I grew up playing and watching pokemon with my neighbor/ best friend and my dad always had stuff like playstations for games he never played so when I got a little older and realised how damn annoying and tedious turn based combat was I graduated onto those. Then when I started secondary school a few years ago I ended up hanging with what turned out to be a gaming group I think the reason there aren't many girl gamers is possbily because all the games 'made for girls' are barely games at all. Like dress up games and colouring in games etc, so boys tend to start off gaming on basic and reletivly non violent games that appeal to what are male dominated interests like racing and what is offered as an alternative is either easily accessable without any sort of system (like colouring books) or too boring and basic. But hey, that's just me XD