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Husband and Wife Computer Games? 69

Posted by Cliff from the not-as-a-substitute-for-physical-interraction dept.
An Anonymous Coward asks: "I have a home network, and my wife and I each have our own computers (plus a few extra). My wife has a fear of computers, and uses hers as little as possible. In an attempt to get my wife in front of her computer more, I am looking for games we can play together. My question is, what networkable games out there appeal to the female gender? Quake-like games are definelty out. Too bad Sims isn't multi-player..." I've gotta echo the sentiment about the Sims not being multi-player, however lately I've noticed a few husband and wife couples out there on a few MMORPGs. Are any of you couples out there playing games together? If so, which ones?
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  • One data point... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 15, 2001 @06:48PM (#2433618)
    My wife and I tend to play [together]:
    - Anarchy Online (and formerly Everquest). She's really into AO now and plays even when I'm not around. Worth noting is that we 'hooked up' as a result of playing a MUD... geeks in love, indeed.

    - Age of Empires/Kings. The only RTS that I've seen women play, with perhaps the exception of Starcraft.

    The key here is that she likes to play cooperatively. We have never found a competitive game that we both liked. I'm seriously into FPS's and she won't touch them. Again, exception to the rule: Team Fortress Classic. She plays with me as a 2 person fireteam, we support each other well.

    I must state for the record that my wife is a CS major, so we both come from a long history of single player games. She plays a significant amount more than I do!

    - Zoldax
    • Same story here. I don't know other women who play RTS, but my wife will do Total Annilihation, especially in multiplayer team mode.

      We actually make a good team; I tie up opponents with constant harrassment while she sits off in a corner playing a building game. Eventually, I say, 'Um, dear, I could really use some help now.' She says, 'Oh, right, other players.' and sends over a massive force from her heavily fortified base, laying waste to all in her path.

      What a girl.

      :)
  • One friend of mine played EQ with is wife for a while, I think she might have stopped playing at some point, but played for a while.

    Also, www.neriak.com, is run by a husband and wife team, I'd assume that means they both play :)
  • Although the poster says "no Quake" my girlfriend & I play Quake II together often. The fact that it will run (just) on a P133 is a bonus, because they are cheap to get hold of just to use as a Q2 machine ;-)

    One thing I would suggest is to upgrade [quakeworld.com] to v3.20 and then download one of the "co-operative" patches. In this way you play together against the baddies, rather than just killing each other.

    Matt
    • The problem is it's really difficult to purposely play poorly in Quake3. If your opponent is a newbie it's nearly impossible to play against them without making it appear as though you are mocking them. And all this will do is make the girl not want to play you at anything because you're "too good".

      Better to find a non-FPS game, like that Worms game - it would be perfect.

  • This looks good... (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I've been looking at the soon-to-be-released Monopoly Tycoon lately. Looks like just what you've been looking for :)

    Cross between traditional Monopoly and Simcity.

  • My wife and I play freeciv on out network at home on weekends when we're not bogged down with homework.

    It's even better, because I'll run a server here at my place, and friends of ours can join in across the internet. It's cross-platform to.

  • We used to play Quake II a lot. We even managed to play Diablo I together for about 14 hours. We did get a networked Super Nintendo emulator (ZSNES [zsnes.com]) running and had some fun playing 2-player stuff on there. But now that we've got a kid running around, we can't both get 4-10 hours of uninterrupted gaming at the same time. So we primarily we play crap from Yahoo! Games [yahoo.com] like Pool, Blackjack and Hearts.

  • Oddly enough, Duke Nuke'm is a great choice. It has a simple interface (mouse and some keys) and the play is relatively simple. It's also not graphic-intense and that's one thing my wife really appreciates.


    As another plus, my wife gets absolutely giddy when she puts an RPG round up my nose. Guess she appreciates being able to "kill" her husband every now and then. So long as it's never a real weapon, it's all good.

  • Maybe Strategy (Score:3, Interesting)

    by paulywog ( 114255 ) on Monday October 15, 2001 @09:09PM (#2434188)
    Maybe your wife would enjoy strategy games like WarCraft. Playing networked WarCraft II was one of the first things my wife and I did together when we started dating. She likes to game, is good with computers already, but it certainly isn't a major hobby. Still after a few years together we still play WarCraft II every once in a while. (And if FreeCraft supports network gaming -- not sure -- you can even play under Linux!)

