Origin of Bellepheron
“How did you come up with Bellepheron?”
In the past, I have been asked how and where did I come up with the avatar name of “Bellepheron”. Prior to 2001 I was using another nickname, but not a picture avatar as the technology just wasn’t really taking off yet. As I will explain in a moment, I basically decided to dump the older nickname in favor of a new one. I do want to emphasize that the dates mentioned here are approximate and are not exact by any means.
Bellepheron’s Origin
Pre-2001
I was using other game aliases and more into actual IRC style chats than I was online-gaming. Though I have been gaming since I was 7 yrs old on an old Commodore Vic20.
2001
Bellepheron: The name had little meaning to me when I first got it from Random Name Generator from the Macintosh only game Cythera made by Ambrosia Software.
I played Cythera for a long while before I basically got bored of it and gave up even after applying hacks to the character file to see what happens. My Cythera days were all of approximately 9 months total playing about 1 hour a day. Here are some Cythera Screenshots to see what the game is about.
Oct 2001
Around this time, I ran across Runescape for the first time approximately. Unfortunately at this point in time, I had no way to really play the game as my mac had its unfortunate meltdown as described elsewhere on this site.
My interest in Runescape at this point lasted maybe 3 months at most and I didn’t get very far in the game before I was forced to stop due to circumstances at home, life, and other crazy stuff.
2002-2004
Stumbling around the internet for an online game to play, I ran across Vagabond’s Quest by Netdragons. VQ+ is a text based, adventure, RPG where you have a class you choose for your character, and you work your way to becoming the best of the best. I played this as much as I was, and dared, to play.
It was the beginning point of my interest in RPG as a game playing choice. I was playing VQ+ on a borrowed computer so I was only able to save my BellepheronCharacter Info sheet when I was forced to quit by the computer’s owner. Keep in mind the data is still good, but has long since expired. I was only able to complete a “Save As HTML” of the file. I do not have access to the images so ignore them.
As I was playing, VQ+ I was told that my character name was also from Greek Mythology. I found this something very interesting as I did study Greek Myth in High School but, I completely forgot about Bellepheron and the Chimera.
2005-2007
I was only able to play Xbox, Gamecube, Standalone PC games during this time as I only had a computer for a while, until the system crashed. It was too slow of a computer and had to use dialup connection to do anything. This computer was so bad it couldn’t barely play Blizzard’s StarCraft or EA’s Return of the King.
2007-Present
I was working with my spouse at a nearby Walmart. I was in the back, she was up front. We did this for just over 10 months, Around January of 2007, I was force to make a choice between my children’s caregiver and my job.
Even though I do admit, there were mistakes made on my part, I suspec there were mistakes also made on my caregiver’s part. It was this that lead me to the decision to become the stay-at-home parent.
My spouse’s position was higher paying than mine and provided the majority of our income. My pay was only covering the co-pay for or caregiver subsidy we recieved from our local county assistance office.
Even though circumstances forced the decision, the decision has become my own regardless. At first, we didn’t have anything but the TV to entertain my children so, day in and out, I was watching childrens programs during the day and other stuff during the evening hours. As any parent can attest, children’s programs repeatedly played can be very annoying.
Thanks to the Income Tax refund we were able to get a very nice laptop to be shared as well as cable internet access. I was looking for a couple of things:
- Something that would require time to do
- It had to be an online game
It was this and remembering Runescape that I made the decision to sign-up again. It has been a year since I began playing and you can look for yourself at my Runescape Character Info. I have all the goal stat bars, and stat WebSigs for all my current skills.
Very First Blog Post
Approximately, 14 months ago my family finally was able to obtain a computer after having our desktop suffer a catastrophic meltdown of the system. Since the desktop was a freebie computer from a business we didn’t have the system discs to restore it.
Thanks to the wonders of recieving a nice-sized tax return we were able to buy an HP Pavilion 9205us Laptop with preinstalled Windows Vista. It has been a good computer inspite of some of the griping I’ve heard about from people who have upgraded from Windows XP.
Part of the reason, the decision to buy this laptop is I have two children who like to watch their DVDs and other edu-tainment type shows. After all, how many times can I put up with watching Dora, Diego and Zoboomafoo? I needed something for me while I was home with them and they were either playing or watching something they liked.
I remembered playing Runescape back in approximately 2000-2001. It was only for a little while and I didn’t get very far at all as I couldn’t play it on a 33.6kps modem I had on my Mac at the time. After about 3 weeks, I basically was forced to give it up as it was just too slow for my tastes.
Fast forward to 2007, I was looking for something to play online. I have tried things like yahoo games etc, but they did not meet a requirement I had. I wanted to play with other adults. Because of this I remembered Runescape and then re-registered with this same screen name. I started playing as F2P for a week or so and I finally said, heck with it I’ll pay to play.
As with any game, I have run into the idiots that roam the cyber highways. I’ve added and deleted so many RS screennames I cannot keep track of them. I’ve been part of several clans and left those clans. I’ve made enemies and friends, some just on game others actually outside of RS completely but met thru the game.
My wife even has now a P2P account and says the game is addicting to play. I have to agree, I am addicted to it, also. However, I do take breaks from playing otherwise I get very agitated.
I am enjoying the game as much as I can. I’ll get more into the why in another post.
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