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Do you ever get the feeling that you’re wasting your life playing on all these mindless video games? Do you ever get the feeling that you’ve just played too many games when....
You sneak down the stairs for a late night snack and start to think you’re Solid Snake, sneaking around in the dark in an enemy installation. You press yourself against walls trying to hide in the shadows, and then creep under a cardboard box. Your dad hears rustling so comes down to investigate holding a cricket bat, prepared to fight off a burglar, but only finds you cowering under the box.
You dream of Mario wearing nothing but a small posing pouch, and dancing to ‘Macho Man’ by the Village People.
You have a picture of Shigeru Miyamoto in your wallet, a huge poster of him on your wall, a cardboard cutout of him, and you pray in the direction of Japan every day.
You have completed loads of games such as GTA3 100% including hidden packages, Zelda Ocarina of Time with all gold Skulltulas, found all 96 exits in Mario World, found all the dog tags in Metal Gear Solid 2 etc.
You can name all 2051 Pokemon.
You close your eyes and can see all those falling Tetris blocks AARRGGHH!!
Your eyes are dry and shrivelled from a 20-hour marathon gaming session or you suffer from extreme Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
You can get ridiculously low times in Mario Kart.
You can finish a level of Mario World with your eyes closed.
You cry when one of your beloved Sims characters dies.
You have no suntan.
You use the words like frag, bandwidth, Meg and various other geeky words, tech terms and phrases.
You imagine that the crowd of grannies in the supermarket are a hoard of slavering Resident Evil zombies, you pick up a cucumber and imagine it’s a shotgun, only to be led away by a security guard.
After not playing Street Fighter II for years, you can still go back and remember all the moves, even though you forget wedding anniversaries, birthday dates and things you did the previous day, yet you can still remember all those moves!!!
When doing the vacuuming, you suddenly decide to point the hoover at your mum’s expensive Ming vase to see if it contains a ghost or coins, with disastrous results.
You are excited at the prospect of receiving the latest Japanese train simulator, weird RPG, dating sim, odd beat ‘em or side scrolling shooter called Super Radiant Megaforce Alpha Gaiden on import, when in actual fact, those games are incomprehensible to the non Japanese speaking people who buy them, and are rubbish games.
You own all the main consoles, from Atari 2600 & Spectrums, to NES, Master System, 3DO, Jaguar, Neo Geo, to Dreamcast, N64, PS1, PS2, Xbox & Gamecube.
You can hum all the music from Mario or remember all the funny radio conversations from GTA3.
You believe your ham & egg sandwich is a power-up and it makes you stronger.
You go through every phone book in the world, looking for people named Lara Croft or Solid Snake.
You believe that life after death will use up one of your continues, and you will respawn.
You try to create a Phoenix Down to use on your dead hamster.
When watching football on TV, your hands move, as if you were controlling the players like in a football game.
Like an RPG character, you just walk into a stranger’s house and start rummaging through their belongings for useful items or treasure, only to be arrested by the fuzz.
You go to the zoo and think that the emus are chocobos.
You drive a taxi with complete disregard for all traffic laws in trying to get your passenger to their desired location in the quickest time.
Having played lots of Gran Turismo, you believe that you can drive a real car without taking any tests, with scratched paintwork, a smashed headlight and a dented bumper the result.
You like to perform power slides in your Ford Fiesta as if you were playing a rally game.
Your favourite music comes from a Final Fantasy game, Metal Gear Solid or GTA3.
You must constantly wear plasters on your aching thumbs from all the gaming sessions you endure.
You try to show off and display ‘1-upmanship’ when talking about retro games and think that you know more about games than everyone else by listing loads of old and obscure games in your list of all time favourite games list.
You have no money because you spent it all on games.
Has anyone else got any ideas for more?
You sneak down the stairs for a late night snack and start to think you’re Solid Snake, sneaking around in the dark in an enemy installation. You press yourself against walls trying to hide in the shadows, and then creep under a cardboard box. Your dad hears rustling so comes down to investigate holding a cricket bat, prepared to fight off a burglar, but only finds you cowering under the box.
