ADAM SESSLER

'Adam Donovan Sessler' (born August 29, 1973) is co-host and senior segment producer of the show '''X-Play''' on G4 (formerly TechTV) with Morgan Webb.

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Background

Career

Trivia

External links

Background

Sessler was born in Berkeley, California^[1]. He graduated from El Cerrito High School in 1991 and is a graduate of UCLA with a bachelor's degree in English literature. He was previously a credit analyst for a multinational Fortune 500 financial institution in San Francisco, and an actor on the San Francisco public access television show ''Chip Weigh Magnet Down'', which he also helped to make. Adam admits that he is grateful to no longer work for Fortune 500 companies, saying in ''The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming'' that he was "very sad" about the job. Sessler currently lives in Los Angeles, California, having moved from the former TechTV headquarters, which was located in San Francisco, California.

Career

Sessler is the only original personality from ZDTV remaining on the network, surviving the network's progression from ZDTV (1998-2001) to TechTV (2001-2004), and subsequent transition to G4. Sessler is one of only six TechTV personalities, including Morgan Webb, Sarah Lane, Kevin Rose, Chi-Lan Lieu, and Brendan Moran, to survive the massive layoffs resulting from the May 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV, though now he and Webb are the only two of those six hosts still on G4 today.
On April 1, 2005, Sessler confused many by announcing he was leaving ''X-Play'' to host a late night talk show on G4 entitled ''Meet the Sess''. A trailer of the new show aired on ''X-Play'', showing Sessler verbally and physically abusing his guests until they released information about upcoming video games. Despite being extremely over-the-top and obviously fake, many viewers began flooding the G4 forums asking when the show would air and if Sessler was really leaving ''X-Play''. Sessler has since publicly announced on several occasions that the show was in fact an April Fool's Day joke. Regardless, many viewers are still awaiting the show's release.

Trivia

Sessler has a younger brother named Jonathan who appeared as Adam 2.0 (in ''X-Play's 2005 April Fool's Day Episode), a "clone" of Adam who claims he's much better-looking than the original Adam with a "special USB port" (a reference to the Gameboy Advance SP succeeding the original Gameboy Advance).
Some of Adam's known favorite game series are the ''Halo'' series for its unique first-person shooter qualities, the Japanese version of ''Rez'' for its Trance Vibrator feature, the ''Rayman'' and ''Sly Cooper'' series for their unique platform qualities, and the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, as stated on an episode of ''Attack of the Show!''. His favorite Video game is ''Ghosts 'n Goblins'', which he has stated on several occasions on older episodes of ''Extended Play'' and ''X-Play''.
In 2005, a man posing as Sessler made the web-site adamsessler.com. The man fooled several web users into believing he was Sessler by answering questions regarding Morgan Webb and his opinion of video games. G4 ordered a cease and desist of the website's identity theft of Sessler. In response, the man responsible for the web-site has removed most information relating to Sessler and converted it to a personal blog.

External links

★ G4TV Hosts: Adam Sessler

★ The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming

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★ Gaming's Top 50 Journalists