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Pride of place in Jason's game room is a stacked shelf of big-box PC games. In the days before Steam homogenised the purchasing process, packaging was an appealing element in buying new PC games, which often released with foldout maps, hefty manuals and lavish boxes. Jason has always been a fan, and they are among his favourite games to collect.It's no wonder really; as an employee of Sierra On-Line in the 1990s, the world's biggest PC software publisher at that time, he dabbled in everything from tech support to accounting to customer service, and even appeared in a small role in the company's 1997 horror game Shivers 2, portraying a guitarist in a grunge band called Trip Cyclone. "I played Dave," Jason explains. "The band gets kidnapped and we leave music videos as clues for the gamer to proceed." It is clear that Jason holds a great deal of fondness for this time in his career - Sierra is also where he met his wife, Rebecca.
Nowadays, he is better known as full-time YouTuber Metal Jesus, a nickname his former workmates gave to him on account of his long hair and penchant for a good guitar lick. Videos on his channel, MetalJesusRocks, go out to 400,000 subscribers, and usually focus on retro games and collecting. His introduction to gaming came from home computers, and he admits he didn't do much console gaming until the release of the PS2.
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