Keine Sorge, ich kannte ihn auch nicht, aber die Geschichte zu diesem Mann finde ich sehr interessant und will sie deshalb mit euch teilen:
Dennis „Tresh“ Fong ist seit knapp 20 Jahren mit Videospielen in Kontakt. Unter dem Namen „Tresh“ hat er sich in den späten 90er-Jahren einen Namen in der Gaming-Szene verschafft und gehört auch heute noch zu einem der größten Spieler seiner Zeit. Nebenbei hat Fong noch Firmen wie Gamers.com, Xfire und seine aktuelles Projekt, das soziale Gaming-Netzwerk und Achievement Tracking Service Raptr, gegründet.
Eine seiner größten Errungenschaften ist aber etwas Einmaliges – der Ferrari der Software-Legende John Carmack von id Software. Diesen gab es als Hauptpreis bei einem Gaming-Turnier und Fong ging dort als Gewinner hervor. Hier ein Ausschnitt von einem Interview, das GameInformer mit Fong geführt hat:
How did you end up winning John Carmack’s Ferrari?
This online gaming service called M-Player decided to host this tournament and John Carmack decided to put up his Ferrari as a prize for first place.
Did that cause a big stir in the community?
Yeah – it was huge! It would be huge even today. There were online qualifiers for everyone who played Quake, which was pretty much everyone who played games at the time. The online qualifiers whittled it down. Then, the top 32 players in the country, plus a couple spots from Europe, were flown out to E3 in 1997. E3 was in Atlanta that year. They did a round robin style tournament and eventually it came down to a guy named “Entropy” [Tom Kizmey – Ed.] and myself. Everyone knew I was the best player on the west coast, at least. Everyone said that [Entropy] was the Thresh of the east and he was going to spank me.
When you won, did you get the keys right then? Did you meet Carmack?
Yes, he was there. We’d met before, since I was the champion of all his games. We knew each other and were friends. He watched the final match and then he came up to me afterwards and handed me the keys and said, “How are you getting this thing back to California?” I said, “I have no clue.” Actually, I didn’t even know how to drive a stick. He said, “Okay, wait here.” He came back 20 minutes later and gave me a bunch of a cash to ship it back to California. That wasn’t even part of the prize, he was just like, “here.” [Laughs]
Do you have the car to this day?
No, I kept the car for about 10 years.
Das komplette Interview findet ihr über den Link unter dieser News!
Quelle: GameInformer