Veronica Mars Star Kristen Bell Reveals Her Former Love for The Nintendo 64

yeah my gaming has slowed down due to work and family

My wife and I are about to have a baby in the very near future. Chances are I'll be spending less time with a controller in my hand, but I have kept most of my games and consoles from the last 2 decades. I'm very much looking forward to down the road and playing all of these games from various systems with my child as it grows up. Can't wait, really.

I used to be an avid gamer when I was in school and doing A-Levels. Spent more time gaming than studying.
Sadly, real life does hit you square in the face and having a full time job, gaming takes a back seat and it's something I only do now if I have any free time, which is fairly rare.

It practically stopped after my baby was born, but now that she sleeps 12 hrs a night I'm catching up. I still don't get in near as much time as I used to, but that's probably a good thing.

Well, this is the beauty of Nintendo consoles for me. SO many great ways to play with your family as the kids get a little older.

All that hardcore hours and hours of game playing died a quick death when we had our first child, though, yes. I wouldn't trade it though. Games offer rewards for pseudo-accomplisments, but raising a family can bring the reward of true accomplishment. It would be a sad thing to favor the one that gives you so little at the expense of the other.

Swings and roundabouts. Tapered off with children being born. But is now starting to come back. Playing Plants vs Zombies with my daughter (9 years old) is cool. No substitute for playing real board games or imaginative games but, at times, is a nice alternative.

They can bury me while still clinging to my 3ds and when they lower me in the ground I want them to play the sound the green pipe makes when Mario is entering it.

I always thought Frozen's Anna was a big Nintendo fan.

PS There's a Mario Kart parody of "For the First Time in Forever" somewhere on Youtube, but right now I can't find the link.

Oh wait, here it is...

http://www.gonintendo.com/s/224411-random-time-frozen-s-for-the-first-time-in-forever-gets-a-mario-kart-8-cover

She's never been sexier to me...but yeah, a busy lifestyle would hamper my gaming addiction. However, with the way things are now in the gaming community - splintered and segregated amongst the fanbases - I just can't turn my back on it. It's my dream to bring a platform brawler the likes of SSB and have mascots from all three titans of the industry together, and their fans along with them. NWU v PS4 v XBO players... -Sigh- You'd think that hyper-competitiveness would goad the fans into beating the crap out of each other online, yet some backward, degenerate trolls try to stop me at every turn...

Life gets busy yup but I have always made time to at least play the latest Zelda even when I've stopped gaming everything else. Stopping gaming for some years also drastically changed my tastes when I came back to it.

I sometimes wonder if I will play games for the rest of my life. I'm getting increasingly busy, but the excitement I feel when something cool is announced and when I play it makes me feel I'll play forever. I hope there's always time for a little gameplay for me.

And I absolutely LOVE Kristen Bell. I hope she gets more good movies to work with, she is very talented. Doesn't hurt she is also adorable in real life.

@NorthLightSuplx You'd have to be lowered pretty quick if you wanted to do it within those three notes.

The day that I completely lose my gaming time is the day the world ends. I don't care how much time college or work takes up, life without gaming would be impossible to go through.

n64 in college? wow, she is younger than me. I had snes in college, couldn't live without. no time to play games? come on. that is what casual games are for. video games are good for the mind, body(?) and soul.

I hope Nintendo gives her a 3DS and makes her appear in some commercials...
In fact, I think Animal Crossing/Tomodachi Life is the perfect game for her.

@LtAldoRaine I've always wondered that as well. When I hit college and get a career going, not to mention kids, it will dwindle down a lot. Hopefully I can convince my child to like gaming as much as I do now. If anything, I'll be set when I retire.

College was the one time I gave up gaming.

@MeddlingIdiot haha @NorthLightSuplx would practically have to be dropped! Lol. While the warp pipe sound is cool, I'd rather have the game over theme from the original Legend of Zelda http://youtu.be/bYVuOr52Ni8

On topic: Career keeps me so busy, that I hardly get to play at all anymore. I do manage to squeeze in about two hours a night generally on my consoles. The 3DS is a godsend, being the fact that I can still enjoy quality gaming away from home. As busy as I am, it still doesn't stop me from getting the latest games/consoles. The unfortunate downside is that I have a HUGE backlog of games I need to finish!

I moved away from my busy life in order to play more games.

@NorthLightSuplx Bahaha!

Gaming is my main hobby. It's also one of my wife's secondary hobbies. We're not having kids so there's lots of time for gaming, both solo and as a team. Couch co-op is the best!

It's scary how real life sneaks up on you. When growing up I had loads of free time but relatively little money, so games got replayed endlessly or traded in for new ones; I couldn't even hazard a guess as to how many times I've played through the pre-Twilight Princess Zelda titles. Whilst I haven't sold a game in years and can still afford to buy almost everything I want new, I have barely any time to actually play them. I bought myself a PS3 at the start of last summer, and since then I've completed one full retail title on the console. I sometimes wonder if it'd be worth just giving up on everything for a bit and just spend days catching up on my backlog...

I think for a lot of us the gaming will slow down and maybe even cease at a point. But the prospect of kids will probably jettison us back into gaming.

@kensredemption That's an awesome idea. Kind of remind me of a dream I had a couple years back when I wanted Sony, NIntendo, and Microsoft to all work together to create some mega console. Of course now I know that would never work.

@NorthLightSuplx That would be awesome.

As you get old you have to make choices on how to spend your spare time, which may be more or less depending on your career choice, family life, etc.

For me gaming is the last hobby I would sacrifice.

Just remember me when!!

I still play quite a bit but after the marriage and my daughter, the RPG's have turned into quick runs through Mario or Kirby, maybe a few hours on GMod if I got time to myself at night.

I'm still finding time to sludge slowly through DK64 only because I never had the chance when i was a kid. I honestly have found a lot to love about my 3DS because of my busy schedule.

One must not let his career, family, children, whatnot to interfere with practicing the noble art of playing video games.

I gave up gaming when I turned 25 as I concentrated on my career. After getting married I came back to gaming as me and my wife have opposite schedules so I needed a time waster for while she was at work.... Besides, she plays Facebook games anyways, so I might as well start playing Nintendo/PC again.

Kristen Bell is extremely attractive, and just appears to be a very good person overall. With that being said, she did voice Lucy but it wasn't recently. It was in AC1 and AC2 Trilogy.

As far as my lifestyle... my gaming has slowed down since having a family and working full time... but it will never go away. My wife and kids play games, so I'll play games with them as well as solo. It's something I've always done since I was four years old, and something I'll continue to do until I die.

Only think I have knowingly seen with her in it is Unsupervised which I thought was quite funny.

I didn't know Kristen Bell used to be a gamer. That's awesome. I loved Anna in Frozen. I'd love to see her voice Anna again in a Tangled/Frozen crossover.

@FJOJR This is what happened with my brother, it all but stopped once he was working and married. Then along comes my Nephew and suddenly Lego Marvel Superheroes has pulled my brother back in with him. I had no idea a four year old could be so fond of Stan Lee.

@NorthLightSuplx That'd be some funeral.