Hello! My name is Whitney and as I’m sure you can tell by my website I’m a huge Silent Hill fan.
When I’m not searching foggy towns for missing daughters I reside in the San Francisco Bay Area and work as a graphic designer for a computer technology company in San Jose. Some of my hobbies include playing video games, singing bad karaoke, reading American and Japanese comics and watching movies in my spare time. Video games have been a pretty big part of my childhood and current entertainment. I believe my earliest gaming experience was as a four year old guiding a boxing mama kangaroo to save her baby on my older siblings’ Atari.
Since then I’ve enjoyed watching and playing games on my older brother’s various future consoles including NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Nintendo 64 and Playstation but I didn’t really get into seriously playing or owning my own games until 1997. I was a huge Final Fantasy VII, Parasite Eve and Resident Evil fan and wanted to have a console of my own without worrying whether or not my brother would eventually sell the system or games for the next new game or console. Christmas 1998 I received a Playstation of my own and took a more active part in gaming accumulating my own gaming consoles and video games on the Playstation, Playstation 2, Game Cube, Playstation Portable and Xbox 360. Through the years I developed love for survival horror and RPGs with Silent Hill, Resident Evil/Biohazard and Final Fantasy as my favorites for their intricate plot lines and interesting characters.
Silent Hill caught my attention when I saw a gruesome screen shot of Harry standing over a dead dog in a bloodied alley featured in some sort of upcoming games article in one of my brother’s random game magazines. At the time I was a full fledged Resident Evil fan and since the article described Silent Hill as a “Resident Evil clone” it was a guarantee I would at least give the game a try. After my first play through of Silent Hill shortly after it’s release it was obvious that this game wasn’t a mere Resident Evil clone…it was better! I was so enthralled by the creepy atmosphere, music, and plot the from then on Silent Hill has been one of my most treasured and favored game series.
Even though I was a big fan and bought and played the games as they came out I didn’t start seriously collecting Silent Hill merchandise until around 2004. It was around this time that I realized more items were available for the games besides the games and soundtracks. So far I have accumulated over 50+ Silent Hill related items and I’m still looking for more!
Now here are some quick Silent Hill/Video game related facts about me:
· Favorite types of games: Survival Horror and RPG…games with good plots mainly
· Least favorite games: First person shooters and sports games
· Favorite Game Series: Silent Hill, Resident Evil (Biohazard), Deadly Premonition
· First game beaten: Maniac Mansion (NES)
· Systems I personally own: Playstation (PS1), Playstation 2 (PS2), Gamecube (GC), Playstation Portable (PSP), Xbox 360 (360), Wii
· Systems I’ve played on but owned by my brother: Atari, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, N64, Playstation 1.
· Favorite Silent Hill characters: Lisa Garland and Heather, I even cosplayed Heather for an anime covention
· Favorite Silent Hill games: It’s a tie between Silent Hill 1 & Silent Hill 2 followed by Silent Hill Shattered Memories.
· Favorite games in general: Maniac Mansion, Silent Hill, Resident Evil/Biohazard, Assassin’s Creed, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6-8, 10, X2, Kingdom Hearts 1-2 and Parasite Eve 1-2, Deadly Premonition
· Favorite Silent Hill tunes: Silent Hill (SH1), Not Tomorrow (SH1), Silent Hill (Otherside) (SH1), Laura’s Theme (SH2), Fermata in Mistic Air (SH2), True (SH2), Promise (SH2), Shot down in Flames (SH0), Waiting For You (SH4), Wounded Warsong (SH4) One More Soul for the Call (SH5)
· Favorite Silent Hill Collectibles: Sealed Silent Hill 1 (JPN) and big Silent Hill Cloth banner.
· What Silent Hill Items I’m currently looking for: Sealed Japanese Silent Hill Konami best (with Lisa on the cover), James Konami Jacket, Silent Hill 4 UK game guide, and autographs from anyone involved in the game!
· Best Silent Hill related game achievement: Beating Silent Hill Homecoming on Hard Mode my first time through the game. I was really proud of myself that I beat the hard difficulty without the aid of the laser pistol like some of my other friends! I was even able to defeat Scarlet in one try (man that was lucky!) even though those Schisms regularly kicked my ass.
Have any questions, comments or just want to share your own collection? Awesome! You can contact me at: contact@silenthillcollection.com
