I’ve been playing The Sims since it launched, but my gamer girl life began in the early 80s with the Atari 2600 I won in a Halloween costume contest. Back in the day, I could play Pac-Man for an hour on a single quarter, and I was pretty good at hitting Asteroids too.
After the Atari, my next game system was a Sega Master System, I also began playing on PC (an Amiga) with Leather Goddesses of Phobos, fast forward to the end of the 80s and I started working at SEGA of America in South San Francisco. I joined the team the weekend SEGA Genesis launched and enjoyed answering gameplay calls and letters for many years, I even helped write game hint walk-throughs for several titles including Alex Kidd in Miracle World and Altered Beast. Arnold Palmer Golf and Columns on Genesis were two of my favorite games. I also played on (and still own) Dreamcast, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS 2 through 4. Some of my favorite console games are Zuma Deluxe, Bejeweled, LIPS, Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2, and Warframe.
I love that The Sims allows me to explore my creativity through building, creating stories, and recoloring content.
I was born on the island of Oahu – grew up in the SF Bay Area in a liberal and multicultural environment, in July of 2008 I moved cross-country to RVA and in December of 2016 I moved to Houston Texas.
I grew up figure skating, thinking I’d tour with the Ice Capades, then coach and design skating costumes. I passed auditions for the Ice Capades and Ice Follies but missed the weight requirements by 9 and 13 lbs respectively. I tried for two years to lose those 9 pounds before accepting it wasn’t going to happen for me.
For most of my life I waited for my weight to be in a magical, and fictional, perfect place so that I would be “worthy”…Yeah, I know… this is me finally in a place of acceptance that the WIN was passing those auditions, just like working at SEGA was, performing burlesque, being a dog mom, being mom to two interesting humans, moving cross country then half way back again, and so many more moments and experiences.
