ITT: Stories about trying to get parents/adults to play vidya

I'm 18 years old

Go back to bed gramps

Remember the user who got borned to 14 years old asian loli because his dad heard funneling cola to a pussy prevents pregnancy?

He got his mom into some monster girls dating sims if irc

Literally a child, increase the age limit to 22 pls.

My dad never cared about videogames in the slightest except for Rogue Leader.

He just flipped his shit whenever i popped in that game.

>holy shit thats a videogame??
>Can i get into the cockpit viewHOLY SHIT, KID

He likes planes and starwars so yeah, that game was made for him.

He also gets dizzy playing it but its endearing to watch.

That's cool user.

I never really try to make my parents play vidya with me. But there's that one time
>playing Gran Turismo 3
>Father see Ford GT40, his fav car ever
>try to play but hit every wall
>"But that doesn't even give the feeling of driving, why are you playing this crap user ?"
>I never play a godamm car racing game ever, he was right.

>I never really tried
This is just me spitballing but probably because you had friends?

My dad would always play the latest James Bond games with me when I was younger
My mom used to play super Mario world all the time
Guitar hero and rock band were a big thing in my family too when we were older, they used to play with me and my brothers as a family

>Hey mom, want to play with me?
>No, I hate video games.

nice

>playing Mario Kart 64 with parents when I was around 6
>they have never played a video game before
>not 10 minutes in my mom gets motion sickness
>vomiting in the bathroom
>my dad decided to tough it out and keep playing
>he is terrible
>WRONG WAY WRONG WAY WRONG WAY
>I finish race and go upstairs and get a snack, use the bathroom, come back to the N64
>WRONG WAY WRONG WAY WRONG WAY
>shut off the N64
>thank them for trying

never again

Never had to senpai, my mom and I used to play Links Awakening when I was 8. She played a ton of Genesis games with me, and then SNES, and we played through pretty much every mainline Zelda together after that except Skyward Sword.

She's played Animal Crossing since 2006, along with other games like Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright.

She mostly plays point and click find games on Steam now though desu.

Yeah.
I mean two of them played vidya back then.

You know, I was about to come into this thread complaining about no stories but this makes me feel a bit better.

Still, feels like I missed out on some shit.

Dad bought himself an NES, I grew up playing it with him.
We got a 64 with Bomberman. Parents saw my brother and I playing the multiplayer. They joined in and we'd have family Bomberman nights or MarioKart was also in rotation.
I bought a Wii and we'd play the WiiSports games just for shits and giggles.

My dad tried half a song in donkey konga

Thats it

my mom loves bugs bunny in crazy castle.
she finish the game in the nes, and later she finish it again on a emulatoron my pc.

Have he tried Mainey Crafta tho

Sensing a connection here

Father figure used to play jet moto, formula 1, joust, and duck hunt with me. Was some of my best gaming experiences.

Now I see my new step father attempting to play 3d mario and dk with my sister, it's cute. I buy her games cuz she gets lonely and I guess he sees it too.

My mom spent few hours playing slot machines in pokemon gold once

my dad used to play on the N64 with me and my siblings all the time
we'd play Gauntlet, Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong, Battletanks, Battlezone, Starcraft 64
he could always kick our ass in Starcraft 64
he played a pretty mean terran
I didn't beat him until I turned 12
and yes ino that PC is the superior version

My grandmother actually played Hearthstone for a short while. I didnt even tell her about it, she just found it on the app store on her ipad and picked it up.

My dad used to beat me at video games all the time, he didn't hold back at all. It was really weird, he played with me normally and gave me a chance for years, but then when I was 11 and he saw me coming out of the shower without a towel, his attitude towards me completely changed, and he constantly tried to prove his dominance.

My mom was always saying how video games were violent (despite the fact I didn't play FPS), so I tried to get her to play Journey. She couldn't figure out the controls, couldn't move properly with the control stick. It was like watching a preschooler trying to drive a car. Surreal experience.

Cooped through Secret of Mana and many other old coop games with mom so many years ago back when she was cool. Now all she does is play pic related and other casualshit. I want my childhood back.

another one.
my mom loves playing the casino of dragon quest 8. i let her grind the casino for me for all the special items

>pic related
Fuck

My dad and mom tried to play team fortress 2 randomly one day, I was playing soldier so I just gave them the controls and told them they're playing the easiest mode in the game. They both proceeded to complain about how they can't move the camera and walk with wasd at the same time because it's too hard, then they eventually blew themselves up.

>father used to play a lot of fighting games with me
>played the shit out of MK games (mainly 4 and Armaggeddon)
>played a lot of Mario Kart
>he used to play AoE1 while we were babies during nights after work
>used to play an old DOS game called DESCENT which was a really cool 3D space shooter

And as a bonus

>grandfather used to play SEGA Side Pocket and actually managed to complete the game and most trick shots

My mom was in the forest service in California and had a Street Fighter cab near where her and her group would hang out while on call. One day she saw me playing SF2T a couple years ago and almost kicked my ass only because she wasn't used to the controller.

>he's cheating on him

How is your dad alpha enough to cuck himself

>my sister and I decide to get our parents presents together
>dad recently bought PS4
>I suggest we get him Rainbow Six Siege since he has a history with more tactical shooters
>sister suggests Battlefront since he likes Star Wars
>we go for it despite my reservations
>he loves it
>later on buys Siege upon my suggestion
>plays it once and returns to Battlefront
My dad has some seriously shit taste, once he saw me play Bloodborne and said "all your games look the same user"

Trust no one

>90s
>at Blockbuster with my dad
>split up and look for vidyas
>find him playing this Pokemon Snap station they had
>he says "WHY WON'T THESE THINGS DIE?!"

>7 years ago
>Heard some stuff about EVE Online
>Play it on trial
>Dad walks in
>"What is that son?"
>Uhh its about space and you can do like anything, I guess
>"Is it good?"
>I don't know, maybe?
>"Alright son, I've got some things to do"
>k
>Dad disappears for a few hours, didn't bother to check on him in his work room
>Later that day
>"Son, where is the nearest trade hub in *some system in Caldari space*
>Wait, you are playing EVE
>"I'm just trying it"
>Okay then

>Some months later
>My father surpassed me in almost any area of the game, keeps calling me a casual for not trying harder

>One year later
>Stopped playing and started wow
>My father was still mocking me for not trying hard enough in EVE
>"Well son, I won't stop you from playing what you want, but I'm not sure why you want to play with some girlish elfs if you could play with some manly space ships"
>T-thanks dad

He is still playing EVE and still calls me a casual up to this day.
He also started mocking me for not having a carrier.

Dad would play Mario kart with me then get furious when I schooled him. It was the only thing I could do better than him.

Op pic related, Stepdad got me Simpsons hit n run and said he wanted to watch me play for the jokes, but he picked it up and eventually was the one to. Eat the final mission as I watched with open mouth

>"all your games look the same user"

Should have fucked his wife.

I tried it once with my mom
>I like that game you played the other day
>which one
>the one with the flowers
>Flower?
>yeah that one
>wanna play it?
>i won't die, right?
>you can't die in the game, i mean, you can but it's really hard.

>set it up
>give her the controller
>"now, you don't need to control anything with the sticks, you just move the controller around and press any button to go"
>ok!
>spends most of her time just flying into nothingness or getting stuck on objects
>eventually gets a grasp of the controls
>beats the game

It was nice

Sounds like your dad actually has taste

My dad actually introduced me into videogames.
He bought me a Genesis and a handful games but I was too little and stupid to play videogames so he actually helped me completing them. I have some vague but positive memories about playing with him at all Sonic trilogy.
He said he was the champion of Arkanoid at the local Arcade bar and, damn, after seeing him playing Arkanoid on Mame, I believe him.

Aside for that, he now passes the time playing mobile games. And telling me to stop playing videogames and get laid. But I know deep inside he is a very skilled player.

My dad used to kick my ass at Tekken.

>PSfag
>Even your old man knows you have no games

Enjoy Bloodborne though

My mother did all of Mumbo's Mountain in Banjo Kazooie and called it quits from there.

I was 11 when the Wii launched and I turn 21 next week

>play aerobiz every other day with my dad growing up because he was a huge airliner nut.
>literally no other games about this.
>he loses interest in videogames entirely

It was fun while it lasted.

Tired of this meme

This. My parents didn't even play board games with us.

Nah.

He bought us a Comodore 64 in the late 90s and hated himself for it.

your dad must post on Cred Forums you casual son.

Your dad is cool. Stop being such a fucking casual

My dad liked games. Played shooters, crazy taxi, Simpsons hit and run, the Godfather game(s?) which was like GTA, stuff like that. Stopped playing since he had to work more hours though. Only game I remember him playing in the last like 8 years is splatoon, but he only played that a few times.
My mother refuses to play video games, but she just loves cash grab mobile games. She has horrible taste in entertainment really, just loves deadliest catch and reads the news all day, likes to read aloud every article about black men shooting each other.

When my mother was working as a nurse years ago, she would ask to borrow my GBA to play Klonoa during during the graveyard shift. Sadly that cart was lost a couple of years later.

Imagine her surprise when I showed her the same klonoa on my Vita. Now she sometimes ask for my Vita to play and she's also trying to play Kirby these days.

The average EVE player is much older than probably any other MMO.

>Implying

I don't think any person under 40 is still playing this.

I remember when my dad got us a GameCube back when I was 4 (I'm 19 now) and he dragged me into playing Gauntlet: Dark Legacy co-op.

Now he just plays mobile shit, and sometimes Lord of the Rings Online.

>me and my dad use to compete over Mario Kart 64 time trials time

I always looked forward to beating his times.

Well my 50 year old dad plays COD everyday now because I used to play it
>senior year, blops comes out
>I liked to play against bots on nuketown
>casualasfuck.jpeg
>Dad comes down and sees the door open up on the chopper
>dadsounds.avi
>"Can we splitscreen user? I want to kill comrades."
>we play for half the night watching him slowly get out of that retarded "what button shoots" meme
He still plays combat training, everyday.

Dad
> Dad is retired marine col.
> refuses to play anything that is not destiny
> if destiny Is down, he'll go clean, do something else or wait for it to come back up
> got him to try Dark souls 1
> got smashed by the tutorial boss,called It trash and went back to destiny
> played D44M for a little awhile but eventually went back to destiny
> played Overwatch for a week, then dropped it for Destiny

Mom even tried to get into vidya
> usually just plays AppStore sholvleware
> tried witcher 3
> started playing it and never stopped
> if she beat it, she would just start again
> her relationship and work suffered and we had to delete the game so she would do something, anything that was not witcher 3

Mom and I used to play EQ1, I was a shaman, she was a Paladin.
We were fucking unstoppable.

Eventually moved to WoW then quick around Deathwing's invasion.

She plays mostly VC on her wii. Currently, she's playing through Chrono trigger again.

I'm currently working on getting her hooked onto Monster hunter: gen.
She plans on buying her wife and my little brother a N3DS so we can all hunt together.

