This troper recalls being thoroughly frustrated when she learned to drive, because the car did not operate at all like a video game (she kept taking her foot off the gas and expecting the car to stop fairly quickly without applying the breaks - why do almost all games include a "break" button, but so many of them have absolutely no use for it when letting up the accelerator has the same effect?).

Because most driving games are racing games, and letting off the accelerator in RealLife when you're going at full speed does drop your speed quite a bit. Not to anything near ''slow'', mind you, but still quite a bit.

This Troper is rarely play with shooting game, but shooting 90 pellets of airsoft gun a day when still teen. Recently my uncle brought me to shooting target place, and ask how old I am. as I'm 18 I can hold a gun off course, his 9mm caliber SIGPRO we're extremely accurate, in a good handler anyway. My first shot ricochet like mad bull, and myself get mad (pardon the pun). then there was someone he know, and rich. I ask if i can borrow 'some' accesories. The rich man lend me a case full accessories. My uncle freaked when I throw full-magazine of subsonic round in the center, and ask how. I put all the accessories available to make the pistol heavier than should be, and it dampening recoil so good I can shoot like an Olympic athlete. This troper said: "I know Wikipedia, thanks to TV Tropes." TVTropesWillRuinYourLife? BigNO!

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This trope is parodied in real life by someone this troper knows. He is an actual doctor, and whenever someone needs a doctor in some place like a restaurant or something, he says "Don't worry! I've played Trauma Center!" Being a real doctor, he does know what he's doing. He didn't learn it from Trauma Center though. Hopefully.

This troper is a possible real life example. He spent years playing arcade lightgun games like Time Crisis. The first time he picked up a real gun, his cousin (who has military training and had been shooting for years) said he was a crack shot and he was even able to make shots his cousin couldn't, using a gun designed to his cousin's specifications. Its only possibly an example of this trope, since the troper may simply have a natural affinity for firearms.

This troper is a great shot with a paintball gun and attributes it to years spent in the arcade pumping coins into Point Blank. There may be something to it, and it's definitely more likely than ''{{Halo}}'' or ''{{CounterStrike}}'', having taught anyone these skills, but this troper has no confidence in his ability to use real firearms.

This troper is a soldier (Australian Army Infantry Corps) and some casual testing by his battalion revealed that the most accurate shots are invariably the regular gamers.

Completely and utterly subverted by this troper. Without training, and with little to no practice, was able to outshoot a marine on a rifle range and impress a number of veteran paintballers (at sniper range) his first time on a field. Has never won even the first level of an arcade shooter.

This troper's ''mother'' is terrible at video games for the most part, but she picked up a twenty-gauge shotgun and nailed two clay pigeons in a row. With no prior experience with the gun. Everyone watching has since vowed never to put a firearm in her hands again.

Similarly, this troper finds that playing light gun games does not translate very well to games that involve firing simulated guns but aren't video games, like laser tag or the Astro Blasters ride at Disneyland.

It's not just firing skills. This troper's family is active a fair amount of outdoor hobbies, including birdwatching. Video games apparently do wonders for spotting motion and overall visual recognition. All but lampshaded by my father when I spotted a hawk a good 200 yards away and identified it ''correctly'' before he could even tell there was a bird in the tree.

''GuitarHero'': Our guitarist friend still swears the game is "rigged". Doubly subverted by my other guitarist friend who has played video games since he could hold a joypad and loves to shame these people by first belting out Freebird on Expert with the guitar behind his head and then proceeding to do the same on an actual guitar when people call him on "not learning a real instrument"..

This troper has been a pianist for about twelve years now, and managed the infamous DifficultySpike between Medium and Hard with not much trouble. Said troper now plays on Expert and is getting pretty damn good at drums to boot. Some of the more serious players even recommend doing actual piano drills for improving finger strength, dexterity, and hand independence for the guitar parts.

I have never taken a drum lesson in my life, but I am a pretty good drummer. I learned this entirely from rock band drumming. The drummer in my band also learned from rock band, but is now taking lessons.

This troper, having never used any non-digitised form of gun before, managed to take first place in a shooting tournament at a local fete by scoring two bulls and two nines. Made more uncanny by the fact that this troper was using ironsights, as opposed to the glass scopes being used by others. This troper was in fact moved to quote the Matrix on the subject upon seeing his near-perfect score.

This troper when performing an experiment in Physics regarding gravity, he was considered to have the most accurate timing with the stopwatch. Of course, playing video games for nearly 2 decades may have been a factor to why he was able to get the most accurate times between dropping the item from the hand and floor contact.

This troper has found that ''InitialD: Arcade Stage'' has been FAR more useful than Driver's Ed in learning how to drive a real car. Although considering the required Driver's Ed course this troper had to sit through appears to have been designed for [[{{Touhou}} Cirno, that may not be saying much. For that matter, the instincts this troper picked up trying to predict and track bullet trajectories in {{Touhou}} seems to work for cars on the road, too.

You've connected {{Touhou}} to driving too? Jeez, I thought I was the only one. It's to the point where, if I get scared driving or have a rough spot, I start to hum any of the boss themes, with Necrofantasia being a favorite. In fact, driving is a lot like Touhou: things of many colors coming at you in an attempt to wipe you out, you have to dodge all of them, and you really have to be aware of your hitbox and your surroundings. The biggest differences are the lack of graze bonuses and the size of the hitbox relative to your physical perception. Also, I've been in three fights in my life, and I actually do know MortalKombat enough to win them, having literally won with moves I took right out of MortalKombat (with the third working in some WWE stuff from Day of Reckoning 2).

