Anybody check out this female gamer?

[tomaitheous]

They just irritate me, sorry.

I was the same way with 'country' accents (here in the US). I really couldn't stand them for the longest time. I couldn't tell you why, either.

[ThunderForce]

Female gamer thread, five pages. Not surprised.

[Guntz]

I was the same way with 'country' accents (here in the US). I really couldn't stand them for the longest time. I couldn't tell you why, either.

And there ain't nothing wrong with that.

[ThunderForce]

I think its a bit silly someone let her put game systems in the kitchen.

I someone locally who wife let him put arcade machines in the dining room. The guy also has 1600 games which he will never play most of them in his life.

[WarmSignal]

Her voice is "cute" in that annoying, mouse-y kind of way but she's not actually that cute. Just an average looking gal who happens to like video games.

And yes, of course people are that desperate.

I was going to comment... did anyone notice she sounds like she's five? That always sounds forced to me.

[Rusty Venture]

Whatever gets the Youtube hits.

But "Female" and "likes video games" somehow is the magic combo.

[Chilly Willy]

I was going to comment... did anyone notice she sounds like she's five? That always sounds forced to me.

I was going to say 10 or 11, but yes, she sounds MUCH too young to be talking about growing up on the NES.

[ItellYaHuat]

I've seen kids under 15 collecting these consoles. Collecting might become more competitive even with access to top classic titles via the VC, emulators, etc. AVGN is helping too. The only reason why my older brother gave a shit to try out the first Zelda game on the NES is because of him bashing consoles that he never knew existed. That's funny, because he called me (being a Genesis guy anyway) a shut-in, anti-social hermit which doesn't make any sense, since playing multiplayer NBA Jam requires people to be physically there unlike the online gaming that he partakes in.

[QuickSciFi]

I saw her stuff a while back (the Double Dragon video was the first). It's OK stuff... though like a lot of sort of neo-retro fans who are more superficial about it in some ways, there's a fair amount of common bias along with it... and use of emulators... which wouldn't be so much of a problem alone, but there's some odd issues like not realizing the FM sound was enabled by default on the SMS.

The "getting NES games to work" themed video was a bit interesting... the "wiggle" suggestion really is important to note too.

It's not like there's not a lot of other girl game reviewers/let's players/etc on YT, quite often retro-oriented. (a fair amount on the rom-hack side of things -usually Nintendo stuff)
There's some Sega/Genesis fan-girls on YT too, I seem to remember one in particular when I browsed MN12bird's favorites. (not sure it was his, but that's what I remember)

That's not really surprising either given sheerly how popular the Genesis, and it's not like it's a guy-only thing.

I just watched the "wiggle it" vid. GOod tip. :P

[Thenewguy]

I don't care about her being a girl. What puzzles me is the how contradictory her review is. She says the MS version:

- is more colorful
- has more detailed graphics
- lets you use all the moves right from the start
- has more enemies onscreen at one time
- is more faithful to the arcade
- has the 2-player mode

... but the NES version wins because "it's more fun to play." WTF? She mentions at the very beginning of the review that both games play about equal, save for a few exclusive moves in the NES version. And her whole contention about the MS hit detection isn't fair since many times she misses because she's not on the same plane as the enemies. That's something all the DD games have, including the NES one.

I think once people get over the fact that she's a girl, they'll see that this review isn't very accurate.

I didn't notice any contradictions, I was actually pretty surprised by what good a job she did, being that she's putting on a silly voice.

Gameplay wise she stated that she liked the new additions to the NES version as they added variation (at which point "more faithfull" wouldn't be a plus point), and she said the SMS version has crap hit detection (which it does, especially for hair pull and throw) these elements for her add up to the NES version being "more fun to play"

She also said the NES version has better sound (reviewing the NTSC versions), and better animation.

If anything, she went a little bit too easy on the SMS version, it really is dire.

[madcrow]

I think her voice sounds like a six year old child, she says "Deble Dregen"

The "Debel Dregen" can be explained by her being Canadian. The super-girly voice is unexplainable.

[David J.]

And I have a brown shirt that is kinda like that shirt in the video. Just it's a male dress shirt, not a female one. The cuffs look the same haha.

[Rusty Venture]

The super-girly voice is unexplainable.

To appeal to gamers?

This whole "DoOd, this chick likes games" thing would have been awesome circa my early teen years, but age and experience has taught me that a significant other that *doesn't* play games is way better.



And the chick in the video didn't do anything for me.

[Vyse of Arcadia]

I was going to say 10 or 11, but yes, she sounds MUCH too young to be talking about growing up on the NES.

Sometimes what game system one grew up on has little to do with age and a lot to do with economics. I'm a good five years too young to have grown up on the NES, but it's what happened (because my parents were not exactly well off.)

Also, I thought the internet realized girl gamers aren't as uncommon as previously believed?

[kokujin]

Sometimes what game system one grew up on has little to do with age and a lot to do with economics. I'm a good five years too young to have grown up on the NES, but it's what happened (because my parents were not exactly well off.)

Also, I thought the internet realized girl gamers aren't as uncommon as previously believed?

Very true, I grew up on the NES even though we had SNES/Genesis, I still played a quite a bit of NES games.It's also a factor what is around.