* The television series X-Men: Evolution reimagines Arcade ( voiced by Gabe Khouth ) as a high school gamer named Webber Torque ( who calls himself Arcade ), who is tricked by a disguised Mystique into believing that the X-Men's mansion security console and Danger Room is an elaborate video game.

When a gamer named Steven Banks achieved this feat on January 18, 2003, he posted his discovery on the Metroid Prime message board on GameFAQs.

Sahuagin were created by Steve Marsh, a gamer who invented many of the game's early aquatic monsters ( Gygax 1977, p.

Some developers have created cross platform games, allowing a mobile gamer to play against a PC gamer.

Kushner also describes the new gamer culture created by Doom and its impact on society.

The game was not initially reviewed often, but given mediocre critical praise and positive gamer reaction.

In an attempt to reach out to females, Infocom also produced Plundered Hearts, which required the gamer to take the part of a heroine in a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, and which required the heroine to use more feminine tactics to win the game, since hacking-and-slashing was not a very ladylike way to behave.

The interviews also contain fans who engage in a range of illicit or unsavory activities, such as cel thieves, a pornography fan attempting to manufacture glasses to defeat the mosaic censorship common in Japanese porno videos and who is shown masturbating during the interview, and a computer gamer, who looks like Gainax member Hideaki Anno, obsessed with a character in a hentai computer game ( Noriko from Gunbuster who makes a cameo in Gainax's own hentai game: Cybernetic High School ).

An avatar, username, game name, alias, gamer tag, screen name, or handle is a name ( usually a pseudonym ) adopted by a video gamer, used as a main preferred identification to the gaming community.

Romero would later apologize for the advertisement, stating in an interview that " up until that ad, I felt I had a great relationship with the gamer and the game development community and that ad changed everything.

The lavish rock star-like treatment given to Romero in his attempt to build a designer-centred game studio ( including a multi-million dollar office on the top floor of a Dallas skyscraper ), Romero's well-publicized expensive tastes and hobbies ( such as racing Ferraris ), the dubious saga of Romero's girlfriend, professional gamer Stevie " Killcreek " Case, being hired on as a level designer, and the game's development ( which included most of the original development team quitting en masse to form a competing company called Gathering of Developers ), incited criticism from the online gaming fan community.

" Users and critics of GamePro gave it an average score of 4. 8 out of 5 calling it " this season's top offering and one game no self-respecting gamer should be without ," but criticized the frame rate, saying it " occasionally stalls the eye-catching graphics ".

This helped the gamer to experience the game ( e. g. as a demonstration ) and perhaps could convince him to buy it by the time the copy protection point was reached.

Upon graduation, Shimomura intended to become a piano instructor and was extended a job offer to become a piano teacher at a music store, but as she had been an avid gamer for many years she decided to send some samples of her work to various video game companies that were recruiting at the university.

Now the ordinary gamer was able to create his / her own ship and add it into the game. Multiplayer games are conducted over servers which are referred to collectively as the " Dynaverse.

Lamer can also be synonymous with, or at least similarly defined to, griefer in certain gamer circles ; whereas a griefer plays the game solely to earn enjoyment from the frustration of other players ( including and especially their teammates ), a lamer's only reason for playing the game is to earn points ( usually by killing an opponent ) even if they use dirty tactics to get their way.

In 1986, Ken was also the first editor for a fan club newsletter based around the Adventure Construction Set video game, one of the rare cases of a professional designer leading gamer activities for another designer's game.

The premise involved the gamer, who picks one of six camp counselors as their player, trying to save the campers from Jason, while battling various enemies throughout the game.

It is used in the context of virtual worlds such as MMORPGs ( like UO ) and MUDs, but has become a part of the general vocabulary of gamer slang and can be found in various places where adjustment of power levels from one version of a game to the next is relevant.

A gamer that likes to maximize all aspects of the game and do so in an expedient manner is also classified as a powergamer, often seeing more of the world and or game than the " average " player would.

*" Iron Manning ", a practice in video gaming where death is considered a permanent " game over " and the gamer must restart from the very beginning.

* An MTV public service announcement against drunk driving shown in the mid ' 90s shows a gamer playing OutRun while under the influence of alcohol, and cuts to each point where the gamer crashes until the end of game.

An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online FAQ for the Atari coin-op game KLAX.

Case has had several roles in the industry, from the first female professional gamer at the Cyberathlete Professional League ( CPL ) to level designer to vice president of development and sales.