    Just for some insight, what she likes about WarCraft II is two things:
    First, that the graphics are kind of cute. Not tulips and roses cute, but cartoon cute.
    And then, the fact that it's a real-time strategy. Just the right combination of real-time action and strategic planning.
    • I'd have to agree that strategy games are the way to go. My gf and I play starcraft all the time on our home network. We always play cooperative against the computer and it's a lot of fun. But what's REALLY fun is when she came in to work to play with some of my coworkers (who are pretty good) in an 8 player free-for-all and she kicked all their arses multiple times, now THAT was fun :). We primarily did the match because they didn't believe that she could beat them.

      We've also played WarCraft II together, but we both like StarCraft better.
  • Not that this helps much, but my wife is actually the FPS freak of the house and organizes all the LAN parties... We've gone through all the addictions together. Diablo, The Sims, Ultima Online, the list goes on.

    But I guess thats the Benefits of being married to a GeekGrrl.

    On the helpful side, I would recommend some of the Civilization type games. They give lots of opportunity for team play.

  • MAME + Kaillera (Score:2, Interesting)

    by ph ( 1938 )
    We play multiplayer MAME on our two networked machines with a program called Kaillera [kaillera.com].

    You could also play on the same machine, but that's not nearly as geeky.

    • Playing on the same machine is cool if you own one of these [hanaho.com]. I have one and along with my complete collection of roms it makes for a killer party (mabye add a keg or two).

  • Yahoo Games. (Score:2, Interesting)

    by mini me ( 132455 )
    While they are rather simple games, games.yahoo.com [yahoo.com] have a wide selection of card games, board games, and some other games. They even have pool which is fun to play occasionally.

    The downfall is that all the data has to go back to Yahoo's server even if you are playing on the same LAN. Not a big deal if you have broadband but if you are on dialup it is less than desired.

  • You have to ease them into it. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by dustpuppy ( 5260 ) on Tuesday October 16, 2001 @12:54AM (#2434827)
    I think it's a bad idea to start them off on Quake, Diablo or any other 'real-time' game. For someone who is intimidated by computers, just using the computer is scary enough, let alone working out 20 key controls and definitely let alone trying to think and respond in real-time.

    I think you should start on multiplayer non-confrontational games like those found on Yahoo Games (several people have already mentioned this).

    I also highly recommend the Shockwave mini-golf games that can be found around the web (sorry, I'm at work otherwise I would provide a link). These are great because they are familiar, there is minimal time pressures, and the key controls are very simple.

    Once they become comfortable with PCs, then you can move them onto more 'action' games.
  • Believe it or not, my wife just totally took over my computer to play this game. I hooked up a second computer, and we were playing into the early morning hours. The catch: Her character was mysteriously stronger whenever I got home from work. :)
  • My wife loves Heroes. She also dug Civilization. Both are Loki games.

  • Don't laugh now... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Lish ( 95509 ) on Tuesday October 16, 2001 @02:13AM (#2434992)
    (MS) Hearts. No, I'm not kidding. It's simple since it's the same as playing it with real cards. This also makes it less intimidating. Allows the two of you to play against each other without having to track down two more people to play when you feel like it.

    This assumes you have two windows computers, of course, I don't know if anyone's got a similar thing going for Linux/Mac/etc. Anyone else have suggestions for "simple games" where the computer can fill in for missing people?
  • Me and my sister used to play Starcraft cooperatively. (We go to colleges in different states). To reinforce what a previous poster said, the Yahoo games are fun, and my sis and I still occasionally play games on Yahoo. Note: My sister is an electrical engineering major (she's taken AC's, and looks nothing like Natalie Portman, so don't make me regulate).
    • (she's taken AC's, and looks nothing like Natalie Portman, so don't make me regulate).



      I just have to give some props for the old school reference.



      Off to dig through the cd case....

  • Settlers of katan!! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by TheMMaster ( 527904 )
    this [seul.org]is a very nice linux boardgame. It's not real-time and has a very simple user interface. It's networked and can be played with 2-4 players.
    IRL this is one of my favorite games and me and my friends now play it over internet from time to time.
    I hope you like it,

  • Tertrinet (Score:2, Informative)

    by Holophax ( 21693 )
    Simple game, she probably already knows the play, and it can be fun yet competitive.

    Plus, it's got extremely low requirements, so you can put it on all the machines and invite some friends over.

