ZOMG YOU HAVE A (insert game system here)?

[Poopopyo]

Have you ever been bothered by someone or a bunch of people saying "OMFG YOU HAVE DAT SYSTEM?? DAS LYKE DA FURST GAME EVUR MADE!!! or "ZOMG WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?? I WANT ONE!!!"

 

I keep getting bothered my numerous people worshiping me because I have a Genesis or a Gameboy. Of all 24 systems that I just kindly listed to you off the top of my head it always seems like people are interested in the fact that I have a Genesis and/or Gameboy. why the sized Gameboy and the book sized Genesis over my freaking COMPUTER SIZED 5200???

 

I can just walk into a classroom with my Gameboy and yell FEAR ME AND MY DIGITAL BRICK and people will bow down and call me master.

Edited May 18, 2009 by Poopopyo

[shadow460]

I used to get called "Nintendo Man" when I donated plasma, 'cause I'd bring a Color Game Boy and games I could play one handed. Then I started using a Game Gear and a Game Boy brick.

 

Some of the staff at that place just about crapped gold when I showed up one day with a phat PSP.

[+Random Terrain]

Some of the staff at that place just about crapped gold when I showed up one day with a phat PSP.

Donating must be very different from selling. Go to a place where you can sell blood and they'll just punch a hole in your face, grab your PSP and run.

[godslabrat]

Virtual Boy. As unpopular as it was, everybody loves seeing it on my shelf.

 

I need me a replacement, though... mine broke when I moved.

[rockman_x_2002]

For handhelds, I tend to get this reaction a good bit whenever I have my Atari Lynx (Model II) around with me.

 

For home consoles, generally anything made prior to the SNES elicits this response (including the original NES).

 

The Virtual Boy usually gets some interesting comments, but not so much surprise in that I own one. More like, "What is it?"

[2600Lives]

Neo-Geo Pocket for me, and a VB.

[nonner242]

Nobody that comes over has ever seen or played a vectrex...so it always a nice surprise to them when I let them play it.

Normal response is "Its like Asteroids Graphics" or "Looks like those heart rate things in hospitals"

Most think its pretty sweet.

The other is my Jag & Jag CD...I swear did everyone sleep thru the release of this?

"Atari had a 64bit system?" "Is this new" "Wow there where that many games for it?"

And last is the GP32..Most think its a GBoy at first...Show them you can run Doom,AVP the arcade game or a NES emu on it and they all want one.

[brojamfootball]

People always swoon over the attractive lines of my wood-grained beauty, the marvel that is the awe-inspiring 2600. My Flashback 2(modded w/cartridge slot) which previously occupied the same spot got a few visitors' notice as well, but something about it just screamed "new toy." The shiny silver switches of my original console with a plain-looking, text-labeled Combat cartridge sticking out of it illicits a strong and enamored response from nearly every single person that sees it.

 

The original Atari lasted so long, and was so long without a real competitor, that it WAS video games, the word 'Atari' used for years as the words 'Band-Aid' or 'Kleenex' still are--a namesake if you will. This makes for a LARGE number of people with a wide age range who 'grew up' with this particular machine. Case in point: even my girlfriend, eleven years my junior, had one when she was a kid, handed down from older cousins. The thing about this group is, almost none of them have even seen an Atari 2600 for fifteen, twenty or more years.

 

One friend of mine, we'll call him Mark Markowitz, saw my Atari and busted into wild laughter as if I were a mad scientist or retardedly backward or something. Funny thing is, I later noticed that every time I'm around him and somebody mentions video games, he says something like, "you ought to see what HE's got in HIS apartment," egging me on to tell people about my Atari, an item he obviously has deemed ubercool. I, of course, see the attraction clearly. I AM the guy that owns the damn thing, donchaknow!

[kroogur]

When i have friends or coworkers over for a visit my 2600 gets alot of "man i used to play the hell outta mine back in the day" or they can't get over the sheer bulk of the 5200 and how it dwarfs my XBox or the "what the hell is that?" effect when they see the Microvision or my Bentley Compuvision.

[Jess Ragan]

When I was mailing out some of my consoles, the 20-something clerk at the post office branch said "OMG! You're like a video game god!", then followed it up with the less flattering, "You're crazy!" Geez kid, it's just a ColecoVision. You make it sound like I found it in an abandoned temple armed with blow darts and giant boulders.

[Reaperman]

Have you ever been bothered by someone or a bunch of people saying "OMFG YOU HAVE DAT SYSTEM?? DAS LYKE DA FURST GAME EVUR MADE!!! or "ZOMG WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?? I WANT ONE!!!"

not often. But then I *would* be bothered by that, so I've taken the obvious action to avoid it--I don't generally play games in front of other people.

 

As near as I can figure, playing with electronics in front of others is basically showing off, and one should expect comments or else they're obviously not carrying around a flashy enough device. I further suspect that playing games in front of others greatly increases the odds that the gaming device will be stolen.

 

I do occasionally carry a gameboy micro, but it's nearly invisible, and I'd imagine most would think it some kind of cell phone if they were to stumble upon where I've hidden to play it.

Edited May 18, 2009 by Reaperman

[Dauber]

Heh...one day a year or so ago when one of my coworkers, a twentysomething, said "Hey, whatcha doin' this weekend?" and I said something like "Probably melt my brain on Atari..." And he said something like, "You mean that old thing??? From the '80s?? If you're serious, then THAT IS SO COOL!!"

[Ace_1]

My buddies freak out over my Super Famicom and Sega CDX, especially the Super Famicom as it's a Japanese import system.

[STICH666]

People flip tits around my Sega CD. I always get "OMFG the AVGN said that was terrible" when in reality all he said were the FMV games were terrible.

[Video]

Few people are surprised by what I carry around, but the lynx gets attention whenever I take it out, I think largely due to size, it just yells "LOOK AT ME DAMNIT"

 

For the house though, Unless it's a Nintendo, Sega, or modern system, people are like "Wow, that is so kewl" and "Atari had DOOM?!? bet that sucks" (turn on the jag) "OMFG *eyeballs melt*" Yeah, repent bitch!

[BDW]

It's the Atari isn't it? The chicks love the Atari.

Edited May 18, 2009 by brandondwright

[Crazy Climber]

Some of the staff at that place just about crapped gold when I showed up one day with a phat PSP.

Donating must be very different from selling. Go to a place where you can sell blood and they'll just punch a hole in your face, grab your PSP and run.

Very very true, my friend told me selling plasma was a great way to make some cash. I ended up going along for the ride to check it out. It was crawling with bums and smelled like urine. I started worrying about catching Hepatitis or something similar and backed out. Now I see where the nickname "Human Garbage Depot" came from

[wccw mark]

most of my friends go crazy over my tg16 cd attachment,as a few of us had tg-16 systems back in the day but were all to poor to get the cd attachment back then lol.

[jboypacman]

When i had my Vectrex still people would come over and just stare at the dang thing in amazement i kid you not,lol.

[Wickeycolumbus]

Lots of people can't believe how many HyperScan systems I have (over 12).

[robotwo]

Lots of people can't believe how many HyperScan systems I have (over 12).

 

ZOMG! YOU HAVE A HYPERSCAN?

 

I'll have to get a HyperScan sometime , seems to be quite a capable console

Edited May 19, 2009 by robotwo