What would be your go-to activity/hobby if this happened...

Ok so, imagine(painful I know) that one day, gaming would be completely erased. Every single game(PC,console,handheld whatever it is on),console,handheld basically everything related to videogames would be erased. So you can't play videogames. What would you do? Try to learn some new sport(not me probably lol) or something? Read a lot of books?(not me again).

I personally don't know what I would do but maybe I would get more into drawing as I like doing it and Im pretty good at drawing(manga characters). But I would probably do it in form of a freetime hobby, but I mean if Masashi Kishimoto(creator of Naruto) would somehow invite me and could teach me how to draw like he does I wouldnt think a sec and would leave right off to Japan! YEEEEA!

I would probably get back into tabletop wargaming. I mean I would like to anyway, but goddamn is it time intensive.

I would dance.

DANCE.

Whatever activities mental hospitals allow these days.

Me too. I liked painting those figures.

I would probably use that as an excuse to get into books. There has got to be good ones, right?

@immortalsaiyan: Yea, there are, but reading is so BORING lol

Then I'll be completely focus on fitness. Though nowadays I've been losing my interest in gaming I don't know why, but its all about making dem gainz for me...

I would become Patrick Bateman

Board games / Tabletop RPG if I could find enough people to participate.

If not, I guess I'd spend my time reading, making art, woodworking, baking and maybe take up something new like beer brewing.

It's hard to imagine having one go-to hobby, I think I'd just do a mix of the same stuff I do outside of games now. I'd read, write, play the piano, watch things, listen to music, etc.

@video_game_king: I was expecting him to say "ITS OVER 9000!!!!". Im dissapointed.

Some other isolated hobby that let me escape, so reading fiction or watching movies, I guess.

I'd re-invent video games. That sweet, sweet Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device money, muhfucka.

For some crazy as hell reason, you reminded me of this:

Anyway, I would just re-discover video games. Failing that, I'd invent a jetpack.

I would turn to my other hobbies like music and art.

I would learn to do the splits.

I'd turn to cycling for sure.

Ghost Busting.

I'd do more tabletop wargaming/ painting of miniatures and board game stuff. I don't actually play that many games these days anyway.

Porn.

Tabletop/Board games, Model making, Drawing, etc.

Probably try to re-invent games. If games would be outlawed I'd probably join some underground game distribution network. But, sure, I would probably take more walks while listening to podcasts, and maybe have some time to get better at writing music.

I would probably fly model planes and launch model rockets...I really enjoyed doing that as a kid

Play actual games, like PnP, tabletops and board games.

It's the only sensible answer.

Or maybe just go on a murder rampage to pass the time, I dunno.

Since I've already stopped playing games or at least I don't play them as much as I did. I would just resort to the same hobbies I have now, movies, music, fotball(soccer) and porn (yes that kinda is a hobby, lol).

I would probably make use of my gym membership....fuck imagine ow hench i could become

Playing guitar, watching movies, going on the internet, listening to music.

I would write more often.

I would turn to all of my other hobbies, like reading, drawing, watching movies/tv shows and playing the piano.

Wait so would the Pokemon show and card game be erased? Would everything that ever got a video game (like superheros) also be erased? How does this happen? Aliens?!?!?

This. Although it does scare me of how much I feel I would get more done if I ceased doing all the stuff you listed and gaming too.
It's decided I guess... no more life for me!

"I Hope You Dance"

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.

Build shit.

Try writing maybe.

I'd play video games

do what i did as a kid and make pretend vidja gaems on graph paper :(

Read some books.

Games that aren't video games and also aren't sports. Like poker and darts. I don't think I could force myself to be into more TV shows/movies.

Man, I posted that several posts ago.

I've already got too many hobbies, the others would just fill in the space left over by video games' disappearance. It might even be good since video gaming is probably my least productive hobby.

I would be more into my martial arts and traveling.

Porn and playing guitar. Maybe actually do something productive with my life, too.

No more games would really suck, but honestly it'd probably be a good thing lol.

Probably go back to being a bookworm like I was in junior high school, before I started gaming.

Then again I always toy with that idea, but finding books I'd want to read is a lot harder than finding games I want to play.

Re-invent video games.

@darthorange: oh, no sorry i didnt phrase it that good. i meant: all games, all consoles, all game developers would just find a diff job, and noone would know about videogames. but cards from pokemon and superheroes would exist. but pokemon videogames and superhero videogames wouldnt.