My nickname comes consists of two parts.(posted 8959 days ago)Gameboy came from my Latin Teacher in Westminster High School(grades 10 - 12). He called me that for my ability to come up with unique games. The nickname stuck.
the number 9 comes from avoiding double nicks on the IRC channels.
You know... you load IRC - you find that the gameboy nick is already taken, so you have to take another nick... so I just threw in the number 9 permenantly, and that's what I use.