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#1 Dec 16 2008 at 7:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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Our parent company, Zam is sponsoring the Child's Play Charity this year. For those of you who don't know, Child's play is an initiative started by Penny Arcade back in 2003 to provide toys, games, books, and cash to sick children across the United states. It is unique in that it was created by gamers to give back to the community at large, and it is currently one of the largest charities of its kind in the United States. Over the years they have raised over 3.5 million dollars in donations and gifts for the children.

So, there are a couple ways you can contribute if you choose to help out.

We are partnering with a website called gamerDNA, which is donating money to Child's Play for every person who completes thier online game survey. There is no cost to you, it doesn't ask for personal information, and the quiz consists of 20 multiple choice questions. If you fill it out, you get a little signature banner thingy, that ironically enough won't work in this forum, and the thanks of a greatful nation
Link is here:
http://www.gamerdna.com/childsplay/zam

If you choose to, you could also donate money directly via the link on that page.

For each person who donates or takes the quiz, Post in this thread and you will get one free post rated to 5.00 (excellent). As I have no way to verify, this will be on the honor system.

Thank you.

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#2 Dec 16 2008 at 7:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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So my gamer DNA is the 70's? Too bad I was born in 1982. Smiley: oyvey

Also, question 17 made me think of Bozo the Clown. Smiley: cry
#3 Dec 17 2008 at 5:42 AM Rating: Decent
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I took the quiz. Can I get the free karma in here as well as the other threads, or just one?
#4 Dec 17 2008 at 6:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:

For each person who donates or takes the quiz, Post in this thread and you will get one free post rated to 5.00 (excellent). As I have no way to verify, this will be on the honor system.

Thank you.

How many surveys to make my name green?

The survey didn't go back near far enough. There was no mention of pin-ball machines, and the only games people older than me played were with cards or cue sticks.

Needless to say, I'm a 70's gamer.

Edited, Dec 17th 2008 4:05pm by Elinda
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#5 Dec 17 2008 at 7:03 AM Rating: Excellent
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I took the survey. I'm an 80's gamer. Shocker.
#6 Dec 17 2008 at 7:05 AM Rating: Excellent
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I got the 90's, I was born in '84, so I guess that's right. They didn't always have an option I liked though. For your first game experience, where was playing solitaire on your fathers work computer.
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#7 Dec 17 2008 at 7:08 AM Rating: Good
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ScreenshotSmiley: lol.
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Is there a way to use the badge in our signature?

edit..lawl

Edited, Dec 17th 2008 4:15pm by Elinda
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#9 Dec 17 2008 at 8:20 AM Rating: Excellent
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That was pretty fun. I liked the snarky DNAbot.

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#10 Dec 17 2008 at 8:28 AM Rating: Excellent
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That was pretty fun. I liked the snarky DNAbot.



Yeah, it was cute, and the "findings" seemed fairly obvious but still fun.

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#11 Dec 17 2008 at 8:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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Those snarky comments cracked me up.

#12 Dec 17 2008 at 11:49 AM Rating: Excellent
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I took a few of their quizzes and I have a couple that are taking themselves now.

(Also, WoW as top game in every category isn't just for that quiz.)
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#13 Dec 17 2008 at 5:37 PM Rating: Excellent
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I took the survey and am a 70's gamer. My first video game was Pong, though I had to play it at a friends house. Then we got a HP 45 and I was soon learning the fun of inputting code to play Lunar Lander. A big date was me and my boyfriend going with a friend of ours to JHU APL computer lab and playing Spacewar on the mainframe.

Yes I was that Geeky girl at Origins II buying DnD and any LoTR game I could find (I even still have these, along with my SPI version of LoTR)

So does anyone want my old copy of Neverwinter Nights, Gold box ed.?
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#14 Dec 18 2008 at 6:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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A lot of those answers didn't even apply to me, but I came out as...
"The 1970s should not be forgotten. Big bell bottoms, but also big gaming!"

Well, i *was* born in '77 but wasn't fully cognizant till the 80s. Gaming for me was the Commodore VIC-20 and the IBM PC.
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#15 Dec 18 2008 at 10:06 AM Rating: Excellent
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36.3% 90s
33.4% 80s
22.0% 70s
8.3% 00s

I objected to their being no questions that really had an approach towards the turn-based strategy pile, focus more on MMO/shooter/arcade type stuff. In their bin question I think if you had one for civ/x-com/sim-city there'd be a decent chunk. I also like that I was 22% in the 70's despite my being not being alive then. Clearly I am a gaming crotchety old man.
#16 Dec 18 2008 at 10:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm a 90s gamer. I'm not surprised, it was when I grew up after all.
#17 Dec 18 2008 at 10:43 AM Rating: Excellent
90's gamer. Smiley: lol

I liked the little comments whenever you picked an answer.

Also, no one ever remebers the Lynx... Smiley: frown
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ElneClare wrote:
I took the survey and am a 70's gamer. My first video game was Pong, though I had to play it at a friends house. Then we got a HP 45 and I was soon learning the fun of inputting code to play Lunar Lander. A big date was me and my boyfriend going with a friend of ours to JHU APL computer lab and playing Spacewar on the mainframe.

Yes I was that Geeky girl at Origins II buying DnD and any LoTR game I could find (I even still have these, along with my SPI version of LoTR)

So does anyone want my old copy of Neverwinter Nights, Gold box ed.?

NWN? Hell, that was my first MMORPG. On AOL. Man, did I bust up the hourly charges on my sister's account!
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