John Sellers Author Bio

Experience: Since 1996, I've contributed features and reviews about modern games to GQ, Spin and Time Out New York. I am also the author of Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games (2001), a tribute to Donkey Kong and other quarter-sucking classics. For more than you'd ever want to know about me, check out my blog Angry John Sellers, my 2007 music memoir Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, and my website.

Platforms: Not counting the Intellivision, Atari 2600, NES or Apple IIe, I am partial to games on the Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3 and Mac. I haven't yet been won over by the Wii, and I have never and will never own a PC.

Preferred genres: First-person shooters, racing titles, sports games, role-playing games, brain-teasers and classic arcade games.

My Top 10 favorite games of all time:

1) Robotron: 2084
2) Halo
3) Zork
4) Grand Theft Auto III
5) Myst
6) MLB 2004
7) Golden Tee
8) Donkey Kong
9) Lode Runner
10) Ultima III: Exodus

But seriously, put any game in front of me and I'll probably find a way to enjoy it -- except Britney's Dance Beat.