Did your father ever play video games? What was his favorite and what did you play together?
>>12031949kinda but not really. he was a typical townie drunk manual laborer that was friends with everyone in town. one memory i do have of him is laughing at the porpoise things in Riven. other than that my parents didn't really play anything. as i've gotten older i've started to think they just threw video games at me to keep me quiet, much like parents nowadays give their kids a phone/ipad.
>>12031949My dad played Atari as a kid and has told me his favorite arcade game is Out Run. When I was a kid, he occasionally played Genesis games and was particularly good at the R.C. levels in Toy Story.
Flight simulators
yes, wolfenstein 3d and doom.i remember he was having trouble beating hitler and ran out of bullets, he knew of the little alcove inside hitler's room with a bullet stash, but there is an officer there, so he set up a joystick with turbo and asked me to press one of the buttons so bj would knife continuously while he ran towards the officer to kill him and claim the bullets.i was... dunno, 5?
>>12031949My dad didn't, but my mom was hooked on Dragon Warrior.
>>12031949Sports game, typical
My father, grandfather, and I shared a bond over Mario 64.
>>12031949YesFIFA, PESFIFA, PES
>>12031953>Typical townie drunk manual labourerWe have diverse backgrounds here anon. I don't know what a townie is and drunk manual laborers aren't typical or even part of my life experience at all
>>12031989Anon wrote laborer, but you quoted him as writing labourer. That should give you a clue as to why you are unfamiliar with the terms and concepts he mentioned.
>>12031949He’s an RPG nerd to this day but I stopped talking to him because he’s a libcuck loser and a drunk
>>12031993Try being Australian we are constantly caught between American and British spellings. The point is that not everyone is some kind of working class north American or whatever, so why would they assume that everyone is from a similar background
>>12031993Clearly the anon who wrote laborer/labourer is unfamiliar with terms such as townie, the point is that townie anon assumes everyone is familiar with his terms while labourer anon is self-aware about linguistic and social diversity
>>12031998>why would they assume that everyone is from a similar backgroundYou seem to have a slight persecution complex.
>>12031989>townieperson who lived in one location their whole life and never really had any aspirations to go outside it
Kirby's Adventure. I remember watching him beat that when i was a kid.
>>12031949For some reason my dad had zero interest in games even though everyone around him loved them. My mom got me into NES and his brother got me into Sega Genesis. But my dad didn't play any of it.
>>12031998No one assumed that at all
>>12031949Don't remember him ever playing a game even though I had various home computers (not consoles) the entire time I lived at home until age 18
The only game I ever got him to play was Shanghai II on SNES which was pretty chill.
I mostly remember him playing games when I was really young: Zork, Battle Chess, Myst, SMB1, Gauntlet (NES, played it a ton together) Contra then there’s a big gap where I don’t remember him playing at all until Medal of Honor on PS1. His taste in games was pretty based now that I think about it.
>>12031949Me and my dad used to play a lot of Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2 when I was a kid in the late 90's. He's in his mid-60's now and comes over to my house to play Tropical Freeze on my Switch and has gold in most of the time trials, he'll play it 4 or 5 hours straight. I've offered to let him take it home with him for a week or two but he is afraid it will ruin his marriage... he's not wrong.
>>12032273Oh and we used to play a lot of RTS games like Command and Conquer TD/RA, Warcraft 1 and 2 and StarCraft when I was growing up. He liked Age of Empires but I could never get into it the same was I could the simpler RTS's.
both of my parents have always been huge gamers. my mom likes rpgs and point ad clicks, growing up she had like the entirety of the SSI d&d games, and almost the entire sierra library.my dad prefers FPS and 4X games. me and my little brother used to deathmatch quake 2 with him. the only time i ever really enjoyed multiplayer.
>>12031949My dad is 61 and has been playing games most of his life. Growing up I had a shit load of PC games and even console games that he bought. half life has always been his favorite game
>>12031949My dad really... really likes Diablo
I remember my bedroom wall was right next to the basement stairwell, so I managed to hear my dad playing SMB3 super late at night with the volume down. He also had an Atari ST in university and played MiG-29 Fulcrum and Dungeon Master
Found out my adoptive father was insanely good at shmups while on vacation with him. I was stunned. He's your poster child boomer Chad type, never really played video games when I was growing up. The hotel we were staying at just happened to have one of the shmups he used to play growing up and he almost 1CC'd it.I told him how impressed I was but he just thought I was blowing smoke up his rear.
>>12031949I remember watching my dad play blood omen 2 and halo 3. zoomers aren't 15 anymore, old man
Solomon's Key. It's been mildly gratifying that it's become pretty retro-respected as a high class game because I never saw anyone else own it or know of it for most of my life.If he'd lived to retire and get his 60s and 70s he probably would have become some kind of PC grog.
>>12031949he just played gran turismo and NHL and sometimes GTA
>>12031949no they did not exist although he tried early chess computer devices
My dad played RPGs. Wizardry, Betrayal at Krondor, Baldur's Gate, Realms of Arkania, Might and Magic. Basically all of the 80s and 90s RPGs. You would never suspect it, because he was a rugby player with an important government job.Eventually he started playing Everquest and became addicted. Every moment of his life that he wasn't working, he'd play that game. He played until 3:00 AM every day and went to work at 5:00. He got fired from his government job for emailing a foreign Everquest friend at work, which constituted as contact with a foreign national.
My dad got addicted to Far Cry multiplayer. Yeah, I don't get it either, I think it was the first FPS he played and he just never bothered branching out to anything else.
>>12031949I cannot recall my dad ever playing a video game. Just not his thing. Cards or boardgames sure but for some reason anything electronic did not interest him. My mom would play Columns with me occasionally but that was about it.
