Are YOU a game knowledge ho?

[RetroYoungen]

Thought that might grab your attention.

In my group of friends I'm usually the one first asked about something video game related. I've even had buddies call me up late at night asking me stuff like "Dude, how much should that Space Invaders game cost, you know, the one from tha old Atari?" My friends even whore out my knowledge to other people, getting them to ask me questions about stuff I might know just a little about, and then I'm asked all sorts of crap from then on out.

And that got me thinking: Am I a game knowledge whore?

Anyone else like me in this regard?

[GaijinPunch]

I don't think I have one single friend that likes video games. As such, nobody ever asks me dick about them. There's a guy at work that enjoys them, but is by no means a gamer. He bought a DS b/c the PSP has "too much going on with all those buttons.". Japanese wife too... they're into touching I guess.

I take that back. A gal I work with actually bought some Capcom stock (Japanese side) and asked if I had ever heard of them. :P

[AFGiant]

People bring that kind of stuff up with me from time to time. I've got a rep as being the "h4rdc0re gam3r" in my school. Its a private school, still large but not huge, and there arn't any collectors except me. I was at my friend's house the other day, and as he was flipping channels he hit Toy Story 2 at the part where the pig is playing the SNES and he said to everyone else in the room "That's [my name] right there]"

Game trivia, release dates, info on classics, people come to me. So yeah, I'm a game trivia ho LOL

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Oh heck yeah. My friends come to me with these questions. My co-workers come to me with these questions. Heck, even major corporations, whether I like it or not!

'Tis both a curse and a blessing.

[RetroYoungen]

Oh heck yeah. My friends come to me with these questions. My co-workers come to me with these questions. Heck, even major corporations, whether I like it or not!

'Tis both a curse and a blessing.

About those major corporations, are you getting paid for your... services?

[Cryomancer]

More or less. I don't have a lot of people asking me the questions though. I do tend to over-explain and inform people about things they have half-wrong online and such though.

[GrandAmChandler]

I sure am.

My friends ask me questions all the time. "What's the game where you do this..." "or where do you find the key in level blah blah blah.."

or my personal favorite, my friends asking me questions when they are drunk:

Friend - "Chandler! What's the name of the first bad guy in mario 2?"

Me- "Boss or just enemy?"

Friend - "Who cares! The first guy!"

Me- "um... a shyguy."

Friends - "Hahahaha a SHYGUY, Chandler you are hilarious!"

[Bluteg]

I am but it really annoyes some people because I tend to ramble on about small details in games.

All of my friends have at least some interest in gaming, so they don't mind it too much.

[tholly]

im at college....suite style room with 4 two person bedrooms and everyone plays games, but, no one is a collector....everyone is just the halo or sports game player, so any video game question or problem, im the one they come too....i try to expose them to unique games too....and sometimes they actually like the weird games

[retroman]

that would be me to bro...all my friends call me for that kind of shit to...i am the one that never got out of games. And they dont know shit when it comes to knowing anything about history or even prices of older games. i am the one they always call.

[Slipdeath]

As much as my friends know that I'm a collector and know a lot of the prices, I still can't convince them that they're not going to get $500 for their dad's "old Atari" on ebay.

[pacmanhat]

When I'm in my friend's game store (which is fairly often these days), and a customer comes in with a loaded or obscure question about gaming, my friend (the store owner) defers the question to me. I don't work there or anything, either...I just know the answers. :lol:

[Arcade Antics]

Yeah, but more importantly, I'm just a whore.

He'll do anything for money
He's a whore
Look at the things that I write
He's a whore
The stories I could tell
He's a whore
In the morning in the night...





(10 meseta to the first person to identify the reference :D )

[PapaStu]

Ayup.

In my friends circles (except the ones made from DP) i'm the first person asked about games. Ive gotten numerous calls about this or that game when at work or out and about. When at work when anyone asks about games (mind you I work in the electronics dept, just not for the evil empire I work in) the employees will have the customers direct the questions to me.

Doesnt bug me actually. Kinda like knowing that ive got SOME place to use this knowledge ive accrued.

[THATinkjar]

Yeah, I can relate to all this. Though it REALLY bugs me. Especially since they aren't really clued up enough to understand. And I'm not smart enough to dumb it down enough. So these days, generally speaking, I don't answer them :)

[I Am Humanoid]

Are YOU a game knowledge ho?


