WIN a DXRacer Gaming Chair!
By Che –
Need a comfortable chair for your late night gaming sessions? We've got a DXRacer Universal Series Gaming Chair worth $579.99 to give away to one lucky monkey.
Gamers perform better when they are comfortable. With this in mind DXRacer chairs have been designed to create an unrivaled level of comfort and heighten the gaming experience.
“DXRacer chairs have a higher backrest to support the entirety of your spinal column from pelvis to neck. Our chairs offer a stable five-point base with a gas spring, allowing the user to adjust for varying heights to better meet office or gaming needs. They also include a tilt mechanism which enables the back to be angled down to a full 180 degrees with the ability to lock in place at any angle. Additionally, our chairs include various types of adjustable armrests padded for comfort and protection, which lowers the risk of shoulder slant and kyphosis. Finally, all DXRacer chairs come with a head cushion as well as an adjustable exterior lumbar pillow. All these ergonomic features combine to assure you a superlative level of support and comfort in your home or office.”
Now for the give away, we want to hear about your gaming chair struggles.
Tell us in the comments below about the funniest substitute for a gaming chair that you have ever used?
We will select one lucky monkey to receive the prize. Competition ends on November 9th.
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I was playing Alien Isolation when my old chair broke, and my brother said that i could use him till i was done (: so i thought id be nice and do the same for him.. Then he told me he was going to make some gaming videos for Youtube 4.5hrs later, who needs knees anyway (: .. Only to find an old chair in the attic.. What brothers do for each other ^^
I normally sit on the corner of the couch to play PS4, however on this particular day the couch was occupied with my sleeping wife and 2 sleeping dogs.
Got the bean bag from the spare room, and no sooner was that down then one of the dogs decided to get up and curl up on that instead!
Ended up using my Ice Hockey Gear Bag (full of pads)! Not actually that uncomfortable actually!
I think the funniest substitute for a gaming chair I've ever used would probably be a rocking chair.
Mine was probably when my family was in the midst of moving, I din't have any chairs or anything. So I used my drawers. Very uncomfortable but it worked for the next few hours!
Back when I played WoW, my chair had broken about 10 minutes before a raid. A stack of cushions that were all different sizes and kept trying to topple me sideways if I moved wrong was the quick solution! One of the most unpleasant gaming experiences I've had, and we didn't even kill the boss we were attempting, but I did end up on the floor twice though, once mid-fight which ended up with me wiping the raid...oops!
Last time my gaming chair broke, i ended up having to sit on a large plant pot, turned upside down, with a cusion on it. Not ideal but hey did the job
I once used my child as a chair.
Had a chair fall apart during BF3 Clan match. Last round was on my Knees
Sat on my wife once..
I've never had a gaming chair so I've used everything, from sitting on a couch, bed, floor, very uncomfortable wooden dining chair, even sitting on a smaller table!
I've sat an a couple of boxes of beers stacked up.. Would've been fine if every 20 mins asking for a bottle.. Eventually my makeshift chair became lopsided.. And unsuitable.
Used a beanbag for many years as my monitor for gaming was setup on a super low desk... Did the job for a while!
One time I made a chair out of old wood in under 10 minutes. Fell apart after about 10 minutes too, I also made a hell of a mess
It's not particularly funny, but for the past 4 years or more I've been using a piano stool as a gaming chair because I never got around to replacing my chair when the back fell off. Kept using it for a while, but every time I would lean back the metal rod would dig into my spine. Oops.
My chair broke mid gaming session and so i used the nearest chairish object which turned out to be the oil heater in my room. Suffice to say, oil heaters aren't very stable so i had a nasty fall. Not my best choice ever.
A Pikachu... I used my giant pikachu as a seat when I was forced to charge my controller while in a dungeon.
I was on my chair once and my mate decided it'd be funny to dive bomb me which instantly snapped my chair. I have a long table with my pc on it so i just lay across the table to game. Not to good for the neck but the gaming had to happnen :D
We'd just moved into our apartment - no furniture - but had done a big shop - including 30-can boxes of soft drink that were on special. My copy of Skyrim arrived in the mail - what was one to do? An all night marathon using 8 boxes of coke as a seat that became increasingly uncomfortable as the evening wore on - the hardwood floor became an increasingly attractive proposition!
My son sits on a dirty old foot stool with cushions on it when he can't bear to sit on the floor anymore. He looks really funny, low to the ground and it's so uncomfortable. Would love to win him this chair for christmas.
The worst I ever used was a concrete floor, pulled an all-nighter playing Halo 3 back in the day and beat 6 levels solo LASO. Couldn't sit down in the morning but IT WAS WORTH IT... I think...
Having to sit on my bed as we don't have a descent enough chair to sit on in-front of my tv but the problem it means the tv is so far away so i cant seen #firstworldproblems
Before I moved out of home, I got my new pc, but I didn't have a desk or a chair to sit on so for a couple days I had my whole pc set up on the ground and played on the ground.
I need more gaming power! Current chair is not enough
Had a boken computer chair (no back, so it was basically a computer stool with arm rests) and an old blue jamex reclinable bucket seat, office stool + bucket seat = budget homemade version of the DXracer gaming chair haha
Well, my funny substitute for a chair is my current chair which is sitting on the edge of my bed with no back rest.
I've had to sit on an upturned plastic box with a cricket pad for cushioning. A long gaming session meant playing through the back pain O_O
Well mine is a tale of wonder and determination not to miss my WoW raid. It was a cold night when my trusty chair had given way to the mass amount of chips I had consumed, has she crumbled as did I.... well fell together like old friends jumping into the swimming hole, but alas she did no rise again :(. I had to think quick and evolve into a DIY god of sorts. I grabbed my broken coffee table (I don't have nice things for a reason probably) a stack of books and made a homemade chair, unfortunately it was not high enough so I then had to grab the 6 random prehistoric jigsaws that no one had even seen for years let alone touched and jimmy'd them into my Frankenstein creation. It worked! Buttttttt not for long this is why I am sharing my sad tale of lose with you kind gaming folk!
What's a chair and desk? I just use the floor! My dog gives me back support from time to time, he acts as my wall. Lucky he is such a big dog and I'm a little person! Truly mans best friend. But I am a girl but who cares, I am the man!
i basically used my bed as a substitute for my chair when i didnt have one. i mounted a screen above my headboard on my bed, flipped the display using the computer and i was done. i already had a Logitech wireless G602 and a wireless keyboard so it was very cool playing and sleeping in the same place. my parents say its gonna fall and smack my face but im not worried because i made it with my own hands, so ill know when it breaks. Pics are on my facebook
My chair back always comes off! When I'm killed in BF4 and scream in agony the back falls off and I nearly end up on the floor! All the guys on teamspeak say "wow what happened to you!?". Plus not to mention the stuffing coming out and getting stuck to my pants! Its time for an upgrade!
lol the worst gaming chair i had was a full steel chair it was really hard to sit there for even 30mins playing a game let alone a full 4 hours
I was leaning back on my chair when the back gave way and i fell on the ground. Wasnt injured too badly but the next few hours sitting on an empty swappa crate really hurt :-P
Way back when we first started being able to take computers round to friends' we would pull draws out of dressers and use them as seats, then use the dresser as a desk with our feet through the draw slots.
Currently i am using a BEER CRATE, before that it was one of those cheap ass white plastic outdoor chairs which broke when i leaned back on it. But atm it is a beer crate. Cant afford to buy a new chair right now but this would be fantastic. I play competition CoD and had to play the last 2 rounds of the astro league on the crate it is really hard to sit on it for long perods of time because its a beer crate lol. please pick me this time,.
I have been using my bed for who knows how long now. I have a tonne of pillows so I kinda stack them up to make some kind of back rest. I stick a mouse pad on my wacom tablet and stick that on another pillow and have another pillow to rest the keyboard on. I then hope that the batteries in the wireless stuff doesn't cut out on me half way through a game..
i just try to sit on my bed. Problem is I always fall asleep.
One night when the whole family was staying over and every room was full we had no where we could play borderlands 2 together without waking someone up and it had just come out so we couldnt wait. So we moved the tv to the garage and set his xbox up and sat on the hood of the car playing all night. Our parents were pissed when they found us and saw the dent we had left in the hood of the car. Kinda worth it still...
