POCKET COLOR - MICROSOFT - XBOX - XBOX 360 - XBOX NEXT - MATTEL - INTELLIVISION - COLECO - COLECOVISION

THE TAMPA VIDEO GAMES PERFECT VIDEO GAME TOP GAME LIST OF 2008: We rate them all a solid ten.

Waverace 64 (Nintendo 64) - Perfect Dark (Nintendo 64) - Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64) - Super Mario World (Super NES) - The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past (Super NES) - The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Gameboy) - The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time (Nintendo 64) - Donkey Kong 94 (Gameboy) - Animal Crossing DS (Nintendo DS) - Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64) - Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS) -

Tampa Video Games is a web site which combines a passion for video game and the video gaming subculture with business. In partnership with the Frontier Society cyber subculture web site and the businesses of Passinault.Com, this site will cover a wide variety of subjects. You will be able to learn more about video games, the video game industry, video game rumors, video game technology, video gaming anecdotes (site founder Chris Passinault has a lot of interesting, and often amusing, video game anecdotes), and video game lifestyles.
Tampa Video Games is a web site which will cover video game sales, information, resource, events, hacking, rumors, speculation, collecting, collection galleries, wish lists, lifestyles, and anecdotes for the serious video game enthusiast. Chris Passinault will give video game advice, and will also use this site to sell video games, from video game consoles and video game console games to video games which he develops and publishes.
Tampa Video Games is an upcoming web site by Tampa video game expert Chris Passinault, who is also known as C. A. Passinault. Passionate about video games, gaming, and the video gamer culture, Chris Passinault is a hardcore gamer who always has more than one video game on him, and video gaming is infused into every part of his life. Professionally, Chris Passinault is professionally certified and licensed in an array of professions. He was a banker for seven years, and now owns and operates a variety of entertainment and professional service businesses. Chris Passinault is a professional writer, photographer, event planner, DJ, advertising agent, copywriter, graphic designer, web designer, marketer, salesperson, retail analyst, inventor, and business professional. He is an entertainment, video game, and electronics expert. Through his Tampa video game development and publishing studio, Dream Nine Studios, Chris Passinault will be producing, designing, and publishing video games, many of them "retro evolved" video games which can be playtested, purchased and downloaded from the Internet. Dream Nine Studios is also an indie film production studio and an indie music label, and these other industries will enhance the video game business that it does.
Tampa video game expert Chris Passinault cites many video games as his favorites. He has the one of the largest collections of video games in Florida, and his mint-condition collection includes his original Super Nintendo (Super NES), Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), two Gameboys, a Gameboy Advance, a Gameboy Advance SP Lite, two original-modle Nintendo DS portable consoles, a Nintendo DS Lite, a Gameboy Micro, three Sony Playstations, a Sony Playstation 2, a Halo edition green Xbox, a classic black Xbox, three Nintendo Gamecubes, two Nintendo 64's equipped with RAM expansion packs, two Sega Saturns, two Atari Jaguars (getting that Noah's Ark feeling yet?), an Atari Jaguar CD, a Sega Genesis, A Sega CD, an original model Panasonic 3DO FZ1, two Sony PSP's (an original black PSP and a silver slimline PSP), a Sega Genesis Nomad portable 16 bit console, a Nintendo Virtual Boy (one left from a collection of over fifty which he bought from a video game store liquidating stock), an Atari 7800, a NeoGeo Pocket Color, a Sega Dreamcast, a Commodore 64 with a 1541 disk drive, a Sega 32X, and several other consoles.
