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#1 seriousdan74
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I've seen some gamertags out there and I wonder to myself how did this person come up with their tag.My 360 gamer tag is dmars hall, I was watching football last year and saw Brian dawkins of the eagles with his name on his doo rag it said b dawk so i sort of did the same thing. The first letter in my name and my last name.
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#2 gp19
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initials and brithday, nothing to fancy, just simple
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#3 riskers
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Ultima Online lol

riskbreaker --(was shortend on the server)--> Riskers. Viola.

I try the name change at least once a month to get the gamertag I've wanted since the original x-box...Tux

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#4 HaloONE
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I use to use Silent as my saved games for shooters like Ghost Recon etc and Shift for racing games on previous consoles so I just put them together
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#5 Nick-42
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My first name and my baseball number from high school.
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#6 gatsbythepig
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I believe a sociological study could be done on the way people choose their gamertags.  Mine happens to be my dog's name "Gatsby" who happens to act like a real pig-because he is so, very smart.  Hence the name, gatsbythepig.
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#7 Perception1
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Was playing Jedi Knight 2 for PC on multiplayer with a friend, realised I wanted a new name, first thing that came up was Perception, been running with that for about two years now.

 My previous one was "Acidrain" 

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#8 Blazin_Ice
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I just took 2 words and stuck them together.
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#9 DTbikerider9
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the GREAT KONG2, WELL, its actually a line from one of my favorite movies of all-time "anchorman"

Ron burgandy says: "It looks like the great kong has awoken,*looks down he has a boner*" :lol:

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#10 gamerjerome
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Self explanatory.
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#11 darksusperia
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I took mine from the song I was listening to at the time when I was setting up my live account.

Band: Witchery; Song: Ashes; Album: Dont Fear the Reaper (2006);

lyric sample:

Born - burn - die
Ashes to ashes and dust to death
Fade away - burn away

Ashes to ashes and dust to death
Pass away - your soul astray

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#12 Ale_22
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Nickname and Birthday
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#13 opiep333
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i thought it was just like a login in name so i did my email so id remember.

turned out im an idiot. if i could change it i would make it opie p333.  idk why, but its been my name since i discovered yahoo pool years ago. 

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#14 konradak
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I believe a sociological study could be done on the way people choose their gamertags.  Mine happens to be my dog's name "Gatsby" who happens to act like a real pig-because he is so, very smart.  Hence the name, gatsbythepig.gatsbythepig

 

Really? I thought it was from the book The Great Gatsby :) Iuno if there were any "pig" symbolism for Gatsby but that's what I thoughttt.

Anyways my 1st GT was DarkStone which came from an old PS1 and PC RPG game. Pretty fun for its time.

My current GT, shadyrecordskk, is from Shady Records cuz I luv Eminem's stuff 'n rap (Well now less rap, more rock, but still good stuff) 'n the kk is my initials.

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#15 SnipeyMcSnipe
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I use two names, all the time. SnipeyMcSnipe I just seriously created in my head at a random moment, back when I used to play Delta Force 2 (my first online game). My other name is Pennyw1se, from the name of the badass clown in the book "It".

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#16 unknown-phenom
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Mine is a combination of what my friends call me (Fallen) and I just thought of something else (Soul). I tried FallenXAngel but it was taken so I settled with FallenXxXSoul and Ive been runnin on it ever since I got xbox live.
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#17 stevenk4k5
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Ummmm... I'm black... and magical?

I dunno, lol.  I think I was high when I made up the gamertag.

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#18 JCBraz
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JC stands for my first and middle name, Braz is short for my last name
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#19 Maui00
Member since 2004 • 8747 Posts

Well...

Maui-> my nickname

00->I don't now. Looks cool i guess 8)

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#20 Super-Penguin
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My gamertag is DrumHERO and i thought of this because i really like the gam guitar hero but i can't play the real guitar, but i can play the real drums
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#21 stormtrooper32
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Made mine to play Star Wars Battlefront on live, haven't changed it since. Probably will soon though.

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#22 Infernal246
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Back when I played the original Diablo my characters were IC2, IC4, IC6.

In Starcraft I was IC246.

A friend asked if it ment "Infernal Creature".

"It does now!"

Didn't fit, and Infernal was taken so I added the 246.

Been using it since 98.