  • Simulated Societies (Score:2, Informative)

    by Luinitari ( 86532 )
    I highly recomend Underlight [underlight.com]. It takes the multiplayer and online aspects which you seem to be looking for and ontop of that is completely cooperative and interactive. Many women play the game as well as many couples who like it because you are able to advance and play the game with social interaction as opposed to hack and slash, kill the badens.

  • "Girl" games (Score:2, Insightful)

    by jrwillis ( 306262 )
    Maybe I'm wrong here, but in my experience it all depends on the girl. I've known girls who love FPS and the like and hated games like the Sims. I'm not saying that they're all like that, but I think it'd be a mistake to try to find a "girly" game for your wife/gf when it could be she actually would like the same games you do. You also have to realize that some girls just won't like any games no matter what you get them to try. On a side note though, Civ III is coming out next month, so if you want her obsessed with a game, that'd be the one to show her. :)

  • WORMS! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by daemonenwind ( 178848 )
    I'd give one of the WORMS games a try. It's fun, has cartoonish graphics, and isn't too hard to get a handle on how to play. Besides, it's a very creative little game. You can probably download a demo version if you'd like.

    Or, Worms World Party will allow the LAN games you're looking for.
  • I usually play the following with my girl-friends:

    Diablo 1 + 2 + expansion
    Unreal Tournament
    CivNet
    Baldur's Gate 1 + 2
    Ultima Online
    Quake 3

    mostly cooperative

    /Roger
  • Why does this story not appear on the front page? It should be right between the Aleph1 and Trolltech stories, according to time. I only found out about it due to meta-moderating. The only thing I've got turned off is 'Geeks in Space'. Everything else is turned on. I checked. What's going on?

    Yeah, it's off-topic, sorta. Mod me down. Whoopee. It's a valid question. Who do I email? Cowboy Neal?

    • It's not a bug, it's a feature.
      Not all stories are "front page" material.

      Stories that fit in one of the sections (like Ask Slashdot) are not necessarily posted on the frontpage. One topic appears in the top-right of the default mainpage, others are accessible from the "Sections" links on the left.

      So you don't have it turned off, but you have to check all the sections manually if you really want all the stories. Or just search the recent stories, because that is "all stories" too, not just "frontpage" stories.

      I don't always agree with the choices. OTOH, I don't always agree with which ones are rejected either, or always with anything else. But it's better than not, imo.

      Hope that helps.

  • I think the team oriented thing is it... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Raleel ( 30913 ) on Tuesday October 16, 2001 @10:47AM (#2436037)
    that along with not being a big busted half clad action chic. My wife plays a lot of diablo 2 and diablo. I think she could get into EQ or Dark Age of Camelot. She doesn't really like RTS or FPS. Ironically, she really likes street fighter and tekken.

    I have yet to see a real trend though. I know one girl who loves tomb raider (decidedly big busted action chic). It might be totally random.

    I introduced my wife to diablo and I didn't think she was going to like it. one day I went for a nap and woke up to her swearing because she had gotten to the butcher for the first time. Remember that? Anyhow, I think there is something that says it must be unacceptable or something because I think she felt she needed to hide it a little bit. Now she's the one who encourages weekends of sitting at home and playing long long sessions of gaming and not going out til sunday afternoon for groceries and screaming in pain as the sunlight hits your eyes for the firs ttime in 2 days :)

  • i think you're taking the wrong approach... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by dixel ( 146130 ) on Tuesday October 16, 2001 @11:29AM (#2436215) Homepage
    i was the wife who was afraid of computers a few years (oh, it seems like a lifetime!) ago. i thought he was insane and the whole computer thing was 1) too hard, 2)scary and 3) a massive waste of time and money. but i wanted my husband to be happy so i smiled and tried to listen while my eyes glazed over when he raphsodized over the mysterious inner workings of this ugly box sitting in my living room.

    what brought be around was when we when he snagged a little desktop publishing program. cheesy clipart, zillions of fonts, all that crap. suddenly, i could see some fun and productive stuff i could do with it. (ok, well productive is perhaps a bit of a stretch--our first project was writing a christmas newsletter. but it was fun and we did it together.)

