Post #568213 by Tiki-Atari on Thu, Dec 9, 2010 1:37 PM

Fairly boring story. When I went to Georgia Tech in 96 I signed the guestbook at DramaTech's open house, hoping to break in to the theater crowd there. I just wrote "Atari" in the name space on a whim. I eventually got a call back, largely because they wanted to see who wrote Atari in the guest book. The nickname stuck hard, to the point that there are people I've known for a decade who don't know me any other way. I've since decided that it is fitting for someone with an intense interest in pop and niche culture to have a name so evocative of my personal developmental zeitgeist. So, Atari is my name for all practical purposes; hence tiki-atari. Also, the idea of a Gilligan's Island Professor style video game system amuses the hell out of me.