… stays together. It’s an inexplicable trend I have noticed amongst myself, colleagues and friends alike. Of course relationships come and go, but what brings and holds a couple to each other more than House of the Dead 4 in an arcade? If you are muttering to yourself: “Well I hear that spending more time talking, and cooking each other romantic meals works pretty well.” You sir (or madam) are wrong.
Every single pairing in the history of relationships has begun with conventional woo-ing, going to the cinema and giggling when you both reach for the popcorn at the same time, and the male pretending desperately to know how to write poetry. Yet only the rare few are able to share a stint on Dead Air as Zoey & Bill (yes, I play the old guy, army veterans are still cool to me!). I’ve been with my amazing girlfriend Jo for six years (really great years, may I add for when she reads this), and I genuinely believe, hand-on-heart, that we may not have made it this far were it not for Crash Bandicoot 1 helping us through those awkward silences back in 2003.
I need look no further than right here on Ready Up! I’ve lost count on how many times I have been in a Live party consisting of one or more boyfriend/girlfriend couples, happy as clams to be enjoying a rousing game of Grand Theft Auto 4 with each other. This does not always equate to a positive in the gaming itself though, because with your significant other by your side you are… shall we say, more encouraged to rescue them in their moment of need? (I’m looking at you Crunchy, nobody runs back half a level’s worth of distance in Left 4 Dead to save a smoker hooked brethren otherwise. Nobody!)
A particular friend of mine (who I shall not name, but when he reads this he will know) has the bad habit, he chases girls who lack the gaming gene, and I think this is a mistake. Stop! Do not begin typing an e-mail titled: “Love is true no matter what”, I don’t want to accidentally start a feminist movement, I label this a mistake because he is flat-out addicted to his consoles (and any achievements contained there-in). When I quizzed him his mind was pushed to the limit attempting to think of five games he had not played or owned (five!).
I can’t imagine my world without being an open gamer, having to tuck my hobby behind the empty shoe-boxes in the cupboard and pretend that I thought of it nothing more than a baby’s toy to the woman I loved. Life is a co-op game, so always cherish and treasure your partner always… unless they start to spawn kill.
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