Hypothetical Girl Situation

[Chris++]

Okay, just for fun.

 

So you're at the mall. This usually isn't like you at all, but a new mom-and-pop game store opened up, and you're obviously intent on checking out their possible little shelf of classics.

 

You don't find anything, but on your way out, there's a really cute girl smiling at you. You start to talk, and she asks for your phone number. You go home, hoping she calls when she said she would -- between 7 and 10 tonight.

 

You're playing a 2600 game. It's sometime between 7 and 10. The phone rings. You don't have caller ID, so if you don't pick up, you can't call her back.

 

What game would it have to be, and in what situation would you have to find yourself -- or "almost beaten" part -- to decide to keep playing and refuse to forfeit your game to answer the phone?

 

 

CF

[iguana]

If you have to think about it you should probably keep playing the game. :wink:

[Trey]

chris, chris, chris,

 

did space invaders cost you another date?

 

this wouldn't matter for me, because hypothetically, my wife would hang me with the joystick cord after she answered the phone. note to self: use wireless joysticks.

[bcprs1]

I think the only game I would do this for is Solaris. Man, I wish they put a password in that game or something to get you continue. As you can see under my name to the left, I STILL CAN'T BEAT SOLARIS!!!!!!!!

[Snider-man]

I am married, but for the sake of this question, I am not.

 

What game would I have to be playing? NONE OF THEM. Turn down human interaction with a warm, inviting woman WHO ASKED FOR MY NUMBER? Cripes, is this a no-brainer. I'd be at that phone in a New York minute. My Atari will be waiting when I got back.

 

Now, if it had been - hypothetically - a friend of mine who wanted to go out drinkin' or something, he'd better call back if I'm playing Dragonstomper or Survival Island.

[Jeffy Arensmeyer]

 

Do you have one of those mercury switch controllers, Le Stick it was called. The one that you could hold in one hand while your other hand is free...

 

..."almost beaten...

 

That's the problem!. Get rid of the controller, and you probably won't find your Atari 2600 more "interesting" than a date.  

 

All jokes aside, you gotta go for the date.  As hard as it is to hook-up with someone normal and non-paranoid these days, anyone that doesn't speak like a snake handler and doesn't look like a bag lady has to be seriously considered.  

 

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[Pitfall Harry]

She'd have to be standing there stark naked and writing my phone number onto her breast for me to have been so little of brain as to not have asked her for her phone number, too.

 

 

The next day, at the mall, there she is...

 

Renee: (pouting) Hi, Ben. I called you last night, but you weren't at home.

 

Ben: Oh, umm... I was home. I just couldn't come to the phone. Sorry.

 

Renee: Oh? And what were you doing that was so important? I rang like 20 times.

 

Ben: I was playing Custer's Revenge.

 

Renee: (drilling holes into Ben's skull with the silent force of her stare) O.

 

Ben: It's an old videogame. Made by Atari. Didn't I mention yesterday that I'm quite a collector? Well, right after I met you I hit a few thrift stores on the way home and I found a Custers' Revenge!! It's super rare, and I just had to play it and...

 

Renee: (unclenching her jaw to lash out) And if it's such a great game, you'd rather stay home jiggling your joystick than go out with me! Hmmpf!

 

Ben: Renee, I'm so sorry. Honest. I would have picked up had I heard it. But I'm a long time gamer. My powers of concentration have developed over the years to where I can tune out routine distractions like the ringing of a phone. And it was a new game, and it is so very, very rare... Can you blame a guy for being able to concentrate on that which is important to him? Like yesterday, and like right now... the way I'm very interested and listening to your every word?

 

Renee: (rolling her eyes) Yeah, yeah.

 

Ben: Can you forgive me? It was an honest mistake. Can we still maybe go out?

 

Renee: An honest mistake, hmm...? Okay. Tell ya what. Dad's got an old Atari back at the videogame store. Swing by the mall tomorrow, about this time. Bring your Custard game, or whatever, and we'll play it. If the game is as riveting as you say it is, it should be a real blast. I'd kinda like to see how good you are with your joystick, anyway. *wink* Then maybe we can go out after that.

