I know from experience with my wife that this is not necessarily a fool-proof plan and to be fair the article doesn't present itself to be. It's a fact that there's no way in hell my wife is going to play Metal Gear Solid with me. The article never mentioned a few of the games that my wife will actually suggest playing like DDR or Karaoke Revolution. Though these titles may seem obvious I think they still need to be there because of their mass appeal. Granted they're not "true games" in the sense that video games are thought of these days with the wild graphics and inane stories but these are the games that seem to appeal to a wider audience. One reason may be that (like the article mentioned) there's not a whole lot to learning how to play them. As our own Andarko mentioned in her article, she doesn't want to be bothered to learn a complicated control scheme that we've all become accustomed to. We're a far cry from the simple A and B button controls of the NES.

My wife has some fond memories of playing games when she was a kid. I hear about how she and her brother used to play Street Fighter II and A Link To The Past all the time. Hell, she still loves her some Tetris. She'll jump at the chance to play Karaoke Revolution and she even used to pull out Taiko Drum Master on her own but I'll be damned if I can get her to pick up a pad and play Team Slayer in Halo. The thing is, that's OK with me. She doesn't need to be into gaming to make our relationship work. We're fine as we are. I don't let video games (or any of my other hobbies) interfere with us and she doesn't tell me not to do anything that I like. The reverse is also true.

In the end I don't think there could ever be a definitive guide to actually getting your girl into gaming, if she isn't already. I do agree with picking out games to play together or ones that are easy to play but if she's not into it and doesn't seem to be getting convinced to be, let it go. There are plenty of other things you two can do together and bet at least some of them are way more fun and (re)productive than playing games.

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