>my dad used to kick my ass with Paul on Tekken 3 when I was a kid. I cried cause I got wrecked so hard.

>my son asked me if I wanted to play some vidya
>I said yes

I've failed him as a father, haven't I?

This needs to be done.

>her wife and my little brother

Dude, your mum wants the geralt dicking.

ULTIMATE KEKERY

Haha fuck, when did that get filtered?

Donor.
Sorry you don't approve of my family, but I don't really give a shit ;)
(That's a winkey face.)

Are you me?

First game we got for the PS3 was Genji Days of the Blade, it's a shit game that requires just monotonous button mashing but my mom fucking loved it. Her face lit up when she played the dude with the big stick and just plowed through enemies. She hasn't been that happy in a long time. Shit man

Haha, lesbo!!

2005-2007
> had an Xbox hueg but no live
> Dad and I fought in battlefront 2 every Friday night
2007-2010
> halo 3 released
> same, but with halo, was just as if not more fun
> would spend whole days trying to beat firefight on ODST
2010-2012ish
> now it's halo reach
> it's not as good but still fun,
> we were beasts and could 2v8 (or however many were in normal team, I forget) or occasionally 1v8
> we in the top 10% of halo reach players
After that I went though suicidal depression for other reasons , grew up, got a job, graduated school , we kinda just stopped playing together

When I was about 5 or 4 my dad used to sit me on his lap and play outlaws and Diablo youtu.be/YL-h41b1ADQ

Faggot.

>people talking about having Wii in their childhoods
>my childhood had SNES

Should I just end myself?

We are too old for this board, definitely so.

I remmber that.
I'm 21

One time my dad randomly asked to play Mortal Kombat, which really surprised me because he never played video games with me before. I did a fatality of course.

>dad would play melee with me
>taught me that you could pick up electrode

and now I'm old and he's losing his sight

...

My mom loved to play Mario Kart 64 with me and my brother back when we were wee lads.

The latest game we played was Wii Party back in 2013 or so. I've been trying to convince her to play Mario Party but she's not interested.

She also showed interest in 999. Too bad there's not an Android sequel.

I got one you
>Be me enjoying some Mass Effect 2
>Getting ready to go on the final mission
>Make final preparations and launch the mission
>Cut to cintamatic
>Hear a knock on the door
>It's dad, asks how I'm doing and if he can watch
> A little shocked he wants to watch since he was always adamant about video games
> O-ok, he sits down and I explain the the whole situation and mission I'm going on
> He seems honestly interested
>Game cuts to Shepard in his room
>Tali walks in
>mfw I realize that I had been putting the moves on her to get that sweet Aquarian ass
>Try desperately to skip the cutscene
>Nothing works, while I'm pressing every button on the controller my father watches in horror
>The scene finishes and my father sighs as he leaves
>tfw my father's first exposure to my games is an alien sex scene

>Remember the user who got borned to 14 years old asian loli because his dad heard funneling cola to a pussy prevents pregnancy?

*fuck, I meant port.

it's probably for the best user, better to think you're watching alien porn than wasting your life on videogames
I wish I could stop sometimes

>Wii sports
>childhood
You may be 18+ but you are forever an underage b@

>Dad and I played Mario kart on the N64 sometimes
>He was terrible at it but still put up with it
>We'd play battle mode sometimes
>Once or twice tried playing The World Is Not Enough N64 together
>Got mom to play through a few rounds of that terrible Rugrats board game on the N64 with me sometimes
>Mom regularly plays free games on the internet and avoids mobile trash now
>Dad has no ability to play video games anymore because his hands would eclipse the original Xbox controller and could crush a playstation one
At least they tried. My dad's temper is so awful that I'd be concerned if he tried to play any actually competitive video game anyway.

>when. I was young I played a shitload of diablo2 with dad
>actually my first experience of staying all night playing vidya is d2 with dad when mom was gone to grandparents for weekend.
>Me and dad stop playing eventually.
>One day diablo3 releases
>Gave copy to dad, he plays it
This fucker plays Diablo 3 to this day, I already changed multiple jobs and he already retired and now I pay for his additional accounts for loot or whatever, I don't know. Mom already gave up on trying to kill me for giving him d3. He is around 200 or 2000 paragon levels (I don't know), got some guild and runs with it every day and his character is in top 200 or smth on timed runs in eu. And I got half hour a day to play some crusader kings 2 and that pretty much all.

>Be young me
>Mom sees me playing RuneScape
>She wants to see if it's safe
>Kicks me off the chair and starts using my account to check it out
>Saying things like "this is so groovy!" And "Right on!!" To all of my friends online
>She makes her own account
>Plays more often than I do and while I'm at school
>Passes me up and buys us memberships
>Pretty soon hits her first 99 (I never did)
>She still plays today even though it's a completely different game now
>Is currently one of the highest ranked players

I tried to get my mom to play some games like Braid and Portal but she couldn't get a hang of using the keyboard that way.

Though my uncle and I did do playthroughs of the Onimusha and Tak and the Power of Juju series when I was young.

Sounds similar to my Father, although he played games a lot before I was born (and got me into MMOs, played UO whilst sitting on his lap, and he bought me DAoC when it released). Anyway, he started playing RS to see what it was like when I did, and has continued playing to this day.

Although he bitches that it's too much work to maintain his trimmed comp cape

young father (i think he was 25 or so)
Got me into video games from a young age, when i couldn't sleep he would sit with me on the couch and play resident evil. Played fighting games with me, we beat diablo together on the ps1 and we had a great relationship. get older and get a pc, we play Age of Empires and Heros of Might & Magic but dad's got work and i have trouble in school so less game time. get older get an xbox, we play Halo but i have to help him get used to FPS, he never really gets a handle on it. I show him all the great RPGs i play and he watches me play a bit, tells me about his old D&D games. Older again, my relationship with my father and family is straining as i fail in school and cant get a job, me and dad play Xbox 360 and gears of war, reminisce about Halo while we play. Get into fighting games again for a bit and play anything i can find with couch co op. Mostly play 1st level with dad then beat the game on my own. Dad asks me to move the games into my room and out of the lounge room. i still try to talk to him about games every now and then but he isn't interested. I hear him talk to his friends while they drink about how he failed as a father by letting me play to many games, we never talk anymore.

from the start mum doesn't like it and as things go on she and dad drift apart then come back together. Also i used to hang out with all my dad's nerd friends he played D&D with and would visit them to see there new hardware on pc but they stopped talking to my dad. I know some reasons others i don't but my godfather and my dad almost killed each other

I hate what life has become

Had a gamecube, distinctly remember dad playing Mario Golf with me, played a bunch of Pac-Man as well, he was pretty good at it.
Aside from that, not really much else, but when I was still a wee lad and couldn't read he'd read me the dialogue from Paper Mario: TTYD, which he told me (later on) he absolutely hated to do.
All-in-all, a great experience.

>be me in 1996
>dad buys me N64
>he's going through a midlife crisis at the time
>he sees Wave Race 64 demo at Blockbuster
>he loves it
>he buys it for himself and on christmas he tells me he can "lease" it out to me
>when he gets home every night we play some Wave Race
>he buys an actual jet ski the next year
>last year the hull cracked and it sunk to the bottom of the ocean
Sad but funny

The only video game we ever really played often besides that was Wii Sports, specifically golf and tennis.

Never actually played a game with my dad on account of him losing his arm before I even managed to get into vidya.
But he always used to watch me play horror games like Dead Space or Resident Evil.

Are ya winnin son?

For a second there i thought your mom had logged out of the game of life for good.

SNES was part of my childhood too.
t: 25 yo.

>She's played Animal Crossing since 2006
>mom plays AC

I know one of you fuckers has that .gif. you know exactly which one I'm talking about.

please, Cred Forums. Don't let me be the last. You were great once.

Three quick stories:
>Me and my brother used to rent games for the N64 and eventually Gamecube or Xbox about once a month
>Usually get multiplayer things so we can both play together
>Run out of multiplayer things we usually play at the store and get Smashing Drive
>Dad walks in
>"Hey guys, can I try?"
>My brother goes to a friend's house to play and let's my Dad in
>We play for literally hours racing each other
>Every time we go to the video store with him he suggests we rent it again
>I usually said yes because it was fun to see him really enjoy a game

>My Dad sees me and my brother playing Halo 1 multiplayer
>"Hey, can I try?"
>He's never played a first person shooter so we really take it slow with him
>After a few hours over a week he can now walk and shoot but is terrible
>Our uncle comes over for a family dinner and he owns an Xbox and Halo
>"My sons taught me how to play, we should play together!"
>My uncle proceeds to get a sniper and sit on top of one of the bases in Blood Gulch and kills him over and over.
>My dad puts down the controller and never plays a single video game again
>To this day, even though it has been like 15 years, if I bring up Halo he says
>"Remember that one time your Uncle just killed me over and over? What an asshole"
>Still angry my Uncle made my Dad rage quit video games.

>Halo 3 comes out and I'm fucking hyped.
>Been talking about it with my brother for months, bought magazines and comics and books and shit
>My mom notices and offers to pick me up from school to go buy the game on launch
>Proceeds to watch me plough through the first few missions
>"I don't understand this, but I can see you really like it, can I try?"
>I try and teach her FPS controls for literally two hours
>She constantly walks in circles staring at her feet
>I try to remain calm but eventually I didn't know what else to say advice wise but to repeat what I've already said
>Really want to continue the game
>Sit and watch bored out of my mind
>But she's happy

Get it saved, newfag.

dad played the fuck out of some pinball game on the SNES

thats all he ever played

sounds comfy

usually my uncle would play MK64 with me and the bro

wish i had bomberman 64

mom always liked puzzle games

tetris and that puzzle bobble game on N64

adult? adults are the ones who drive the gaming market the make up the majority of the videos games sold and bought/played.

My dad punches me for screen looking in Duke Nukem, and screamed everytime he won a match

I did, but my image archives got corrupted a few months ago. Thanks faggot.

I tried to get my dad to play games with me as a kid, but he was always disinterested. This one time I asked him if he wanted to play it was fucking Crash Bash and he said yes. Of all games. Why.

HAHAHHAHAHA

Whenever i go out of town to visit my mother I usually bring my old 360, my mother and aunt usually have a blast placing money bets on who can catch the biggest fish in pic related

>Big Bang Theory edit
fuck you

My dad is a big carfag so all he played was Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2

>As a kid/teen only real hobby was vidya
>Would try to show my parents my PC games whenever they were in the room
>They didn't care enough
>Thought I should get a "real" hobby
>Adult now, live in my own place
>Still paly vidya
>When calling home my mum will ask what games I've been playing lately
>Ask me how I'm doing in them
>Talk about them
>Sometimes when I go home I show her my saved games on Minecraft

I don't know why this makes me so sad but it does.

>playing Wind Waker
>stepdad approaches
>"wow is this character gay? he looks gay"
>"why does he keep yelling"
>"hahahahahah"
This faggot is why I only play vidya alone now.

