Games your dad hogged your games machine for?

[briareos_kerensky]

Only Tetris on the original GameBoy.
From time to time he plays Solitaire on his PC but nothing else.

[Baseley09]

i remember many many years ago my dad was addicted to a spectrum game called new wheels john...was a car selling game Lol

Named after the Alexei Sayle song?! *shows age*

My old man played a fair few games, never hogged anything, tho he did wave the pads around in the air, he was playing motion control games 20 years early!

My ma on the other hand was bang into Oh Mummy! on Amstrad, quality game.

[nakamura]

I did force my mum to have 1 go on Super Mario World back in '93. She hated games but had a go and admitted she enjoyed it. Never tried again though.

My parents always used to moan when I wasn't out with my friends. I would sometimes spend weeks in playing games after work rather than going out on the town, usually in the winter time. They never understood that I went out when I felt like it, that I actually enjoyed playing games, single player RPGs and contstant 2 player Winning Eleven fests.

Anyway this came full circle a few years ago. I had dipped out of gaming due to car tuning and my stepdad got his first PC. The bloke didn't leave his room for months! Playing with photos, music, games!! Then the Wii came into view via my niece. The snapped one up pronto and absolutely love it. My stepdad always goes to the club on wed/fri to play snooker with his mates. He has now canceled many times to play a session of Mario Kart Wii instead.

Oh how I laughed!

[hudson]

Whenever my girlfriend enters a gaming conversation she always feels the need to shout "Oh Mummy!". The only game she ever loved lol

[CMcK]

My Dad was hooked on the Game Gear version of Columns. It was the first thing he did after coming in from work for a while. Half an hour or so on the GG then time to get the kids fed!

[dataDave]

My mum will play all puzzle games. She used to play shmups but not anymore.

[112]

Not my Moms or Pops, but my bro and sis use to hog my game gear when i was a kid........

My bro would be playing some japanese baseball game and super monaco on the GG; whilst my sis would be playing columns for what seemed like FOREVER! Glod bless the AC adapter, as the six AA batteries that blasted thing sucked on was a nightmare!

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[hudson]

Is anyone a gaming dad? Do you hog your child's birthday DS?

[Darwock]

With my dad it was a trio of ZX Spectrum games. He was obsessed with getting high scores in the following:

1. Slippery Sid
2. Batty
3. Chuckie Egg

Him & my brother would compete against each other, which used to bore me to tears because I couldn't play those games and only wanted to play Ant Attack.

[hudson]

Oh I remember my dad got hooked to Bounty Bob Strikes Back

[Wil]

Is anyone a gaming dad? Do you hog your child's birthday DS?

Yeah, I'm a gaming Dad. At the moment my 7 year old son and I are playing through Metroid Prime 2 and The Legend of Kay on the PS2. Although that generally means me playing it and him telling me where to go or what I've missed

He's got his own DS and the PS2 and Gamecube live in his room but he's not allowed to take any games from my stash without permission. It doesn't bother him much although I'm used to hearing 'Dad, why are all your games in Japanese?' or 'Dad, all your games are old and in Japanese'

[noobish hat]

This was before my time of course, but when my dad was a kid, he got a pong machine for christmas, and played the crap out of it, until he was so good nobody would play against him any more. The only other time I have known him to play a game was when we first got our C64, and we used to take it in turns playing Destruct and 1942. He's got about as much chance as me of ever playing any of this modern crap.

[ETC]

i had badgered my mum and dad for a gamegear one year for christmas and they were only out in japan. Somehow my dad takes me to this guys house in sunderland to get one when we get there the bloke must know him as he was like oh ... Your gamegear and galaga came and your megadrive and revenge of shinobi is ready to pick up. Found out years after he became addicted to my ms2 playing it when i went to bed and was gutted when i didnt ask for a md but bought it anyway. Still now he is my winning eleven teammate when he isnt playing football manager on his pc

[Sam The Man]

This thread has made me think about how different it's going to be for teenagers in ten years time (My kids' generation basically), when they have parents that are hardcore gamers. How awesome is that going to be for them?

Soon, the Daily Mail brigade will have to shut the hell up - and parental ignorance on videogame content will become a thing of the past.

Yeah and thank **** for that!!! I grew up in a household where neither my mum or sister understood my love for gaming. My mum in particular felt ashamed that her son spent most of his time in his room playing Sonic The Hedgehog/Tomb Raider/Final Fantasy e.t.c and thought that games were a waste of time and boring. Fortunately all my friends in school were gamers too and i was always into football as a kid so in the summer months when it was just too nice to stay in i would have an outdoor hobby to enjoy and be playing football with school mates.

[teddymeow]

Christmas morning on the year the SNES came out. My brother and I got the console, extra pad and Super Mario World and Street Fighter 2.

Before we could finish cooing at the box my Dad had set I up and got our next door neighbour round to play SF2 with him!!! What the hell!! 2 hours later we got a go.

ISS was the next time the SNES went missing. Then ISS64 and the various PES games saw each subsequent console disappear from my room. It was great to get to play my games on a bigger TV though!

Now he mostly plays Footy Man and loads of puzzle games on his DS and sports games on PSP.

It's weird, as 45 says, that future generations of kids will have parents who grew up gaming. I'm looking forward to it!