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What is the geekiest game related thing you have ever done?
To get the ball rolling:
– I imported an arcade machine from the UK to Dublin (uninsured too)
– I imported a DVD player from the US cause it had a NUON chip inside it, just so I could play one game (Tempest3000)
– I was playing Team Fortress Classic when the millenium struck.Post some of yours!
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I was playing Team Fortress Classic when the millenium struck. [/quote:4462411568]
Dear God…….. :p
Can’t think of anything geeky I’ve done in relation to games. I’ve never imported a game or machine, never queued before a games release or done anything ‘crazy’ in relation to games…….
Not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing……..actually I think its a good thing. ;)
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I signed up to gamedevelopers.ie…
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I think I pre-ordered a game once….
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nothing too geeky… took a day off from work to finish Max Payne
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I bought the 4mb expansion pack for the N64 so I could play Turok 2 in high res. I used to watch “Bad Influence” on ITV religiously. I had a pair of blue dungarees like Luigi’s. I once spent 6 hours typing basic on my C64 to hear it beep out the first line of “Michael Row Your Boat Ashore”. Speaking of the C64, I once left it on for a full week while we went on holiday, cos I didn’t want to lose my progress in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and I once pistol whipped my mate with my lightgun.
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… and I once pistol whipped my mate with my lightgun.[/quote:47086d3427]
Shortlist for the winner… :lol:*thinks of his own moments*
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I had a pair of blue dungarees like Luigi’s[/quote:47bc8d3f53]
Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!
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Pfft…Luigi is only second rate.. If he had RED dungaress like Mario then he’d win! :lol:
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imported a psp and pre-ordered doom3 (although it was the day before its release, so probably not too bad.)
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Although maybe not entirely fitting into the “Geeky” category, i think it deserves a mention anyways,
When I was 11 years old, my christmas present was a SNES and The Legend Of Zelda. Now my parents didnt know i knew about Santa, and they kept on playing on about will he or wont he bring something nice this year..
But sneeky little me knew not only that Santa wasnt real (sorry to all those believers) but that I also knew where they had hidden the presents.So one afternoon, i went up into the attic with a bag and opened the Snes box and dumped the console and Zelda into my school bag. I then snuck out of the house and ran over to my friends house who lived a few doors down. His big sister was minding him so she had no idea! :O We sat and played Zelda for about 6 hours straight. And if that wsant good enough, i did it again a few days later.
To this day i dont think they know, so i really hope they dont take an interest in game development.. Also i had to put on some act on christmas morning, faking my excitement. Il never forget it!
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Wired a set of 240w 6×9 car stereo speakers into my hifi, then connected it to my xbox and played halo at almost full blast, the whole room was vibrating, was awesome.
Bid on ebay for a cradle for the palm III just so I could transfer and play breakout.
Modified farcry so that the player model was the great white shark, sad I know.
Fixed a broken atari lynx just to play electrocop once and then never again. -
I’ve travelled to Australia and Japan to play with silly little pieces of cardboard.
At a 72 hour lan I fell asleep and apparently kept playing until I slid off my chair. Woke up and wondered why my mouse hand was still twitching and how I had managed to get underneath my computer. (went back to playing straight away of course).
I’ve never pre ordered anything, though i have had wrestling matches with my brother to see who could play with the game-gear for the next hour.
I’m sure there are plenty more…
Dave
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Nothing special for me. One thing that comes to mind is that I used to take the day off school and get up at 6:30 on the release of a great game then walk all the way into Belfast to get it. Of course those days have passed. Now I usually wait until the weekend and take a bus into town.
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Hrm…nothing too outrageous but here goes…
ALWAYS watched Bad Influence when I was younger.
Bought another C64 joystick and spray painted it gold so I’d have a Golden Joystick just like the one on GamesMaster.
Used to stay up until 2:30 in teh morning JUST to watch BITS on Channel 4.
Had Nintendo wallpaper and everything else in my room as a kid.
Got Half-Life on the day of release in the States but when my relations got caught by customs bringing it into the country I paid the tax and fine rather than loose it…
Have a load of Game related T-shirts.
