Games your dad hogged your games machine for?

[speedlolita]

Nowt!

I beat him and Gran Turismo and at that moment he quit playing video games.

[J0e Musashi]

Your mum is cool then! My favourite game of all time, (The MD version I got in 1989 with my import "Adams world" package being my poison.) Which version is hers? Did you have it on Super Grafix or the x68000 or something?

Can she 1 credit the game? (Through two times)

My best is ...

My Mom favors the Japanese 16-Bit version. 16-Bit is MD to you I'd imagine. Once I got my SFC she had the 16-Bit set up in the front room.

My Mom is ****ing bad-ass at it, she could finish it properly in 1 life. I remember her shouting out in disgust if she accidently got another weapon by accident on the second time through.

She must have played it for about 4 years I reckon. It was once my Dad ****ed off. I guess if you play something for that long you get really good at it. Strangely she didn't like the SFC game at all. When I got Maximo she came running into my room demanding to know what I was playing, but quickly dismissed it. I don't know what she'd be like at it nowadays, she wears glasses now and ting.

[hudson]

Joe, your mum needs to do a YouTube video or didn't happen

[MarioMark]

Ace thread.

My Dad bought PGA Golf (the original in 93) for my Mega Drive which I found quite boring at the time as I just wanted to play Sonic, Road Rash and Quack Shot.

My Mum never played them. Once I had my 360 Wheel hooked up and she tried NFS Carbon demo. She couldn't stop laughing and thought she was gonna get hurt when she crashed.

Now it's the other way round. My 11 month lad has started crawling and he keeps grabbing the pad while I'm playing (when I get the chance these days). He just doesn't seem to be entertained by the Nes pad I gave him out of my junk draw.

[JazzFunk]

As my parents were divorced, my dad used to come every Sunday afternoon and hog the Electron, opting to play this cacky Lothlorien tank-based strategy game in total silence. After a couple of hours on it, he'd go upstairs, shag my mum then sod off on his bike.

My mum's boyfriend at the time used to hog this ace Electron Galaxians clone called Positron. He was totally gutted when I clocked it before him, he got in a proper tantrum. He was fuming when we got a Speccy later that year, he got in a mood and refused to touch it. Nice guy but weird.

[randombs]

My dad's a bit of a hardcore gamer, although a bit less so nowadays.

Every PC upgrade we've ever had has been due to some game or other that he's wanted to play (Champ. Manager, Flight Sim, Grand Prix 4, etc), and luckily my mum was clueless about such things. She did buy him a Multiface II for one of his birthdays years ago (Amstrad CPC version of the Action Replay/Game Genie things) and a Sound Blaster for the PC on a later one. I bought him a force-feedback joystick about five years ago for his birthday.

I remember when he got us the Megadrive, the first game bought for it (apart from the two it came with) was Madden '92 which he got for himself and would play on weekdays when we weren't allowed, the bugger.

Later on when the SNES was released, we didn't get one but we swapped our MD for our mate's SNES for a few weeks and every evening my dad would stop us playing SF2 on it and we'd play Mario Kart until around midnight.

In other news:

He made this Star Trek game the year I was born. My mum desigend the cassette inlay. I recently found the manual he'd written for it, and it was pretty hefty.

I just clicked one of the full page scans from his advert in CVG! Gotta show my mum. That's our old address!

:update:

Just had a go on it and I don't know enough Star Trek to play it. It asked me what warp speed to travel at and I didn't know what warp speed goes up to (11?).

The coolest bit is he told me Warner Bros sent him an angry letter about using Star Trek like that, and also that it won game of the month in one of the Spectrum magazines.

[buster_broon]

It was probably pong or skydiver on the Atari 2600

Skydiver is just awesome

[Grapple Convoy]

My Mum or Dad have never played a videogame in their life.

Shame. My own parents got me into games. Always had a computer at home, before they were that common. They played early coin-op videogames whilst at university in the '70s, and by the time I came along my dad owned TRS-80 clone and an Oric-1, which both had rudimentary games. My parents then upgraded to a ZX Spectrum, and played on it more than me or my siblings did. Usually more involving games like Head Over Heels and Short Circuit, both of which my mum mapped out on graph paper, but also arcade-y stuff like Bomb Jack and Paperboy. They bought Crash for the covertapes, and later in the '80s seemed to buy a new ?2.99 budget game every week whilst shopping.

By the time the family computer was upgraded to an Amiga in 1989, my dad kept playing here and there, flight sims being his favourite genre but he was still a gaming all-rounder. But my mum had gone off the more "violent" games on the Amiga. She returned to gaming when she bought a Game Boy, and later a DS, and more recently iPod Touch, all of which she has been addicted to, along with every Animal Crossing game. My dad went off games when consoles took over from computers as the dominant form of games hardware. Last game I remember him playing until he bought a Wii was Worms on the Amiga. I had a Super NES for a while before then which he didn't touch. I don't think he ever liked joypads, preferring to control games with joysticks or mice.

[davesol]

my dad used to enjoy snapper on the bbc when I was (a lot) younger, every couple of weeks or so we would have a snapper tournament with my brother and sister. When we got a playstation he used to like the odd game of iss pro now and again but since then he doesn't really play games any more.

[jim g]

Well I am the Dad and it was son hogging my machines! I have played games since 70T's and when my son was growing up all his mates were jealous as I always bought the machines for me. I am 52 now and sill play everyday and my son (27)now has to buy his own machines!

Having a Jap Megadrive, Amiga, Super Famicom, Neo Geo, Pc Engine in the house when he was young was heaven for him, so he was always hogging MY machines and games

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

I just clicked one of the full page scans from his advert in CVG! Gotta show my mum. That's our old address!

The Leicester one? I used to spend a lot of time round that area when I was a kid!

[Lebowski]

My dads never shown an interest bar the odd 5 minutes on a racing game, but my mom would regularly play games to death, the first I remember her playing was super Mario bros 2 on the Nes (she finished it before I did). She then moved onto rainbow islands on the Amiga, she wouldn't just finish it though she played and played it till she had collected all the massive gems. She still plays stuff now but its mainly things like zuma and peggle.

[randombs]

The Leicester one? I used to spend a lot of time round that area when I was a kid!

Yep

Although we moved to London when I was two and have been here ever since.

[hudson]

Well I am the Dad and it was son hogging my machines! I have played games since 70T's and when my son was growing up all his mates were jealous as I always bought the machines for me. I am 52 now and sill play everyday and my son (27)now has to buy his own machines!

Having a Jap Megadrive, Amiga, Super Famicom, Neo Geo, Pc Engine in the house when he was young was heaven for him, so he was always hogging MY machines and games

Awesome, jim g. You are what most of us on here will become. Gaming dad. But you're living it now. Do you and your son share the same game tastes, play games together online?

[egparadigm]

My Dad was rarely prepared to play games, although sometimes I could persuade him to play Worms, and he would sometimes sit with me while I played point n clicks.

My Grandad once became obsessed with Super Mario Land 2 on the GameBoy – belonged to his wife's son. He used to sit there transfixed. He has iron concentration – you have to shout at him to get his attention when he's watching a film.