There's this amazinggg feature on Polygon of Triforce Johnson, who we all know as the crazy who insists on being first to every Nintendo console launch...
http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/18/3655956/triforce-johnson-the-worlds-most-patient-gamer-wii-u
It's a read, but a quick read. It really gives you a different and deeper perspective of Triforce Johnson. Here's the intro to entice you to read this article.
Triforce Johnson has been first in line for new console launches eight times. This is his story.
A man named Triforce waits on a patch of sidewalk just outside the Nintendo World Store in Midtown Manhattan. Here, at midnight on November 18, the self-declared superfan will be the first to purchase the new Nintendo Wii U video game console. This is Johnson's eighth time waiting at the front of a line, and at the age of 35, it will be his last.
I meet Triforce the day before Hurricane Sandy pulverizes the Eastern Seaboard, and three weeks before Wii U's launch. He's already been in line for 10 days, though he appears well rested.
Triforce has a medium build with wide eyes and tightly braided hair, which he usually tucks beneath a beanie or hood. His incessant enthusiasm affords him a certain glow. He looks young for his age. For anyone, really, who makes a habit of standing outside for long periods of time.
The first thing Triforce does when I arrive is fish his passport from a Nintendo brand messenger bag, flipping the little booklet open like a police badge. The passport — a real one; I triple checked — belongs to one Isaiah Triforce Johnson. "That is my full legal name," he says. "I got Triforce added to my first name, because it was easier than replacing."
Looking at the name, in legal text, my brain wrestles to calculate which displays more loyalty and fandom for one's favorite brand: waiting outside for weeks at a time, year after year, or legally changing your name to one of the brand's most iconic totems.
"My father calls me Triforce," he says, adding, "if he calls me Isaiah, then I know he's upset."
Who is this guy?
