I'm a real gamer because...

[el-Capitan]

because I remember what iddqd and idkfa do
because I know how to use a hex editor to cheat the base layout in the original X-COM
because when I am in a chirpy mood I hum the theme to Mario World...

 

[Patre]

because I remember playing Asteroids on my older brothers (original) Apple II Plus

 

[Barfo]

because I pwn you all at CoD while simultaneously banging your moms you bunch of **REDACTED**.




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[I Saw OJ]

Because I didn't die of dysentery in the Apple II Oregon Trail.

 

[QuantumPion]

Because I hunted the wumpus on my KayPro II & 1200 bps modem.

 

[mizzou]

because I actually enjoy playing video games and it is an important part of my R&R

 

[slpnshot]

Because I browse(lurk) gaming forums.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I am the only person I know who beat the school Trench Warfare computer simulation (that was designed to be unbeatable) not once, but 3 times in Jr. High. *flexes muscles*

 

[SMOGZINN]

I'm a real gamer because:

I've been playing computer games since before CGA graphics were the rage.

Take that wipper snappers!

I'm a real gamer because I have more then a YEAR of active playtime on a MUD, which when I started playing I did so with a amber monitor that was installed in a desk and connected to a VAX cluster of mostly 11/780s running VAX/VMS.

 

[rivethead]

I'm a real gamer because I've been playing since the days games came on cassette tapes.

I'm a real game because I banged out my first video game in BASIC on my Radio Shack Color Computer (thousands of lines of code)........and then saved it to cassette tape!

It was some gravity simulation where you were a in space suit and you couldn't touch the walls of some cavern you were flying around in....

 

[akahoovy]

Apparently we have a lot of old gamers here on the forums.

 

[irishScott]

I dug my family's old Windows 98 computer out of our basement when I was in 10th grade just so I could play 90s games (this was 2004).

 

[Skott]

I'm a real gamer because I use the PC platform and not some console.

 

[shortylickens]

Apparently we have a lot of old gamers here on the forums.

I remember the old apples and dos machines with green displays.

 

[motsm]

I'm a real gamer because I love having my big box's and collector's editions displayed about, and likely spend too much time getting everything too look just right.

 

[sandorski]

I play games.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Because I played Star Trek on arpanet using a teletype (no monitors) in 1971.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Because I didn't die of dysentery in the Apple II Oregon Trail.

Oh wow. Just realized that's the first game I played. Played it in a typing class. Was 11 or 12 y/o. It was on a green display.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

I remember the old apples and dos machines with green displays.

Pretty soon kids won't even know what a CRT is.

 

[IEC]

because I pwn you all at CoD while simultaneously banging your moms you bunch of fags.

Spoken like a true CoD'er. Sharp as a doorknob and floppier than a landed fish.

 

[IEC]

Pretty soon kids won't even know what a CRT is.

Too late, such creatures already exist.

 

[Fardringle]

I'm a real gamer because I play games.

 

[sash1]

...because i beat Contra without the konami code

(something i could never do now. no idea why i was able to beat a lot of NES games when i was ~5, but failed miserably at all of them as i got older)

 

[surfsatwerk]

I masturbated to those hot vampire chics in that bloodlines game poor old Trokia released.

 

[Zodiark1593]

A short-lived subset of humanity I guess...

Nah, just very vocal...

Though I love the modding aspect far more than the graphics.