The Gamer in ME

We've all played with her.....him...ummm it?

I'm...just a girl. Yeah, I'm that video game unicorn that you keep hearing about, but that no one really believes exists. After all, everyone knows girls don't play video games. Grow up boys. We do too. Some of us might even kick your butt. Would that really be any worse than being beat by a 12 year old in CoD?

Ok. I'll give it to you. When I was a kid most girls didn't play video games. Those who did SUCKED at it. The most my mother could master was solitaire on the computer. She couldn't even complete level one of Super Mario Bros on NES. I don't even remember any other girls from my childhood playing games. I hated girls growing up. They were always saying stupid stuff like, "Let's go to my house and play Barbies!" Uhhh, no, let's not. And, let's not even say we did.

I started playing games on the Atari. We had multiple computers in our home when most people didn't even have one. We had 2 NES's and a Sega Genesis. To say the least, my family was always at the cutting edge of tech gear. That was my dads influence. He knew that computers and the like were the things to latch on to. That they'd be a BIG deal in the future. And they have been.

 I spent a good bit of my youth in chat rooms. I played D&D. I still play D&D, but now I play with my kids. That's right, I spend a good amount of energy seeing to it that I keep the geek gene alive. My son has been bitten by the gaming bug. He has a fever that won't break. He'll play games any way he can get them. I think it's an awesome thing to share. My daughter is more selective. She prefers PC gaming to console. 

We game as a family. PC games, console games, and paper D&D. We game as individuals. We play more games than we watch t.v., but we do other things too. Like, read books, my son is on a Little League Team, my daughter is in the High School Band, my husband coaches my son, and I'm on the Band Board. BUT this blog isn't about us being well rounded. So, I don't want to hear any moot comments about getting out into the world and doing something. I've been outside...the game play sucks.

What is this blog about? In short, whatever I want, BUT it's really going to be about the various games I play. What I think about them. What I think about what's going on in the gaming community. What I think could be done better. Who I think is messing it up. We'll talk about gaming articles I read, consoles I buy, and maybe even some D&D.

In short, let's geek out with our socks out!