User:Mases554@legacy41957662

=Biography= Hey guys, my name is Mases Hagopian and I am a Webmaster at Zelda Dungeon. Born October 11th, 1986 in Morton Grove, Illinois, a suburb to the north of Chicago. I still reside in Morton Grove, where I've lived all 22 years of my glorious life. In the summer time I get outside a lot doing various activities. I love swimming, bike riding, and playing various sports, especially baseball. I also umpire and coach little league baseball, which I find to be a lot of fun.

I'm currently a student at the University of Illinois @ Chicago studying Economics. I should be through with my bachelors degree in Spring of 2009 and then I am most likely will be off to graduate school to get my MBA.

In my online world, I spend a majority of my time working on my own Zelda website, Zelda Dungeon. In addition to that, I used to play a bunch of online Chess as well as online Poker. I used to be a super big Starcraft fan back in the day. My favorite PC game has to be Sim City. Not sure why or how I really got into the series, but It's probably my favorite PC game of all time. I still throw in Sim City 4 every so often.

For general gaming, I love Zelda of course, although it probably isn't my favorite game series anymore, at least not the modern games. I really don't play much of anything on the current generation of consoles even though I have a Nintendo Wii and a Microsoft Xbox 360. I'm a huge fan of survival horror games, with my favorite game series being Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Not sure how I'd rank these two with Zelda, but the 3 of them combine to be my favorite game franchises. The new Silent Hill title is schedule to release in August, so it's something to look forward to.

I listen to almost any type of music you can think of, from heavy metal, to rock, to country, etc... I have over 225 CD's in my collection and my favorite artists include Garth Brooks, 3 Doors Down, Iron Maiden, Sonata Arctica, Dragonforce, Celine Dion, and a few others.

=Zelda Dungeon= I started Zelda Dungeon on August 19th of 2001 and it has ruled my online life ever since. It has been so satisfying working on the site, creating game guides, and watching the site grow to what it is today. I've met a ton of new people in the Zelda community and have created close bonds with many of the staff members that I've had at Zelda Dungeon. It's hard to believe that I've been running the website for more than 7 years now... Wow!

The site is all about game guides, which has become second nature for a lot of Zelda sites these days. Most sites and the community in general have shifted from site content towards community interactivity including fan submissions and message boards. I suppose we are old school a bit, strictly working on content and one of the few sites that actually works on full game walkthroughs, and not just item/character/enemy guides.

I launched a community message board in October of 2007 and it has grown quite rapidly over the last few months, accumulating over 500 registered members and over 25,000 total posts. A forum was one of the things that Zelda Dungeon was always lacking, but with the recent growth the site has experienced, the forum has become quite an active place to be.

=Zelda Community= When I'm not working at Zelda Dungeon and not at Zelda Wiki, there are a few places I frequently visit and participate in.

North Castle
One of the websites that I'm always looking at while surfing the Zelda community is North Castle. I'm good friends with Juliet, who owns the place and I used to be a huge fan of their fan fiction. I frequent their site and look at all the latest fan art and fan movie submissions that they have. There really is a ton of fan material at their site. North Castle is also a site that is a part of the Zelda Dungeon Alliance.