>Dad always trying to get me into shit like Diablo II/Baldurs gate
>The view is weird and the graphics suck
>go back to playing Lego Island and Treasure Mountain
>Fable comes out
>Immediately gets it for me
>cave in and try it
>fucking love it and realize my dad has really good taste
>switch from mario party and shitty racing games to Hit and Run, Warcraft, and Halo

Bless his soul.

This is tight.

> be around 13 years old
> "hey dad, take a look at this really cool game!"
> sits down and watches for a good 20 minutes or so
> "this is garbage. how about you do something useful with your time instead?"
> fast forward 15 years
> still live with parents because fuck money
> have to close, minimize or hide vidya every time they come into my room and pretend I'm just browsing Cred Forums

And then people wonder why I'm a reclusive little shit who doesn't want anyone to know what he's doing.

I always thought it was kinda cute, my mom called every portable console a gameboy.
Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, DS, 3DS, PSP, PS Vita, all gameboys.

>"time flies when you're a faggot"

>I can't let my parents know I'm being unproductive and playing vidya
>I'll convince them I'm browsing Cred Forums instead!

>mom likes the walking dead show
>okay whatever
>she hears there is a game based on it somehow
>let her play it
>she does

You can't even drink legally in your country faggot.

I get less heat at least because they don't know what the fuck it is. They probably think I'm looking for a job or something instead of the loud and colorful WAHOOOO YAHOOOOOOOOO in which they know for certain I'm being a leech.

Fair enough, I guess I've browsed Cred Forums under the guise of studying enough to know that they don't know any better.

My mother finished Tomb Raider 2 and 3 on her own and she used to watch me play Spyro

I miss my childhood...

>tfw I've always tried to get parents interested in vidya, even got a second wiimote just so we could play Mario Bros Wii together, but they never showed any interest and told me to GTFO
I really have bad parents.

>When socom 1 and 2 were all the rage
>Dad buys me and my little brother and himself a copy
>basically 3 PS2s in the house because dad had a fuckload of disposable income
>Use to break night just playing Socom and when he was at work he would bring his playstation and play with me as well
>Socom dies and we watched that episode of South park about WoW
>Decide to try it and we all loved it joined around mid TBC
>Now that WoW is a dead husk he still plays because he finds it enjoyable

I wish WoW wasnt shit anymore.

Who else parents /cantintovidya/?
Only example I can think of is my dad watching me play RDR once because he grew up with westerns, but that's not exactly childhood.

>having parents that give you shit about what you do in your spare time
It always surprises me how many parents act like complete man children. When you're a neet 28 year old, it's fine, but if you're going to shit on a thirteen year old for playing video games, you have problems.

Retards who quoted this post don't realize that, after a certain year, no matter how old you get, you'll always be an underaged queer.

Being a GC or Wii-baby certainly disqualifies you from ever knowing shit.

>be me
>young poor fag
>family works all the time to scrape by
>birthday rolls around and not expecting much
>father stop by house in between jobs to give me present
>"open it user"
>Nintendo mutha fuckin gamecube
>comes with Tarzan and Luigi's mansion
>play that shit all the time
>get games whenever store is going out of business and selling things dirt cheap
>sometimes when he has free time he'd watch me play or mario party with me and my brother
>ff a few years
>father getting older and his work is taking it's tole on him
>he does construction shit well into his 50s
>starts being gone more, not talking much to this user
>pop in gamecube games every now and again to remember him stopping by to give me it
>makes me smile some
>ff few more years
>have long term red pilled Q T coco girlfriend
>father has always been a bit racist
>resents me for it
>work has fucked his knees up and he's gone blind in one eye
>close to loosing house and always fights with my mom
>I go into the Navy because poor fag still so no college yet
>get ready to go to boot camp
>"well dad I'm going now, I guess I'll see you at graduation"
>he sighs and says "maybe"
>go in for hug but denied
>I graduate and family isn't there
>go on deployment and never get letters from father
>one day get message saying he fell off of roof and is in hospital
>finally get leave but he's passed by the time I get there
>have funeral
>go back to barracks
>bring old game cube with me
>plug in Luigi's mansion
>theme fucks me up now
>mfw only good memory of father is vidya related and now those vidya fuck me up

>dad buys games all the time
>gets quake 2
>Im hype as fuck for some quake 2
>dad always hid programs so we couldnt use the computer without permission
>dad boots up quake for me
>I top score in DM and win for the first time ever
>I'm going wild, run across the house to show my dad
>Dad sees the scoreboard and tells me to play another match
>I play and top score again
>he says hes proud of me but the look on his face wasnt what you'd call proud
>he stops playing shooters
>I was 5 going on 6 and instead of being proud of me for being better than him my dad got pissed
>A similar thing happens with lotz:oot when I cleared the game before him
>after oot he tells me hes too old for video games
And this is why I'm still going to Cred Forums at the age of 24

>mid-late 90s, around 10 years old
>dad would play formula 1 games on his work PC that I wasn't geallowed on
>high-end steering wheel, pedals and everything
>kinda jelly
>few weeks before Christmas had bit of a fight because I had nothing to play on and all my friends had nintendoo sixty fooooouuuur and Dad said no
>got over it because I'm not a wino
>PS1 for Christmas
>wtf, mind blown
>years of Micro Machines and NFL with dad on his days off

>living in Cuckmerica

I can sort of remember my dad playing battlezone on the atari and my mom was really good at columns on the megadrive that's pretty much it.

Hey man that's tough. I hope you're better now.

>tfw dad still plays vidya to this day

does your mother know that you browse internet image boards with naked girl pictures?

>all these guys talking about their great dads who played vidya with them

Wish I had a dad like this. My dad bullied me. And not in a good fun top tier bantz sort of way either. Everything he said was a personal insult questioning everything about me. Made me feel like I was something other than human. When I was on the football team he constantly would say things like "hurr hurr someone like YOU is going to hurt one of those other kids" or "are you sure YOU can do THAT"

All day a constant barrage. That's why I was secretly glad he died in that tornado and I didn't do anything to help him. I felt free.

I feel insanely jealous of you lads that have a good, nice dad. I might actually know what it means to be human if I was given a hug once in a while.

>grew up in foster care
>sister whom I fought with constantly goes to a group home
>lend her my copy of pokemon silver
>several months later, she gives it back because she can't find lugia or a few other mons
>look at her pokedex
>almost all possible pokemon from one cart caught, aside from the dogs and lugia
>level 92 typhlosion named after me
>mfw
she's still a piece of shit today though.

Did you dad try to drunkly sucker punch you or break his foot trying to kick you?

Why the fuck are you pretending to be Superman?

probably because you were a little faggot that had no one to teach you to be a man. So you grew up to visit an image board daily where 30 year old and aspiring teens post about their waifus and comment cute reaction pictures.

>fempai

>17
>Playing Disgaea 3
>Trivial french dad
>Tell him I finish my dungeon and i'll leave cause he wanna watch the tv
>Dad hates video games but he feeds on tv everyday
>My turn
>My dad can't speak english he reads: "IOUR TÜRN," and says that it doesn't mean anything
I never played video games with my dad.

My mom calls anything and everything video game related "Nintendo"

I played through all of RE4 with my dad when I was a wee babe. That was fun.
Then just a little after that, my mom and him split up.
And then he left.
And many years later and after many years of ignoring him everytime he tried to contact me ever I hear the news that he died of a heart attack.
And then I heard that he raped someone in my family.
And then I ignored his mother when she tried to contact me after he'd died. She probably thought I cared.
I did not.
Fuck that guy, he was a cunt.

My dad was the coolest fucker ever.

We were poor, growing up. My dad saved and put away every scrap of money he could in order to afford an N64, because he and I loved video games. Well, finally we saved enough, and he got my family the N64, a second controller, Wave Race 64 and Mario 64.

He and I played Mario 64 to death. We wanted all 120 stars, and we didn't use a stratagy guide or anything. We finally got 120 stars after like 2 months of playing every afternoon.

When the Gamecube came around, right after Mario Sunshine released, my dad and I knew we had to do it again. So, we went back to saving.

My dad suddenly fell ill (rheumatic fever) and passed after about 3 months of struggling. He passed the Tuesday before Thanksgiving when I was 13.

My mom knew we were saving for it, so she got me a Gamecube, controllers and, like, 5 games for Christmas using my dad's life insurance money. It didn't make up for it, but we got a ton for that Christmas. I played through Sunshine to where you beat Bowser, but without my dad, it didn't feel right and I fell out of video games for a bit, since I had always played them with him.

When Mario Galaxy came out, I had come to terms with it all, somewhat. So I bought a Wii and Mario Galaxy. I played it for weeks. I finally got to 119 stars and I was about to collect the last star, and, I dunno. I cried a little. As I collected it, I felt really good, remembering the times I had with my dad.

But yeah, my dad was the coolest guy. He and I played vidya when I was a kid all the time.

What the fuck user, I didn't need to read that

your dad was cheating on your mother and using you as a cover up.

>This entire thread

>Play original Zelda with my dad when I was young
>Always have fun with the game
>Year pass and he one day brings it up
>Is sad that you cant play those games anymore since they are old and gone
>Tell him about emulators
>He is not really sure about it since that is all computer stuff
>Buy him a laptop and get him all the old emulators
>His cup runneth over with nostalgia and fun
>We sit down and coop Zelda together
Loves playing old nes and snes games on the laptop, sadly he will not go near anything modern.

>That's why I was secretly glad he died in that tornado and I didn't do anything to help him
Fucking kek

Sorry your dad was a faggot scrub, user

this
Nintendo is for console
gameboy means handheld

Nah, he worshipped the ground that woman walked on. She was an uptown girl that saved him from an abusive household.

I can relate.
>dad hired my whore mom, though I guess they knew each other outside her 'job'
>got her pregnant
>refused to acknowledge as such
>never met him growing up
>went to his house once at age 7 for a scheduled meeting
>he never showed up
>spent the day with my grandma instead
>age 24
>he suddenly calls me out of the blue
>tells me he never wanted to acknowledge being a dad
>wanted to get to know me now that I was an adult
>offered to put me in his will if I did a DNA test
>I told him to fuck right off
>I have more memories of my sister's dad than him
>said 'dad' threw a molotov cocktail at our house when I was 4
>but he also bought me aladdin for the Sega on my fourth birthday

>Aladdin for Sega
So he bought you the worse version?

You did not want to be in his will?
Fuck it, take the cash.

good meme.

>tfw your parents were the cool ones in the neighborhood who let other kids with strict parents play GTA
>tfw you had wicked ass sleep overs at your house because they didn't give a fuck

She missed you. She probably associates you with happier times.

>Aladdin for the Sega

Fuck man, abusive childhood

My mom never played video games, even if I asked her to try some she refused.

My dad used to love playing golf video games, we used to play Mario Golf a shit ton. Now though he's too busy working himself to death.

>yfw they used you and no one wanted to kick it with you

Muh sword. Do you also think turtles in time was better on sega?

