Do/did your parent(s) play videogames?

[Stare best girl]

my mother only plays Candy Crush and sometimes I see her playing Plants vs Zombies with my niece(my sister's daughter) while my father doesn't play games although I remember that he loved play Super Monkey Ball when I had the disc

I have relatives that are into in Gaming like my aunt(which is my father's sister) which like her both sons she is a huge fan of Mario and Donkey Kong games or a relative(from the side of my mother) that he even works to fix PCs and Consoles

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oh, I must mention that when I had my SNES, was shared between me, my brother, my sister and my mother, we loved play Donkey Kong Country together

 

[thanatos]

My parents were children in the late 50s/early 60s in a communist country, so they didn't grow up with a lot of technology. However, when I was a child in the 90s, my dad saw computers and video games as educational and something a boy shouldn't grow up without and bought me a SNES. Funnily enough, my dad never played any games, while my mum, who was very skeptical of video games and children spending time in front of the TV, turned out to be the one who would binge some random Pacman clone or other casual games on my PC. I remember visiting my mum when I was almost 30 and playing my hacked PSP. She would chuckle at the idea that I still play video games. Both my parents thought this is something only children should do (typical Boomer opinion, at least where I come from).

 

[Adrastia]

The only game my mom played was Super Mario for NES. She didn't the like two sequels.

 

[Frickinfrik]

My mom used to play on the NES. The games she played the most were Dr. Mario and Kid Icarus.


My dad also used to play video games. He bought games for himself on our PS2. They were GTA Vice City and MGS2.I think also a few others idk. As a kid, I’d actually play the games that I wasn’t allowed to play and get in trouble for it.

 

[Advil Lavs]

I'm surprised so many people's parent have played video games. My dad hadn't played much games until recently, he told me he liked to play Diablo II when it came out but not much more. Recently he played The Last Of Us after watching the show and he loved it.Now I feel like I can find some other games I can play with him since the only thing we've played together until then were board games and Diablo III on the Switch.

 

[Mork]

Neither of my parents are gamers. I mean, Being born in a third world country in 70s would do that to ya. They see videogames as a distraction or a toy which is fair imo.
But it was my uncle that got me into computer games. You know, the classics like House of the Dead, Crazy Taxi, NFS2, Vice City with localized dubbing. And I'll forever be thankful to him. Man's my freaking hero.

 

[Izzy]

Growing up, my parents were Pac people. My dad must've broken three joysticks while playing Pac-Man and he was GOOD. It was through my mom that she taught me how to play Pac-Man via Ms. Pac-Man. Years later, she kinda got into Wii but not so much, but it was nice seeing her at least try out something new even if it was for awhile. It was through her that I got into manga and unheard of video games.

 

[ThatOneLum]

My dad isnt what you'd call a hardcore gamer, but he played a few video games when I was a kid.

When I got my first gameboy, he'd always be down for some Super Mario Land (which is incidentally the way I first learned the phrase 'Swinebag') but he was mostly a PC gamer, honestly.

He was a fan of lucasarts point and clicks and introduced me to both monkey Island and loom. He did also enjoy playing stuff like Streets of Rage with me when I was young and seemed pretty good at it, so chances are he had been practising while I wasn't looking.

Now I think about it, he was also the first person I knew who owned a PS2 and was responsible for my love for Jak and Dexter and ZOE. He seems to have fallen off of gaming as an older guy.

My mom tried to play Fallout 3 like 8 times because she "loves Liam Neeson" but she never makes it out of the vault lmao

 

[stoicvampirepig]

My parents didn't, lol...I had to sit my Mum down an explain at length why it wasn't gambling so she'd let me play Space Harrier on holiday, but I am a dad who still plays way too much and have indoctrinated my boys into the faith, a bit too well my wife would say.

 

[Kamako]

I inherited my first console (SEGA Megadrive) from my Dad. I never remember seeing him play it, but I DO remember seeing him survive the torture sequence in MGS1, and killing the Tyrant with the fucking combat knife in Resi 1 as Chris when he ran out of all other ammo. Years later I finally beat Resi 1 (as Jill) with only 2 shotgun shells of ammo left.

Mum was never all the interested in games, but she did enjoy the Sims and Pac-Man, and encouraged me to play games, particularly Final Fantasy X.