Just blew my entire first paycheck and half of my next one on my new uber PC and a load of new and old games.
I’ve done the “fall asleep at your computer playing at a LAN” on two occasions and numourous times at home.
Played through System Shock 2 again, straight after I’d finished it for the first time, wearing headphones “just to see what it was like”.…probably more to come as I think of it… :D
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Whenever I’m inking a picture and make a mistake… I have the reflex of subconsciously looking for the ctrl-z move with my left hand..
Not so much of geek “game” moment… I don’t like to admit mine. :?
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Whenever I’m inking a picture and make a mistake… I have the reflex of subconsciously looking for the ctrl-z move with my left hand..
[/quote:7e14b70173]i do that with everthing in my life, e.g. i knock over a glass…edit/undo. i think everone who works with computers does
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Played paintball with the members of the Zzap64! team (as well as others from the game industry). I was on Julian Rignall’s team.
Helped GTW site to un-earth and distribute my unreleased c64 game
Remixed old classic C64 tunes in my music studio
… so sad.
Steve
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Played paintball with the members of the Zzap64! team (as well as others from the game industry). I was on Julian Rignall’s team.
Helped GTW site to un-earth and distribute my unreleased c64 game
Remixed old classic C64 tunes in my music studio
… so sad.
Steve[/quote:0e8ff64649]
And lectured 3D4 for a while, you were propagating the geekiness Steve!
Personally, my geekiest moment was at the Halo 2 launch party here in London, which I won tickets for (I didn’t buy them, honest) and spent most of the night talking to a very excitably Live “community manager” about how super cool Xbox is, and how nerdy PS2 owners are. Also, we said “dude” a lot.
You probably don’t realise just how bad this was until you consider the fact that this was valuable time I could have spent drinking no short supply of free booze and chatting up the models who were serving finger food :shock:
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Good job the shop didn’t open at midnight or you might have been there then.
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New Harry Potter anyone?
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well, if we’re extending the geekiness beyond games…. I did teach myself PERL for fun… and I’m probably not alone in typing in game code from mags as a kid into a C64 and a Speccie
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Ah C64 moments…waiting for those bloody tapes to load…
5mins waiting for Ed The Duck to lad only for it to crash suddenly.. :evil:
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speaking of old tape loading days,
anyone remember doing anyold traditions to try to get dodgy cassetes to load.
I remember on my speccy holding the play button down everytime i loaded the great escape, then if i got a load the machine stayed on for days
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speaking of old tape loading days, anyone remember doing anyold traditions to try to get dodgy cassetes to load. I remember on my speccy holding the play button down everytime i loaded the great escape, then if i got a load the machine stayed on for days[/quote:af8108dd69]
I usually had the C64 tape as far away from the C64 as possible and usually covered it with a coat after having twiddled with the azimuth alignment and findind a good spot by “reading” the fastloader border color lines – which eventually you could just read and know which patterns meant you were getting good alignment. Then there was the ram pack for my ZX81 which would only work with a glass of ice sitting on it (over heating problem).
Steve
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Shaking the tape deck used to restart mine if it got stuck. Outside that it was just plain allround tape dodgyness most of the time. I had my staple of cartridge games though – Freddys Fiendish Circus, Robocop, Batman…
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OK, I really hesitated to post this – but what the hell… in the spirit of geekdom:
http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Interviews/scollins.htm
Steve
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I bow down to your geekiness…… :D
Speaking of geekiness, if anyone is a reader of http://www.aintitcoolnews.com then you may have noticed the piece about one of the ‘Aintitcool’ guys, “Moriarty”, naming his new baby boy……..wait, for it:
Toshiro Lucas McWeeney
Toshiro after legendary Japanese thesp, Toshiro Mifune. And Lucas after…..you know.
