The life of a girl gamer & a BFF comes for another visit
When I was a kid and we lived in Smithers we only had two TV channels and so somehow I talked my parents into getting me a Nintendo. Until I moved out to Vancouver at nineteen I hadn’t upgraded, I only ever owned Mario one and three and I had Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt ruled that gun was so kickass. My girlfriend, Rhonda, who lived in Kitimat at the time had upgraded her Nintendo so I would play hers. It is rather surprising how much we got to see each other when I was still in Smithers, it is considerably further from Terrace where we ended up moving. Terrace and Kitimat are around 65km apart so once I was sixteen and had my license, until Rhonda graduated and moved away for college we saw one another almost every weekend or the memories are so good it feels that way.
If memory serves I bought a Playstation when I was twenty-one. I always LOVED Oddworld and had both games. Then in 2002 [at twenty-five] with my Christmas bonus I bought a PS2. I really had no choice. At the time I was friends with a group of four plus guys hanging out in a ‘guy’ apartment doing nothing but drinking, smoking pot and kicking the shit out of each other on Virtua Fighter [for example] and I was the only girl gamer so it was hold your own or get the fuck out and I of course held my own and decided it was high time I upgraded my own gaming hardware. It was a good investment anyway because this also gave me a DVD player.
*free tip for the single ladies*
Even if you hate gaming buy a PS2 they are ridiculously cheap now because the PS3 and new Xbox whatever is out and it will get you a man. Guys would go mental when they would see I had a playstation before I met Adam but also including Adam. I used to constantly joke that I had to hide the thing, it was almost as bad as guys trying to get in my pants. Guys like girls who have gaming systems. Accept it.
And so one day I’m talking to my buddy on IM and he is dating this rad girl and he says, he says AND SHE EVEN HAS AN XBOX. HA! I responded with: That is PROOF guys would have TOTALLY said that about me. I know they did I didn’t really need the proof but it is more cool that through meeting my buddies girlfriend I have now gained a new gaming girlfriend as well which brings me up to THREE girlfriends that game. Rhonda, Iris Eggwhites and Spockette.
Guitar Hero Three - Legends of Rock did NOT come out last Sunday as scheduled and has been pushed back to THIS Sunday. Ok, I seriously thought Adam was going to cry when it didn’t come out last weekend. If it is not in our hands THIS SUNDAY I can see some major flipping out happening. BUT wait didn’t you say THIS was Guitar Hero Three? When my friends ask me that I explain it in these terms: You know how after Sarah McLachlan released Fumbling Towards Ecstasy she started to release albums like Rarities, B-Sides & Other Shit Stuff in between pretty much every full length album release, almost like she is insecure and afraid her listeners won’t be there after her breaks which pisses me off because I will always love her and still bought all those in between albums, that is what Guitar Hero is doing. The Encore 80’s game is SHIT. If I was not ADDICTED to the point of needing an intervention to GH 1 and 2 because I am so close to finishing Expert level on both games we’d have gone back to Tiger Woods PGA 2007 till GH 3 came out.
So, with all that said, Rhonda gets here in a few hours, she normally brings games for the PS2, [she owns more than one gaming system] we’ll be going to Walmart as I have been letting EVERYTHING run out because Rhonda is a Walmart addict and I don’t know we just go to Walmart and we make crafts - must be the years and years in Scouts or some shit but we ALWAYS do crafts. Anyone new here can check out other visits with Rhonda here, here and here and this post has us as teens so we look SUPER hot.
October 25th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
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October 25th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I wonder which is better: a girl gamer or a girl that likes sports?
My money is on the gamer girl…but that’s just me.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
adam pretended to like tennis for almost two years. it was hilarious. he got lucky i like both, i am currently better than him at GH but that may not last long…but i had to turn him onto the tennis which i found shocking considering the outfits
October 25th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
i GAME.. old skool.. i have an N64 & a DreamCast.. Joshua brought an xBox into the mix and we bought a GameCube late last year.
he is so jonesin’ for the 360.. can’t quite afford it though because we are buying a house!
i’ve been poking my way through Fable “the lost chapters” - i think it should be called “the lost chapter” because there is NOT a lot more to it than the original - just one more quest and a few minis. BAH!
one of my fav games on N64 was Banjo Kazooie.. and of course on DreamCast it was always SOUL CALIBUR. we bought the xBox version and it sucked ass.. but i like to plug in the ol’ DreamCast and put in S.C. just to school Joshua every now and then.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
OMG, I was at a friends the other day who had the N64, I was drooling over games from long ago. I remember once, my mother took away our games fro some reason or another and we were able to get them back after she caught someone trying to shoplift the same gaming system. Old school games are my gifts this year for Xmas
October 25th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I just wrote a huge comment and lost it.
AUGH.
The gist of it was: I don’t understand all these women whining about being “Playstation Widows”. They’re missing out on quality bonding time with their boys, not to mention video games are kinda fun if you can get over your pretentious opinion of how geeky it is, or whatever.
I mean, boys have to carry our purses and get dragged to the mall and girlie movies and things, and I think they least these beyatches could do is pick up a controller and give a little Halo once in a while. Y’know?
October 26th, 2007 at 4:54 am
Sweet!
Oddworld 1 rocked!
Have fun you crazy kids!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
October 26th, 2007 at 5:59 am
I owned PS1 before I met my husband, (MidEvil was my fav), we now have GameCube, Wii, and PS2 (we’re on our 3rd). He thought I was the coolest chick ever, ’specially since his previous girlfriend complained about his gaming!
October 26th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
SWEET!! your comments all rule.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
i saw the soundtrack of GH-III, looked pretty awesome!
October 27th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
My earliest gaming memories have to do with my brother telling me I couldn’t play final fantasy because I wouldn’t understand it.
I don’t consider myself a gamer, but I do love to play some games. I like most of the Final Fantasy games…though started liking them less as they became more “Oooohhh lets show off our graphics by putting in a million and 12 movies” than actual game play.
Okami was the last game I got so severaly hooked on that I did nothingb ut play till I beat it.
I never did like what I call the “Shoot ‘em up” games though, and thats mainly what my hubby likes. I do miss playing Tekken (and various other fighting games) with my brother. -sigh- I can get hubby to play them with me a little, but he’s not a challenge.
October 28th, 2007 at 11:30 am
(My) Adam and I just got GH3 for the Xbox 360, we even bought two just so we could have both the cordless guitars and we found a friend to buy the disk from one off of us. We have been playing all day so far and I doubt I will get ANY studying done for the two tests I have on Wednesday!
October 30th, 2007 at 12:55 am
GH3…. I could go for a bit of that right now.
What did we say aboot if I lived ’round the corner from you two? This time next year I swear to Clapton….
I could go for a Gus hug right now for sure eh?
xo
October 31st, 2007 at 1:00 am
My current situationship loves Wii, so I am now learning how to play Wii tennis.