My computer chair broke mid game so ended up playing on my knees, once the game was over the only substitute I could find was an old beer crate and a cushion off the couch. My chair is currently held together by some bolts I drilled in and some duct tape.
I just moved into a new place and i got bored so i played standing up, i was waiting for rest of my stuff to arrive. Normally not a problem but i lost track of time and after 4 hours i head them pull up so take a step and fall on my face.
well I don't even have a real chair. Ive been using a crappy wooden chair with a pillow on it for the last year and a half. I can tell you your bum and back get sore pretty quick.
So im one to sit center screen when playing, none of this sitting to the side. With the missus sleeping on the main couch (which is center screen) and clean washing on the couch off to the side. Using a clean washing pile can be very comfortable and amusing when you finally move to find jeans button marks imprinted on ya back
I was playing an online game with my friends and i leaned back for a stretch after completing a boss and the chair finally gave after all those years. Had to stack a bag, a few textbook and some pillow for a substitute chair for awhile.
Sack of good ol' potatoes
Billy Mays
I had been playing on my 360 when my old gaming chair gave up the ghost and the legs snapped. My daughter was kind enough to lend me little chair, which was damn small and reminded me of an adult sitting in one of those supermarket kids motion rides.
My brother said there was someone at the door for me but when I went he shoved me out and locked the door, all because I was beating him in NBA 2K14 :P so I was forced to use the outside fence and play through the window. p.s I still won :3
Had an old beat up racing seat, we screwed it to a piece of wood, then attached that to the bottom of our old office chair wheels, for movement, but eventually the wood cracked and the whole thing was useless :'(
Used baby cousin's chair as a seat.
I had a office chair but one time I was using it and one of the wheels came of which mean that if you ever lent a little to the side there was no wheel then the chair would fall over so during gaming I would lean over and the whole chair would almost roll over. And you would get such a big shock each time!
I'm using a dining table from the 80s that we found sitting on the side of the road lmao
I'm currently using a Kathmandu blow up camping seat on top of my bed it's not the best but it kinda works my bed room has a big window into the street, I get strange looks.
This would be 1000 times better.
My chair's backrest gave out, so my father in law managed to prop it back up into place with a few blocks of wood he put inside the chair, which worked fine. Unfortunately, the extra weight has led to the chair damaging the carpet, so now I'm using a terrible chair with no cushioning so as not to incur the wrath of the Landlord...
Had to use an empty beer keg once. The flat was low on furniture at that point and we had had the flat warming the night before. Not the most comfortable, considering that the top isn't even flat.
Had an old office chair that lost a wheel and kept tilting to one side every time I got to a point where I had a running battle the dam chair would start to fall over the screen was too high to sit on the floor with out getting a stiff neck so ended up sitting on an exercise bike bit tough on the back but had a good resting spot for my elbows..
im sort of using beer crates as a chair but can only play for so long and a little purple kids table to sit everything on so yea kind of annoying
Student flat days and the day we found a toilet that was thrown out was a great day. It became an all purpose seat including, at one point, a computer chair.
An old wooden rocking chair that would squeak all the time and then finally broke which almost gave me a wooden enema....... Memories
My office chair that became my gaming chair 'died' many years ago. Have never really found a decent chair to replace it that has a high back support. So the only way I've been able to get "comfortable" is by stacking up bean bags and pillows for that semi-reclining sitting/laying positioning. Not always practicle, but better than nothing...
Well luckily my chair is simple in design, it doesnt have too many moving parts etc.
But in saying that, it has lots of screw on parts, which are all falling apart.
Exhibit A: I'm watching a video on youtube, I decide to lean back and the back-rest falls off, mainly because the SINGLE screw and washer holding it on is coming up on 12 years.
Exhibit B: Im finishing up my Level 2 Accounting internal in the wee hours of the morning. As i groggily complete my task my arm rests begin to squeak. About 5 minutes after the first squeak, 2 (of 6) screws are broken lose, and the rest jiggle put from the release of pressure... And my arms hang like an ape's near the floor, causing my body to suddenly lean forward into my table! The chair was only 9 years old at this point
Exhibit C: Playing League of Legends in our 5 man ranked team (don't worry, we're nothing special lol). Theres points in this game that are make it or break it, and that point was quickly approaching for my team. We were all on edge as our promotion out of Bronze relied on this win, so things were a bit tense. We're fighting in our base, knowing if we can pull an ace, we can bring this back and win. Fortunately, we had a fight going in our favour just by our nexus turrets. We had freshly spawned minions and the enemy team was retreating, 3 on our side to their 3. So as you can imagine, we chased, we pushed out our minions while clearing the way, I was out in front being a tanky Darius trying to soak up all the siege minion damage. It wasn't until we broke through their inhibitor that my chair decided to shoot down low and send the sharpest pain up my back -doing so, ripping the audio cables from the back of my screen and making the screen fall forward onto my table.. I'd like to say that's the reason I threw the game, but my friends wont let me hear the end of it :P
The middle of a race in GT6, my seat back broke causing the back of the chair to pretty much come of the seat, the closest thing I could find was my daughters pink Barbie chair and an armful of her soft toys, boy did I get told off by her when she came back into the room!
My normal chair broke after good long while of usage and I haven't had time or money to go get a new one, so I substituted it with a beach chair :/ those things are damn uncomfortable to play on!
Well I once used a saxophone case
While playing racing games, its either the foot stool with no padding left or a bean bag with 3 pillows for back support
My sons Mountain Buggy Push Chair :) It was good for the tires and was just out of pure laziness :)
A few years back I had a generic chair from Warehouse Stationary. After a few years it started to become very sweaky and unstable. It wasn't till I tipped it over and realised that the plate connected to the gas pipe had completely sheared off. I was a poor student at the time and was unable to afford a replacement so I got some tie downs from the car and used those by wrapping them around the arm rest and the base to keep the chair level. This also prevented the gas pipe from being used so it was always at its lowest. This lasted about a week or two before I got completely sick of it and brought a new one off TM. That one is now starting to get uncomfortable so I'm actually in the process of making a new one using an old BMW chair.
For me probably the worst time without a chair was at Digital Nationz. At the free-to-play computers the desks were too short for me to stand and to tall for me to kneel. So I'm this tall lanky guy, with a group of people watching me play because I'm high ranked, standing there hunched over the screen with my legs spread wide and knees slightly bent so I can get down to screen level and my wrists contorted into strange positions. So I deviate between standing and stretching and sitting on the concrete floor every 10 seconds. I would have loved a dxracer then..
A bucket and a cushion.
Every now and again the family dog (Molly) back when I was a wee one playing Wolfenstein on floppy disc!
Do you know those crates that milk comes in? Yup those, they are uncomfy as hell, but when you got nothing else it worked a treat!
Our PS3 used to be in my brothers room, so when they were mad at me and I wanted to play PS3 I had to sit on the floor in the hallway and play, wasn't fun :(
My daughters plastic, pink chair she uses at her kiddy table lol, didn't last long until i was sitting on the floor because i was scared it was just going to give way.
When my family and I moved house, we had a ridiculous number of boxes. When we reached our new lair, I of course immediately opened up the box with the PC in it before anything else, because, you know, priorities.
Now, after my rig was set up on my desk, I couldn't find a damn chair in the entire house, as the second truck with our furniture hadn't turned up yet. Not even a foot stool. So I grabbed a sturdy looking box and used that instead. Not exactly comfortable, but dammit I needed my gaming fix.
At one particularly rage-inducing counter, I pushed myself back from the desk in exasperation and promptly fell right into the box, badly hurting my tailbone after landing on something hard inside it. Guess what was in it?
My disassembled drum stool.
Yo dawg, I heard you liked sitting, so we put a seat in your box seat so you can sit while you sit.
Beer crate - given I am 6 foot 7 this was not ideal for any amount of time over about an hour... This is back when I pretty much only played FIFA though so didn't have to worry about keyboard and mouse problems.
