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10. About The Shadow (SHDW)
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I started gaming in 2000 (at a rather "old" age of 15) with a Super Nintendo 
system. With it came Top Gear Racing and then I bought Super Mario World. Now, 
Top Gear went by the roadside pretty quickly, but Super Mario World was 
fantastic! So I soon branched off into Super Mario All-Stars, and from the went 
into Super Mario Kart, my first brush with a racing game.
After some time, my brothers and I (who owned shares in the SNES) decided to 
sell it off for some games for our new present from our parents, a used N64 
(remember, this is still 2000). GoldenEye came with it and it was one of my 
most beloved games of all time, I played that game for about 40 hours and 
discovered that I had some talent at video games, I had beaten the entire thing 
in the hardest difficulty setting (00 Agent) and even unlocked all of the 
cheats (not using push-button-codes, which I didn't even know about, but 
unlocking them all by beating the target times in the correct difficulty). I 
then bought Perfect Dark as the sequel to it. I beat that one too and unlocked 
all of the cheats, but sadly have never beaten either Challenge 28 or 30 in the 
Combat Simulator mode. I just wasn't interested in that. From there I bought 
The World Is Not Enough 007 and 100% completed that as well, though I wasn't as 
fond of that game as GoldenEye. I competed on the-elite.net (a different name 
then) for fast times in all three games and didn't do too badly considering the 
amount of time I spent at it.

I usually spend about 30 hours on a game and my goal is always to 100% complete 
it, and I have high standards.

I was done with First Person Shooters for a while and turned to Rogue Squadron 
(on recommendation from a friend of mine, Mr. E) and ended up completing that 
too. He also recommended Battle for Naboo and while I admit that was a lot of 
fun and I would like to complete that someday (I only got about 6 Platinum 
Medals) I was burned out on that so to speak, and turned to other games such as 
Super Mario 64. After getting all 120 Stars I was tired and ready for something 
new, on recommendation from S.E. (another friend) and SamSim, I bought The 
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Having never played a Zelda game before (nor 
knowing what they were like) I was quite pleasantly surprised! I fell in love 
with the game and I think I've spent more time on that game than any other 
game. I went through it my first time, a couple of months later went through it 
a second time to get all of the Heart Pieces and Skulltula with no deaths, and 
then a third time (Perfect) on the GameCube version. I also went through with a 
Perfect on Master Quest and prided myself on getting EVERY single chest in 
EVERY dungeon, regardless of whether or not it was necessary.

Anyway, after falling in love with Zelda, I decided to buy another Super 
Nintendo (realizing that selling the old one was a huge mistake) and bought 
Link to the Past. It was great. It prompted me to buy a NES and the later, the 
GameCube.

Currently I am still collecting old games and playing many of the new ones that 
are coming out (but only the best ones).

Old games that I've bought for the NES include:
Tetris (awesome game!)
Legend of Zelda
Legend of Zelda II
Dr. Mario
Metroid

For the SNES there is
Super Metroid
Link to the Past
Secret of Mana
Secret of Evermore
Super Mario All-Stars
Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
Donkey Kong Country
F-Zero
to name a few (I'm only listing the "best" ones).

64 games I have:
Super Mario World
GoldenEye 007
Super Mario Kart 64
F-Zero X
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Super Smash Bros.
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

GameCube:
Mario Kart: Double Dash
F-Zero GX
Hobbit (really?!!!)
Metroid Prime (one of the best games ever made)
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Zelda Collector's Disc
Zelda Bonus Disc.

GameBoy:
Metroid II
Metroid Fusion
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Super Mario World
Legend of Zelda: Oracle games
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past/Four Swords
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Tetris DX
Sword of Mana.

Being of nature very competitive, I recently have been at FZeroCentral.com and 
have been competing internationally there and am currently the moderator of the 
message board (with about 250 members on the board and over 500 members on the 
site) and rank 5th overall on all four F-Zero Games. Not too bad ;)

Being a Tolkien fan from long ago, when this game came out I decided to give it 
a shot and try it out, couldn't hurt after all now could it? I love it. It is 
an excellent game, especially for one who has read the book. I don't see why 
the critics give it a 6 or 7. In my book it rates as one of my favourite games, 
which is why I am writing a FAQ for it. I think it deserves at least an 8. The 
graphics aren't the best, but Game Play is good (true there are a few glitches) 
and the Music is excellent, the humour is wonderful and of course, they STUCK 
to the book very closely! That is always hard to do and Sierra: My hat is off 
to you!