DO any of your parents play Video games?

sgtpepper · Post by **sgtpepper** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:07 pm

My dad plays video games all the time, probably more than I do on weeks that he doesn't have to work. He's the reason I have a PS3! I got him Timeshift and Unreal Tournament 3 for Christmas, and he loves them. He plays a lot of shooting games, mostly James Bond, but he really likes Resistance since getting the PS3. So yeah, he's not like every other dad around... My mom on the other hand doesn't care too much about video games, but she likes playing Rock Band sometimes, and likes old school NES games like Super Mario.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:33 pm

bacteria wrote:My parents are in their 70's now, Mum never played games, Dad (when he was about my age now) bought Pong

It's funny how your like thirty years older than me yet my dad is almost as old as yours

This just reminde me of how back when my dad lived in the Netherlands he bought pong. It's way cool since he kept the box and the styrofoam so I have a perfect condition pong machine. I think I'm the only person with any relation to my family who ever really got into gaming in such a big way, granted my cousin can tear all ass in Street Fighter 2 he actually has a life and stuff.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:11 pm

My dad bought a 360 when they first came out. It still hasn't died yet.

Post by **Black Six** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:03 pm

My dad has been gaming since he got the Atari 2600 back in the day. He's tapered off a lot since then, but over the years we've gamed together with things like Lode Runner, Diablo, and Halo. He's not the best at them, but we have fun usually.

xtrmgam3r360 · Post by **xtrmgam3r360** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:26 pm

my parents will usually play my atari 2600 if i bring it out, but the only other games they really play with my brother and i are Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 64. Although my dad is really good at Punch-Out for NES.

Post by **Triton** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:24 pm

dad was never really a gamer other than mebe some pong, mom used to try and play n64 with us but wasnt very good at it, did have atari growing up and plays wii sports pretty often, kicks most of my friends asses at bowling too! she has bowled a perfect game before!

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:55 pm

My dad plays WWII shooters almost exclusively. He doesn't game all of the time, he goes in spurts. Man I remember when I bought him Medal of Honor Allied Assault and the expansions for Christmas a couple of years ago, we hardly saw him for weeks. All he did when he was at home was play those games.

Post by **marshallh** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:39 am

My mom whoops ass at Pacman. No joke

kylechu · Post by **kylechu** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:09 am

My dad knows all the patterns in pac-man and flipped the score counter in galaga. My mom's really, really into tetris. Really into as in maxing the score in tetris ds. I come from a long lineage of nerds. My grandpa was a computer programer "back in the day".

ZN13 · Post by **ZN13** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:26 am

Ha! So was my grandpa!
(If by "back in the day" you mean big-ol-military-use-only then yeah)

Post by **Skyone** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:46 am

My mom doesn't play games at all, but my dad is kick-ass at Ms. Pac-Man and PokÃ©mon Puzzle League. We used to play that game for hours upon hours.

kylechu · Post by **kylechu** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:01 am

yeah, "Back when computers weren't boxes, or things you can put in your pocket. Back when I was in the army, computers were rooms, and walls" according to my grandpa. He's computer savvy though. He jumped right onto the internet when it came out. Sold this one domain recently for $20,000!

Plus, he can spell vaccum!

ZN13 · Post by **ZN13** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:10 am

Yep, that's the time.

Though my grandpa predicted in the late 60's/early 70's that you would be able to fit a computer in the back of your truck. It's funny because everybody thought he was crazy.

kylechu · Post by **kylechu** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:46 am

"Someday, around 2007, they'll have computers that fit in pockets!"

To the looney bin with you grandpa.

Negative_Creep · Post by **Negative_Creep** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:36 am

My parents used to be gamers, back when the Spectrum 48k first came out... I'm not sure if americans have heard of it. The only games my dad plays now on PC are usually simulation and management games. Although he played a game of FIFA 08 with my brother on 360

, it took him ages to get to grips with dual analog

, as they've always been the home computer sort. My mom has never really been into video games herself though. We used to have an Amiga as well, my dad would play some games on that, like Dune II, and when we got a PC, he'd play Command & Conquer as well (he's a huge fan), when I shown him C&C3 last year he was amazed by it

(as would anyone else who hasnt seen a C&C game since the original Red Alert lol), because of this, my parents dont have any problem with me gaming and see no harm in it, which means I get the games like Manhunt, GTA etc.

Seriously, my mom even hates Jack Thompson!