    eventually, he also got some "cute" games like bubble bobble and rainbow island, and we played them together. we raced for the little goodies that dropped down as we played. i never felt pressured or pushed, but he just put that computer out there and made sure there was stuff on it i liked and was interested in--money management programs, word processing programs, desktop publishing programs, that kind of thing. he was there in a flash anytime i had a problem with the computer, and made sure it was fixed pronto and i didn't end up feeling foolish for "messing something up." later on i started to get intereted in the internet, and he got me a copy of frontpage and some graphics programs. i made some butt-ugly webpages and had a good time with it.

    and gradually, slowly, i started to become more and more comfortable with it. now we play baulder's gate together a lot, and in the past we've spent time playing diablo--i also like the sims. i'm also a web developer now, so i've clearly gotten over my fear of machines.

    so i would say, get your wife some stuff she would be interested in and don't start off with the involved games, which may not appeal to her in the beginning and may require more of a commitment to learning how to play than she's initially interested in. the computer is intimidating when you're first starting out because it can make you feel stupid.

    so, to sum up: find things to put on the computer that can make her life easier and more fun. with games, start off with very simple and cute games, and make sure she knows that you value the interaction with her more than the gameplay itself. go slowly and don't push her. support her efforts to do things independently on the computer (and if she screws something up, fix it goodnaturedly). and after you've spent some time doing something together on the computer, let her know you've enjoyed doing it with her. feeling closer to my husband after we'd spent time working on something together on the computer was the most powerful positive reinforcement i could have gotten.
  • On the mac, here's a couple of (older) suggestions:

    Oxyd, an interesting marble-rolling puzzle game, which has a two-player cooperative mode.

    Bubble Trouble (www.ambrosiasw.com). This is one-player, but for some reason, females tend to do better at it (according to the documentation, and according to my one data point).

    • Other Mac ideas which have proved popular with my wife:

      Just about any Freeverse game
      Diablo II
      Clan Lord
      Heroes of Might and Magic II/III
      Various MUDs (mostly RoninMUD)

      We had very high hopes for Baldur's Gate multiplayer, but it was pretty slow, buggy and hard to coordinate, even on a 100 BaseT LAN. Hopefully Baldur's Gate II will be better. We just picked up Summoner, which has a multiplayer component.

      If Battle Girl were multiplayer, we'd still be playing that. (Mmm... Battle Girl...)

      I think that cooperative games are certainly a forgotten market. Surprisingly few Playstation games (and no Playstation RPGs, ignoring the few FFs which allow multiple people to control combat), and even fewer Mac games even have a nod to cooperative multiplayer.

      Russell Ahrens

  • D2 and Tribes (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    My gf wasn't much of a computer user/gamer at all. But recently I got her hooked on d2 where we played coop. She played a paly and put most of her skill points into auras. I had two characters. the first was another paly who put skills into the opposite type of aura.. She was defensive, mine more offensive/healing. This worked until I came home one day and saw that she had leaped well beyond that character by quite a few levels. So I switched to the Barbarian who was further along and could keep up with her. We finished that and the exp pack together in the wee hours of the morning. She has taken to dueling my brother online and enjoys collecting his ears.
    She has also picked up tribes. I think she liked the multiplayer aspect of it. Where she can help out not so much with the getting the flag, but doing what she can on defense, and doing basic repairing/turrent farming. This too she plays quite a bit when I'm gone.
    I think she has taken to both of these games because of the multiplayer aspects. Neither games are too terribly difficult. We look forward to playing Baldur's Gate 2 together when we get the chance.

    Bad Part about it all:
    Having to buy another desk because yours is being taken over to play tribes.
    Having to buy another computer so she can get her frame rate up.
    Coming home to complaints about team killers, and lag.

    Side note. These games also helped her learn linux. After getting over her fear of computers, she was more willing to sit and learn the basic commands to get into linux. She now can use gimp, E, and loves most of the gnome game set.
    Thanks all
    peace
    emk
  • Quadra [ludusdesign.com] might be what you want. It's a Tetris-like game with great networking capabilities. Works on Linux and Win32.
  • Women seem to like top-down games, such as War Craft (some network options), Pharoah (only single player though), etc. Generally the more colorful and the fewer explosions and bloodsplatters the better. But they also seem to love side scrollers. These aren't as popular on PCs these days, but Jazz Jackrabbit 2 [godgames.com] allows network play. It came out a while ago and played beautifully on my sister's Pentium 60.
  • Get a digital camera, take some pictures, and do things to them in gimp. Create a web photo album. Later, when you have kids and no more time for games, you'll still want to make albums.
  • like Monopoly, Clue, etc. are cheap (around $5-$10 per copy).

