What is the origin of your Gamertag?

[Snowblind]

Meaning where you got it from, if you yourself created it, or why you are currently using it.


I got mine from Unreal Tournement 2003. I think it sounds badassed but then again thats just me.


So what about j00?

[Prior]

My friend gave me this name when we were playin Unreal tournament on the ps2 he was like "you ur game name should be Prior"he never told me why i just said aiight it sounds kewl and since then i never changed it.

[Variation-XBA]

Just always used it for years

[TOTTEN]

Its my last name that everyone at school calls me even teachers do.

[Reclaimer]

My screen name here, which I've had forever.

[CharlieHustle]

I got this name from the wrestler, WWF back in the 80's, i had wanted number1stunna, but it was taken already, so i chosed a different name that meant the birdman..

[bretman1234]

Its my halo name from way back when xbox came out. Bret is my name ( :watchout: ) and I guess I'm a Killer of sort...

[AlphaCigara]

A show i really liked a few months ago had a main character named Sagara, but that was taken already, so i changed the spelling to Cigara, but that was taken, and when i did optisearch AlphaCigara sounded cool...

I'll never understand why some people say AlphaGarcia :watchout:

[Chewy]

I'll never understand why some people say AlphaGarcia :watchout:

I used to say AlphaChigara. Oh well.

My nick came from when I was in University. I came back after Xmas break and had grown a beard. One of my friends saw me and said "You look like Chewbaca" and it stuck. All my friends call me Chewy. I even have some of the people at work calling me Chewy. My favorite number is 27, so my usual tag in almost all games I play is Chewy_27 That way I am almost always able to get my nick without having to scramble around and think one up. Unfortenatly it seems that Live doesn't like the underscore, so it was Chewy27.

[Sheeyt]

****. Except you saying it cool like "Awwww sheeyt"

[Jamo]

Jamo was a nickname bestowed upon me before I was born since my father was called the same thing. 'James' (our real name) is the basis behind this nickname but was twisted into Jamo by an uncle (go figure) Someone apparently already has Jamo as a gamertag so I slapped the abreviation one of my fav. games in capital letters on the back.

[BananaMan]

my first gamertag(which ms made me change, *******s!) bananaman i just thought of cuz i thought it sounded cool/funny

then they made me change it so i changed it to skimboarder, i chose that cuz it's my favorite extreme sport and i love to skim.

hoLLa

[Xorg]

I got mine when I decided I needed a custom name for multiplayer games, I made it up, but apparently there are other words/usernames at other sites that have my name, but I still thought of it myself, and I have been using for it for everything.

[LTM360]

LTM - my initials, I get sick of alot my usernames I've had over the last 7-8 years, so I figured I can't get sick of my own name, so I stuck with LTM.

360 - I entered LTM as a username somewhere and it was taken (go figure) and LTM360 was one of the options for a different name, and I thought well this makes sense, because at the time I was an Tony Hawk Pro Skater (1) Addict and the first movie I learned (after a handplant) was a 360 pop-shove it. I always called it the 360, so LTM360 made sense, and it didn't sound all that bad. If I were to change it (which I've considered) I would make it 'Lonnard' just cause teachers,friends, etc. call me that now.

[Reclaimer]

LTM - my initials, I get sick of alot my usernames I've had over the last 7-8 years, so I figured I can't get sick of my own name, so I stuck with LTM.

360 - I entered LTM as a username somewhere and it was taken (go figure) and LTM360 was one of the options for a different name, and I thought well this makes sense, because at the time I was an Tony Hawk Pro Skater (1) Addict and the first movie I learned (after a handplant) was a 360 pop-shove it. I always called it the 360, so LTM360 made sense, and it didn't sound all that bad. If I were to change it (which I've considered) I would make it 'Lonnard' just cause teachers,friends, etc. call me that now.

Or on the behalf of Totten, we could call you Lennard. :)

[TOTTEN]

Or on the behalf of Totten, we could call you Lennard. :)
Yes sounds good to me.