I have a moldy stained blue desk chair thats broken and is over 15 years old and is a hand me down from family I have never bothered to spend money on a new one because that money could be better spent on games or PC upgrades but I would be very happy if I could have a free one
I once found my son, who I would give this chair to, playing on the Playstation sitting on the wooden rocking horse that he had as an infant i.e. about 10 years before!!
used a yoga ball for awhile after previous chair snapped in half
The funniest thing I have ever used was when I was playing Outlast for the first time, I had just moved into my new flat so everything was packed or not available at the time and I was using a box.... Although this did not go to well when the big mother fucker jumped out at me during the game and I got the fright of my life and fell through the box.... yeah one of those chairs would be pretty sweet!
I was using a seat out of an old car bolted to a beer crate for a while.... Until the beer crate broke...
Mine is a cheap fake leather one from the Warehouse with roughly 65% of it remaining. quite a few years old now a few wheels have fallen off to be replaced with bits of wood.. The screws holding the back on have superglue added but I now cant adjust the height to fit under my desk properly. I was considering using a chair from the table but it would constantly need to be taken to and from the dining room.
Hubby seems to think the coffee table makes a good seat.
Ladies and gentlemen well most say a chair is a chair but you don’t understand the need until you are real Gamers
See the problem is the comfort the right and the height of your chair minimal restraint on your arms and back and next but me and my chairs have been through hard break ups I’ve even been down on my knees for them not being able to make it to an important match for my gaming I have had to suffer from coffee tables to but there have been the times were I have also had a good chair like at my mates or uncles. i know what the luxury of having a chair like this would be like.....but i shall keep dreaming in hope there will be one at my doorstep or my bank will fill with enough money to be able to purchase such a rare and important luxury in my gaming.
Mine is cracking and peeling and leaving red flakes all over the place that look like blood splotches. It squeaks like a bastard and won't got up and down anymore and the arm rests are coming apart.
I have usedvhalf of a camp stretcher as a chair once
A piano stool
One time had several friends over for a gaming night and i had made sure prior that everyone would have space to set up, later i realized that i had done this but they all had nothing to sit in so first we dragged up 4 dinning table chairs for them some to sit on whilst me and another had a collection of books stacked on top of each other with a small cushion on the top, for comfort you see, so yes we looked like the classiest bunch of nerds.
My fiance purchased a racing car set of pedals and a steering wheel in preparation for the release of GT5 and some computer rally games from Mighty Ape. So instead of replacing our broken computer seat with a nice chair, he built a rig out of bits of timber and a manky old car seat he scrounged from a friend selling his car for scrap. So every time we want to use the desktop, we have to drag this entire rig up to the desk and stare up at the monitor from a car seat pretty much situated on the floor, which means we have to bend down to the side to use the mouse on the floor too. And it's on sliders so it bolts back and forward whenever you move. It drives me BANANAS.
Right now, I am using a very old swivel chair. It has a low back rest, low arm rests and worse of all it's quite low. I like to game a lot/use it for work for long durations and it does start to hurt my back. Maybe a good thing is that it forces me to sit up straighter (due to the short height) but it strains my back after long durations because there's not enough back support :(
The best thing would be if I had an actual gaming chair like this, would be that I CAN SLEEP IN IT! I would love a chair that can let me rest my head on it! Would also love a chair that has good arm rests, comfortable, and adjustable seating!
Thanks for the chance to have one of these MightyApe! You guys really are generous and that's why I love shopping with you guys now!
At a LAN party with me and my mates just games and afew beers, the chair unexpectedly broke early in the first day of a long weekend, I spent the next 2 and a half days sitting on a beer crate. Definitely started to get uncomfortable after awhile.
But at the moment my gaming chair is just an old office one that has the wheel somehow fall off every now and then, and slowly goes down when using it, not really noticeable in game but after wards it just leaves you confused as to how you didn't notice. It's also been used so much there isn't much cushioning left
The cat took over my chair so I sat on my computer chassis.
As all cat owners know: You can't disturb them when they're sleeping.
Had to use a bunch of text books once, but the problem was they would keep sliding off of each other if i moved to often, but after trying that once i gave up.
Funniest substitute for a chair would have to be when the stand on my desk chair broke, i removed the seat section and superglued it to a beer crate, it worked out to be roughly the same height and lasted a few months!
ONe time my mate broke my chair by leaning back to far so he became my chair for the next 15 mins to pay me back :)
My dog. I tried sitting on the mrs but she just doesn't have the patience like my dog does for long marathons. Better than my usual playing on the floor.
My funniest chair would have to be when I used 2 of my camera tripods and a sheet to make a hammock. It worked pretty well, but you had to find something to hold the tripods down
My Gaming chair is still broken... not so much it can't be sat on though, but it is lethal when you forget not to lean back and it tips you out of the back of it, it's like The Red Chair from Graham Norton! Mess something up badly enough, throw head back in frustration, land on floor! So, my substitute is basically a prop from the Graham Norton show!
The ground? Is that funny enough?! I need a new chair so badly.
I built a small footstall during my year 12 wood tech. it had thick legs and wasnt much wider than a chair. i got it home and had no room in the lounge so i ended up using it as a seat to game on my laptop in my room. i spent 40 days of game time in WoW on that "chair"
i was leaning on my armrest and it broke causing me to barrelroll onto the floor. now i hav no right armrest.
All the padding on my chair has worn down, so it's like sitting on hard wood. I can even feel the screws in the wrong sitting posotion
I use a wooden dining room chair which constantly has to be moved back for dinner each night. Its a bit more comfortable when I'm propped up with my Baron pillow. Sometimes Ill just kneel when my chair is still at the table.
My chair that I used was originally some crappy bar stool of trademe. My brother is not one of the smallest people, so as he sat on it, the welding split and the chair caved in. I cant afford a gaming chair so my closest substitute was to go to a scrap yard, remove a seat from a random car and attach it to a set of desk chait wheels. Not judging the weight of the chair vs the strength of the wheels, the wheels split under the pressure, sending a sharp plastic shard through the soft seat right underneath me. Couldnt sit down for days
A chair.
A friend and myself decided to have a LAN. COD4 & MW2 together against all odds, along with some coop Sniper Elite V2 & COD:WOW coop. My friend had his PC setup on a low table, so I placed mine beside it on a small coffee table. I had to use a broken beer crate to sit on, not only was it uncomfortable, I tell off my perch when I had the begeezers scared out of me (last survivor defusing the bomb when I seen the enemy 360 no scope me jumping off a building :/) and it shattered under my butt. It was well and truly game over for me after that.
As a builder found a 2nd hand decent chair with no base. Swaped with my current chair base only to find that I couldn't lean back due to it being off balance so bolted it in position.
now the wheels fell off so it dont roll. My brother bought him self a new chair so I have his hand me down.
took the coffee table to my setup and used it as a chair for about 3 weeks :/
Used a small plastic chair that broke while sitting on it and then falling on the ground even though my table was above my head
Coffee table til it broke from a party then had it held up and in place by cushions and beer creates was quite wobbly when i sat on it but it lasted until I moved rip sweet table :(
My worst chair was a very old computer chair, with the backrest hanging by one flimsy modified plastic rod. There was also no armrest and exposed sponge of the actual seat, the exposed sponge was then covered with an old shirt that was sewn on top of the seat. The keyboard was always at about chest height because it could not go up and and 3 out of the 5 wheels where broken. The funny thing was that I actually found it quite comfortable and I quite liked it, my old shirt gave it personality.
the back of my chair keeps rubbing on the back wall, therefore scratching the wall paint
and also sometimes I cannot access our computer chair and have to use a backless stool for gaming :(
Had a regular foam and fabric computer chair for years, which slowly eroded over time. I drew the last straw when I looked in the hanging piece of underfoam and found a mouse living in there!
At the moment I'm sitting on a stack of small pallets in my bedroom. A spoke and wheel snapped off my computer chair when I sat down fast with too much force during a rage while watching the Bathurst 1000 race. Here's a photo of my "chair". http://iforce.co.nz/i/nwevn4da.wdp.jpg
Once sat on a bucket since I was too lazy to unpack that evening after moving into a new flat. At the time I was also sporting a fairly impressive moustache. That evening flatmates kept stealing my bucket and making me say "Dey be stealing mah bucket" to get it back.
Since then no longer have moustache and have never sat on a bucket. Regular chair was a large improvement. Gaming chair would be nice, but as a student is kinda out of budget range unless I want to not buy books/actual food.
I once used my child's toybox when I was in-between houses.
He once transformed into a chair on top of my chair so i could chair while i chaired.
