Do your parents play games?

[Zombie Badger]

Does anyone here have game-playing parents? I used to play Civ 2 with my dad. We won the WWII scenario in 1943 by nuking the Germans until they surrended.

 

[The_Chief]

my dad got me into gaming with Goldfinger And Sarge's Heros and the like,but after it got more complicated then that he quit.

 

[WorldCritic]

Holy crap! It would be hilarious to see that! My dad attempted to play Gran Turismo one time, I got a huge laugh out of that.

 

[Tucker154]

the ONLY video game my dad plays is splinter cell because thats the only game he is good at

 

[frank220]

I played AOE3 with my dad when he broke his ankle. He couldn't do much so I taught him how to play and we would have LAN parties every now and then. His Veteran Uhlans always owned my Imperial Rockets.

 

[Stoic raptor]

nope. my parents would never play video games. unless you count the free mini bejeweled my mom used to play. or solitare

 

[Sigel]

Not really-my dad loved duck hunt on the NES with the ugly orange gun. My mom tried out some classic games like Zelda and SMBros, but never really got into it. That's about as far as it went though.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

My dad doesn't play games, except for Minesweeper and Solitaire. My mother, on the other hand, has found her second and third lives with Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: Wild World, respectfully, and much to my chagrin, AS SHE WON'T STOP ASKING ME FOR HELP ON WHEN TO CATCH BUGS.

 

[C.E.M]

My Dad plays an MMO with me (when hes not workin) truly a father son team is great.

 

[TaborMallory]

My mom destroys at Pac-Man, Joust, and other such arcade games. I also play Age of Empires 1 and 2 with my dad.

 

[walkingdead127]

My mom is the best Centipede player I've ever seen and at other casual games. And my dad liked the older stuff too, but overall no

 

[barryween]

My dad used to play a lot of games and got me into them, but now he has too much stuff going on and too little money, so outside of me playing Halo with him every couple of weeks, he doesn't play that much anymore.
EDIT: I tried to play my Grandparents at Tekken 3 when it first came out (they are quite young, but still, they aren't THAT young) and my grandpa kicked my ass with Law. His secret: Mash. Mash a lot.

 

[Fritzvalt]

My mother used to have a full out Tetris addiction. My grandmother would sit and play pac-man for hours. She'd cuss out the ghosts and everything. It was truely weird.

If my father were still alive, I know he would have a powerful lust for Civ IV. We have similar tastes.

 

[Fenring]

My dad plays Civ. He started with Civ 3 and now plays Civ 4 regularly. I'm happy to say I bought him both of them for his birthday.

 

[bluepilot]

My parents grew up playing pong and amiga games therefore cannot quite get the hang of 3D

My dad likes to play a lot of puzzle games though

 

[Dirty Saint]

The one and only time my dad ever played a game with my brothers and I was on the original NES Punch Out. He got destroyed by Glass Joe.

 

[kemosabi4]

The only games my dad really stuck with was Civ 2 and Civ 3. Usually when my dad sees me playing a new game, he walks up and says he wants to try it and refuses my help, thinking he can figure out the controls himself.

 

[Undercover]

My Mom (Who just turned 67) loves Guitar Hero and any flying/driving games she can find, and my Dad (Who is 71) has been hooked on FPS's since I showed him Quake 2 back in the day...

But no, that doesn't make either of them even remotely hip

(Edit) When Rainbow Six: Vegas came out I bought it for mysel- I mean my Dad for Christmas, and we ended up playing it until about 4 in the morning...

Probably the closest fucking thing to bonding with the old fart that I've ever done.

 

[Triforceformer]

My dad only uses my Ps2 for his DVDs, and my mom just plays casual gamer stuff, like the sparkly Tetris games and computer solitaire.