- -What is your sexual orientation?
straight
-What is your gender identity?
male
-Were you raised in early to middle childhood as male, female, or gender neutral?
male
-What video game consoles did you grow up with? In addition to consoles/devices, what games were the most influential to your childhood/development? (for example, I had a wii, ds, and 3ds growing up)
ps2, ds, dsi, wii, pspgo
-Did you feel as though the games that were most influential to your childhood were "feminized"?
No not really I mostly played fighters or pokemon
-What were the goals/themes of the games you played? (For example: The Cooking Mama series: Time management (bonuses for quick success), perfection (one mistake and you lose that gold medal), creativity (freedom to decorate certain dishes with designs and garnishes
Usually it was action or adventure games. Like mortal kombat, soul calibur, any number of car games, street fighter. So they were usually competitive, with the purpose of player vs player combat or competing at some objective. If they weren't PvP it was games where I could explore or whatever. So like ratchet n clank or open world games which remain my favorite type of game to this day.
-Growing up, did you ever play games related to the Pokémon franchise? If so, how did your peers feel about you playing these games?
Yea, most of my friends, male or female were Pokemon fans as-well. Well, I would say it was probably more so my male friends that gravitated towards it more but it wasn't completely one sided either way.
-As a kid, did you feel any romantic awakening/queer awakening related to a video game character? If so, add details about the character that made them appealing, as a favorite character or in a romantic sense.
Not queer awakening but maybe a few of the female soul calibur characters I thought were attractive or designed well.
-End notes for discussion and any other factors/experiences you have had with video games All thoughts are welcome, just try to keep it kind and honest.
I tended towards playing games I felt like I could flex on, I got enjoyment from seeing that I was measurably better than my peers at any given game i played. Any game I felt like I couldn't do well on I usually gave up on, but I think that was only a couple games. Usually I'd play until i was good.