Shane has been video gaming in one fashion or another for nearly 30 years.

It started with a love affair with the Parker Bros. MERLIN in 1978 - a futuristic phone looking electronic game that played 6 whopping games. By 11, he was playing games on the TSR-80 Model III computer then moved through the entire line of Commodore computers (Vic-20 to Amiga), finally making the leap to PC gaming in 1995.

Before he could afford a Commodore 64, he would sit at Sears in the Mall, programming and demonstrating the C64 machines there. In 1985, Shane saw his first Amiga playing Defender of the Crown and knew he'd fallen in love with gaming all over again. In 1988, he got his first Amiga 500 and spent the next 7 years of his life as an Amiga gamer, advocate, and game programmer.

In the late 1990s, Shane became involved with classic video game emulation with the amazing JROK remakes, Sparcade, and of course MAME and went went on to run some of the most successful classic gaming/emulation websites in the world (Insert Coin, Amiga Emulation Zone). He started the Retro Radio (now RetroGaming Radio) show in 1998 and still runs it today.

Along the way, Shane did plenty of time on consoles. His cousins had a loaded Atari 2600 and many a weekend were spent playing Pitfall, Cosmic Ark and Adventure. One of his best friends soon got a Colecovision and marathon madness playing Venture, Ladybug, and Donkey Kong soon ensued. In the Navy, Shane went through a Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Nintendo Gameboy, Atari Lynx, and finally ended up with a Playstation and Dreamcast. While Shane believes the Dreamcast was the last console with a "soul", he was sucked into gaming again with the Playstation 2 (Norrath, God of War, Burnout) and the Gamecube (Resident Evil 4, Pacman vs., Super Monkey Ball).

Once the GBA SP came out, he rejoined the handheld gaming field and began to realize that handheld gaming was fastly becoming the most important market in the industry and his predictions came to fruition with the release of the Nintendo DS where a whole new market of innovation was possible. He started Dual Screen Radio with Chris Hentschel in 2005.

Chris has been gaming in one form or another since he was a wee lad, his first brush with it being either the 70's arcade game Submarine or the Pong TV system his dad brought home one day (He couldn't remember).

He spent the 80's lurking in arcades such as Space Port and Aladdin's Castle playing everything in sight such as Rip-Off! and Space Fury at least once and is thrilled now to have the ability to say "Hey, I played that (Obscure arcade cab)!".

From there he moved onto a short brush with the Commodore VIC 20 and the Intellivision where he was hooked on such hits as Astrosmash!, Atlantis and Demon Attack. It was only a few years later when his uncle introduced him to the wonders of the Commodore 64 that his love for gaming really took hold with the marvels of such classics as Bruce Lee, Archon, Bard's Tale and one of his all time favorites Legacy of the Ancients.

A chance encounter at a JC Penney grudgingly hooked him onto the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. Having been a hardcore C64 fan, this NES system wasn't really anything exciting that he hadn't seen before however a little game called "The Legend Of Zelda" was all it took to convince him otherwise. One of Chris's top 10 games of all time, "The Legend Of Zelda" showed him that consoles were back and probably wouldn't be leaving anytime soon.

Through the 90's it was the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo along with a two week stint on the TurboGrafix 16 to play Galaga '90 before jumping back to the PC world for Doom and Tie Fighter. During this time Chris was a huge fan of anything that would allow him to play video games on the go, so he was happy to eat up the Sega Nomad, Atari Lynx and three variations of the Nintendo Gameboy.

It was then in 1997 that he got involved in the Sony Playstation and later in 1999 with the Sega Dreamcast for a short spin. Basically Chris has played everything but a 3DO and a Jaguar. Chris is now an XBox owner for the past 3 years and its been his basic source for gaming lately, however a new competitior came into his life in mid 2005 ... The Nintendo DS. And it continues ...