So your mom wants to try out gaming...

[kingcom]

My mum? Ah....no...maybe something like Peggle or Bejewelled.

 

[jj90]

L.A Noire as its one of the few that rant run and shoot anything that moves. An easy introduction to games id say

 

[intheweeds]

One word: PEGGLE

Peggle made my g/f like games. It could make my mom too, I'm sure of it. Peggle is a gateway drug.

 

[Android2137]

Let's see... If my older sister is any indicator, Portal would be too scary for her. (She didn't like the cold, stark, science-y atmosphere. Oy.) The game that my sister got addicted to was Golden Sun, so it'd probably be that. I have Pokemon too, but she found that boring. She goth through Phoenix Wright, but didn't enjoy it as much as Golden Sun. I assume the same would apply to Hotel Dusk. She enjoyed Professor Layton though. Everything else is either too hard, too scary, too violent for their tastes, or requires me to lose all my save data.

Super Mario Bros 1 for the NES.

Here's why.

1. VERY simple controls. It's a lot easier to tell someone the controls for a NES game/controller than the monstrosity the controllers have become these days. Seriously, I have NO idea how people start gaming today.

2. Very simple gameplay to learn. You jump on goombas/koopas. Kick koopas. Jump over holes. And... Beat the level. I know there's like three more things, but still. Simple. K.I.S.S.

3. It's addictive & fun.

4. She actually knows what mario is.

*cough* Uh actually... *cough* ...I could never beat that game... I always die very embarrassing deaths...

 

[teh_Canape]

well, I got her into gaming with Splinter Cell Double Agent co-op on the PS2

she's good with that, now she's moved on to Odin Sphere

 

[Halo Fanboy]

My mom like Ceaser and ios games.

 

[steeple]

Dwarf Fortress.

Son wins.

Fatality.

OT: I guess something easy and simple like tetris or mario...
I would love to show my parents portal, but I doubt they'll get used to the controls and camera...

 

[MiracleOfSound]

My granny plays Tetris and Mario.

 

[fragmaster09]

Mom's super smart, so I'd probably just throw in Portal 2 and let her tackle the single player. Later we could go all Atlas/P-body on it

if i had portal 2 and,say, strapped my mum into a chair and olny fed her when she completed a puzzle, she would die of starvation around the time

Spoiler

GlaDos throws you down the tube

... if she were lucky...

i'm not insulting her or anything, but she's like my sisters... one of which 'can't' play anything other than Fable 2/3... and even then she just runs around messing up the camera all the time... otherwise she's having trouble fighting WINDOWS in CoD 6...