This is the first post in a new series of profiles of GameStreamer partner game stores.
What started two years ago as a local gaming tournament site has evolved into a full-fledged resource for geeks and gamers alike. Rock The LAN’s mission now is to create a hub for writers who have their own blogs, or small business crafts people or artists where they could come and have small marketing support and get the views that they deserved so that the Internet could be fun for them again. RTL covers games/tech, movies and comic books and sells geekified T-shirts and comic books. The site also has its own GameStreamer-powered game store.
To get to know RTL better, we asked founder Justin Hurst about his website and his personal experiences as a gamer.
GameStreamer: What are your goals for the site?
Justin Hurst: The main goal is just to keep up the growth. We have so many fun and exciting things planned for this year that we just can’t wait to see the reactions. With over 3 million views a month now, we have a lot of impressing to do and I don’t think that we are going to disappoint.
GS: What was the first video game you remember playing?
JH: The first video game I remember playing would be the Pong console, with the tethered controllers, but the first video game that really captured my imagination was Pit Fall on the Atari 2600, I just couldn’t get enough of that game (until the NES, of course).
GS: What’s your favorite shirt in your online store?
JH: I think my favorite shirt thus far has got to be Blur’s shirt from Smallville. I have such a weak spot for that show and its fans.
GS: If you could time travel, what era/time period, past or future, would you want to visit?
JH: I’m really not a time-traveling guy. I enjoy living in the here and now and doing whatever I can to make these moments rock. That is not to say that if The Doctor [Doctor Who] were to offer a ride in the Tardis that I wouldn’t comply.