Knowledge is power. I am a sponge for information but people around here think that I have the word *Google* stamped on my forehead. Go freakin' learn something on your own! I need to move up into the mountains or on a deserted island....

[Graham Mitchell]

Yeah, but more importantly, I'm just a whore.

He'll do anything for money
He's a whore
Look at the things that I write
He's a whore
The stories I could tell
He's a whore
In the morning in the night...




(10 meseta to the first person to identify the reference :D )

Cheap Trick's "He's A Whore" from their Eponymous debut record. Also covered by Big Black in 1987.

I'm a whore, too. Everytime I sit down to lunch bewildered med students ask lame questions like "do you still have Zelda?"

[Daft Punk]

dammit I was just about to submit it too.
:P

[mezrabad]

In the sense of videogaming history, yes. I really love reading the "history of videogames" books and sites.

That being said, no one I know could give a flying fig about it. :(

[VACRMH]

Friend - "Chandler! What's the name of the first bad guy in mario 2?"

Me- "Boss or just enemy?"

Friend - "Who cares! The first guy!"

Me- "um... a shyguy."

Friends - "Hahahaha a SHYGUY, Chandler you are hilarious!"

For some reason, I read that fast and thought I had missed an interesting episode of Friends :embarrassed:

Anyways...

I wish people asked me game questions, but usually I just get "You're obsessed" if I mention games.

[xaer0knight]

I need to move up into the mountains or on a deserted island....

<------ Look at the location :P I love doing trivia with some of these kids around here, who think that Nintendo and SEGA were the 16-bit systems, showed em a HuCard and they were like WHOA. Ya i consider myself mostly looking at the history of video gaming mostly the NEC days and the 16-bit wars. Just pop up a a tidbit of information while kids are going on about there DS or there XBOX, its fun to show some kids the root of gaming :)

[hydr0x]

oh yeah, everybody who knows me and is into games asks me a lot about them, there's noone who i know in real life who has anywhere near as much knowledge about this as i do

it can get annoying sometimes to answer the same question again and again, but hey, i love this hobby, so i shouldn't complain

[doubledownon11]

I get a ton of questions from friends about games and gaming systems. I'm definately the resident expert. I also get a lot of questions about TV shows past and current. I have a real mind for trival things like that.

[Arcade Antics]

Cheap Trick's "He's A Whore" from their Eponymous debut record. Also covered by Big Black in 1987.

Ding ding ding! A quick N easy +10 meseta. :)

[Raccoon Lad]

I'd say yes... but working at a video game company means there's dozens of others that would get asked before me.

There's some hardcore freaks around where I work, and most of those Mo-fo's are Nintendo fan-boys.

[The Manimal]

Sort of, I guess.

I am the resident game geek, though when I get with a bunch of game geeks, I get made the fool.


Not an expert, but an "enthusiast". ;)

[NESaholic]

I am the one and only gamer when i look at my friends, people sometimes ask me stuff but not alot,becuase of my 8-bit addiction. :P

The stupid thing is that when people have a NES or whatever console and don't play it no more wanna get more outta it when they know you collect stuff and want it,that really sucks.

[Nature Boy]

I'm totally the guy people call.

Most of the time it has to do with buying games, like "what would you buy an 8 year old for console X" type of questions.

And I love it. Like somebody already mentioned, it's my area of expertise, and I like helping others where I'm best able to!

[Mythik]

none of my friends collect games...one of my friends did for about a month, then he decided to stop and spend the money on his car (which is what I'd do if I had a car in the first place :p )

oh well.

[Crush Crawfish]

Yep, I flaunt the vast tome of gaming knowledge that is my mind at every opportunity! :D When I worked at funcoland this past christmas, this girl came in and described an NES game she was looking for. I don't remember the exact description, but I was 100% sure it was A Boy and his Blob she was looking for. When I gave her the name, she had the most shocked look on her face and she said "How did you know that!!?!?!?!?" Hehehehe. I'm just a tinge obsessed, that's how! :D

Also today I had to correct this kid who referred to Tails as a three-tailed female chipmunk. I set him straight, that's for sure. Poor bastard even knows Tails' full name now.... :evil:

[Aussie2B]

Considering that I'm a chick and most people think: girl gamer = lesbian and/or freak, most don't even know that I'm into games at all, let alone just how serious I am about them. I just don't care to deal with judgmental people and their ridiculous gender stereotypes. Sometimes I'm half tempted to full out tell them that I have close to 600 games because I can just imagine the look they would have on their faces. :P

When it comes to professional video game journalism, I think I know a little too much for my own good. o_O I keep watching G4 and looking at gaming magazines, even though I constantly get angry by the mistakes they make. I wish more of these professionals actually knew as much about gaming as myself and others around here.

