I got the XBOX 360 for my birthday which was a whole month ago and yet I feel sort of uneasy about it. Buying a console makes one a gamer. I had always played games on the computer which was ok because I also used the computer for other things. I was never a game junkie. But now I have my first console. One must be pretty serious about games to spend $400 on gaming system that does little else but games. I'm not sure I want to be a gamer.

While I will never be the stereotypical gamer, the stigma from that stereotype is very strong. I will be seen as one of those kids who lays around the house all day playing games and eating chips and drinking coke while his mom bugs him about mowing the lawn while his sister and her friends play in the other room casting disgusted looks in his direction. I know someone who fits that description perfectly. While I never will, I fear people may think it of me.