What's a good "gamer" symbol?

I’ve been thinking for a while of getting a tattoo, but i was always very undecided about what i wanted to permanently brand myself with. Recently I’ve realized that the only constant in my whole life has been video games. I’ve inherited this passion from my parents when i was three, and I’ve been cultivating it ever since. So i decided it was pretty much impossible to settle on anything other than something that shows this.

And therein lies the hard part. I’m not a fanboy, and I’ve never been or will be one, because i don’t evaluate any product starting from what company produces it. I hate Windows but i own an Xbox 360. I hate Apple computers because they’re overpriced toys that nobody, except movie makers and photographers, really needs, but i own an iPod, and so forth.

So, when picking a symbol, i found myself stumped. There simply are not many gaming related symbols that also are non-partisan.

Either you go way back to some dead franchise (Like space invaders, which i never really liked) or you’ll end up choosing something like a controller, which has no “generic” form, a mouse and keyboard, which doesn’t necessarily relate to gaming, and so forth.

Otherwise you’ll have to go for something like the Super Mushroom, the Triforce, the PlayStation symbol (the old one because the new one is rubbish), the “X” for Xbox, or some other readily identifiable symbol that also marks the person as a raving fanboy, a category which i personally loathe.

I thought about picking a symbol that, while partisan, meant something more to me personally, too. I thought of a super Nintendo controller, being the SNES my first console, but that would leave out at least 7 – 8 years of avid PC gaming, i thought about picking the logo from my favorite game of all times but i never was good at making favorites and what i consider my favorite game of all time changes as often as i change socks between about five to ten old games. None of which is famous enough to have a symbol that is readily recognizable.

It’s just so unfair. Bookworms can use pen and paper or a generic book, movie buffs a film reel or a projector, music lovers and musicians can pick their favorite instrument or headphones or whatever without being immediately identified as a “sax lover” or a “bass snob” or shit like that, what do we gamers get?

I’ve been scratching ideas right after thinking them up lately, because none of them were completely satisfactory and, being this something permanent, i don’t want to compromise in the slightest in order not to regret the choice later, but I’m also running out of ideas so I’d like some external input.

So, fire away, any suggestion will be appreciated, including those which I’ll ultimately not pick.