My wife ONLY plays Dr. Mario!

mediamogul

Who do you guys pick to play as in 'Rampage'? I'm a Ralph man myself.

meleu

@Capeman If you usually receive guests in your home and they like to play videogames, I suggest Super Bomberman 5. You can play 2 vs 2 and it's very funny (the fun increases in proportion to the beer's quality). Out of modesty, my wife and I are a tough couple! :-)

I think the wives like to play in cooperation with their respective husbands. ;-)

Capeman

@meleu said in My wife ONLY plays Dr. Mario!:

I think the wives like to play in cooperation with their respective husbands. ;-)

Funny you should say that, because when i asked if she wanted to play something different, she said "Lets play some of those shooting games" ... to which I gleefully replied, "OH YOU MEAN LIKE CONTRA?!" ... to which she shattered my dreams by saying "No, like call of duty, me and an ex used to play that back in college" ...

So ya, all i have is a PS2 and Wii-U... haha, womp womp.

mediamogul

@Capeman

I'm not married myself, but a friend of mine's wife pretty much only plays 'Dr. Mario' as well. The only other game she'll play is 'Snake Rattle 'n' Roll', so maybe that's worth a look. It's also one of the all-to-few NES titles to have cooperative multiplayer, so it'd be an interesting change-up in that regard as well.

Personally, I could play the NES 'Dr. Mario' until my hands bled. I've played it so much over the years that I can set it to level 20 on 'Hi' and play until I'm ready to move on to something else. The SNES version is a whole other story. It has an impressive computer AI to play against that, at it's highest level, makes it necessary to play a perfectly measured game of killing at least one virus, while also dropping some garbage on his side to impede him with each pill you get. It's quite a challenge.

jsawhite

The one I'd recommend that a (female) friend of mine used to play was Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine on Genesis... It's similar to Dr. Mario save for being in Sonic's world...

Of course, my wife doesn't play games pretty much at all. Boggle on her iPhone, or maybe tetris once in a grand while, but that's about it for her. Be glad your wife plays games with you at all! ;)

backstander

@jsawhite

Of course, my wife doesn't play games pretty much at all.

My wife is the same way. Every once and awhile I can get her to play Mario Kart 64 and one time she played DiRT 3 (using Moonlight) but she was too frustrated that she kept coming in last. I tried to get her to play Bomberman with me but she didn't want to. I bet she would like it if she gave it a chance. Oh yeah, another time we play split screen Gameboy Tetris on the RPi with my family over at my dad's house.

mediamogul

@backstander

split screen Gameboy Tetris on the RPi

Being GameBoy, how are you doing that? Is there some sort of link cable support in one of the emulators?

backstander

@mediamogul
I used the TGB Dual - Gameboy (Color) Emulator. I think that emulator is now officially in RetroPie but here's a video of it:

Yeah here's the changelog when TGB Dual officially became not experimental in RetroPie:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Changelogs#version-300-stable--august-11-2015

mediamogul

@backstander

Very keen! I'll be playing with that a good bit this evening.

guythp

'Dr Roboniks' Mean Bean Machine' (Megadrive, Master System and Gamegear) should fit the bill; it's essentially the same game (a better version of this game is, iMO 'super foul egg' on the Amiga), similarly Super Puzzle Fighter (MAME, NeoGeo & possibly other formats) may allow you to gently sway her toward games you prefer playing, though it may take a while. In the meantime enjoy playing together!

AlexMurphy

Is this turning into "games for gals" thread then...? I have the opposite problem, my GF is too busy with her Steam account to bother playing retro stuff with me. She likes the 8-bit aesthetic but just seems to prefer modern (i.e. easy) games. How many games today give you one life and no health bar?!!! WE do have the odd game of MarioKart64 and she usually leaves me eating her dust.

herb_fargus

@Capeman try openblok battle mode. (Basically Tetris)

Capeman

@herb_fargus 2 player Tengen Tetris was her obsession before Dr. Mario, hahaha. Might be a bit of a step back. Im hoping to expand beyond puzzlers soon, haha.

hooperre

@Capeman Make sure you write a book on your discoveries if you successfully convert her. For a friend, of course.

mediamogul

@Capeman

2 player Tengen Tetris was her obsession before Dr. Mario

Lack of variety aside, you can't accuse her of bad taste. Tengen Tetris is somewhat unknown to most people. Did she play it growing up, or did she discover it on RetroPie?

meleu

@mediamogul said in My wife ONLY plays Dr. Mario!:

Did she play it growing up, or did she discover it on RetroPie?

I think we have to call the council for an extraordinary meeting. Being interested in a RetroPie brother's wife is a serious affront to our statute.

mediamogul

@meleu

It's a slippery slope to be sure. Next thing you know, we're organizing key parties to determine co-op partners for netplay.

Capeman

@mediamogul said in My wife ONLY plays Dr. Mario!:

Lack of variety aside, you can't accuse her of bad taste. Tengen Tetris is somewhat unknown to most people. Did she play it growing up, or did she discover it on RetroPie?

She's always liked tetris, but wanted to play it 2 player. So i introduced her to that version, she likes the music and the little dancing russians between rounds, haha.

backstander

When @Capeman finishes writing his book about his journeys of converting his wife into a hardcore gamer, I'm sure it will be a best seller. All the gamers will be reading it in hopes they will be able to turn their significant other into gamers as well!

mediamogul

@Capeman

Of the original versions, it has the most to offer. I have the most nostalgia for the Nintendo version, but Tengen is arguably the better game.

@meleu

Speaking of netplay; now that it's up and running again, let's get that long-overdue game of 'Contra' going. We'll need to come up with a good compromise between our time differences, but Red Falcon must be destroyed!