I once transformed into a chair on top of my chair so i could chair while i chaired.
My poor hubby had to resort to using our child's old faded orange space-hopper toy to do his gaming on! Needless to say, most of his games did not end well!!
I used the edge of my bed, but I sat there for so long that the springs had broken and it molded into the shape of my rear. Then a few weeks after that the wooden supports shattered underneath me so I used some fire wood to hold up the mattress. I threw away the bed a few months later and the wooden log had sunk into the carpet and made a glue from all the spilt fizzy drinks and food crumbs. Now I'm using an old chair.
Never had a chair for gaming - stuck with laptop on knee (getting way hot in summer) or sit at dining table.
Well When my old gaming chair broke, The middle bit was sticking into the ground in there I was with a chair making sure not to go backwards as I'd end up on the ground. I ended up going backwards quite a lot landed on my butt a couple of times too.
Not that funny but now using the same brand and eventually it'll end up like the same story :p
Used to use a swiss ball to play the rockband drums, although it became a bit of a hazard after a few beers
At a time when I had no chair to sit on while gaming I resorted to sitting on an imaginary chair... Doing a wall sit that is. Though I could have simply sat on the ground like when I was a kid.. I wanted some form of exercise from it too :P (Bare in mind this technique does not last long - legs get very sore, very quick!)
I once used and old supermarket basket flipped over to play on a setup that was outside
I used a 30 year old LA-Z-BOY I inherited from my grandfather for a long time. This was for PC, at a desk.
I have a driving simulator setup with the seat from a ~1990 Mitsubishi Galant (chosen for comfort rather than lateral support).
My dad was chopping wood outside and I was out of a chair for some CS:GO action, I asked for a long log...
I used a log for a chair for 3 weeks, I at least made friends with a few bugs living inside of it!
Well the mechanism in my chair for it going up and down is slightly broken. One minute I'm sitting at a comfortable height, next I'm slowly sinking to my utter demise as the chair has taken a mind of its own and decided that I need to be as low as possible to the ground... So I have a cunning plan! Use and old kenwood speaker as a seat. Not the most comfortable thingy I might add, made out of wood, but its better than my chair at the moment.
I think the most desperate I have been was whilst I was in the middle of a game of StarCraft 2, and obviously this is a game that you cannot go in half halfheartedly. My chair snapped at the base, and I had to go with the traditional air chair, knees bent at 45degrees to preserve the posture, funnily enough it was one of the best games I've had personally.
One of those big exercise balls. Wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't kept falling off!
i once used 2 buckets on as a seat the other as a foot rest
I've tried to use my dog a couple of times, she just thought I wanted to play and wouldn't stop wiggling. My old used to let me use her as a pillow well I played, I think my new dog is to hyperactive.
Used a beer crate one crate day at the end of it, quite comfortable. But that could of been the beer from the crate talking....
I have a very worn out office chair that is very uncomfortable. Its worn out to the wood and the height thing on it is broken. Its very risky if i lean back, the chair feels like its going to break, there were a couple of times i would fall backwards
Not really a chair but i used a beer crate once upon a time
A christmas tree, haha!
I was playing Crash Bandicoot on the PS1 back when i was around 5 or 6 during Christmas. I got up to give my brother a turn but i still had the controller in my hand. When i pulled against the cord, i lost balance and fell into our christmas tree. My brothers started laughing at me so i didn't get up. For some reason, it was quite comfortable so i stayed there, sitting on the tree, and returned to playing . And there you go! =)
Bubble wrap would be awesome. Then you have two games in one!
One time, when I didn't have a gaming chair. I used one of those aerobics inflatable balls. Hey, at least I multi tasked by gaming and doing exercise.
The funniest substitute for a gaming chair that I have ever used?
Well...I have a funny but random one :P
I was at my mates house and not everyone has 2 gaming chairs...so I decided to sit on the closest thing to a chair. I didn't think anything of it... but it turned out to be a giant paper mâché head. My friend took a photo of me playing an intense game of League of Legends while sitting on realistic paper mâché HUMAN HEAD! xD lol
So random but also such a funny substitute! :D
I played a lot of competitive Battlefield and my chair leg snapped while rocking on it during a match, I had to use a rubbish bin stacked on top of books, where my butt cheeks just holding onto the rim of the bin while hoping I wouldn't sink in.
My mate had a BIG drooling Mastiff and it had a solid bed thing to sleep on... we used to turn his bed on it's side and sit on it... almost perfect height... until one day he got pissed off waiting to sleep on it so just pulled it out from under me one time... then got my face covered in Mastiff slobber when he was saying sorry... although he may have been saying "Do it again and I'll eat you..."
We had moved house and my chairwas still packed away when I had moved in so I had to use a large plastic container for a whole day..
I use a lounge chair... does that count?
I was playing my Ps4 one day because my parents were having a get together with all their friends and while i was playing, my chair leg snapped:( I had my tv on a wooden chest sort of thing and i did the only thing a desperate gamer would of done....... I took the tv of the chest and put the chest where my chair was facing my bed so that i could put the tv on the bed xD. But the problem was that i had to tilt my head because the tv on my bed was tilted.
my other chair is in piece's now and i use a stool in which my back was sore and i could barely see over the desk bow im using a pre owned chair with the back gone and now my back hurts and i Wanna proper chair.
In the middle of a game of battlefield the lock that keeps the back of my chair upright broke and i went falling backwards
At my poorest: On the floor (while we were moving and had no internet at the new place, spent a week with even the monitor on the floor).
Ballin': Spent 3 years using a single seater settee (huge cube couch that was unnecessarily large).
When I first moved out of my parents place I had very little furniture, and so for a desk chair I actually just had a car booster seat taped to a little stool. It was actually quite comfortable, except when the tape came off and I was dumped onto the ground in the middle of a raid in World of Warcraft... Anyway, now I've got an old desk chair from work but I've always wanted a really nice gaming chair as I spent a lot of my spare time gaming!
My current chair's back support broke long ago so it gets really uncomfortable when sitting on it as it stabs my back somewhat.
So sometimes when I game in the lounge I use a giant Pikachu plush toy.
My current chair is a cheap rubbish chair I bought second hand. It's fairly uncomfortable and frayed and worn, but it's managed to do what few chairs can - last a long time. On that note however my cat (a 9 kilo monster) likes to steal my chair (I guess he likes the smell of my butt) so I'm often stuck grabbing a drum stool from the other room and using that instead. Cheeky Bugger!
Back when I was young, I was at my cousins' house. They were in the process of replacing their furniture and had nothing to sit down on. My uncle was a massive PS2 gamer, so I stacked up all his game cases and put a panel of wood on top. I named it the games chair.
My gaming chair is just a chair, with odd stains on the fabric. It smells funny too. It needs replacing. If you wouldn't mind donating this awesome chair to me, I'd be happy. So would my wife.
One time at a work place lan, I used two ill matching sized cases, so that one was higher than the other. Very dodgy, especially as one of the feet on one of the cases was broken, hence was a test of dexterity!
I have my old office chair that I was able to take with me when I was made redundant. It needs a re-gas because as I play it gradually lowers itself, until my legs start to cramp & I have to get up to raise it again. The cat has had a go at the underside of the backrest and there is a nice milky vomit stain from winding my youngest, that I just can't seem to get out.
I once used a bean bag when staying at a mates place for a lan and that thing would not stay in a decent position so I had to get up every few minutes to try and get the beans to stay still so I could sit up to kill fools. Didn't work out to well through the hours of the night
Last time my chair broke, I was temporarily forced to sit on a large pile of everything at hand. Textbooks, cardboard boxes, and one rather worn suitcase were only a few of the things that I have had the honor of placing my rear on.
I had to kneel on a pile of books to play on my PC
/r/pcmasterrace
GabeN bless you all
For about two weeks I had to sit on a stack of phone books and some cushions while my brother stole the chair. Remarkably comfortable though.
My office slash gym is getting cramped so if I have a guest I sit on my rowing machine to game
Used my suitcase when I was travelling light and staying at backpackers overseas. The hard case did its job haha, but probably wouldn't do that again.
My old school CRT TV. those were bad times....
I couldn't wait to play guitar hero after seeing it during vacation. Spent my office chair savings on that sweet plastic guitar and had to play sitting on a mini fridge. It wasn't even cool as it had been busted for ages.
