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Koogan
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Koogan says:
does she like games where you kill heaps of people and/or aliens? If so, go Halo
04/01/2008
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
A house :P
desi
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desi says:
Dude, not even I like Halo. GH3 sounds like an awesome idea, though!
04/01/2008
I'm in your profile, deleting your spams for Great Justice.
Neek
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Neek says:
the majority of nintendo gamers I know nowdays are women.I believe its because the Wii has leveled the playing field once and for all, There is no way in hell my gf could beat me in a traditional game of bowling, but when you put her in front of the Wii she is a bowling pro. Boxing is the same...when I beat her in real life she puts up very little resistance but when we play Wii sports she is often the victor [aren't you glad I am only joking] I used to think that girl gamers were only interested in playing games like the sims, where you can play house and dress ups but my opinion changed when I discovered how many girls played WoW [I think the dress up part plays a big part of that] I think girl gamers should be encouraged, I love that they have come into my world.I GIRL GAMERS!
04/01/2008
Godfather: Blackhand Edition, The
Brisbane
Guyver
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Guyver says:
My misses likes playing games occasionally, she used to play 2D shooters back in the NES/SNES days, but hasn't played anything in between because the fancy 3D games didn't interest her. Now recently she has been playing my DS and Wii, on the DS it's Brain Training and the mini games of The New Super Mario Bros. On the wii it was Wii sports which she scored pro in more than one event, then I got here Warioware Smotth moves, and now she's really into Link's crossbow training scoring silver on all stages and now working for gold/platinum now.
Links Crossbow she really enjoyed and I was surprised to see her playing for long periods of time.
Nintendo have done a good job of making the gaming market appeal to everyone. She wont even give my PS3 a second look, man I can't even get her to watch a blu-ray
04/01/2008
Resident Evil 4
Sunny Melbourne :p
Koogan
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Koogan says:
Well my mum plays puzzle games...that's about it

BTW do any of you girls wanna be in my flash series? Head to the topic for more info
04/01/2008
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
A house :P
insectoid
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insectoid says:
lol I don't have a good mic. sorry buddy.

anyway, since I got my DS my sis (who used to play the occasional game, now only rarely touches the sims *shudder*) keeps taking it to play theme park lol she's in love with that game

and she's now begging me to get some of the various sims ds games.

oh, and she's older than me. so I've kinda got her BACK into gaming.
04/01/2008
Melbourne, Victoria
Cherrona
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Cherrona says:
I can't remember when I started gaming. I've been playing for so long that my earliest memories are of games. lol

The first console that I owned was a PSX that I got for my birthday when I started high school (lol that was a long time ago). Every other console before that were for my brother and I to share.

Anyway, I think that there are more female gamers than we think.
Most just keep quiet about it.
One reason I believe is society. I know that I don't talk to my friends in reality about games because I get the impression that they think it makes me some kind of weird anti-social loser, sort of like the stereo type of gamers.
So I think we'll see a lot more women coming out of the gaming closet when the majority of people stop treating video games as some creepy obsession only reserved for loners and computer geeks.
04/01/2008
Silent Hill - The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh
insectoid
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insectoid says:
AHHH! CHERRONA MADE IT TO MYWII!!! *runs*

anyway, I agree that there must be more of us than we think, and that the sterotype is brining us down. hell, I say it anyway, and even the GUYS (who also play games), think it's weird.
04/01/2008
Melbourne, Victoria
Cherrona
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Cherrona says:
lol It was only a matter of time before I started to take over the other MyMedia sites, Insectoid. Oh, uh, please disregard that last sentence.....

But really, what's so weird about female gamers?
04/01/2008
Silent Hill - The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh
leeman34
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leeman34 says:

Robtot said: Hi folks!
Just to fill you in this will be our official girl gamers discussion thread, both a place for girl gamers to talk to other girl gamers, and also a general discussion about the topic.
Our very own Omi will be the on going moderator of the thread so please give her the same respect as any of the admin
Enjoy!
-Matty

so is that omi being announced as admin now ?

congrats omi
04/01/2008
Soul Calibur Legends
I am banned for good reason. All hail Guyver
Robtot
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Robtot says:

leeman34 said:so is that omi being announced as admin now ?

congrats omi



She's come on board to moderate this thread, so admin for here yes
04/01/2008
Wii Fit
Gae: When did Reggie become awesome? Robtot: When he kicked your ass and took your name :O
kv95
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kv95 says:
glad you girls could have a thread of your own
04/01/2008
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twistedang
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twistedang says:

insectoid said:

anyway, I agree with you Omi, it's such a guy dominated industry, hell, when I walked into EB yesterday I was shocked to see the first female salesperson!



I had exactly the same experience at EB tonight with a female serving. Was pretty impressed myself. Not only do I not see female staff in these stores, but I hardly see any female shoppers unless it is a mother with her young sons.

I started out with games back with the Atari. As an only child I know it was specifically brought for me but who brought it or why, I can't say I remember. A friend in primary school (female as well) ended up getting a Sega and I fell in love with that at her place - Alex The Kidd , no purchased games from memory. She then got a handheld game, for the life of me I cannot remember what it was but I think it was also made by sega. This saw her mother sell her Sega to my family for me.

Then came the early gameboy (grey) which I managed to go through 2 of. Then came a black case one. During all this time I spent many hours with my best friends brother playing whatever incarnation of the Nintendo his family had brought him most recently.

From here I moved onto PC games for quite a few years - duke nukem, lemmings and cosmo appear to be the standout ones in my memory from
04/01/2008
Eledees
Melbourne, Victoria
syfox133
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syfox133 says:
I don't know, I think it's a stereotypical thing. Guys go and play games and drink beer while girls watch and cheer em on. Or something like that.

