Thought we should have our own of these but can only think of a few so please contribute.

you've been playing adventure games too long when....

....You refer to your pockets as, 'My inventory'

....You do a search on your computer for the word walkthru and find 76 results

....You check Gameboomers each morning before breakfast/coffee/cigarette/feeding the dog/cat/family

.....When asked for directions to the station, it's not just, Down the road and turn right; it's, Along this tree lined, victorian looking, avenue under the bright glow of the electric lighting in a northerly direction towards the junction at the far end. Upon reaching the crossroads with the old weather beaten and dilapidated hotel on the corner there is a road leading west which heads towards the centre of town and a road leading eastwards towards the train station. You wust turn in an easterly direction and proceed along this......etc, etc

You've been playing adventure games too long when

When ever you go someplace new you check all cabinets, drawers, and open and close all the doors.


New defence for Wynona Ryder, she wasn't shop lifting she was just collecting inventory.

When you try to "save" when you're watching a TV program

Any time I go to the doctor's I always keep looking at those plastic disposable gloves and elastic tubing and have to fight the urge to grab some, cause well... you never know what you might need that day.

Also you have definitely been playing to long when every time you enter a room you look for alternative exits.

ALso when your idea of financial planning is limited to charting all the future releases month by month and drawing up a budget projection so you can make sure you can BAAG all of them.

Laura

...when something bad happens, you say it's ok, you'll reload a save.

Hi.

......When you read all these replies and understand them all

...when you finish asking someone a question, you ask again just to see if you get a different answer.

or, even worse...when everytime you looke at something, you say the same thing. like, you wake up every morning, look at you bedside drawer and say: "It's my bedside drawer. There's nothing of interest inside.".

cheers!

You know you've been playing Adventure Games too long when . . . you constantly have the urge to try EACH and EVERY key on your key ring on EVERY DOOR you see.

Mike.

You know you've been playing Adventure games too long when...

Dinner for 4 consists of TV Dinners served WELL done at 8pm....

Your smallest child thinks his/her name is "Just a sec."

Every scrap of paper within reach has some sort of hieroglyphic, mayan symbol, rune, or maze drawn upon it...including the phone bill.

When faced with the dilema of being locked out of your car you think about using the fish you just bought as a means of opening it.

Each person you know in real life you silently associate with an in-game character. Including yourself.

...when you're wandering around lost in the aisles of a big confusing store (like Walmart) muttering to yourself, "I hate mazes, I hate mazes....."

I work in a medical office and decided not to order a medical coding reference book because it had the picture of a SLIDER PUZZLE on the cover.

Yikes!



Marion

First, hello to everyone. It's my first post, so don't expect a brilliant answer, but, well, there it goes.
In my experience, you've been playing an adventure for too long when you start to fear for your own life and watch around just to check nothing unusual things are taking place when Gabriel K.(I mean, me; no, I mean the character) is in a dangerous situation...

That's a great one, Audrey and I don't blame you one bit!

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Hi there, Malia!

Welcome to Gameboomers!




Best wishes, Witchen =O)

You know you've overdone games when you're afraid to go anywhere dark for fear of being eaten by a grue!

Also when you're solving puzzles in your sleep.

You know you're playing too many adventure games when you automatically look for strange things on the ground to click on! Or when you want to pry up a sewer lid to see what's hidden under it.

Jean

You know you have played too many adventure games when you:

-want to catch the neighbor

I LOVE this thread ! ! ! !

Oh me too! This is summing my life up... now I know why paople think I'm crazy!! hahaha!!

Welcome Malia! Glad you're here!

You know you've been playing adventure games too long when:

--you eat soup from the microwave for every meal for a week, because going to the grocery store would interfere with your in-game flow....you're on a roll and can't be distracted

--your cat is mad because you're always on the computer and she begins to unwind all the toilet paper.....only to be confronted by your puzzled face wondering if you could piece it back together like you did the torn paper puzzle in the game you're playing

--the only thing you take time to make is coffee

--you find yourself doing your homework in the wee hours of the morning because, "Dammit, Larry Laffer needs me!"

--you dream of being sent to Syberia and it's a GOOD thing

--you know that if your friends DO give up on you and send you to the Sanitarium, you'll be able to survive, because you did, afterall, help Max to survive

--you start telling your friends and family when to eat, sleep, pee and get in the hot tub, and you start spouting at the dinner table, "This graw is fredishay."

--no one will talk to you anymore because they can't understand why your right forefinger keeps twitching each time you ask them a question



By the way....I love this thread too! It makes me feel sort of "normal."

You know you've been playing adventure games too long when....

... You push the handle on every toilet just to see if it will flush...

...You carry around the urn of a deceased relative "just in case the Iuxpi show up!"...

...At easter time you are disappointed the leftover colored eggs in the fridge don't reverse time!"

FUNNY THREAD

I have had so much fun reading this thread. Thanks ThunderChild for starting it. I can relate to everything said here, but especially cracked up over Jen's remark about using a fish to unlock the car door.
Susan

I know I've been playing Adventure games too long since almost every day some musical refrain sticks in my mind and I can't get rid of it until I figure out what Adventure game used it. When it lasts more than a couple of days, I have to go back and restore likely episodes in the most likely games. That can be a terrible interruption, but I have to do it since otherwise that blasted refrain begins to dominate me.

I love this one as well!

- when you cannot go into a library without searching for secret doors
- you touch every plant you see just in case it might reveal a secret passage
- when using public transportation you wait for a map to appear, so you can click on it, to get you to the desired place
- you try to use the "space" button when someone is talking to you to skip the conversation
- you think closed doors will open once you have completed the necessary task
- you talk to every person you meet... they might give you a hint
- you think every computer is turned on all the time and consists only of emails and files that are important.

ROTFL! I'm currently playing Bad Mojo, love being a cockroach, exploring the bathroom. (The toilet seat makes such lovely sticky sucking sounds.)

And you also know you've played too many adventure games when you're trying to get hints from two 9-year-old boys you're babysitting: "Suppose you're a wizard called Rincewind and you have a Luggage following you around and you don't know how to..."

Betje