The funniest thing i have used as a chair during a gaming session was a slab of fizzy drink cans at a friends local LAN.
It was the right height as i was designated the coffee table for my PC... It also seemed like a great idea as i could have one or 2 while i was playing and still have a seat.
That was well and good until others got thirsty and wanted drinks too. slowly my chair shrunk until i was sitting in the tray for the drinks and there were no drinks left. the coffee table was too high after that unless i wan on my knees... poor knees.
I was, and still am, in the worlds worst office chair. A tiny blue thing that makes my knees bend upwards (being so lanky) and back support that did reach just under my ribs. But of course this pillow on a stick chair backing broke during some intense counter strike gameplay because I lent back I utter exhaustion. So now I have This little stool with a bent up pole that used to hold my (if you could call it) back pillow that is constantly jabbing into my back and now I have back pains that my doctor said "lacks bracing while most likely sitting" and "needs to sit up more." But after 5 or so years what do you expect from a $40 office chair?
Never had a "gaming" chair. I usually sit on a hard chair, stool or on the ground. One day, I saw a nice (worn) chair on the side of the road and took it. Still have it. Would be nice to have a decent chair to go with my gaming pc though hah.
Where do I even begin when it comes to my chair...
Firstly, it comes from a smokers home, meaning that it smells awful, and makes anything that comes near it smell awful.
To compound this, the spine of the chair is bent, meaning that it digs into my back when I'm sitting down, only made worse by the fact that the back of the chair doesn't lift up, resulting in my upper body being unsupported and thus giving me a lot of grief.
This makes the chair a pain to study in, and I regularly find myself just borrowing a chair from the dining table to use when doing any degree of work.
The fabric on the chair is also beginning to tear a bit, resulting in me having to do some sewing, to prevent it from tearing, and trust me I'm horrifically bad at sewing.....
Finally, because the wheels are tight, I don't even get the satisfaction of one of the most entertaining parts of any computer chair - rolling around in it immaturely.
So yeah, I am definitely in need of a replacement! :)
Back in my country (Philippines) you rather spend money buying food instead a gaming/office chair so any object you can be a seat as long as it sturdy and can carry a butt. I remember when I was like 14, my dad has a small unfurbished office room for our small servicing business that specializes in Air-conditioning cleaning. The room had a classic office chair and a MS-DOS operated computer with a game called Dangerous Dave http://tinyurl.com/k2ylj9z. Whenever I get home early I head on to the office and play the game. Let me tell you what happened one time. I swear I was dying to get home just to play the game because I've got a hint from my mate about how to kill the boss in my game. I came in and saw Dad using the the office chair which I often use when he's not around. So I need to have a seat that time. I look somewhere around the room for a potential seat. I did find some objects like water pail but was afraid of getting it destroyed by my 60 kg butt. HOWEVER, as I was still searching, I found an empty 5 gallon water bottle that was used for water dispenser and a lamp shade foot stand. So I felt that I have a genius plan to execute that time and Indeed was a genius plan. So what I did, I took off the head lamp and cover out of the foot stand and It was exactly as the tall as the gallon bottle. I checked the nozzle of the bottle and the size of the pole of the foot stand. It was again does fit exactly on the nozzle of the bottle! So I did flip the bottle upside down, insert the top of the pole to the bottle's nozzle and voila! I just have to sit on top of the flipped bottle and instant seat for the witty kid! http://imgur.com/NcHFlLg
My chair is so hard to game in, it has no armrests and it has no padding just straight hard plastic, it is around 10 years old and it's originally an office chair. It hurts to sit in for more than half an hour and it smells because its got stains on it, the back rest also has no padding and sometimes falls off and almost makes me break my back lol, i would love this chair mostly because all i do from when i get home from school to when i go to bed is just play games.
Playing Final Fantasy 7 (the best game ever) when the screws fell out of the bottom of the chair leaving me in pain on the ground while Cloud Strife died to the Materia Keeper. Worst part... hadn't saved! Dam that chair!
Inner tube from a tractor tyre, with a blanket on it to stop having to peel myself off it every time I moved...
I used my sons crib . I had it upright and sat on the top of it. I'm a big guy and broke my last chair hence with son now 2 and half I figured I would make use of it .
I am currently using a lazy-boy and most the time my dog steals my seat to sleep so I have to sit on the arm rest (my dog is so lucky)
see i have never had a gaming chair so i have had a few interesting things. first and most simply i have had the good ol' sitting on the couch and use the tv but my family 'wanted to watch tv so i then tried just sitting in the corner with a monitor beside me which kinda works but doesn't really. I have a few more but currently i just have a nice (well nice for what it is) bean bag and monitor.
My chair is falling to bits :( the cushion is full of holes and completely slides of the frame. Mmmmm but one can dream :)
My very first piece of furniture that I ever bought was a second hand desk for $40. Had it all set up in my room with computer and everything before I realized I didn't even own a chair. Solved the issue by sitting on a pile of cloths and a beanbag until I could afford to buy a secondhand chair the next week. I still have that chair too. Its a green vinyl 70s style thing with legs that periodically fall out.
Beer Crates. :D been through so many chairs, this one would be a dream.
Trying to play a serious game of Age of Empires 2 while sitting on a bean bag chair. Not easy.
A Wooden Dining chair as my Computer Chair wheels broke(Plastic Wheels) </3 chair was balancing uneven and it would rock around....Horrible Experience while trying to play Battlefield 4!
When i was younger i stacked dads Speights crates up and sat on them and played age of empires and driver all night haha.
A Beer Crate. Not very comfy or stable but it did the job
Emptied a drawer out, turned it on its side & balanced on that - until it broke - pva to hold it back together and re-insert into bedside cabinet. (never really been the same since - and either has the drawer)
Used the chilly bin, worked well :P
A sofa taller than the coffee table my laptop was on, my back felt totally great after that!
One of my old computers, I faced the exhaust fan towards my legs and used it as a heater in the winter =p
My pc chair is an old ripped vinyl kitchen chair from the 1980's; it's so uncomfortable I often stick a travel blanket over it to make it more bearable.
0 - 100ks in 5 seconds ...... this baby flys
My current chair is (I think) From the nineties, every time I turn my seat it makes a huge sound like a cat dying, the fake leather has worn away to the rough underlay that hurts every time I put my arms on it and with any movement from side to side the the seat tilts over at an unnatural angle so I have to do a sort of balancing act. A few months ago I went to my grandmas house I set up my PC and monitor, BUT! there was no seat so I tried everything chopping boards, pillows, little stools (the one that you stand on, not poop) to at one point my own PC but after three days of enduring the worst back pain know to human kind I found a heavily deflated yoga ball in their attic, I had to suffer three more days of back pain, but this time I could bounce around like a idiot in the meantime *sigh*
I once had torn my foot open and couldn't put weight on it. During one gaming session all the healthy foot people had taken the chairs. So I stood one legged, and used a toy sword to take the weight.
An ab king pro, I thought it might be nice to be able to change the angle i was sitting on. :) Turns out it was too close to exercise.
I use a box as a seat to do anything on my computer since my chairs back rest broke after being half-broken for 5 years xD. I really need a new one :D
I used a chair with a broken leg on it, every time I sat down I had to hold the leg in place because if I didn't I would of fallen
I used to use a Large Blue cloth wheeled armchair that was left in a commercial property one of my brothers purchased. It slowly sank on one side until I was sitting at about a 15 degree angle and i had to dispose of it after devolving a persistent fear that it would collapse and the rusty steel centre pole pierce my spine.
My great grandfathers rocking chair ... it was passed down to my mother who kept it in the guest room. Each time a game didn't go as planned I violently swung myself forward until the day the springs gave way ...
i once used a plastic chair.. god it was horrible >_>
I've broken 2 chairs, one when i was playing Counter strike and rage while slamming my back against the chair and somehow one of the legs at the back broke sending me down with my raspberry coke.... carpet is still a reminder
Used to use a stack of books and the lawn chair
i had my 3 friends around to play four player C.O.D MW2 and i could not fit four chairs or a sofa in my room so i used my top and bottom bunk bed. 2 on bottom and two on top as chair space. this also was another to sort the teams out as well each of us having a place to put our drink. There was also so much room food in between each of the two people e.g chips.