I'm still friends with a lot of those guys
We play DnD at a friends house on that street still to this day

oh, I told him I'd do the DNA test if he sent me the forms and paid for it.

otherwise I never wanted to talk to him or hear from him again.

he never sent it, and the only contact I've had from that side was my grandma, who I also said fuck off to since she was partially responsible for my not seeing my mom for 13 years.

>she probably associates you with happier times
hardly.

>16 years old
>I have 2 sisters, since I was 11 I hadn't seen or heard from my littlest sister, who was adopted
>she's living nearby to my sister
>calls me one day
>tells me my sister had been hit by a car, was in the hospital dying
>nobody had told me this
>she told me they had kept it from me
>I lost my shit, got almost violent
>find out by the end of the night that my sister had lied to me
>call to her the next day, ask why she'd lied like that
>"You don't care about us anymore, it's your fault we're not together anymore, so I wanted to make you care again"
>I was 5 when we went into foster care
my sister is a sociopathic piece of shit.

sega wasn't as floaty or slow, and had the better OST, as well as disney animators on it.

>DnD
Psh, nerd.

Not that user, but get fucked. DnD is awesome.

Well I had the one for SNES therefore my opinion is right. I don't even really know the differences between the two besides the sword
>looking at the back of the sega version at blockbuster and seeing Aladdin holding a sword, knowing I'll never get that

>used to play stronghold crusader and crash bash with my dad when I was younger
>used to slap my shit all game long but let me win at the end all the time
>rarely played because he was always working to provide us with everything we need
>he passed away 3 months ago

I will miss you you glorious bastard I hope you are having fun at a better place now.

>DnD
>awesome
Don't make me shove you in a locker again, Andy.

>try to play video games with my mom

>Lego Star Wars 2
>Refuses to play as anyone but Slave Leia because of her dancing easter egg
>Constantly falls off platforms and fucks around when I need her for a puzzle

>Kirby's Return to Dreamland
>Constantly acted disinterested
>Couldn't understand simple controls
>Got jealous of Kirby's Super Abilities

Tetris
>Couldn't understand basic controls
>Shit reflexes

Wii Sports
>Asks me to play this for some reason
>Kicks my fucking ass to the moon in Tennis

For some reason, my mom is a failure at every game except Wii Sports.

SNES was more of a platformer, closer to the movie, while the Sega had more action elements thrown in, and some extra stuff thrown in.

At least my parents are still married

My dad was a busy man and didn't care much for my hobbies as he struggled enough to care for my well-being since I lived with my mom. She didn't care either.

That's it, no sob story, no cool story, no nothing.

Have you considered raping the sociopathy out of her?

>Implying at least 50% of posters aren't underage

>He still plays D20 based systems

No wonder you can't get a girlfriend user

Me too user, he taught me to try to be a better person than him and I humbled the man physically and spiritually later in life. He may always be disappointed in me but I'll always have his pride.

pretty sure rape as a child is one of the reasons she's so fucked up now.

Well peggy you can go kill yourself

>mom was gone to grandparents for weekend.
she was visiting her lover

I never could get my parents to play vidya. My mom would rather watch anime/cartoons with me and my dad is a literal caveman who pretty much dislikes computers and modern technology.
Sometimes he would watch me and my brother play FIFA or Pro Evolution though, it was the only thing that would remotely catch his attention.

Yes, and she clearly misses her childhood.

uhuh.

>my mom would rather watch anime/cartoons with me
Your mom sounds cool, user.

My mom doesn't play much but she loves the Resident Evil series, Tomb Raider and Pikmin.
I think that's pretty cool.

>Dad used to play Bad Company 2 on my 360
>Absolutely loved it
>Never had the best reflexes so he played sniper
>Loved hardcore because the enemies died in one shot and it was more realistic
>When the xbox one came out he got his own xbox and xbox live
>Once phoned me while I was out to tell me about a 50 killstreak he went on because he found some little crevice that no one could see him in
>We still play online from time to time

Battlefield 1 better not be shit, for his sake

Your dad was a camping shitter, user

Lol you are just sharing your life while some creepy user makes up scenarios in his head where incest runs rampant.

Fucking weirdos on this website.

>Dad is obsessed with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom 2
>In his office every day playing
>He gets stuck at a boss named Gretel Grosse
>Stuck for days
>Walk in while he's trying
>He asks if I want to try
>I'm 5 years old
>Gretel pops out
>I panic and lock up
>No skill or technique
>Just stand there and tank her
>It works
>I actually win first try
>Neither of us expected it
>She screams
>She falls down dead in a bloody pile
>Dad says thank you
>Feel guilt like I actually killed someone
>Gory nightmares for 2 months

I appreciate my dad trying to include me in his life but he probably should have waited until I was at least 8.

Its a legit tactic!

>mfw when he'd give me a shot and I'd play assault
>I'd blow his mind with my above average gameplay and reflexes
>Always talked about how he wished he could be as fast as me
>It always made me feel really bad

That reminds me, wasn't there a scientific study that said that people that play games start to get worse after 24? Just tell your dad to age backwards.

My dad bought Guitar Hero 3 for himself to play on me/my brother's PS2. He didn't play much and eventually gave it to us. I never got good, my brother got through expert though. Later he found a GBA SP and Road Rash: Jailbreak for cheap at a yard sale and bought them, played quite a bit.
To this day he plays Rock Band with us at family get-togethers sometimes, and it's the only time we get along.

no. it has more to do with more responsibilities in life rather than reflexes or w/e decreasing

Tell her ace attorney is on iOS now

its not w/e there is a scientific fucking study

>scientificular

Isn't the iOS port HORRIBLE?

>convince my dad to play mario party with me when I was younger
>I obviously am destroying him, he doesn't play games
> last turn star swap
>he beats me
>parades around the house singing "I am the champion"

most "scientific" studies you hear about aren't scientific at all. just buzz words for blog sites.

the only reason you get worse as you age is because you have less time to play video games.

Mine had both

>Be little guy
>own the very first Playstation
>I'm playing some footbal game, maybe the first PES or shit like that
>Father wants to join, because bonding with children and shit
>He's slow, doesn't know the buttons, generally does shit
>Makes me rage so hard i abruptly remove his controller from the playstation and continue alone
>He turns off the playstation
>I have a tantrum

good times

>Sister refuses to touch a controller whenever I offer
>thinks she can get me to go to a concert

>played fifa 99 with my dad all christmas
>abused the easy as fuck corners in that game
>won 5 or 6 nil every game
>he's never played a video game since.

Your sister wants to get you laid. What band

>dad mentions having an atari and talking about some of the games
>I buy him an atari flashback
>he tells me to keep it and doesn't want to play

to this day the only game We ever played together was NHL 94 on genesis and that was only like 2 or three times. When I heard he actually owned an atari I thought he might not hate games so much.

>Thanksgiving comes around
>Normal families play "touch" football outside
>My family played this game
>years pass and now my whole family is cut throat with eachother over politics

fuck this world

She also had pretty good taste. It hurts that her eyesight got so bad that we can't watch anything together anymore because she can't tell what's going on onscreen.

>dad once got really drunk and asked me to teach him how to play mariokart.
>he said it would be "just like driving so it should be easy".
>i didn't teach him.

>my mum got into pokemon go but she joined a rival team.
>she got so vicious that she even started taking my gyms while i was already out taking them.
>i quit right after i realised she was beating me by like 30 pokemon in the dex.

other than that most of my family fucking hates vidya. i'm the black sheep of the family and will forever be remembered as the one who always wanted to be different.

life is suffering.

Brutal

My dad has played Descent every Saturday morning for the past 20 years

I'm sorry to hear that, user.

>mum played super mario 2 when it came out
>hums the overworld theme all the time and I join in
>think of her whenever I see that aeiou john madden uuuuuu stuff or any "thread simulators" etc
strange feeling

buy glasses

Local indie shit.

My dad used to watch me play Medievil when I was young and laughed when he realized you can tear your arm off and use it as a weapon.

He still thinks that's funny, even all these years later.

We all used to play Wario Ware and Rythym Heaven together. My dad who doesn't like videogames wouldn't hand over the controller until he got an OK on Monkey Clock.

Your sister wants you to get laid with a trashy whore that you won't ever have to see again. Sounds pretty based desu

this made me tear up for some reason.

I once found my dad trying to play Mario 64 but he got stuck swimming in the water outside the castle and gave up. This was the only time he ever played a video game.

>mom buys me skyrim for 360 because she saw it in a bargain bin (i played it years ago on PC)
>she loves d&d and fantasy stuff
>she already spends on day in front of the TV, i could probably get her to play it

>she can't fathom 3d space
>runs into walls and gets stuck on them
>ignores doors and gets lost in linear empty hallways
>she at least figured out how to use the menus

It was pretty funny to watch, but she got bored and wanted to keep watching TV instead.

Even better.
Watch out though, chances are you'll run into some hipster faggots.
That's actually a good thing, considering if you have any game, that is.

>mario kart on snes
>dad always pick peach

>play aoe2 with my dad
>shit's fun
>mfw when i always get destroyed until this very day

Still sounds like she missed you. Just also that's she's crazy.

>family is broken and full of drunks who fight all the time
>suggest we all play mario kart one rainy afternoon
>in my simple head I thought we would bond and smooth things over
>they just fight more over the competition
>sister punches brother, mom is screaming at me and my dad throws a coffee cup through the tv
>never try to bond with my family ever again

my dad used to pick Paul in tekken because his name is Paul too

>tfw your dad was on a pro team in Quake 3, won several tournaments
>tfw you still play vidya together
>tfw he's over 40 and still fucking wrecks you in first person shooters

If I wanted to get laid, I'd be crying about it on /adv/, /soc/, or /r9k/.

nice fake story
actually it was neither nice nor written well

My dad thinks that the best vidya ever is Wii Sports and that Wii U Google Street View app, because if my dad has friends over he always wants me to turn on the Wii U to show everyone where he used to live in Romania. Too bad they shut down that app.

He also loved watching me play Punch Out and always laughed his ass off whenever an enemy knocked me out

I just got one from lat weekend

>dad comes to visit
>Im playing Napoleonic wars
>he loves the era and ask me how to play
>he gets hooked by the game right away
>watch him as he plays as Napoleon killing everything because he is quite good

It was fun

We mostly played boardgames but I played SMB3 and tetris with my mom and othello and chessmaster with my dad. They haven't played anything else besides NES with me but it was fun as back in the day.

Mom plays tetris nowadays on her smartphone, what a pleb

Mom used to play league of legends with my brother and I. She was actually a great support

My dad was mobius 1. He'd absolutely trash the shit out of me in the multiplayer in ace combat 4.

At least your dad didn't die.

He was lying on the internet.

Actually it was my dad that got me and my older brother into vidya gaems.
>When he was in highschool work on punchcard-based computers.
>Wanted to enlist in the navy for radar but got sick during basic.
>Refrigeration guy instead. Plays loads of flight sims and the like.
>Remember watching him play Doom 2 and trying to play it but being afraid of the Spider Mastermind.
>Had Douk 3D as well, giving me a nice dose of prepubescent perversion.
I remember as a 6 year old or so I'd get girls in my apartment complex underneath my bed and we'd fool around and play Duke and the stripper where /ss/-me would tell the lolis to 'shake it baby'.
>Doing it one day, look out from under my bed.
>My crush and my mom looking at me.
>Pulled out and put in the living room.
I didn't get in any trouble though.

