View Full Version : How did you choose your screen name/alias/gamertag?


A Rabid Moose
03-07-2008, 03:56 PM
Mine was originally, back in the Runescape(crappy MMO for those who don't know), Defwolf. The -def was the abbriviation for defense, and -wolf was my favorite animal. Don't yet have a gamertag.): Is A Rabid Moose taken?

strika234
03-07-2008, 04:01 PM
I fail

(look below)

regua
03-07-2008, 04:05 PM
by using the search function.
Fail, Strika.
This thread is about the Gamertag/PSN ID stuff rather than the forum screen name.

Anyway, I've created an XBL account with the Gamertag "regua" a long time ago to ask some questions on the Xbox forums. Then, when I bought my 360, I wanted the free month of Live, so I decided to create another Gamertag. I had no idea what I could name it, so I just opened a Pocket Polish-Latin Medical Dictionary, found "rectum inflammation", and used it (http://live.xbox.com/member/Proctitis).

strika234
03-07-2008, 04:07 PM
does rectal inflammation have any personal relevence to you Regua?:)

regua
03-07-2008, 04:12 PM
does rectal inflammation have any personal relevence to you Regua?:)
Not really. I'm sure that it's not understandable to a typical gamer, but at least surgeons will find it funny.

strika234
03-07-2008, 04:13 PM
Go to volkovs alias thread, thats what mine was.

janzantinga
03-07-2008, 04:47 PM
I just use my real name (it's weird enough that no one will expect it.)

viatrophy
03-07-2008, 04:57 PM
My gamer tag is one of two things
Its a underground band from a long long time ago

+ it means to take the head of your enemies. :p

bsf94
03-07-2008, 05:37 PM
Well my forum thing is my intails and the year i was born. (I was actually born in 95 but i accedintly typed 94) and my Gamertag is iShayman. Shay is my middle name and i was gonna say Shayman but it was taken. For PC games i just use my real name Brent.

Frantik
03-07-2008, 05:43 PM
Mine has some history but it's a VEERRRRRYY slow day at work so here we go...

Anybody remember Metallica's last studio album ("St. Anger")? Yeah, I try not to either. However, there was one song on the album I absolutely loved at the time (actually, I still do), which was the opening track, "Frantic".

Quick time out--ex-Metallica fans, spare me your hatred for St. Anger. I'm well aware of it's suckiness. But if you feel that you must still tell me I'm wrong for liking a part of it, just PM me.

Okay, back to business. In September 2003 I finally got an Xbox Live Starter Kit (headset, 1st year and full game of Tetris Worlds Live). When it came to picking a Gamertag, I wanted to go with "StFrantic" but someone already took it. Determined, I tried spelling "Frantic" with a "k" instead of a "c" and voila!

Over time, my friends just ended up calling me "Frantik" for short and when the Xbox 360 came around and introduced the opprotunity to change your Gamertag, I switched to "Citizen Frantik" after 3 years of being "StFrantik". From March 2006 to November 2007, I've been Citizen Frantik, Frantik O7, The Frantik, WTFrantik and RTN Frantik (RTN was an old Halo 2 clan that I was in). In November 2007, I became RTN SnowMan for awhile because during a GH3 tournament hosted by a rock station in AZ, the DJs kept refering to me as "The Snowman" because of my pale skin & "round" figure (I have albanism). When I changed to RTN SnowMan, my friends were uneasy since they always knew me as some form of "Frantik". Finally, a few weeks ago, I went back to "StFrantik" because I realized that's who I always was to begin with.

If you're still reading at this point, then thanks for listening.

eskimopirate
03-07-2008, 05:47 PM
My gamertag is MeBetterDenU because, well, I'm better than you and you know it.

Frantik
03-07-2008, 05:53 PM
My gamertag is MeBetterDenU because, well, I'm better than you and you know it.

Yeah, I'll agree to that--your sig is better than mine too!

dark sora
03-08-2008, 01:49 AM
well, my psn tag is dark_sora717

Dark sora because I use it for everything... and 717 because dark_sora was taken + It's my b-day...July 17

BrianKotarski
03-08-2008, 04:18 AM
I just use my real name (it's weird enough that no one will expect it.)

Well I've been using my real name as my screen name dating back to the days when AOL was really the only option for internet and I was sick of so many people trying to be put on a show and be something that they are not. I believe in honesty and I will not hide behind some persona. And I have no imagination.

A Rabid Moose
03-08-2008, 09:19 AM
I browsed over the name "warhawk" until I realized that it was a game.

