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Scott began gaming in 1981. Only six years old at the time, his lifelong love for gaming began when he slid a quarter into a Pac-Man machine at a laundromat in Garland, TX.
By the mid 1980s Scott could often be found at the top of the high score charts in a variety of arcades near his hometown. In 1990, he competed in the first stop of the Nintendo World Championships in Dallas, narrowly missing the finals. He would go on to win several city and regional championships on game titles such as Primal Rage and Donkey Kong Country through the rest of the decade.
Following a run as a pro wrestler, Patterson turned back to gaming in 2005 and aimed to contribute in a variety of ways to gaming culture and community.
* As a writer, Scott covers news items about the gamers and people who make up video game culture. He has broken and pushed numerous positive stories and world record stories into the mainstream press, and has been interviewed by NBC News and numerous online websites as part of it. Patterson hopes by helping tell the stories of the people in gaming that he can help it's mainstream acceptance. Links to current articles can be found on the front page of this site while older articles are linked in other sections.
* Patterson currently writes gaming articles, editorials and columns for Examiner.com and Retroids. These stories are sometimes picked up by other media sources. He has written in the past for Gameroom Magazine and Twin Galaxies and writes Fantasy Football advice columns for Bleacher Report during the NFL season.
* Scott owns numerous world records which have been published in the pages of the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He has been interviewed by media for some of these records, including an ESPN interview in 2010 for a record on Madden NFL 09.
* Patterson has collected a variety of historical magazines and news clippings from gaming history in an effort to preserve the industries history and heritage. In the summer of 2011 he started the Registry of Historic Gaming Locations for this very purpose.
* He has spoken in print, television and other media about the responsibility of the press to correctly report the true demographics and information about video gaming, and the parents responsibility in ensuring that Rated M games do not come into their hands.
* Scott collects and restores classic arcade video games, game consoles and 1980s personal computers and has since 1994. His collection currently contains six arcade titles and nearly 20 consoles and computers.
* In 2009, Patterson helped bring Twin Galaxies and G4tv together to air a live Donkey Kong world record attempt on live national television as part of the E3 Expo brodcast. PSP provided the machine and was on set to provide statistical data to producers and technical support for the arcade machine.
* In 2011, Scott came up with the concept of GameDay, a fundraising website to help organizations such as the International Video Game Hall of Fame and charities and help bring the video gaming community together.
* In 2011, Patterson was the first gamer to sample 'biotic games' which use real living single cell organisms as part of a study at Stanford University.
* Scott is also a former staff member of Twin Galaxies International, the official scorekeeping organization for video gaming. While with Twin Galaxies he served as Editor-In-Chief (2008-2009), Director of Marketing (2009-2010) and Division Manager (2010-2011).
* Oversaw and adjudicated live world record tournaments in 2009 and 2010, including the Big Buck Safari World Record Tournament at the 2009 Texas Pinball Festival and the Twin Galaxies World Championships at the 2010 Big Bang event in Iowa.
* He was also an early staff member of Aurcade, researching and entering hundreds of North Texas locations into the "Arcade Finder" portion of the database in 2008.
* Teamed with Monkey Paw Games to help market the launch of BurgerTime World Tour in November 2011.
* Scott's "Women Gamers Week" feature drew over 111,000 readers to Examiner.com in 2011.
Patterson is married to his high-school sweetheart Melissa and they currently have two children together.
He is also an avid Fantasy Football player and fan of NFL Football, Saturday Night Live and actress Drew Barrymore.
By helping video gaming, Patrick Scott Patterson hopes to help make gaming stronger and give back to a form of entertainment that has given him decades of enjoyment.
