One-Liner: Technically

BY Heather Richtmyre  //  April 4, 2010

What exactly is a gamer?

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pparently, I am not a gamer, if a "gamer" is a person who plays a certain percentage of the same games as with whoever is defining the term at that time.

What is a gamer, though? Is it categorized by the expenditure of time and money, by the response displayed to games played, or some judgment of the content played?

I would consider focused interest in a particular game a basic criterion. Starting a game of solitaire because it is already on the computer hardly makes one a gamer, but researching and purchasing desirable games seems much more likely to qualify someone.

So, what is a gamer?

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