I guess girl's think they should do girly stuff like shopping and "doing their nails" and I guess they don't get interested.

I think girls need to get motivated by other gamers like giving a console for their birthday or something and teaching them how to play.

I was a handheld person so consoles weren't really my thing. My first one was this asian thing which I don't know what it's called and then a SNES, N64, PS1 and then the Wii. So big jump there
04/01/2008
Metal Slug Anthology
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Randashea
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Randashea says:

syfox133 said: I don't know, I think it's a stereotypical thing. Guys go and play games and drink beer while girls watch and cheer em on. Or something like that.
I guess girl's think they should do girly stuff like shopping and "doing their nails" and I guess they don't get interested.



I guess I'm one of the odd ones then. I love to do all those "girly things" like go shopping & getting my nails done but then I can play video games with the best of them. My boyfriend & I even have "Video Game Night" where we stay in drink, & just play 360 or Wii.

I'm thinking that most girls just don't want to waste their time with playing. Just like most guys don't want to waste their time shopping. If there was a way we could show girls how great it is to be a female gamer I think more would be apt to play.
05/01/2008
Super Mario Galaxy
Boston, Massachusetts
K-Man
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K-Man says:

Cherrona said: lol It was only a matter of time before I started to take over the other MyMedia sites, Insectoid. Oh, uh, please disregard that last sentence.....

But really, what's so weird about female gamers?

Lol it's weird seeing you without your admin badge

Anyway i'm glad more girl gamers are showing up now because thanks to the Wii's simple and fun games, everyone can enjoy a game every now then. Hopefully i'll be seeing them during online battles to see what they're really made of
05/01/2008
Mario Kart Wii
California, U.S | MyWii, MyPS3, MyDS
Omi
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Omi says:

K-Man said: Anyway i'm glad more girl gamers are showing up now because thanks to the Wii's simple and fun games, everyone can enjoy a game every now then...


Oh dear K-man. Yep, thanks to the simpleness of the Wii, even girls can play games!

While I don't think that's quite what you meant, it does have a valid point in there somewhere. I think one of the main reasons that girls aren't as majorly into gaming is because it is stereotyped as a boy's toy, so most girls don't even think to try it out. But with the Wii aiming it's games at the 'everyone' market, 'everyone' is having a go! I think that's making gaming in general a more socially acceptable past-time.

I introduced my sister to my Wii a little while ago, this is a girl that's never played a game beyond solitare (she even sucked at that :-P) but she loved Wii Sports, and was laughing her head off at Wario-ware. She'd never "realised games could be so much fun".

I'm trying to spread the gaming joy to my whole family, you see. My mum now has a ds, and I found it quite amusing the other day to have her explaining a game to me that I bought her for chrissie! My niece and nephew now want one of these cool toys that their cool-arse nanna has, and I'm trying to convince my sister to buy them a Wii! Ahh, spread the gaming love There's a game out there to appeal to anyone, they just haven't played it yet, but when they do they'll all be hooked! mwahahaha
05/01/2008
Mario Kart Wii
In the vegie patch
cmpa1970
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cmpa1970 says:
hahaha.... k-man, that was so funny! can't believe you actually posted that! oh boy......
05/01/2008
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Sydney, NSW
BJ2
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BJ2 says:
what i don't understand, is that there are statistics saying 1/3 of gamers are girls, but it doesn't seem like it to me
06/01/2008
WA
K-Man
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K-Man says:

cmpa1970 said: hahaha.... k-man, that was so funny! can't believe you actually posted that! oh boy......

Oh what, did i offend somebody?!
06/01/2008
Mario Kart Wii
California, U.S | MyWii, MyPS3, MyDS
Omi
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Omi says:

BJ2 said: what i don't understand, is that there are statistics saying 1/3 of gamers are girls, but it doesn't seem like it to me

Where are these statistics that you are referring to?

I remember a little while ago some statistics were released stating a fairly large portion (can't remember exact percentages) of casual gamers were female. Which everyone went into a big hoo-har about it, asking where all these girl gamers were. But it's not saying much, I mean, a casual gamer could be referred as someone that plays a game once a month, once a year, so all that pretty much said was that there aren't many girl gamers out there. duh!

I would like to see some official statistics of the percentages of girls vs guys that actually own a console, or a gaming PC, that would say a lot more than how many are casual gamers
06/01/2008
Mario Kart Wii
In the vegie patch
moosechild
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moosechild says:
my parents wanted me to be a girl....... they were going to name me Megan...
06/01/2008
Galaga
I do it for the lulz
BillyARock
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BillyARock says:

moosechild said: my parents wanted me to be a girl....... they were going to name me Megan...



Does your mum braid your hair anyways?
06/01/2008
Melbourne Vic
Pandii
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Pandii says:  
Can I jion in??

The Wii is my first console and I am over 30yo

in the house we have N64 Xbox and Xbox360 a few gameboys of various models but the Wii was the first I brought for me

and



I LOVE IT
06/01/2008
Warrnambool, Victoria
Omi
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Omi says:

Pandii said: Can I jion in??
The Wii is my first console and I am over 30yo
in the house we have N64 Xbox and Xbox360 a few gameboys of various models but the Wii was the first I brought for me
and
I LOVE IT

So why did you decide to buy a Wii for yourself?
Did/do you ever play the other consoles? Or were they just not your thing? Do you have to fight for TV rights to decide what console gets played and who's playing it now?!
06/01/2008
Mario Kart Wii
In the vegie patch
 
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