Gamecube + Wavebird = crazy fun (Score 1)

I like X-Men Legends 1 & 2 for this sort of thing. My girl only played PC RPGs (Baldur's Gate and its variations, Morrowind, etc.), not liking the controllers or the games on my various consoles. That all changed with Mario Kart Double Dash, in which she would take the attacking and providing speed boosts and I would do the driving, but even though we were playing on a console together, she refused to try to drive. When I bought X-Men Legends, she showed some interest in playing; the cooperative mode lets you get away with button mashing even as it gently pushes you towards learning combos and powers; these she picked up quickly, and we were able to start getting lots of combos. After many complaints about (and a few pratfalls due to) the Gamecube wires, I acquired two Wavebirds, and all of the sudden, she expects to be playing when the Gamecube is turned on. It's no longer a spectator sport for her. When she gets tired of playing X-Men, she announces she's out and I can return the game to single-player mode on the fly, letting her spectate once more. This means that I can do a lot of the tedious power leveling when she's not around, and because of the linked leveling scheme, her avatar never lags in level. X-Men Legends 2 is just as good at cooperative play for mixed skill-level couples; my girl is a fan of the X-Men comics since the movies came out, and now she can play as some of her favorite characters. She mostly plays as Magento, while I jump around the other three depending on the situation. These three games (X-Men Legends 1 and 2, and Double Dash), along with the Wavebird, have let her play and enjoy games she normally would have only watched me play; even better, her increase in skill and confidence have let her try playing games solo (mostly Zelda: Windwaker, but some Soul Calibur 2). Bottom line is that good cooperative games along with an easy to use, tangle-free controller helped increase my girl's skill level and worked as a gateway drug for "harder" games. She's even stooped to traditionally "guy" ploys: who do you think bought me X-Men Legends 2 for Christmas? And gave it to me ten days early to open so that "I" could play it?