JJMAC383
03-08-2008, 06:23 PM
Divine intervention... what it can happen

n00bhunter
03-09-2008, 12:32 AM
ok on the forums im still n00bhunter i got that as when my friends asked me what i was doing i said n00bhunthing so yeah obvious reasons but for everythign else im Captain X i got that from 2 things the character from action comics i think it was back in 1930 and that show no one has heard of the amazing extraordinary friends..some new Zealand show thats on nickelodeon here in aussie

Sage
03-09-2008, 05:46 AM
Well sage, cause i know too much. oh and im smarter than most(when i say most i mean like one or two people)

Makelevi
03-09-2008, 05:58 AM
I use Makelevi for a few things, it's a variation in spelling of the Russian Makaveli. I also use "John" because it's my name, and I love just being generic about it, and afo70 as a third choice, because...well, I don't even know. It doesn't even stand for anything xD

CamDog
03-09-2008, 05:42 PM
My friends call me Cam-Dog sometimes I think it started in football camp.
So when i got my ps3 it worked so thats it. Oh ya well it works with my name Cameron...

ShockwaveLover
03-10-2008, 02:50 AM
Fail, Strika.
This thread is about the Gamertag/PSN ID stuff rather than the forum screen name.

Let's change Strika's nickname to 'Must read threads before posting'!

Gunslinger
03-18-2008, 02:57 PM
Well, my Gamertag, I got that from just random stuff such as the numbers and a random word that I saw when I looked around as I was about the enter it in. (It's a good way of picking lottery numbers as well, I'll have you know)

As for my name on SG, It's a book by Stephen King, and it sounded pretty cool, too.
It's pretty good (the book, I mean)

strika234
03-18-2008, 04:22 PM
Let's change Strika's nickname to 'Must read threads before posting'!

Lets not! :thumbsup:

Artemis
03-18-2008, 05:03 PM
Same as my screen name but I like to type. Originaly my GT was going to be Artemis named after the Greek goddes of Night and hunting and although she was not noted for it she also was very scornfull. Now since the proper spelling was taken and I refused to put o1 at the end I just switched the "i" to an "a"


The reason all of characteristics of her being female are hidden was due to my own mistake af leaveing my thumb on the word goddes hence removeing the "des". Although it's really not a big deal nor that funny a small group of people relentlesly antagonize me about it.

Torreyjs
03-18-2008, 06:14 PM
I came up with WarSnoppy because I just thought the idea of Snoppy the little white dog with a bandolier across his chest pwning the shit out of people online on Call of Duty 3

Gamertag^

Lone Medic
03-18-2008, 06:42 PM
Put two things I like together:

Lord of the Rings---->Mithril (A metal the dwarves mined, & also Frodo's armor is made from this)

Star Wars---->Jedi

=

Mithril jedi

Kickimanjaro
03-18-2008, 09:19 PM
Well I'm a long time member of Podtacular (A halo jeebuz worshiper place) and my old GT used to be Kilamanjaro, but after like 10 minutes in the IRC I got kicked so much by KP I changed my screen name to Kickimanjaro....and, well, it sticked. Also it's just kick ass

Mr Pwntacular
03-18-2008, 09:24 PM
iPwn was taken.

I don't know how "Mr Pwntacular" wasn't. So now, I just kinda use it for everything.

randomperson
03-18-2008, 09:30 PM
There was already a thread like this, the original was posted by Volkov.

SWSilentkiller
03-18-2008, 09:39 PM
I usaully either go with Gamer2774, or Silentkiller2774, for those of you wondering about the SW, it's a gaming clan I am in called sniperwatch, the 2774 was a bit of an accident. A while back I was registering for some website and accidently pressed 2774 and it stuck

Artemis
03-18-2008, 09:43 PM
There was already a thread like this, the original was posted by Volkov.



Fail, This thread is about the Gamertag/PSN ID stuff rather than the forum screen name.


Already discussed

mallavu399
03-18-2008, 09:48 PM
Well, I created by from scratch. Not really, because I was watching Malibu's Most Wanted and he sounds like such an idiot. So I got Mallavu from his pronounciation of Malibu. And 939 is my favorite #. Mallavu939 send me a friend request.

ShockwaveLover
03-19-2008, 05:21 AM
There was already a thread like this, the original was posted by Volkov.

Why do people not read threads before they post in them? *shakes head*

woohhaa
03-19-2008, 07:24 AM
I heard it in a busta rhymes song haha

I didn't know how it was spelled so I went at it phonetically.