 

Late the next afternoon, Ben is found hunched over at his work desk. Brushing back a tear and with trembling hands, he slowly peels the label off his prized Custer's Revenge cartridge. Carefully, he affixes it to his much tamer Pressure Cooker cart.

 

Ben: There! It's perfect. Now to test it to make sure...

 

After the 20th ring, Renee hangs up the phone. Her fingers, like daggers, stab at the menu buttons as she deletes a number from her directory.

 

 

Ben

[Chris++]

 

I laughed my ass off at that one, Ben. Well, I at least laughed my emoticons off.

 

It's good to see that a few of you have some perspective (i.e. some human interaction is worth eschewing the gaming world for), but this was more of a fun thing than a serious question of whether or not you'd answer the phone if you actually knew there was a great girl on the other end!

 

If I were on the last or second-to-last screen of Frankenstein's Monster, it would be a verrrry close call (seeing as how I've never come close to beating that game). But that's all I can think of for now. I already have a sweetie, so thankfully, I don't have to make such decisions!

 

 

CF

[Jeffy Arensmeyer]

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[StanJr]

If you are THAT hard up for a date, and she is THAT hot, and you KNOW that she is going to call from 7-10, what kind of MORON are you for playing a video game during that time????

 

[SS]

Jeffy, that "le_whack.gif" is just about the funniest thing I've seen all week!

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Edited September 23, 2005 by mojofltr

[D.Yancey]

*69 was invented to prevent just such a dilema!! Keep on playing any game- your Atari will never talk back!

[ATARIPITBULL]

Your a guy and your asking this question, it would take me all of about 1 second to turn my atari off and go out with this girl. There is no game good enough to keep me from getting some booty, but my wife might have a problem with that!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gamerthegreek]

hmm if the game pole position might be a hard call but since im good at it i should be able to ballance both at once. plus i got a speaker phone so i can do both. that way i get the girl and the game. now i need the girl part of it

[NE146]

yep. I'd have no problems turning off the game. You can always play again later! Anyway, I figured I stopped playing Atari from ages 15-28 anyway for pretty much the same reason. If I can pause for 13 years for the sake of... (well basically for the purpose of getting laid as much as possible.. and yes later I did get married at age 30), then turning it off one night should be nothing at all.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

What game would it have to be, and in what situation would you have to find yourself -- or "almost beaten" part -- to decide to keep playing and refuse to forfeit your game to answer the phone?

Not any! I've been solo much to long now.

[Heavy Sixer]

My advice: don't even waste your time with the female. They're not worth it. Here are just a few reasons why...

 

1) Your Atari won't get mad at you if you play with other consoles.

2) It's much easier to score with Atari games.

3) Your Atari doesn't care about the size of your joystick.

4) Your Atari will function normally all month long.

5) Your Atari won't find another player and kick you out of the house .

6) You don't have to be rich and/or famous to own a beautiful Atari .

7) Your Atari won't go psycho and slice off your joystick with a butcher knife .

8 ) Atari games will never ever bitch at you for not cleaning the house.

9) If someone plays your Atari while you're away, it's no big deal.

10) You can have as many Ataris as you want.

11) Your Atari never has a headache.

12) With an Atari, there's never any question of who's in control.

13) An Atari can keep its mouth shut.

14) An Atari doesn't mind if you plug something into the rear .

15) And most importantly: in the long run, Atari games are MUCH cheaper than a wife or girlfriend (so are whores, but that's another discussion )

 

Clearly, you should just continue playing the game, whatever it is. Ignore the phone. Between Ataris and the easy availability of internet porno, I can't imagine why any sensible, self-respecting man would waste his time with the female.

 

HEAVY***6***er

Atari guru and misogynist at large (Wanna shake my hand? Heh, heh...)

[Heavy Sixer]

gamerthegreek said:

if the game pole position might be a hard call

 

This quote speaks for itself.

 

HEAVY***6***er

The man with the master hand... er, I mean plan!

Y'all make it so easy...