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[MrAngryFace]

After 2 hours of Uphills last night in RSC2 I was driving like a maniac on the way to work and school today. Something about driving games does that. Makes me wanna kill and get in the news and blame doom.

 

[Wario64]

Gran Turismo taught me how to negotiate turns at high speeds

 

[HAOHMARU]

One time I stayed up playing Quake 2 so much that I started halucinating in chemistry class. The chalk board turned into the first map in death match...pretty schweeeet.

 

[bishoptl]

While testing Need For Speed on PS One, I got a speeding ticket. Two of the programmers did as well.

 

[TekunoRobby]

Thanks to stealth games whenever I'm in a dark room I instantly get down low and start looking for a good place to hide. I fucking hate it.

Whenever I'm in a closed corridor I always get that feeling of being in a FPS.

Gran Turismo has made me a better driver and RSC2 rectified that.

 

[Stryder]

Yep, I definitely think that driving games fuel my recklessness on the road, this isn't to say that I'm a bad driver, I just think they make me.. more confident? (which probably isn't a good thing I guess).

 

[Gek54]

Better driver from playing GT. Better at rally games from real life experience.

 

[heavy liquid]

After playing GTA3, I wanted to blow through some red lights when driving. Never did it, though. Never ran over any pedestrians, either.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Driving after F-Zero GX or Wipeout is a bad idea. Even worse is playing the music from GX while driving. i caught myself doing just shy of 70 in a 45.

 

[Murphmanstudios]

I was driving down a one lane highway and was doing many different things (Talking on walkee talkee (I was at work, construction, you know those yellow ones), eating spitz, and drinking a Big Gulp) when I looked up and realized that in about 3 and a half seconds I would hit the car in front of me (who was stopped, I was going around 90 Km/H). So I start stepping on the break slowly and I realize "Yeah I'm fucked..."...and right before collision I veer to the left and line myself up perfectly between the truck I almost hit and the stone block on the right...literally inches from both. And i looked over at the driver that I almost hit (I was directly beside him) and we stared at each other with this look of astonishment...

I think videogames have given me quick thinking to be able to pull that off. My buddy who I worked with was behind me and said it was insane, and he doesn't know how I didn't crash.

 

[Keio]

I think there is a sort of speed blindness that you easily get from playing a high speed/tempo game right before driving. It's similar to driving from a 120 kph highway to a 30 kph village street.

Also while playing lots of Grand Prix Legends (using a proper Momo wheel) I often felt that the family saloon I drove was very underpowered and the shifter didn't do high revs as well as a '67 formula.

And all this is very bad. Having lost a friend in a car crash plus having been a passenger in a nasty accident involving fast cars and mountainsides, I'd say that the excitement of speeding just isn't worth a game over (or permanent disability) in real life.

 

[Teddman]

I threw a banana peel at a guy who cut me off once. I did happen to be playing a lot of Mario Kart 64 at the time...

 

[Lucky Forward]

Playing Gran Turismo has changed the way I perceive the road ahead of me. I'm always looking for the best race line through a curve, even within the bounds of my single lane. When there's an entrance ramp with a double curve to it, I try to clip the insides of the curves and take it at about twice the speed limit (e.g. 50 instead of 25).

 

[Kabuki Waq]

I always have the urge to pull off handbrake turns now, after playing all those driving games.

 

[bjork]

Commodore 64 Test Drive taught me that if you stay in the left lane, a policeman can never pass you on the left and slow down as a means of catching you, because policemen don't break laws.