Does Your Significant Other Play Games?

While I'm single, I am still curious as to whether or not those with a partner actually have one who plays video games. In an ideal world, I'd love one who maybe doesn't have to be as much a geek as I am, but who is willing to accept games and possibly play them once in a while.

I tried to get my wife to start playing with some pretty simple games, and worked her up to Zelda Four Swords Adventure for Gamecube.  However, at that point it was a little too much for her.  I think I might try Lego Indian Jones next.

Games are definitely not my girlfriend's cup of tea, but she does like old-school mario games.  Our first ever joint purchase was New Super Mario Bros. Wii.  She brought up the idea of buying it together like it was some kind of dirty thing, and I told her that the mere fact that she was even moderately interested in playing a game with me made it an instant purchase :)

Is it a turn-on for your girlfriend or wife to play video games? I imagine it would be for me. That's hot.

my girl plays games. its fun but its not really a turn on

Nope, mine doesn't. But she appreciates them as I talk quite a bit about them, especially the people behind the games as well as the politics as I think we can learn from them. She loves tennis-games though and has played Animal Crossing diligently until she couldn't take Tom Nook ripping her off anymore. 
 
Best moment: I was asleep and she came rushing in and hanging over me shouting: Look what I got you from my first paycheck! And my eyes had to still focus.... and I saw Shadow of the Colossus! She remembered that I really wanted to play that game and actually bought it for me. I'll never forget that.  
 
I have footage somewhere of her playing Mario Kart on the Wii. Hilarious shit.

My wife and I game together. Since our days in high school, before either of us owned a console, she and I played cards together (both the standard playing cards and Magic: The Gathering variety). She can get very frustrated at games, however, so I tend to shy away from playing anything competitive with her. New Super Mario Bros threatened our marriage; that game's co-op is toxic to relationships. 
 
Within the past few years she's been playing more games on her own. She actually played through Heavy Rain before I had the chance to pick it up.

I had a few ex-girlfriends who plays casually, it didn't went well... GODDAMN CAMPING N00BTUBING Facebook farmer. I don't give a sh*t about her farm!

Yes indeedy, he is much better at them then me though.

She does! She gets into terrible binges of them and it's almost frightening. I'd never even HEARD of Sacrifice until she got on a binge for that

i wish!

 
 
that i had a significant other...

Yep. I am way better than her at games though.

I've never dated a girl that liked playing games. :(

My girlfriend love to play with sackboy, jk, but she really loves little big planet, she plays other games as well

My wife plays occasionally. RockBand, the Lego games, puzzle games, Brain Age, that sort of stuff.

Yes

My girl and I play strip & shot Street Fighter sometimes.  I let her win after I beat her a few times so she feels good about it and it makes it fun for her.
 
But really, by her winning, I have an excuse to get drunk and strip down infront of her and we proceed to have crazy sex.  Who really is the winner?

" My wife plays occasionally. RockBand, the Lego games, puzzle games, Brain Age, that sort of stuff. "

Yes, yes she does.  Pokemon, mostly, but she likes all the Nintendo games.  She's pree casual though...

Yup, she sure does. 
Heck, she even beat Mass Effect 2 before I did because she wanted to. 
But that was mostly because she would get angry and fire would come out of her eyes if I tried to take the controller and start a new game with my own character. 
When she likes a game, she's gonna finish it. 

My lady is more hardcore than I am I guess.  I wanted a Wii when she wanted and got both a ps3 and 360.  She's better at finishing games than I am.  It freaks me out when people think it's "hot" or something when your girlfriend is into nerdy stuff but is still a girlie girl.  Those people act like they want a clone of themselves in their significant other, eeww.
 
She bought me a dreamcast because she didn't want me to feel inferior to her and her collection, haha.

My soon to be wife plays the Sims 3. When I had my Wii, we played Lego Star Wars, and she angrily enjoyed waggling the remote around and yelling die... and that was pretty fun. We've also played a little bit of Rock Band, but she needs to stay on the easy level because her brain shuts down if there she has to hit more than one note simultaneously. But other than that, I have in no way been able to get her to play anything else. I try, but it will never be able to get her to playing anything beyond these style of games. 
 
