Is anyone else on here addicted to driving video games/real driving, as in can do it all day always have a good time, and can't get enough. It just seems like I think I should go to driving rehab, cause for the last 14 hours straight I was in the arcade for 7 hours playing 2 great racing games - Ferrari 355 Challenge and the Indy 500 game-Bayside street track rocks! Then I got home and played live for speed for another 7 hours or so straight......can somebody please help me i really don't know what to do......PS after I write this I'm going to take a cruise in my car and drive with superiority!

no...noone round here likes driving cars...yiu must have gone into the wrong forum dude....
Ps: thats one really informative thread title dude
pps: Are you a real doctor dude?

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no...noone round here likes driving cars...yiu must have gone into the wrong forum dude....

True

Truck drivers job might reduce problem a bit

Quote from CSU1 :

no...noone round here likes driving cars...yiu must have gone into the wrong forum dude....
Ps: thats one really informative thread title dude
pps: Are you a real doctor dude?

Informative, just wait till I come back from the arcade with my copied down PB's....I wiped everyone else off the board with style, and were talking about a lfs type game here my friend.............Dude by the way no I'm not a doctor but if you know one let me know cause my body is starting to Kill from all the driving

I used to drive a bit to much LFS but not anymore so I can safely say i think you gotta get bored of these games, I don't mean just scrap them as LFS is to good for that.

Watch out for your eyes giving up on you, staring at screens all day is the worst thing about playing to many games....:Eyecrazy:

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Informative, just wait till I come back from the arcade with my copied down PB's....I wiped everyone else off the board with style, and were talking about a lfs type game here my friend.............Dude by the way no I'm not a doctor but if you know one let me know cause my body is starting to Kill from all the driving

Don't worry, your body will be fine in few... weeks, maybe days depends how long you have been driving without rest :P

If I win in a lottery I certainly will drive around world for few years

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I used to drive a bit to much LFS but not anymore so I can safely say i think you gotta get bored of these games, I don't mean just scrap them as LFS is to good for that.

Watch out for your eyes giving up on you, staring at screens all day is the worst thing about playing to many games....:Eyecrazy:

Well I work on computers, atleast I did so I'm all too used to staring into a screen 24/7....just with LFS I'm finally starting to get the feel of setups, and how to make them work, and now it's more addicting.....when I find a job which will be hopefully soon I'll have to bring the laptop to work so I can play it there too

I bought my first PC in 1995. Of course, the first game I bought with it was the original Need for Speed. It was really cool. I would look at the clock and realize it was 4 am, when I had to be at work at 7 am. I also bought Papyrus Indycar Racing 2 (ICR2). It was awesome as well. I was using a joystick. I bought my first wheel (Thrustmaster T2) in 1996. That summer, General Motors went on strike, and beings I worked for an automotive parts manufacturer, we cut down to very minimum production. I was one of the last to be temporarily laid-off. Since my newly married to wife was working, we lived in a mobile home, and didn't yet have children, there wasn't much for me to do being at home for a month. That is when I seriously got into the racing games. I started racing full race length seasons with ICR2 and didn't go anywhere much. During the day, I kept the place clean and raced all day. I would then cook a crappy dinner for the wife and we would watch movies. I am a night person, so I would often stay up late racing again. I did this for a month. It had been a while since I actually went out in the vehicle and driven anywhere. I jumped in the truck to run to the store once after all that PC racing. Never even realized it, looked down and I'm doing like 110 mph down the road, LOL. I'm not a slow, speed limit driver to begin with, but it was just purely accidental that I was cruising along at 110, in a 4x4 truck at that.

Ever since I've gotten my driver's license, I've been addicted to driving. I love driving. Hate being a passenger. I live out in the middle of nowhere with fantastic country roads. Hilly and curvey. In college, a friend and I raced out on the country roads all the time. We drove fast even when we weren't racing. This friend of mine is the type of guy who can hardly keep the car on the road driving the speedlimit. But he is the only person in the world I would be comfortable sitting in the passenger seat with no control over the car while he was driving at 110-130-150 mph.

I still love driving. I still love "spirited" driving. Although, the driving isn't all that "spirited" anymore because I'm now older and have children of my own. I also now drive a 4x4 truck rather than the little light 4 banger car I use to have back in college.

Erm, thats....nice
lol illepall

Random story on how I love my driving games.......When I was 13 years old, so 13 years ago wow, I went to Las Vegas with my dad for something or another. Well while he was out doing his thing he hooked me up with an all day pass to this arcade so I would have something to do. Well I don't know if anyone has played that 8 player Sim Indy 500, where you can select either Indy 500, Bayside, or Highland Raceway. So the point of this is that I spent probably 10 hours on that game and by the time I was done I beat all the employee's hotlaps and they wanted me to stay and bet money to race them, and this was at 13 years old... ....I just have always been obsessed with racing and cars in general, I'm sure there are others just like me, especially here.....on a positive note I never got into any accidents in the 10 years I have been driving hard and fast as hell - lots of tickets but hey it was worth it man
of course I cant say I can handle a real life race car but I could say that I have the feeling once I get used to driving one after a while I could be pretty damn good.....but I know there is allot more that goes into that

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Erm, thats....nice
lol illepall

Well..... He did ask if anyone was addicted to driving and PC racing games . I just told my story to back up the fact that I'm addicted to driving and PC racing games, hehe.

I grew up in the arcades playing Outrun. Remember that one? When you ran off the road, the wheel started shaking. We (family) were at the beach on vacation when I was a youngster (pre-driving). I was at the arcade playing Outrun and a girl walked by. It was such a realistic game. The wheel started shaking as I ran off the road. In a real car, I would have run off the road if she walked by as well. So realistic, LOL.