I really didn't think I'd be posting to this blog so soon after creating it. Blogging just seemed like a potential field to contribute to sometime in the future, so I thought it would be good to register a Blogger account and get one set up in case I decided to follow through (and to prevent someone registering this name before me and possibly pretending to be me. Paranoid delusion, probably, but it happens...) However, wouldn't you know it, on the same day I get this site set up, something pops up that I ABSOLUTELY have to write about before something else happens to upset it. It already did a good job of upsetting me, but that's beside the point. However, before I dig into the blocky details, I figure I should give a bit of introduction to this whole shebang and give everyone some idea as to who this pasty white guy is and why he's so obsessed with reviewing things nobody cares about. ...Yes, there are a few gazillion guys already fitting that description, but here's the story of one in particular.
My name's Zachary Christensen, but I'd much rather be called by my online alias ZC-Infinity, which you can either spell phonetically or as Z∞C, though I prefer the "Artist Formerly Known As Prince" treatment myself. I'm a Western American guy who likes video games (especially the Xbox line), comics, posters, Lego and its many knockoffs and competitors, novelty books, strange foods, obscure board games, making and watching videos, writing, reviewing, and reading/watching a large selection of other online critics and reviewers. Just from that list, you can probably tell what is covered here. I LOVE to collect and study things that most other people would pass over. I mean, just type "movie review" or "game review" into the YouTube search bar and you'll find hundreds, if not thousands, of personalities that cover those bases. But try typing in "VCR Board game review" or "Collected Trade review" or "Plug n Play TV game review" or even "Lego set review" into YouTube, Zippcast, Blogger, or just Yahoo or Google in general, and it's most likely that you'll only find a handful of relevant results if that.
That's where I come in. I've dedicated myself to collecting these shreds of pop culture history that the world is intent on tossing into the "Dustbin of History." Some were hugely popular and are still known today, while others have been collecting dust since they were first released. Whatever the case, I seek out the bizarre and forgotten, dust them off, and give them another chance to be remembered. Maybe they deserve it, or maybe they were best left on that thrift store shelf with a $0.25 price tag. We won't know until we pick it up and give it a shot.
So while I do have a lot of stuff to cover, I'm mostly going to focus on the Big Four: Comic Trade Collections, Building Bricks, Plug 'n Play Consoles, and Knockoff Games/Systems. These are the things I've dedicated the most time and effort to finding and acquiring, and what I really think deserves an opinion. We might take a look at some of my other collections at times, but these are what I really want to go over in this blog. Every so often, depending on what update schedule I've decided and what is going on in the anomaly known as "real life", I'll take one of these things, put it through its paces, give some insight and tell a few terrible jokes, and see how it holds up. The style may be a little different for each category, with the knockoff systems getting breakdown and overall scores while the comics get a more general good/bad/meh-type final judgement, but I hope that no matter what format I used to judge, that the qualities and attributes of whatever I'm reviewing become obvious and you'll get the impression that it's either something worth your time and money to buy... or something to take a sledgehammer to the next time you see it, for it is clearly possessed by Cthulhu!
And that's the long and short of this here blog. Any questions, suggestions, or requests, or if you just want to say "Hi!", feel free to contact me at therealzcinfinity@gmail.com or to post approval(or disapproval) in the comments of each post. I'll probably also be posting to my YouTube channel and Twitter as I'm working, so be sure to check those out as well. Here's to a good life and a good blog! ...Or to the inverse if ever that occurs!
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