DeathByWaffle
03-19-2008, 08:07 AM
A lot of people always seem to want to know where I came up with my name, but I honestly have no clue. It was probably just something that popped into my head when I was choosing my XBL gamertag.

MgckSpiral1
03-19-2008, 10:35 AM
my gamertag was MgckSpiral1 until recently. I got the MgckSpiral from yahoo messenger, about 6 years ago. i tried "MagickSpiral" but it was already taken, so i abbreviated the word "magick" and came up with MgckSpiral. and the 1 came from me creating an xbox live gamertag, before i actually had xbox live. then when i finally got Live, i couldn't merge my offline gamertag, to my online one without losing my gamerscore. so i just added a 1 to the end. I got sick of people mispronouncing it. So now it's Patterson78, my last name and year i was born.

APoc
03-19-2008, 10:57 AM
Well, back in the Counter Strike 1.6 days, I was a name that breaks that sexual innuendo rule. I joined a team down in my local internet cafe and we started to get really good, so good infact, we started entering (and winning) some leagues/tournaments. We then decided to try move on to bigger and better things, and it was agreed nobody would take us seriously with silly names, so we changed them.
We changed to ZaZa, Shorty, Syn and -APoc-. I was actually ZaZa, but when we stopped playing, I took on the alias Apoc because I hated ZaZa.
So, I pretty much stole my alias.

codinthepocket
03-19-2008, 01:18 PM
Mine is from either me of my mates trying to think of funny names to have so that when someone gets killed by you, it reads like a sentence. Eg, "You were killed by an-angry-postman", or "You were killed by an-angry-turkey", or "You were killed by a-flying-wiimote".

My other one, which is my forum name also, is from a long story that involves my dad, john solako, a piece of cod flinging off his fork, and his shirt pocket. I adopted it in tribute, and funnily enough, it actually links to call of duty (cod (codinthepocket)). This other "secret" link links to the psp, and the hopefully eventual reality that cod4 or 5 will be on the psp. (Correct me if it already is (COD4, not COD3 or COD2)

Hope
03-19-2008, 05:02 PM
I wanted something doom inspiring so I came up with hope is lost :/ forgot the 4u tho :P

edenfire
03-19-2008, 08:26 PM
Mine is the name of the Thrash metal band i'm in...

Eulogy 33
03-19-2008, 08:32 PM
Taken from a post I made on the recent news story, for the new Undertow DLC.

I hate the Game Undertow. Undertow 33 used to be my Gamer Tag, named after the Tool song by the same name. After they gave Undertow out for free, I was mocked on XBL everywhere I went for naming myself after that piece of crap game. In the end I just coughed up the 800 points to get my name changed to Eulogy. So much for the "gift" of a free game Microsoft.

MJBarret
03-19-2008, 08:41 PM
^:lol:

Heh ... shoulda just put somthin' like "From the Tool track jackasses!" in yer quote ... woulda been cheaper!

Mine's just my initals and surname ... but squished together!:w00t:

PrimevilKneivel
03-20-2008, 07:56 PM
ResidentevilKneivel was too long.

RAGNAROCK
03-20-2008, 08:40 PM
the first thing that came to mind.

woohhaa
03-20-2008, 10:11 PM
Taken from a post I made on the recent news story, for the new Undertow DLC.

I hate the Game Undertow. Undertow 33 used to be my Gamer Tag, named after the Tool song by the same name. After they gave Undertow out for free, I was mocked on XBL everywhere I went for naming myself after that piece of crap game. In the end I just coughed up the 800 points to get my name changed to Eulogy. So much for the "gift" of a free game Microsoft.

That is probably the saddest thing I've heard all day.

Ghu55
03-21-2008, 07:59 AM
Mine is an inside joke with my friends and i

Orange
03-21-2008, 09:33 PM
My GT is WolfShock, I got it from playing Halo 1 and I used Signal Shock, but that was taken so I just slapped Wolf in front of it.
Orange is my forum name because it simple and I like the color.

