An Ode To My Better Half - My Fiance & Video Games

I spend a lot of my free time playing video games. Some would say too much. When I’m not playing video games, I’m most likely writing about them. Or reading about them. Or shopping for them. This means that for my fiancé, there is no escape. Living together in a small flat in the middle of Tokyo, she can’t help but acknowledge them. They have invaded our living room. She was actually the inspiration for my blog name “toomanywires”. After yet another of my ill advised console purchases, and seeing the collection of cords choking up our TV stand she came out with that little sound bite.

She was good natured enough to laugh and make fun of me when I got drunk and bought an Xbox360. She drew the stunning likeness of me that is my current user profile at 1up.com. She can play up a storm on Puyo Puyo, and knows that there’s a part of me that isn’t really joking when I pretend to throw a fit whenever she beats me at Wii golf (it doesn’t happen that often!). She sat through 2 player Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles and she doesn’t mind when I farm her for PS3 puzzle game trophies (Trashpanic). She has partaken in countless drinking sessions with me and thedogbarks, which almost always descend into game talk, however hard we try to steer the topic elsewhere. She even claimed to like the 8bit Cafe, a retro game themed watering hole in Shinjuku. I have lost count of how many times she has accompanied me to Akihabara.

I realise that I am very fortunate. Thanks for having a sense of humour, and I promise I won’t buy any more games this week.

You lucky, lucky girl.