You Know You're Too Competitive When....

[duckman]

You are playing a video game to practice because you're tired of getting your ass kicked by your 9 year old. :o

[Izulde]

:D

Which game?

[duckman]

Pokemon.

[duckman]

Pokemon.

Correction: Dragonball Z. :o

[Surtt]

You don't need to worry until you start cheating to beat a 9 year old.

[Groundhog]

Sort of OT, but this reminds me of my N64 days. Me and my younger brother used to play Goldeneye deathmatch for hours every day, and my brother would NEVER beat me - he wouldn't even come close, in fact. It wasn't that I was really good, it was just that he was really bad at those kind of games. Anyway one day we were playing our usual game, except this time it was real close... we both had no health left and were around the corner from each other, too afraid to make the first move. It seemed my brother had been practicing a lot, and had been using a lot of my own strategies against me.

There was actual sweat on my forehead and absolute silence in the room. At the exact same time we both jump out from around the corner and fire, but I ducked before shooting, he misses, and I hit and win the battle by the narrowest of margins, loudly declaring that I will NEVER play him again in order to keep my winning streak. Petty, I know :D

[Franklinnoble]

When I was a kid, we used to play Tecmo Bowl with the other kids in the neighborhood. I never liked playing over at Darryl's house, because he would videotape our games, and then watch them on replay later and look for my tendencies.

[Logan]

When NBA Jam first came out for Genesis and I started moving through that tournament mode that it had, I remember being an extremely pissed 10 year old. My older brother was home from college on spring break, and was playing all day and beating the game much faster than I was, while I was in school.

[Wolfpack]

When I was a kid, we used to play Tecmo Bowl with the other kids in the neighborhood. I never liked playing over at Darryl's house, because he would videotape our games, and then watch them on replay later and look for my tendencies.

Please tell me he got a scouting job somewhere...or else that you kept winning anyway, thus proving his scouting sucked.... :D

[Franklinnoble]

Please tell me he got a scouting job somewhere...or else that you kept winning anyway, thus proving his scouting sucked.... :D

I hope so. Darryl's story is kind of sad to me. He ended up being a Washington Post All-Met running back on my high school football team (the rest of us, like myself, pretty much sucked by comparison). He had size, speed, and great football instincts, and he pretty much ran all over people at that level.

Unfortunately, he also did very poorly academically - not because he was necessarily stupid, but because he was a bit arrogant, and didn't apply himself to it. When we were seniors in high school, he had a full ride to Syracuse (I can't imagine how he would have done on their turf), pending his achievement of a minimal GPA and SAT score.

He accomplished neither. I didn't keep in touch, but I'm pretty sure he never made it to Syracuse. I heard a rumor that he might have attended a prep school for an additional year to satisfy the academic need to make it onto an NCAA team, but I honestly have no idea where he ended up.

[Franklinnoble]

Oh, and, no... I never beat him at Tecmo Bowl.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

You don't need to worry until you start cheating to beat a 9 year old.
You don't have to cheat to beat a 9 year old in video games. Just punch him in the stomach and let him cry... Then you can score at will!

[duckman]

I was whooping his ass at the game until he unlocked some characters that were real badasses. Now, he trounces me with them at will. :mad:

I got on there today and played against his favorite character for two hours. I figure I'll be ready for him when he comes back down in a few weeks. :D

[Warhammer]

Slightly different situation, but I just lost to my oldest in a game I was actually trying...

I play a TON of boardgames, and have a weekly Wednesday night game night at my house or another friend of mine's house. Anyhow, there is a game called Carcassonne which is a tile laying game and you put pieces on the tiles and you get points for control of areas as each area is completed. Tuesday night, I am playing with the other stud gamette in the group (I have been trying to hook her up with a friend and my wife was pumping her for info). Anyhow, my wife and my 4 year old play the game with us. None of the adults are really paying attention and my son wins.

All of us are shocked, but none of us were really playing as we were more focused on hooking up the girl and my friend. Last night, game night is at my house. The girl comes over early since my wife invited her for dinner prior to gaming. She comes over and asks my son if he wants to play the game again. He gets the game, and we play a 3-player game. The girl and I are actually trying this time. I am winning going into the end game scoring. My son winds up winning because of a piece he played on one of his last two turns that I didn't notice...

