Maybe old school gamers... Up until the mid 90's it was very frustrating at times to get games to work with your hardware... Then 3Dfx, ATI, Rendition (well dont give rendition too much credit; pain to work with) came along and made things easier for setting up. Oh and the advent of workable OpenGL/DX. I remember writing command line things to get privateer to work when I was young which prompted me to learn more about computers. I think the definition of a computer nerd would usually include him as a gamer (but not always so w/ freebsd/linux geeks.)
