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[Xion]

agj, yes, of course, but do you actually reach for the keys when there is no keyboard? On multiple occasions? In the same day? ...

[fullspectrum]

Ahh this thread is tickling me!

I banged my head on things after playing Mystical Ninja for 12 hours straight when my parents made me turn it off.

I guess this doesn't count as behavior, but whenever I'm losing very badly in a fighting game, I get dizzy and half of my face goes numb and I have a headache for the next few hours. This has happened four times, starting sometime last year. Should probably see a doctor but then they'd just tell me to stop playing games and I'd be like no.

I remember a similar 'head meets wall in infant rage' incident with super mario kart, after a particularly bad losing streak on battle mode.

And the fighting game fever you mention rings a bell (and I must admit, is quite funny ), my good friend Adam has walked out of my house a couple of times because of Street Fighter - in the last 2 years! He's nearly 30 years old 

agj, yes, of course, but do you actually reach for the keys when there is no keyboard? On multiple occasions? In the same day? ...

Do you?! That's what I'm talking about.

Changing the thread title to 'strange game/computer induced behaviour'...

[Biggerfish]

This Monday, whenever I closed my eyes I could see DDR arrows.

When I was about 6, I had a bunch of granite rocks that I had drawn a few unrecognisable squiggles on and could set them up so they were like a Nintendo 64. I remember finding them a few years ago and being able to recognise Mario Kart on one of the 'carts'.

[Hajo]

And for the peeps who've played games like Eye of the Beholder, I used to do complicated text-adventures into a notebook, sometimes spanning multiple notebooks. You'd pick a choice and turn to the page listed via the choice. :D

...They were some of my best work graphically.

You should do interactive fiction then

[diwil]

You should do interactive fiction then

I have something related to that, erm, genre, planned. But it's bigger and badder.

[Valter]

I occasionally dream about games. And I mean seriously. It's not me in some kind of video game world, it's me actually doing things like a video game. I occasionally die and have to respawn at an earlier point.

[fullspectrum]

dreams

Fable 2 is making me go to sleep and wake up happy!

[Gainsworthy]

Whilst I'm dredging up threads, how the hell did this get to page 4 so damned fast? I like it, so I'll throw in a pithy little contribution. Fuel for the fire.

After first playing the Sims (for, well, let's say a while) I got up to grill me some Pizza. And watch TV, as one does. Anyways, you know that feeling of being watched? I had it big time. Mega Time. I kept on involuntarily looking at my ceiling. Seeing as the game itself is reasonably mundane, it felt like I was inside it. EVERYTHING felt strange for about 10, 15 minutes.

[moshboy]

When I was a kid, me and a couple of friends created a 'nintendo' club that only people who owned nintendos could join. Thing is I bullshitted about owning one in the first place.

[Gainsworthy]

When I was a kid, me and a couple of friends created a 'nintendo' club that only people who owned nintendos could join. Thing is I bullshitted about owning one in the first place.

 :D :D :D

Anyone ever find out? Or did you research well?

[Neo1493]

I once cosplayed as a krill from sigma star saga I did this for like a week after I beat the game

[fullspectrum]

Whilst I'm dredging up threads, how the hell did this get to page 4 so damned fast? I like it, so I'll throw in a pithy little contribution. Fuel for the fire.

After first playing the Sims (for, well, let's say a while) I got up to grill me some Pizza. And watch TV, as one does. Anyways, you know that feeling of being watched? I had it big time. Mega Time. I kept on involuntarily looking at my ceiling. Seeing as the game itself is reasonably mundane, it felt like I was inside it. EVERYTHING felt strange for about 10, 15 minutes.

I was wondering that myself about the thread, when I made the first post I sat back and thought, 'hmm, I've just embarrassed myself, and no one will chip in. Oh well'

i was quite mistaken it seems. Also, that bad sims experience sounds like a horrible acid trip 

I once cosplayed as a krill from sigma star saga I did this for like a week after I beat the game

a krill, i don't know what that is, but it's funny. 

[reetva]

My family once drove up to Wisconsin (I lived in Illinois at the time) and I made my parents buy me a real sword because of Divine Divinity. Yes, that's right. A real sword. A real sword made of steel. I didn't tell them why I wanted it, though. If I had, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to play video games for the next ten years of my life.

[godsavant]

Well, I think all of us mentally press ctrl-z after we do some kind of screwup in real life. Don't we?

My left hand will involuntarily reach for the invisible Ctrl-z when I screw up while drawing in real life. 

Why do they design pencils with the lead and erasers on opposite ends...?

[Biggerfish]

Probably not game-induced behaviour, but I've recently had 2 dreams with video games in them.

The first was me at a sale where there were all these games super-cheap, but looking through I didn't like a single one, and spent the rest of the dream looking through the games to see if there was something I missed.

The next involved me going to a small town's department store and finding that they had a whole bunch of Gameboy Colour games still for sale. I went to go and buy Wario Land and Pokemon Crystal and then found out they were $20 each and I had no money. I was so disappointed in that dream.

[The-Imp]

When I was around 5, I mixed up toothpaste, soap, and other things of that variety thinking I could get mysef magical powers...

What a night that was!...
I'm so stupid.
 

[KennEH!]

My family once drove up to Wisconsin (I lived in Illinois at the time) and I made my parents buy me a real sword because of Divine Divinity. Yes, that's right. A real sword. A real sword made of steel. I didn't tell them why I wanted it, though. If I had, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to play video games for the next ten years of my life.

What's so bad about buying a sword?

[Tanner]

My family once drove up to Wisconsin (I lived in Illinois at the time) and I made my parents buy me a real sword because of Divine Divinity. Yes, that's right. A real sword. A real sword made of steel. I didn't tell them why I wanted it, though. If I had, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to play video games for the next ten years of my life.

Where in Illinois?

[Xion]

My family once drove up to Wisconsin (I lived in Illinois at the time) and I made my parents buy me a real sword because of Divine Divinity. Yes, that's right. A real sword. A real sword made of steel. I didn't tell them why I wanted it, though. If I had, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to play video games for the next ten years of my life.

What's so bad about buying a sword?

I've been asking my parents for a sword for the longest now, to start a collection, but they think I'll be "irresponsible" with it (as in actually using it).

[Inane]

:D I only got a wooden training sword when I was 13, because I know myself well enough to know that if I get a real one it will eventually, regardless of what I do with it, end up severing a couple of my toes.