You've played too many video games when...

[Dust and Ashes]

I frequently catch myself looking at the lower right of my windshield when driving to check the compass on my HUD.

I was just out looking for my cat and when I spotted movement 100 yards away, I tried to zoom in like I was playing Ghost Recon.

When I was playing System Shock 2 the first time, I developed a phobia of security cameras and actually jumped once in a bank when I was looking around while waiting for a teller and spotted one pointing towards me.

Any similar stories?

 

[skysthelimit]

I've played a ton of SOCOM II, so when someone threw something into a garbage can I dove and said "fire in the hole!" .....Ok well I didn't say it outloud, but you get the picture.

 

[Veiled Viper]

After beating Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow, my 7 year old son and I were walking in public when we spotted a security camera.
My son instinctively asked,"Is that a shootable camera or should I use my camera jammer?" Gotta love it!

 

[Veiled Viper]

One of our favorite genres is racing games.

I was running late driving my son to school one morning ,and my son looks at the clock on the dash and says,
"Hit BOOST,Dad!"

 

[mnmcandiez]

You've played too many video games when...
Your fingers fall off

 

[gusto5]

driving on the highway, may dad was picking up and i said "hit your nitro"

going around the malls, i catch myself purposely trying to look calm passing the security booth, knowing ive done nothing wrong.

 

[JCMLR]

My Uncle started using glasses after playing the GBAsp 24/7.
that's the reason my dad doesn't want me to play GB's.
he won't let me play the PSP and DS in the near future.

 

[Archangel590]

After beating Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow, my 7 year old son and I were walking in public when we spotted a security camera.
My son instinctively asked,"Is that a shootable camera or should I use my camera jammer?" Gotta love it!

I cant wait to play that one

 

[Paladin Dave]

Hmm, in MOH Frontline and Jedi Knight 2 I seem to recall trying to look around a corner and actually moving my body instead of the controller.

 

[SUNSTONE]

Often times I'll catch myself wearing a headset, while playing an offline game.

When I was playing MK2, and SF2Turbo, we played so much, that are thumbs got sore.
So I invented the "thumb sock". I took old cloths, and made little socks that just fit your thumb.
My friends laughed at me, but after a week, everyone of them never played without one on.

I quit a job for a game, and played it 18 hours a day, for 3 weeks straight, before I decided it was time to go back to work.

 

[Veiled Viper]

When I was playing MK2, and SF2Turbo, we played so much, that are thumbs got sore.
So I invented the "thumb sock". I took old cloths, and made little socks that just fit your thumb.
My friends laughed at me, but after a week, everyone of them never played without one on.

That reminds me! My xbox controller made my hands fatigued and sweaty,so I got a pair of socks and cut holes for my thumbs and trigger fingers!
Voila! Gamer gloves!!

 

[Kaonashi]

I've rubbed the skin off my thumb before playing Super Mario Brothers endlessly

 

[Dak man]

Whenever you play any MMORPG.

 

[Bohemian]

You've played too many video games when...
Your fingers fall off

Oooh! Couldn't have that happen! I'm a pianist!

 

[Animerulz400]

I've rubbed the skin off my thumb before playing Super Mario Brothers endlessly

Well that definetly means that you're doing way to many video games. Stop. Set a time limit. 30 min or an hour a day.

 

[Animerulz400]

You've played too many video games when...
Your fingers fall off

Don't let them! Try just not to play them. Video games are just as bad as surgar! You get addicted to it to easily!

 

[Dust and Ashes]

Whenever you play any MMORPG.

So true!!! I've literally spent months of time playing MMORPGs.

 

[skysthelimit]

Well that definetly means that you're doing way to many video games. Stop. Set a time limit. 30 min or an hour a day.

that's a sin in my book!

 

[Mrs. Matt Dally]

you know you've played too many video games when you stop playing, put your player down, and your thumbs are still twitching and pushing the buttons of an imaginary player in your hand.

 

[PolskiKrol]

I've dreamed that I was in Unreal Tournament and I was fighting those flying gargoyle things with other avatars like Romulus and Remus. My sight even turned red when I got hit! Thats the kind of dream you never want to wake up from. I could do all these cool flips and dodges and stuff.

My friend once told me that after he had played Morrowind for 15 hours straight for a few days, reality seems funny.