How long did it take you to convince your wife?

[gyruss]

My wife hates arcades, computers and video games of any kind. When I discovered MAME and this site about 4 1/2 years ago, I knew it would be hard to get the first cab. So when I saw someone about 30 miles from my house giving a gutted Q*bert upright away, I just when and got it and put it in my basement office and MAMEd it. When we moved to a bigger house, my wife agreed to let me have a least 2 cabinets in the basement. She thinks she agreed to 2 cabinets, but I remember "at least" two. . So right now the second project is in the garage, hopefully to be completed by early next year. Then comes the battle for the cocktail cabinet. Luckily our kids and their friends are on my side so she's slowly accepting all this craziness. She now even wants a pinball for the basement.

[DaveMMR]

I'm not married yet so I haven't a problem there yet.  Though I was seeing this one girl who I told about my intentions to which she responded, "Er... that sounds nice".   Whatever...

But the cab (when actually finished) will be a deciding factor should I contemplate getting married.  If a girl loves the cab and actually wants to play with it, then she's a keeper.  I could afford that frivilous bit of nonsense regarding a life long commitment since getting married is not high on my priority list right now.  

[Darkade]

My fiancee hates my cab.  We just moved into a townhouse so I could have my own gameroom upstairs but it turned out, the cab is wider than the stairs.    It took some serious convincing to get her to let me keep it in the Living Room.  She still gripes about it too.  I told her I wanted to build a Cocktail cab and I thought she was going to swing me around by my tongue.  She just doesn't get it.  Good thing I built it before we moved in together.

[Apollo]

I'm sorry dude she just ain't marriage material. You are going to have to ditch her