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Artist // Hobbyist // Varied
  • Mar 2, 1990
  • United States
  • Deviant for 17 years
  • He / Him
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Please scroll down to see recent journals in the Posts section or click the Posts button at the top of the page. That's where I will be posting information and updates.


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Wheel of Fortune layouts (ALWAYS OPEN AND CHEAP!): germanname.deviantart.com/jour…

Sonic drawings

Trades: Closed when PayPal commissions are open or being worked on; otherwise, please ask

PayPal Commissions: https://www.deviantart.com/germanname/journal/PayPal-Commissions-OPEN-Five-Slots-Only-890737740






Name: Bill Gename

Birth Time: March 2, 1990, 22:18 Chicago Time


Hometown: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Member Since: December 29, 2006


E-Mail Me

germanname@yahoo.com


Sites to Check Me Out

Fanart Central www.fanart-central.net/profile…

YouTube www.youtube.com/user/germannam…

Facebook www.facebook.com/william.genam…

Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of…

Wikimedia Commons toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSen…

Buy A Vowel Boards buyavowel.boards.net/

Instagram www.instagram.com/germanname19… (You can see part of my SEGA collection over at Instagram.)


Hobbies:

Game Shows (esp. Wheel of Fortune)

Video Games (esp. Sonic The Hedgehog)

True Stories (Truth really is stranger than fiction, which is why I find it compelling)

Cars (esp. early 1990s Dodge Viper RT-10 and Saturn Sky)

Airplanes (esp. Commercial Jetliners)

Ships (esp. Ocean Liners and Cruise Ships)

Classic Rock (esp. Boston and Bon Jovi, the latter who by the way is exactly 28 years older than I am)


Marital Status: Single (and I'm keeping it that way)


Love Life: Despite my marital status preference, my love life consists of Sonia, Amy, Cosmo, Zooey, Tikal, Jani-Ca, and the other heroines from the Sonic series as well as my Sonic OC gals (They all feel like family to me).


What I don't like: Racism, misogyny, misandry (seriously, there's WAY too much of that), or bias. I will not tolerate sayings or actions that state that there are such things as superior/better/weaker races or gender. They're not fair! Everyone's equal, plain and simple. Now if you feel like you're on the minority side (or have even been victimized) when it comes to stuff like this, I'll be more than happy to do what I can to help you out with that. Besides, I like sticking up for the underdog.


Current Residence: Southwest Side of Chicago (Go Blackhawks! Go White Sox!)

Favourite genre of music: 70s & 80s Rock

Operating System: Windows 7 and 10

MP3 player of choice: 64GB iPod Touch

Favourite cartoon characters: Ladies from most Sonic, Disney, and Warner Bros. series

How I feel about others: I feel like all else's lives matter more than mine, but that's one reason why I help them.


How I feel about Sonic: If others hate Sonic, fine, yeah, whatever the [BLEEP], but if they try to make me hate Sonic, .


SEGA Systems I currently own (in order of release)

SG-1000 II

Mark III (Two units)

Japanese Master System

US Master System (modified with Region Switch and FM Chip)

Genesis (Model 1) complete with Power Base Converter (for Master System games)

Game Gear (Regular Black, currently not working, and Limited Edition Blue, currently working)

Victor Wondermega M1 (Yes, you read that right! The M1!)

Genesis CDX

JVC X'Eye

Pico (Japanese and North American)

32X (currently atop my CDX)

Saturn (Japanese and North American)

Dreamcast (Japanese Pearl Blue and US SEGA Sports Edition)

Genesis Mini


Nintendo Systems I currently own (by release date)

NES Model 1 (currently not working)

Sharp Twin Famicom (Black Model 2)

Nintendo 64

Nintendo 64 Disk Drive

Gamecube (Black with Game Boy Player)

Game Boy Advance SP

DS

Wii U

Red New 3DSXL (First system I ever preordered; 3D depth slider no longer works)

Galaxy Purple New 3DSXL

Switch

Super NES Classic Edition


Sony PlayStation Systems I currently own (by release date)

PlayStation 2 First Model

PlayStation Portable 1000

40GB PlayStation 3 (Has seen better days)

500GB PlayStation 3

1TB PlayStation 4 Pro

PlayStation VR


Other Gaming Systems I own (by company)

Hyperkin Retron 5

Hyperkin SupaBoy (Handheld system that plays SNES and Super Famicom games)

Old Skool Classic II HD (for NES and SNES)

Playmaji Polymega

SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color

Tiger Electronics GameCom


Systems I Used to Own (In Order I Got Them)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo Game Boy Pocket (Red)

Nintendo Game Boy Advance (Arctic White)

SEGA Genesis Model 2

SEGA CD Model 2

Nintendo Wii

Nintendo DS Lite

Nintendo 3DS (Turquoise; First system I ever bought on its launch date although it wasn't preordered)


Systems I'm looking forward to getting

Sony PlayStation 5 Pro (Rumored)




Favorite Real-Life Quote:

"You know what pressure is? When you have seven kids and you make only one dollar a month!"