Victorsxl
03-22-2008, 11:28 AM
I've been going from different names as i've grown up and become "more of a gamer" i started out as young calling myself Evil_PandareanBrewmaster on WC3. Then ChampionPanda And on and on about Panda's (Really loved those creatures) But then i started doing graphics and decided to name myself SinisterX as i though it sound "sinister" and the X made it just a little cool. And after wearing that name for quite some time i took the name change to "VictorSxL" As my real name is Victor and my Surname is Saxlund. So i took 3 letters from my surname and formed the name VictorSxL which i am quite happy with and if you google it you'll see me up on many graphics related sites from back in my old days when i did graphics:D

A Rabid Moose
07-23-2008, 09:21 AM
I chose Psyclone because I was into x-men comics, and always liked the telepathic/psyco-whatever, so I thought to combine that into a neat little pun. I threw a four on the end because Psyclone itself was taken.

Lokela
07-23-2008, 05:14 PM
Luckily my screen name/alias/gamertag are all the same. Lokela is my first name in Hawaiian. No I'm not Hawaiian, I just thought it sounded cool and didn't think anyone else would use it. It's worked out for me so far.

NuclearNinja1429
07-23-2008, 08:41 PM
I got my name from Naruto (but I don't watch it anymore), ya know he's a ninja.
And Nuclear just came to me.

Otacon91
07-24-2008, 02:26 AM
Played MGS on the PS1 back in the day, Thought Otacon was ****ing cool and been using it ever since. My Hotmail account (Otacon91@hotmail.com) Is like 8 Years old.

Diortem
07-24-2008, 11:56 AM
Ok full unloading time...

I already explained my name here (Diortem = Metroid backwards, and it's a tribute to a creature I have always thought cool as hell).

But back in the day and my names from all the way back....

1) DS114: Back in highschool, I had a friend who had everyone convinced he was a nazi. It wasn't true, but it was funny to see the act. In any case, in science class, we were talking, and the swastika came up. Now as we talked, my mind wandered and it occured to me that almost every symbol meant to be squared off was almost always split into 4 repeating points... (might be true, might not, but that doesnt matter right now). I decided to make something based on 3.... just to be different.

Later, I got bored in English and began to take it a step further, and based on this new symbol, developed a number system based on 3 and 7. Out of curioucity, I looked to see what number the symbol itself was, and it turned out to be 114. I have used that as my number since. (This name was ONLY on Yahoo! chat back in the day)

DS, in this name comes from being too big a fan of Total Carnage (Doomsday Squad).

Manta: At this same school, we had a "gaming club" where we would meet in the library after school and play 8 player rounds of Descent. Ive always liked stingrays, so I took this as my name. (Most didnt see this name since it was only there.)

LV426: Alien, nuff said. This was my name for a VERY long time and when I still feel like writing on occasion, is still my pen-name.

Diortem: already explained, and my name in fantasy based games.

Megabyte114: This is my name on Xfire and a name Ill take in scifi games often enough. Megabyte is a direct tribute to Reboot, as it came up when I made the clan Reboot on Xfire almost a year ago now.

Peace Bunny
07-24-2008, 12:18 PM
I have three screen names.

Firstly, there is HunterTyler. This was chosen because the guitarist from my band gave us all joke names "as if we were in a country and western band." My last name is Hunter, and so I used this for a while.

My gamertag is WylieC2. My middle is Wylie, the C comes from Coyote, as in Wylie Coyote. The 2 is pretty simple, WylieC was taken.

Peace Bunny is harder to explain. It basically started as an album name "The Adventures of Peace Bunny", which was going to be my first solo album name. The album never went ahead as I just didn't have time. Also, I thought of 'Peace Bunny' as a character to be a personified drug trip...a bit weird I know.

Anyway, I kinda liked the name and started using it for my political blog 'Peace Bunny Perspective', and then brought it into SG.

Officer Mudkip
07-24-2008, 12:32 PM
People like Mudkipz.

We need order when so many people liek mudkipz.

Officer Mudkip.

A Rabid Moose
07-24-2008, 01:19 PM
Wow. It's like the ADD of screen names here.:tongue:

Shaha44
07-24-2008, 01:28 PM
One night in college my buddies and I went to the local bowling alley. A lot of beer later we were finally ready to roll some thunder. My friend who was trying to type my last name into the machine was in a drunken haze... Drunken buffons love to type correctly... Need less to say, Shaha turned into Shaha44 and it has stuck ever since. This has been my name since 2001. Not a very original name, but you gotta love drunken bowling!

paulmess7
07-24-2008, 01:35 PM
I was looking out the window one day and all of a sudden there was a huge gust of wind and the clouds seemed to spell out "paulmess"... I took it as a message from god and it has been my AOL, XBL, and sarcasticgamer username ever since.

True story btw.

Actually paul is my firstname, mess is the first 4 letters of my last name and 7 is lucky.

