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Why is the games industry failing women?

Aug 22nd 2006 10:45AM (Joystiq)
My girlfriend always used to yell at me for playing my DS or GBA when she wanted me to watch TV, a movie, etc with her...

But now that she has a DS Lite, it's like nothing else even exists anymore! She is completely addicted to Nintendogs, Tetris DS, the Sims, Animal Crossing, New Super Mario Bros., Super Princess Peach, Magnetica, Mario Kart, and Metroid Prime Pinball.

Now it's usually me wishing she would stop playing her damn games all the time and do something with me.

She also plays consoles games with me and loves Animal Crossing, Mario Kart DD, Timesplitters: FP, Goldeneye 64 (always schools me), Mario 64, all the Mario Party Games, the Sims, LoZ, Paper Mario, all Mario sports games, etc., etc.

Lastly, we play online computer games all the time too. Call of Duty 2, The Sims (recurring theme), Pharaoh, Diablo 1/2, Warcraft/Starcraft, etc.

I know this is a long list, but I wanted to help show that its not necessarily true that girls don't like gaming; my gf can beat me in a marathon gaming session any day.

As a side note, she always picks the girls in any game we play, so I think it's true that the industry should stop making all girls in games huge-titted and slutty... And the ones that aren't are usually like Princess Peach and just cry and get kidnapped all the time. I think these stereotypes are what turns a lot of women off of gaming.

"He's a collector"

Jul 12th 2006 3:44PM (Joystiq)
Did anyone check out his online store?

He might have agreed with his wife to thin out his collection, but he's going down swinging... He's selling most of that stuff at obscenely high prices.

If my girlfriend told me to get rid of some of my old games, and i said "sure," but then tried to sell them each for like $150, i don't think that'd be much of a compromise.

I do understand that most of that stuff is mega-rare, but only another die-hard collector is going to pay ~$50 for a pin of wario that isn't even an inch tall.

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