who are you?
i’m jeff clark. i live in tucson, arizona with my wife and two children. i love my family and i love spending time with them. that being said, i am a hardcore gamer and won’t hesitate to fire up a game whenever i get the chance. unfortunately for me, with two toddlers running around that chance rarely comes.
my primary gaming platform is the pc. i’m not one of those people that despises every other gaming platform because in my opinion, a gamer is a gamer. play what makes you happy. i’ve been infatuated with computers since i was a kid primarily because my father worked at ibm and brought home one of the first personal computers available–the ibm 5150 (external link). while i had loads of fun on this platform with games like super boulder dash (external link) and novatron (external link), the first pc game i was deeply obsessed with was wolfenstein 3d (external link). first person shooter games are near and dear to my heart, but i love many other types of games.
what is this place?
i have joined the twenty first century and set myself up with a blog. hooray. i hope to bring something to the table that you can’t find anywhere else, however that is unlikely considering the sheer number of websites out there with people that actually have time to devote to said websites. my goal is to showcase old games that have been revitalized, inform you of modifications that enhance a particular game and giving general tips and tricks for games that i enjoy.
why cowgod.net?
my online alias, nickname, whatever you want to call it is cowgod. it’s a name that evolved over a solid decade or more starting with elementary school. it started with a little something called español. my name is jeff, which is jéfe in spanish (pronounced heh-fay). my friends decided it would be funny to start calling me heifer instead of jéfe. crazy kids!
heifer stuck with me for a long time. eventually this thing called the internet caught on and i needed to get myself an email address. heifer didn’t have quite the pizazz i was hoping for, so i took it upon myself to switch to simply cow. i used that alias on any website that still had it available. it was also the nickname i used for online gaming.
i did lots and lots of gaming back in the day. the game that consumed most of my time by far was counter-strike (external link). i’m not talking counter-strike source (external link) like the kiddos today are playing–i’m talking old school, mod for half-life (external link) counter-strike 0.3 beta. i played so much that i almost turned into this guy (external link). anyway, i got pretty good. some of my clan members called me a counter-strike god. see where i’m going with all of this? i infused my godlike counter-strike skills into my nickname to create the alias cowgod and it has stuck ever since.
what is your favorite game of all time?
the game that has consumed the most time in my life is quake (external link) by id software (external link). i still play it to this day.
how can i contact you?
i would love to hear from you. contact me through this website or on twitter (external link).