I do have a particularly gripping story for why I continue to "game", so please, stay awhile and listen...

When I was a young boy of the ripe old age of ten, I met my best friend. His name was Johnny Balls and he was dying. You see, although he was young and full of life, god hated him and endowed Ballsy boy with a brain tumor. Doctors gave him no more than 1 year to live. During his fall into the unknown territory we call death, Johnny and I played checkers together. As he moved from school, to home, to hospital, so did our checker board. Sometimes he would beat me and sometimes I would beat him. Every now and then, I'd be on a roll and kick the shit out of his bald ass. Ahhh... the good times. When the fateful day of his death finally came, I mourned. Knowing that my dead friend was rotting in the ground, I became enthralled in the game of checkers. In the name of Johnny Balls, I would be the best checkers player the world had ever known!

I entered a tournament as my first step to accomplishing this goal. I ended up not going because I was too busy plaing this F**KING AWESOME game my new best friend turned me onto. Pac-man.

Yep, that's why I game. Because it's too much fun.

^^^For some reason, Darth, that post has me wondering how people with no hands masturbate...........

Heh, I'm feeling exactly the opposite.

@OP:

Dunno, force of habit? If growth (or lack thereof) of my gaming library this year is any indication, I may give up gaming in next few years. Well, not entirely ^_^ 10min of Puzzle Bobble every morning and 1hr of WSR every weekend - and I'm ok.

Awesome read.  Every time I read the name "Johnny Balls", I giggled like a schoolgirl, but the story was awesome, nonetheless.

I just started being a gamer....

cause I'm addicted

Because it is fun.

Nintendo

because i don't have the money to spend on fancy cars and wild party nights like my boy J. Peterman

Because i still enjoy playing videogames as much as when i start playing by the age of 8. Also i´ve got enough time to play and fortunately i can afford buying games, which did not happen when i was a student.

There is this friend of mine who stop playing some 10 years ago and he censured me for playing, saying it was childish, then one day he came to my house and played some PS2 games. Now he owns a PS3 bought in first week release and he says videogaming is the best thing to develop the brain capacity . When he´s not with his girlfriend, he´s always calling me to play some multiplayer games.