Adam Sessler
Sessler at TGS '07
Born	Adam Donovan Sessler August 29, 1973 (1973-08-29) (age 34) Berkeley, California
Other names	The Sess
Employer	G4TV
Occupation	Host and Senior Segment Producer
Height	6 feet
Known for	Hosting X-Play

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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 (except for G4 owner Comcast), 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. Sessler is married.^[2] Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... The Fortune 500 is a ranking of the top 500 United States corporations as measured by gross revenue. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... Look up public access television in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is the largest[1] cable television (CATV) company and the second largest Internet service provider in the United States. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... San Francisco redirects here. ...

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, Ratchet and Clank 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. Halo is video game series created by Bungie Studios. ... This article is about video games. ... For other uses, see Rez (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Rayman (disambiguation). ... Ratchet and Clank is a popular video game for the Playstation 2 developed by Insomniac Games, creators of the Spyro series for the original Playstation. ... Official illustration of Sly Cooper, hero of Sucker Punchs series of platform-adventure games for the PS2. ... Platform games, or platformers, are a very popular genre of video games that originated in the early 1980s. ... This article contains information on the first Kingdom Hearts video game. ... Attack of the Show! logo as of May 2006. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

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 Game Boy Advance SP succeeding the original Game Boy Advance). The Game Boy Advance SP ), released in February 2003, is an upgraded version of Nintendos Game Boy Advance. ... “GBA” redirects here. ...

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. TechTV (May 11, 1998 - May 28, 2004) was a 24-hours per day technology cable and satellite television channel based in San Francisco, California, featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Morgan Ailis Webb (born October 5, 1978) is a host for the Webb Alert Podcast, a co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 show X-Play and was a monthly columnist for the United States edition of FHM, where she contributed a monthly video game column called The... Sarah Lane (born October 12, 1976 in Santa Cruz, California) is an American television personality. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Chi-Lan Lieu previously worked on the TechTV show Fresh Gear as a correspondent until it was cancelled following the merger of TechTV and G4. ... Brendan Moran (born July 16, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American television personality best known for his work as a co-host and field reporter on the G4 television program Attack of the Show! (formerly The Screen Savers). ... Downsizing refers to layoffs initiated by a company in order to cut labor costs by reducing the size of the company. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ...

In addition to co-hosting X-Play, Sessler also appears semi-regularly on Attack of the Show! as a video game correspondent. Attack of the Show! logo as of May 2006. ...

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. But he does have a segment called "Sessler's Soapbox" and "Adam vs. Adam" where he discusses video game politics. is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as quotes and spoiler brackets A page from a forum showcasing emoticons and Internet slang An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

References

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External links

• G4TV Hosts: Adam Sessler
• The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming
• AOTS Blog: Jack Thompson vs Adam Sessler
• Adam Sessler at the Internet Movie Database
• Orland, Kyle (October 17, 2006). Gaming's Top 50 Journalists. Next Generation. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.