 

[DanVzare]

My mother didn't. Although I did manage to convince her to play with me.
My dad on the other hand is the person who got me into games.
"Here's my Amiga, and here's over a hundred games for it. Have fun."
"But dad... I'm 2."
"Ok, ok, I get it. I'll get a Windows PC in a couple of years, and you'll have hundreds of (pirated) games for that as well."
"No... but dad... I'm 2!"
"So? When you're 4, you'll be able to play all of the classics that'll have come out on PC in 1998! Tomb Raider, Thief, Half Life, you name it. So what are you complaining about?"
"I can't even spell my own name!"
"Just shut up and have fun. Or watch me play if you're bored."

He did the same with my sister. Naturally, she's just as into games as I am.

Funnily enough, despite our age. I think we took better care of his controllers than he did.

I have very early memories of sitting in an arcade for what felt like hours, of my dad playing Pac-Land on a single credit. I was bored out of my mind, just sitting... waiting.
Nowadays I would gladly watch my dad with glee if arcades still had machines like that. But you can't blame me for having no attention span when I was barely old enough to walk.

 

[bjork]

My mom wasn't big into games, maybe a computer game every now and then. She was more into actual gambling. That said, she might be the single greatest Virtua Cop player who ever lived. I wish I'd had the means to record her playing it because it was unreal. But that was it for her. My dad, however...

My dad had a Coleco Telstar Arcade prior to having a 2600, and he played pretty regularly throughout his life. I was born around the same time the 2600 released, so games have always been a constant in my life, and having someone who was older that was also interested in it, helped make it more fun. We'd play a lot of Commodore 64 stuff together, and then later the Sega Genesis. Around the time of the Saturn/PS1 era, we branched off in our own ways. He was way into anything with a samurai in it, and he liked driving and golf games. I got him a PS1 in either 98 or 99 and he played a ton of Gran Turismo, and the PS1 wound up having the game that I would guess you could say was his favorite, Rising Zan. He wasn't generally into wacky stuff, but man he loved that game, and would always ask if there was going to be a sequel.

When the PS2 was coming out, we'd both preordered and prepaid, but gamestop said you still had to camp out for it. So I did, waiting for about 14 hours in line. My dad rolls up at around noon, and he saw a guy filling out job applications... so my dad paid the guy $10/hr to wait until he came back later, and wound up being about 20th in line as a result. He played so much PS2 that he eventually wore it out and had to replace it with a slim. He also had a launch good 60gb PS3, the PS4 and PS4 pro, and was debating a PS5 not long before he passed away. One of the last times we talked games, he mentioned how tough it was getting to find PS4 stuff at retail, and he wasn't sure what to play next, but felt good about milking every bit of fun out of the Mad Max game he paid $4.99 for.

He had a GBA SP that he used to carry in his work car, in case he had time between appointments or arrived early. I found it right before I moved in march and gave it to him along with his games, but the battery was shot. So he had ordered one and replaced it, but the screen would only display one row of pixel. I thought it might just be dusty/dirty inside and need some sort of cleaning, but he died before either of us could give it a onceover. When I get back to CA, I'm going to see if I can repair it, even if he won't get to use it now.

He liked having fun, and I'm glad he did. I always looked at games as an escape and a way to do so but not just sit and watch a thing, and could use it as a way to gauge how good he felt. When he got through chemo, I knew he felt good again when I'd see him playing an open world game. When he felt bad, they'd make him motion sick. He'd randomly text me like, "come downstairs and see this" and he'd be stuck on a thing, but we'd figure it out. Sometimes I got it right away, other times he'd spot what he didn't see before, because he didn't have to focus on the actual playing. It was cool. I'm going to miss all of that. Well, not going to. I miss it already.

 

[Darklink]

My dad played the NES and Sega Genesis, before I was born. He stopped after that, apparently because SNES and beyond had "too many buttons".

My mom for as long as I can remember has mostly just played those browser/mobile match three puzzle games. Though she did and does play a ton of Animal Crossing. And We Love Katamari on PS2.

 

[Pokenami's iconPokenami]

My mom used to play Tekken and sometimes I would usually play with her. Nowadays, work mostly take up most of her time and she now has those phone games to herself. I really do miss those rare moments we had.

