in my freshman year of college I lived in a suite of 6 people and pretty much all the time someone was playing Smash (it was really fucking annoying trying to sleep when someone would yell at the screen at like 5am). I had brought my bannerbombed Wii so one of my suitemates got Project M set up on it.
One of my suitemates who was much less invested in gaming than the rest would frequently come back from drinking and apparently be at the Ballmer peak for fighting games and do way better than expected. One time he said "stop hamstering me!" which initially confused everyone but it turned out he had heard "edge-hog" as "hedgehog" but then forgotten what cute little animal it was. So from then on "hamstering" was our new term for that
we played games on an old CRT TV I'd gotten for free, and it frequently needed a slap on the back when everything got distorted, so in order to not have to get up from the couch to give it a whack while playing a game we rigged up a pulley system: we duct taped coat hangers to the ceiling, ran a long ethernet cable thru the hooks, lubricated with hand lotion, and at the end of the cable put an old textbook. From the couch, we could pull the cable to lift the book, then release to drop it on the back of the TV. It worked at least some of the time!