Poll: Your Parents on Gaming.

[Hafnium]

Both my parents played games actually, but they are almost 60 and sadly the interest faded. My mom mostly played simple and oldschool stuff like Digger and Pacman, but my dad really got us kids into the newer and more interesting stuff at the time, like Monkey Island.

And what was the result of an upbringing with games, you ask? Three bright, balanced and all-round good human beings who have never hurt anyone or done any crime. And we didn't skip the violent games either.

 

[DanielBrown]

Hard to say. If my father was alive I'm sure he'd be as addicted to games as I am. My mother isn't intrested at all, but when I was a kid she loved watching me play games. Ratchet & Clank and Spyro were her favorites!

She told me she once tried to play herself though. She waited until me and my sister had gone to sleep, then she turned on Crash Bandicoot and figured it was a piece of cake since her seven year old kid could play it.
Well, as far as I know she failed on the very first obstacle and haven't touched any games since.

 

[Substitute Troll]

My mum is terrified of games. Oh no, it's not that they're "evil spawn of satan that must be destroyed". Nothing like that. Thing is, she can only play chrash bandicot without shrieking at the slightest sign of darkness or danger. She has no offensive attitude towards games, but she sucks at them

My dad doesn't have a lot of time on his hands. We occasionaly play some CS 1.6 tho (usually at his initiative). And he has shown interest in minecraft. He also agrees that games are a great source of learning and without them I would never quite have grasped the english language.

So overall, they're pretty positive to gaming. As long as it's healthy.

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

My parents play video games, not as much as I do, but they play. Generally it's Counter-Strike 1.6, but they play a bit of Call of Duty, Rock Band, and generally whatever I have but usually they stick to shooters.

Drunken LittleBigPlanet 2 can be far more entertaining than it should be, though.

 

[Strixvaliano]

I don't really know about my actual parents but my grandfather used to love playing pac-man and my grandmother used to switch between playing Super Mario Bros. 3 and Robowarrior.

Now my grandmother plays some popcap games on her pc but will occasionally stop and watch me playing a few games and comment on how good they look, etc. but refuses to touch them because there are "too many buttons" on controllers now.

 

[Gordon Freemonty]

Generally No. However my dad does have FIFA nights and plays football on the xbox with a few lagers. Mum plays farmville.

 

[knight56]

A year ago. Both my parents said it's a waste of time.
This year. My father is carefree about it and my mother likes Angry Birds enough to buy herself a t-shirt.

 

[Pointer]

My dad used to be a hardcore uber nerd that made his own D&D maps and practically programmed his own games on his own computer, on top of CAD designing fighter jets. I shit you not. Of course now he views video games as practically evil, and thinks that video games made me suck at life. I don't, but meh. The latest titles he was enthusiastic for was Republic Commando, which I loved and he did too. Nowadays hes playing the latest Goldeneye on the Wii.

My mom plays games on her iPhone mostly, and she isn't really interested in getting beyond that. Thats not to say she doesn't like a good story and rich atmosphere and will sometimes watch me play on a console and we'll talk about story sometimes.

I wouldn't say my parents are interested to much in video games and that they are more dabblers.

 

[Dingo John]

My parents are completely ignorant to the gaming world, and they have no understanding for it whatsoever.

They keep asking me if it is really necessary for me to spend "sooo much time" in front of the screen. Of course they ignore the fact that half the time I spend in front of the computer is school related and/or facebook.

I think both my parents would be happier if I threw out my computer and xbox. Which actually makes me quite sad to think about.

 

[Senaro]

My father enjoys racing games. He'd come in from work some days and say "I have a Need for Speed, hook me up."

Besides that, not much besides the usual wii bowling everyone wants to play.

 

[Auxiliary]

My mother has zero knowledge of games of any kind, including board games. Not too long ago she looked at my computer screen and was amazed by how real the game looked though. I was replaying Crysis at the time >

My father knows his boardgames, cardgames and simple computer games such as tetris, pong and other classics such as commander keen. I could also convince him to play some mariokart, donkey kong and eventually a few racing or fighting games on the playstation when I still played on consoles.

 

[Danny 6Speed]

dad was, mums clueless but not as bad as one of my friends mum

http://memebaseafterdark.com/2011/05/23/naughty-memes-tetris/#comments

 

[Mad1Cow]

My mum was a massive Nintendo lover and my dad used to play Medal of Honour back in the day. He still tries, having currently had a go at LA Noire but he is half painful to watch. My mum lost time after getting a full time job so converted from being a Zelda fanatic to just Bejewelled and Solitaire...it was a casualty I never got over T_T

 

[RoyalWelsh]

My dad plays alot of FPS games, Halo, COD, Killzone etc and little else, lol. He just likes shooting bad guys in the face, you'll never see him playing an RPG or a Point and Click.
My Mam is so not interested in games though, she did try and play Sonic 2 a couple of times but got bored really quickly.

 

[Tanzka]

My mom is the one that got me into gaming. Ah the good times we had playing Mario on the NES or Sonic on Sega.. something.. Genesis?

She's always been pretty pro-gaming, even understanding when I fell for WoW hook, line and sinker and allowed me to dump free time into it (and money.. oh god the money) as much as I wanted. Not the money of course, but time.

As for my dad, I don't know. Never played anything with him and haven't been on the best terms with him as of late, but that's a story.. for another thread.
*The shot fades into Arnold sitting on a throne, pondering*

 

[Vykrel]

my dad isnt enthusiastic about gaming, but he used to play Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing with me when i was a little kid. that was just him being a good dad. ofc, he has never played any video game because he wanted to for himself.

and my mom likes to see the games im playing, but she knows she cant really figure out how to play them. she did play Peggle, though. being a simple, casual game, she wasnt half bad at it.

 

[Titan Buttons]

My mum loves mario 64 so when the wii came out she bought it and mario galaxy but hates all other games

 

[TheFinalFantasyWolf]

They don't interfere with my play, but they don't play either.

I've tried showing and explaining to my mum that games can be just as good, if not better, than other art mediums. I don't think she's interested. Which kinda saddens me, since I want to work for a video game company in the future. (LOL, I AM actually studying for it, it's not just from my fan of gaming )

 

[Hatchet90]

My dad had always been a classic PC gamer in the 90's. Age of Empires, Starcraft, Grim Fandango, Myst, The Journeyman Project, Duke Nukem, Doom, Thief, Quake, Dark Forces, I remember watching him play them with awe. If it was anyone who brought me into gaming it was my father. I remember when he used to come into my room when I was asleep and play my N64, ah good times. My mother? Never, though she did play Farmville more than any game I've ever played.

 

[LiquidGrape]

My mother bought our PlayStation and remains something of a fan of Spyro the Dragon (she recently was on the verge of tearing up the flooring because Spyro 2 was missing, despite not having played it for several years) and Final Fantasy IX.
She never got to finish the latter, however, since us pesky kids kind of assumed control of the discs.