You might be a racketboy member...

[J T]

If a woman asks you to role play in the bedroom and you start talking about experience points and leveling up... you might be a racketboy member.

If she then says "No, I mean bumping and grinding" and you say "I hate grinding in my role playing".... you might be a racketboy member.

And then she says "No, I'm talking about fantasy stuff with lots of spandex and zippers" and you say "You mean Square-Enix games?"... you might be a racketboy member.

[elmagicochrisg]

if you own multiple copies of a game, because you forgot you owned it already, the 2nd.. or 3rd time you saw it in the wild

[Gamerforlife]

If this ever happened to you:



you might be a racketboy member

[o.pwuaioc]

If you've ever gotten into a fistfight over whether the Saturn or Dreamcast was better, you might be a Racketboy member.

If your idea of a great bar includes arcade machines from the 80s, you might be a Racketboy member.

If ever someone visits, and they recognize none of your systems - even though they played on them as a kid - because they're different models and variants, you might be a Racketboy member.

If you ever shook your head at a hipster wearing a Game Boy while you sat and []iactually played[/i] yours, you might be a Racketboy member.

If you've ever listened to Pantera while playing a game where a moody kid turns down sex from a chick with a stick, you might be a Racketboy member.

If you have a picture of yourself losing at the nintendo world championship wearing a homemade"Iam a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" t-shirt in madison sq garden 1990...you might be a racketboy member..

will post pic!LOL
I hate you tetris!!

Pretty sure I didnt win the nintendo world championship, let alone qualify!

That is an epic shirt.

[Key-Glyph]

If you taped video game OSTs to cassette in the 80s or 90s for portable listening at school or on car trips... you might be a Racketboy member.

If you play or hum a classic video game song out-loud in the present day and one of your parents exclaims, "Hey, I remember that one!" or "OH GOD, NO,"... you might be a Racketboy member.

If you've awkwardly asked stores to hold marketing posters aside for you after a particular game's promotion is over... you might be a Racketboy member.

If you've bought an everyday object solely because it reminded you of something in-game... you might be a Racketboy member.

If one of your first answers to the question "If your house were on fire, what would you grab?" is gaming-related... you might be a Racketboy member.

If you spent more time collecting Sonic capsule toys in Shenmue than you think you should admit... you might be a Racketboy member.

If you've yelled along to the Neo Geo Song while driving to work to get pumped for the day... you might be a Racketboy member.

If you know that the song is actually titled "Four Bright Buttons and Two Joysticks" and were about to call me out on it... you might be a Racketboy member.

[sevin0seven]

you might be a racketboy member when.....



....never mind.

[pierrot]

Could one of our Japanese speakers translate the text in the picture for me (and most everyone else?)

Kind of old, but the advertisement says, 'Eat this, if you want to survive.' Then at the bottom it says, 'The ultimate survival food, for the ultimate warrior.'

I absolutely hate Calorie Mates; They taste like cardboard. Easily the worst of the 'meal bars.'


On topic:

If you buy an import version of a console before owning the version from your own region....

If you buy a 50+ lot of games for a system you don't currently own....

If your immediate reaction to hearing about a retro game you've never heard of before is to search youtube for game play and soundtrack videos....

[o.pwuaioc]

If your immediate reaction to hearing about a retro game you've never heard of before is to search youtube for game play and soundtrack videos....

While all of these things I do, I especially do this one all the time. Without fail.

[Hobie-wan]

If you pick up a boxed PS2 fat and 21 games for a friend and they'll pay you back because they're bringing a baby into the world today, but because your car is still being repaired from having a tree fall on it a few days before Christmas, it was a nearly 2 mile walk and you did it anyway. You might be a Racketboy member...















Wait.


Crap. <_<

[o.pwuaioc]

If you pick up a boxed PS2 fat and 21 games for a friend and they'll pay you back because they're bringing a baby into the world today, but because your car is still being repaired from having a tree fall on it a few days before Christmas, it was a nearly 2 mile walk and you did it anyway. You might be a Racketboy member...

Is that friend also a Racketboy member?