People/Walrus

So, im gonna roll out this story for all those of you that play worms that speak English. I'm going to give you the real version, not pontificate on some half-assed version to glorify my worms existence like some have done on WKB. The date was Summer '99. The game: shopper. In between ramming my worms mercilessly into the wall and relentlessly cowing the others in my game, I developed a love for the little pink bastards. I played sporadically, but really got into the game in '00. I really got into Battlerace, spurred on by playing a game with GARG0YLE, the creator of the set. I told him that I was going to smash him and his pal. They destroyed me, of course, and his running mate was theperk, another BR legend. This would foster my love for my favorite set. My first clan was AWA, founded by WARLORD. The clan didn't play competitively, just for fun. They quickly died and I became the first non-aussie, non-kiwi member of Australian worms clan AWK. AWK was also short lived, and me and a few of the members founded the clan WWA, which would go on to become a successful fixture in worms armageddon for the next 6-7 years. Shortly after however, many of the players I played with were forming yet another new clan, OTB. OTB was led by Munks, and had my popular running mate tenCHU, chinook, MiMiK, and Beelz in it. Beelz would go on to become my guy, and we roped warmer after warmer together. We decided to strike out on our own, and revitalized PROD, which had fallen on the wayside after okeytokey left worms. Beelz and I led PROD, and had the likes of Noobzster, orangekid, tenCHU, theone, Uno, Lazy, and Fredalot. I can't really remember anyone else. We were all warmer ropers and no one gave a shit about WACL. Worms was always about having fun, I never really got into the competitive side of it. Needless to say, a few members played a few WACL games and got their ass beaten. Okeytokey got all pissy about it and told us he didn't want PROD to exist anymore, since he started it. I talked him out of it, and we are friends to this day, but it seemed like PROD was finally dead. I then moved to WWP, for all of 10 mintues. WWP was a flash in the pan for WA players, most went, saw, and came back quickly. Anyways, by this point, I had cultivated my BR skills and we had created with others a close knit group of racers, the best on the net at the time, including MrT, bas1c and I. We went on to collaborate and make individually almost 40 battlerace maps. After that, I created a clan, again with Beelz, BoNG. I am unsure who all was in BoNG for the most part, as I was really high at the time. No joke. Theone and pure were in the clan, as well as a ton of alias players. BoNG needed to go, and when molson and marco came knocking on my door, we merged BoNG with NBR, bringing pure, theone, beelz, seneca, and myself in to an already incredible lineup, including all time greats jmoberg, wargod, volrin, saltyk9, and marco/seb. At the time NBR was semi-active, and I tried my best to inject new blood into the clan, creating an all new web page with the help of Seneca's host. Marco and me also created 40 need NBR roperaces for the new color map craze, but I rapidly descended into doing drugs and stopped worming altogether, amd lost most of the maps. In late 2003, I left Chicago, IL to attend rehab in Oregon, and my worms career was over. I handed over the website to Seneca, who left for the army soon after, and NBR lost its site. I briefly played in 2007 for about a month, and then quit again. Picking up the game in middle of June 2011, I have played about one month again, spurred by some of the great mods the worms community has put out. I guess im writing because the worms community was just so damn special back then, so many great players and personalities. I hope some of the people I have mentioned will run across this post and remember. There is so many people ive forgotten, but if i saw your name, id remember you in a heartbeat. I mainly just play for the nostalgia now. I was never great at the game, and am not an all-time great, I just enjoyed it with some great people.

Jim (thewalrus) jimcoombs@sbcglobal.net