My dad played his first video game ever

My father isnt that young or anything. He's 55 yrs old, and although thats not super old either im surprised he hasn't picked up a video game controller before. Hes always watched me, and he knows some of the Mario songs, and most of the Nintendo characters including Link Gorons, and the zoras etc, but hes never played a game before. So I was playing Super Mario Galaxy 2, and out of nowhere he appears and watches me play the game like he does sometimes. Eventually he asks to play, and he starts playing. It was funny watching him because he was continually mimicking Mario's voice, and jumping everytime he shook the controller, and or got close to an enemy. So my question is this. Are your parents gamers or have they at least played video games before? My parents are far from being gamers.

My dad plays video games with me somtimes. Usually old games like Donkey Kong Country. He's decent at them actually.

My dad has an old Atari that we drag out sometimes, we play classics like Pac-man, Missile Command, and Donkey Kong. He isn't one for more modern games though, one time I paused Starfox 64, came back later, and my dad was standing there trying to play it and failing terribly :P

My Dad loves Guitar Hero and Mom loves Mario and the CSI games.

My Mom is a great definition of a Casual PC gamer. She loves Card games on the computer.

My parents are far from gamers, they're like anti technology. They have these really simple "senior" cellphones even though I told them you can get a friggin' smartphone with touchscreen and all that for the same price.


Anyway, my mom have never played any game and my dad used to play a little when I was younger. We played NHL '99 but he just completely sucked and so did I, everything I did in that game was for the purpose of getting into "fight mode". He also tried to play Goldeneye a bit but he never managed to leave the men's restroom (first room of the first level if I remember correctly).

my dads 51,and he never played video games with me.

Nope, not that I'm aware of.

My parents are far from gamers, they're like anti technology. They have these really simple "senior" cellphones even though I told them you can get a friggin' smartphone with touchscreen and all that for the same price.


Anyway, my mom have never played any game and my dad used to play a little when I was younger. We played NHL '99 but he just completely sucked and so did I, everything I did in that game was for the purpose of getting into "fight mode". He also tried to play Goldeneye a bit but he never managed to leave the men's restroom (first room of the first level if I remember correctly).

xWoW_Rougex

Aww lol cute story. :)

My dad is like 50, he won't play on any of the big consoles, but he'll occasionally steal my DS and try to play some Mario Kart or one of my old GBA platforming games. Needless to say, he isn't very good. :P

My mom thinks video games are dumb and a waste of time.

My mom thinks video games are dumb and a waste of time.

NintendoWeasel

Yeah... well that's just like, her opinion, man...

My dad is 45 and he always plays video games with my little sister and I (but only ones that don't give him headaches, like Mario Kart :P)

Yeah... well that's just like, her opinion, man...

YAY! The Big Lebowski !

My mom played Super Mario World with me back in the day. She's also played the Mario Party games, Tetris, Wii Sports and a few other games with me. She'd probly play any Mario game with me too if I asked her to. And she rocks at Dr. Mario :lol:

I think my dad's only played Tetris and Wheel of Fortune 64. Oh he's played Pool Party and Wii Sports also. And he likes to play card games on the computer.

They also both play Wii Fit.

I could never get my parents to play them. My pop was born in 1930, so they seemed foreign to him. I gave my mom a DS for Christmas (she recently turned 60), but she's only played with it 2 or 3 times.

Oh, Knight Owl reminded me, my mom was addicted to the Wii fit for a while. :P

I got bored of Wii Sports so I taught my mom how to play Mario Galaxy 1 and Twilight Princess. :lol:

She kept falling into black holes so we switched to Zelda. She rocks at combat, but sucks at using items. :P
She said that there's "too much" button control for items. :roll: I'm sure Skyward Sword will be perfect for her. ;)

We only finished one dungeon, she quited after seeing the boss so I had to take over. xD

Then we decided to go back to Galaxy and finally beat the first Bowser level. It took a few months though.... :lol:

I just bought SMG2 today, and I'm sure she's gonna hate it. :lol:

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My parents are far from gamers, they're like anti technology. They have these really simple "senior" cellphones even though I told them you can get a friggin' smartphone with touchscreen and all that for the same price.


Anyway, my mom have never played any game and my dad used to play a little when I was younger. We played NHL '99 but he just completely sucked and so did I, everything I did in that game was for the purpose of getting into "fight mode". He also tried to play Goldeneye a bit but he never managed to leave the men's restroom (first room of the first level if I remember correctly).

UbiquitousAeon

Oh come on you're just like them!

The interface looks like it's from the '90s and everything is just oversized.

Now tell me why would you pay for this when you can pay the same money on something much more advanced? Like a smartphone with touchscreen. Sure they won't use all the features but at least the features are AVAILABLE. It's a complete rip off, they want something easy to handle but simple =/= user friendliness.

