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Advisor: My husband has a virtual girlfriend
Advisor: My husband has a virtual girlfriend
Meet Koh and Yurie. They're a happily married young Japanese couple who moved from Tokyo to San Francisco a year ago due to a job transfer. In early September, while on a business trip back home, Koh bought a new game cartridge for his Nintendo DS. It was mostly out of curiosity the Japanese... ...
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"This is obviously a computer program, but this makes us really feel like there’s a girl inside..."
Tiny Cartridge — ... “Koh,” discussing his brief dalliance with Love Plus in a Boing Boing interview. The appearance of Konami’s DS dating sim on a mainstream blog means Love Plus is a Big Deal now, right? ...

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Blue's News — Metaverse [Oct 28, 2009, 10:36 am ET] - Post a Comment Thanks Ant . Firefox version 3.5.4 and Firefox version 3.0.15 are now available. U.S. leads the world in adopting digital distribution . Thanks Mike Martinez. Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own . Thanks Ralph. Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years . Thanks Acleacius. Advisor: My husband has a virtual girlfriend . Hey, guys, they're kicking our butts at Trivial Pursuit . SeaMonkey version 2.0 is ...

There Is Hope: A Relationship Love Plus Didn’t Destroy
Siliconera — ... a business trip back to Tokyo, Koh found that the Internet buzz surrounding Love Plus had piqued his curiosity, and so he decided to pick it up. Soon, he found the game having the same effects on him it has had on so many other men — blurring the line between fantasy and reality.   Fortunately, this lasted for all but a week. Things went right back to normal as soon as Koh got back to San Francisco, and both he and his wife had a good laugh over the game. Boing Boing has an interview with the couple:   Q: Koh, what do you and Rinko do together?   Koh: OK, this is ...

Cloudy with a chance of girlfriend
Infendo - Nintendo blog — lovePlus01 Intrigued by a recent BoingBoing post about Konami’s new and apparently addictive  dating sim “Love Plus” I stumbled upon a free downloadable weather widget featuring three of the game’s main girlfriend characters. The widget lets you choose a “girlfriend” to make comments on the weather based on their in-game persona. The widget, which can only look up Japanese forecasts may not be helpful, and it doesn’t even replicate the game’s functionality, but it could be a fun diversion for those who don’t plan on importing. The widget also rewards ...

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