Last night on the shack there was some reminiscing about The Old Days and sites that are long gone. This got me thinking about various people I’ve lost touch with over the years, one of whom was Jeremy Allford, who used to run AGN3D. He was one of those hardware review guys back the day, alongside guys like Kyle from Hard|OCP and Tom of his eponymous hardware site. I worked with him (virtually), although I did meet him in person a few times.

Jeremy was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor back in ‘99. He had to stop working shortly after that, which was sad to see. And sadly from there we all lost touch with him. I heard he had recovered somewhat, and even saw a website where he put up happy pictures of him and his family (that’s since been taken down).

I looked him up again last night, and it saddens me to say that Jeremy passed away just over a year ago, on June 5th, 2007. He was 35 years old. I was unable to find a published obituary, but I was able to look him up in the Social Security index. I also found a year-old forum post from his son Christopher confirming this.

I won’t pretend that I knew Jeremy very well. I knew him as an extremely prolific writer (good lord was that man prolific with his news posts) and as someone who was really well liked among those of us in the gaming scene. I know he was a very devoted husband and father and my belated condolences go out to his family.

I’ll leave you with this slideshow created by his son to be played at his funeral. They show a happy husband and father with his family, which I’m sure how he would like to be remembered. Jeremy was a good man, and he will be missed by all of us who knew and worked with him.