My lovely bride not only accepts this crazy hobby, but she actually enjoys it as well. She loves games like SM$M, MM, SPP, Tron, No Fear, 8 ball deluxe, Tommy... I know I listed more examples of newer games than the older ones, but she does typically prefer pre-DMD SS games; primarily for the easy to understand right away rule sets.
I recently added Black Hole to my collection. Quite frankly, I think its pretty freaking awesome.
Last night, I had to talk her into playing it with me.. not usually much of a fight, but she played it once or twice before and was like, "its OK I guess, not really my thing." so she played it last night. Got multiball twice (quite a challenge for those who have not played it)one of which was the best mutiball I have ever seen on that game... kept all three alive forever while passing them between playfield levels on numerous occasions.. and she waited for the 3x g-force before she went down to lock the final ball. It was really exciting to watch until I realized she broke my high score with her first ball. (I will say to save my own pride, I;ve only been playing this game for under a week now )
When she was done playing.. especially after watching her multi-level multiball extravaganza, I thought she would be in a new land love for this machine. I was wrong. Her response was "ehhh, its OK I guess, I'll try it a few more times, but not as fun as I was hoping"
I already REALLY like it, but would have loved it even more after that game. Not the case for her I suppose.
Anyone else have a spouse/significant other that enjoys the hobby with you, but perhaps not one of the machines in your collection? If so, which one?