Verboticisms

Created by: Nuwanda

Pronunciation: marr-ee-oo-pee-a

Sentence: Clyde suffered from Mariopia and it ruined his life. It started out with a simple Gameboy--black and white screen, bad graphics. Yet he was compelled to conquer it, and was willing to let his life fall into shambles around him. Today, Clyde is so destitute that he has taken to hanging around Best Buy looking for some kid who he can convince to "test drive" Mario Kart on the store's demo Wiis. The scene usually ends with the kid crying, Clyde taunting and security escorting him off the premises.

Etymology: Mario, the ubiquitous gaming brothers, combined with suffix "opia" which means affecting vision.

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COMMENTS:

A Mario made in Heaven...good word - Nosila, 2009-10-02: 23:32:00

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: gay-mer-trance

Sentence: Corey was out of it, he had been playing the game for a long time and now he was in a gamertrace and unable to focus on anything else.

Etymology: gamer (one who plays games) + trance (a state of reduced aweness sometimes marked by intense focus)

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COMMENTS:

I wanted to suggest something like this, but I was way to slow ;) - allwise, 2007-03-16: 04:43:00

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Created by: bllsht2

Pronunciation: spaz-tee-go

Sentence: every game he played he went spaztego

Etymology: spaz,ego

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Created by: ekath

Pronunciation: simp-no-sis

Sentence: Often when people are in a state of simpnonsis, they can respond to attempted interactions with grunts or autmatic answers but don't actually process what is being said to them.

Etymology: from hypnosis + the sims

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: win ten do nye tis

Sentence: Buster played his video games morning, noon and night to the consternation of his parents. He was so intent on winning each game, he was oblvious to the need to rest, eat and hydrate himself. He could barely move his hand or arm anymore, as he was developing wintendonitis. There was always a pong coming from his room, his nickname was Gameboy and he thought Mario and Luigi were his real brothers. His parents could not wait for September, when Buster would go to school and apply his energy elsewhere. It would be hard for him to hold a pencil or crayon, unless they could surgically remove his hand controls. Grade One was going to be a tough year for Buster!

Etymology: Win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious) & Nintendo (Video game system made by the Japanese Nintendo Co.) & Tendonitis (inflammation of a tendon due to over-use, such as in thumb, elbow, shoulder,etc)

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COMMENTS:

ecin - galwaywegian, 2009-10-02: 10:12:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: vid - eee - ooo - wee - al - et - ee

Sentence: No one could get Jonah's attention for the past two days. He was clearly in videowiiality and we were all worried. We thought he was becoming dehydrated and it looked like his game system had become his new hallucinogenic.

Etymology: video, wii, reality

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COMMENTS:

Don\'t tell me Jonah forgot his energy drink! - artr, 2009-10-02: 12:22:00

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Created by: swallowedbyafish

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He had been trapped in an intense nintendaze for hours.

Etymology: nintendo + daze

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COMMENTS:

Nice! I guess the problem was never nintended to surface... - Discoveria, 2007-03-16: 04:15:00

ninterrific - galwaywegian, 2007-03-16: 04:58:00

He had always had latent nintendencies... - Alchemist, 2007-03-16: 11:23:00

ninthank you - swallowedbyafish, 2007-03-16: 11:49:00

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Created by: urbanwookie

Pronunciation: kon-soh-lehp-say

Sentence: Janet could only hope that Michael would outgrow his juvenile consolepsy...even if, at 36, it seemed unlikely.

Etymology: console + epilepsy/narcolepsy

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ek-stuh-see

Sentence: When Wendel kinects to his game console he is in xtasy. The only his mother can bring him out of it is to wave a large bag of Cheese Doodles in front of him.

Etymology: Xbox (Microsoft game console) + ecstasy (rapturous delight)

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sim + drone

Sentence: The original diagnosis was acronymosis, but it became clear from his concentration on the console that he had simdrone brought on by extensive use of Sims for PS2, manifesting in a constant moaning about the characters and game commands accompanied by tics.

Etymology: Syndrome (a set of symptoms) + Sims (simulation video game) + drone (continuous noise)

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