Your Parents and Games

[TehCookie]

There have been plenty topics of how parents buy their kids M games and how they need to be more educated on what games they are buying, but honestly how did/do your parents treat your hobby?

My entire family games, in fact it was my dad who got me into it when he placed a controller in my hands before I could walk. He wouldn't let me play certain games but rating really had nothing to do with it. Duke Nukem was fine with the parental lock but Fallout was a major no-no (still don't know why). However my dad being the same PC-elitist he was back then my mom usually took care of monitoring the console games, such as when my brother brought home one of the GTA games form a friend. She made sure he knew the difference between a game and reality, but we could still play it. She also knew how to read the back of the box so I couldn't ask for M games. Then again my dad bought them for himself so I could still play them.

I also find it funny that family game night usually involves Rockband, and my parents play better than my friends. Also every so often my dad, my brother and I all get online and play L4D together, so we know who's going to be the weakest link when the zombie apocalypse does happen.

 

[Lost In The Void]

My parents understand that video games aren't satan. My dad used to play the mechwarrior games on the PC though he's stopped that since I was about ten or so. Mum used to play Galaga when she was my age. When I was too young for rated M games I got Teen Games. I think my Mum bought me two rated M games, one being Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and the other Fable: The Lost Chapters

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Radeonx]

My parents never cared what games I played, because they knew that if they did try to stop me from playing M rated games (Mortal Kombat, for example), I'd just walk to my friend's house and play them, because his parents didn't care.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

My mother doesn't like games. She doesn't think they're evil, but she dislikes the violence. Dad is fine with them, but can't play them for shit.

 

[Marter]

Mine have no issue with the content of the games I play. My parents never gave me any type of talk about figuring out that the game worlds don't exist or anything like that, they just bought me games and I played them.

They believe I game too much, despite not playing at all in 2 of the last 3 weeks.

My father also sometimes plays games, mostly Medal of Honor on the PC.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

When I was younger, I had to do a lot of convincing for my parents to let me buy Resident Evil 4. Now, it really doesn't matter for the most part. I wear headphones when I game so swearing can't really bother anyone and blood has never been a problem.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

My parents are cool. They would guide me, but never prohibit me from games. They would never buy me an M gated game, but wouldn't stop me from playing it if I was able to buy/rent it.

 

[Distorted Stu]

My mam never really go tinto the idea unless it was tetris. My dad on the other hand would join in when ever i played Medal of honor on PS2. He loves anythign to do with the war! Although, he hasnt played in a logn tiem because hes been busy, hes gettign old and fears that he isnt as good as he used to be (and trust me, he was epic, a 55 year old man kicking me and my friends ass. Not to mention he new the AI spawn points and tactics so he would stand still for a few minutes and go "waaaaiiit!!" Suddenly, hundreds of germans appeared and he was ready to mowe them down.. anyway). Hes also baffeled by the 360 controller. Everytime he walks in watching me play COD he goes " that looks bloody brilliant, i would love to play that!" When i offer him the controller he just refuses. Sorry, long winded answer

(The rest of my family only taken intrest in them recently since they have become a big medium and that im also goign to study game design at uni this year.)

 

[Gigaguy64]

My Dad is the one with the Game issue.
He used to play a bit, mostly Sports games, but he thinks that im Addicted.
He still talks about games from time to time and even lets me know about any Game Related stuff he hears from his friends and see around town.

My Mom loves to play games.
Mostly games like Tetris and Bejeweled.
But she also really like Mario Games.
Me and her would play my Super Mario All Stars and Super Mario World all the time.
We still do from time to time.
She also likes Mario Kart, Kirby Air Ride, and Yoshi's Story, and is willing to try new Games.

Both are strict about what games i can and cant play in their house though.
And it includes games like GTA and Pokemon.
:/

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

My dad is a gamer, too. We play a lot of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 splitscreen together. It's good fun.

 

[Dxz5roxg]

My parent's just don't really care. They don't want me spending my entire day playing them but luckily I don't want to either. When it comes to ratings they pretty much say no to everything with sexual content. That really doesn't make sense to me considering they'll let me watch any movie I want.

 

[BRMXJzjsoawk321]

My parents let me play anything but Second Life. :I

 

[Applejack]

My dad bought Wolfenstein and Aces over Europe for himself on PC when they first came out and bought me a Nintendo. Now he really thinks games are evil though and doesn't admit to his Wolfenstein days. But he plays a fishing game on his iphone.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

My dad plays some video games, mainly WW2 shooters. My mom on the other hand doesn't really like me playing video games alot. She also doesn't like the violence, but then of course she doesn't like it when I watch "inappropriate" TV shows like South Park. I respect her opinions but I generally don't change my preferences because of them.

 

[Chamale]

My parents don't mind video game content much, although they'll occasionally go on an inexplicable crusade against something I play. Not the most offensive thing I have, they just read about how Half-Life 2 or something might have been related to a murder in Argentina and then they disapprove of me playing it. They haven't actually microwaved one of my games for being too violent since about 4 years ago.

They seem to think that people I haven't met aren't real, though. They seem to think that when I'm playing with Robbie, Tom, and XdeathbringerX, the latter is a very convincing bot, put in by video game companies to keep players addicted. I wish I was joking, but they've even told my sister that some of her MSN friends "aren't real people, you know".

 

[Susan Arendt]

My parents took a very active and responsible role in my gaming habits. The gaming consoles were kept in the family room, my parents made sure they watched at least some of every game I played, and frequently my dad would play together with me. They educated themselves about the games I asked for, didn't give me everything I wanted, and made sure I understood that gaming was a privilege - one that had to be earned by doing my share around the house and at school.

The irony of all of this, of course, is that the games I was playing were about as graphically advanced as a calculator.

 

[imnot]

they dont think teir evil or anything just dont like them.

 

[Jamous]

My mum freaks out about 18s for some reason. I don't much care, I'll usually neglect from telling her it's an 18, or get them myself over teh internets. I'm 16.

 

[FinalHeart95]

My dad used to be a gamer, if for no reason other than that he works with computers. Even now he still knows a lot about games, although he doesn't play them that much. My mom thinks games are only for children and teens, although she doesn't care too much about violence. She didn't like the airport scene from MW2 or Manhunt 2 because of the violence though. She'll also scoff at some of my slower paced games and say things like "Wow, that looks fun..." with obvious sarcasm. Then she goes and scrapbooks, so I think I win there.

I respect my parents though. Although I tend to disagree with my mom in the case of games, she's pretty level headed with most other things.