You dream of Mario wearing nothing but a small posing pouch, and dancing to ‘Macho Man’ by the Village People.
You have a picture of Shigeru Miyamoto in your wallet, a huge poster of him on your wall, a cardboard cutout of him, and you pray in the direction of Japan every day.
You have completed loads of games such as GTA3 100% including hidden packages, Zelda Ocarina of Time with all gold Skulltulas, found all 96 exits in Mario World, found all the dog tags in Metal Gear Solid 2 etc.
You can name all 2051 Pokemon.
You close your eyes and can see all those falling Tetris blocks AARRGGHH!!
Your eyes are dry and shrivelled from a 20-hour marathon gaming session or you suffer from extreme Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
You can get ridiculously low times in Mario Kart.
You can finish a level of Mario World with your eyes closed.
You cry when one of your beloved Sims characters dies.
You have no suntan.
You use the words like frag, bandwidth, Meg and various other geeky words, tech terms and phrases.
You imagine that the crowd of grannies in the supermarket are a hoard of slavering Resident Evil zombies, you pick up a cucumber and imagine it’s a shotgun, only to be led away by a security guard.
After not playing Street Fighter II for years, you can still go back and remember all the moves, even though you forget wedding anniversaries, birthday dates and things you did the previous day, yet you can still remember all those moves!!!
When doing the vacuuming, you suddenly decide to point the hoover at your mum’s expensive Ming vase to see if it contains a ghost or coins, with disastrous results.
You are excited at the prospect of receiving the latest Japanese train simulator, weird RPG, dating sim, odd beat ‘em or side scrolling shooter called Super Radiant Megaforce Alpha Gaiden on import, when in actual fact, those games are incomprehensible to the non Japanese speaking people who buy them, and are rubbish games.
You own all the main consoles, from Atari 2600 & Spectrums, to NES, Master System, 3DO, Jaguar, Neo Geo, to Dreamcast, N64, PS1, PS2, Xbox & Gamecube.
You can hum all the music from Mario or remember all the funny radio conversations from GTA3.
You believe your ham & egg sandwich is a power-up and it makes you stronger.
You go through every phone book in the world, looking for people named Lara Croft or Solid Snake.
You believe that life after death will use up one of your continues, and you will respawn.
You try to create a Phoenix Down to use on your dead hamster.
When watching football on TV, your hands move, as if you were controlling the players like in a football game.
Like an RPG character, you just walk into a stranger’s house and start rummaging through their belongings for useful items or treasure, only to be arrested by the fuzz.
You go to the zoo and think that the emus are chocobos.
You drive a taxi with complete disregard for all traffic laws in trying to get your passenger to their desired location in the quickest time.
Having played lots of Gran Turismo, you believe that you can drive a real car without taking any tests, with scratched paintwork, a smashed headlight and a dented bumper the result.
You like to perform power slides in your Ford Fiesta as if you were playing a rally game.
Your favourite music comes from a Final Fantasy game, Metal Gear Solid or GTA3.
You must constantly wear plasters on your aching thumbs from all the gaming sessions you endure.
You try to show off and display ‘1-upmanship’ when talking about retro games and think that you know more about games than everyone else by listing loads of old and obscure games in your list of all time favourite games list.
You have no money because you spent it all on games.
Has anyone else got any ideas for more?
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lol another great post Totoro.
I'm trying to think of some but I can't yet. Give me time...
I'm trying to think of some but I can't yet. Give me time...
nice. I use the word frag, but only when talking about computer games.. although talking about them probably qualifies.
I think that another sign is if you look at your wallpaper and it reminds u of that puzzle game you played before.
Also, imagining what certain films would look like if they were turned into computer games, and how well u could do it should be another indicator, unless u work with computer games
I think that another sign is if you look at your wallpaper and it reminds u of that puzzle game you played before.