A Rabid Moose
07-24-2008, 01:39 PM
So every time you see your screen name you think of drunken bowling.

Did you start kissing the shiny, smooth bowling balls?:tongue:

sayaintjimmy
07-24-2008, 10:07 PM
i got my alias sayaint jimmy, because i listened to greenday's american idiot. and my favorite song was saint jimmy. when i joined youtube i tried st. jimmy and it didn't work so my dad came up with sayaintjimmy. what happens when you take sayaintjimmy and you take away the "y" and one of the "a's"?you get saint jimmy

EzyLee
07-24-2008, 10:16 PM
EzyLee is my nickname. I worked at a design studio where the guys were in to HipHop in a big way, they all had their DJ names and they named me after Ezy-E as I was always saying "take it easy... too easy... easy done..."

Normansanzo
07-24-2008, 10:41 PM
Well got my user name along time ago before SG was born. Back then I was really in to this show called "Gensomaden Saiyuki", they was this one character called "Genjyo Sanzo" and he was a bad ass. So I just use my name and added Sanzo at at back and that's that =D

viatrophy
07-24-2008, 11:06 PM
show called "Gensomaden Saiyuki",

Jesus christ thats a long name for a tv show ! :lol:
I've just spent the past 2-3 minutes trying to figure out how the hell you pronounce your name and I think I've cracked it.
Norman-san-zo ?

Shane86
07-24-2008, 11:10 PM
I chose mine because Shane is a cool name, my real name is Jim.

The Beezs
07-24-2008, 11:23 PM
Jesus christ thats a long name for a tv show ! :lol:


Here's some more for you to try pronouncing...


Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora

Ushiro no Shoumen Dare

Harukanaru Toki no naka de Ajisai Yumegatari

Popolocrois monogatari Hajimari no Bouken


Those japanese come up with crazy names... crazy crazy names.

SWSilentkiller
07-25-2008, 12:19 AM
Here's some more for you to try pronouncing...


Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora

Ushiro no Shoumen Dare

Harukanaru Toki no naka de Ajisai Yumegatari

Popolocrois monogatari Hajimari no Bouken


Those japanese come up with crazy names... crazy crazy names.
Do you have an all japanese channel on your TV?

Anyway back on topic how did you get your forum alias?

DaDillsta
07-25-2008, 12:40 AM
I have an all Japanese channel on my TV.

Anyways my nickname came from a combination of my name and coolness.

The Beezs
07-25-2008, 01:25 AM
Anyway back on topic how did you get your forum alias?

You mean, back on topic how did you get your gamertag/psn ID alias?

Well, I used to always play games under the name of Kenji Makamura until I started playing Call of Duty online, then I switched it over to Tirade as a double pun during the snow levels (Tirade pronounced Tie Raid, Tie Fighter raids) where I'd change the display name to "Nameless Stormtrooper #1, #2, #3" etc etc everytime i would die. But that became a horrible thing over the course of gameplay.

So when I got XBL, I decided to forego my SOCOM tags/name of Tropic Hunter and switched to Tispin, and after a grievous time with MS, I made a new Gamertag of SBeezs, which was inspired after the UK show Spaced, where Simon Pegg's character was named Tim Bisley, which is an homage to totally awesome artist Simon Bisley, so I extended the pronunciation and used the S to form ...

SBeezs.

And since many people online stopped trying to pronounce the whole thing, I became known as Beezs, instead of seabreeze or seabees. And here on SG, I am The Beezs.

The history of my gamertags and aliases, except for Mahimaki. Left that name a while ago.

Diortem
07-25-2008, 07:15 AM
Here's some more for you to try pronouncing...


Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora

Ushiro no Shoumen Dare

Harukanaru Toki no naka de Ajisai Yumegatari

Popolocrois monogatari Hajimari no Bouken


Those japanese come up with crazy names... crazy crazy names.

I managed to pronounce almost all of them knowing I didnt mangle them. There are a few Im not so sure.

Gilarus
07-25-2008, 10:16 AM
I combined A Greek name with a Roman name and BAM Gilarus

LatinLegacy
07-25-2008, 10:46 AM
I came up with the name DarkLegacy when I was 11 year old. That was 15 years ago. I used the initials DL in the arcade games that I played. DarkLegacy was a game named I used for early MMO's, CS, UT, etc as well as console games. If the name would fit anyways =P. That lasted up to around 2002. While the name was unique for so many years, I noticed in newer games & MMO's I was starting to join, other people started using DarkLegacy. I knew that day would come sooner or later so I would have to come up with something else.