This troper has one of these in the form of fighting. See, my brother and I got into a fight with a few toughs from our school that we had liberally cheesed off. I'm fairly sure it was from a tekken game or something, but when one of them tried to punch me, I used one hand to direct his hand harmlessly over my head, then used my other hand to hit him just below the shoulder, and another blow a little higher beside the shoulder. I found out later that I had cracked his collarbone (one of the single worst injuries a person can get. ugh.) and my brother, who went to a martial arts school at night while I elected to stay home, was genuinely impressed by the move.

Despite knowing actual karate, much of my fighting skills and decision to even learn karate came from ''Street Fighter''. I've even used Shin Shoryuken at one point.

This troper's brother is an interesting variation, since he claims that playing AssassinsCreed 2 is a good way to learn Italian. Although he ''has'' picked up a far bit, troper is far from convinced.

This Italian troper disagrees with your brother and agrees with you (unless we are talking about the localized Italian version), because of the low quality of voice acting, the constant bad grammar and the fact that those characters have an American accent, despite the game being set before the United States even existed.

This Troper (a native spanish speaker) learnt english when he got Final Fantasy as a present. I used to play with an English-Spanish dictionary next to me, and eventually refered to it less and less.

This troper has had this trope weirdly subverted then inverted. This troper used to be horrendous at first person shooters, but was a crack shot when she started shooting a Glock 17. Since then this troper has become better at first person shooters.

This troper learned how to play drums from RockBand. By the time he first played real drums, he was good enough to beat most songs in Rock Band 2 on expert drums. He sat down to try the real thing, and was soon banging away as if he had always been playing the real thing. After a bit of practice, he can now play many of the songs he plays in-game on an actual drum kit.

This Troper learned English from Pokémon.

This Troper is trying to learn Japanese from Xenosaga and Legend Of Zelda.

This Troper is trying to learn Japanese partially from an online dictionary and About.com, but mostly from ''SonicX'' and ''TokyoMewMew''... and it seems to be working!

This troper is using Wakfu to help with his French lessons.

This Troper, owning a photographic memory (not to confuse with muscular memory), was actually able to defend herself against a robber by remember moves from... Tekken.

This troper did something similar when taking her first karate class; apparently Shotokan Karate's basic moves are a lot like Kazama Style martial arts.

This Troper is completely science illiterate but during one session my teacher asked the class what "Binary Fission" I was the only one to hold up their hand and answered that "it is the separation of one thing into two," teacher looked at me in shock, and confirmed that I was right and everyone else looked at me in abstract shock as well then my friend asked me how I knew I answered: #QUOTE#"From {{Metroid Prime}}, Fission Metroids. Although when you think of "Fission" to "Fusion" it's pretty obvious what it means."

This troper once wrote a story for her fifth grade class and referred to a "ghostly apparition". When asked by the teacher where she had heard that word, her response was: ''QuestForGlory''. Those games increased her vocabulary quite a bit.

Likewise. This troper once had a vocabulary test as part of some English class in grade school, and already knew all the words thanks to Diablo II and the like.

This troper got his first swimming lesson from VideoGame/SuperMario64.

Played perfectly straight with me. I used to tell people that I picked up martial arts moves from Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. Then I recently found out that the martial arts in the 3D MK games have very little resemblance to their RealLife counterparts.

This Troper has picked up a lot of the odd tidbits she knows from HomestarRunner.

This troper is now more coordinated thanks to DDR and HaruhiSuzumiya routines.

This troper, in a high school chemistry class, once correctly defined a scientific term...which she had learned by watching the ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' cartoon.

This troper once built a robot with a group for a robotics competition, and we based its controls around [=FPS=]'s so it'd be easier to control. It was one of the best robots there.

Guess who passed his driving test after minimal driving, but years of GranTurismo and the better part of the NFS series. This Troper!

This troper learned where the bolt catch on an AR-15 was by watching the reload animation of the SCAR from Left4Dead2. When he got his hands on the real thing, it massively sped up his reload time.

This troper once tried swimming similarly to the undead in WorldOfWarcraft. It goes surprisingly fast, but wears out the legs quickly. Good for exercise.

This troper has practiced Johnny Cage's nut cruncher from MortalKombat since he first played the second game. One day he got into a fight with some rapper wanna be, lo and behold, the move actually worked, guy collapsed like a sack of bricks and started crying.

This troper was arguing in school in the middle of the first day of physics class with another classmate about "Magneto vs. Apocalypse." Cue the teacher asking what was so interesting it had to interrupt his class and both of us unashamedly admitting it. Well, the teacher surprisingly then asked for our arguments. My opponent spoke of Apoc's self molecular control and nigh-indestructability. The teach agreed that that should make him a match for Magneto. I was a bit surprised and told the teach "Magneto has complete control over the electromagnetic force, not just magnetism and has demonstrated on panel feats of sub-atomic particle manipulation. He could literally fuse atoms inside Apoc or just reverse the charges on a few billion of the electrons and protons to form an anti-matter annihilation! Let's see Apoc manipulate his atoms when they've been converted into pure energy." My teacher looked at me and asked where the hell I'd learned exactly what anti-matter was and how to apply it like that. Ended up throwing the class off subject like that quite often that year.

This troper's parents noted that his perception to other cars when driving has improved considerably around the same time he started playing TouhouProject games.