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Title: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: mrhaboobi on May 17, 2015, 12:28:59 PM
So.. is your wife ( or partner of any sexual orientation ) a good one or not, do they support your PCE/TG habbits.

I turned 40 on may 9th.  Was a quiet day.. but for my presents i got..

1. Gunhed special
2. Final soldier special
3. Bomberman 93 special

and last bday or xmas i cant remember i  had soldier blade special.

My wife hunts on Yahoo JP, and buys me things like this.  Very cool.  Good wife.. Supports the habits i have :)..

I'm now looking for bomberman user battle to round out the special cards..

lets here if your partners support your habit :)

Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: SephirothTNH on May 17, 2015, 12:39:23 PM
My wife tracked me down a Buescher 400 "Top hat and Cane"  Alto sax a few years back.  She'll always be awesome for that. 

As for gaming she supports but doesn't feed my addiction. 
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: o.pwuaioc on May 17, 2015, 12:44:56 PM
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Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: galam on May 17, 2015, 01:05:22 PM
hurley bought me beyond shadowgate in 2006
bought me shadow of the beast the year before
both for christmas
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: Jibbajaba on May 17, 2015, 01:28:14 PM
MY wife has bought me a couple modern gaming items over the years.  She gave me a Nintendo Wii for Christmas one year, and a couple of XBLA/PSN cards.  In general, when it comes to games she wouldn't have the first idea of what to buy, since she is firmly a non-gamer.
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: MotherGunner on May 18, 2015, 04:06:26 AM
To think there are many of us on this forum with women who will ACTUALLY let us touch them!

Anyway, my wife has bought me Coryoon, Soldier Blade, and a full TG-CD setup.
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: mitsuman on May 18, 2015, 04:19:26 AM
With me and my wife, it is more of a "Hey, I bought this for my birthday/anniversary/valentines/christmas". With me it used to be car parts, now it is usually game stuff.
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: o.pwuaioc on May 18, 2015, 04:25:29 AM
To think there are many of us on this forum with women who will ACTUALLY let us touch them!

Anyway, my wife has bought me Coryoon, Soldier Blade, and a full TG-CD setup.
I always figured the forums with lots of single, undesirable men were NintendoAge and Neo-Geo.com.
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: PunkicCyborg on May 18, 2015, 04:50:06 AM
My wife has always gone out of her way to find cool stuff related to my hobbies. It has been harder for her to buy me games though because I have pretty specific tastes and a lot already. But she has asked my friends to figure out what I want. One year she got me a boxed vectrex and games, last birthday was a SFII pcb from japan with full artwork. She also found some cool Godzilla sofubi stuff for christmas.
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: Necromancer on May 18, 2015, 05:03:17 AM
Happy b-day, haboobi.  :mrgreen:

I do not have a wife......  is Donna available?
Title: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: esteban on May 18, 2015, 09:23:07 AM
My wife generally does not like stuff that distracts me from real life, so she is not the biggest fan of my obsession. She hates all the plastic bins/tubs filled games, magazines, etc.

In her defense, I am hopelessly obsessed and I'd have more consoles/cabs if I could afford them/ had room (I have no room for more than 1 arcade cabinet).

My daughter is genuinely interested in old games.



Happy b-day, haboobi.  :mrgreen:

I do not have a wife......  is Donna available?


Donna!
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: cr8zykuban0 on May 19, 2015, 05:28:45 AM
hope you had a good birthday and yes, you have a good wife. any girlfriend/wife who supports your gaming hobby is worth keeping.
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: xelement5x on May 19, 2015, 07:47:54 AM
So, my wife and I both enjoy video games.  We used to go by this local media store every Sunday to dig through the games they had and pick up stuff.  It was a glorious time and many awesome deals were had from NES to PS2 all at what would be considered amazing prices. 

At some point though, I became a bit too focused on the collecting aspect and started to get more and more stuff that I wanted to play and mess around with online.  I would buy in lots with the goal to keep some and resell the dupes, but after awhile I discovered I was not really selling much or very fast.  It wasn't really that big of a deal until we had our daughter and that definitely changed the math on extra funds available plus brought to light how much we were spending. 

I have continued to collect and play but have slowed down a lot on both fronts, and my wife still plays some games but not as much anymore.  We had lots of weekends before where we would just veg out and play all weekend and plenty of gifts giving were gaming related.  That still happens to a degree (I had preordered the Ni no Kuni Wizard Edition for her when that came out and she was ecstatic to receive it), and if she does feed my habits rarely it is something small and Sega or Sonic related, never PCE. 

But, I think the main thing is our lives are both shifting away from games to a degree with my daughter now 2 years old.  It's still a part of our lives, just not as much focus as previously, and I'm personally trying only to purchase things with funds derived from selling off other stuff.
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: Bardoly on May 20, 2015, 07:00:25 AM

I turned 40 on may 9th.  Was a quiet day.. but for my presents i got..

1. Gunhed special
2. Final soldier special
3. Bomberman 93 special

and last bday or xmas i cant remember i  had soldier blade special.



Pics?
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: Necromancer on May 20, 2015, 09:03:54 AM
Pics?

Of the wife?  You perv.   (http://pcengine.freeforums.org/images/smilies/cooks_transp.gif)
Title: Re: Good Wife or Bad Wife? My Bday Presentss
Post by: gamerslife on May 21, 2015, 06:07:59 AM
My gf tries but gets confused and orders things that seem likes what she's looking for but the way people list things on eBay and Amazon are deceiving as we all have seen and her use of these sites is almost zero so she ends up getting me a game she thinks is cib but never is.....I appreciate the effort but told her just use my wish list or watch list as they are vetted already, lol