Now we roll back to around 1998. From 1993 to 1998, my nickname in my neighborhood & Schools that I attended was DarkLegacy as well. In February of 1998, I started to date this girl in my High School. I was 16 & she was 17 at the time. The situation with this relationship was that she was a Latin Queen meaning she was in the gang called the Latin Kings. She was with them for about 6 years at that time so she had some seniority. Since I was " involved " with her, by there rules, I was automatically a Latin King. That lasted until I graduated from HS. Since that gang was more of a mix up of Kings/Queens from all over NYC, it wasn't a real set. It was easy for me to walk away. Within those two years though, my nickname changed from DarkLegacy to LatinLegacy. I was also called L2 or Elle Dos (L2 in Spanish). LatinLegacy stuck though & it was unique. No one in any game that I've played thus far uses that name. I made it my main gaming name in 2003. It's what I use for all of my Emails, messengers, Systems (Xbox Live - LatinLegacy, PSN - LatinLegacy), etc. That's pretty much the story =).

-LatinLegacy

Blackswordsman
07-25-2008, 10:59 AM
I think I posted this before but mine is from the manga/anime Berserk. Check it out. Still waiting for more episodes, hopefully it gets done soon. :grin:

Nightkiller93
07-25-2008, 11:20 AM
Around 6 years ago while creating a name for a different forum i didn't want to use my previous alias.I wanted my new name to have killer in it so i thought of different names such as "killingfrenzy" "SGT.Killalot" etc but i didn't like these and since i am a fan of the Batman animated series i included Night into the name and therfore created "Nightkiller93".
This has stuck with me to the present day and i use it for most things including MSN address,PSN ID,forum names,XBL username.

Midgetsnowman
07-26-2008, 06:29 AM
Its the nickname I've been using for years and years since Highschool. Think I was half asleep and just strung a couple words together.

Kiljoy
07-26-2008, 01:48 PM
I use Kiljoy because apparently that's what I am, a kill joy, the one L is just my little spin on it because for a long time my name was Kilroy, taken from WW2 with the whole Kilroy Was Here thing. So yeah their you go.

P.S. My name had nothing to do with that A-hole from SOCOM, they took it from me.

mr flamethro
07-27-2008, 12:16 AM
I used to draw comics in 5th grade about a fire-powered superhero named Flamethrower. However, the first time I made an account on something, flamethrower was taken and mr flamethrower was too long, so mr flamethro became the name you see today.

naruto20
07-27-2008, 12:23 AM
I like naruto since I lived in japan. and if someone takes naruto20 I just take my nick name jeff and add 1920 for some reason.

Or if THATS taken I used Kurosaki,Ichigo.

Kingofall32
07-27-2008, 09:54 PM
Dudez, wth, I typed this two hour paragraph and then I pressed something random and it all dissapeared. Once again, but shortened.

Kingofall32, which is my all-purpose account name came about in Runescape. After two accounts were hacked I liked King of All, and 33 (3 being my favorite number) wanted Kingofall33. However, that was taken and it reccomended Kingofall32. Three years later, it lives on.

The name I use for all characters, Zurk, came from my sister (at the time 6-7) wanting a name for her Pokemon yellow guy and randomly yelled "zurk" and I liked it so I stole it.

My XBL came from Halo 2. Back when I sucked at xbox and didn't have one I played Halo 2 at this gaming thing. I used my friends cousins XBL, Mandebles, and suddenly owned everyone, being unbeatable within the 30 that were there. I then years later used "Mandibles" which is also a jaw, for good luck. I had to add on "X" (the tenth) because
1. Mandibles was taken
2. Everywhere I went I made new accounts, and probably made around 10 Mandibles ppl.

Inzader
07-27-2008, 10:00 PM
mine: Dot2165
My dad's Friends call my Dad dot, so I used Dot and then threw 21 and added his year born (1965.)

Unwritten Law19
09-17-2008, 09:00 PM
Saw this as a topic on xbox.com and thought it was interesting.Just post the story behind your tag.

...Well mine is pretty short, i just opened up my iTunes and ran through different artists until i saw a name i liked the best.I anded up with UNWRITTEN LAW19

Scottish Rain
09-17-2008, 09:12 PM
Im known as the "Scottish" guy at school. And Scotsman was taken.

