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Twenty-five Things Every Gamer Should Do Before They Die

Beat Portal [x]
Buy a dedicated MAME cabinet -- or build your own. [ ]
Get into a press conference [?] (Does Portal Post-Mortem at GDC2008 count?)
Visit an arcade in Japan [ ]
Dress up like a video game character and walk around in public [ ] (Halloween maybes)
Play a game for more than 24-hours. [ ] (I'll do this next semester)
Take a sick day for a game release. [ ]
Play as a female character in an online game and flirt relentlessly. [x]
Work on your own dedicated video game blog or site. [ ]
Import a game. [x]
Test out the Rez Trans-vibrator on yourself. [ ]
Try and ask out a girl using a video game pick-up line. [ ]
Perform something cool in Super Mario Bros. [x]
Unlock the super-hard Tofu Survivor game [ ]
Spend more than $100 on a video game item/system on Ebay. [ ]
Rent a game just to get Achievement Points. [ ]
Create your own level in a video game [x]
Become an expert at Guitar Hero or Rock Band [ ]
Destroy an accessory or a game console [x]
Wait in line for a video game or hardware release [x]
Score some form of headshot in a first-person shooter [ ]
Miss human activities just to finish a video game [x]
Perform some near-impossible superhuman feat in a game [x]
Defeat a professional gamer with a super-simple technique. [ ]
Beat the Halo trilogy and then play it online at least once [ ]