So first off I know I'm talking about a topic that's been beaten to death, but I wanted to talk about something different. Well not all too different. It's pretty much my experiences of being a female gamer. Let's get this straight I never liked the term "Girl Gamers", it just very dumb to put Girl at the end of a term that should be for both genders. However I'll use it here just because I'm little tired now.

I've been playing games since I was very young and I can thank my mother and older brothers for that. I still have little memories of using the SNES' Super Scope. It was fun when I was kid I would into this huge park that had a lot of trees and I use to pretend to be Link in the lost woods trying to find my sister who would be pretend to be the skull kid. I was a really into Zelda back when I was a kid ^_^. Thinking back to my childhood now most of it was surrounded by video games and anime, but mostly video games. I even remember the first time my brother handed me Super Mario Land and the underground theme scared me >_<!

Anyways, I never thought of myself being different from other gamers when I was a little girl and even now I still don't feel that difference. I always hear about how other female gamers experience guys who always react in a "OMG U R GIRRL GAMER!" when they find out a girl plays video games. For me I never experienced that from guys even in my local video game stores I don't get treated differently. So I don't understand where some female gamers are coming from most of the time.

Even when I was in high school the guys didn't really flock to me because of my gaming. Then again most of the guys in my high school weren't really gamers -__-; . When I did meet other gamers outside of school most didn't really make a big deal about me being a girl. I always thought maybe it's because I live in New York City and there must be a lot of other female gamers. However, now that I'm in college it's hard finding other gamers >_<! Whenever I see a person who playing on their DS or PSP I always feel tempted to start a conversation with them, but I don't -_-'. My shyness after all.

Forgot to say! I don't have many experiences with online gaming since I don't have the money or time for it now. I pretty much wasted most of my summer catching up on DS games.

From my point of view this is how I see myself: as a girl just loves video games. Don't make a big deal about it like most gamers it's just another hobby I love doing. Always thought of video games like a interactive book that you play in another world. I know...it's a silly way to look at video games and my family would laugh at me if I told them that's how I see video games as. Geez...I feel like I rambled on again dammit -_-'.