[Ford Mustang]

I got mine from The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings...And coincidentally it's in Halo as well so I guess that counts too. Glamdring the FoeHammer is Gandalf the Wizard's sword, which he uses to own many orcs...Good ****. Most people I see online (because I use it in every game) ask me if I play Halo because of it...And I tell him yes but I got the name from LOTR even though it's in also in Halo.

Merc was just some thing I used for XBL only since my friend's name was Chaos Mercenary...So we wanted to be able to tell for sure it was eachother and have our little 3 person clan. :) The other kid is Typhoon Merc...Used to post here I don't know if you remember him. If not, lucky you. :cheers:

[BlindSniper]

I got mine back two years ago, it originated as my xba name.....

One day I was in the chat room going, "Man Munch Man sucks, I need a new name". I'm sitting there talking with Plewis, then I thought, that would be real badass if my name had to do with snipers, cause they are just so cheap and own everybody. I started putting things infront of sniper, but it all sounded lame. Then Plewis came along with BlindSniper. I was like, sweet! it sounds badass and it's kind of a metaphor. As in it means, I could kill you Blind, while sniping. That's when Jeremy came along and changed my name from Munch Man, to BlindSniper. Although he thought it'd be funny to change my name to ButtSniper :watchout:

It's a true story, all of it.

[WillyV2]

Willy is some junk that a friend started calling me, which made no sense, because my name isn't close to Willy, or William etc.. the name sort of spread and soon everyone was saying it.. ah well the V2.0 is somethign me and the same friend thought up and was being stupid and ticked a few people off on msn messenger

[super_ryu]

mine is from street fighter, which i used ever since i got internet :)
(except i usually have a _ seperating super and ryu)

[WynnFire]

One half is my last name and the other was seemed cool to use.

[Ninjermy]

origin of mine is my brain :P
i thought well peopel call me jermy so why not become great also?

[Splinter-Seal]

ShiftTwitch808 -I raced dirtbikes for 14 years, wore Shift gear (Sometimes LBZ), 808 was my bike/jersey number, and my team mates called me "Twitch" -they said I whipped the bike off of every jump, looking as if I was "twitching it". Eh,I guess it's something you wouldn't notice yourself. Why not call me "Whip"? :confused: ShiftWhip808, hmm.. Anyways.

[CRAYMAN]

Does anyone here know what my gamertag is or rather comes from?

I'm sure someone here does.

[stormin4]

Does anyone here know what my gamertag is or rather comes from?

I'm sure someone here does.

The legend of Tarzan??

[SilverOak]

my 3rd GT, since MS said I HAD to change...my all time favorite wine. If ever there was a wine designed to drop a females panties, Silver Oak is it. :p

http://thm-br1r2.search.vip.scd.yahoo.com/image/84575670

[CRAYMAN]

The legend of Tarzan??

DING DING DING!!!

Lord Greystoke IS Tarzan. I read his books as a kid. The first and second were probably my favorite books of fiction EVER. Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs. He also created John Carter, Warlord of Mars and wrote "Journey to the Center of the Earth" also.

[jschelm]

My gammertag is from my nicname in college and the fraternity that I joined then. It is kinda funny though because in a lot of games the caps gets lost so it has turned into jonnioka all one word. Oh well, guess I can't change it now.

[Floodman]

My last name is Flood, and I thought itd be way 2 cool to put a man at the end. A bunch of my friends copied me, so its kind of stuck with me.

[Conchord]

I couldn't think of a name on XBA, so i just twisted xbox's spelling...then, i wanted people online to know i was the same douche from here, so i used the same name...

[stormin4]

Mine is from a nickname way back in grade school. When I went use it the first time somewhere, stormin, stormin1, stormin2 and stormin3 were taken so I am now stormin4 or (SOB)Storm on Halo PC. SOB as in "mean SOB" or SOB (cry) :cry: as in what you will do after I pwn you! :eek:

[Huckleberry]

huckleberry was the name i used when we started the halo lan parties at my house...and was inspired by Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday in Tombstone. CO12 was the abbreviation for the short-lived clan that came out of that...the Circle of Twelve.