They're going to blame you.

She wants the dick

>under the bed

For what fucking purpose

I had a lot of space under there since the bed was high off the ground. It was private. I don't know I was a stupid 6 year old?

uncle was the only man around in my life me and my brothers were too small. he would sit with me and play the shit out of devil may cry. i dont ever recall getting past the spider bit with him he was never really good. fast forward a little bit and his brother committed suicide by hanging himself not too far away from our house. He moved away to australia and opened a veterinary in honor of his brother ( who wanted to be a vet). i didnt touch devil may cry again after that. and i have no idea why but everytime i see the credits to HSF2 i tear up a little. i dont know why I honestly dont i just get this overwhelming sadness.

>tfw I would probably be a good gaming dad/uncle.
>Will probably never have kids because ugly autistic.
>Kids don't really want to play stuff, rather just watch videos of people playing.

Feels bad, I always loved Christmas with my extended family and getting to watch my older cousins play FF9, Parasite Eve and other PS1 stuff.

>housemate's gf comes over, all hanging out
>try to play some Nintendoland
>literally the most casual of casual games, designed as fun little minigames for the whole family to play together
>she cannot into absolutely anything
>gets confused by the controls in mario chase, a game where all you do is run with the dpad and dive with 2
>gets too frustrated to continue in less than a minute
>we all have to do something else

I think it was very charitable of your housemate to date a literal retard

Threads like this make it pretty obvious why most of us ended up in this place

My dad and I used to play Metal Slug X and eat pizza every Friday. We even tracked down a PS1 disc so we could play it at home when we stopped going out so much. We're both pretty busy now, but we still hang out sometimes and play Hot Shots Golf.

Parents bullied me for spinning out in GT so I told them to play it. They didn't

you sure showed them

Weird how that works desu. I once caught my brother cleaning up his jizz in the bathroom and its like an instinct hit me and I told him to stop jerking off
because thats my spot to do it but I dislike my brother anyway

It is decided.

Cred Forums is full of Nintentoddlers raised on N64s.

>because thats my spot to do it

Did you cum on the tiles by any chance?

I could never get my dad to play anything.

My mother played Monkey Island, Wolf Among Us and Broken Sword. She also has this gaming client called Big Fish which is like Steam for women and she's always got some kind of hidden object game on the go on that.

Only time is when I used to play this with my dad when I was like 10 for a few weeks and then we stopped when we got bored.

He was never a gamer but has a fascination with golf games and his favorite is mario golf for the N64.

>tilefucker

He still lurks amongst us.

>playing ut2k4 with my dad 6 years ago
>he kick my ass
>playing ut2k4 with my dad this year
>i kick his ass
Feels good

Some of my earliest memories are of watching my dad play Doom and Duke Nukem 3d. He used to try and clear entire levels with the chainsaw. Tried to get him to play Halo 2 when I was like 10 but he just got really impatient having to skip past cutscenes. I don't think I could get him to play anything anymore. 80 year old grandma plays a mean Tetris though

>he's cheating on him

Gay parents is not good for you anyway

saying gramps to someone who is 5-10 years older then you

I watched my dad beat original Mario in one sitting. I remember thinking that was pretty badass.

He also introduced my bro and I to Age of Empires and we'd set up local multiplayer matches together.

He's super into Pokémon Go now

I got my mom into Rayman and then LoZ: OoT and MM. She pretty much hijacked my N64 after I got my GC.

>tfw my mom was the one who introduced me to video games
>used to watch her play games like resident evil and dino chrisis as a kid
>couple of months ago she wanted to play through the silent hill games again
>asked me to get up a walkthrough and help her through the game

>Mom is a medical technician that can handle multiple complex processes at once, knows how to use computers and the like
>Can't seem to remember that holding UP and pressing B lets her do her third jump in Smash Bros.

I love your mom

>buy plants vs zombies for my mom
>She doesn't play it ever because she has always has a stick up her ass about new things
>years later internet goes out for like 2 days straight
>see her playing plants vs zombies on her laptop
>says she just found it installed, must have came with the computer
>Shes playing it every day and has beaten it like 5 times

i remember playing red barren and space invaders with my dad on his computer way back in the day when PCs were first becoming accessible.
as time moved into the gatway computer era he was the one one who got me rebel assault 2 and would help me with missions i couldn't do myself. he tried to get my into Myst but i was way too young for it. we also played a game called spycraft for hours on end together and that was wicked fun. when we got a sega he took take me to blockbuster on the night before a big snow storm and let me rent the x-men game. my mom was pissed.

probably on some subliminal level the reason i love games so much is because it was when my dad and i got along the best and it was just the two of us. i was very fortunate to have a dad like mine. he was never a "tough guy" or the cool dad or who could just carry the room-- but hes just such a nice guy. he also broke the cycle of corporal punishment that went waaaaaaay back in my family. he never hit me and ill never hit my kid as a result. he led by example. now that i'm older i'm way better about reminding him how much i appreciate him.
good times.

My mom also does shit like this

>asked me to get up a walkthrough and help her through the game
CAAAAAAAASUAL

She sounds cool.

Sounds like your dad likes loot hunts. Get him to try Diablo.

Why is Candycrush like crack to white, midwestern moms? It's the only thing mine plays.

It's actually a well designed game

Not surprised, EVE is a Dad game for sure.

I'm sure people said the same about whatever console you grew up on.

You baby.

>old dos game
Die underage

Cool.

>"Well son, I won't stop you from playing what you want, but I'm not sure why you want to play with some girlish elfs if you could play with some manly space ships"

Your dad sounds like a cool guy

>Dad was into age of empires, lords of midnight and rome total war

>Mum into tetris, tomb raider and the dig.

My dad once named my pokemon obscene names for fun.

>Implying anyone's ever been called a newfag for growing up on Intellivision

...

this is what you call a good father, hope your dad is doing okau user

hey cool, my waifu

Never really played games with my dad but he did showed me some DOS games like Hugo or Alley Cat
He's pretty cool

>be about 4/5 years old
>dad brings a PS1 out of fucking nowhere
>mom gets mad af but he's like ''whatevs, its my money''
>plays the fuck out of tekken, gran turismo and ace combat 2
>i could always heard him playing vidya at 4am from my own room
>eventually gets mom to play some vidya with us
>she kicks our asses at tekken and plays Gran Turismo really fucking badly.
>good times

Now my mom really got into guitar hero back when it came out but haven't really played vidya since then
Dad plays vidya every now and then(he asked me for my old ps2 and i gave it to him a couple months back) he plays mostly fps and sports games but sometimes i get him to co-op with me, last thing we played was gears of war on xbox.

newfag btfo

>dad buys me n64 cause I really like playing his friend's snes
>play every game with him killer instinct, golden eye, Dk 64, etc
>could only get my mom to play wheel of fortune
>continue to play games with dad through the years
>Xbox
>GameCube
>360
> every time he brought me to blockbuster I intentionally rent co op games
kinda sad I moved to pc

I played allmost all the gears of war 2 story with my dad we both lost our shit when we chainsawed some one at the sametime i also used to watch him play call of duty Wow. Afther a while he gave me the xbox and now watchs sports and tv

>dad played Civ II and then III a lot
>he never upgraded his computer past 2003 or so until he switched to an eye-tracking computer because ALS, never played IV or V
>when I finished MGS he joked about how awful a name Snake is
>parents also messed around with the Wii because that's practically why it was made

It's been 10 years user, there are high-schoolers who were born after 9/11.

>Intellivsion
>not playing games on fuckhuge mainframes
>not developing UNIX so you can play this one vidya

Is that fucking Wizadora?

Holy shit.

>tfw my father would hit and scream at me if i touched at his computer to play games

>tfw i still don't feel comfortable aroung my father at 22 years old

My dad bought Tennis for the Game Boy just for himself to play. For years after all I ever saw him play was Bejeweled and shit. My mother was too scared of games to play them at all.

When I got a Wii for the family, they then enjoyed games a lot more, but only casually. My mother seemed to enjoy Rabbids games a lot.

Games are such an important part of my life that I wish they understood them better, even if they didn't particularly enjoy them. I always wished they could understand how it feels to overcome a really tough obstacle, or how attached you get to characters after spending hours with them, or how people create abstract worlds as a form of expression. My parents are often afraid to try anything new or challenge themselves mentally, they don't even have any hobbies besides watching reality TV. I feel we've never been able to truly connect because of this.

>Go to Target with Dad and Mom when I was 9
>Dad plays the DK64 on the display console for 10 minutes
>"Yeah, these things are too expensive for what they do"
>Never had any vidya aside from a few PC games (Monkey Island, Sonic R, The Sims, Age of Empires) and a GBC/GBA

I would not own a console until the 360

I remember my parents playing that on my brother's Game Boy Pocket when I was like 3.

>Punchcard Punchout

I wish I knew my dad.

>Dad is old school half-native American farmer
>Has 3 autistic white as fuck sons
>He literally asked "Are you winning son" all the goddamn time
>Would always ask questions and try to learn
>Get him to play Red Dead Redemption with me
>He cried over being able to bond with me

I miss him. I wish he could have met my daughter.

My parents were never into games other than a stint my mother had with Tetris when I first got my GB in the early 90s and she went wild for it.

I visited my Dad one time a few years back, I don't get to see him much, and my kid half brother was there with his PS3 thinking he was hot shit. He had some UFC game and wanted to play, probably assuming he could blow me out like he did when my dad played. He refused to tell me any of the controls. I picked the guy with the longest reach and biggest hitting power and just fucking dodged in and out hitting him in the head, over and over, winning by knockout within a couple of minutes every match while my dad laughed his ass off. The kid got super, super salty after about 20 mins and wouldn't play any more, and me and my dad laughed his ass out of the room.

my dad is 55 and plays more video games then i do and owns both current gun consoles

Yo my dad also still plays WoW. He keeps trying to get me to play with him again, so I do anyway, but it's just no longer a good time.

it's been proven that gay parents are better than straight parents.

Because they actually, you know, want children.

Instead of accidentally getting someone pregnant and then having to spend their lives with them.

My dad had a gaming rig when I was around 6.
Used to play worms world party, a platformer game called gift, battlefield 1942 and Abe's Exodus and GTA 3. He mainly played WW2 RTS like blitzkrieg and I loved them too.
He gifted me a psp when it launched and we played everybody's golf (I modded the console and he got to play the second game some months ago) and medievil on it.
He also played a shit ton out of battlefield heroes for some reason. Around 2013 I introduced him to world of tanks and now he mainly play world of warplanes on the same pc as me.

