Late last year we discovered that MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson, arguably the most popular individual on the Internet with 240 million MySpace friends (he is added by default to every MySpace account) was actually 37 years old, not the 32 that he continues to claim on his MySpace page.

Now we’ve learned a much more colorful part of Anderson’s history: In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it. He was never arrested because he was a minor, but the FBI confiscated all of his computer equipment and some newspaper accounts of the incident stated incorrectly (see image below from a 1986 LA Times story) that he was “convicted in federal court of computer hacking and placed on probation” (the statements were corrected in subsequent articles). Anderson used the hacker name “Lord Flathead.”
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I guess Tom should have used the name ZeroCool. It would have been much more fitting. And yes i know he did this shit before the movie ever came out. And i don’t care.

If you’ve read the headline and are already flexing your fingers ready to write an outraged response on the T&G message boards telling me that I’m more evil than Wario and Bowser’s demonic offspring, let me explain why I think it’s about time that Nintendo’s most famous character is put out to pasture.
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I kind of agree with the writer of said article. Mario is the king. Always has, and always will be. Nintendo does not need a new mascot. They have one. Put him on the throne outside of Nintendo HQ and let someone else have the spotlight for a while. But don’t let anyone forget who runs shit in video game land.

I wonder what the world would be like under the evil rule of Sonic? That is of course if he were to win the video game wars of the 90’s.