Do you have any parents or older family into video games?

[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.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

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 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.

 

[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 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