>labyrinth
>not labirynth
who the fuck made this

They try to connect with you the only way they know.

my dad never played vidya, but
>first games are on my dad's old macintosh
>he fosters my interest, reads reviews and goes out of his way to get critically acclaimed games
>Myst series, Marathon, Warcraft 2+3, Starcraft
>later get first console, Dreamcast
>Skies of Arcadia, JSR, Space Channel 5, Shenmue, Fur Fighters, Powerstone, Grandia 2, MVC

my dad was pretty patrician for a non-gamer
thanks, dad

>be stuck on a level in Croc as a young kid
>no idea what to do but i really want to continue playing this game
>ask mum for help since at that age you see your parents as essentially Gods that can do anything
>never in her life has my mum played a game but agreed to help me
>don't even remember what it was i was stuck on but i know that she got past it after i told her the controls
>hands controller back to me and i continue playing

makes me wonder if i was insistent on her playing games with me if she would have with me being an only child with no one to play multiplayer games with

I don't have any.
My dad hated videogames, he thought that they were just a waste of time.
He often talked me about diversifying my life activities if he saw me playing vidya.

he was such a harsh but great man

I'm 21 but the youngest of 3 kids. All my consoles were hand-downs from my oldest brother (middle brother is full retard, can barely form sentences let alone use his hands properly).
My first console was a Mega Drive with Sonic 2 and a few other games, then I got his PS1 with Ridge Racer Revolution and a bunch of other shit, then a GBA with Pokemon Emerald and some GBC games, then his Gamecube with LoZ Windwaker and Timesplitters 2.

I think it influenced me well, since nowadays I don't mind turning down graphical settings for better/smoother gameplay.

>get portal 2
>my dad wants to try playing it too
>I watch him play and he has trouble on the first area, can't figure out how to look around or how portals work, can't solve puzzles by himself
>later I'm on the family desktop and open an internet browser
>in the autocomplete see some webpage that says "how to be a pro at portal 2"

>You may be 18+
>forever an underage

...

Cue
"Daddy wasn't there/Daddy never loved me" musical piece from Austin Powers.

No I am not black.

Be lucky your parents even let you have videogames or tried to play with you.

So this is dad stories thread?
>dad never plays video game except specific ones
>red alert 1 on ps1, played so much he broke the disk in half and it still worked
>comanche 4, knows it ass backwards but when changing sensitivity a little makes him forget everything
>age of mythology, plays with 6 opponents and never gives mercy because he "likes burning the egyptians"
>cod 4, recently abandoned official servers in favour of cracked ones since "fucking kids always whine" and got banned from a server
The same games every time no matter what and it has been since red alert and igi.

Sounds nice to have father like that. Mine drank all the time and hardly took any interest. Always fought but I'm becoming more like him by the day. Fucking genetics.

Damn you older bro, you lied. I wasn't adopted.

>Pic related was dads favorite game back in the day
>Loves western movies
>Bought him a copy a few years ago for his birthday
>He still plays it

oh user

I have a wheel and shifter for the xbone, and just picked forza up the other day also, I asked my dad if we wanted too test out a new "toy" I got and he proceeds to get excited, he then went on too play forza for a few hours giggling to himself the whole time, I'd never seen him enjoy a video game like that before he actually wanted too keep playing it but I had too sleep

>he's cheating on him

>Dad has to move away for a year because of work
>comes back again has a computer with him
>go into basement to see what he's doing
>playing half-life 2
>never thought he'd be into games
>he finishes the game
>tells me i can have the computer cuz he's finished
>sometime later orange box comes out
>i buy it
>Ask him if he's played the other half-life games
>He didn't know they existed
>give him back the pc so he can play
>He completes all off them in like a week
>"tell me when half-life 3 releases"
>mfw

>Dad showed off how he got Asteroid, Tempest, QBasic, Missile Command, and many more on the family computer
>played with me and my sisters when he wasn't at work
>Got us a Nintendo 64 with Starfox 64, Glover
>He got MS, lost feeling in his right hand, ability to walk without assistance
>He now just talk about vidya and watch footage or me playing while we talk

What game?

My abusive father played Crazy Taxi with me a few times. He got mad because he couldn't beat Crazy Stairs and kicked me out of my own room.

flower

I used to play Gauntlet with my dad on the Xbox Hueg. We also beat Seven Sorrows

Is that true? Your poor dad.

thrust your gay agenda up your urethra, fag.

>I'm jealous because my birth was a mistake
lel go cry to your impoverished breeder parents

My parents have always disliked video-games and always saw them as kids stuff, they blamed them for a lot of bad behavouir and shamed me for still liking it. my mum has grown to accept them and see their benenfits as an art form and entertainment medium. my dad however is still a dick about it, I tried to get him to play uncharted 2 and he kept riffing through it like a smartass ( oh this is great dialouge, 'oh shit!') then the complained that it was too violent and upsetting and why couldn't he play some 'bugs bunny stuff'.

He has said some of the most retarded things I have ever heard.

He gave me a fulll dramatic lecture on how I was addicted for playing for 3 hours a few days in a row.

He full-on seriously told me that the japanese were trying to manipulate me.

also

>me playing Okami
>dad walks in looking concernd
>he asks 'what age rating is this game?'
>I respond with '12 plus'
>shouts: 'You are 21 and your playing a game intended for 12 year olds?!!'

my dad is fairly calm and collective most of the time but he gets so animated whenever he plays minesweeper, guess he enjoys the thrill

>how to be a pro at portal 2
Cute

>Dad really liked games
>Bought us a PS1
>I my favorite game to play with him was Medievil
>He stops playing games after about 2005
>Try to get him back into it
>He just sits and watches tv

S A V A G E

SACRE BLEU!

>Dad would almost exclusively only play games with me once a year on my birthday after a lot of pestering
>Finally found mutually liked games in Age of Mythology and Worms 2
>He beat my ass in AoM, where as I always stomped him in Worms
I sat down with him as he played through all of Portal in one sitting
He also wants to at the first BioShock for the story, but has a tough time with FPS games even though he has it for PC

windows 95 came out 30 years ago faggot

that's adorable

>being retarded

>Dad had a 64
>had quite a few games for it
>lets me and my sister watch him play
>gives us turns but I'm pretty much too young can't play very well
>tells me I'm the official 'snack getter' and makes me feel like it's a very important job
>love this time with him usually he was busy with work so it was special
> ff a little bit he decided to buy a ps2
>gives the 64 and all of the games to some random kid
>feel pretty sad because had emotional attachment to the 64 and the memories of playing games with everyone
>dad dies suddenly soon after
>later find out dad was cheating on my mom for years
>he was probably banging that random kids mom

He did a lot of really awful shit but those memories of running to the fridge to get him another soda or sitting in his lap while he explained the controls always gets me.

Haha, your dad was a scrublord

your dad sounds really cool

>8
>dad tells me to stay up late, and come to the dining room when mom's asleep
>I do
>He's sitting at the table, this 6'7 behemoth of a man, wearing a robin hood cap and passing me some papers
>"I'm a ranger, son. Now it's time for you to be a hero."
>tfw he taught me DnD
>tfw we had the greatest imaginable adventures while the world was asleep
>slaying kings
>saving worlds
>teaching me about what it means to be a man in a way I could understand
>tfw he gave me the full 4e set before he died
>he wrote something in the box
>"Looks like my quest is over. But you still have yours to complete. Stay adventurous, son. I love you."

I love you too, dad.

>dad used to play the living shit out of Crash Team Racing, Hogs of War, Vigilante 8 and almost all the Disney Interactive games for the PlayStation
>he helped me learning english to understand non-translated vidya when i was a kid (i'm a pastafag); breezed countless Final Fantasy titles, Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and many more with him
>nowadays doesn't even care anymore about vidya, he just watch sport programs and gets angry at anything
>mother used to play the living shit out of Age of Empires, King's Quest, Monkey Island and Sam & Max: Hit the Road
>thanks to her i started appreciating RTSes and point and click games
>nowadays she spends all day playing Candy Crush Saga on an IPad and doesn't listen reason
>sister knows only modern shit like Ass Creed or Skyrim because her ex-boyfriends let her play that
>mfw

When it comes to vidya, my family used to be relatively united and happy. Nowadays, i'm really the only one left, and it hurts.

i didnt ask for this feelings user.

Fags

Is this real, user?
No, seriously this is too feelsy to be real.

You should gwt him into call of juarez

My dad used to love video games when I was a kid, he'd always play:
>Quake
>Doom
>Gran Turismo
>Resident Evil 2
>Abe's Oddysee
>Worms
>Creatures
To name a few. Now he's 56 and hates video games and thinks they are for children and adults are pathetic for playing them, depsite he was in his late 20s/early 30s when he was playing those games which is odd to me.

My mum used to love playing:
>Crash Bandicoot 3
>Spyro 3
>Mario Kart 64
>Mario Party 2
>Harvest Moon
And she was really good too. Now she's shit at them and only plays crap like Candy Crush and Simpsons Tapped Out on mobile.

They'd always play with me as a kid and now when I try and get them to playnow they refuse and tell me to grow up. Sad.

Me and my dad used to play Streets of Rage co-op every night.
Took us a long time but we finally reached the end. Naturally, i chose to fight Mr. X, but my dad chose to side with him and we had to fight.
Im shouting at my dad for ruining everything, we finally had it in our grasp, to win, and you fucking turned on me!
He kicks my ass.
I grumble and await our bad ending. He gets sent back to the start of the final stage through the trapdoor, and dies fighting the next wave of goons, game over.

Fuck you dad, you betrayed me. We tried again and did eventually beat it, but goddamn i was mad at him. For the first time i felt that "why the fuck would you do this? fuck you" emotion.
Thanks dad..?

>Playing Elder scrolls online
>Dad walks in
>"what that you're playing?"
>"oh, just some game with magic and stuff"
>"ah, ok then"
>dad walks out

>4e

Goddamnit it man

It is. We played DnD when it wasn't a school night. After I graduated, we kinda stopped due to his MS, but he encouraged me to play with others.

>all these stories of vidya dads hating/forgetting about videogames as they grow old

I wonder if that will happen to us someday.

I know my dad likes videogames because he gets hype when he watches me play with my brother or i'm playing a game he would play (something like arma or medal of honor), but he's more focused on being a musician on his free time.

>4e
Your dad must have hated your guts, man

It was more that he wanted to give me something that I wouldn't lose, and 4e had just come out. He didn't know.

I was just joshin

>He didn't know
If only he did

My dad introduced me to games. He presented DKC to me. Up to this day, it still is my favorite series.

God bless him, why cancer is so cruel anons?

We can't tell yet, since vidya isn't an old enough medium yet. We've had it in existence our entire lives, but even then it's changed dramatically in several ways.
We're the test run, like when people were scared of riding bicycles on first invention. We may not be setting the best examples so far.

>Dad watched me play hitman absolution
>Wanted a go
>couldn't walk

I know that feel.
Watching brain cancer slowly make somebody I knew turn into a shell of their former self made me a more bitter person

Did your mother drop Ben?

