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'''Jeff Gerstmann''' (born August ]) is a senior editor at popular gaming website ]. He began working at ] in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot (back when GameSpot separated PC and console games into completely separate entities). He is known to be obsessed with the Microsoft Gamerscore system, and at his Gamespot page every week, provides an update on how many points he currently has. He also shares his thoughts about other things, and this can be seen every Monday at his Gamespot blog. Recently he has come under fire by many Gamespot users for giving good games bad reviews on the basis of small unimportant points. On the Gamespot forums users have expressed frustration with his harsh reviews and history of underscoring good games such as Mario Kart 64. '''Jeff Gerstmann''' (born August ]) is a senior editor at popular gaming website ]. He began working at ] in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot (back when GameSpot separated PC and console games into completely separate entities). He is known to be obsessed with the Microsoft Gamerscore system, and at his Gamespot page every week, provides an update on how many points he currently has. He also shares his thoughts about other things, and this can be seen every Monday at his Gamespot blog.

He is a founding member of the bands ], ], and ]. Additionally, Gerstmann's vocal stylings can be heard on the theme songs for both ''Time Trotters'' and ]'s game show, ''Button Mashing''. Gerstmann also appeared on ABC's ] as a guest in September 1999 to discuss the launch of ]'s ] gaming console.

He obtained his own (now defunct) ] at alt.sports.gerstmann, which housed several crossposts from ]. It was believed to be created in or around 1994 by ] icon, Tjames Madison. {{fact}}


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Jeff Gerstmann (born August 1975) is a senior editor at popular gaming website GameSpot. He began working at GameSpot in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot (back when GameSpot separated PC and console games into completely separate entities). He is known to be obsessed with the Microsoft Gamerscore system, and at his Gamespot page every week, provides an update on how many points he currently has. He also shares his thoughts about other things, and this can be seen every Monday at his Gamespot blog.

He is a founding member of the bands Headboard, The Suburban All-Stars, and Midnight Brown. Additionally, Gerstmann's vocal stylings can be heard on the theme songs for both Time Trotters and GameSpot's game show, Button Mashing. Gerstmann also appeared on ABC's Good Morning America as a guest in September 1999 to discuss the launch of Sega's Dreamcast gaming console.

He obtained his own (now defunct) newsgroup at alt.sports.gerstmann, which housed several crossposts from alt.religion.kibology. It was believed to be created in or around 1994 by Usenet icon, Tjames Madison.

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