I try to avoid being a hardcore gaming snob on message boards. Occasionally, I correct people when they don't have their info quite right, even when I know they may not want to be corrected or even care what the truth is. I've all but given up trying to get people to correctly write "tri-Ace" with a little "t" and a big "A". :P

[Kroogah]

I used to geek out at any opportunity, but I've learned the fine art of restraint. Here's a lovely anecdote for you.

At a recent trip to the arcade, I was wearing my K.K. Slider t-shirt (just a pic of K.K. playing his guitar with his name in bold type) and one of the DDR rats asked me about it. I just told him it was "from a video game called Animal Crossing"

My friend Troy's younger brother, who was there, blurts out "He's K.K. Slider! He's a dog that plays guitar every Saturday outside the train station and he gives you a song!"

...of course the guy had already walked away. I turned to him and said "That is a LOT of information for a question about a t-shirt." And Troy called him a fucking dork, oblivious to the fact that I'm the dork wearing the t-shirt.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

I'm a regular old "Charlotte the Harlot" when it comes to videogame knowledge. In fact, if any of my freinds have a videogame related question to ask they but need to come to me and I will awnser it...... seriously though, nodody ever asks me about videogames or ever really brings them up. Hell, most people don't even know i'm into them.

[sabre2922]

yeah only one of my other REAL friends plays games on a regular basis actually he plays games more than I do but hes strictly a PS2 junkie.

A lot of ppl ask me questions about what they should buy their kids and very few have realized that thier old PSx's will not play PS2 games :roll: or have just now caught on to the current-gen systems and it totally blows their minds when I tell them that the new Xbox will be out late this year or that any new system is coming out their all like but PS2 is only a couple years old LOL or Xbox just came out like last year O_O
its sad really :)

[mynameistom22000]

Yupp....If my friends have a question about something video-game related it usually gets asked to me...Just today in fact I had to explain to my friend how the Zapper for NES worked...

[NESVIDIOT]

Yeah, I'm sure that any of us middle 30's hardcore gamers and collectors can tell you... people sure look at you funny when they find out just how much of a "Vidiot" you really are, when they hear you talk about videogames like it is the story of your life.... and it is. :D
Or when they see your collection... :eek 2:
I always get friends phoning me from garage sales asking if a NES with a couple of games is worth 10.00-
or if a PSX with 5 games is worth 80.00.
and they wonder why I ask what the PSX games are, and in what condition(usually tomb raider, syphon filter and sports)
any one of us here knows the answer. LOL

[jdc]

Yep....used to work in the industry. People used to phone me and I'd walk them through tough spots. Silent Hill for the PSX was the all-time number one game that I'd give the most help for.....and for that famous "piano key puzzle" in particular. It really wasn't THAT difficult a puzzle but many people just COULDN'T figure it out.

N64 games? No sweat.....ask me anything. I specialized in that system. ;)

[sabre2922]

yeah I had to help my PS2 addicted buddy with the same piano puzzle on Silent Hill 1.

In fact I have to help him with just about anything that doesnt have to do with GTA x_x hes kinda a casual gamer but plays games constantly and doesnt really collect anything just whatever is NEW mostly.

[CullJeff]

Here's the other question:

How many arguments do you get into with your friends over video games? and i'm not talking about arguments over playing a game.

[RetroYoungen]

Here's the other question:

How many arguments do you get into with your friends over video games? and i'm not talking about arguments over playing a game.

I've gotten into arguments over when a certain game or system was released, but to be honest it was a long while ago since my last, and I never really liked the guy ANYway (besides the fact that he was pretty dumb). I don't have too many actual friends who are big gamers, and the few who are usually turn to me about knowledge of them.

Just ending that with a tie back to the original question. ;) 8-)

[ozyr]

My luck, I don't have too many friends that are into video games. Thus, I don't get asked too much stuff.

Off of my website, that's a different story. I do get asked Odyssey2 questions from time-to-time.