For all of these video game consoles, Passinault has over ten thousand video game titles, and collects the best video games as well as the worst (Passinault traded in a bunch of Sega CD games in the early 1990's, still regrets it, and does not ever recommend trading in video games). Passinault has a list of favorite video games. In no particular order (he owns all noted versions of the following games except for the arcade versions, if applicable), these games are Animal Crossing (Nintendo DS), Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar), Super Mario World (Super NES / Gameboy Advance), The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past (Super NES / Gameboy Advance), Ridge Racer (Sony PSP), The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Gameboy), Donkey Kong 94' (Nintendo Gameboy), Chip's Challenge (Atari Lynx), Gunship (C64), Airborne Ranger (C64), WaveRace 64 (Nintendo 64), The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time (Nintendo 64), Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64), Cannon Fodder (Atari Jaguar), Defender 2000 (Atari Jaguar), Daytona USA (Arcade / Sega Dreamcast), Galaga (Arcade, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS, PS1, PS2, PSP), Outrun (Arcade / Sega Saturn), Outrun 2 (Xbox), Mercenaries (Xbox), Grand Theft Auto (Playstation One), Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Playstation 2), Yoshie's Island: Super Mario World 2 (Super NES / Gameboy Advance), Zombies Ate My Neighbor (Super NES), Ikari Warriors (Arcade / NES), Jackal (Arcade / NES), Castlevania (NES), Castlevania: Symphony of the night (Playstation, PSP), Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles (PSP), Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Sega Genesis / PSP), Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Sega Genesis), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Snatcher (Sega CD), Afterburner 2 (Arcade, Sega Saturn), Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS), Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64), Rage Racer (Playstation), Resident Evil (Playstation), Resident Evil 2 (Playstation), Gyruss (Arcade), Rolling Thunder (Arcade, PSP, PS2), Time Pilot (Arcade, GBA, Nintendo DS), Yie Ar Kung Fu (Arcade, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS), Virtua Fighter 2 (Arcade, Sega Saturn), Street Fighter 2 (Arcade/ Super NES), Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Sega Saturn), Mortal Kombat (Arcade, Sega Genesis, PSP, PS2), Mortal Kombat 2 (Arcade, Super NES, PSP), Eternal Champions (Sega Genesis), Eternal Champions: Challenge From The Dark Side (Sega CD), Night Trap (Sega CD, 3DO), Wing Commander 3 (3DO), Star Control 2 (3DO), San Francisco Rush (Arcade, Nintendo 64), Perfect Dark (Nintendo 64), Goldeneye (Nintendo 64), Wizard (C64), Soul Caliber (Dreamcast), Soul Blade (Playstation), Desert Strike (Super NES, PSP), Soviet Strike (Sony Playstation), and many more.
Still working on building the most complete collection possible, Passinault plans on obtaining a Neo Geo AES (top of the list and the holy grail of video game collecting), a TurboGrafx-16 (passed on buying one in 1991, and in 1993, and regrets it), a Sega Master System, a Sega Gamegear, an Atari Lynx, an original Atari 2500, an Atari 5200 (had a ton of games for this system and lost them in a move back in 1988), a Vectrex, an Intellivision, a Colecovision, and another Commodore 64 (his mint-condition original has a bad sound chip). Passinault plans of obtaining the Nintendo Wii, the Microsoft Xbox 360, and the Playstation 3 in the future, although he is focusing on building large video game libraries of cheaper games for his current video game console collection. When the current consoles are inexpensive (but still new in-the- box), he will buy them. Ironically, Passinault already owns two Wii games, but no Nintendo Wii console.
Retro Evolved video games, which was a term first coined in the British video game magazines Edge and Games, and also emphasized in a Jeff Minter column, is a term used to describe new retro video games which are made with modern technology. Examples of such games would be the hits Geometry Wars (available on Xbox Live Arcade and Nintendo DS), Flow, Galaga Legions, Pacman VS, and Pac Man Championship Edition.
A fan of classic video games and a veteran of the arcades of the 1980's and 1990's, Passinault always wanted to create arcade games like those found in that era, with new enhancements and gameplay twists. Passinault plans on making retro video games with the newest technology, creating arcade games and creative interactive experiences which could have been in those old arcades, but are made compelling by modern standards.
Much like his award-winning Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, Chris Passinault intends to create a video game festival event for the Tampa Bay market through his event planning company and an online video game festival here at Tampa Video Games. We can't wait, and neither can you.

UPDATED 03/31/09

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