Adult Gamers with Kids

So how many adult gamers out there have children? If you do, what ages are they? How has having kids affected your hobby of gaming? Does it influence the purchasing decisions you make on games or systems? How about time for games? Speak up Moms and Dads.

No kids yet but I do have one on the way. So I don't know how it will affect time playing games but I am sure I will be buying more "kid" games when "it" is old enough to play.

I look forward to actually having someone in the house to play with as my wife hates video games and my friends who are still in the area are not really gamers.

Well Hey! Congratulations. I have 3 kids myself. It's gonna change things a lot. I think the first change you will find is a lot less time. Now that my oldest is playing games, I find myself having to wait my turn for the TV or the system!!! DOH! LOL. Plus I don't get to play as many 'M' rated games either because I don't want to play them when my younger kids are awake.

On-line gaming is a problem. You can't pause the game every 10 minutes to get them a snack or a piece of paper, or whatever their need of the moment is. Heh... But I don't want to seem like such a downer! Kids are awesome! My son is obsessed with Mario and runs around the house pretending to get the Star all the time. Sometimes we will sit around and he will play the gameboy, my oldest and I will play the DS. Its great.

Ive got 4 kids in my house, the older 2 are cool, sit still and watch or join in the younger 2 are not! unless its some cartoon game like mario or sonic (which they will happily watch). They are really disruptive!

They seem to have got disrupting me on juiced to an art form, just as your turning the most difficult bend on the last lap, one of them runs in front of you babbling nonsence and blocks your view, you are in a wall and last.lol.......its funny but most gaming is now done at night!

Ive got 4 kids in my house, the older 2 are cool, sit still and watch or join in the younger 2 are not! unless its some cartoon game like mario or sonic (which they will happily watch). They are really disruptive!

They seem to have got disrupting me on juiced to an art form, just as your turning the most difficult bend on the last lap, one of them runs in front of you babbling nonsence and blocks your view, you are in a wall and last.lol.......its funny but most gaming is now done at night!

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Hey all, nice to see that I'm not alone!

I have 2 kids, girl(7yrs) and boy(2.5years) and they like to play Wii, and Nintendo DS. The boy has my first DS lite, and plays some basic games, he just follows his sister, I have to say he play New Super Mario Bros.. pretty good!

My daughter, is one tough gamer! We mainly play family games on Wii or DS, I never let her play ManHunt 2, or other violent games on the Wii. I hide them!

Because I like the shootem up and killing games like socom, I own a Sony PSP, so I can play GTA Series, or manhunt 2 on psp. My wife hates when I spend my side job money on games, but like I tell her, it's a hobby! And it's fun!