@fwylo said:

" My girl and I play strip & shot Street Fighter sometimes.  I let her win after I beat her a few times so she feels good about it and it makes it fun for her.  But really, by her winning, I have an excuse to get drunk and strip down infront of her and we proceed to have crazy sex.  Who really is the winner? "  

I dated a girl who didn't mind a night of gaming for quite a few years. It's definitely a nice feeling, because it's a relaxing hobby you both share.

Yes, my girlfriend has played every Final Fantasy game ever and is a huge RPG fan. She got way into Fable 2 as well (she has more achievements than I do in that game). She also put over 50 hours into Oblivion and even more into WoW. Before I quit WoW, we used to quest together while eating tacos. :P
 
She also plays a lot of DS. She kicks my ass at Tetris, which we play in bed together quite a bit.
 
I'm a big geek so having a girlfriend that is also a big geek is nice because it means you're both excited to go see a geeky movie, and you both hate Twilight, and you have someone to go to Comic Cons with (even if you like different geeky things - I don't care about Final Fantasy at all unless it's on a Super Nintendo or Gameboy system). It's important that a significant other be a friend first, even if you weren't friends before you started dating - I mean, they're someone that if you weren't dating, you'd still be good friends with because you have so much in common and get a long with so well. I've dated hot girls with big sexual appetites before, but if you don't have anything in common with them, who cares? You get bored of them pretty fast.

" My girl and I play strip & shot Street Fighter sometimes.  I let her win after I beat her a few times so she feels good about it and it makes it fun for her.  But really, by her winning, I have an excuse to get drunk and strip down infront of her and we proceed to have crazy sex.  Who really is the winner? "

My girlfriend lives with me and plays more hours of game per week than I do. She recently finished a marathon stretch of Mass Effect 1 and 2. Currently she is playing Phantasy Star for the Master System.

I don't have a significant other.  Yay me!  Wait a minute, I'm lonely and horny.  Boo me!

The wife is working on Final Fantasy XIII at the moment.

Yes. She's a big MMORPG player and plays a bit of everything. She loves the main series Mega Man games, and always pokes fun that I never played one. ^_^'
I'm trying to get her into the more competitive stuff like shooters and fighting games. Though she gets frustrated easily as do I.

Yep.
 
Rock Band, Brain Age, Rhythm Heaven, Okami, and some others. Even got her to play Oblivion for a little bit.
 
She's about 15 hours into Okami and hasn't picked it up in awhile. I'm trying to fix this.

my girl plays Plants Vs Zombies and Machinarium. She completed New Super Mario Bros before I did (it was a race) and she's pretty good at SSX Tricky as well. She also seems to find VVVVVV hysterical for some reason.
 
I tried showing her Left 4 Dead 2 but, surprisingly, she didn't like that one. She's weird like that.
 

Yes. She's quite strong on them, to the point when she bought me the first Mass Effect as a present and then fell in love with the game.

My girlfriend loves gaming.

She recently got into gaming, I think so we have a common interest so i started her on mini ninjas and she loved it. She recently moved on to Fable 2 and is liking that game too. So yeah my Girlfriend is just starting to get into games.

 Yep! It was a nice surprise to found out he also played WoW when we first got together. Though now we play together on 360 more than anything else. 

My girlfriend was a very casual gamer, usually played Tony Hawk and NHL games. Then one day she was watching me play  WoW and asked "how do you get a flaming horse? I want one!", cut to 5 years later she still plays the game non stop and has a character select screen filled entirely with lvl 80+ character. Her characters all outclass mine when it comes to gear and achievements, I effectively created a monster.

Nope, she is definitely not a gamer, although she did had alot of fun when I let her try Tumble on the ps3. I don't think she'll ever get into the non casual stuff, but frankly I don't mind, if you ask me your significant other doesn't need to be a gamer, there's gotta be a mutual understanding that she won't nag you for doing an activity you enjoy and that you won't nag her to participate in an activity she has no interest in.

Yeah she does but she's not as into it as I am... She's likes platformers and games that you have to manage shit and do things like viva pinata and shitty facebook games... She's got a DS and she likes to buy old PSone games on PSN... She doesn't own any consoles so I'm glad she's into it but not that into it so she's not hoggin' it all the time... I'd love to play some co-op with her but she'd never play a fps...