The Beezs
09-17-2008, 09:20 PM
I love art, I'm particularly enamored with Simon Bisley and his body of works and one day I hope to have the greatness that he does. So I crammed the name together to create SBeezs.

twofacedmonster
09-17-2008, 09:28 PM
I was trying to come up with a new e-mail address, and being as unoriginal as I am, picked up a CD case sitting next to me and started scanning the songs for a name. The CD was "Modest Mouse - Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks", and the song was "3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters". Took out the horses, and there you go!

strika234
09-17-2008, 09:29 PM
my gamertag came from my forum alias... or did my forum alias come from my gamertag?

Jus Blaze Man02
09-17-2008, 09:30 PM
even though there is already a topic for this Ill post mine anyway :lol: Ive become infatuated with Jus Blaze and his beats for rap songs so I named my tag Jus Blaze Man02 because the name kinda refers to drugs. Just "Blaaaze" Man. :lol:

MeRcEnArY
09-17-2008, 09:36 PM
I used to be Flames27 because my nickname was flames, but my playing style made me change it to MeRcEnArY, the 027 is because i was born on the 27th or april.
As for the caps on/off, it represents my humer and personality, crazy and outrageous!!

mallavu399
09-17-2008, 10:05 PM
I created mine myself. Just thought of a kick ass name and bam Mallavu. 399 are my favorite numbers so I had to have them.

strika234
09-17-2008, 10:06 PM
I created mine myself. Just thought of a kick ass name and bam Mallavu. 399 are my favorite numbers so I had to have them.

why would two of your favorite numbers be 9?

mallavu399
09-17-2008, 10:12 PM
why would two of your favorite numbers be 9?

Ok 399 and 939 are my favorite numbers along with 99 39 and 93. O and 37 for some reason.

strika234
09-17-2008, 10:13 PM
ohhh... you couldn't be mallavu399939993993037 now could you?:)

mallavu399
09-17-2008, 10:18 PM
ohhh... you couldn't be mallavu399939993993037 now could you?:)

That's a great idea!!! I gotta tell a mod to change it.

Masselli18
09-17-2008, 10:40 PM
Masselli my nickname and 18 is ma numba

Paladin58
09-17-2008, 10:48 PM
Mine originated from a squad match on Chromehounds back in '06. I saved several team members' behinds by almost sacrificing my own, and we won the match.

LemmingRush
09-17-2008, 11:08 PM
LemmingRush came about from an obsession with constantly following the lead rusher in Counter Strike and cleaning up kills when they would go down. Then I would die like a Lemming.

R0CK0
09-17-2008, 11:37 PM
ever since i was 5 people have called me Rocko because they say i look just like "Rocky". Rocko's Modern Life was hands down my favorite cartoon growing up. So the nickname Rocko has been around for a long time, been my gamertag since day 1.

Lord Butters I
09-17-2008, 11:46 PM
Butters was a high school nickname of mine, as it's a play on my real life last name, and the Lord and The First came from a high school teacher accusing me of being egotistical. I was already putting Butters as my name for his stuff, so on the next test I put my name as Lord Butters I, and I liked the name enough that it stuck.

Also, I've only had two people in history to realize that the I is a roman numeral (my name reads "lord butters the first") without me having to tell them.

Apex
09-20-2008, 12:06 AM
well mine is kinda random, and i constantly am asked if its after certain things each one more random then the next (for instance this morning on COD4 sum1 asked me if it was after a program, and i was like..........No, and then he goes ok, and then no one else sed anything for the rest of the match, quite awkward) ..... anyway anyone who knows me would describe me as very very tall and completely and utterly car obsessed, so wen it came to deciding on a GT for myself i put a lot of thought into it b4 i even got the subscription i didnt want to name myself after a car becus then i wud feel like a douche every time sum1 sed it online, but at the same time i wanted it to have sumthing to do with cars so for any1 who wants to know................... an Apex is the fastest possible line through a corner, simple but i think its cool

soz about long post

IceKatana X
09-20-2008, 12:15 AM
Ice- I'm usually chilling and easy going
Katana- Because I'm awesome
X- My GT was originally taken so I added an "x" I've always liked Xs anyway

On some of my other users I've got xpinkshadowx or pinkxxshadow
pink- well I like pink
shadow- because I'm one of those people who often goes unnoticed in real life

If you've played any games with me you probably can see how my gt/screen name relates to me. :tongue: :lol:

regua
09-20-2008, 04:44 AM
If you've played any games with me you probably can see how my gt/screen name relates to me. :tongue: :lol:IceKatana X + HerBrother would be more accurate, IMO.

