View Full Version : Who Plays Gameboy At Work?
Gunstarhero
06-26-2003, 09:05 PM
I do, all the time, when I probably shouldn't. But I just can't resist, I have the GBA SP, and its like whenever I think someone might catch me playing, I can just nonchalantly fold it up and slip it into my pants pocket in true Slacker fashion. I don't even play this thing anywhere else, in fact I just leave it in my toolbox at work most of the time.
I tell ya what though, it really helps pass the time when things seem slow.
Starcade
06-26-2003, 09:23 PM
Not at work, but I slipped it out a few times at school in study hall.
EDIT: My GBA that is you perverts!
Oberfuhrer Hamm
06-26-2003, 09:38 PM
Not at work, but I slipped it out a few times at school in study hall.
EDIT: My GBA that is you perverts!
So, exactly how quick were you to post that edit there, hmm? :hmm:
lol, j/k.
Couldn't resist! :P
I do, all the time, when I probably shouldn't. But I just can't resist
:hmm: LOL
SoulBlazer
06-26-2003, 10:03 PM
I do. Two nights a week (actually, tonight and Friday) I work as a night auditor at a hotel and after the work is done there's not much to do for a few hours but surf, read, and play GBA SP. :D
Phosphor Dot Fossils
06-26-2003, 10:04 PM
I bring mine during football season, since we do a Friday night high school football thing in our 10 o'clock news, and it takes FOREVER while I'm waiting to post all the final scores on the web.
oesiii
06-26-2003, 10:13 PM
I haven't taken my actual gba to work but I play it through emulation all the time. Boycott Advance runs nice on my Mac. I do have a Mattell Football II that I like to pull out of my desk and play every few weeks, when it's slow and I remember it's there :D
AB Positive
06-26-2003, 10:20 PM
For a while I did the two jobs fun thing there, I would do a couple nights at a gas station on sunday nights and tuesday nights. Slow. so I'd take a bucket of rock salt, drag it behind the counter away from the video cameras, and play some Pokemon Sapphire on my SP.
-AG
Arqueologia_Digital
06-26-2003, 10:40 PM
Yeah, i play GB and Game gear too...
I bring GBA to school for study hall, and there are TI 83 Pac-Man and Galaxian games for Trig class :)
nellwyn5
06-26-2003, 11:07 PM
I tried that with my boss. I brought my SP and dictionary, put in Black Matrix 0, and claimed that I found an excellent new way to study Japanese, which it was. It didn't, uh, go over too well. I don't understand it: reading English books is ok, but playing games in another language while writing down vocab and kanji I don't know isn't ok. Oh well...
jaybird
06-26-2003, 11:24 PM
When the GBA SP first came out in March, I bought it & Advance Wars. I'd slip off for some quality time in the bathroom with my GBA.
I had to stop because three 30 minute bathroom breaks per day started looking suspicious to my co-workers. :(
Anonymous
06-26-2003, 11:39 PM
I do, but then I kind of have to.
petewhitley
06-27-2003, 12:24 AM
I tried that with my boss. I brought my SP and dictionary, put in Black Matrix 0, and claimed that I found an excellent new way to study Japanese, which it was. It didn't, uh, go over too well. I don't understand it: reading English books is ok, but playing games in another language while writing down vocab and kanji I don't know isn't ok. Oh well...
Sounds like you work at NOVA...
kattkatt
06-27-2003, 10:58 AM
I used to play Advance Wars in the toilet at my work 1-2 years ago but when I got my new laptop (a very small Toshiba 3440) I started to watch Divx movies and I bought a USB controller to play MAME. I don't have much to do at my work and the laptop is so small that I just take it under my armpit (under my jacket of course) and no one can see what I'm going to do. I also have small headphones in my pocket. I have watched at least 20 movies and played MAME for approx 50 hours. In the TOILET. AND GOT PAID FOR IT.....
Beat that if you can!
/CC
toddst
06-27-2003, 11:06 AM
I used to play Advance Wars in the toilet at my work 1-2 years ago but when I got my new laptop (a very small Toshiba 3440) I started to watch Divx movies and I bought a USB controller to play MAME. I don't have much to do at my work and the laptop is so small that I just take it under my armpit (under my jacket of course) and no one can see what I'm going to do. I also have small headphones in my pocket. I have watched at least 20 movies and played MAME for approx 50 hours. In the TOILET. AND GOT PAID FOR IT.....
Beat that if you can!
/CC
All I can says is thanks. This has to be my favorite post of the week.
I bring my GBA to work, but only use it during boring conference calls.
-Todd
brandver3
06-27-2003, 11:10 AM
Everynight for hours.
I work in a call center, so thing I can do mostly on autopilot. Tactical games like Advance Wars and turn based RPGs really help pass the time.
Mr-E_MaN
06-27-2003, 12:14 PM
While I am at work I like to play some NES games through emulation. I brought my GB to work once to play tetris, but I didn't like to be inturrupted all the time by customers. :D
Gunstarhero
06-27-2003, 01:27 PM
I used to play Advance Wars in the toilet at my work 1-2 years ago but when I got my new laptop (a very small Toshiba 3440) I started to watch Divx movies and I bought a USB controller to play MAME. I don't have much to do at my work and the laptop is so small that I just take it under my armpit (under my jacket of course) and no one can see what I'm going to do. I also have small headphones in my pocket. I have watched at least 20 movies and played MAME for approx 50 hours. In the TOILET. AND GOT PAID FOR IT.....
Beat that if you can!
/CC
LOL Thats like the ultimate in slackerness.
Videogamerdaryll
06-27-2003, 01:35 PM
:-D ..I used to bring a GBC or NGPC..to work with me when I worked as a machinist..for the day/nights when I just had to watch/re-load the automatic machines..
My boss would be a pain about it but then he let it go..sometimes taking it away from me to play it himself.. :D
Now the handhelds..See a lot of play while I'm on the Bowl(shitter)..
I'm a big eater,so being on the bowl is work for me.. LOL :o
Pantechnicon
06-27-2003, 01:47 PM
I had to stop because three 30 minute bathroom breaks per day started looking suspicious to my co-workers. :(
Whew! I though I was the only one guilty of this behavior.
I actually shudder to think how many GB games I've managed to play all the way through here at work whilst feigning a bio-break. Let's see: Warlocked, Final Fantasy Legend 3, All the GBC Zelda titles and at least three runs through Nobunaga's Ambition are the first ones that come mind...
The plant I work in is closing in about six months so I figure why not? What are they going to do...fire me?
>:( <- [This is me burning in Hell]
All of this toilet talk brings up another question --- just where were your used games, before you had them? Uhh...I don't think I want to know.
bargora
06-27-2003, 01:55 PM
All of this toilet talk brings up another question --- just where were your used games, before you had them? Uhh...I don't think I want to know.
Come to think of it, there are quite a few shitty GB/GBA games.
Tritoch
06-27-2003, 02:19 PM
I work on the weekend, and since about 50% of my job is just monitoring various computer systems I usually have a lot of free time to play.
For the first two years or so I played GB/A fairly frequently at work, but I've actually be on a "learn new things and try to go somewhere with my career" kick lately so I haven't done it in quite a while. LOL
Nature Boy
06-27-2003, 04:23 PM
When the GBA SP first came out in March, I bought it & Advance Wars. I'd slip off for some quality time in the bathroom with my GBA.
I had to stop because three 30 minute bathroom breaks per day started looking suspicious to my co-workers. :(
I've done that in the past (bring the GBA to the can with me) - but not recently. I always made sure I had a game I could quit after 5 min though for just that reason :)