A whole new kind of crazy...

[KB3LAZ]

This may not be real but many people spend a lot of real money on games. I know I have spent more on gaming in my life time than radio. It's possible that I have spent more collectively on gaming than I have every car I have ever owned. If you take things such as Play station, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, all of the games, and everything older into account. Top that off with online gaming over the years. Yep, easy to imagine.

60$ per game an 1 game per week for many years. When I hit the online gaming scene I spent about 300$ a month for about 6 years.

To each their own.

[WX7P]

This may not be real but many people spend a lot of real money on games. I know I have spent more on gaming in my life time than radio. It's possible that I have spent more collectively on gaming than I have every car I have ever owned. If you take things such as Play station, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, all of the games, and everything older into account. Top that off with online gaming over the years. Yep, easy to imagine.

60$ per game an 1 game per week for many years. When I hit the online gaming scene I spent about 300$ a month for about 6 years.

To each their own.

Wow. That's interesting.

It must be a generational issue, but I never got the gaming thing.

I worked for Atari in 1980 when they were cranking out tons of the 2600 machine, so I had exposure to those as well as the stand up games like Asteroids. I preferred pinball.

I worked with a guy a few years ago who was really into gaming. That's all he did on his off time. It was THE issue in his divorce and was causing major problems with his teenage daughter who was basically neglected by all the gaming.

What is it, some kind of endorphin rush?

Forgive the dumb questions, but how does the pay thing work? Do you pay for the length of time playing? Do pay money if you lose? How do you spend so much money on this stuff?

[KB3LAZ]

Wow. That's interesting.

It must be a generational issue, but I never got the gaming thing.

I worked for Atari in 1980 when they were cranking out tons of the 2600 machine, so I had exposure to those as well as the stand up games like Asteroids. I preferred pinball.

I worked with a guy a few years ago who was really into gaming. That's all he did on his off time. It was THE issue in his divorce and was causing major problems with his teenage daughter who was basically neglected by all the gaming.

What is it, some kind of endorphin rush?

Forgive the dumb questions, but how does the pay thing work? Do you pay for the length of time playing? Do pay money if you lose? How do you spend so much money on this stuff?

It depends. Some games such as Xbox and Play station require games be bought via disk or paid download. Other games make you pay for different things. For example, some online role playing games make you pay a monthly fee. Normally 10-30$ per month. Other games are what they call free to play. Most people call them play to win. In such games you can pay for many things. Armor, weapons, healing, spells, guild/clans or storage, voice servers, custom characters, and much more. There are other games that are mode driven. If you take an extreme mode route you have to pay so that when your character dies it isn't erased. Many games do this for either a 1 kill basis, by hour, by day, or by month.

As for why people play, that differs. Many MMO players play for one of two reasons. To do things that they cant in real life and or flaunt it. Or for socialization. I liked to socialize. There are other reasons and the reasons grow per game. Some are mentally challenging. Etc.

Edit: I forgot content updates. Some games make you pay for them.

[WX7P]

As for why people play, that differs. Many MMO players play for one of two reasons. To do things that they cant in real life and or flaunt it. Or for socialization. I liked to socialize. There are other reasons and the reasons grow per game. Some are mentally challenging. Etc.

Interesting. I assume there are websites (like this one) for gamers.

Is the video we've been talking about an over generalization, or are a lot of gamers like that? I only know the guy I used to work with and he was pretty weird. Having said that, it was just one person.

[KB3LAZ]

Interesting. I assume there are websites (like this one) for gamers.

Is the video we've been talking about an over generalization, or are a lot of gamers like that? I only know the guy I used to work with and he was pretty weird. Having said that, it was just one person.

Well, I wouldn't call that a game but....that is another story, lol. Sure, there are many odd gamers. There are many normal and responsible gamers too. Some just have much more disposable income than others.

Honestly, I don't see a lot of difference between ham and gaming. There are stereotypes but many are normal and hardworking people who just like to spend their free time on a hobby they enjoy. Then again...my thinking their normal may not give them any credibility. :P

They I cant eat, sleep, etc until I unlock this, kill this guy, make my level type are like those that refuse to sleep if there is an all night contest.

As for websites like this one. Well, yes, I ran one for years. It too was more or less a misfit site too. However, sites of this size and type are normally for clans or guilds. Mainstream sites have massive active membership. However, I would compare the content worth to that of the zed. Which is why I like smaller sites that are not main stream.

Sites and even game servers differ widely even when they are the same game. Depending on if they are an open license, legacy, bootleg, mainstream, etc.

Bootleg games and sites have their appeal to the masses as well. However, they normally don't run for very long. Either their ISP shuts them down or they get mass DOS.

In reality it is like a world of its own. If one does not realize that it isn't reality it can and will cause problems.

[K7SGJ]

Wow. That's interesting.

It must be a generational issue, but I never got the gaming thing.

I worked for Atari in 1980 when they were cranking out tons of the 2600 machine, so I had exposure to those as well as the stand up games like Asteroids. I preferred pinball.

I worked with a guy a few years ago who was really into gaming. That's all he did on his off time. It was THE issue in his divorce and was causing major problems with his teenage daughter who was basically neglected by all the gaming.

What is it, some kind of endorphin rush?

Forgive the dumb questions, but how does the pay thing work? Do you pay for the length of time playing? Do pay money if you lose? How do you spend so much money on this stuff?

That's pretty much my gaming claim to fame as well. I've always liked pinball since I was a little kid, and would sneak off to the bowling ally to play them. I probably have a wing at Ballys dedicated to me. And as far as later stuff goes, we had the 2600 for home, but my wife's and my stand up favorite has always been centipede. I want to build a cocktail gaming table around the MAME design for the living room one of these days.

[WX7P]

That's pretty much my gaming claim to fame as well. I've always liked pinball since I was a little kid, and would sneak off to the bowling ally to play them. I probably have a wing at Ballys dedicated to me. And as far as later stuff goes, we had the 2600 for home, but my wife's and my stand up favorite has always been centipede. I want to build a cocktail gaming table around the MAME design for the living room one of these days.

I used to work on Atari cocktail machines Missile Command and Asteroids. We pumped out a bunch of those suckers in the Summer of 1980.

I liked Galaga, but mostly I did pinball. Lived for the snap of the free game.

[K7SGJ]

I used to work on Atari cocktail machines Missile Command and Asteroids. We pumped out a bunch of those suckers in the Summer of 1980.

I liked Galaga, but mostly I did pinball. Lived for the snap of the free game.

Yep, and if you didn't quite make it on score, you were always praying for a match.

[WX7P]

Yep, and if you didn't quite make it on score, you were always praying for a match.

I completely forgot about that!

I got pretty good at some of those games. There was one called Strike!, it was a bowling themed pinball machine that I could play for hours. I'd often leave with games left on the machine.

I think that's the reason I didn't like Space Invaders or any of the new video games. No chance for a free game.

[KB3LAZ]

I completely forgot about that!

I got pretty good at some of those games. There was one called Strike!, it was a bowling themed pinball machine that I could play for hours. I'd often leave with games left on the machine.

I think that's the reason I didn't like Space Invaders or any of the new video games. No chance for a free game.

I haven't played pinball in years. I used to play while waiting for league at the bowling alley. They also used to have some sort of table bowling game. There was a metal disk and metal pins. You'd have to slide it to knock the pins over. For the life of me, I can't remember the name.