ShockwaveLover
09-20-2008, 08:00 AM
Ice- I'm usually chilling and easy going
Katana- Because I'm awesome
X- My GT was originally taken so I added an "x" I've always liked Xs anyway

On some of my other users I've got xpinkshadowx or pinkxxshadow
pink- well I like pink
shadow- because I'm one of those people who often goes unnoticed in real life

If you've played any games with me you probably can see how my gt/screen name relates to me. :tongue: :lol:

Why the Navy posts? Just to be different, or are you installing subliminal messages, and trying to take over the forum?

strika234
09-20-2008, 01:22 PM
I'm still waiting for you to explain your choice of a name Shockwave...

Spoony Bard
09-25-2008, 06:00 PM
For those of you who don't already know, my name is a reference to Final Fantasy IV. The character Tellah, a sage, is attacking the character Edward, a bard, who was in a relationship with Tellah's daughter. Anyway, due to a mistranslation, Tellah says; "You spoony bard!" This mistranslation was so popular it was kept in remade and retranslated versions of the game. (There have been 3, I think) My XBL gamertag has a 701 on the end because "SpoonyBard" was taken and the first three numbers of my Student ID in elementary school were '701'.

Normansanzo
10-05-2008, 07:45 AM
Jesus christ thats a long name for a tv show ! :lol:
I've just spent the past 2-3 minutes trying to figure out how the hell you pronounce your name and I think I've cracked it.
Norman-san-zo ?

Hihihi yeah it was a really long show title, there were some spins of and they shorten it to "Sayuki Reloded"

Oh it's not that hard to pronounce it at all but most people just call me Norman :lol:

corgon67
10-05-2008, 05:44 PM
When I was in fifth grade, we had a play, and I was the evil troll. So I had to make up a scary name, and corgon stuck ever since. And 67 was a clan that I WAS in, KlaN 67. Also, you may find this interesting:

Corgoň IPA: ['tsɔrgɔɲ] is a statue situated in Nitra, Slovakia. It was created by Vavrinec Dunajský in 1820. The sculpture is a famous landmark and symbol of Nitra.

According to the local legend, the real person called Corgoň was a metalworker in Nitra. He was a mighty man of a stocky build, his arms were muscled in particular. Whenever he hit the anvil with a hammer, the whole upper town would quake. He influenced the history of his town when the Ottoman Turks besieged the Nitra Castle. The invaders were just about to climb the castle walls when Corgoň appeared straight from the forge. He started rolling down huge stones, which brought havoc among the Turks. However, what scared them off more than the stones was the gigantic and coal-black smoke-filmed face of Corgoň. Seeing him, they set off for an immediate run. He was believed to be seen extracting those huge stones from a slope assisted by evil spirits. That was how Nitra's upper town managed to survive the first Ottoman attack. The statue of Corgoň would embody the invincible power of this local metalworker forever. There is a simile applied to someone who shows great power in the area surrounding Nitra which says to be as mighty as Corgoň.

In the statue, Corgoň is depicted as Atlas. According to a Greek legend, gods punished Atlas for his wrong doings in a form of columns that he had to hold upright forever as to keep the sky from falling. Later on Atlas was depicted carrying a globe on his shoulders.

The artistic concept of the Atlas in Nitra lies in a symbolic holding up the entire floor, which might have its origin in a myth about Corgoň whose bravery kept the upper town safe from the Ottoman raids.

Brian
10-05-2008, 05:46 PM
As you can see choosing names for me isn't hard.

AlmightyEmperor
10-05-2008, 08:23 PM
As you can see choosing names for me isn't hard.

What about Pooal0vayourdream?

Brian
10-06-2008, 07:40 PM
What about Pooal0vayourdream?

Clan name, there are multiple poos =)

AlmightyEmperor
10-06-2008, 07:52 PM
Clan name, there are multiple poos =)

Yeah I noticed,
You are the coolest one I have met :thumbsup:

Brian
10-06-2008, 08:35 PM
Yeah I noticed,
You are the coolest one I have met :thumbsup:

Thanks anyways all the other poos are 30 years old or more and are always drunk so it's funny to hang with them.

Seb
10-06-2008, 08:41 PM
MoonOkami- Okami was taken so I made this one
Seb- Short for my name
Neco-Arc- Character from melty blood
AssassinCross(Or NinjaCross)- RO
WayOfTheNinja- Don't ask

I think that's all that I use.