[Gamble]

My username, which is my last name, with 55 on the end. At the time I did not know it would be what it showed online and everyone called me :(

[wulkar]

my name is german i was in german 1 and we r forced to pick names for ourselves

wulkar is aculy said like vulkar but spelt different

[blonks]

dont know where mine came from... no clue


but my AIM screen name is Jhonka Brohamski... which was given to me by flood, jhonka is from an old homestar thing, and flood told me to add brohamski

[The Frozin One]

I first started out with Iceman (IceMan), then I tried all kinds of way to make it original (icehawk, Project Ice, etc.)

I was playing Diablo2 on PC and needed to make a blizzard account so pretty much anything with "ice" in it was taken. I wanted to take a spin on the term "The Chosen One". So, I applied a cold connotation to my name and picked "The Frozen One".
The reason I replaced "Frozen" with "Frozin" was because of an influence from one of my favorite groups, Twiztid. I thought "If they can replace an E with an I, so can I. Plus it was a way to ensure more originality. So I became The Frozin One.

I should have it copyrighted. hehe

However, since I've been some form of "ice" for the past 7+ years, all my PC clan buddies call me ICE, no matter what silly name I'm wearing.

[GuiltySpark]

Although many people belive that my gamertag is pronounced "*** head" it is, in fact, pronounced "phage head" with the "-age" saying "age." It refers to a Bacteriophage. Then I just added head to it.

[Soda Jones]

many people think my name comes from the soda pop "Jones's Soda" It does not.
I've used this nick since i was a little kid living in the heavenly state of Arizona. It's just something that seemed to ring a bell in my mind. I found soemone at my church who used the same nick. We played a round of halo one on one. Naturally I won, and he changed his name to "Soda's *****" sorry, i don't like using language, but it's true.

[The Jackal]

mines from Metal Gear Solid baby!! if youve played the game you know the special forces unit Foxhound but since its me and my brother usin the tag we split it to Fox Hound and added X

[Cryogenic Pyro]

My old gamertag was Auridran. That name originated from my head. I come up with some crazy fantasy names sometimes. I changed it, though, because no one could pronounce it. I swear, half the people that play on Xbox Live don't know the english language. Adrian? No dumbass, my name is Auridran.

My new gamertag is the main character from the anime "Naruto". His name is Uzumaki Naruto. Since that was taken, I changed the second "u" to an "i" to get Uzimaki Naruto. I figure if people can't say uzi, then they have some sort of mental impairment.

[The Jackal]

so true about people on live not being able to pronounce anything... when my gamertag was DiabolicJester 80% of the people pronounced it Dee-a-blic or called me Diablo

[FLINCH]

FLINCH is better than calling my self can't shoot worth a darn.

[Xtopia]

Utopia+Xbox=Xtopia. Yes, I came up with it. And yes, most people call me, X-TOP-E-A. Very annoying.

[Cloud Wolf]

Mine was taken from this book I read, Cloud Wolf is a pirate who sails with a sky ship he is a mega badass, got a big sword to poke peeps with.

[FB-Gollum]

I used my name years ago when Iw as a teenager who played "Laser Quest". My friends always used to say I did think "Like clockwork",meaning I was always very precise and "machine-like" about things, some would say anal. I changed it to "werk" because I'm of German descent and wanted to incorporate that. people always remove the L from it. Kinda annoying, but flattering in the right context. :D

[wbio]

I just used the first letter of my first name, then 1st letter of my last name, then 2nd letter of first name, then 2nd letter of my last name. Pretty creative, eh? Sorry, can't say eh because I'm not Canadian :D

[Stifler]

It's a long story...I won't bother

[CMX Jedi]

my first XBL name was psychoticfreak, i opened the dictionary to a random page and i saw psychotic so i added the freak. than the year ran out so i got a new one and i used my profile name.

[101st_Airborne]

My first name is Richard.And the 5037 is my last name written out in numbers.Just flip the 5037 over and you'll see LEOS.


5037
LEOS

[Cloud Wolf]

It's a long story...I won't bother

......... :) tell us.

[FB-Gollum]

He has a hot mom and a friend of his banged her, it's obvious.

