Strumming My Game With Her Fingers

I'm a Nintendo fanboy and I don't hide it. I've owned almost every console since the original NES. Right now my main source of video game entertainment is the company's redesigned DS lite, but something happened this past weekend. The reign of the Big N in our home as the only gaming machine would come to an end. Now it must share playtime with its nemesis: the PlayStation 2!

The thing is that this weekend my wife was over at a friend's house. When I arrived to pick her up she was holding what looked like a small guitar and playing along to "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand. The game is Guitar Hero, only available for Sony's PlayStation 2, in which you hold down the fret buttons, flick the strum bar, and wiggle the whammy bar of a guitar controller to 25 famous rock songs. So I decided to give the game a go to see what it was all about...

After a couple of hours of "More Than a Feeling", "Bark at the Moon", and "Infected" I was hooked! Unfortunately, not owning a PS2 brought me back to my Nintendo reality, but my wife had other plans. She started to plead and beg me for the game. It was weird since the only game she loves to play, besides Tetris on her cell phone, is Soul Calibur II. We eventually left, my wife moping in her seat and deeply sighing all the way home. I got the message...

The next morning I woke up early (which really means before noon), took a bath, and scurried out the door. I told my wife before leaving that I was going to buy something to eat. What she didn't know is that, besides bringing back food, I had planned to buy her Sony's console as well as the game. I drove quickly to the closest CompUSA and bought the PS2, then hopped over to GameStop to get Guitar Hero before coming back home.

I stashed the bags and after eating I asked her to check the family room. She gasped and started laughing uncontrollably while saying "You lied to me!" Like a kid on Christmas, she ripped open the boxes and pulled out her new toys. After helping her set up the system she rocked away all afternoon... and sadly didn't let me play all that much.

All in all, I'm glad she's gotten into a game we can both enjoy, even though as of this day she's already way ahead of me!