Where does your forum name come from?
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Mitchell Gant
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Mine's easy too!
I'll admit to being thick though, never realised Alpha-1 was an actual game, let alone an Atari game. Duh!
In my early teenage years my handle on the CB radio (don't laugh) was 'The Prowler' because there was a concept car in the early 90's called the Plymouth Prowler that i loved. Being young, didn't really know that a 'Prowler' was something else 
When i got on the internet and onto IRC in 1996 i used 'Prowler' as my nick.. Effnet was quite busy, and my nick was often in use already. My alternate nick was P-man (as in Prowler-man)... After a time, Prowler was _always_ taken so my nick stuck at P-man.
I do use the name Hal9000 on other forums (hence my nick pic), but arcade stuff its stuck at P-man. People thinks its from pac-man, and sometimes i do get called pac-man... thats not where it comes from though strangely
P-Man2013-03-08 13:26:10
When i got on the internet and onto IRC in 1996 i used 'Prowler' as my nick.. Effnet was quite busy, and my nick was often in use already. My alternate nick was P-man (as in Prowler-man)... After a time, Prowler was _always_ taken so my nick stuck at P-man.I do use the name Hal9000 on other forums (hence my nick pic), but arcade stuff its stuck at P-man. People thinks its from pac-man, and sometimes i do get called pac-man... thats not where it comes from though strangely
P-Man2013-03-08 13:26:10
I did wonder if Olivers Alpha was due to him being a huge muscle bound Alpha Male.
(as in the Alpha one!), so thats cleared that up.
Mine came from highscore table on computer games when you had 6 charachters I'd put in Benrad (as in Ben is Rad) the son part started getting added as people kept calling me benson, I thought it was very karate kid, only later did I realise that was Ben'san, but it was too late then to change things. In ideal world should really be Bensanrad
Mine came from highscore table on computer games when you had 6 charachters I'd put in Benrad (as in Ben is Rad) the son part started getting added as people kept calling me benson, I thought it was very karate kid, only later did I realise that was Ben'san, but it was too late then to change things. In ideal world should really be Bensanrad
P-Man said:In my early teenage years my handle on the CB radio (don't laugh) was 'The Prowler' because there was a concept car in the early 90's called the Plymouth Prowler that i loved. Being young, didn't really know that a 'Prowler' was something else
I do use the name Hal9000 on other forums (hence my nick pic), but arcade stuff its stuck at P-man. People thinks its from pac-man, and sometimes i do get called pac-man... thats not where it comes from though strangely
And I always thought it came from your 99p start ebay auctions (99P-man)
backflipper
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I did a backflip into the Golden Horn of a rickety old jetty when I was in Turkey at the start of my eastern european backpacking trip for 6months back in 1997.
It was and may well still be the most polluted body of water in Europe.
Amazingly ever since I have never had a serious illness.
It was and may well still be the most polluted body of water in Europe.
Amazingly ever since I have never had a serious illness.
Dex-Jay =
Dexter the character from Space Ace abbreviated into Dex and Jay is from James my middle name.
I'd used RJS, RIC, RIK, JAY and DEX on Hi-Scores back in the day when you could only use 3 letters, so in the end I put the 2 together about 13 years ago and stuck with it
Meh, sounded like a good idea at the time!
I always thought P-Man was a Pac thing too.... now I know!
Dexter the character from Space Ace abbreviated into Dex and Jay is from James my middle name.
I'd used RJS, RIC, RIK, JAY and DEX on Hi-Scores back in the day when you could only use 3 letters, so in the end I put the 2 together about 13 years ago and stuck with it
Meh, sounded like a good idea at the time!
I always thought P-Man was a Pac thing too.... now I know!
BristolMartin
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Mines obvious, Retro because I'm an 80's boy and love retro arcade machines and russ is the first part of my name, I have used this for years going back to the days of playing on line PC games "call of duty, Delta Force, Counter Strike, Battlefield, Unreal Tournament etc" used to play as part of the P4F Clan lol!!
Happy Days!!!
Retroruss
Russell Hine
Happy Days!!!
Retroruss
Russell Hine
favouredson
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Copied from a post over the way back in '07...
Mine is part of a lyric from Rakim, a song by Dead Can Dance. (The English part near the end, that is.)
Mine is part of a lyric from Rakim, a song by Dead Can Dance. (The English part near the end, that is.)