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Nicholas Harvey (born Nicholas Chadwick Harvey on September 30, 1984 in Gulfport, Mississippi, United States) is the current administrator of the Nintendo 64 High Scores site and one of the administrators of the Speed Run Wiki.

Brief history

Nicholas (or Nick, as he is often called) has been an avid Nintendo player since the age of nine. In the early years of Nintendo 64 High Scores (usually abbreviated to N64HS) he was a frequent contributor of scores and occasionally walkthroughs. As of this writing he still has won more POD awards than any other player, despite his apparent refusal to award a POD to himself in favor of another player during his three-year tenure as administrator of N64HS.

When Iacopo Sorce, the creator and first administrator of N64HS, announced that he was about to stop maintaining the site and take it down, Nick stepped in and told him that Andrew Kent, a new player at the time, would probably be able to continue running it, as he had already been running a couple of his own high score pages for Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Bros. DX. He was right-- Andrew indeed stepped up and became the new administrator of N64HS. Before long, even Andrew became too busy to maintain the site, so in 2003 Nick told Andrew that he would be willing to take control of N64HS himself after his upcoming graduation from high school. For a couple of months in 2003 Daniel Hasting was a temporary N64HS administrator, handling a small number of new scores. Then on May 25, 2003—the day immediately following Nicholas Harvey's high school graduation—Daniel transferred control of the Yahoo Geocities account he used to update N64HS to Nick, and Nick did his first update.

Under Nicholas Harvey, N64HS grew rapidly. Many new high score pages were created, including some for Nintendo games not released on the Nintendo 64, such as the continuation of the Mario Party series on the Nintendo GameCube. Keeping the site's focus on the high scores and fast times for the Nintendo 64 that the site was created for, Nick ignores record submissions for non-Nintendo 64 titles when deciding who to give the POD to.

Because N64HS has gotten so large during Nick's tenure, he has placed Andrew Kent in charge of updating the Rankings pages for the games. Other N64HS players are welcome to contribute updates for Rankings as well as for the long-neglected Awards and Nai WRs pages, as well as creating high score pages for new games.

As an administrator of N64HS, Nick is known for his sense of humor including word play on his front page stories, and his strict adherence to doing a site update every day, barring circumstances beyond his control, as long as there are new scores!

As a player

Nicholas Harvey is an expert player at many of the games he plays, in addition to being a hard-working administrator of N64HS. Before Derek Kisman joined in early 2001, he held nearly every Nai WR in Yoshi's Story, which earned him many of his PODs. He also holds many WRs in the Mario Party series, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and most recently, in Super Mario Bros. DX, where he currently holds every world record, and players lucky enough to beat his scores very rarely keep their new world record for more than a few hours. He has also briefly held a few WRs in Star Fox 64. He has beaten more than 80 games for the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo Game Cube, although this really isn't a very large number of games, as other players such as René Elsässer and Derek Kisman have beaten many hundreds of games. He has high expectations of a game in its overall design and will quickly get bored with a game if it does not keep entertaining him, explaining why he has not really played a huge number of titles. Nick best excels at high score events rather than fast times; his relatively poor times for popular racing games such as Mario Kart 64 or F-Zero X are a testament to this. When he is not playing a game for a record high score, Nick just loves to fool around, often finding new tricks and glitches in his games.

Trivia

• Nick's favorite band is Queen. Other music he enjoys includes country and western, heavy metal, funk, dance, and any music from the 1980s.

• Nick is a chile head, one who enjoys extremely hot and spicy foods. He has a cabinet full of hot sauce. His favorite hot sauce is Blair's Mega Death.

• Nick is a very good Scrabble player. He is in fact a member of the National Scrabble Association, although he has never actually participated in a tournament.

• He has a huge collection of Nintendo Power, Tips and Tricks, and GamePlayers magazines mostly from the 1990s along with issues of various other gaming magazines. He also has many issues of National Geographic another magazine he enjoys.

• He has also been an avid collector of road atlases, which have fascinated him since childhood.

• On September 30, 2006, while Nick was away from home celebrating his 22nd birthday, burglars broke into his home and stole none other than his Game Boy systems with his copy of Super Mario Bros. DX inside!

• He stands 5' 7 ½" (172 cm) tall and weighs 220 pounds (100 kg).

External Links

• Nintendo 64 High Scores