Well, i blame the death of couch multiplayer, the fun of sitting on your house having pizza and playing vidya all night is gone, now its just ''just hop on ventrilo or skype and lets play league of legends or some shit like that''
When i hang out in afriends house we still play vidya but its more taking turns on online matches or taking turns on a singleplayer game
Games could be a medium where you get to know people trough a hobby, but modern gaming turned it into a solo experience, even when you play online.

That game is the shit son
My uncle bought a wave bird so he could smoke on the porch out the window and play with us.

...

What episode is this from? As far as I know, that window shouldn't be there. It should be a door to the kitchen.
But that painting doesn't make sense. This could be in the room next to the TV room, but that'd only make sense if the couch is facing towards the window, due to that door showing a window.

I think it's from that one where lisa is depressed as fuck and homer can't beat bart at that fighting game, can't remember what it's called

My father stopped in my room and watched me play War Thunder for 20 minutes.
>Norway on a MC 202
>Keeps telling me to kill the second wave of landing crafts
>Ignore him and go hunting spitfires
>Crafts capture airfield
>Forced to go to the home base
>Run out of fuel and crash 500m out
>his face when he was 100% right

Not ringing a bell honestly.
You say fighting game, which makes me think of the episode where Bart lies about knowing karate, but Lisa isn't depressed in that episode.

Lisa depressed makes me think the Michael Jackson episode, but bart doesn't play any video games in that one I think

youtube.com/watch?v=QhKLGfb34Ns

The layout of the house in this episode is INSANELY inconsistent and just wrong.

It's the first season i think.
I don't think the layout was even set up.

>people in the comments hating on lisa for marge turning off the game
what the fuck man
this ep was really sweet, it wasn't lisa's fault

My dad only really plays sports games, although he did buy Assassin's Creed Revelations when we visited a cousin once and he thought it looked fun.

He lives a few states away and I only see him once or twice a year, he wouldn't let me play his copy of Revelations saying it was "age innaproprate" despite me telling him I owned it at home and some other games more violent then it.

The one time I got him to play a non sports game was Budokai 2 as a kid. He got mad and shut off the PS2 and wouldn't let me play it any more because as Goten I killed him with a Kamehameha.

Also once he let me try Fable 2 but banned me from playing it after watching online reviews on it saying it was inappropriate.

>My dad, my mom, my brother and me.
>4 controllers
>Donkey Kong 64
>Pokemon Stadium mini games
>Super Mario 64 (my brother was the only one that could take the final Bowser stage)

Now it's just me that plays. But I let them use my PS4 for Netflix...

It's from the second season I'm pretty sure. I was rewatching The Simpsons episodes with commentary from the creators lately and they mentioned that they had the house layout established at this point for the most part but if they wanted to do a joke that relied on something being in a different spot they still did it and disregarded the layout. One episode I can think of where that happened is the one where Bart, martin and milhouse pool their money together to get that radioactive man comic and they're fighting the treehouse. Homer is sitting on some beanbag chair watching them fight from his window when that room was never seen again

Man, I forgot to add...

The first videogame I ever played was Super Mario World. And guess who made me play it from the beginning to the very sweet end?

Homer's fault for not pausing the game.

>parents from a third world country
>couldn't afford vidya even in the states except for a Chinese bootleg nintendo 64 for years
>mom was completely uninterested in anything to do with video games
>dad was really into Pac-Man since he could afford to play it at arcades and it was incredibly simple
>he always played at the same Pac-Man machine after work every single day
>leaves a high score of 2 million one day

Now he just wastes his talent by playing shitty mobile games. It's been decades and no one has reached his high score on that machine.

My father only ever played the SSX series with me, on and off since the day it came out, just played some an hour ago, he has a medical weed prescription so he fucks up a lot but whatever

Holy fuck you just made me feel old

obviously not talking about the fraud that was "SSX" on PS3, felt like I had to add that otherwise people would think my father's a faget

I'm 30 and I still play UO

Never had a dad, mom always hated games.

I was really into fighting games in middle school and sometimes my dad would come join me for some KOF or whatever. He wasn't very good but I enjoyed getting to play against a real person. I later found out that he was trying to watch me while I played them and make sure I wasn't becoming a violent psycho and try to understand what I saw in them, but apparently also just enjoyed spending time with me, so that's cool. Nowadays we have some nice conversations about vidya from an artistic perspective

My mom always liked to play Tetris and Dr. Mario with me as well, and we all used to gather for family Bomberman every Sunday night for a while.

>dad was in the computer field when they were cutting edge
>my brother and I were some of the few kids that even had video games in school
>the whole family would play games over the LAN
>pretty much into vidya because of my parents

>fast forward 20 years
>recommend a modern game to my dad, he says it's 'too hard' and can't even get past the first room
>realize he has always been a casual

my dad thinks all entertainment except for music he writes of course, is pointless, and my mom thinks im addicted even though I only play a couple hours a day

they both hate games and think less of me for liking them

My parents despise video games and my dad played a couple racing games a decade ago, my mom might've played Just Dance once, idk. Had to make sure they don't see me playing though because that would piss them off.

The one and only time I ever got my dad to play videogames with me was when I was ~10. I had been playing super smash bros. and I asked him to play a round - he had no Idea how to hold the controller. He ended up picking DK and he figured out the L button - he laughed for about 2 minutes and never touched a game again.

My dad is a HUGE crash bandicoot fan, only other game he likes is Tomb Raider, he fucking hates Mario even thought thats his name
Hes like 52 today and still plays crash on his ps2 with the ps1 discs

you are not alone user, she hates it until this day.

>playing goldeneye on n64 with dad.
>he would only play with golden gun
>He always goes straight for and precedes to kill me over and over and screen peek the whole time
>Each time I died he would say "whos the man with the golden gun!" every single fucking time.
>grab armor so ill have something if I manage to kill him he chrages me and hots me dead in chest. Some how live by some glitch or something and kill him off quickly
>He gets mad calling bullshit and walks out.

My parents were pretty much like most middle aged adults who didn't grow up with digital entertainment and view it as a waste and anyone who plays it as similarly.

I showed my dad Bayonetta and it was a big hit with him. He started to insist on watching me play and shit, and for old time's sake we played through the second one a while back.

>things that didn't happen: the post

My dad is obsessed with World of Tanks. Mom likes casual tablet games, but used to play the shit out of Dr. Mario on the NES.

>mom
>short round of Digimon World 4 coop
>plays mobiel games now
>dad
>casual short rounds of N64, you can count on one hand how many times we played
>wants to learn chess
>teaches me at the same time
>user we will become great at this game and play all the time
>play every half a year
>I beat his scrub casual ass every time
>he didn't even practice once
>don't even know what he is doing right now, probably still living the glorious NEET life with vodka every once in a while
Fucking NEETs. Don't ever trust them to get any gains in any skill.

My dad and I played some warship fighting game on the PS1 back in the day. He would always go Battleship or Aircraft Carrier and I took the Patrol Boat so I would go circles around him and he could stop me from winning

>mom always mixes up names and forgets that she told me something like 4 times during the same day
>user did I tell you that X did that
>later that day she says the same thing and so on like 3 more times
>try to get her to play some vidya to keep her brain active but she doesn't like them

Maybe it's just stress from stuff we're going through and I'm worrying too much but I keep worrying she'll get Alzheimer's someday

Step father would play that Scarface game for the xbox hueg all the time
I just remembered that he didn't let me play NGB because of that dammit

Last time I tried getting my mom to play was about 4 yrs ago. Had her playing Bioshock and she actually enjoyed it. It's so frustrating how terrible she is at it though. She had to stop because she had to leave, but said when she came back she wanted to keep playing. She never did though...

Another time I remember she came to my place because she wanted me to style her hair. This was around when the xbox 360 had come out. While I was doing her hair I let her play Uno online because she asked. She was playing with real people when one of them ducked out and another person came in. That person had a cam for the 360 and was laying naked on his couch. My mom freaked the fuck out and told every one at her work what happened. It was pretty awkward for awhile going to her work after that.

My mom used to take me out of school to help her with hard levels in her games. I got to skip two days once to beat pysconauts together.

Ok. Here's my story:

>I was 5 or 6, so this happened either in 1990 or in 1991.
>Have an older brother, to whom my dad bought our Atari 2600 (I was too young to bother/care when that happened) and our NES (our parents got that in 1989).
>Both my brother and I like videogames, play it non-stop, which has gotten us in trouble with both our parents.
>Mom is kind of strict, dad is quite carefree, he understands that, even if we spend a lot of time playing with the NES, we also fulfill our responsibilities.
>Older brother did well in something, so our parents give him Super Mario Bros 2 as a present.
>Sometime later, we're playing that game in the living room.
>Dad comes in and sees us having trouble with one level.
>Asks us if he can help out.
>Older brother gives him the controller and explains how to move, jump, pick up things and the like.
>Dad tries, gets instantly killed by a shy-guy.
>Returns the controller to my brother.
>Never again plays any videogame with us.

The funny thing is that he enjoyed playing Pac-Man in the Atari (or so he said, I -once again- was too young to remember that), and then he loved playing Columns on our GameGear, as well as Tetris on the computer. But save for a quick session playing the drums when we first got RockBand, he never played a video game with us ever again.

And he passed away in 2012. I still miss him.

When my mother wants to say my name she always mixes it up with one of the other names of the two other male family members. 95% of the time she calls me just son though so it doesn't matter much still feels bad and is probably some light dementia. She didn't do anything mentally challenging since helping me with middleschool homework which is a decade ago at least.

>Dad would always play tomb raider on our home computer
>would print out walkthroughs for the games so he could get everything
>taught me to read by reading him the walkthroughs he printed
>called me his 'Tomb Reader'

>fast forward, mom passed away
>me and dad too busy taking care of autistic younger sister to play tomb raider together though I still played games

>sister passes away and slowly try and convince dad to play some games again

>got him to play RDR for an hour before he washed his hands of the controller and it's 'overly complicated button layout'

>14
>new call of duty world at war comes out
>finish campaign, unlock zombies mode
>scared as fuck
>dad is watching, for some reason he thinks it's cool
>asks to play with me
>we get fucking hooked
>always playing during our free time
>buy all the DLC
>so much fun
>buy black ops 1, play zombies until modern warfare 3 comes out
>continue to play modern warfare 3 with him, it has gotten to the point where dad played my ps3 when he was home
>he started playing when I was at home too
>get kinda annoyed cause I wanna play
>finally ask him to get off because I want to play
>never see him play ps3 again, he deleted his user from the ps3 and he wouldn't even play zombies with me if I asked

deeply regret doing that

I have a cousin who is well older than me. I introduce him to my 360 games and start him off with saints row 2

After explaining the control, i see that he is just walking into a wall looking up and pressing run.

I then show him about the analog stick and using it to move the camera so you can see stuff. He proceeds to run down a hallway looking at a weird angle not touching the analog stick.

I explain the analog stick to him again and show him how it works, then proceed to lead him to the first guard(or prisoner. I don't remember very well). He proceeds running around in circles never using the analog stick.

I left him there for a while to see if maybe anything would connect. It didn't

And from then on, I view my cousin as a little bit "special"

>because she wanted me to style her hair
Did she fuck you with a strapon next you fucking faggot?