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#23 RockysCatnipCo
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It used to be revolver ocelot (mgs character), then I got into a clan and we had prefixes for a while so it was xxFHSxxREVOLV3R then we started playing Rainbow Six which has prefixes built in so I just changed it to xREVOLV3Rx.
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#24 joshua6775
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Mine's GoochRipper. Started in Halo LAN parties with the guys at my old place. The gooch is a pet name for the flap of skin that connects a man's junkbag to his pooty pucker, and since I had a tendency to rip most opponents an new a-hole during matches, Goochripper just kinda made sense to me.  
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#25 DTbikerider9
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im thinking of changing my gamertag "the GREAT KONG2" because its getting old. I might change it to                            "xXL0CK N L0ADXx

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#26 REforever101
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my gamertag is bulldog0890

origin: high school mascot + date of birth 

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#27 opiep333
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lol....goochripper
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#28 jello44
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the name I use for everything. It's a combination of my initals and the first two letters of my last name. The number was supposed to only be 4, but someone already had that, so I just added another 4. 44 sounds better anyway =)
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#29 ZacharyT1
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I have 3 eyebrows, and tribrow rhymes with eyebrow so I made my gamertag Tribrow.
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#30 Keving7
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i dont know if anyone here watched "the wonder years" but my friends called me kevbo, so alas...it stuck. 548 is just random though
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#31 zeldafan00013
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MC360 = Master Chief 360.  Little halo theme for it.  Yea.  I should have just stuck with Bullseye.
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#32 subrosian
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subrosian

if you do not recognize without googling, wiki-ing or whatnot you are not hardcore. 

 

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#33 reservoir_doggy
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well my name was just stfu man but me and my friends are starting up a clan with a serial killer theme. Now it is SKA Zodiac. It stands for serial killers anonymous and each person changes their name to include SKA and the name or nick-name of a serial killer after it.
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#34 Rvdecwthug1976
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My Gamertag came from one of my Favorite Wrestlers, Rob Van Dam and the ECW part is Extreme Championship Wrestling, the Federation back in the late 90's that he wrestled for and the thug part was just a little add on, because when I first started to use it, I use Rvdecwthug for almost everything on the internet and that is how I came up with my Gamertag
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#35 cougar65
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Cougar65, made it while in high school, my high school was the cougars, I wore #65 on my football team
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#36 PolishPunisher
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First five letters of my last name and first initial of my first name.
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#37 LOSTinTheOffice
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Nickname + year of birth + present year.
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My girl friend putting on Lotion.
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#39 g5velocity
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g5velocity = i got a fast ass G5 mac!
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#40 Gokuja
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mine is goku from dbz of course, and kuja from ff9.  i've had the name for a couple years and thought of any others, i suck at making names.  on 360 i really dont want to pay $10 to do it either. 

on some sites/games i go by jcs or something like that, jimmies chicken shack.  a very good rock/alternative w/e the hell you want to clasify them as. 

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#41 master117
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mine is->  Torque Phoenix

'Torque' from the torquebow in gears of war & Phoenix, well i like phoenixes.

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#42 XSlyGOG
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sly, in honor of my cousin and that i can be quite sneaky
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#43 MasterChief4249
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My first name and my baseball number from high school.Nick-42

 

nice, that is my old football number.

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#44 muertebringer
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since i only retained negative words from spanish class i put it to use on a standard name:

DEATHBRINGER=MUERTEBRINGER... i wanted. death dealer=comerciante de muerte... wouldnt fit though...

 

 

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#45 nosferatu
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I'm a big hairy(blonde) white dude..... seems self explanatory.

It's also mildly a reference to that old cartoon, Grape Ape.

I also HATE numbers in names so I put forth a little bit of effort to come up with something relevant that wouldn't need numbers in the name.

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#46 -ZeRoHouR-
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Couldn't think of a name and I asked my buddy for a good name.  He was playing Oblivion and he must have used the spell "Deathly Visage" recently after I asked and he told me to use that.
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#47 monopolyloser
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ml2 orginates from my first forum name, monopoly-loser2
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#48 Creeping_Wolf
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It's based off my Native American heritage
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#49 Anabub
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M0nkey Munch came about cos it kinda just rolled off the tounge ... used it since DC days on PSO we wanted Monkey something else but we weren't allowed that many characters so we shortened it to what it has become now ... and TBH I'm very attached to the name
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#50 outbreak201
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an old rts game me and my friend played Â