12 Embarrassing Things All Gamers Do But Would Never Admit
10. Playing a Casual Game On The Wii, By Yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ARvhT6Gzc Hey! Down here. Text to read. Unfortunately I imagine most of us don't look anywhere near that good when playing a casual game. Instead we're often a sweaty mess as we've been exercising. There's nothing quite like a hardcore gamer covered in bodily fluids, hair matted to your head and panting like a locomotive. Mmm. Casual gaming. Those two little words are enough to set many gamers' teeth on edge and give us a case of the heeby-geebies. Casual gaming is associated with the time when people who weren't gamers invade our private world filled with fun and joy and made it into a hideous place filled with games that must be constantly treat with disdain and never, ever played. Except we did. I'm willing to bet a good chunk of my right buttock that practically every self-style 'hardcore' gamer has played a casual game on their own. Whether it's in the darkness of your bedroom with the curtains closed as you waggle the Wii mote up and down or doing yoga on Wii Fit to the sound of the Pan Pipes of Upper Tigadebo (which is hidden in your CD collection in a different case), we've all done it. You can just never admit it to other gamers. 'YOU DID WHAT??!!' they'd cry, while pelting you with sticks.
Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.