Where did your users names come from?

[Cpt. Hindsight]

Captain Hindsight appeared in Southpark season 14 and according to the authors, is a parody of James Cameron's comments after the Deepwater Horizon accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpwGu8yNTNI

[Merlin]

I'm Merlin for a couple of reasons. One is that I had an interest in military aviation as a youngster and there is the famous Rolls-Royce Merlin, the other is that my soldering iron is a magic wand that I wield as a Wizard, to bring poorly electronics back to life.

I also used to be an industrial chemist in the oils and chemicals industry. I have kept a keen interest in science and chemistry/alchemy, something that lead to Retr0bright coming into being a few years back. Merlin was an alchemist/magician in King Arthurs's court.

[Geraldine]

Geraldine is my actual name, my wee mum gave me it, oh............a "number" of years ago

[rampartsagain]

ramparts from an old game was one of the first games played not the one i liked most and also a combination of words ram parts

[merlin1968]

Hi There. New to this board - thanks for having me.
merlin1968 - merlin came from back in the early eighties when i used to code demos / crack games on the C64, and 1968... well there seem to be quite a few merlins so I just picked a year (at random, honest!!)

[Methanoid]

Mine comes from the name of the heroes in the games Millennium 2.2 and Deuteros.. Honest!

[source]

Back in highschool me and 2 others on the C64 would try hacking games. I was known firstly as the persuader. Then when I supplied many of the games I was then known as the source. The name has stuck for past 25 or so years.

[The BuZZard]

It's my favorite (70s) robot :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTQbCDZC3ms

[Leffmann]

Originally Posted by Zambot_3

It's my favorite (70s) robot :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTQbCDZC3ms

Cool very similar to Starzinger.

[lordofchaos]

My username comes from a turn based strategy game called "Lords Of Chaos"...It had both Wizards and Demons in it.

[hansel75]

I started using the name Hansel for a joke in online gaming, pc halo and bf3 etc, and it kind of stuck with everything i do on the net now lol.

It's a reference to Hansel from the Zoolander movies, the thought of a male model playing online gaming is hilarious in my opinion, and why not have a bit of fun. I also think Hansel in the zoolander movie is very funny, the whole concept of male models is funny

Also when your having an awesome run in an online game then someone says to you, "Hansel, so hot right now, Hansel", it's a lot of fun!

Maybe i have a weird sense of humour, i am an Ozzy after all!!

Han.

PS: My best buddy sometimes uses the name Derek, so when online gaming together we have walk off's, and try to do the ingame moves like the magnum, or blue steel

[klx300r]

my motorcycle

[NovaCoder]

I wrote (coded) a portal-based 3D Engine about 12 years ago called PolyNova.

[diablothe2nd]

I'm fairly sure i've answered this before (although perhaps on another forum)

back in the days of Quakeworld and the 48.8 modem I used to just call myself Diablo with various incarnations using fancy ASCII art before and after my name. Then the game by the same name came out (i loved it!) and people accused me of stealing the name from the game, or being unoriginal amongst other things I also couldn't use that name on the Battle.net servers themselves either as it used an NPC's name.

So then I changed my name to Diablothe2nd, the meaning of which is like successors to the throne in a monarchy, like Richard the 3rd etc. In other words i went from being the devil himself to being his offspring "The Antichrist" or "The Spawn of Satan" if you will

[Vollldo]

It cames from the name of the fighter "Voldo" in Soul calibur on the Dreamcast.
For personnal reasons this games brought me some happiness in a very dark period of my life.

[gjb1985]

I used to be drunkensailor on fora. still called on some older ones. don;t even know why I stopped it. it was an omage to first forum I ever went online at, which was a pirates! messageboard. I'm a huge pirates fan for the amiga, played it as a child all the time.

[supaduper]

My moms mate gave her loads of DC comics many years ago and well who dont like Superman,and thanks mom it gave this then young boy the vivid imagination that lives with him to this day

[DH]

I always thought you got your username from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXFwIgIzaU

[supaduper]

Originally Posted by DemonHellraiser

I always thought you got your username from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXFwIgIzaU

Lol yeah I remember that showing my age ! never understood why they said the brunnette was ugly though I liked her more than the blonde !

[HansKisaragi]

Hans is my actual name. Kisaragi is the last name of Yuffie in Final Fantasy 7

[Djay]

DJay

my surname begins with D and Jay is what friends know me as although my first name is actually James

fairly boring really

my Gamertag (etc) is breakpointUK (breakpoint) this goes back to the game Freelancer, where i used it as my nickname, at the time i didnt know about the breakpoint demoparty which started in the same year as freelancer was released...

...the actual inspiration for the name was from a young progamer i read about on the internets