Little urges you get from playing games for long periods of time.

[Jessweeee♪]

Go!

Tetris is by far the worst offender, I'm sure most of you will agree. You play for a good long while and then you're subconsciously thinking of what piece would best fit in the area you're looking at. I could use an L shaped one here between my desk and the wall, placed upside down.

Of all the games I've played, Katamari takes second place. I first started playing when I was learning to drive. Even before I had the confidence to drive to the driving school myself, I would have the urge to grab the wheel and steer my dad's truck into the traffic cones to roll them up. I still refuse to use music from the Katamari soundtracks when burning CDs for driving with. They're such perfect driving music, too.

The only other one to stick with me was one from the GTA series. Nothing too illegal, just this weird thing I always do in the games. Whenever I came to a stop light on foot and a pick-up truck happened to be there, I'd try to get the guy to jump onto the back and see how long he'd stay on, and where the truck would go. The last time I went to the post office (or maybe it was the convenience store), I came across a truck at a stop sign and nearly took a step forward to do that very thing.

[Quindiana Jones]

I like banging prostitutes, then running them down when they get out the car and stealing their money.

[Mirage]

Sometimes after playing unreal tournament, I stop and wonder how random people would look like if splattered to a wall with a flak cannon.

[Madame Adequate]

After playing any game which lets you shoot out glass I wander around mentally shooting every pane of glass I see. And by mentally I mean making a gun with my fingers like a six year old.

[Elly]

playing SimCity has caused me to look at street layouts and neighborhoods in a new way, always thinking what would be better than what's already there... recently i went to San Antonio, Tx and the street layout made me wanna cry, it was horrible, like the streets were designed by a blind retarded monkey scribbling lines on a piece of paper and calling it a road network, none of it made any sense, where i live now the streets are a perfect grid...

[G13]

After playing games like Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3 I feel the need to "save" before doing something that might be considered harmful to my health if things go badly.

After I played Star Wars Bounty Hunter I did the little jetpack jump thinking I'd keep going for some reason and fell down a flight of stairs. I did it without even thinking and felt rather stupid when I explained to the onlookers what had just happened.

[Shoeberto]

After playing any game which lets you shoot out glass I wander around mentally shooting every pane of glass I see. And by mentally I mean making a gun with my fingers like a six year old.

Splinter Cell makes me size up lights and whether or not I can shoot them out.

GTA games always make me wish I had a button to do a rear-view mirror look while just running around on foot.

[Skyblade]

playing SimCity has caused me to look at street layouts and neighborhoods in a new way, always thinking what would be better than what's already there... recently i went to San Antonio, Tx and the street layout made me wanna cry, it was horrible, like the streets were designed by a blind retarded monkey scribbling lines on a piece of paper and calling it a road network, none of it made any sense, where i live now the streets are a perfect grid...

The streets weren't designed for the high population that developed around them. The city grows and expands, but the roads never get restructured. Probably because ripping them down and rebuilding them from scratch to fit the amount of traffic they need to hold nowdays would be too costly, and interrupt business too much while the retrofit was going on. But that's why in a lot of places that started out as small towns, the road systems are really terrible.

[Jessweeee♪]

My hometown feels like it was built in Sim City.

[Flying Mullet]

playing SimCity has caused me to look at street layouts and neighborhoods in a new way, always thinking what would be better than what's already there... recently i went to San Antonio, Tx and the street layout made me wanna cry, it was horrible, like the streets were designed by a blind retarded monkey scribbling lines on a piece of paper and calling it a road network, none of it made any sense, where i live now the streets are a perfect grid...

Urban legend says that when the city planner sat down to design the downtown area for San Antonio that he was piss drunk.

[I Took the Red Pill]

some of my dreams occur from the first person interface of halo 3, br and all.

[Moon Rabbits]

You guys are weird.

All I ever get is moving arrows when I blink or close my eyes after playing DDR for a few hours. That's not an urge, though.

[Yeargdribble]

I recently played a spate of NES games on emulator. Most were shmups and were ridiculously difficult. I programmed quicksave and quickloads onto my controller and spammed them constantly back and forth to get my way through the games...

Then I tried playing Metroid Prime and kept trying to tap my the Z button on the nunchuk (analogous to left shoulder) and B on the wiimote (analogous to right shoulder). It took me a good 30 minutes to stop trying to mess with save states while playing.

[Raistlin]

You guys are weird.

Yeah, seriously.

[Iceglow]

I learnt everything I know about retail shelf plans from Tetris that game sets you up for life if you play it right.

I also look at the world after playing MGS and think about how I could get from a - b without being spotted I have to admit Queensway tube station is going to need a chaff grenade or two.