[(ScArab)]

My real GamerTag is "AcidSnow ScArab"

But in PC games I write it as: "Acid Snow (ScArab)"

I've had my name as "Acid Snow" for about 9 years, then came Counter-Strike on PC, and i added "(ScArab)" to appear as a clan name... Just to stop people from asking me to join their clan.

And NO, I didn't get "Acid Snow" from the film Hackers; where the character's computer name is Acid Burn. I thought up my name before that film came out :)

As for the name "(ScArab)" ... I was born in Arabia, and I thought it was a good respectful name for my childhood.

[Canes94]

University of Miami HurriCANES, class of '94

[CMX Jedi]

University of Miami HurriCANES, class of '94
i see why theyre called hurricanes. :)

[Canes94]

i see why theyre called hurricanes. :)

true to form this year

[Salmonaitor]

Salmonaitor: well, I had Salmon coloured armour in Halo, and people made fun of me, but me being the killing machine that I am, said "hey, I'm the Salmonaitor", and it stuck. :D

[BunnyRabbit]

Well.. Bloody knucklez is a stupid game where you punch fists with your opponent until one of you gives up... My bro used it on PC games so we carried it over.. Heh.

[lax_defense]

A flash cartoon

[addict]

I know the rule about posting in a thread that has been dead over a year, but im tired of people calling me a drug addict.

I got it from this site when i could not think of a user name. Xbox"addict"

[Sam-XBA]

We can't allow you to condone drugs addict :(

[wulkar]

...i never thought you were addicted to drugs.

i figured it was because of this site...but your sig kinda does favor the druggie scenario.

[HaZarD SFD-XBA]

Yeah.. hmm.. if it was because of that drug comment I made about my kids or cousins not
allowed to read stuff like that I didnt mean harm..


Hmm.. XboXaddict Drug Rehab Center.. ??? lol j/k

[addict]

...i never thought you were addicted to drugs.

i figured it was because of this site...but your sig kinda does favor the druggie scenario.

marijuana is not a drug. its all NATURAL :midget: :hump: :trippin: :hardcore:


Yeah.. hmm.. if it was because of that drug comment I made about my kids or cousins not
allowed to read stuff like that I didnt mean harm...

its because i keep getting called a drug addict on XBL

[Batman_wanna_be]

My weird girlfriend always claims she has a pet or "friend" Yeti in the woods so I got that from her "friend" and bino for white or albino....so its just simply the abominal snowman...or white yeti!

[laughs]

Laughs2907 was my birth name.

[DemonicTiamat]

Tiamat: one of the end bosses from FF8 the demonic part was just because tiamat was already taken :D

[predatorprime]

Here's my dork alert warning....
My name is from when I used to play AvP on Gamespy back in the day on my old PC.
I just stuck with it...mainly cause I lost my old live id from original xbox...it was JadedDragon

[BananaMan]

Well my xbox addict username is my orginal xbox live launch gamertag. I loved it, everyone just referred to me as banana and usually people liked my name because it was semi-unique i guess. I've only seen one other bananaman and his was like bananaman383. If anyone remembers a few years ago they made a lot of people change their gamertags and then gave them a free year of live and project gotham racing 2. I had to change mine and i really didn't care what it was so i made it skimboarder. one of my favorite board sports.

[SPARTAN 0841992]

Mine used to be SPARTAN 084, becuase I liked Halo WAAAAAAYYY too much back in the day, but then the caps started to hurt my brain (as I'm sure my username does to a few of you, sorry), so I took a page from a few of my friends (namely wulkar and Jedi) and added Tha7 to the front and uncapitalized.

[NiNeBReaKeR]

Got mine from an armored core game,but you probly could of guessed that at first glance,i loved armored core series.

[Donnie_B]

Brasco3....
I got my name after the movie.
My first name is Donnie, so everyone started calling me Donnie Brasco.
Gangster phase. Kinda lame.
Then it got shortened to Brasco.
I've had it a long while and used it in Halo since launch.

Brasco

[HaZarD SFD-XBA]

HaZarD


Well it mainly stemmed from FF and random Team Nading!

