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    Default What funny things did you used to do to make a game more "environmental?"

    I'm sure everyone has turned out the lights to make games like Silent Hill seem more environmental, but when you were younger, did you ever do silly things to make the game seem more real?

    Back when I was in 5th grade, I used to sit down and play Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards in an old ratty blazer I called my "lesiure suit." What effect this had on the game remains to be seen, but I always used to slip it on before firing up the ol CGA monitor

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    I play Dead or Alive: Xtreme Volley Ball nude with a towel over my lap.

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    Amateur!

    You're supposed to play *EVERY* video game naked with a towel over your lap.

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    Sorry, that's the only game that I need the extra pants room for What games are YOU playing

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    Playing games naked with a towel over your lap is a way of life!

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    Well, this applies mainly to movies, but sometimes when I watch the Indiana Jones movies I like to wear my fedora to make it seem more authentic. I also do this when I play Indiana Jones and the Emporer's Tomb.

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    you guys are fucking weird. Though, I did dye my hair blue and spike it after being influenced by sonic.

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    When I was a young tike (30 some years ago) we would drape a large blanket over the tv and some chairs to make a tent box. We then would hook in our Atari 2600 and play Star Raiders or Starmaster. The Pilot would get the joystick and the copilot would either get the numerical controller for Star Raiders or would get to flick the toggle for Starmaster. After the original Battlestar Galactica came out General Mills offered a send away card board box Viper control console. We then cut holes in this so that the 2600 and joysticks would fit through. My parents thought we were loony
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    Quote Originally Posted by Push Upstairs View Post
    Playing games naked with a towel over your lap is a way of life!
    Noobs, you're supposed to play vidoegames naked WITHOUT a towel over your lap!. The towel is only for typing and maybe playing a PC FPS, but that's pushing it.

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    sometimes I lean my chair to correspond with what's happening on the screen when I play my roller coaster sims... and of course I ride with no hands... but I wish I had a real motion simulation unit to do all the chair movements for me... cause I still can't get my chair do any inversions!
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    - Whenever I played Pitfall II on the 2600 I always liked to play Rush's song "Xanadu" because it seemed to fit the game well:

    To seek the sacred river Alph
    to walk the caves of ice...


    So there I was, imagining I was Pitfall Harry looking the Pleasure Dome of Kublai Khan.

    - This doesn't quite rise to the level of "naked with a towel over my lap", but I've got a bit of a thing for wearing bandannas commando/pirate style on my head when I'm alone in my Rooma Dooma. I've got a many different colors appropriate for the game at hand: black for Metal Gear, red for Spider-Man games, desert camo for Dune, etc and why the hell am I telling this to total strangers?!

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    I usually jump back and forth from laying on my bed and sitting on the floor, depends on how into the game I get.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pantechnicon View Post
    - Whenever I played Pitfall II on the 2600 I always liked to play Rush's song "Xanadu" because it seemed to fit the game well:
    It's Saturday night. I have no date, a 2 liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush Mix Tape...let's rock!

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    Quote Originally Posted by exit View Post
    It's Saturday night. I have no date, a 2 liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush Mix Tape...let's rock!
    I've never watched Futurama, but I saw that clip on Youtube a while back and the first thing I thought was "OMG he's describing me in 10th grade!",`ceptin that it was a 2-liter bottle of Dr Pepper...

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    I play all my games completely nude, no towels. Sometimes I pop in God of War 2, go out into my goat pen (not nude I'm wearing shoes at this point) and find the closest axe. Once I have slaughtered the poor defenseless animal, I draw upsidedown crosses with goats blood on my chest and howl at the moon until the gods release my spirits. I come back into the house nude + dripping with goat blood, say hi to my roommates (for some reason they never say hi back) and sit down on the newspaper i put down on the floor, and press play. Videogames are the best, you should see what I do before I play grand theft auto lol.

    [to people who don't have a morbid sense of humor, I don't actually do any of this stuff and its suposed to all be a joke.]

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    Before I play Resident Evil, I chop up the neighbors and feed the zombies in the pit beneath the padlocked trapdoor underneath my rug. They don't get ideas as long as you keep them happy and remind them that a headshot will always take them down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TNTPLUST View Post
    When I was a young tike (30 some years ago) we would drape a large blanket over the tv and some chairs to make a tent box. We then would hook in our Atari 2600 and play Star Raiders or Starmaster. The Pilot would get the joystick and the copilot would either get the numerical controller for Star Raiders or would get to flick the toggle for Starmaster. After the original Battlestar Galactica came out General Mills offered a send away card board box Viper control console. We then cut holes in this so that the 2600 and joysticks would fit through. My parents thought we were loony
    That's an awesome story!
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    I've done tents, lights out, all that jazz. But when I was young, I had Star Wars Tie Fighter for my Packard Bell pos. I would actually wear my hockey helmet during the missions, and had a joystick and it would give me a pretty big great feeling when after a mission, i took off my helmet, held it by my side, wiped the real sweat off my forehead and proceeded to the next mission briefing.

    great game!

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    I used to tie this black sheet to the shelves over my gigantic window in my old room, so the sun wouldn't reflect off my TV while playing a game. My Mother used to demand that I take it down and being the rebellious teen that I was, refused to and continued playing Alundra in the darkness.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pantechnicon View Post
    I've never watched Futurama, but I saw that clip on Youtube a while back and the first thing I thought was "OMG he's describing me in 10th grade!",`ceptin that it was a 2-liter bottle of Dr Pepper...
    You've never watched Futurama? You owe it to yourself to check the show out, but avoid the game like you're avoiding the Noid.
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