I have a lot of gamer friends and only half of them look like the atypical nerd. Even then many of them look like different types of nerds.

At the gamestops I frequent, I usually either see parents buying for their kids or gangster wannabe's cause I like in the suburbs of a metropolitan area.

Although popular culture has stereotyped the gamer, I feel the reality is far from the truth. Yeah the stereotype is out there (otherwise it wouldn't exist in the first place) but the majority I see look like everyday people to me.