My sister, toothfairy, got me, Maestro97, and my entire family addicted!  There's my other
sister, winsome, my daughter, YokoOno or RainboBrite, my nephew, saxman1, my son, HaroldHill,
my brother, Woodman, and my sister-in-law, Pugg, so far!  We never talk on the phone anymore! 
We go to Cancun in Acrophobia and take over the entire room, if we can get in!  I played this
morning BEFORE coffee!  Now that's serious!

Maestro97

I am nusuchluck.... I usually play in Anthony's Pizza. I discovered Acrophobia through YDKJ.
Actually my boyfriend discovered it for me. I was always complaining that he
spent too much time on the computer playing his "stupid" games. I shunned
him for spending all his time with the computer and not with me. So, out of
the kindness of his heart, and thinking only of me, he downloaded this game
knowing how much I enjoy reading and writing and chatting. Now he regrets this
act of kindness. I no longer care if he pays attention to me. In fact I get
irritated when he interrupts me during a game. He no longer gets all the time
he wants to play HIS games... he has had to learn to share the P.C. (and like
most males, he's not very good at sharing.) Acrophobia may be ruining my
relationship.... But at least it's improving my vocabulary (sometimes). Although
it is causing me to lose a lot of sleep. But to hell with it! Acrophobiacs UNITE!!!

(or bad spellers of the world untie!)

No regrets! nosuchluck

Me? Additcted? I think not!!!!

I get to work by only 15 min late. I get the laundry done during the
30 sec. waiting times. I have learned to wash dishes while the others
vote. I can clean bathroom while g-anon is thinking up a chocolate
acro. I can dust while h&w read over the selections. I can mop the floor
(a little at a time) while Mobab makes up her mind what to write. I can
even manage to go to bathroom while the commercials are running. (I do
watch most of them though, just in case your sponsors are reading this).
I can listen to hubby and son tell me something very important to them
while I create a Acro. Dinner is prepared during 30 sec. increments.
The only problem I have is when I am playing against Grandma; she is
just too fast and good, so I haveto stay at monitor and struggle.

So, am I addicted? I think not!! Now, gotta hurry up and send this so
I can get on with a good game of Acrophobia!!!

Jojo

Monday night. Captain's log :

Nine pepsis, 14 cigarettes, 1 bowl of kidney beans soaked in italian
vinaigrette, 1 cup of popcorn, 6 cds, 50 ml contact lenses solution, 4
tb spoons of pepto bismol, 1 burnt finger, 1 screwed up computer programmer.

1 night on Acrophobia.

Nuff said.

EPA aka Heat257

I am Cyberius, a person that usually surfs the web, but when I started
playing Acrophobia I got hooked. I'm on so often I know quite a bit of
the other beta testers and even some newbies. My mind can't really get
off Acrophobia, even as I go to school (That's 6 hours without
Acrophobia) I start getting withdrawal. Ever had Acrophobia withdrawal?
It's not pretty... You start having visions Mindy Leiberman drinking all
the time, a nervous twitch, sudden chills, and the constant need to say
things that are witty or just plain talk gibberish. If that wasn't bad
you start making up acros in your head and thinking what else BRB could
stand for instead of Be Right Back. Hmmm.... BEAN: Really Bodaious....
nah! Because of this game I had lost important sleep. I have stayed up
from for example when it was Friday at 5pm to Saturday sometime after
the sun came up. I start thinking of new ways to steal GM's cane again.
(GM = Grandma). This is just what goes on in my mind. I started alking
about it to a friend at school and he got so annoyed that I talked about
it every day that he downloaded it and played it. (BTW: He is hooked
now, too). To the professionals PINHAF (Please, I need help and fast!!!!

-Cyberius (Acro Addict since beta 4)

ICS = I can't stop
IBM = It Becomes Me

As a licensed psychologist, I came to the game ONLY to understand a
patient's addiction, and now, NOW, I'm turning away new clients, turning
the ACRO sound off during boring patients, and worst of all, DENYING my
own irrational lust for the game.

Anybody know a good shrink?

bubble

From Cin
I can't believe the power of this game to have, to hold, forever, till Death do us part!
My food burns on the stove, my dog's bladder explodes, the clothes lie in the dryer wrinkled
and abandoned! The heck with that part time job, that would've took 5 Acro hours from me!
My joints are wore out, my cornea's burnt to a frazzle, and my ISP has to hear the wrath of
a denied Acro Addict if he dares to have router troubles! Addicted, perhaps, but loving
every minute of it!

Now here is somebody, so addicted it has altered his
appearance! Here is his before picture:

Click here!
You'll have to visit his page to see what happened.

I would just like to procrastinate my studying for a further moment, and
let ya'll wonderful programmers know that you've ruined my life. Thanks
to your wonderful game I am going to fail out of Texas A&M University and
never obtain my degree in computer programming. In a way, I feel good
aboutthis, because I will never end up getting a job and programming such an
incredible time consuming product that ruins good people's lives.

I would like to take this second to thank ya'll for making such an
incredible and fun game....the idea, was and is, amazing. Hopefully, I
canlearn to mold my life around acrophobia and grades so that I can afford
toplay it in the future.

