Ambidextroid

| image = [[File:Japanese_Jano.jpg|center|200px|''I could have done with the purple hat version, but this picture of him looks much better =3'']]

| location = The chippy next to the Spar by my house

| interests = [[Rayman]], sleep and a good brew now and then

| occupation = [http://raymanpc.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4109 Rayman Pirate Community Member] and General Cool Guy

 

They can be found [[Special:Contributions/Ambidextroid|here]] on my contribs page.

 

 

==My Rayman-Based Adventures==

I was about 5 years old when I played Rayman 1 on PC for the first time. I had very, very nostalgic and distant memories of this game for a very long time before playing it again and being crushed by its difficulty.

 

When I was a little older, around 6 or 7, I started playing Rayman 2 for PC. It's my favourite game in the series and I was pretty much obsessed with it at the time. Jano was incredibly creepy and scary to me, but was (and still is) the coolest Rayman character.

 

I used to draw comics and drawings of Rayman 2 when I was in school, but I couldn't spell at the time so there was no text, just visual recreations of scenes. I remember a few drawings of the place where you rescue Ly with that machine that spits out bombs and another picture of Rayman holding on to a flaming keg, but I can't remember much else. These relics of my childhood have unfortunately been lost, I suspect, through the efforts of my parents to clean the house (a futile practice that I am yet to understand the purpose of, other than to rope children into doing pointless labour as a sadistic disciplinary measure).

 

I also had Rayman Revolution and played that quite a bit. I have a fond memory of a friend who was at my house and he thought the game looked shit and didn't understand why I liked the game so much... If only he gave it a try, the fool.

 

I don't know why, but this game gave me the impression that Rayman was actually only a few centimetres tall and everything in his world is just small. It may have been the plums...

 

I always thought the teensies were actually called "teensnies" until I saw it written down. I still think my name for them is better but oh well.

When I was about the same age, or a little older, I played Rayman 3.

 

I would obsessively play the [[Balloons]] and [[Missile Command]] mini-games, if not just for their quirky and catchy music. That Balloons mini-game was kind of creepy as a kid too, with that surreal empty landscape...

 

For some reason I used to think the Knaaren where called 'Invincibles' as I have a very vivid memory of the teensies saying they where called 'Invincibles', as do my brothers, though I must have dreamt it up or something.

 

*[[Rayman_1|Rayman]] (PC, PS1, DSi)

*[[Rayman_(Game_Boy_Color)|Rayman GBC]] (GBC, 3DS Virtal Console)

*[[Rayman 2]] (PC, N64, iOS)

*[[Rayman Revolution]] (PS2)

*[[Rayman M]] (PS2)

*[[Rayman_3_(Game_Boy_Advance)|Rayman 3 GBA]] (GBA)

*[[Rayman Origins]] (PC)

*[[Rayman Legends]] (PC)