Your mom and gaming.

[AugustFall]

My mom was really into the Sims and now avoids it because it eats up her time. Dad plays Angry Birds. No intention of branching out.

Neither have had too much of a problem with my gaming although it rarely comes up in conversation so they don't really see it. Couldn't play on weekends when I was younger which was a good thing really.

 

[Asbobitus]

My mom's been actively pushing me to stop gaming ever since i passed over 30 hours straight on oblivion. But she's cut me some slack because after re-introducing my dad to gaming he now spends more time on some games than me. I realized that when i woke up at 3 am because of said mom yelling at him still playing in my room, without earphones. So she basically sees gaming like that: something that induces yelling.

 

[manic_depressive13]

that seems to be a common story with girls and mmos, especially older girls. good healer but constantly stand in fire

Adding a smiley face doesn't make that any less sexist. In my WoW days it was the rarest thing in the world to find a dickhead who didn't stand in fire, and I'm fairly certain that 95% of the players weren't girls.

Edit: Right, and my mum only plays minesweeper and Freecell, and she manages to suck at even those. My dad has tried to play a few FPS and RTS, but he's shit.

 

[DirgeNovak]

She plays Wolfenstein 3D and Crash Team Racing.

...that's it. She's never been able to get into anything else.

 

[Plucky]

My mum isnt that much of a gamer, she was more into games during the 90's where she bought things like the Mario All-Stars SNES Bundle, and bought other games like Tetris&Dr Mario, Donkey Kong Country, Mario World and Vegas Stakes.


As time went on, she went from computer games to mobile games and PC social media games like facebook games and slot machines.

 

[ghostrider9876]

My dad once asked me, upon using the pull-down history bar in Firefox, what this "Game Fags" site I'd been going to was. I had to point out that it was a 'Q'. That actually makes a very clear statement on the nature of my parents' relationship to gaming, and technology in general.

They also used to tell me that I needed to put down the "Nitendo" (seriously, never pronounced the second N, pissed me off constantly) and grow up. Didn't matter whether I was playing Xbox or Playstation, they were all "Nitendo." Dad also got mad at me one time because they spent money buying me a Virtual Boy for Christmas one year and I never played with it anymore. I didn't really feel like trying to get him to understand about companies abandoning their consoles...

 

[0zaki]

My mum plays spider solitaire but i did get her to play through most of chapter 1 in super meat boy

 

[The Almighty Grigard]

Well there's what happened yesterday. I'm playing Batman Arkham City and mom walks into the room and looks at the tv for a little while. She notices Batman and says "oh, Batman". Then she exclaims:

"So bloody damn worthless" and starts to leave the room.
I shout at her to explain why it's "worthless".
"He's not REAL!!!111" (exclamation marks added for comedic effect)

True story.

My dad loves Call of Duty and Battlefield though. We spent an evening running through all the spec ops missions in split screen mode. Then we spent 2 hours smashing cars together in Driver: San Fransisco. (Surprisingly fun game actually)

 

[Truniron]

My mom finished Heavy Rain perfect on her first try, two months before me (who did not achieved the perfect ending). And, on top of her wish list for Christmas, she wrote L.A Noire. There is a reason why I bought it to her; because she´s one awesome mom

 

[DanielBrown]

My mom was a damn master of Wolfenstein 3D. She played it at the hardest setting and knew every single secret. Used to watch her play when I was a little kid. Apart from that she has never been very intrested in playing games. She told me that she tried Crash Bandicoot on the good old Playstation after seeing me and my sister play, but died instantly and never touched it again.
Tried to get her to try Half-Life 2, the new Wolfenstein and LOTRO, but my efforts have been in vain. She rather plays Bubble Witch.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

My mom is a big James Bond fan, when Goldeneye for the 64 came out she tried so hard to play it, but 3d graphics make her sick. She tried though.

I also got her to play a little GTA-III that was funny. Had to drop a bunch of cheats down for her to get the hang of it though.

 

[Cazza]

My mum plays Solitare that it. She is very understanding when it comes to me playing computer games.

 

[Stuntcrab]

My mom was once playing sims, they had not saved for a while, then I came in, and my big toe accidentally was on the power button, she lost everything.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I became obsessed with tetris just so I could beat my mums high score!

Also, my lil sis used to play FFIX in the kitshen whilst my mum was cooking. One day, after my sis left home and went off to uni, I was giving my mum a hand with dinner, when out of the blue she hummed the victory theme from when you win a battle in the game. When I asked her, she didn't actually know what the tune was, but she referred to it as 'her cooking tune!' Seems my sis played it so much it had become embedded in my mums mind!!

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

My mother introduced my to the NES, my dad played a racing game on the PS1 (never played one before and I didn't ask him to), I tried to teach my mom how to play Halo 3 co-op while my older sister watched.....she kept looking down so I stuck her with a plasma grenade, and my mom watched that level from COD4 where that president gets killed....she felt bad man.

 

[D Moness]

My mom loves those old school platform games (specially mario in the nes snes era). When it turned 3d she more or less lost interest(bad sense of direction didn't help).

She is now what most people would call on the casual part of the gaming spectrum(though how much time she sticks into those games i wouldn't call that casual).

I tried to get her into other games but she is terrible at controlling characters in 3d with 2 sticks.

 

[mikeybuthge]

My friends mom crouched through their kitchen, threw a bun at my head, hit me, and yelled "FUCK YES! Sneak attack for 2.0x damage! Long live Skyrim!" and ran away. I was mind fucked so hard I felt like I shoulda smoked afterwards

 

[Kurai Angelo]

I remember waking up one morning when i must have been about 6 or 7 to find my Mum hadn't slept, instead opting to pull an all nighter completing Sonic and Knuckles on the Sega Megadrive. Legend.

She also had a knack for Tekken 3, was a bit button mashy though...

 

[everythingbeeps]

My mom is a big fan of the first few Ratchet and Clank games, the first Jak and Dakster, and the old top-down Zelda games. She doesn't really try new games, she's probably played those ones several times each.

 

[teqrevisited]

My mum's awful at games. She has no hand-eye coordination to begin with and no interest in general.

My dad was the one who got me into games in the first place. Started with the Mega Drive and then PS1. He ended up buying me my own because I spent so much time on his. We used to put two tv sets back to back, link up the consoles and have hour long wars on C&C. I really must prove to him that games didn't just vanish after the PS1, though.