    Sorry if that isn't hard core enough. But after a few games, just say "honey, this is boring. let's go to bed"

    (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, knowwhatImean)

    • A couple of these are now free on General Mills cereal boxes (Boggle, Monopoly Jr. come to mind). Some boxes of Cheerios even have the new Disney Atlantis game.... A far cry from Chex Quest, no? The GM games are the Win-PC versions only though :(

      My wife likes the educational Maxis Sim games and is playing SimAnt at home, and SimSafari at the library (gotta find her a copy for Christmas....)

      William
  • If you can still find them. We played as a team and enjoyed figuring things out together.
  • As many previous posters have noted, the Civ and FreeCiv games make for excellent teamplay.

    I reckon it's because you can run more or less separate countries, if you like, form alliances, or just get nasty and pound the crap out of each other with catapaults... (hee hee)

    And with the Hot Seat option, you can do this with one computer.

    Oh man, I can't wait for Civ III. Yes, I am a Civ addict. And so is my wife (yay!)

  • A Geekess who doesn't play games.. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Tesseracti ( 468896 ) on Tuesday October 16, 2001 @04:14PM (#2437716)
    This topic must have been submitted with me in mind. My boyfriend has been trying to get me to play games with him for ages. However, as a CS major, it hasn't been fear that's kept me away so much as boredom.

    It wasn't always that way. As a kid, I loved playing my Atari games (Frogger, Empire Stikes Back, Pac-Man etc) and in college I played alot of Lemmings, Tetris and assorted card games. But lately it seems like all the games my boyfriend plays require quiet solitude (Me: Hey- Him: Shhhh.. I'm trying to play here), 3 hands (Me: How do I get it to go forward again?) or an extensive knowledge of firearms (Me: What does strafe mean?). And you never seem to *do* anything except blow people/stuff/creatures up.

    Now a game that allowed for social interaction, maybe even discussion *while* playing could be interesting. Or a game based on something I was already into (like a TV series or novels). Or one with a story or defined tasks. Any of those would be fun to play *with* him.

    OTOH, my mother is absolutely addicted to Freecell. She plays it for hours on end every night. Through TV, movies and even phone calls.

    So, I guess my advice to you would be to a) find out if your wife would actually be interested in playing games before you bore her away from the computer permanently, b) find out what games she might want to play by herself so she could improve her skills on her own and c) find out what games you could play with her to help her get over her fear of the computer and make it an enjoyable experience.

    That's my 2 cents. And maybe I'll try some of the games mentioned already and make my boyfriend happy :)
  • My wife spends most of her computer time playing spider solitare, minesweeper, freecell solitare, and Bust A Move (aka the bubble game).

    Granted, with the exception of BAM they are all solo games, and I'm not sure if BAM supports network play (I know that BAM4 supports 2 players on one machine), but those might be a good start.

    Simple, addictive gameplay almost always wins.

  • My girlfriend used to hate even stickin her head in the door of our home office, but after seeing another friend of hers playing "inklink" on shockwave, she decided to give it a go, too. That was 2 years ago. Now she is one MEAN mother when it comes to C&C red alert 2 ! When i asked her how she came to enjoy these games, she replied: "at first, i just liked the comraderie of the online games, but it was the old drive-for-a-challenge that made me want to try more and more complicated games". I agree with some of these post in the fact that its probably better to put a couple of different games and other creative stuff on the box and just let her toy with them. Also, before this my idea of online gaming was q3a:Urban Terror, but there are HEAPS of really cool online java games, and im sure she would find something that piques her interest! I reckon its more beneficial (and lazier for a partner) to just let her test the water herself, with you there for support. And hey, in 3 months when she's playing the sims non-stop, remark how "hey, this looks a lot like diablo 2, just not as exciting!"..

    p.s: iv'e found games based on my girlfriends favourite books, movies and TV shows are also no-brainers for her attracting attention.
  • I used to play one of the strategy games against my wife as pretty much a nightly ritual before bedtime. We played the original AOE, Starcraft, Warcraft I and II (quickly scrapped Warcraft due to poor quality graphics by today's standards), and finally settled on AOE2 as our favorite. It has everything right: good pace (a full game usually runs about an hour to no more than an hour and 45 mins.), great graphics, and most importantly for her - lots of little people to control.

