I have never been a great video game enthusiast. I never got to play them when I was a kid, and I only really discovered SNES when I met Tor at 16 (at which point I devoured Super-Mario and all things Zelda and Secret of Mana and Illusion of Time, and finally Chrono Trigger, but never made the transition into the real first person shooter games. It never appealed to me.
Recently, someone suggested that boys were better at Portal because they were more used to navigating in 3D space because they played Sims instead. I was a little annoyed that my potential Portal prowess was dismissed out of hand because of my gender, but
