Dan Ryckert

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dan Ryckert
Occupation	Self-Help Author
Date Of Birth	Jun 16, 1984(1984-06-16)
Age	40
Country	United States
Birth City	Kansas
Horoscope	Gemini

Dan Ryckert Biography

Dan Ryckert is one of the most popular and richest Self-Help Author who was born on June 16, 1984 in Kansas, United States. Author and journalist whose publications includes Anxiety as an Ally: How I transformed a frightened mind into my Most Favorite Friend as well as Air Force Gator. He was the senior editor of the site Giant Bomb.

He held 2 Guinness World Records for playing video games featuring Mario. Mario which was invented by He has held two Guinness World Records for playing video games that featured the character Mario, who was created by Shigeru Miyamoto…

As an author, Ryckert has published six books. Two are of the fictional Air Force Gator series, inspired by action films of the 1980s. The books are described as a story of a military alligator pilot who is searching for his missing partner in the Middle East. After an altercation on Twitter between Ryckert and former Baseball player Jose Canseco, Canseco agreed to write the foreword for the sequel, Air Force Gator 2: Scales of Justice. ESPN reported that Canseco wrote the foreword under the impression, or pretending to be under the impression, that the book is a “thinly disguised metaphorical depiction of Canseco’s life.” Other books include Anxiety As an Ally, an autobiographical book based on Ryckert’s experiences with anxiety disorders and panic attacks, and a memoir titled The Dumbest Kid in Gifted Class about his time growing up in Kansas.

Daniel Joseph Ryckert (born June 16, 1984 in Olathe, Kansas) is an American producer, writer, and former video game journalist. In 2011, Complex magazine named Ryckert one of the twenty-five “raddest” game journalists to follow on Twitter. Ryckert has made three non-player character (NPC) appearances in video games; in 2011’s L.A. Noire, 2014’s Infamous Second Son and 2017’s 2064: Read Only Memories.

His family ran a supermarket store in Kansas known as Ryckert’s Market.

Dan Ryckert Net Worth

Dan Ryckert is one of the richest Self-Help Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dan Ryckert 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His writing has appeared on The Game Informer website as well as the Lawrence Journal-World which is a daily newspaper that is published within Lawrence, Kansas.

The year 2011, when the event took place, he broke his Guinness World Record for the longest Mario marathon. He played several Mario games for more than 50 hours in a row.

Ryckert is said to have an eccentric personality which leads to a lot of ideas that think outside the box. Former Game Informer co-workers Jeff Cork and Ben Hanson have commented on Ryckert that his time working for Game Informer was “kind of like a Make-A-Wish Foundation for Dan. His life is ridiculous” and “You realize you need to kind of reset your own gauges onto what works and what doesn’t, because I’ve been proven wrong time and time again. Never bet against Dan’s is kind of a constant refrain.” Ryckert is a fan of 1980s action films, which both lead to the creation of his Air Force Gator series and being voted as one of the 25 raddest game journalists to follow on Twitter by Complex magazine. Complex commented on its choice of Ryckert because his posts are just as much about Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Die Hard as any given game review he’s worked on. Ryckert is known to suffer from anxiety disorders and panic attacks.

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His second world record was set in accordance with five other Game Informer editors, with each of the six individuals setting gaming marathon records at the same time in different video game genres or franchise. Ryckert’s record was in the Super Mario franchise, setting the record at 50 hours. In response to the Game Informer staff being resistant to playing games from the Mario Party franchise with him, 2012 saw Andrew W.K. visit the Game Informer office in the same vein as Gwar at Ryckert’s behest, to play the new release Mario Party 9, the meeting a pun on Andrew W.K.’s song Party Hard.

Facts & Trivia

Dan Ranked on the list of most popular Self-Help Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dan Ryckert celebrates birthday on June 16 of every year.

Following the death of co-founder and host Ryan Davis in 2013, Ryckert and fellow Game Informer staff member Jason Oestreicher joined Giant Bomb in 2014 as senior content producer and video producer, first introducing themselves on the July 1, 2014 episode of the Giant Bombcast. Succeeding what Vice described as a year of emptiness, mourning and with a gap in editorial, the magazine said that the hiring of Ryckert, Oestreicher and news editor Austin Walker together ensured that “Giant Bomb has a future.”