Behind the screen

Behind the screen many people have had many different names, Me personally I have had around 10 names that I have used in different games through out my online gaming career. I'm that person who uses the same name in every game. Others have had any where from 50-100+ different names that they have used.

Over the course of my gaming career I have been known as quite a few different names. When I first started playing video games there was not very much online play in games, mostly offline modes with friends. In these games like Pokemon, Mario and other popular Super Nintendo games I would go by my first name Alberto. This is because In offline games you didn't have to compete for a "Cool gamertag" you could name yourself what ever you wanted. This had to come to a end when I started playing my first online games on Xbox.

Starting my online career in 7th grade, I had just got a new Xbox 360 for my birthday. I had all my friends over and we were all super excited to play online In Call of Duty MW! (What I was about you do would label me as that "squeaker" we all cried about getting in our games) Starting up the Xbox for the first time we had to create a profile. My other friends didn't have wifi at the time, so this was a first for all of us! Being the 12 year old that I was, I remembered this thing that my friend Evan would do on Call of duty MW. He called it "Dropshoting" When you laid down then shot an enemy. I thought It was the coolest thing because I made it much harder to kill him ever time we 1v1'ed on his Xbox. So this lead to my first online gamertag being "xxDropshotx" (LMFAO).

After a few about a year of being xxDropshotx, I got over the name. By this point all my other friends had Xbox live, everyone had "Super cool names" My friend Sam was "Takesomenotes" and Evan was "Ev2n" So I had to make sure that my new name was cool! Being the 13-14 year old that I was I thought It was super cool to swear, Although I never did around my parents I would all the time at school/online. So I thought that a cool name would be "Fuawk" It kinda sounded like Fuck but was my sneaky way to get around it. Only after a month of having the gamertag It got banned and Xbox gave me a new free name change. At this time the new black ops 1 map had been released and I was super into zombies. I didn't want to waste time trying to make a cool name again I just wanted to play zombies. Knowing this I hoped on google searched for "Cool words" and there it was Mortality appeared.

Although Mortality was taken I still liked the word so much that I was like "fuck it, I'll put numbers behind it" this lead to my gamertag being "Mortality0"

Still to this day, Although I don't play Xbox live anymore. My gamertag on Xbox is "Mortality0" Out of all the different number combinations I choose a 0.

The best part about this is today I met myself from the past. "Mortality0" another summoner just like me. Had my same old name that I used on Xbox 4 years ago. My cousin who just started playing league today and I were playing a match and we ran into this guy who had my name. This made me think about the odds of someone having that same name that I once used. Not only that but he had the same number 0 behind his name. This is the first time I have ever seen someone who had the same name as I once did. Me being a simple person, I was not one of those who changed their name all the time. (My friend Andrew has had like 20+ names on Xbox alone!) So I think that my odds are even more lower than most people being that I have only had a hand full of names in my online career.

Has anyone else ever met themselves online? What are some of the worst names that you had?

To answer the second questions In a game called Runescape, I named myself "Justfishin" Because I like to do the fishing skill in the game lmfao!