User:JB2008



About Me:

Name: Jesse Brown

Education: Bachelor of Arts (History, 2006), Master of Arts (Modern European History, 2008)

Occupation: Teaching Assistant/Instructor at Mississippi State University

Birthplace: Elizabeth, NJ (United States)

Location: Mississippi (United States)

E-Mail: jesseebrownjr@gmail.com

Growing up in the '80s and '90s, one of my longtime passions has been video games. Not only have I played them throughout all of my life, but lately (since the early 21st century) I have spent time, effort, and money collecting them. I have great respect for the Nintendo Entertainment System (released in 1985 in North America), a console which arguably defined the console market, its 8-bit competitor the Sega Master System (1986) with awesome games series such as Phantasy Star and Wonder Boy, the Super Nintendo (1990/91) which produced some of the best RPGs in the early-mid 1990s (such as Final Fantasy IV-VI, Seiken Densetsu III, Chrono Trigger, Tales of Phantasia, Treasure Hunter G, Bahamut Lagoon, 1996's incredible Star Ocean). Of course, I own the Sega Genesis (who can forget Sonic the Hedgehog, of which I have a prototype of on the MS?), and I do own more contemporary consoles, such as the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, GameCube, DualScreen (DS), etc.

Check out a list of /My Games/.

My favorite game series include: Mega Man, Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda, Wonder Boy, Final Fantasy, Eggerland, and Super Mario Bros., but I definitely enjoy other games!

I am a fan of MMORPGs and was an administrator of an online RPG called Graal Online at the turn of the 21st century, and after playing that for a while I then started playing Star Wars Galaxies (from 2003 to 2004), where I had a massive player-guild called the Grand Imperial Alliance on the Radiant Server. After that, I got into Final Fantasy XI Online from early-2004 until early-2006, and since then I have been playing Guild Wars, where I currently am the guild leader of Aura of Shadows (my character's name is Brahman Luciferin). If you would like to visit my guild page, you can at:

Aura of Shadows

I am currently designing a video game that is based on a short story that I once wrote. The game is an RPG that I am designing with Enterbrain, Inc.'s program RPG Maker XP. I have already publically released three demos, and a fourth demo is going to be released in the not-too-distant future (perhaps before the end of 2006). If you would like more information on my project and would like to download my game, check out my game's website at:

Wizardry Wars

Also related to game design...I have designed two custom Eggerland games using the ''Revival! Eggerland'' game engine. I started my first project in January of 2006 and it gradually turned into a full-fledged game which I called The Adventures of Lolo 4, consisting of 129 stages (128 and an "ending" stage), taking Lolo on an adventure over a vast variety of environments. The game was released at the Eggerland Editstage Library on April 12, 2006. My second project was a remake of the Western version of The Adventures of Lolo 2 (1990), entitled The Adventures of Lolo 2 Remake, consisting of 50 stages. The project was released on "Cinco de Mayo", or May 5, 2006. To see my projects' homepage, check them out at:

Eggerland Project

My latest project is a remake of the two DOS Mega Man games, entitled Mega Man PC: The CRORQ Chronicles, an ongoing project started in June 2008 using GameMaker. Check out the project here:

/Mega Man PC/

Of course, I have other interests! I am a fan of science fiction shows and movies, such as Star Trek (I love the movies and all the shows, although I did not really get into Enterprise) and certainly Star Wars (the long-standing debate: is the first or second trilogy better?). I also am a fan of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, both of which are very well-done shows. Still, there are some shows which are long-gone that I wish were still made...The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000).

I also really enjoy horror movies. Recent films I have enjoy include The Ring and The Ring 2, The Grudge and Ju-on: The Grudge 2, and certainly Saw and Saw II. Classics include the Ammityville Horror series of films, the Exorcist (the sequels certainly did not live up to the original), and Poltergeist.

Can anyone say anime? Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Ghost in the Shell: SAC: Second Gig, Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Hellsing, Cowboy Beebop, Inuyasha, .Hack//Sign, Samurai Champloo, and Fullmetal Alchemist include some of my favorite animes (but certainly are not all of them!).

Finally, I am interested in History, which is my major in college (I am a Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant/Instructor pursuing my Master of Arts degree at Mississippi State University). I will be getting my M.A. in Modern European History in December of 2008, focusing of British imperialism from the eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. In January 2009, I will begin pursuing a D.Phil. in International Security at Miss. State.

Love-wise, I have been going out with Laura, a young woman that I met during my first year at Mississippi State University, and the two of us have been dating for over three years now (since August 20, 2003)!

Well, these are some of the things that I truly love, but I don't want to bore you by filling the page with a tremendous amount of information!