- Ozzie Guillen comparing pressure to baseball during the 2005 White Sox season.


Favorite Movie Quote:

"So shines a good deed in a weary world."

- Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka quoting William Shakespeare

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


Favorite Documentary Quote:

"Occasionally, life sits on your head. But hey, I've been knocked down before. We all have. We get up. We go on. I think that's what makes us great."

- Lewis Abernathy upon hearing the news of the September 11th Attacks

Ghosts of the Abyss


Favourite Visual Artist
Ken Marschall
Favourite Movies
Sonic The Hedgehog, Both Wreck-it-Ralph films, and any disaster films
Favourite TV Shows
Wheel of Fortune, The Price is Right, Sonic X, Sonic Boom, Seconds From Disaster, various shows on Investigation Discovery
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Boston (God Bless Brad Delp), Bon Jovi (We have the same birthday!), Bentley Jones, Crush 40, Amy Hannam
Favourite Books
Books about whatever I like, I guess, but my childhood favorite is the Railway Series.
Favourite Games
Sonic Series, especially with Amy; WOF Series, Especially PS3, Wii, Sega CD, and Tiger and Parker Brothers' Live Play; Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Super Mario Odyssey, and the Mario Kart series
Favourite Gaming Platform
New Nintendo 3DS, Switch, Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (Yep, I have one), and all SEGA platforms
Tools of the Trade
Colored Pencils, Paint, PowerPoint, and Publisher

2023 in Review

5 min read
Well, I haven't made a journal here in a year's time, but 2023 has been a year full of ups and downs. I remember it did not get off to a good start for me with January being less than memorable, but there was one thing that kept it from being a complete dump - Wheel of Fortune returning in Germany. In February, I came across an eBay listing of 3D-printed Wheel of Fortune spinners, and I was the first customer for these spinners. Within months, the lady who made these was able to grow her business with my help, advice, and feedback. She now sells these spinners on Etsy. I also bought a rare Wheel of Fortune travel game from TootsieToy with everything in English and French. I hope to make some Wheel illustrations based off of this soon. March was more of a regular month. For my birthday, however, I submitted a ton of German and Italian Wheel illustrations along with this Argentine Wheel illustration. I also got to play ICE's Wheel of Fortune Mega Win for the first time at long last at
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2022 in Review

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2022 had some amazing highlights for me. So let's take a look at the highlights for each month. I will also designate a submission of the month as well. January: January was scarred with a lot of tough moments, but that was also the month that I bought my ticket to see Bon Jovi. February: Again, quite a bit of downpoints. Even so, the only highlight of that month that I can think of, that is if you could call it a highlight, is buying a bottle of Good 2 Grow fruit juice that had a Sonic The Hedgehog top. It was something I had been trying to get for a while, but once my workplace got it, I was very happy, and I remember it was Valentine's Day, exactly two years to the day I saw the first Sonic film. March: Without question, it was seeing The Price is Right Live up in Rosemont Theatre on March 5th. April: Two highlights back to back: Seeing Bon Jovi at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum on the evening of April 5th and seeing the second Sonic film in 4DX at Chicago's Regal City North with
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Being the big Sonic fan that I am, it was difficult to see all the hate geared toward the Sonic fan community in the aftermath of what happened at the Game Awards Thursday night, but after doing some research (and believe me, it wasn't easy on my emotions), I realized the full scope of what happened and learned that Genshin Impact may have actually deserved to win the Players' Choice Award after all. I'm saying "may" because there's really no way to know for sure how different things could have been. Before I go into that, however, I thought I'd tell you that Sonic Frontiers did win some awards back in September at the Japan Game Awards, being one of ten games to win the Future Division Award, being the first Sonic game to win an award at that event. Another winner of this award was Final Fantasy XVI (16). Although I have never played any Final Fantasy games, I know how popular and successful that series has been. So for a game in the Sonic series to be in the same league as a Final
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can you do any sock pics please

I can, but right now, I'm only taking commissions.

Hey it's been a while!

You rose to power at the end of 2006 correct?

Not exactly. My journey started eight and a half months earlier at a small fanart site. Plus, when I started here to close out 2006, it took a while for me to get noticed as I had no one to associate with. I believe it was early 2008 when things started to look up, although they didn't come without some bumps in the road.