Historical figures and game addiction [update 1]

First Post!! =P

Shouldn't it be guitar?

"...Mozart as a world-famous Guiar Hero virtuoso..."

Shagi, thanks for being a douche bag.

Actually, I bet Abe Lincoln would be an invenerate Tetris player. He was well-known for being addicted to snooker back in the day; he would probably be attached to a Game Boy at the hip.

For interest, I bet Huey Long would have been obsessed with SimCity and the like, trying on a video game all the changes he wanted to actually make to government.

When Joshua Abraham Norton (AKA Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico) proclaimed himself emperor, I bet the press would have blamed it on him playing too many FPS games. Even if all the other events of his life had been exactly the same.

Finally, we'd know Isaac Newton not only for discovering gravity, laying the groundwork for calculus, and trying to prove alchemy was real, we'd also know Newton as perhaps the most obsessive-compulsive writer GameFAQs has ever known.

Now, now, JF. Let's not feed the trolls. Let's just appreciate the fact that we get to witness someone misspell the phrase "I am smarter than you."

One of the fun things about the Internet is that half the time, idiots manage to prove themselves wrong without any effort on your part.

Shouldnt we be more interested in knowing what WE could become if we didnt spend so much time on videogames?

hitler would have been a master at photoshop.

I'd be more concerned than interested actually... sigh...

Pope Adrian III would have totally used Alucard in Castlevania 3, not Grant or Sylpha!

Marco Polo would have thought the Wii's non HD graphics were lame at first, but eventually got sucked into Wii Sports!

Eirik Bloodaxe would totally be upgrading his gaming rig in anticipation of Crysis!

Boethius would try City of Heroes once, then swear off MMORPGs for good!

Uh...this topic is kind of dumb.

Instead of starting one of the most horrific wars in the modern age, I think Hitler would have just played alot of Call Of Duty or Medal Of Honor.....oh wait.....

@footsteps

Now that was funny. Yes, if Shagi is "smarter then me", I want a refund on my Master's degree. I think I might remember that post the rest of my life. Thank you Shagi, thank you. Do you do birthday parties?

I would so be arranging Pokemon trades with Steve Irwin, Steven Jay Gould, and Charles Darwin.

"I AM SMARTER THEN YOU"

Lol.

I think you mean...'than' you. Shagi, do you hear that bell?

It means that recess is over.

Einstein would have dropped physics and become hooked on 'The Sims'... where he would develop his 'theory of relatives'.

Does kinda make you wonder about the dearth of real leaders we have in this country right now, not to mention our slippage in areas like the number of science graduates we've had over the past decade or so. How many great people are just never reaching their potential because they're wasting all their time on video games?

I know it's hard for some people to remember it, but there was a time when you had to make up your own activities to fill in your free time. Those were the days of Newton, Da Vinci, even Einstein. Nowadays you just plop yourself down in front of a couch and either watch one of the 500 channels of TV or throw in a video game. Even on the go, we don't read anymore, we just play our DS or PSP.

I'm sure I sound like an old coot, and compared to some of the readers here, I probably am. But if you look at the rise of video games (and other forms of media) combined with some of the other things going on in our culture over the past 30 years, I don't see how you rule out a correlation.

Shagi, I hope you did that for the lawlz

"yourselfs"? Yep, definitely smarter.

Keep diggin' that hole, Shagi. Pretty soon you'll have us convinced that you actually ARE mentally retarded.

By the way, I like Ruggles icecream and so all of you Edy's-eating FAGGOTS can DIE AND ROT IN HELL!!!111one

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Thank you for the laugh.

I see Shagi as the type of kid that really bothers me at Gamestop with a speach impediment. Like "Mommy pweath get me a P.Th. Thwee. I weally need it. Wob next doow hath one. Pa pa pa pweeze" Grow some pubes Shagi. Hopefully you can mow enough lawns this summer to afford the PS3.

How about the Unabomber? Man, if he'd been a video game addict, he'd never have bombed anyone :)

I think if Mozart was a Guitar Hero addict, he'd become a multi-billionaire rhythm game author in no time. He would've used the platform to get his creativity out there. There'd be a whole line of Mozart Games (tm) products, which all would blow away all the current day rhythm games. Too bad about the symphonies...

"Homer's Odyssey as a mildly sucessful ancient greek Grand Theft Auto clone"

It seems to me that if a blind man managed to create even a mildly successful video game, that would STILL be a pretty amazing accomplishment.

Well, if they're anything like me, they'd probably never do anything because Einstein and Mozart and Ghandi and friends would've all been to busy masturbating to porn on the Wii several times a day.








...oh, damn. Did I just admit that?

South Korea would have won every military conflict in history.

The Unabomber was a Luddite. He would not have played videogames. The whole reason that he bombed people is that he was trying to get society to see the dangers of modern technology (not bombs so much as virtual worlds and artificial intelligence). What most people don't realize is that he wasn't just some crazy bomber - he had both a Masters and PhD. The entire point of the bombing campaign was that we need to reject technology and return to the natural life.

Personally, if I didn't play videogames, I don't think I would be doing anything more with my life - I would probably just fill the time with television or beer pong.

I think Jesus of Nazareth would of turned down Bible Adventures for Animal Crossing.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft would of adored Silent Hill.

Dylan Thomas would of thrown the Wii remote into the television... on more than one occasion.

Since only 1 person thought of a funny/insightful response (thank you, Jonathan Tran), I'd say that creativity is dead. Dead!