As I recall, my main reason for not playing many computer games when I was a girl was that we only had one computer in the house and my brother and mom were always hogging it. :lol:
And back before flat screen LCD monitors, I couldn't use a computer very long without getting a bad headache. The old ray-trace monitors really bothered my eyes for some reason. So I tended to use our computer only in short bursts, and once my brother or mom got on the machine it was hard to get another chance.
But the OP is right in that a lot of the type of games back then didn't appeal much to me anyway. There were a few though. When I was able to get time on the computer, I played Tetris and other similar games, and I loved playing this one point and click adventure series that I think was called Space Quest. I was (still am) a huge sci-fi and fantasy nerd, and I love satire and parodies of stories I am familiar with, so Space Quest, which poked fun at Star Wars, Star Trek, and various other works in those genres was right up my alley.
I was really intrigued by the detailed 3D buildings and labyrinths in the early first person shooter games, but I had no interest in fighting enemies. So when I was in college, my brother (who had by then learned a lot of programming) modded one of the popular shooter games of the time (I forget which one) and created a whole new three volume game series just for me that involved spying on and sneaking past the bad guys instead of fighting them. We just called it the "Spy Game", and it was totally awesome, because he's both a good programmer and a great storyteller. That was probably one of the coolest and most elaborate "homemade" gifts anyone has ever given me. :love:
Sims 3 and Sims 4 are the only other games I have every really gotten hooked on. Mainly, my problem with most other games I've tried is that they don't let me use my own imagination enough. The sims games do, so they're much more fun for me than other games.
