Wife of a collector?

LoL. My GF had never even played videogames before (seriously) and held nothing short of disdain for them. So you can imagine the look on her face when I announced that my year end sociology project was going to be an analysis of RF Online (and that my prof actually approved the thing). Anyway, she started to warm up a bit when she saw some of my work and then *gasp* when a friend of mine and I were recalling Super Mario Bros she asked if she could play it.

Now she's addicted, it's frightening actually. She went from me having to teach her how to hold a controller to blowing through the first world and-a-bit as a fast as I can.

She's also a Disney addict, so I'm planning on springing Kingdom Hearts on her. MHUAHAHA.

So yeah, in short, she has some respect for me now.

 

Some girls do definitely see games as a kid thing, and also feel threatened by their draw. It's cool when you find the ones whose older brothers had a SNES or whatever, they tend to be a lot more clued up. Haven't met a female game obsessive in real life yet though.

 

My ex-gf plays Conquer Online a lot. She didn't really play console games, though she didn't mind that I was a gamer/collector. She actually wanted me to teach her how to play the XBOX, since she had never played one before. I actually showed her my A'can stuff one time, and she got a kick out of it, since she's Chinese. She asked me why I had it

 

I got a wife. She's cool with it for the most part, although I can't say it's her favorite thing.

Never had this on the western side of things, and I mailed quite a few packages. I did buy from a buyer on YJ one time that asked me not to leave feedback, b/c he didn't want his family to know he was buying games.

 

My girlfriend (we live together since maybe 8 months ago or something) seems to like puzzle games and survival horror, but other then that don't really care for video games which is fine by me.

And obviously she's got nothing to say about what I spend my money on

 

Kitty: I think you are cool

And I bet your husband, either loves videogaming, or hates it , but I think, since you are married to him, he kinda likes having a cool wife, like you :thumbsup:

 

anyone have a "this thread is useless without pics" smiley to hand ?

 

Not until some anonymous person provides here with a link to this website and exposes you red-handed ;-)

 

My husband loves video games as well. I'm more of a collector than he is. He collects old PC games and arcade machines while I stick to consoles and handhelds.

On our first date, he bought me a Dreamcast controller. :love:

Thank you. :redface:

 

Yeah, my fiance doesn't mind the game collecting or the retro Japanese cars. She's putting up with my shit-bucket of an S13 project right now, and I have assloads of games in the apartment.

As long as I don't spend myself broke or ignore her because of it, she's cool with everything.

 

I recently moved in with my girlfriend and have taken over the spare room with all my stuff. She tolerates it pretty well, has a fairly decent gaming lineage (7800/NES/SNES), and has even been recently talking about getting a pinball table at some point
She does tend to take the piss out of me buying all this stuff and then hardly ever playing 90-odd% of it tho...

 

Man you guys have the chance of becoming the greatest parents in historyh:

Unless your kids hate videogames, in that case...

 

Amazingly, my wife is pretty supportive of my hobby. I hope it never changes, cuz if it does, there's the door!


Just kidding of course....

I forgot to mention, my kids and all their friends pretty much think I'm the coolest Dad in the world. :nod:

 

My Gf of 2.5 years does not mind my gamming & collecting habbit to an extent.

Like to her it's cool I own an arcade cabinet. It's not cool tho that I spent $2k on an arcade collection (this was only after we were dating for 3 months) with money I got from before we were even dating (i pretty much did the job of 2 coders on a single project and was payed double my pay for the 3 month period).

So if it's free, she thinks its ok. If it cost money, i'm in trouble.

On the plus side, she love 2d mario games. So every once in a while we play a gba or ds game together, taking turns on trying to get further on a single save.
:love:

 

I was the g/f of a collect for almost 6 years....I have to say I hated him spending all his time playing games, it seems that even the little time we did spend together all he did was play. I'm not one for games, only games I ever really enjoyed playing with him were Street fighter, dark stalkers, and Diablo online, and a few other online games. I'm a Mario lover I love my first Nintendo system, he on the other hand was a sony whore. lol Closer to the end of our relationship I started to understand his reasons for his love of gaming and started to suppost it more.

We're currently not together anymore, but he's the reason I signed up for these forms, trying to keep up with him. And now we're no longer together I still find myself coming back to try and keep up with what's going on. I even want a DS lite, and can't wait for PS3 to come out
I'm starting to miss the days wasted playing street fighter when I use to sleep over lol

 

Sounds like you want him back. Does he know about your conversion to the gaming faithful?

 

Well maybe I do want him back. lol
As for him knowing about my conversion of course of he does, he's actually claims he's gonna get me my DS Lite. We were together for 6 years He's my best friend and he'll always be in my heart :love:

Maybe that's why I'm trying so hard to keep up with what's going on lol
Is that wrong?? :redface:

 

My husband doesn't mind it as long as i keep it tucked away in my study. He's never been a fan of gaming (propably because of the hughe age gap between us and his generation being from the pre-gaming eara) although at one point i did get him playing mario and excite bike on a NES.
He's ok with it as long as i don't buy myself broke,keep it in my study and don't overspend my time on them.

 

My fiancee will play things on and off, but really only like puzzle games alot. She will willingfully contribute/cosplay/do the anime thing, and thinks geek is sexy as a whole. Its great.

 

I don't have a girlfriend, but when (or if) I meet that special person, it should tolerate my collection and my hobby at all.
It's not a good relationsship without tolerating the others hobbys and interests.
But a little excitement over my hobby could be funny, I think