Your sister probably had down syndrom. Why would she pass away from being autistic?

My mom got me into gaming with Super Mario World. She used to know everything there was to know about the game. Now, after years of pain medicine abuse, i don't think she could beat the first level herself. Feels bad

My mom use to play Super Mario World with me. Dad got me into Doom at the age of 7.

Other than that, dad played a bit of PS1 MechWarrior with me. He'd lean with the mech and it was hilarious.

I tried to get them both to play one of the Halos with me (it was CE or 2) and they couldn't figured out how to look and move at the same time.

Now, they've been separated for 15? years. Mom could care less about vidya and fairly certain she blames world violence on em. Dad will played stuff like Steel Panthers every now and then and he'd watch me play shit when I still lived at home a few years ago. I'll still tell about vidya stuff I think he'd find cool, like the sailing in Black Flag but I know he'll never get into anything new and that's fine.

My dad was weird about video games. I rarely saw him playing anything when we were awake, but sometimes he made us go sleep early and he'd play nintendo.

My parents never had any interest in video games or playing with me. I tried to get them to play but they always refused. They never spent very much time with me when I was a kid and teen but I never really cared.

If my dad had a friend over they would occasionally enter my room to mock me and/or the game I was playing.

No, she didn't die of autism user. It was just that my mother took care of her the most before she died. My sister died 5 years later, completely unrelated to her condition.

lel im a woman, genius.

My parents and my sister are all fucking casuals. Feels pretty bad man. Generally those people never try anything new, they are a fucking bore to talk to too. At least my sister married some pretty cool dude. When I lived at my sisters for two weeks every night we played strategy games that he played in his youth like Rise of Nations and AoE2 and fighting games. Generally he just plays dota 2 though and they have a child now so his only hobby is dota 2 now.

As if that very same machine would still be there 30 years on.

I'm ready to hear the full story my man. Tell me about your sister and her mysterious death.

So now normalfag stacies who style the hair of their mothers post here now. Amazing, this place is now just like facebook.

>not being able to deal with parents divorce
the wii isn't the reason you should be considered underaged.

Where's the blowjob one?

YO are you me?

>dad loves star wars
>I love star wars
>kid me buys lego star wars video game
>try to get him to play because he doesn't really play vidya but star wars is a common interest and lego star wars is simple enough
>he literally can't walk in a straight line without falling off a ledge
>dad is actually beyond casual blind grandma tier bad at vidya

>Would always ask my parents to play multiplayer with me
>would always say they were too tired
>whatashitexcuse.gif
>it never happened

Fuck my parents were shit. Even before they got divorced.

>Mom's been a gamer since the NES era
> only plays megaman games and some hidden object junk
> dad bought ps1 and ps2 on release day
> played almost everything i got with him
> mom doesnt play that much these days but loves watching
> dad still plays faithfully says he doesnt really understand ps4 and all of his favorite things are all on his fat PS3

i guess i was born lucky

And they also have no persistency or patience. Really makes you think.

It's not really an interesting story
She went to sleep Christmas day with a bit of a cough and with a fever and the next morning she was gone.

It's been a long time now, i think the doctor called it an 'undiagnosed failure of metabolism', or something along those lines.
/blog

I'm sorry about your dad, user.

>spend massive amounts of time doing nothing but gaming
>your dad tries to get you doing something productive so you can learn some skills and become a decent man with his own independence
>my dad is such an asshole, look what he made me become!

Dad killed my guinea pig by accident. He offered to buy GTAVC. He bought GTASA instead by accident too. English wasn't his first language .

Relax my boy. This is a blog thread anyway.

>when i couldn't sleep he would sit with me on the couch and play resident evil.
Well that's a game that will help a kid sleep better.

>tfw I always forced my mom to pick the girl characters in video games
>it was always MK Double Dash

Used to play bugs bunny and taz with my dad for ps1 co op. Whenever we got stuck, it would take us days sometimes to get past it. When we did i would always be so happy and kiss him and hug him. He also loved army men games and beat a ton of them. Loved watching him play those.

Jokes on him I guess lmao

>playing melee with friends over
>dad watches for a while and asks if he can play a match
>he chooses Peach, pauses the game, and tries to move the camera up her dress
>leaves
what the fuck dad

Fucking faggots. Getting emotionally dependent on a relationship, even with your parents will make you a loser in life.

>toonshit
Your dad had the right idea.

>tfw my dad would pick easy controls on MvC2 while I picked normal controls
>Got my ass handed to me
>tfw I would hear nothing but
>BERSERKER BARRAGE
>SHEILD SLASH
>VENOM FANG
My dad is a piece of shit when it comes to fighting games

>playing lol i know i know
>dad comes in
>hey son is that the calls of duties everyone is talking about?
>yeah dad
i love you dad please survive this heart surgery

>playing Golden Eye
>dad comes into my room
>asks what i'm playing
>was fucking around in multiplayer with a bot, so i give him one of the controllers
>he cannot steer his character away from the wall
>doesn't seem to have any idea how the controls are related to the character on the screen
>cannot move and shoot at the same time
>have a hilarious time killing him over and over
>he loses interest in five minutes or less
Only time.

My dad absolutely loves Paper Mario. He replays the first one at least once a year. My mom doesnt play anymore, but used to play Super Mario World with me as a kid.

That's copy pasta, and it's old as fuck.

My dad is way into hunting and rifles and so, and loves westerns, so my brother and I would try to play RDR whenever he was around. He'd always comment on the weapons and the horses.

We also got my mom to play GTA3 once and she was flipping her shit and laughing like crazy whenevwr she ran over someone. It was nice.

What gaem is that

My dad laughed his ass off when I was playing Shenmue 2 and this came up: youtube.com/watch?v=F-AXuqkL7WQ

Are you me? I know they don't give a fuck anymore but if I let them see me I feel like they'll feel more disappointed than usual.

This is why I only game when they're not home or they're asleep. I feel like shit if they see me playing games. It's also the reason I spend so much time on Cred Forums even though I'd rather not. I just have nothing better to do.

My dad never cared for any of my games besides Kirby air ride, he liked watching it but it made him nauseous.

It's still my favorite game.

>Dad gets PS1 the very weekend it came out
>play tons of cool games despite being poor
>Dad rents RE2 from Blockbuster
>He seriously can't get past the very first part of the game because he's having trouble figuring out the controls
>Leon gets munched on by the very first set of zombies over and over

Another
>Dad has a decent computer
>Gets the original Unreal Tournament (it came with Unreal, the adventure-like game)
>Play that shit so much, I'm owning things on the hardest difficulty as mah nigga Malcom

Also
>Play the first Fallout on PC
>Dad starts to drift away from vidya
>abandons us (me, my mom, and three brothers) abruptly
>Haven't seen him in 15 years
>play vidya with younger brothers, anticipating Gears 4
>Never play an Unreal Tournament or Fallout game ever again, even though UT was made by the same guys that did Gears

On the topic of my Mom, she really only plays Pokemon, but she's getting less and less interested in it. Nowadays she just complains about how much I play vidya.

sauce

desu this thread is making me really excited to play vidya with my own kids one day

>gay parents are better than straight parents.
>because they actually, you know, want children.

Yet, faggots and dykes can't naturally produce their own children and parasitically take (and indoctrinate) them from heterosexuals. Also, how do think you were born you little pozzer? From your gay ""parents""?

oh yeah, and there's totally not a gross overabundance of children in the System, waiting because some shitty parents didn't want their child.

>overabundance of children in the System

Homosexuals ARE the unwanted 'overabundance' in the System. That's why YOU were adopted I take it.

>waiting because some shitty parents didn't want their child

This seems personal. Is that why you became a faggot, out of some sort of revenge against your biological parents? Or because you feel indebted to your FAKE parents? ;P

no, actually, I spent 13 years in foster care, never adopted, and dealing with absolutely monstrous heterosexual parents who abused me physically, mentally, and emotionally, and my sisters were as well, being abused sexually as well.

I owe neither my awful real parents nor my monstrous fake parents nothing.

And having grown up with games, the experience for them will be much better. My parents don't know how to play for shit. Can't even walk and shoot at the same time. Useless.

y they try to kill each other?

my dad got hooked on Dr. Mario back in the day, would just barge into my room in the middle of the night to play even on school nights. We bought a gameboy for him so he could play Tetris and Dr. Mario somewhere other than my room.

The problem is that he absolutely detests any game with an even moderately fantastical story. And FPS games make him sick.

He liked Guitar Hero apparently but I had already moved out by then.

My mother tried Super Mario on the NES once and the first goomba killed her. That was the beginning and the end of her gaming career.

>dad got me a snes from one of his friends who's son moved onto ps1 and shit it came with 20 games as well as a Sega Genesis which had sonic and tails remember beating the games with my dad several time. The only other game I saw him play were games like gta vc, and need for speed but that was around 10 years ago
ask him if he wants to play anything he will just tells me he doesn't have time
Only other time I got him to play something was need for speed underground 2

>Youngest of 3
>Siblings grew up during 80s, I was a 90s kid.
>Apparantly used the original Commodore 64.
>Dad hated vidya while I grew up
>He would yell at me for spending $5 on humble bundle.

I was a lonely kid, so I tried to play Midnight Club 3 on PS2 with him once. All he did was to follow the rules of the game. He would stop at every stop light and what not.

>Be me, 7 years old at 2001
>Dad and i love WWF
>We brought WWF No Mercy
>I always played as HHH, and he as Mankind
>We played like all the saturday afternoon every weekend
>Eventually we lose interest and we stopped playing
>Dad died 4 years ago
Well, i think he got buried

My dad was laid off earlier this year and Splatoon is about the only thing that kept him sane. He landed a new gig this week. Booyah!

M'old man has never touched a videogame, but I'm alright with that.

>any time i played MK64 with my dad he would just use that shortcut on wario stadium to skip the whole track
>never actually got to race on that track proper besides against CPUs in grand prix
>time trial record was forever stuck at about 10 seconds
>it was my favourite track too

Sounds fake to me.

>watching gurren lagaan
>it's the intro, Yoko's on the screen
>grandpa walks into room, looks at tv, looks at me, then walks out

You lying som of a bitch!
Your kind deserves not to breathe

>Hey mom! Wanna play Zelda?
>Sure. We could take turns.
>mfw I watch her 100% LttP the seventh time.

>Be 10
>Father has cardiomyopathy and makes him unable to do a whole lot physically
>Father gets me a PS2
>Take turns playing Call of Duty Finest Hour and he buys himself a bunch of tank games and war games
>Play Goldeneye against each other every other day
>Influence of friends slowly start turning me into a weeb
>Fast forward a few years and im a brony
>Father seems disappointed 70% of the time now
>completely stop playing games together
>he stops going to the doctors regularly and find out he stopped taking his pills
>passes away on the toilet
This shit fucked me up really bad, i dropped everything i thought that he was disappointed in and found a girlfriend (who ended up cheating on me anyway)