What if people really mimicked video games?

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Players of Traveller's Tales Lego games, such as Lego Star Wars and Lego Lord of the Rings, would constantly be breaking furniture apart in order to get money out of them.

- No animal would ever be safe going near a Tomb Raider fan.

- Final Fantasy nuts would shout "Random encounter!" every time they walk past a stranger in the street. They would then form into orderly rows and wait patiently for their turn to hit each other.

- Anyone who has played God of War would smash every piece of pottery they see. (Seriously though, Kratos, why do you hate pottery so much?)

- Mario fans would always be getting banned from the supermarket for jumping all over the fresh mushrooms.

- Players of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat would pick fights with people and then get confused when their opponents take a sideways step.

- Two words: Angry Birds. Just visualise that for a moment. The RSPCA would never stand for it.

- Portal fans would be spray-painting orange and blue circles onto walls and then knocking themselves unconscious when they try to run through them.

- Half-Life fans would never speak.

- Obsessive Civilization players would be nipping down to Bunnings to buy several trailer loads of bricks, intent on being first to build The Hanging Gardens of East Burwood.

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I like the minecraft comment.

"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke

Oh, that article has the quote I looked up. I was not as clever as I'd hoped.

Me and my two weirdo friends in elementary school actually did act out videogames but it was more like drama. We acted out the scripts and we never brought it into real life. There was the pretend dramatic world and the real world. If we ever mixed up the two it would probably have been hilarious.

Every time I am standing in the bus and the door opens and people go out I hear this counter-strike sound "Go go go!" in my head as I walk out.

Games are abstract and all are violent or almost all of them. Strategy or shooting game. If you take chess game for example, it represents two armies fighting. So should we all go out dress white or black stand in formations and slaughter each other?

I must admit I enjoy the antics of the screaming "real life pac-man" who runs through grocery stores, etc, being chased by ghosts!

Real life frogger.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eLOTe2o--U[/youtube]

i remember having a laughing fit while i was waiting for a train to work. i was playing a game the night before, and there were civilians in the game. these citizens had a rudimentary dialogue database, and they would talk and gesticulate to each other, but after a few sentences, the dialogue repeated it's self and they continued to cycle through the same situation endlessly.
i imagined me and melinda (a girl who is my friend and she has a sense of humor) and me acting the same way on the platform (right down to the poor mouth articulation simulation).

some civilians in the game would talk to me, but they ran out of things to say and i kept staring at them and clicking on them but they just stood there looking at me and and said nothing.
i imagined me and melinda acting that one out as well. we could pretend we did not know each other, and she could come to me from behind and tap me on the shoulder (substitute for mouse clicking) and i could swivel around rapidly on my heel and land directly facing her.

her: what is the time?
me:(civilian) it is 10:30am (slightly wobbling head)
her: when will the next train be?
me: i have heard that there is a holdup. (slightly wobbling head)
her: darn.

wait 10 seconds both standing toward each other

her: what is the time?
me:(civilian) it is 10:30am (slightly wobbling head)
her: when will the next train be?
me: i have heard that there is a holdup. (slightly wobbling head)
her: darn.

wait 10 seconds both standing toward each other (i am taller than her so i can stare blankly straight ahead over her head, and she can stare blankly at my neck, then i do a ninety degree turn and face the wall and do nothing but the same slight wriggle every 20 seconds.

then i imagined the whole of society behaving in this way. i nearly choked to death.

LOL! This post is pretty amusing but somewhat true when imitating stuff from video games.

Just imagine if Donkey Kong Country fans using steel kegs to roll and balance on while walking along the sidewalk like the Kongs did from DKC 1-3.

Just imagine if Sonic the Hedgehog fans snatching gold rings from people's fingers and hunting for actual jewels from jewelry mines.

Just imagine if Mortal Kombat fans breaking thier own bones and rupturing organs when seeing fighters performing X-Ray moves from MK 2011.

Just imagine if Punch Out fans chasing bike thieves like the old meme from the original NES version.


Real Life X-Ray Moves!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92VIINx96Ug[/youtube]

Good article. BTW, I would hate to see the world of Carmageddon and Carmageddon II. I'd hate to see the world of superhero games and in general too. They always fight the supervillains, busting buildings, tossing busses and trucks (via superstrength or some other power), blowing things up using IED's or some other powers, etc. The economy would tank, unless you're a contractor, then it would boom, where people would be afraid to go out and/or they would live far away from cities. One thing I did like about the cartoon, "The Tick," where at least "The City" sent a letter to "The Tick" over the damage he caused to many buildings.

One game I always wanted to play was Wizardry IV, Werdna, where you played the bad guy wizard and have to fight off all these pesky adventurers and dungeon crawlers who are out to get your chips. No wonder the bad guys are evil and cranky, you would be too if you spent 96% of your life just trying to keep what you have against waves and waves of these people out for your stuff.

Now that I think about it, if we mimiced Alpha Centuari, we'd be reoganizing ourself into 7 factions based on ideology, and sending rover teams at each other.

Kinda like PPR, only with fungus that.....is'nt very helpful to humans. Unless you're the Gaians.

I'd get into the gorilla pen during feeding time, jump over things and kidnap the feeder. "Hey, what the hell are you doing" "I'm here to rescue you, Pauline."

I'd actually get exercise by doing people's lawns hoping to find rupees.

Get surrounded by cops after throwing newspapers through windows of non subscribers.

Throw banana peels out my car window.