Could you quit videogames for a year?

Yes. Actually, there was a span of roughly four years in my life that I couldn't even tell you what the hottest games coming out were.

The year I spent with a Wii could hardly be called gaming!  
 
Hey-o!

After listening to the new A Life Well Wasted I wondered if I could quit videogames for a year like this one guy they had on. He quit videogames for a year (All videogames, computer, flash, console, portable, facebook). Do you think you guys could do it? I think I would eventually give up because there is just so much temptation and I have been playing videogames since I can remeber. I think I would give up around big release season lol.
 
So do you guys think you could do it?

Is this question inspired by the most recent episode of a Life Well Wasted by any chance?  Anyways, I probably could if I wanted to.  I'd end up reading a lot more I daresay.

Of course not.

I sometimes can go months without touching games that much. I actually could live by just watching the gentlemen here play games on quicklooks!
 
I'd probably just go to watching more movies or something... They are fun in social situations though... (Co-op fun-ness)

i did that in 04. also in 99.

Barring an apocalypse that busts up the power lines so I can't get electricity? No. Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Yes, I'd have no problem with it. Like I've said a million times before, games are not everything in life. 

No.  I would be fucking bored out of my mind.

No.  This might sound bad, but I don't know what I'd do without games.  I spend most of my free time either playing games or on sites like this one where I can talk and read about them.
 
EDIT: This thread also got me thinking that I should probably subscribe to A Life Well Wasted.

Nah that would suck hard

If it were just PC/console I could do it. If I also could not use flash games to pass the time, I'd be screwed.

yes , if i had to

It really sucks. But they're are other ways to entertain one self...like, knitting, painting, and killing yourself.

I have before. Combination of choice, nothing to play at the time when I had free time, and just overall too busy to play any anyway.

I'm one of those people who'd like to think they can, but in reality i'd proberly start hallucinating about Mass Effect 2 after about 2 months...
 
Unless i had season 1 to 13 of South Park and all of American Dad. If that was the case i really couldn't say.

I could go without games for a year if I had to, but it would suck.

This sounds like a challenge to me. I should attempt to go through 2010 without playing a video game. Unfortunately it'd feel like a waste of investment of a PS3/Wii and a back-catalogue of games that I haven't played yet.

" No.  I would be fucking bored out of my mind. "

With how boring television has gotten, it would be very very very very hard. Ever since shows are more reality based I found my time for playing video games being much more then it was when I was a kid. Talk to me when TV gets better then maybe I would have a chance!

I went a year and a bit with no games other than WoW. Does that count?

The truth is I could quit for a year pretty easily. I don't play that often these days and I could get along occupying my time with other forms of media such as films or books.

I basically do quit during the school year. I mean, sure, I get one or two matches in MW2 going when I can on the weekends but during the weekdays I can't touch any games. Yes, I do think I could quit.

" I went a year and a bit with no games other than WoW. Does that count? "

I probably could but I'd need something to fill the void.

I could, but it would be really hard.

I worked for years in EB, and after a few months I hated games, and the fuckheads buying them. Now I love games, and hate the fuckheads selling them. Weird.

" The year I spent with a Wii could hardly be called gaming!   Hey-o! "

" After listening to the new A Life Well Wasted I wondered if I could quit videogames for a year like this one guy they had on. He quit videogames for a year (All videogames, computer, flash, console, portable, facebook). Do you think you guys could do it? I think I would eventually give up because there is just so much temptation and I have been playing videogames since I can remeber. I think I would give up around big release season lol.  So do you guys think you could do it? "

It has happened, but now video games are fully imprinted into my life now when considering what I spend my free time on willingly and gladly, might I add.

I dont play on the weekdays due to homework, Saturdays i try but usually ends up being time spent outside with others, Sundays is then weekend homwork time. -_- 
 Although i dont get much time, videogames would be on the back of my mind and i could not go 1 month without them.

" Yes. The real question is, why the fuck would I want to? I wouldn't.  Now, if you were paying me a few million to not play video games for a year, I'd do it. "

I could but im not going to.

Well for a year or two last gen I actually did but I'm not sure if I could now as it has become a bigger part of my life now. I still could do it if I really wanted to but I don't see myself doing that.

I could, yes, but it would be a very tough year.

No.

 Yes I've done this before. The last console I owned was a PS2. That broke like 2 years ago. I bought an XBOX 360 off a friend in May '09.

psht yeah

Yes, but I would be bored beyond belief.

Not if I had access to them. But if I didn't, I could handle it as long as I had another form of escape; perhaps chemical.

once i join the military, i'll be playing very little of videogames for about 2 years straight while i train. 

Probably, i dont really play many games anymore so im already half way there.

That's like asking a crackhead to give up crack its impossible. And plus i alrready play for like 10-18 hours a day