After nearly three decades, it's safe to say that video games are no longer a hobbyist pursuit for Randy -- they're a bona fide lifestyle. He too emerged from the land of VIC-20s and Commodore 64s, and he too acknowledges their rightful place as today's forebears, but he feels that games and the stories they tell are only getting better and better with each generation.

Considering their parallels to board games, Randy harbors a soft spot for strategy games and sim-builders; but he also holds a healthy appreciation for action-platformers and role-playing games, the latter largely informed by a D&D-infused adolescence.  But if you tell him that in videogames "story doesn't matter," he will call you a liar.  To your face.  In front of your mother.  So it's a good thing he fully recognizes that telling stories in a videogame is a different animal than telling stories in any other medium.

When not engaged in gaming, Randy reads post-modernist fiction, listens to alt-rock and hip hop, and watches admittedly pretentious films.  He lives in Oregon with his wife Grace and their cat Marzipan.