[predatorprime]

Got mine from an armored core game,but you probly could of guessed that at first glance,i loved armored core series.

Are you going to get the one for 360 when it comes out?
Its looks pretty cool

[Conchord]

i'm disslecksick.

[Silent-XBA]

Silent = because I'm a pretty quite person
Fatality = because I loved MK back in the arcade days

[CenterShock]

Years ago I drew a logo and named it CenterShock.

The CS logo is the one in the middle of the tattoo. The outter swirl I came up with a few years later.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/centershock/th_shocktat.jpg (http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/centershock/shocktat.jpg)

[wulkar]

Years ago I drew a logo and named it CenterShock.

The CS logo is the one in the middle of the tattoo. The outter swirl I came up with a few years later.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/centershock/th_shocktat.jpg (http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/centershock/shocktat.jpg)

I like that center, looks good, both the logo and the entire tat

[wasabi_]

Mines wasabi with numbers or an underline after it because of Goldeney.

When I use to play Goldeneye for N64 with my friends in the golden years of video games, I use to just yell WASABI!!! and karate chop everyone to death with Oddjob. Good times...

[Silent-XBA]

Mines wasabi with numbers or an underline after it because of Goldeney.

When I use to play Goldeneye for N64 with my friends in the golden years of video games, I use to just yell WASABI!!! and karate chop everyone to death with Oddjob. Good times...

I loved Goldeneye64, I remember playing that game non stop with my friends. I would love to see them come out with it on XBLA and have online multiplayer

[25zero1]

my name was originally Tetsuo2501. Tetsuo being a character frm the manga/anime Akira and 2501 came from Project: 2501, which is mentioned in the manga/anime Ghost in the Shell. I changed it to two5ZEROone cause thats wo it's said in the Ghost in the shell movie, old clan mates, and random video game friends always refered to me as 2501 so I changed it. And I was tired of people butchering the name Tetsuo. :p

[abstrak sapien]

Its a new species, and my music label.

[NiNeBReaKeR]

Are you going to get the one for 360 when it comes out?
Its looks pretty cool

of course ;) although i dont see the series going anywhere,its always the same game,it justs looks better..but plus trying to control an AC unit with a ps2 controler was always harder than hell,mabye makin a move to the 360 will revive the spark it once held in my eyes,then again,it could just be the same game with just better looking graphics but the same as all the other armored core games...again. Yea ill buy it,but im not expecting anthing i havent seen already in the other 7 AC games ive played,same thing,with just a fresh coat of paint dumped on it.


and Akira was a great anime movie bro,weird,but great.

[SinisterDonkey]

Well JOSH.. is my name. And SPARTAN117 is well Spartan117.. Pointless post really.

[FatBox]

Long time ago back in like 2000 I think I was playing CS with a friend and I was standing in the way and he was just like "omg Joel (my real name) get the **** out of the way, you're like a big fat box." And I started laughing at that and I changed my name to FatBox and it's been the same ever since.

[RockTheCasba]

my brother used to use it in Warcraft Frozen throne and i signed up and got it the day and very early day that xbox live came out just to make sure i could get it

[Kiddingo]

It was an old nick name from some older guys I worked at part time job when I was in highschool. Not sure were the Dingo part came from, I guess because calling people "Dog" was all the rage in the 90's.. and the Kid because I was much younger than them... So Kid Dingo was born..

[XBOX Dude]

burger king lol

[ll Mista GT ll]

Multiple Cadillacs, the love of luxury.

[Ainokeatoo-XBA]

Well since live came out I have had four different names first being:

WaxPineapple... I didn't make that my dad did... He has some obsession/fetish with pineapples it would seem...

Ainokeatoo... Well ainokea is a clothing brand, but that was taken so we added "too" to it

Whatufaka808... Well its a saying what you faker and 808 is my old zip code anyone would know that is hawaii

WWWWWW000WWWWWW.... that one came about when I wanted the longest freakin name ever...

[ll Mista GT ll]

lmfao :P good stuff ainokeatoo

[laughs]

I took it from the man I killed.... http://members.aol.com/garydodee3/smiley.gif