My parents are who introduced me to video games. At the age of 3 I was already able to beat the first 2 worlds of Super Mario World and 3 bosses in Mega Man X (Chill Penguin, Storm Eagle, and Flame Mammoth) My mom still knows all the secrets of Super Mario Bros. and my dad has had to put them down for the past year or 2, he's finishing college. He'll help me on the 2 player things on Little Big Planet, and he dominates me in like every Street Fighter or sports game, even if he's never played before. For about a month he was in my room every day playing the original LoZ on my Wii.

Oh, and my dad's 36. Had me at the age of 20.

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My parents are far from gamers, they're like anti technology. They have these really simple "senior" cellphones even though I told them you can get a friggin' smartphone with touchscreen and all that for the same price.


Anyway, my mom have never played any game and my dad used to play a little when I was younger. We played NHL '99 but he just completely sucked and so did I, everything I did in that game was for the purpose of getting into "fight mode". He also tried to play Goldeneye a bit but he never managed to leave the men's restroom (first room of the first level if I remember correctly).

xWoW_Rougex

Oh come on you're just like them!

The interface looks like it's from the '90s and everything is just oversized.

Now tell me why would you pay for this when you can pay the same money on something much more advanced? Like a smartphone with touchscreen. Sure they won't use all the features but at least the features are AVAILABLE. It's a complete rip off, they want something easy to handle but simple =/= user friendliness.

My dad plays videogames with me sometimes. He pretty good at like the sports games or somthin' like that.:lol:

Wow im surprised at the large number of gmer/semi gamer parents out there. It must be pretty awesome :P

My dad isn't a gamer but he loves sports games, he plays Fifa 10 with me :).fabz_95

Lol, my dad plays Fifa World Cup 2010 with me, at first I was killin him, but now I don't even stand a chance. Sometimes I look at his PSN thing to see how long he plays, he stays up til about 2 every mornin'g now online, lol.

My parents used to play DK and Zaxxon on the coleco all the time back in the 80's. My Dad would also get into Mario on the NES and SNES but after my sister and I moved out of the house and took the consoles (and the reason for owning a console) he stopped playing. He is 63 now and has already had 2 strokes but he will still play Wii Sports (and kick your butt in bowling :) ) but not very often. The only game I remember my inlaws playing is Mario Kart on the N64, they really enjoyed mulit-player.

My Dad use to played Mrs. PacMan, Silent Service 2, Empire Earth II (PC games), and Super R Type.

Back in the day I use to watch my parents and older siblings play Mrs. Pacman on the Atari. They would always try to see if they can get the highest score. Ahhh what memories. My dad usually plays computer games. He use to play Silent Service 2 (a submarine simulator), and is currently playing Empire Earth II. He basically finds one game on the PC and plays it for years and years! He doesn't play online at all. He would play the newest Empire Earth III, if his computer were compatible. That's also another reason why he plays the same games over and over--the need for a newer computer.

However, I do also remember my Dad playing Super R-Type on SNES. Man...he would play that game forever! That's when he was introduced to sore gamer thumb! I remember him taping tissue to his fingers to act as a cushion before he played...lol. Ah my Pops...gotta love him!

My dad plays Pokemon and animal crossing with me, and he likes to play Tetris. My mom doesn't really play anything.

[QUOTE="fabz_95"]My dad isn't a gamer but he loves sports games, he plays Fifa 10 with me :).maverick_41

Lol, my dad plays Fifa World Cup 2010 with me, at first I was killin him, but now I don't even stand a chance. Sometimes I look at his PSN thing to see how long he plays, he stays up til about 2 every mornin'g now online, lol.

My Dad hates Video Games.

No, my parents are not gamers. My dad liked to play SMB3 when I was little, but even though I was 3 years old, I played better than him. :P Other than that, not sure. I don't think my mother has ever played anything. Both of my parents know most of the Mario and Zelda songs and characters, though.

my mom once tried playing a game but she didnt like it

My parents (51 and 52) aren't really gamers, but I managed to make them play video games with me sometimes.
I have even played video games with my grandma who is 84 now.
But these were only games like those singing stuff or Wii Sports... uh well and when I was a little younger Pokémon XD'

No my parents have never played games with us, we owned an old fountain system with pac man, astroids, space invaders and such but they would just watch us kids play. My father dosnt even know how to turn on a computer, he wont touch one or even listen to people trying to explain to him how to use technology these days. My Mum is a little better, she goes on facebook but thats all, no games.

My dad watched me play through a good part of MGS4 (he was really diggin the story and such) and will also comment if he sees something cool as he passes by. But the most hes ever played is some Wii Sports, Resort, and Play

My mom introduced video games to me with tetris on the original GB. I think thats the only game shes good at *she beat difficulty 9/5 like it was nothing o.e*

She also liked watching me play the paper mario series.