Wife of a collector?

[Japan-Games.com]

Just wondering how many hard core collectors here have wives and what they think about their "hobby." I had another buyer recently ask me to not post feedback since his wife will see it and know that he bought it. I've had a lot of guys ask me to send them stuff to their work, and I even received an email from one angry wife telling me the console her husband just bought on eBay was not to be sold to him...heh. I also met a female buyer who has to work around her husband to get her games.

I'm single so I don't have to worry about that stuff...

[Phinn]

I'm not married, but my gf considers my geeky obsessions (retro Japanese games and cars) to be 'sexy'. I can't see how, but I'm not complaining :)

[Warakia]

My gf loves to cosplay and watches anime most of the time. Nethertheless games (except for RPG) are all too geeky for her! Where is the logic in that! Oh she does like Pop'n music as well, but anything not graphically "pretty" is geeky in her eyes. Thus if I'm playing GG she will say "Oh how pretty" and will not mind, but if I play a KoF game she finds it "ugly" and doesn't like it. I did try to teach her how to play GG when she was (a touch) drunk once, but quater circles on an arcade stick are slightly out of her ability! She is totally uninterested in my games collection, although I did buy her a white sega saturn and most of the angelique games once (she loves the angelique series) which she loved to bits.

Actually when I was in Japan I dated a girl who did not like games at all, but she would often come to a game centre with me and sit by me whilst I played for moral support and to cheer me on, it was quite nice - if a little distracting.

If I get married I will need it in the pre-nup that she cannot touch my games or complain about my hobby!

[Carnivol]

I've recently come out of a rather unique long distance relationship with someone very special (may she rest in peace) and I'd say if it wasn't for her economical situation, she'd most certainly been a much bigger collector of random collectible video game stuff than me.

[mairsil]

My wife is a contributor. :nod:

[Radiac]

This topic is definitely in the right place since collectors wives just might be the most rare and obscure things ever. :icon_bigg My wife however pretty much doesn't care what I buy with the exception of more kiosks. My gameroom is way too small for what I have now (6 floor model kiosks). She has put her foot down and said no more of those till we move into a house with a basement. Other than that though as long as I don't start spending Kizuna money shes cool with it.

[Yakumo]

My wife at first would call me an Otaku until I showed her what a real otaku looks like :lol: Now she just calls me a maniac. She's always telling me to reduce my stuff which will never happen. These days however I think she has given up and just accepts it. She did saythat she checks my home page from time to time though to see what I've added :nod: I just tell her that it was stuff I've had for ages but never had time to add it to the site. Seems to be holding up pretty well so far :lol:

Yakumo

[PhreQuencYViii]

Nowadays since I work more the girl plays more then me, and shes definetly got more cooler collectible stuff and RPG's then me!

[ccovell]

I don't have a gf right now, but I've seen the gamut of girls' reactions when they know I like games. I met one girl, really nice, last year, and when I told her my hobby was playing (not even *collecting*) videogames, she had a look on her face like I had just admitted to being a homeless psychopathic pedophile. Screw her, I thought.

My last girlfriend was perfect -- she remembered the Famicom from her childhood, and so some games like Mario and Doraemon were so "natsukashii". But one time when I e-mailed her a picture of the latest games I'd bought that day, she said "What a lot of cassettes! Don't eat cassettes if you run out of food, please!"

So, yeah, a good attitude towards gaming.

[Borman]

My wife at first would call me an Otaku until I showed her what a real otaku looks like :lol: Now she just calls me a maniac. She's always telling me to reduce my stuff which will never happen. These days however I think she has given up and just accepts it. She did saythat she checks my home page from time to time though to see what I've added :nod: I just tell her that it was stuff I've had for ages but never had time to add it to the site. Seems to be holding up pretty well so far :lol:

Yakumo

She'll catch on when her clothes are replaced with Sega Saturn games lol

[RegalSin2020]

Well you see this is my life as a artist and I admire art. I don't get what you mean by hobby when I have this stuff around me 24/7 unless you mean to say the person married for other reasons and now they are neck and neck with his collection.

Well all I could say since I am single :shrug: I have gotten the cold shoulder from my games when I talk about them or anything towards them I remember growing up and whenever I am at the computer playing or my videogames a lot my mother would throw tea or whatever to take it out on my stuff instead of disciplining me the ordinary way.

It's America and you have to deal with these crazy American women. That's all I could say on the subject.

[Kittyhawk]

I'm the wife and the collector! :lol:

[Shadowlayer]

Well, while my mother had no problem with me playin games my dad wanted to kill me when I started playin.

Is not that he's the macho-type like the dude from american beauty (in fact he's an intellectual) he was afraid I could become stupid cuz at the time VGs were just another product to most people's eyes. Anyways, he did stop complaining about my hobby long ago. Now we go play DaytonaUSA from time to time.

Now I'm not married nor I think I'll be that crazy to do so, and cuz yakumo did it, I'm trowing all my Saturn stuff. Cant take any risks you know:lol:

Now seriously, most girls are SHOCKED I play games since my looks doesnt fit into the cliché nerd type (I kinda look like a sk8ter, even when I can barely ride bikes) and after that they would ratter say I'm a liar or just laugh at it thinking it was a joke.

I once met a girl who actually liked games, but was also bat-shit fucking loca:-(

[sayin999]

honestly ive always felt video games are the ultimate taboo with women, alot of them get really turend off by the mention of playing of them, but of course with dorkyness sorta being trendy now it is more accepted by some women . I remember once at school we

got together at lunch and had 5 players playing maro kart ds in a circle, needless to say some girls we knew came by with confused diguested looks and one asked "are you guys a cult or something?"

But some women i know dont really frown on it much, they mostly are clueless or pretend to have some intrest. Its funny but youd be suprised how many girls i know love mario kart or street fighter, still with women i keep it a practice not to mention that i play or own games just in case lol.

[MottZilla]

Yes you shouldn't mention the video games. Just mention your other interests like firearms including the desire to purchase fully automatic weapons. That'll get a much more interesting response. ;) That reminds me I need more deadly weapons. That's what I collect. Deadly weapons and video games.

I wouldn't get rid of my games for a chick unless she was perfect in every other way and doesn't mind the deadly weapons. You know you gotta have something to entertain yourself if you don't have the video games and she's not around.

[ASSEMbler]

I've yet to collect wives. :dance:

Going by my luck...
I'd have to start a thread called
"Night club slut of a collector"
or
"Money grubbing women of a collector"
or
"Where the hell are the normal decent women for collectors"

:shrug:

[Yakumo]

She'll catch on when her clothes are replaced with Sega Saturn games lol

:lol: She's already got two spare Dreamcast cases in her shoe cupboard :lol: I just had the image of saturn games hanging where her clothes once where. Now that's funny !

I'm the wife and the collector! :lol:

So what do you think of his hobby or am I right in thinking you also collect with him ;-)

Yakumo

[Japan-Games.com]

Maybe video games for guys are like cats for women. I only have a few rules, and if a girl has more than one cat, then I'm running in the opposite direction. I don't care if she's Carmen Electra. A female cat collector is the worst kind of problem there is. You will never rise about cat status so just give up now.

So maybe the women see video games in the same way? Don't want to compete for attention?

[ASSEMbler]

Do tiny dogs apply to the same rule?

[Japan-Games.com]

Only if they have tiny sweaters.