Even as a 23 year old man i still use that bunk bed "so much room for activities"
OKAY GUYS N GIRLS! HERES A SHORT STORY OF MY GAMING LIFE~ (Chairs Edition)
About 2 years ago i broke my wooden chair for playing games and then i tend to feel really comfortable sitting on the toilet for about 30mins playing games on iPad etc. So.... one day i was walking home from school and then a household; few blocks from my place, threw out a perfectly fine toilet seat so i cleaned it and started using that and even put some fluffy padding onto it for extra comfort! But.. recently, bugs keep invading it so i had to throw it out... T.T~
ANYWAYS THANKS FOR READING! HAVE A LOVELY DAY~
Took to the laptop and sat it on a ride on lawn mower!
sat down, one of the wheels broke off leaving me sitting awkwardly trying to balance AND at the same time play Dota2. every once a while, i would fail to balance and fall sideways or forwards out of the chair.
we threw out that chair this year in the inorganic rubbish day and been looking for a replacement while currently using a stack of books to sit up on.
It's hard to beat the original gaming chair, the "ABC" crate! But they don't stand up to a solid session of racing with a lot of sharp corners!
I like to think of myself as the king of my house and to get away from the madness I retreat to my throne with my PS Vita in hand. Let me tell you that the Vita is not waterproof. I personally found this out when my throne (toilet by the way) ruined my beloved PS Vita. On that particular day I felt like the king's jester.
Was in an intense gaming session. Chair completely broke so i grab the closest thing to me. Which was a draw from my chest of drawers. Clothes went everywhere but when you got a positive kd on battlefield you have to make do.
I have a really shitty chair to sit on its a plastic outdoor chair with most of the bottom missing :(
Couldn't pick up the Wifi signal from where I was in the building so went and sat on the dunny with my laptop to attempt to get a signal. Best Substitute Ever :P
Borrowing my mums 'old fashion' (antique) wooden chair which is pretty uncomfortable because my one broke recently
Back when my family owned a yoga ball, I used to sit on it and bounce around while playing games :P
My stitches after giving birth were not perhaps the most comfortable thing while sitting down, so.. Well, I'd drag my laptop/3DS into the bathroom, set them up on a dining chair, and the nice, warm bath would be where I would game during those precious restful moments while the baby slept.
Bath gaming is actually quite nice and relaxing.. Just don't drop your console, that's all I can say.
Probably the worst chair that I have had to use was an absolutely tiny stool that I had to share with my best friend. I later discovered that hardcore gaming is near to impossible when you are constantly smashing elbows with the guy sitting half an inch away from you. That was the most times that I have hurt the soft spot on my elbow in one night, the guys on teamspeak had a great time laughing at us.
My own chair just broke yesterday (snapped off armrest from too much leaning back >.>) and I toyed with the idea of a beanbag on top of some slats of wood. Fun until I fell off XD
well I was really wasted one drunken night keen as to jam some unreal knowing that I had no seat to sit on my mum pissed me that night so I was only thinking about comfort I Ripped the driver seat out of my mums old Datsun stack it on a old beer crate using a couple of old skateboard king pins and I was away :P
So I was getting a little competitive while playing BF4 on PC about 2 weeks ago, when my chair decided to combust. I've been setting on Text books from Uni ever since. Q.Q
This was a few years ago when I lived in China, I played on my brothers PS2 and I didn't wanted to sit on the cold wooden floor and I couldn't think of anything to sit on so I placed my Dad's favourite massage chair in front of the TV whenever he's gone to work and put it back before I see him coming up to the apartment. It was the best massage chair ever because while I played the PS2 ... I also got a nice back massage
my chair broke so i had to go outside and grab a deck chair which left rust stains on the carpet >.<
Had a good kiwi invention while gaming one night, It was about 2 in the morning and I broke my chair (don't drink and game lol) instead of calling it a night thought nah I can fix this so took what was left of my chair (which was just the base, The back and legs where stuffed) empty Tui crate and some duck tape and good as new hahaha.
AH! the struggles! I have gone through about 5 chairs in the last couple of years :( funniest substitutes... hmm the Beanbag gave me a mega bad back, the bucket gave me indentations on my butt that were hard to explain to my GF. using cardboard boxes was a good substitute but I should have emptied them first. the top one broke and my butt was assaulted by Tyranids. Tyranids are spikey. VERY spikey. (warhammer 40k models)
When I was playing mw3 on my pc, I had an awesome shot lined up then my chair suddenly decided to let its self down then it completely screwed up my shot and I got shot myself, came as a real shock to me, luckily no poo came out, phew
Dirt... just dirt... We needed to LAN stat and the only place we had available with power was under the house. So, we took some towels down to put the PCs on and just played games in the cavity under the house!
I was using a chair I got from the side of the road for a while when it broke and I couldnt adjust it anymore, I then started to use my bin turned upside down until I found another xD
It was when I moved houses from Malaysia to here in Auckland, New Zealand, about 4 years ago I think. Got all of our stuff settled in the house but it was night-time by the time it was done and I really wanted to play this PC game that I just bought, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 so I went and grab anything that looks like I can sit on it, a bag of Styrofoam and a few air bags, the one you use to protect your stuff when shipping, for more space to seat. O.o I also use two boxes as a table to hold up my computer so I can see it at eye level. Haha, and in the middle on the night, the air pocket would accidentally pop so I had to close my pc and jump into my mattress before my parents would come into my room. I think at some point, my parents knew it was me, so they took my computer away and I just went to sleep. The very next day though, I got a new table and a plastic chair (which was good enough I guess) so yeah, that's my story.
Horrible raiding night
Back in the days of the 40 man raiding era i had just got home from work turned the computer on and headed down to get dinner (raiding was starting in 1 hour and i was not prepared). I had just gone to sit down leaned back and snap the base broke, rushing to find another chair i grabbed a deck chair from outside. That was fine i began to raid about 30 minutes into the raid my ass snapped that chair and down i fell coke and food everywhere (plus a wiped raid) i quickly grabed a stool and turned my bed around as a back rest (that did not go well snapped the bedhead leaning against it to hard. So now i have no bedhead no seat and a mess on the floor. The next day i went and got a cheap chair but now the dog and cat have taken over that so im currently using the corner of my bed. Win or Lose i will be getting a DX Racer Chair once the one i want is in stock
we had this standard office chair which broke basically because i sat on it to much while gaming and instead of it going up and down it was stuck at the lowest it could go with a metal pole jammed in the foam of the seat because it got too low. so instead of having a metal pole poking my butt while i play i switched to only other chair we had which was a wood 20 year office chair. good times playing battlefield 3 on that.
Mine is the drivers seat from my first car. An 86 ford laser. Car was written off when someone hit me. Dad found another chair and attached the wheels and base to it. Its still around now (13 years later). Probably could do with an upgrade.... or some seat covers!
Used a cardboard box once, it was empty at the time and it ended up breaking under my weight, the end result was that I ended up inside a cardboard box, didn't stop me playing though.
We recently moved cities, into a fully furnished apartment. Fully furnished except for a computer chair / desk. The desk I'm using is actually the dining table and the chair is the subwoofer for the TV's AV unit. For bonus points, my 'foot rest' is the subwoofer for my computer speakers.
To say I've felt the bass would be an understatement!
For a seat well I sit on my sub woofer :)
Briefly I used a box, then a hard back wooden kitchen chair, and the edge of a bed, thats just in the past 4 months
Was gaming when the right arm rest broke entirely off (It attached the Chair to the base). So I ripped the other side off, and sat on just the base for a few weeks.
Once there was no desk and no chairs available so I used 4 bar stools to make a desk and a steat
I, on multiple occasions, have had to sit on the floor. The End.