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I was getting laid once, and cried out Max Payne…
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Toshiro after legendary Japanese thesp, Toshiro Mifune. And Lucas after…..you know.[/quote:636774b3ac]
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Haha….McWeeney is his real name apparently. As someone pointed out it wouldn’t matter what first name he gave the kid, with a second name like that he was due a life of schoolyard torture anyway! ;)
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An inspired thread kyotokid! ;)
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When I was 10 years old, my family had a ‘Vectrex’:
http://images.google.ie/images?q=tbn:eiqMaGdK7cIJ:members.aol.com/CompHist/vectrex.jpg
One day, my dad collected a load of cardboard boxes, and assembled a structure (using masking tape) which entirely enclosed the unit and the top half of the player in a darkened environment. He then spraypainted the appendage black.
The immersive effect, for a young kid like me, was mindblowing, and although he may not be credited with inventing ‘virtual reality’, I have to think that he is in some way responsible for my gaming passion….
Last year, whilst playing TOCA racer with Steering Wheel and pedals, I dressed up my friend (who is also 30 years old), in washing up gloves, a motorcycle helmet, a balaclava, headphones, and a workmans jumpsuit, strapping him to the chair with a pair of braces. Although the claustrophobia greatly enhanced the immersion of his Formula 1 experience, he nearly passed out due to the heat. Oh, and he got really snotty when I took a photograph and showed his mates :)
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I was getting laid once, and cried out Max Payne…[/quote:862038e87b]
i think that just makes u gay….. :wink:
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actual got one.
built a light gun for the atari xe 65 wrote the drivers, when it had none..
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god, all this talk of loading from tapes, Speccies and C64s makes some of us sound like old codgers!
first RSI… mine was when my right hand froze up for 2 days after a marathon Pac Man session on the Atari 2600
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Same problem. Different system. Flimbo’s Quest on the C64, god I loved taht game! :D
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I carry a knife when i run so i move faster! :p
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I carry a knife when i run so i move faster! :p[/quote:641c766e0e]
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Is that why Max Payne has that look of…..erm…..anguish, on his face all the time?
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I once left it on for a full week while we went on holiday, cos I didn’t want to lose my progress in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”[/quote:ae0908acea]
OMG Pete, your not the only one!! I was about to save Michaelangelo when i had jump in the car to go away for 2 weeks to France!I turned the TV off so my parents wouldnt notice :P
I spent 4 straight days, typing out the ENTIRE code to Grannies Garden 2 on the C64.. I got the book from the library and it was like 12 pages long. I didnt take a break for 4 days, but when i did, it was to ask my 20+ yr old cousin to finish typing the last page. I woke up the next morning to find out that after she had compiled it, it had 4 errors, and somehow instead of going back to fix the errors, she wiped the whole thing.. Grrr. I dont even know why i cared so much. i had the game on tape anyway, i just wanted to make it myself.. :P
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Last year, whilst playing TOCA racer with Steering Wheel and pedals, I dressed up my friend (who is also 30 years old), in washing up gloves, a motorcycle helmet, a balaclava, headphones, and a workmans jumpsuit, strapping him to the chair with a pair of braces. Although the claustrophobia greatly enhanced the immersion of his Formula 1 experience, he nearly passed out due to the heat. Oh, and he got really snotty when I took a photograph and showed his mates :)
[/quote:385baee377]lol, it’s not your fault he let you do it.
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Is that why Max Payne has that look of…..erm…..anguish, on his face all the time?[/quote:a3d4b58f87]
Eh No, he has that look on his face because his wife and baby were brutally murdered…
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I decided to finish MGS2 in a night, having had no sleep the night before due to studying for my leaving, the next day i kept finding my self sneaking around the house,
or after an unearthly quantity of C&C playing i found myself trying to drag box people who were in my way.
I think i should try to sleep a little more often
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after playing saturn bomberman for too long i was called down for dinner(a few years ago) my mum put a scoop of potatos on my plate, and for a second i thought “ok, must move away before it gos off”….
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Eh No, he has that look on his face because his wife and baby were brutally murdered…
[/quote:3fddf948ed]Yeah, yeah….you keep telling yourself that…..
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Max Marshall has taken an obviously well needed holiday! ;)
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Cmon Ian, what are your geek moments?
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Queuing for GTA is as geeky as it has ever got….. honest….Wha?
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