It was always a myth, anyway. There were always girls who played arcade games, as well as boys who thought they were stupid. But, girls would often simply just let their crushes/boyfriends play so that we could pretend to be impressed.

I ruled the 7-11 Galaga machine across from my high school. :P

Oh, programming? A lot of girls just don't like math, and you used to have to have a really good math average to get into the computer science class in the 80s.

It was always a myth, anyway. There were always girls who played arcade games, as well as boys who thought they were stupid. But, girls would often simply just let their crushes/boyfriends play so that we could pretend to be impressed.

I ruled the 7-11 Galaga machine across from my high school. :P