It was released along with Mighty Warriors, Ultra Marine and Space Fleet, and was predominantly aimed at the younger gamer as an introduction to the Games Workshop hobby.

Gary Jackson has always been two things -- first and foremost a gamer, but second and not distantly behind that at all: a business man.

* Erik Bouchard-A Canadian gamer who showed up at Gary Jackson's funeral and rubbed dice on Gary, right in front of the entire Hard 8 Staff.

Doris Self, credited by Guinness World Records as the " oldest competitive female gamer ", set a record score for Q * bert in 1984 at the age of 58.

In the first years, the focus on TG was pretty much on demos, but as TG is held at the same time as Breakpoint, a German scene-only party ( and the earlier Mekka & Symposium ), many European demosceners have left TG in favour of BP, and TG, like the majority of other computer parties, has become more of a gamer event.

A yeti can " save " its life up to a certain point and, at the point of death, can return to that point, with the knowledge of what was going to kill it ( a clear reference to video games — Terry Pratchett is known to be a gamer ).

An avid gamer, Booth began programming his own games on Apple II and Commodore VIC-20 computers while still at school, and started working on Nox " in a spare bedroom of house " in college.

As various regular visitors to the channel began expressing a desire to meet and game together in person, Jim Elson, a. k. a. " H2H ", a gamer from the Dallas, Texas area with ties to the local Dallas-area gaming community, and Wikipedia editor Yossarian Holmberg, a. k. a. " yossman ", a computer consultant from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, came up with the idea of assembling at a hotel.

* First time at QuakeCon featuring an all girl gamer tournament with major cash prizes.

In addition to that, he has been shown to be an avid video gamer at several points in both his series and the Teen Titans.

While noting that the game held little interest for the average gamer at its time of release, the game has been described in modern times as " not bad " for a generic platformer.

He debuted as a professional gamer in October 1999 by placing 3rd in the Quake III Arena tournament at the CPL's FRAG 3 event.

A parody of the online gaming / IRC community written in Leet speak from the perspective of an early teen gamer.

Bots can help a PC gamer learn the gameplay environment and the game rules as well as help them practice shooting accuracy and gaming skills before going online to compete with other human players in a multiplayer environment.

MMOGs emerged from the hard-core gamer community to the mainstream strongly in December 2003 with an analysis in the Financial Times measuring the value of the virtual property in the then-largest MMOG, Everquest, to result in a per-capita GDP of 2, 266 dollars which would have placed the virtual world of Everquest as the 77th wealthiest nation, on par with Croatia, Ecuador, Tunisia or Vietnam.

Usually, two or more answers were given for each question that a gamer might have.

The attributes of the characters ( such as magic and fighting ability ) are given as numerical values which can be increased as the gamer progresses and gains rank and experience points through accomplishing goals or fighting enemies.

Another showed a gamer, played by actor Ethan Suplee, hitting himself in the head with a rigid, dead squirrel in order to hallucinate color on his Game Boy.

These moves are often beyond the ability of a casual gamer and require a player to have both a strong memory and excellent timing.

Pseudonyms include stage names, screen names, pen names, nicknames, aliases, gamer identifications, and reign names of emperors, popes and other monarchs.

Ebert later defended his position in April 2010, saying, " No video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form.

She looks down on almost all of Matt's hobbies and interests ( except for Buffy the Vampire Slayer ), even though she's an excellent gamer.

The mouse is often used with a mousepad to achieve greater speed, comfort, accuracy and smoother movement for the gamer.

Rattan also is the home of a world-famous PacMan gamer, Blake Pillars.

Chris Baker of GameSpy decided that " despite its exclusions, though, Collection < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s large selection of titles for $ 19. 99 is a tough thing not to recommend to anyone who calls himself a gamer.

Historically, the term " gamer " usually referred to someone who played role-playing games and wargames.

There are many gamer communities around the world.

The term " gamer " is composed of several subgroups.

A casual gamer is a player whose time or interest in playing games is limited.

Casual gaming demographics vary greatly from those of traditional video games, as the typical casual gamer is older and more predominantly female.

One casual gamer subset is the " fitness gamer ", who plays motion-based exercise games.

The term casual gamer can also be used to distinguish between play styles of level-based character advance in nonlinear games with respect to the amount of dedicated hours of play.

A core or mid-core gamer is a player with a wide range of interests and enthusiast toward creative and diverse games, but without the amount of time spent and sense of competition of a hardcore gamer.

The mid-core gamer enjoys complex games but won't buy every novel release, doesn't have time for long games, and is a target consumer that needs features not found in games for the other types.