You know you're a hardcore gamer if...

[rjchamp3]

Hardcore gamers don't use game genie

[theking21083]

You know your a hardcore gamer if......

 

-Your 40 years old and your parents still have to perform the secret knock before they are allowed entrance to the secret underground lair/basement, to do the laundry.

-You are surrounded by hundreds of empty Mountain Dew cans.

-You only leave the house to buy more games.

[Artlover]

You know you're a hardcore gamer if......

 

You peed out a window.

 

[rjchamp3]

You know you're a hardcore gamer if......

 

You peed out a window.

 

 

 

I peed in a tennisball case the other day, and I've peed out a window too

[PressureCooker2600]

Man....I'm glad I don't play games with ya'll. I'd have to wash my hands after using the contoller.

 

(now...for the snide comeback remark)

[PressureCooker2600]

Pause buttons are there for a reason.

 

Except for the poor VCS.

[Artlover]

Man....I'm glad I don't play games with ya'll. I'd have to wash my hands after using the contoller.

 

(now...for the snide comeback remark)

Those wern't brownies in the brownie bowl....

[SRGilbert]

You know your a hardcore gamer if......

-You only leave the house to buy more games.

 

Leave the house to buy games? That is SOOOO pre-1995......

[theking21083]

You know your a hardcore gamer if......

-You only leave the house to buy more games.

 

Leave the house to buy games? That is SOOOO pre-1995......

Sorry I'm still living my life in the 80's and forgot about that newfangled internet that you are refering to.

[superjudge3]

You're a hardcore gamer if...

 

1. You're 25 and still haven't kissed a girl

2. You're 40 and are still not married but want to be...

3. You can't remember the last time you had sex, or you're probably still a virgin...

4. You still think you have something over everyone else because you pre-order your games and systems...

5. You wouldn't know a social life if it bit you in the ass...

6. When the term "fan-boy" does not even begin to do you justice...

7. You're skin is so white people think you're an albino...

8. You think drinking beer and playing online is the pinnacle of gaming...

 

 

I know the majority of people aren't really like this, but I know some people that really are like this!!!

 

When I worked at a video game store, these people would come in that looked like they hadn't seen sunlight in six months!

[shadow460]

You know you're hardcore if:

 

You know what a Psychic Commando is (bonus points for ending somebody's game with one)

You play portable games on the toilet to avoid having to pee out the window

You have a stack of more than twenty SuperVision or Arcadia 2001 games (score one bonus point for each on that has a box)

You've ever tweaked the tape drive's speed to make your games load faster

You play all your games on the hardest settings

You've sworn off of Game Shark/Game Genie/Action Replay usage with the exception of loading up imported Saturn games.

You know what triggered the availability of the Harkonnen Air Defense Platform (bonus points for ending somebody's game with one)

You know what color the first place car is on Daytona USA's hardest track (bonus points if it's the red or blue Hornet car)

You've won a game in which your opponent built something called "President IFVs"

You don't understand how anyone could use a wired controller

You don't understand how anyone could use a wireless controller

You prefer to use wired controllers with all your systems except the 2600

you've built a stack of Game Boy Micro hardware that's taller than the Genesis stack in the first picture.

[vrocko]

Although this one is older I had to add to it:

 

You know you're a hardcore gamer if,

-You can stack all the games you own for just one system and touch the ceiling of your room

-You've played a game from dawn to dusk to dawn again and get mad because you have to go to work

-You've paid more for a game than you did the console

-You've paid more for a game on a retro console than you do for games on your next gen console

-The people that work at the thrift store know you by name

-The back seat of your car has video game magazines in it in case you get stuck in traffic

-People call you by your Xbox Live name more than they do your real name

-You purchase an extra system for one you already own in case the first one breaks down

-Your friends tell you to open a video game store to get rid of your extra's...and you do

-Your Atari Jaguar gets more play time than your PS3

-Your NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube and Wii are all hooked up to the same TV

-You wait 7 days for a game release outside EB only to find out it's been delayed....again

-The guys at EB won't pick up the phone because they recoginize your number

-You know what "EB" means

-You read this list and identify with at least 10 things on it

 

Vrocko

[Scumdogg]

-You know what "EB" means

 

 

Electronics Boutique? Damn, it hasn't been that long. Really, i'd say if you're posting on here and you don't identify with at least half the stuff on your list, you're probably doing it wrong. NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, and Wii on one tv? Yawn. That does little more than take up one of my switchboxes. Of which there are three. And that's just on the living room tv.

[mbd30]

Basically, post ways people can find out how "hardcore" they are about gaming, no matter how retarded the term is in the first place.

You know you're a hardcore gamer if

you can build this.

 

You know you're a hardcore classic gamer if:

 

When everyone's having pizza you always have to take the first slice and then tell people the story of how Pac-Man originated.

 

You refer to your slick new car as the "original Star Wars arcade game" of cars

 

You try to entertain people by doing your dead-on impersonation of the Intellivision voice module. Then you can't understand why this never impresses anyone.

 

Your lifelong dream was to play a perfect game of Pac-Man. Then you fulfilled that dream.

 

You named your two dogs "Bolo" and "Abobo".

 

You think you'd be a bad ass in a nuclear war situation due to your expertise at Missile Command.

[AtticGamer]

You're a hardcore gamer if:

-You get 100 Gold Skulltulas in OOT.

-The girl of your life is Princess Toadstool.

-You avoid contact with people and grab eagles to get a better weapon.

-You look at cities from a plane and plan zones with your finger on a window.

-When you get something new you look at it with a stupid expression while lifting it up with your arms.

-You want to save your current life before doing something risky, so that if things go wrong, you just reset and load your life again.

Edited December 7, 2007 by Atari_kid

[Atarifever]

-- You resurrect an almost dead thread on an Atari fansite to make more "You know you're a hardcore gamer if" jokes.

-- You laugh at those jokes, and have favorites (I like the plane one and the PacMan pizza slice).

[Segataritensoftii]

You know you're a hardcore gamer when...

 

 

...you don't give a crap about labels like "hardcore gamer" and you just play video games on any console you can get your hands on, and by any manufacturer that makes a game that is fun

True Dat. It's a nearly universal rule that every platform, no matter how bad it is, will have at least one good game on it.

[Sonic]

You know your a hardcore gamer when:

 

-You have nightmares about Evil Otto finally catching up to you

[kevincal]

You know you are a hardcore gamer when you actually get sad when you have to sell a game that you don't want to sell.

[darthkur]

You know you are a hardcore gamer when you actually get sad when you have to sell a game that you don't want to sell.

 

I must amend that to read: You know you are a hardcore gamer when "having to sell a game" is not an option no matter what the consequences.

[Atarifever]

-- Your favorite Atari system isn't even the 2600, and you could write a 10 page essay on why the Atari XXXX is better than the Atari 2600.

-- You are uncomfortable that the number of X's I put above doesn't leave room for "Jaguar".

[kevincal]

You know you are a hardcore gamer when you actually get sad when you have to sell a game that you don't want to sell.

 

I must amend that to read: You know you are a hardcore gamer when "having to sell a game" is not an option no matter what the consequences.

 

No, that's not a hardcore gamer. That's an obsessive/compulsive gamer... There is a difference.

 

I will never sell certain games I have a deep emotional attachment to, maybe a dozen or 2. But I have sold and will sell games I really like when I need the money.

Edited December 10, 2007 by kevincal