What turns me off from the whole system is that it's just XBox exclusive. How can a young, adolescent, and "leet" Halo 3 player be a more "achieved" gamer than me, who has invested over thirty years in this hobby? It's ludicrous, and Microsoft should award points for past gaming experiences.
Here's a sampling of achievements that I have earned over the years but have yet to be added to my gamerscore by closed-minded Microsoft:
Beating my sister at Pong on Christmas Day so many times that she never played me again - 10G
Spending an entire week's lunch money after school on Monday playing Galaxian at my local bowling alley - 20G
Finding the "safe spot" on level three of K.C. Munchkin for the Odyssey 2 - 10G
Finding the hidden room and the designer's name in Adventure for the Atari VCS - 10G
Reaching the top of all four builings in the arcade game Crazy Climber - 25G
Sending in Kool - Aid points saved up over the summer to get a free copy of Kool-Aid Man for the Atari VCS - 50G
Actually playing through an entire game of The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt on the Odyssey 2 with another human being - 25G
Getting a tip published in the "Tips From The Experts" section of Odyssey Adventure Magazine - 100G
Beating "Escape From The Mindmaster" on the Supercharged Atari VCS - 20G
Beating four of the five Scott Adams text adventures on the Commodore VIC 20 (including The Count) - 40G
Getting to the hidden area in Protector for the Commodore VIC 20 - 25G
Creating a working videogame for the Apple 2 computer as my final project in my high school computer class - 100G
Getting the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy for the Commodore 64 - 42G
Beating Julian in a duel of swords in Nine Princes In Amber for the Commodore 64 (a text adventure sword fight!) - 25G
Mapping out The Bard's Tale for the Commodore 64 - 50G
Mapping out Sword of Kadash for the Commodore 64 - 100G
Beating Forbidden Forest for the Commodore 64 - 25G
Beating Military Madness for the Turbografx 16 - 50G
Mapping out the great tree in Faxanadu for the NES - 25G
Beating Super Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back for the Super Nintendo - 100G
Mapping out Alien Vs. Predator for the Atari Jaguar - 100G
Finding and reporting to Nintendo a game-stopping dead end situation in The Legend of Zelda : Link's Awakening for the GameBoy - 1000G
Playerkilling over 100 landlubbers with my pirate character in Ultima Online - 25G
Discovering the Room Under the Lake in Ultima Online - 500G
Beta-testing Ultima Online : Third Dawn - 20G
Having an in-game item (The Admiral's Hearty Rum) named after my character in Ultima Online - 1000G
All the other games I've beaten over the years - 25000G
OK, Microsoft, you can add these to my gamerscore whenever you want. Thanks!
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