    For whatever reason, her biggest facination is seeing little people on the screen actually doing things.

    She used to like all the "Sim" games, but got burnt out on them since they don't really have objectives, other than "build the biggest/nicest thing you can make".

    Personally, I loved Civ and Civ II, but the "game board pieces" feel of the games turned my wife off to them after she played them a few times.

    She occasionally plays the FPS shooters with me, but doesn't enjoy them much since she's not very good at them.

    Right now, we're both waiting, anxiously, for Age of Myths and possibly Empire Earth from Sierra.
  • 'nuff said. My wife and I are ADDICTED to it!
  • Leisure Suit Larry

    enough said
  • If you don't find something she likes and you're a programmer type, you might consider writing one that she will like. There is a wonderful network game development system out there called BYOND [byond.com] (Build Your Own Net Dream) that does all the hard stuff (networking, etc) for you so that you can concentrate on building the actual game. The graphics system is fairly simple (sorry, no 3-D shooters in this system) which may actually appeal to some women. Already having experience in several programming languages, I found the BYOND system to be very easy and intuitive to pick up - within a week I was well on my way to completing my first game. I've now completed four games with more in the works.

    You can also check out the site and see if there are any completed games that might appeal to you. Many of them are quite original, written by hobbyists for the love of the craft. If you see something interesting, just download the client and try out a few games. Best part - it comes free with the development environment in case you get the urge to create later on. Unfortunately the site is a bit swamped with pre-teen DBZ fans and their endless copycat "games," but if you ignore those, you'll fine a number of fun high-quality games to choose from.

    Gosh, that sounded like quite the advertisement! No, I'm just a very happy user.

  • For some bizarre reason, women tend to like Tetris, so, how about playing tetrinet [tetrinet.org] ?
  • Tradewars of course.

    Together a galactic force.
  • My husband and I play Baldurs Gate and especially Heroes of Might and Magic. As a girl I can tell you that what I like is games that have some element of thinking and strategy, not just going around shooting stuff. On my own I like to play the same games mentioned above, plus sim games like Zeus.

    If after half an hour of trying I still can't figure out what I am supposed to next, I will quit a game. I don't like to guess at what I have to do and explore places to find hidden levers and the like, I just want to know what to do next. When a game is frustrating rather than fun, forget it. The same thing with having to memorize patterns of keystrokes or pressing buttons.

    Also, I also have a problem with rich 3-D environments. I get a motion sickness like affect if I play very long. If you introduce with a game like Quake and this happens, which it does with me, it won't take her long to hate playing games all together.

    Don't force her into playing games with you if she doesn't want to, especially if she is not comfortable with the computer yet. Like people below have said, if you introduce a person to a computer and show them useful things that they can do, once they are comfortable they will eventually start using it for other things or at least be open to doing so. We did this with my grandmother. She started using the comp we bought her as a replacement for her typewriter and eventually started playing a few games on her own. Things like Tetris and Solitaire.
    • I totally agree with you here. I love playing games just to relax, except for the fact that it means my wife have to be doing different things. So I tried to teach her to play starcraft.

      WARNING: If you value your relationship don't force her to play anything she doesn't like right away.

      Starcraft was a disaster, however Baulder's Gate 2 and Diablo were both very successful. We are slowly working our way through BG2 right now. I have played myself much farther ahead than we have together, so I can know where the tricky parts are so that she doesn't get frustrated.
      I also agree with Heather that you should let her pick some games just for herself. My wife loves SameGnome, and has recently found the joy of JezzBall.
  • Me and my Ex spent hours beating the crap out of each other in MK4. PC version. We sat shoulder to shoulder sharing the same keyboard. And I have to be honest, sometimes she totally kicked my ass. Anyway, she got into the competitive fast paced nature of it and we had a lot of fun doing it together.
  • Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. My wife thought it was stupid at first, but I walked her through a game, and now she loves it. We find the quotes and voice acting with the tech advances to be quite funny, and they keep cropping up in our conversations.

    Favorite quotes from SMAC:
    'Indigenous Life-Forms'
    'Faction Eliminated' (after some tickle combat)
    'We sit together, the mountain and I, til only the mountain remains.'
    'I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier...'
    'Organic Superlube? Oh, it's great stuff! Great stuff.'

    uhhh... yeah.

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