Is your wife/family/friends supportive of your addiction?

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Is your wife/family/friends supportive of your addiction?

Hi guys,

wondering how much understanding you get from your wife, family, friends or significant other regarding our addiction? My wife, whom I affectionately shall refer to as SiniSara totally hates my games and resents the time and money Ive spent working on them. "what good does your games do for us?" is asked quite often to which it's hard to argue. The irony is now that I'm close to having my games where I can finally enjoy them, I'm fairly certain it'd piss her off knowing I was out playing games in the garage and enjoying myself, lol. In fairness to her, we haven't bought a house yet which is her ultimate goal. I'm onboard with it now as owning a house may mean dedicated gameroom rather than funky garage.

How do people in your life respond to your games?

Tom
 
my wife has been very supportive. she's agreed to have 10 games in the back of the house (6 in the "dining room" and 4 in the office,) until i can get my space in the garage finished off. i originally brought them in for a party with the understanding they'd go back to the garage after, but she enjoyed the all the fun they brought to the guests and she figured they could stay for a while.

tonight she's fine with me hitting a local arcade party, and in a few weeks i'll spend most of four or five days involved with the NW Pinball and Gameroom show.
 
My wife is pretty supportive. She's not really a gamer though so as long as I keep it to within my half bonus room space and the garage, she's happy.

At first, she was a bit frustrated with my obsession, but now thinks it's pretty cool that I have them and it's always a big hit when we have company over.

To give you an idea how how supportive she is, she's bought me cab art for gifts, got me my Nintendo neon sign last Christmas, and let me get my red tent shipped here for my birthday. Very blessed here. :)
 
Everything was fine when it was 5 then 10 then 15. The kids are fine with everything. When the total hit 30 the wife didn't say to much but knew not to happy. So I got her a pin. Well now that we are over 40 plus are the parts and monitors hummmmmmm. I imagine this is worse than being a crack head, and more expensive. To sum it all up We could do worse things with our money.
 
my wife is supportive... but since we are so low on space and cash, those things come in to play.

of course, I only have three machines right now... I do have a TON of console stuff though, and she's supportive of that.

Overall, as long as the price on the machine is right, or it's money that I have aquired outside of a normal paycheck, she's pretty much alright with it
 
My wife has actually embraced it. To get games out of both the computer room and garage, we have decided to convert the 12x25 Florida room into a gameroom.

She actually isn't really into games, and was rather oblivious to the building process of the first MAME cabinet that got me back into the arcade scene. Once she saw it working, she sort of understood the attraction. Seeing relatives and friends freak out about the ability to play old games on a standup machine at our house must have driven home that I wasn't a complete lunatic. I'm now up to 7 games and never had a complaint.

She bought my blacklight carpet with a work bonus and also got me the commercial sized black light panel I'm going to use for my upcoming fathers day present. I think aside from just a place for me, she see's the gamerooms value as somewhere to entertain that is unlike anything anyone else has. We all know its pretty commonplace here, but quite unusual in The Mainstream.

For reluctant spouses, spinning the hobby in a positive light like this may make all the difference. I was fortunate to have some late 20's to early 30's family on her side that have warm retro feelings for the 80's.

The one advantage I had six motorcycles when we met and my compulsive behavior regarding hobbies was part of the deal. The nice thing about working on the games is that they keep you home. ;)
 
My wife isn't supportive at all, she bitches constant and says its a waste of money. Even if I pay 50 for a working gamenbut I just got a playchoice and she loves super mario bros 3. I think the main reason she hates it is because she really doesn't have any hobbies of her own.for some good news she told me today we need to get some funner games and I can move a couch and chair out of the basement to put more games in their spot
 
my wife is awesome! She gets frustrated sometimes at crap left around, but thats more to do with me making messes than anything else. She helps out with repairs and does 99% of the "artistic" work. She has a much better work ethic than me and is much more dogged about finishing things. keeps me on the straight and narrow a bit :)

cheers
/Tim
 
Yes, my wife is very supportive. Plus she really likes to play a few of our pinball machines... White Water and STTNG is her favorite right now.

Steve
 
i lived with a girl who resented the games (come to think of it she resented me) now she's gone and my new girl loves them as much as me!! her faves are baby pac, space invaders, dig dug, and centipede! (don't even think of trying to get a game in)we play almost every nite!! nice!!!
 
My girlfriend is ok with the games,she finds it amusing when i have to get another one.I have 6 vids and 3 pins,and the old dining room is full to capacity.Though i have discovered i could squeeze a cabaret in between 2 of the full size uprights.I dont have one,so that is probably next on my list.She took an early interest in my pile of crap frogger,so i restored it to great shape.She has lost interest in that,but my daughter and her friends play the heck out of it.Two weeks ago she played a pin for the first time in her life,it was jungle lord.She sucked at it and i kept playing the one next to her and egging her on.Once she hit multi-ball and the loud ass mechanical bell went off and the light show happened,she was hooked.Now she even plays while i'm at work..
I have a few games in mind and i wanted to pick one up this weekend,but she reminded me very nicely that i had been promising her a new car stereo,an air conditioner and headphones for her ipod..So game purchase on hold,picked up a nice car stereo and some headphones and a fan lol..Air conditioners are not cheap...
These things should keep her happy and when my next paycheck that lands on a week when all bills are paid and nothing is due comes along i'll be off for the next score lol.
 
my girlfriend is really supportive, although slightly amused by the whole thing. i think she wishes i would buy a q*bert, but i hate that game. galaga and dk are too hard for her.

my dad could care less. my mom thinks it's kinda dumb and a waste of money.

of course my friends are supportive because they get to play them!
 
My wife didn't grow up going to arcades like I did, so I'd characterize her support level as "tolerant" more than anything else. She likes to play a few games, but there isn't a shred of nostalgia about it for her (as there is for me.)
 
My wife didn't grow up going to arcades like I did, so I'd characterize her support level as "tolerant" more than anything else. She likes to play a few games, but there isn't a shred of nostalgia about it for her (as there is for me.)

Bingo.. "Tolerant" but my wife has no interest in them what so ever.
 
My wife is very supportive of my hobby because she knows how much I enjoy it.. At first I think she was a little skeptical, but now she's all for it as long as I don't start putting games in our living room or something.... Which is fine with me.
 
My wife is not only supportive, but she is good at almost all the games. She's currently practicing for her run at the Galaga TGTS high score.
 
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