Monday, October 6, 2008

I'm Part Of A Secret Society Where All We Do Is Play Videogames

Yes, welcome and be seated. No one beholded the prophecy of the elite secret gamer but yes we are many. I started when I was 4 years old playing COLECO VISION and then immediately graduated to NINTENDO when I was about 6 years old. I can faithfully remember the day I came home from school and my father told me he had one of the best videogames that he purchased for me hidden somewhere in the house. I look and look and there it goes, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!. While my friends are playing SEGA GENESIS and playing the dookie pants off of Altered Beast I'm faithfully playing my NINTENDO. Years later I get a GameBoy from NINTENDO and then I pick up a SUPER NINTENDO with even better graphics. Then the NINTENDO 64 comes out and I get my girlfriend to play GOLDENEYE with me. I can never forget playing N64 and GOLDENEYE with my girlfriend and having amazing teenage sex. I mean she bought a N64 to play that game with me at her house. And did I tell you? She made me a meal everytime I literally beat that ass. Then the SONY PLAYSTATION comes out. Metal Gear, Tekken, Crash Bandicoot, Final Fantasy, Parasite EVE and the list goes on.

I play videogames every night for social interaction with people across the globe. I'm not a computer nerd but I'm a excessive videogame player. I don't play many videogames but as well as reading videogame websites and magazines related to them I'll play just one game for awhile and then further down the week jump into something else. I play videogames online in a well respected community of players for players, XBOX LIVE, with like minded people from literally any age. I have a friends list with gamers who at the core are pretty much like me. We connect every night play for hours and talk to each other and we even have each others phone numbers to let one another know to log on to play. Most people are not in our immediate area and we probably will never meet and really do not want to. We discuss videogames, we break them apart, we set up clans of team members that are fun and elite at playing videogames. We talk about what videogames we are going to buy. We insult each other every night with your momma jokes and personal things we get to find out about each other. Most of us have no lives except for videogames and our jobs and our families and hide this part of ourselves from the world. Most of us play with real friends we invite over to our house and then connect with our friends online. Some of us like myself don't have too many friends that play videogames so we play them with people we meet online. These are my friends, good friends to rely on to save my life in a game (and maybe in real life) and to talk to about problems I might be having. Yes it gets deep. You might look at me and say he doesn't look like a gamer and I am indeed. If your lucky and live next to me you might hear me hooting and hollering at somebody, cursing them out and telling them that their momma sucks worst than them. You might think I'm crazy if you live next to me and hear me going crazy and yelling and having a conversation with someone on the phone or in my house. However I'm not crazy. I'm talking into my headset probably pissed that I lost a match and discussing that with the rest of my teammates. Let me introduce you to myself FRESH DA BARBER aka FRESH X 1000000, one of the toughest players online on XBOX LIVE to play, all considering the game I'm playing. Welcome to my world.

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