After 13 years in the military my back finally gave up and I've been searching for a chair I could sit at for more than 30mins before I have to stand up. I've been through 9 chairs in the passed 4 years some have broken i.e. wheels falling off, hydraulics stopped working, bolts falling out, armrests snapping off and others have just turned out to add to my back pain. My current chair has a bed pillow and a sofa cushion for padding and bolts protruding out of the armrests and I periodically have to stand while playing games/working at my desk. Could the DXRacer gaming chair be the answer? <3 MightyApe
I'm going to put in my motel reception then every guests who comes for check-in, check-out can feel that I'm on F1 fomula Grandprix racing seat. Then I would say 'Start your engine!' :)
My chair right now is very uncomfortable as gaming on it has put a lean into it meaning I have to try and counter balance my chair whilst gaming, first world struggles :P
my old chair broke so i decided to sit on my RROD xbox 360 as a chair while i played halo 4 on my slim (:
Sat on 3 watermelons
Probably my daughters rocking horse that I was using for a while before I got the super super uncomfortable computer chair that I have now!
I'm currently sitting on a large pot with two pillows
At a xbox LAN I ended sitting on a bar fridge due to insufficient amount of chairs XD
i dont have a chair i use a bed
Ive never had a "gaming chair" as such. Always cheap $30 ones from the warehouse and drag the big lounge chair or dining room table chair over when they get destroyed ( which is far too often ). I have thousands of hours racked up via steam + other games and yet still suffer daily from a sore back due to the lack of a decent chair. I have been looking in depth at these chairs but unfortunatly outside of my price range. This is the closest chance I have to owning one of these bad boys :)
Upside-down washing basket was the closest choice after my chair broke. Still haven't replaced it!
I like to use my sons fold out spaceship couch, and use the couch cushions around me to have my own little couch fort. Never too old for a couch fort.
I built a monstrosity out of bricks once, lasted about a week before I couldn't sit on it any longer.
I made my own 'bed of nails' and used that... wasn't too bad to sit on actually once I got used to it. As long as I sat still while gaming... haha!
i used my sister once, that didnt work though it was abit fighty, so i took my laptop in my car in the shed, and played in my car.
we also made a 10 matress couch in my room
Well ild have to be completely honest I don't have any form of a gaining chair I use to have my tv down in the garage. For the fact can't play on lounge tv all ways getting kicked off by Parants. Use to play sitting on a tire I'm the garage but recently moved to bedroom. But Sucks for can't concentrate sitting on the bed loose focus and can't sit on flor with bac towards wall for TV is to close being a 4 inch in a room smaller then a jail cell trust me my Parants love me don't they. :(
Playing Tekken with mates. Jumped on the chair when I won each time (Alcohol may have been involved). The last time I won, the chair made a loud crack noise, now the chair leans to the right and makes a clicking noise when sitting in it..
I removed my car seat to play Gran Turismo with the steering wheel and pedal setup!
My bed.
I do not have a gaming chair, what I do use is the end of the bed to play all my ps4 games and the floor or kitchen table for my computer games (I use a decent laptop). Eventually my back gets sore so I have to struggle to find a new comfortable place that doesn't ache too much and resume my gaming pleasure... two minutes later rinse and repeat
For the past few years I've been using a chair I made with a record as the seat XD
^ As for the funniest thing I've used, well let's just say my dog wasn't happy for the entire time...
using 3 boxes to stack into something that I can sit on with my laptop on an other stack
Getting tired of using a chair from the dining table. Gets painful during long gaming sessions.
The back on my old swivel chair broke so I ended up using a swiss ball as a seat for a while - tried to improve my posture whilst gaming, genius!
I used a moon hopper, which was actually pretty good for playing RoadRash
Funniest thing would have to ne one of those big exercise balls, lets just say my brother thought it would be funnier if i wasn't sitting on it.
Yeah probably one of them swiss balls. Getting my bounce on while playing Fifa, working them quads.
I went round to a mate place one winters evening and he had the oven cranked up to high heat with its door open and was sitting on the bench next to it, playing xbox with a wireless controller. The xbox and tv were through the door in the lounge a good 12metres or so away haha. He had the sound cranked up on his old school 32 inch wide screen CRT, and wasn't even cooking anything in teh oven. Just reckoned it was cold, and din't have a good heater or any decent seats...
Probably a side turned car sub, not that exciting but that's about the weirdest thing I've used
Few boxes of coke were a chair for me for a while until I got thirsty :(
One day there were no spare chairs left in the house so I had to make a mountain of pillows and blankets.. didn't work too well at the desk, so I had to move the computer to the coffee table to better suit to conditions. This was sure a wild old day
My old chair with 3 broken wheels where one bad move would have sent me to the floor!@
I have a chair that I've made out of bits of other chairs that were used in the past as gaming chairs. Currently held together by gaffer tape and some nails. It's a pretty wobbly contraption and I need to remember to sit real still. No getting excited for me!
One time I had to use my pc tower, The fans on the top were bloody cold
A wheelbarrow and several cushions ...more comfy than it sounds!
My current chair's back is stretched and broken, so that every time I have a gaming session I slouch and my back hurts :( So I decided to put a small bluetooth speaker inbetween the cushion and the seat and it's slightly better and more functional!
I was using the cushions off our couch, got up to get a drink, and then sat back down on top of my cat! Cat then scratched me on my butt, which meant I spent the next 15 minutes standing.....
I have and still use a table as my chair. My PC is on a table that is higher.
A crate of DB Draught big bottle beers. When I started they were full- when I finished I think they weren't.
I spent a whole year sitting on a paint bucket until I finally got one for my birthday which is now broken! my back is totally stuffed from all the paint bucket sitting!
my mate came around to play starwars battlefront so we set up our computers and then realised we only had one chair so we used my collection of starwars novels and made a throne out of them to sit on
Before all the furniture arrived, when we last moved, I used a massage/tattoo chair with the face and arm rests. Since the Tv was not the ground it worked brilliantly and was very comfortable. Was quite sad :( when the Tv was put up on the wall as I could no longer view the screen and had to go back to the sofa.
cardboard box! #studentlife
I used to use an old chilli-bin. It was perfect. During a lull in the action I could grab a nice cool beer.
not really funny, but I am currently visiting my chiropractor as my desk chair really damaged my back and neck. Now I walk like a monkey and for some people its amusing enough.
Both my sons use the chairs from the dining room table..
I have used a draw from a desk before (i wasn't playing at the desk my friend was). After substantial testing (20 seconds worth) i was convinced it could hold my weight, until it broke leaving my butt impression in the draw :-/
Well, my case is quite large, and before I could find a suitable chair to sit on, I simply positioned the pc case so it was parallel to my desk and sat on that. It was surprisingly solid.
I don't game, my teenager does. I got him an office chair to use but every time he lent back it made weird noises- turns out the screws broke apart and the plate underneath came off. Got another one - the wheels underneath broke so he was on an angle, third time lucky - the vinyl on the chair gets all weird and sticky in summer so it has to have a towel on it. So now unless he is playing a racing game he resorts to lying on his bed - he stuck the TV up on bits of four by two to get it high enough.
My now ex-girlfriend was very much into sexual SM play, and it would turn her on very much to be used as human furniture. At first I found it kinda weird since my fetishes and kinks weren't as radical as hers but I tried it and ended up using her as a chair whilst I played games. She got off on it quite easily and whilst she was being subservient, she would get very wet and start moaning to the point where I would have to mute my microphone.
a few years ago after shifting citys i was playing on my computer my desk was the coffee table the chair was a beer crate i found in the garage thanks to the movers not showing up n time was not the most comfortable thing but it worked at the time
I had books under one of the legs on my chair because it broke and I fell over
What is this so called "Chair" you speak off??
I use my flat oil heater as a chair when I play guitar hero drums.its the perfect height but not the comfiest chair in the world :(
been using a dining room chair for the past year but before that i'd have to keep buying boxes of beer because i was using a few boxes stacked up, and my brother and father would keep stealing the bottles without my knowledge so i'd come home to a half empty "chair"
We have upcycled shipping pallets with a foam squab mattress as a gaming "couch" in the kids' "xbox room" (carpeted area of the carshed)...
This old man could definitely use something more ergonomic as he puts the kids to task on the FIFA and the BF..
Hubby used to sit at our sons spongebob table and chair set in front of the TV in our lounge to play call of duty :) even have a photo somewhere !
A bean bag with a plank of wood over me to put my mouse and keyboard on, no chair and no desk. uncomfortable times.
About 20 pillows to make them tall and hard enough to sit on and my PS4 and TV sat on top of a small speaker (TV sat on the PS4, but it's a small TV anyway, no harm done :p)
The driving seat from my dad's old sports car.. He wasnt happy.
