User:Ryan W/Ryan W

My first contribution to an online gaming resource was to the excellent Ice Climber walkthrough by Popo2002, who quite sensibly suggested that I not be credited under my birth name. I decided to name myself after the chap who graciously lent me Ice Climber (and many of its godawful NES contemporaries) at a time when I was completely broke and couldn't even afford weekend rentals. In addition to uncounted hours of AD&D and tokusatsu LARPing, he was also my introduction to combinatorics, Dire Straits, and the Ninja Turtles (not bad, huh?). He eventually went off to the Joe Kubert School, and I don't know what happened to him, but he was a wonderful, troubled man and I hope he is still alive and creating things.

Anyway, before all that, we were in first grade together and he was never called "Ryan", but always "Ryan W", because there was another Ryan in the class as well.