Thanks for the addiction, the smiles, and the frustrations.....

AGGIEMAN- "AAA Another Addicted Acrophobist"

hi my playing name is husband & wife and im addicted to acro

i am so addicted i started collecting all the Acrophobia action figures:

The Diablodog action figure complete with fleas
The Grandma action figure complere with rocker
The chefs action figure complete with cooking utensils

I already miss mindy liberman where does it all end! I just can`t
get that stale skunky yeasty flavor out of my mind

addicted to acrophobia
husband&wife

You said you wanted stories? Here's one for you.

I live in a dormitory that houses both males and females.
Males live on the first floor while females live on the second.
I don't have my own web browser (yet), but I have a friend
upstairs that does. I found your game by chance on line
and figured it would be fun, so I downloaded it at
approximately 10 pm. Within a half hour, the owner of the
computer said she wanted to sleep, however since her roommate
was watching, she allowed me to continue playing. At about
midnight the roommate was getting tired and said she would
watch from her bed on the other side of the room. Ten
minutes later I could hear her breathing heavily in her sleep.
I said to myself, "This is my last game" It was about
12:30. Turns out I made it to the face-off round in that game
and lost by only 1 point.. and I ended up sticking around for the
3-letter acro of the next game. I won it. And ended up staying for
that game. I probably said to myself, "This is my last game
a dozen times that night. I didn't end up leaving until 4 am. As I
left the room as quietly as possible, I heard the owner of the
computer whisper good night to me.

There's my story, hope you liked it.

AAAA

Always An Addict: Achilles

I was first introduced to Acrophobia when I was done playing YDKJ the
netshow. Knowing Berkeley to be an ingenious company (Hey, remember
After Dark!) I was intrigued and signed up for e-mail when it was done.
I know am a *continual* player and can not stop playing. I also am
known for my strange acros and my Role-Playing in the chat box (like
just recently me and jamesmcc had a really funny "fight" for the
enjoyment of others. BTW HE started it.).

I play in the "Hallway" usually as WorldMaker. LFM! (Look For Me.)

Max Battcher

Dear Dr .(dudes resting) ACRO(acophobian characters resembling opra),

I(intestines) truly NEED(netherlands escapes enemies destruction)
HELP! I(interest) am(american medicine) addicted to(tuning oboes) ACROPHOBIA!!!!
I(indonesia) SEE(sleep every evening), EAT(ewoks are terrible) and SLEEP(silly
lambs eat people) Acronymns now(never own women). I(involved) am(attention
men) hurting in(independence now!) a(acrophobia) bad(beat all diseases)
way(wow a yankee), please give me(military enemies) something to(totally
obsolete) stop(sure TOTAL owns POST) it(interstellar terrestrial)!!

Sincerly,
Johnny DOE(Donuts or Eclairs?)... a.k.a. 'Don'tKnowJAK'

P.S. DOC, my computer is showing signs of a nervious breakdown so
PlEASE HURRY(happy underlings require yoga)!!!

Of course I still can not quit.
I was in the original test group and have even been guilty of logging in
two computers and playing myself.

John Sly

I guess I probably play as many hours as any one in acro.I play and work,
eat,watch tv, any thing but I do it with acro,and if I could find away
to sleep and play I would do that too. My name is Kitten and I have
sent a pic in for the acro page,Please keep me up dated because I'm
looking for a job that requires me to be in acro.

Holly

help!

Zamboni is addicted and hasn't slept more than 4 hours a night in the
past week since discovering this absurd game. My family is starving from
lack of  anything but take out food and my cats feel neglected. My daugher is
semi-addicted and I'm setting a bad example..........HELP!

p.s. I love acros and don't really want to stop. what sould i do?

Im addicted to acrophobia. The good news is its a good addiction unlike
other habits we can get addicted too. And maybe ill get lucky and win
money so i can afford to keep my internet and keep playing.

Twinky alias Twinkle Toes

my name is hotep W. and i have a problem:

i cant not stop!!!!! this game rules and the people seem really
great,ususally!

Hello, my name is Batghurl and I'm an acrophobe. I didn't know it until
I started to hang around with other acrophobes in ACROPHOBIA. Then,
suddenly, I find myself thinking up good words to use when those hard
letters come up...like "i" and "v"...that nobody else has used yet. I
even consulted a dictionary once.

I think of acros for signs too...like STOP...Stop Taking Our Pot! or
YIELD...You idiot! Erase lewd drawings!

It's really sad, I think, that I never had an outlet for my compulsion
before. But now, thanks to the makers of YDKJ, I have an even better
method of completely alienating my friends and family. Thank you. It's
so wonderful.

Btw, my name is not yet on the Champions list. Surely I have won at
least 16 games by now? Could you check it out for me? It would really
mean a lot.

thanks...To hell all nude kids swim...okay, it's a lame one, I admit it,

I have a problem:

I can't sleep at night, I don't even talk in complete sentences anymore.
When the game went public, I went through withdrawal because I couldn't
find the other testers.

Now I spend all my time in the Yacht Club and Viper Room. I want to
become normal again...

- Kaiser Sozay

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