Do/did your parent(s) play videogames?

[Tonberry]

Since most users of this site seem to be 20+ years old, the norm for most of us were probably that we were among the first in our families to play videogames as a hobby. It's not a rule though, or anything, and I think it's interesting to hear about parents or older relatives who share our interest.

My mom or dad didn't play videogames growing up, but they've tried a few since I've been around (they're only 23 and 26 years older than me so they were always pretty "with it"). My dad really liked playing The Simpsons: Hit & Run back in the day (mainly because he likes The Simpsons) and he got really into the tennis parts of the Wii Sports games. I'd like to get him to try Red Dead Redemption 2 or the Resident Evil 2 remake but he's stubborn and thinks he can't work a controller lol.
My mom always enjoyed looking and listening to pretty fantasy games like Oblivion and World of Warcraft, though I know that her favorite game is Unravel.

Though I give the credit of planting the gamer seed in me to my aunt. My first game was Megaman at her place when I was really really small. She loves Castlevania, Resident Evil and Zelda the most.

How about you?

 

[Scotty]

My dad just plays GTA, Madden and a couple other "normie" games.

 

[Prism_Red]

Dad used to play casually back in the day, uncle was the hardcore gamer, taught me everything there is about games since I can barely walk.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight]

My dad was all about the advancements into the gaming space buying every console up until the ps3. My mom liked Sims and Animal Crossing

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Both my parents are gamers.

I share my Steam Library with them.

My mom is quite addicted to WoW.

 

[ciro64 ciro64]

My dad played the N64 and I saw him playing Mario and Banjo before I even grasped the theory of mind

My mom doesn't though. Well she did play a VR game.

 

[Clippy]

My parents were the people who introduced me to gaming though they themselves never went past playing anything more complex than Tetris, Pacman and Solitaire. Every once in a while my mom expresses interest in playing a game with me but anything that requires more input than arrow keys and a button or two loses her pretty much in an instant.

Curiously enough I managed to get her to play a bit of Danganronpa. She's a massive crime story fan and she digs the concept. The problem here is that the series is not available in our native language and sitting beside her translating the game line by line live is a massive drag and it doesn't look like there's any fantranslation in the works. I subbed anime for her before but I have no idea how to hack a game so it's going to be a bust I'm afraid.

EDIT: There was a time my dad was into Age of Empires. Sadly those days are long gone.

 

[J.B’s rabbit den]

I can’t tell how lighthearted I begin to feel when I see my mom play donkey Kong country and Mario world

 

[Mahan_Native]

well both of them now are not playing anything, but my father is a massive Command & Conquer and RTS games in general and my mom really love Crash Bandicoot.

 

[Antilocal123]

Yes my dad was an epic sigma

 

[Tonberry]

The problem here is that the series is not available in our native language

Yeah my mom is similar. She is not very confident in her English skills, even though I know she can read and speak it just fine. I want her to play a Zelda or Final Fantasy so she can take part in the stories she knows me and my brother grew up loving, aside from the pretty imagery and sounds.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Dad played more games than I did -- Carmen San Diego, Sensible Soccer, Secret Agent, Super Mario, International Super Star Soccer Deluxe, Lethal Enforcers II, Crime Patrol 2...

 

[Dyne]

My dad doesn't play games anymore, but he used to really like Warcraft and Command and Conquer. And for awhile, he was addicted to Left 4 Dead lol

 

[Shihainin]

Not very often, but my mother mostly played stuff like Galaga, Pacman, and random games on a plug-n-play atari console she loved to pieces lol. She would sometimes join in with me and the rest of my siblings for more casual titles we played together.

 

[theshiningpath]

Mom and dad never played or had any interest in games. Just bought me them as a kid to shut me up.

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

My dad, especially.
Mom sometimes, puzzle games.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

My mom and dad were both super into videogames growing up, to the point that I never had to ask for a game console as my parents would already buy them on their own. My dad can still 1cc Final Fight at 63, and has NES, SNES, and Genesis emulators on his tablet.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Whole family used to play Wii Fit and Just Dance

…no.
We gave our Wii to my aunt years ago because I had a Wii U now. Still have it, it’s collecting dust.

 

[bigstinkie]

my mother loved the super mario franchise, her favourite entries were yoshi's island on the super famicom and luigi's mansion on the gamecube
...both spinoff games in the franchise (good taste i would say)
my father only played pac man and ms pac man

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

My dad got me into gaming. He bought me edutainment games for the Apple II, NES/SNES games as a kid and he told me where to find shareware games when that was a thing. He's not much of a gamer himself (mostly a chess/solitaire/minesweeper type of guy), but he does like keeping up with the latest and greatest in technology and has some curiosity for whatever new console or gadget I have.

 

[Clippy]

Yeah my mom is similar. She is not very confident in her English skills, even though I know she can read and speak it just fine. I want her to play a Zelda or Final Fantasy so she can take part in the stories she knows me and my brother grew up loving, aside from the pretty imagery and sounds.

I'm from the former Eastern Bloc. My parents don't know much English beyond 'I love you', 'good morning' and 'fuck'.

 

[Nelson2001]

Honestly my Dad is also a lover in the video games and that has been shown in my childhood when he played the GameCube like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003 Video Game), Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (2005), etc. as well as in Nintendo 64 Controller type Famiclone that had 76 Games in 1 that he was very good at playing the Galaga (1985~88, FC~NES) and Magic Jewelry (1990, FC) you know it was a puzzle game that very similar to Columns but today it plays on the Smartphone like Clash of Clans (2013) and MagnoJuegos (2012) (Especially Dominoes) and so on.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

I used to watch my dad play a lot of Gran Turismo, Dino Crisis 2, Medal of Honor Underground and the OG RE Games back when we had a PS1.

 

[Patapolis]

my mom used to played mousetrap and zaxxon years ago, this was back when we had a colecovision (with a 2600 expansion module)

 

[JackNoir413]

i grew up with a ps2 but it was actually my dad's. i still used it more often but whenever he wanted to play his games i didnt really get a say on it. i remember he didnt let me play the same games as him cause he was scared i would overwrite his savefiles so i just watched when he played stuff like BLACK, silent hill 2 or the scarface videogame.
these days we're both much older and i game hard while he plays every now and then on our ps3. my mom used to play guitar hero 3 and she got me into it and i loved that game.

sadly one day my brother accidentally threw that ps2 on the floor and it broke and i never forgave him for it.