My old chair broke so i used a half broken stool and it was not good for my back ill tell you that
I finally got a "proper" computer chair with wheels, and adjustable height. What the person I brought it from failed to tell me was that it had to be locked vertically. So the first day I sat on it the damn thing tilts back so fast that the only thing keeping me from being on the ground was my toes knocking into the top of a nearby table, leaving me choosing between just falling over, or cramping from the strain of holding my body weight by toes
The box from the microwave, only box strong enough to hold up a person- literally didn't have anything else to sit on besides the floor!
I stacked 12 books, balanced and hoped for the best. :'D
I've had to use a beer keg with a pillow on top.
My old chair broke so I lent a ladder against a wall and put some pillows of one of the rungs to make it more comfortable.
When I had a broken leg,they put a massive heavy plaster cast on my leg. It was like lifting weights every time I wanted to move.
The problem was that I couldn't get the cast wet in the shower and I didn't have any equipment so.. I did what I could and moved an old washing basket into the shower and sat on that while I rested my leg on bucket outside of the shower.
Anyway,the TLDR; version is that washing baskets aren't designed for a 60kg person to sit so I fell through and the top half of me got stuck inside the broken washing basket while my legs where still stuck outside the shower.
I would say that was probably one of the lowest points of my life.
Luckily,my partner was there to rescue me. :)
A coffee table with books stacked on it
Y'know those little red tricycles you sometimes see in the old war movies before the dad leaves the daughter for war? We have one.... It's rusted as all hell and its missing three out of a total three wheels but it works... that was a lie. My old computer chair got stolen away from me and I had nothing but a little wheel-less trike xD Mean saddle ass after playing tekkit all day!
Since my desk chair was "stolen" from me for guests at dinner, I had to substitute for a small wooden shelf which had in it my Disks Games/DVDs etc. for my PC. The problem was that when I wanted to lie back into my chair (which I did often with my desk chair), I fell over and broke the shelf and hit my head hard on the wall :/
well most times i just put my laptop on the floor as it is a good surface for my mouse when I game, but when my mates are round we turn one of the couches upside down, put our laptops on the underside of the couch, get some giant beanbags and have LAN matches for hours!
My parents used to have an office chair that had a floral pattern on it, so it was like sitting on one of those floral shirts american tourists wear.
Casually looting in borderlands and my chair broke. Used empty protein tubs, empty mighty ape boxes and a pillow.
Used an old Toyota Corolla car seat for a while.
Sometimes when I poop and I sit on my current chair my butt hurts and feels really uncomfortable. (I'm sure a lot of people experience this) I believe this chair would provide the best conditions for my butt to feel great whilst getting out of bronze.
We were renovating our house at the time...
We had our whole house renovated and all my stuff was moved into storage except the essentials (My Laptop ;) included).
So everything in my room was taken away in to storage including my desk i gamed on and my chair. So as the toilet was being renovated they replaced the toilet so i had a brillent plan to take the toilet and Lukeitout. I put the toilet in my room and nailed a few holes into seat (Plastic) and added a cusion.
My master piece was made T H E U L T I M A T E G A M I N G C H A I R.
I use to use a milk Crete as a seat for my ps2 then upgraded to the 360 but still had my trust milk crete, I still got it just incase my old seat breaks hshaha no even that comfortable
Well I was playing comp on Csgo and i was last alive and i was going for the ace then my chair broke i fell over and i lost the round for my team xd i was so mad!!!!
Ive used anything from old car seats, a motorcycle helmet (that was far from comfortable) and the floor when I don't have anything.
I use either a laz-yboy chair (not ideal) or a beanbag (worse) simply because that's all there is for the Xbox 360. If on the PC it's an old office chair that is well and truly past its best.
I once used a milk crate until the day it snapped, which was a very sad day
A bucket!
yay for mighty ape and dxracer.
as for the chair... well... usually I just grab the chairs in the dining room, though they are old and broken and covered in our late cat's hair. other than that, I've had to use cardboxes that I got from ordering GF's presents, when all the chairs are needed for guests. Not much funny experiences, just that it's a pain for a relatively tall guy like myself, using mouse and keyboard on the table top (not a proper computing table) while sitting on chairs that's just not tall enough, it's a struggle :P
My exercize ball it worked well you just had to remember not to lean to far when racing or it would not end well
Spent a couple of weeks on a sawhorse until I got another chair. Wrapped it in bubble wrap and she was comfy as they get
I used the vacuum cleaner as a seat :s
An ancient wooden chair, not good for 4hr+ gaming sessions on the pc.
One time I was playing WoW and I was in the middle of a raid when I needed to go to the toilet (Number two). I was using my dad's PC which was in our laundry room which had a spare toilet. So you guess it, I dragged the PC desk around next to the toilet so I could play whilst taking care of business. It was legit as.
I didn't have a desk or a chair so I used my bed. I know have a desk just require a chair and my god what a beautiful specimen that chair is.
Currently its the antique side table (which we are 'looking after'), with steering wheel attached! Not sure what owner would think of it being used that way!
computer chair is broken atm, sitting on a 15degree angle... its still good
i use my bedside table or my metal safe or a kitchen chair they are very hard to sit on when im trying to beat someone on advanced warfare hopefully get a new chair
I sit on a spare bed and use a piece of plywood as a table top
Since we ran out of chairs because of a party I had to use a bouncy exercise ball.
It had its ups and downs literally too. While playing Tom Clanxy's HAWX, I could simulate the g forces that I would experience while in game. It felt so good tossing around with my jet. Realism! Oh yeah!
Meanwhile at extreme "g's" the ball would pop and slide out and basically feel a hard ejection. gg
My older brother took my chair and i had only a 3 year old plastic chair
My current chair is a old dining room chair that has been given some very basic d.i.y to make semi useable but it still very fragile
Growing up with 3 siblings made it difficult to have dedicated gaming time without being attacked, having the Gameboy taken off you or being dobbed in that you weren't doing your chores. Whilst climbing trees in the forrest next to us i found one with a large nook, 3 metres off the ground that was like a really comfortable throne. I nicknamed it my gaming throne and took my gameboy there to play games and no-one found me. It was awesome.
When we were moving into our new home when i was young the desks and chairs were the last pieces of furniture arrive. We got there a week before those arrived, so i had to setup my laptop on the kitchen bench and use one of those big exercise balls as a chair. The fun bit was the fact that i could bounce up and down every time i got a new highscore or killing spree when i was gaming, but my annoying brother would sometimes kick the ball from right under me so i'd fall flat on my butt. The ball would then bounce off the wall and into me for double pownage. Good times.
Once back when I was starting gaming on my first PC, I had an old hand-me-down office chair that was definitely showing its age. Then one day, the chair finally gave out and dropped me on the floor. In desperate need of a seat, I had to rush into work and borrow one of the empty milk crates for a good few days. Needless to say it wasn't the most comfortable of chairs, and I was glad when I found another old chair to use on TradeMe.
Iv been through many a gaming chair in my time from computer chairs to bean bags to the couch. But in all honesty the worst experience was a ottoman. Most uncomfortable seat with no back rest and felt like I was sitting on concrete, would not recommend a ottoman to play games on!!!
Used my bed for a while. Problem is, I always sit down closer to the edge on one side than the other (its a king single size). Ended up making my mattress sort of lop-sided, making going to sleep a bit of a balancing act. Had to flip my mattress and wear down the other side for a while to balance things out. Now there's a sort of uniform ditch going across the width of my mattress, but hey, it still does the job.
I used packing crates. we had packed all our stuff to go to NZ, we just had my laptop out to take on the plane. So all I had to sit on were packed up boxes. Not the most comfortable!
I had a pillow from the plane that I boarded on. I used it to sit on it to play on my computer and since we have no furniture or even anything, i used the floor as the "table" so I had to like bend over while playing and after like 4 hours of gaming, my back made a crack that a healthy 16 years old should not make.
I have to game on an uncomfortable wooden chair that kills your back in an hour. Not fun.
need a new chair for work the one at the moment is uncomfy
Man would have loved one of these, used to play on a three leg stool....and then a two leg stool......and then a one leg stool........that didnt go so well
playing a game, the back came off, i fell back n was left there by everyone in the room for a good 10 mins, still used that chair for a year after :L didnt have a back rest but was alg