lostforever
SasqWatch
I was born in late 70s and I didn't know a single girl/woman of my generation who were into PC/console games. Actually I don't know any girl/woman of any generation in real life who actually has passion for games. My wife played WoW and enjoyed it but if you ask her to list top 50 things in her life and I am pretty sure games won't come in at all. For me it will be in top 10.
Why am I posting this? I was in a retail shop called GAME (only chain in UK which specialise in selling games) over the weekend and I saw a father and daughter (aged about 10 or 12 years) old buying the new xbox one console with Gears of War game. I saw the joy and excitement in that little girl's eyes. It was real passion and she seems to know lot of Gears of War and she couldn't stop talking about it to her father at all! She reminded me of myself when my dad took me to buy SNES back in the day! Its safe to say that I have met the first real life gamer girl. I am now looking forward to the day I will take my own daughter (1 year old now) to a game shop and buying her a console for the first time and seeing her reaction! I hope she grow up to enjoying computer games like I did.
I looked around the shop and I saw quite number of teenage girls buying console games. Playing computer games weren't cool during my teenage years even for guys, we were called nerds and geeks. This is one of the main reason why girls didn't play and the "popular/pretty" ones didn't even want to associate themselves with guys who did. The teenage girls I saw over the weekend were pretty (if you are FBI, I say that in very platonic manner) so it look like times have really changed now and its cools for both guys and girls to play computer games these day!
Why am I posting this? I was in a retail shop called GAME (only chain in UK which specialise in selling games) over the weekend and I saw a father and daughter (aged about 10 or 12 years) old buying the new xbox one console with Gears of War game. I saw the joy and excitement in that little girl's eyes. It was real passion and she seems to know lot of Gears of War and she couldn't stop talking about it to her father at all! She reminded me of myself when my dad took me to buy SNES back in the day! Its safe to say that I have met the first real life gamer girl. I am now looking forward to the day I will take my own daughter (1 year old now) to a game shop and buying her a console for the first time and seeing her reaction! I hope she grow up to enjoying computer games like I did.
I looked around the shop and I saw quite number of teenage girls buying console games. Playing computer games weren't cool during my teenage years even for guys, we were called nerds and geeks. This is one of the main reason why girls didn't play and the "popular/pretty" ones didn't even want to associate themselves with guys who did. The teenage girls I saw over the weekend were pretty (if you are FBI, I say that in very platonic manner) so it look like times have really changed now and its cools for both guys and girls to play computer games these day!