Also, imagining what certain films would look like if they were turned into computer games, and how well u could do it should be another indicator, unless u work with computer games
Totoro wrote:
> You can get ridiculously low times in Mario Kart.
OK, I got a lap time of 7 seconds on Wario Stadium but THATS IT!
Please don't scare me!
> You can get ridiculously low times in Mario Kart.
OK, I got a lap time of 7 seconds on Wario Stadium but THATS IT!
Please don't scare me!
"After not playing Street Fighter II for years, you can still go back and remember all the moves, even though you forget wedding anniversaries, birthday dates and things you did the previous day, yet you can still remember all those moves!!!"
God, yes! Not with Street Fighter 2, but other games! I don't even know how old the members of my family are, or when their birthdays are, yet I can still remember moves from various beat 'em ups
"You can hum all the music from Mario or remember all the funny radio conversations from GTA3."
Aye, I'm always humming game music. I was told off in Maths back in year 8 for humming the tune from One Must Fall
Anyway, good post. The one about thinking grannies are zombies made me laugh
God, yes! Not with Street Fighter 2, but other games! I don't even know how old the members of my family are, or when their birthdays are, yet I can still remember moves from various beat 'em ups
"You can hum all the music from Mario or remember all the funny radio conversations from GTA3."
Aye, I'm always humming game music. I was told off in Maths back in year 8 for humming the tune from One Must Fall
Anyway, good post. The one about thinking grannies are zombies made me laugh
Totoro wrote:
> You have no suntan.
actually thats called livng in the UK :D
> You own all the main consoles, from Atari 2600 & Spectrums, to
> NES, Master System, 3DO, Jaguar, Neo Geo, to Dreamcast, N64, PS1, PS2,
> Xbox & Gamecube.
I think the fact that you can name them all says a lot :D
>or remember all the funny radio
> conversations from GTA3.
Ill connfes that im one of them
looks like i kinda play to many video games :)
> You have no suntan.
actually thats called livng in the UK :D
> You own all the main consoles, from Atari 2600 & Spectrums, to
> NES, Master System, 3DO, Jaguar, Neo Geo, to Dreamcast, N64, PS1, PS2,
> Xbox & Gamecube.
I think the fact that you can name them all says a lot :D
>or remember all the funny radio
> conversations from GTA3.
Ill connfes that im one of them
looks like i kinda play to many video games :)
Very good and funny post
Totoro wrote:
>You dream of Mario wearing nothing but a small posing pouch, and dancing to ‘Macho Man’ by the Village People.
I did that before i started gaming.... :-P
>You dream of Mario wearing nothing but a small posing pouch, and dancing to ‘Macho Man’ by the Village People.
I did that before i started gaming.... :-P
Heh, nice one Totoro!
I'm glad to see that from that list, I haven't played too many video games - not quite anyway!
I still remember a lot from the SNES days, but I don't think i'm a Secret Agent, nor do I use phrases like 'frag' in my every day life.
I'm glad to see that from that list, I haven't played too many video games - not quite anyway!
I still remember a lot from the SNES days, but I don't think i'm a Secret Agent, nor do I use phrases like 'frag' in my every day life.
Totoro wrote:
> You sneak down the stairs for a late night snack and start to think
> you’re Solid Snake, etc ....
My bosses son has just been playing MGS2 and he has been going around the house pretending he is a stealth assasin ! He crept up behind him last week while he was on the PC and did the usual BOO and my boss jumped up and did his back in !!!
At least it kept him in his office away from the rest of us for a few days.
> You sneak down the stairs for a late night snack and start to think
> you’re Solid Snake, etc ....
My bosses son has just been playing MGS2 and he has been going around the house pretending he is a stealth assasin ! He crept up behind him last week while he was on the PC and did the usual BOO and my boss jumped up and did his back in !!!
At least it kept him in his office away from the rest of us for a few days.
Good post by the way
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