My dad mostly still play games even today with the PS5.

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

Both my parents did. My mom played a lot of JRPGs and my dad played stuff like Baldurs Gate.

My mom always said I wasn't allowed to play the games she was playing until she finished them, and then she never finished them.

 

[bjork]

My mom always said I wasn't allowed to play the games she was playing until she finished them, and then she never finished them.

Do you know why this was? Like in a "this way you don't save over my saves" way, or as a means to just keep you from playing more?

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

My father made an earnest attempt to play video games in the late 90's.
I distinctly remember my mother buying him a copy of Alien Vs Predator in 1999 as a birthday gift but neither of them could figure out how to install it on our win98 PC.
(Ironically I figured out how to play a AVP2 Demo [That came on the OG Predator DVD] On our windows XP machine a few years later)
Skip ahead a few years when I got a PS2 in 2003 we played Soul Calibur & DBZ Budokai togeather.

I offered to set up and install all three AVP Games come 2010, as I thought it could be a way for us to bond over a shared interest but he had no interest. (We had grown distant by then)

My mother has had very little interest in video games, other than Candy Crush. She was receptive to VR Gaming when my ex-wife and I showed her a few experiences on my PS4.
But neither of them have a desire to buy a console.

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

Do you know why this was? Like in a "this way you don't save over my saves" way, or as a means to just keep you from playing more?

She just didn't want me playing the same game. I knew how to not save over her stuff, we had multiple cards.

It was always really good JRPGs, too. Long-ass games.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

My dad played Castlevania sometimes, but he was never a gamer. He did enjoy watching me play Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, only because he liked watching western movies and shows.

 

[guiraran]

Nope, but my mom never let me play with female characters and my old brother always ruined my fun when I was playing with them. He stopped with this when he was interested in Grand Chase and his only options was to play Elesis. My dad used to play soccer games in a Polystation (ps1 knock-off) but he never liked it video games at all or cared for what I was playing

 

[Retro Doomer]

Well

My Ma played some Bubble Booble on the OG Gameboy and that is probably everything,
and about my ''Pa'' fuck as if I know maybe he played some while getting the Milk for over 18 years.
Oh wait nowadays:My Ma and I played Some Lego Jurassic Park and Finished the first Game on the Ps4 and some Cat Quest 2 but not very long.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Nope they just weren't into video games

 

[bigstinkie]

Growing up, my parents were Pac people. My dad must've broken three joysticks while playing Pac-Man and he was GOOD. It was through my mom that she taught me how to play Pac-Man via Ms. Pac-Man. Years later, she kinda got into Wii but not so much, but it was nice seeing her at least try out something new even if it was for awhile. It was through her that I got into manga and unheard of video games.

i wonder what it is about pac man that resonates so much with that generation. i remember my father having absolutely no interest in any video games whatsoever, but any time he found a pac man arcade cabinet in the wild he would proceed to spend a half hour playing it

 

[Theriise]

My mother is addicted to phone games that she plays on the train, she is very insistant that her games "don't count" as actual video games. Her favourite addictions include word guessing games, angry birds and a knock off of puzzle bobble where you save baby pandas and then when you fail the level, the little picture of the baby panda cries. I got started early on video games from my uncle who fixed computers in his spare time. I remember looking through his case of floppy disks at the little pictures on the labels or watching him lan age of empires/counterstrike/quake with my older brother.

 

[Varyag]

My mother had an Atari 2600 growing up and had fond memories of that. My father has always been into keeping up with tech as much as he could, and he taught me all of the basics of messing with computers, from hardware assembly to formatting the C: drive to install Windows. When we got our first computer, he introduced me to emulators by finding an Atari emulator (classic Stella) to show my mom. Soon after, he got us SimCity 3000 and we both got super into it. But he wasn't good at understanding English and just didn't *get* the game, so all his cities would end up failing at some point which made him mad eventually tho, my mom got pissed at him for always staying up to play until 3AM and he moved the PC to the living room and stopped playing, and while I was still allowed to play, he was always a bit anti-gaming from that point on. Although later he got me a PS2, which I absolutely loved, and made most of my gaming tastes to this day.