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VGFreak877
Posts: 236/294 |
My father has no interest in video games. My mother, on the other hand, will play Zelda, Mario, and Tetris games to her heart's content. As a matter of fact, there are some games that she has beaten that I haven't beaten yet. (I'm talking about Mario and Zelda games.) |
Colin
Posts: 8199/11302 |
Tetris. That's all you need to know regarding my family's game playing habits.
Lolo was VERY popular for a while too - my mom managed to beat it.  |
HyperLamer
Posts: 4408/8210 |
My dad always loved to play Final Fantasy with me, though I was too young to be any good at it.  Nowadays he always talks about how video games are 'evil' (mainly because they're Japanese  ) but still plays them all the time.  |
O.G.
Posts: 70/169 |
My Mother and me a share the same birthday, so what my dad did 16 years ago was went out and bought a NES for himself, and said it was our birthday present. My mom and dad used to play that for hours, and then i began to play it at about 2-3 years old. Whats funny is now, my expects me to give up gaming, when he was like 45 when he stopped playing games.
the only thing that my dad has done relating to games lately is buying them, and when i got my Xbox, he watched me play NCAA as the Vandals. |
Tamarin Calanis
Posts: 523/1802 |
I used to play SMB3 and Golf (NES, generic golf game) with one of my mom's old boyfriends back when I was 6. And I played Tetris Attack with mom pretty frequently back when my SNES still worked. Later, when I got a Nintendo 64, I got my stepdad to play SSB with me a few times, and he played Starfox 64 a bit (not much, though). Mom played Ocarina of Time when I borrowed it from a friend. She beat the dungeons, I killed the bosses. And when dad came home from Afghanistan for Christmas, we played Halo 2. I won, of course.
But First-person games of all sorts make mom sick (the movement), and my SNES is broken, so no games with her, and dad's in Afghanistan. He actually bought a GBC for his trip over there.  |
Ran-chan
Posts: 9429/12781 |
My dad played with me not that long ago. I have Mario Kart 64 on my computer so we only used the TV out function.
Funny as hell. |
Jarukoth
Posts: 2794/3194 |
My mom is a big time Tetris and puzzle game addict. We play the occasional game of Super Puzzle Fighter every now and then. She's actually pretty good.
However, she is dangerous with arcade basketball machines. I've seen her dust snot nosed kidss and guys my age alike. Scary.
I can still crush her at DDR easily, though. |
Xkeeper 2.0
Posts: 511/1091 |
Heh...
Sometimes my mom watches me play SMW hacks. She always seems to be amazed at how I finish the levels. 
(yeah she sucks at SMW ) |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1288/1574 |
You know: If any of us ever have kids, we'll be VRing with them or something... >> |
Kirby PopStar
Posts: 392/431 |
My mom beat The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from start to finish. Funny story, though. She got up to Ganon and kept trying to beat him. I had my own save file, but I was at the very begining. I hadn't even found Zelda in the first dungeon yet. I saw that she kept trying, and decided I wanted to play too. When she got up and took a break, I tried fighting Ganon and won first try. She came back and was really mad at me that she got so far and I was the one that beat the game. (She later went back and beat Ganon herself)
She said she would never forgive me for that.  |
Xeolord
Posts: 1692/3418 |
Ah, the SNES days.
Back in the day my dad and one of his good friends, would buy interesting and different games for the SNES, and we'd all play them together. Games I can remember us playing were, Lemmings, The Lost Vikings, Earthworm Jim, and others. A weird mix of games, but hey, they were all awesome.
Then the N64 came out. I got older, and apparently the realism of the graphics these days makes my dad 'sick'.
I'd rather not play games with my parents at all now, but when I was younger I guess it was fun ... |
Chronosphere-X
Posts: 107/268 |
My mum brought a Sega master system home when i was 6, we only had sonic 1 for about a year but we played it all the time, it was great. She never plays with me now, i'm 16. It would be nice if she played games with me, but it is to real now and she may be offended by it
My dad can't even turn the pc on, so he has no chance of playing video games |
Scatterheart
Posts: 149/342 |
I grew up with only my father. Sadly, he passed away 3 years ago. But there were some great gaming memories.
One which comes to mind is us playing Super Mario Bros. 3, getting really far, then the NES stuffing up, so we had to start all over again. We always used to cheat in Duck Hunt, and I was hella-bored when he wanted to play Puznic, or Duck Maze. Super Castlevania IV was another good game we both played. I missed out on RPGs, because he thought that they were stupid, lol.
Whenever he got excited by finishing a stage or something, he used to yell out "CALA-KA-BUNGA DOOD!!!" followed by slapping me on the leg. God that hurt! Lol.
When he bought a Nintendo 64 for christmas one year, as usual, he was the first to try it out. He got the controller, ready to move Mario, but he couldn't figure out the whole "3D" thing of it all, and continued to run around in circles for about 3 minutes, before giving up and letting the master have a go. 
I think the only N64 game he could play was Tetrisphere. But after my games started getting too complicated for him, I bought the SNES Dr. Mario/Tetris cart, and he played that.
We started out with an Atari, and his favorite game was the one where you control these lips and you grab all the food while avoiding the red sausages. 6 of them and it's game over. |
Juggling Joker
Posts: 810/1033 |
We went for ice cream when my dad finally beat Super Mario Bros. Nuff said. Now he's a PC gamer. |
Alastor the Stylish
Posts: 6371/7620 |
Not really much of anything anymore, but the earliest thing I can remember was when I was two and was watching my father play duck hunt (he lost on level 14 if you're wondering)  |
Boom.dk
Posts: 311/392 |
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You're all lucky... Or I ain't...
... |
Joachim
Posts: 269/358 |
My whole family played video games...
Dad's Favorites: Castlevania 3, Mario 3, Galaga, Space Invaders, Mario Kart 64
Mom's Favorites: Tetris, Galaga, Pac Man, Tetris Attack (she's a friggin' pro at Tetris Attack )
Hehe, my dad was a master at the Castlevania games, probably one of the reasons I'm an avid Castlevania nut. Hehe, even today my dad still likes to fire up some Castlevania 3, 4, and sometimes he likes to play Castlevania 64! He doesn't like Symphony of the Night and the other "castleroid" games though, probably because they pose no challenge.
Galaga is probably a favorite among my whole family. Used to play the NES version (when our NES would work) but now we use the Namco Museum version, nice our N64 works with no problems. xD
My dad's score is still unbeaten on the Namco Museum memory card.
I forgot what it was though. |
Shyguy
Posts: 819/1998 |
I've been in the gaming mode since I was, like 3 or 4. I played Super Mario 3. Mario still remembers back in the day, when I made him actually JUMP IN the lava and get a kick out of it. Since then, I got really sorta kinda good at games. I most of the time impress my friends, but I've seen people that even impress me! Lately, I had a friend who would unwittingly sell games to GameStop once he beats a game. I did that, now I'm stuck with a not-so-collection of some nice gamecube games. My love for videogames made me interested in emulation for my computer. I like to do that a lot. I now have games that I never even had, but wanted as a littler kid. I'm a rebel. My mom doesn't seem to care, though. She's probably happy I finally got games I've always wanted. |
Prier
Posts: 6081/8392 |
It's been far too long since I've known my parents to pull anything out of vid games, at least with me around...and if it's in competition...well, neither would last two minutes.
Neither are very interested, even though they're the ones that got me to the point where I am now by introducing it to me. |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1286/1574 |
My dad can mop the floor with me in Mortal Kombat... good times. He doesn't seem to be good at very many other games, so I make sure not to practice MK at all. |
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