Needless to say, neither the girl nor I mentioned it when every one else showed up.

[cartman]

A few years ago, my buddy's 4 year old wanted to play "Unreal Tournament" so he could kill the monsters. My friend and I ended up getting chewed out later by his wife, who said she was watching the boy and heard him say stuff (in a quiet, calm, voice) "want a piece of me?","want some, come get some", and "who's you're daddy now". She wanted to know where he could have picked up phrases like that. Neither my friend nor I had any clue. :D

[gstelmack]

A few years ago, my buddy's 4 year old wanted to play "Unreal Tournament" so he could kill the monsters. My friend and I ended up getting chewed out later by his wife, who said she was watching the boy and heard him say stuff (in a quiet, calm, voice) "want a piece of me?","want some, come get some", and "who's you're daddy now". She wanted to know where he could have picked up phrases like that. Neither my friend nor I had any clue. :D

It doesn't take playing UT for that. My 3-year-old loves the "Rip him open take it back guys" line from Aladdin :D

And I've had to watch myself with the "If you want to be my lover" line from the Abbey and Run karaoke sing-along in Chicken Little...

[cartman]

AAGH! I just realized I made the dreaded your/you're mistake.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Do NOT stay up 36 hours straight trying to hone you skills!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060512/ap_on_hi_te/china_online_suicide;_ylt=AluM1rTaonFoSb6JHLz7Yg.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3cjE0b2MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

[Kodos]

When I was a kid, we used to play Tecmo Bowl with the other kids in the neighborhood. I never liked playing over at Darryl's house, because he would videotape our games, and then watch them on replay later and look for my tendencies.

Franklinnoble has tendencies! :eek:

[timmae]

sounds like some great times for you and your kid... i still remember playing my pop in intellivision football. I'd try like hell to beat him and eventually I did end up getting better (since I could play after school before he got home from work!!). I still remmeber some of those wars... ahh... good times. Although the 8 pixel players pale in comparison to today's 3d games!

[cartman]

You don't have to be a little kid for Dad to practice. Last year my parents came down for a visit, and we started playing Burnout 3. Even though they both sucked at it, they really enjoyed playing it.

Imagine my surprise when the next time they came down, my Dad kicked my ass at the game. It turns out they bought an Xbox just so they could play Burnout 3, and my Dad had gotten damn good at the game.

I'm 33 and he's 56! :D

[Kodos]

My wife's parents enjoyed Burnout 3 as well. Even her mother.

[Maple Leafs]

I'm still mentally scarred over an ass-kicking my wife delivered in some boxing game -- I think it was the old intellivision version. I couldn't land a punch. It was arguably the most one-sides video game performance in the history of the world.

[FrogMan]

for a little while, I tried and tried to get better than my 9yo son at SSX3. At one point, I gave up and decided to just enjoy playing it to have fun and looking at his overjoyed face when he comes to me and tells me he beat my record time by almost 20 seconds. :)

FM

[Wolfpack]

I hate losing, I guess. My wife and I used to play games more frequently in our younger days, but no matter what we played, I found a way to lose a lot of the time and it drove me crazy after a while, so much so that I didn't want to play games with her anymore. There was one card game in particular that we fetched out of those "101 card games" books that I never, ever beat her at no matter what strategy I played. It got to be comical after a while, but it still irritated me to no end.

[sterlingice]

Sort of OT, but this reminds me of my N64 days. Me and my younger brother used to play Goldeneye deathmatch for hours every day, and my brother would NEVER beat me - he wouldn't even come close, in fact. It wasn't that I was really good, it was just that he was really bad at those kind of games. Anyway one day we were playing our usual game, except this time it was real close... we both had no health left and were around the corner from each other, too afraid to make the first move. It seemed my brother had been practicing a lot, and had been using a lot of my own strategies against me.

There was actual sweat on my forehead and absolute silence in the room. At the exact same time we both jump out from around the corner and fire, but I ducked before shooting, he misses, and I hit and win the battle by the narrowest of margins, loudly declaring that I will NEVER play him again in order to keep my winning streak. Petty, I know :D

And very much like an episode of the Simpsons from over 15 years ago (http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7G06.html)

SI