How to tell you're a hardcore gamer

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MegaDrive20XX

Segatron Genesis... call me the wizard.
1.You're too hardcore when you have the same game on different systems. (Mega Man 8 on Saturn, PSX then the MM Anniversary Collection on PS2, Xbox, and Cube)

2. You know you're too hardcore when you can debate over which Street Fighter was better, Street Fighter Alpha 2 or Street Fighter Alpha 3

3. You're a real hardcore gamer if you played "The Oregon Trail" back in Elementary School.

4. You're a real hardcore gamer, if you wake up in the middle of the night and your right hand is twitching in the motion of the last 2D fighter you played. (It's happened to me once, my hand was asleep, but it kept going X, A, Y, C motions...)

5. You know you're really hardcore if your hands hurt like hell after playing some of N64 Mario Party games.

6. You're a real hardcore gamer if you feel any RPG is less than 40 hours, then it is not worth your time.

7. You're real hardcore when your room looks better than the Video Game museum at the Smithsonian Institution.

8. If you still perfer Halo 2 over Gears of War by now, then not only are you hardcore, but you're hard-headed, but we love ya for that.

9. You're totally hardcore if you still demand for the release of Duke Nukem Forever.

10. You're hardcore if you got kicked out of Burger King for asking to buy too many Xbox 360 games that were $3.99 each. (Co-worker of mine did this, was pretty awesome)

11. You're beyond Hardcore if you have the original Kiosk Super Mario Bros. 3 McDonald's display in your house from 1990.

12. You're hardcore if you know someone personally working for a major video game company, like Sega, Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, etc.

13. You're hardcore if you have an autographed copy of Super Mario Bros. by Miyamoto himself.

14. If any of your loved ones (Pets and Kids especially) is named after a Japanese programmer, then you have reached sick in the head Hardcore.

15. You're stupidly Hardcore if you have ANY Tattoo of a video game related icon. "Sure I was gonna get a naked chick riding a dragon, but the Zelda called out to me!"


any that you can suggest?
 
Well #1 and #12 fit me.

1. Skies of arcadia on DC and GC, RE4 on GC and PS2, DOA2 on XBOX and PS2

12. I know someone who works for Sony

Now to try and think of more...hm.

16. You're hardcore if your internet home page is IGN or GameSpot.

17. You're really hardcore if you buy Final Fantasy XI for other people so that you can all play together (been guilty of that twice :lol ).

17 1/2. You're superhardcore if you also buy those people keyboards (also guilty of that twice.)

18. You're hardcore if you know the Konami code!
 
Mai Valentine said:
17. You're really hardcore if you buy Final Fantasy XI for other people so that you can all play together (been guilty of that twice  :lol ).
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lol well not quite...but I've bought people games so we could play together. :lol
 
20. You're old school hardcore if you purchased an Atari 7800 new (Or any other Atari for that matter).

21. You're almost divorced hardcore if you fight with your wife about hanging up the NES poster next to the Sega Master System poster in any part of the house.
 
22. You have bought and read/watched any video game comics/books/movies based solely off of the fact you are familiar with the video game the media is based on.

I've bought games to play them with other people :)
 
MegaDrive20XX said:
3. You're a real hardcore gamer if you played "The Oregon Trail" back in Elementary School.
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Dude that game was the bomb... I also preferred NFL MATH

MegaDrive20XX said:
5. You know you're really hardcore if your hands hurt like hell after playing some of N64 Mario Party games.

6. You're a real hardcore gamer if you feel any RPG is less than 40 hours, then it is not worth your time.
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These 2 also apply to me as well, and I'll take number 6 to the grave with me!
 
Auron234 said:
Dude that game was the bomb... I also preferred NFL MATH

These 2 also apply to me as well, and I'll take number 6 to the grave with me!
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Dude, wasn't it? I LOVED playing Oregon Trail way back when.
 
Yea it was like "WHoa dont go too fast or youll wreck" or "Oh crap a river what ever shall we do? Walk acroos or float?" and then half of your party would get like yellow fever and one of you would make it to Oregon but you never know which one cuz its like the survival of the fittest and there were like rattlesnakes and crap and its was insane... blew my mind Im gonna try find that game now...
 
Hehe, I remember playing Oregon Trail in 1st grade on an Apple. I own Oregon Trail 2 and this thread makes me wanna dig it out and play it :) Awesome games!
 
Heh. Does anyone remember Bolo?? It was a tank game for the Mac. A bunch of buddies and I used to play that game in our computer class in middle school. The computers were all netwroked up, and we spent all our time building alliances and blowing eachother to pieces. Good times, good times..

23. You're really oldschool hardcore if you owned nearly all the games for the Commodore 64. And bragged about it!!
 
Mai Valentine said:
18. You're hardcore if you know the Konami code!
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I like this one, but the only problem that i've had from other people, is they call it "The Code"...but how about this suggestion (refer to number 18)

18. You're hardcore if you still refer the code as "THE KONAMI CODE".
19. You STILL DEMAND the release of GOLDEN AXE: The Revenge of Death Adder!
20. You've slapped Yuji Naka for not releasing NIGHTS 2 on Saturn or Dreamcast.
21. You still feel Virtua Fighter 2 is a god among fighters
22. If every single one of your controllers are joysticks or arcade sticks. Screw D-pad!
23. Even if you own the real games on console, but you still somehow end up having the compliation edition on PS2 or Xbox. (Mega Man Anniversary, Mega Man X Collection,Taito Legends, Sega Genesis Collection, Capcom Classics Collection, etc.)
24. If you can name more than 25 sch'umps and if you know what SCHUMPS means.
 
here's some more from a good buddy of mine:

25. Prefer using Japanese (or original) game system designations over the renames for your respective region. |Example: Calling a Sega Genesis a "Mega Drive" even when it's a Genesis version, or any SNES a "Super Famicom".
26.You can go from X360 and Wii to dusting off and thouroughly enjoying games on the Atari 2600 and/or 7800 Pro System.
27. You still love and stand by Double Dragon (original arcade) even when far superior roving brawlers have since come out.
28. You'd like to use a desperation move on Ben Herman and SNKP USA.
29.You still argue who's the hotter of the gaming females... Mai Shiranui or Chun Li, and your final answer is "Blaze Feilding" from Streets of Rage
30.You remember when gaming arcades was the greatest place to be, and everywhere you went from Pizzarias to Malls, to motel and hotels lobbies, to devoted arcades to wherever... you sought out a new gaming experience, and you would like to return to those days.
31. You would rather Namco release a high resolution 2-D "Rolling Thunder 4" and for SEGA to bring out a high res 2-D "Bare Knuckle [Streets of Rage] 4" over seeing yet another FPS game or a 3-D Vs. Fighting Game.
32. You actually know what SNK [the company] stands for and can correctly pronounce it.
 
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