/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9686420
When I was born my dad named me his entire name down to the T and then left. Based dad

>>9686426
Sounds like a DBZ / Madden fan

My dad hasn't held a controller since pong came out. He doesn't have a firm grasp of what a website is, he called them "portals" until recently.
When I was three he tried talking me into not liking video games. Obviously it didn't work. My mom still bought me games.

>>9686420
Not my father but my mother, she's been exclusively a Zelda enthusiast from the time she was pregnant with me back in 1991.

She recounts stories of having been in a shitty apartment with nothing but my Dad's NES she would beg to borrow from him, playing through the final bits of Zelda 1 before moving on to Zelda 2. She hated Zelda 2 and to this day refuses to even talk about it. But about Zelda 1, she's joked with me that I must love Zelda so much because the dungeon theme was my lullaby when she was pregnant.

Even though she only plays Zelda, she was still in "the know". When I was a young child and we couldn't afford Pokemon, she set up one of the really old school emulators and got a full rom set so I could play just like the kids in my class until she could afford a Game Boy Color. And as soon as we got it, she would tell me before bed I had to give it up for the night - she would spend all night playing Link's Awakening! The same thing happened when I got my GameCube, every time I would come home from school I would see her deep into a Wind Waker, and later on, Twilight Princess session. She adored the art style change and wants them to revisit Toon Link more often. She would remark that Twilight Princess's Link was a little too handsome. She got embarrassed playing it when my Dad was around.

>>9686454
So far, she hasn't missed a single entry. She even begged me to play Four Swords with her, and we ended up going through the whole game and got all the keys. She buys every console a Zelda game comes out on, and doesn't really play anything else. I've recommended other games, but she loses interest. Zelda is the only thing that captures her attention. Even then, it makes me really happy to see her face when she starts up the newest Zelda game. She's been texting me every single update on the latest one. I really, really hope it's good.

I recently got a GB Operator so I could back up our Four Swords and Link's Awakening progress. She's always the first save file on every single Zelda game I own, and I wouldn't have it any other way. When the time comes when she's gone, I won't ever be able to bring myself to save over slot one...that one belongs to her.

Sorry for blogpost.

my dad played microsoft solitaire then died of kidney cancer

My dad's favorite game of all time was Phantasy Star 2. He bought only JRPGs and fighting games so growing up it was wild trying to relate to what everyone else was playing. On a summer vacation we played pic related until the sun came up. He was the best.

My parents hated videogames and used every opportunity to tell me they are a waste of time, and sometimes that it's a sin to kill people even in a videogame.
It's a completely foreign concept to me that kids play videogames with their parents.

My dad loved Battlezone in the 80s, but the only game I've ever actually seen him play is that tank game in Wii Play. He was very good at it at the time, but that was at least a decade ago now. I'm thinking of buying a PS4 and VR headset with the Battlezone remake for him one day, since he sounded quite interested in it when I told him about it once. That will have to wait, unfortunately. My mum liked Pac-Man but hasn't touched another game since.
>>9686454
>>9686457
Your mother sounds absolutely adorable.

None of my relatives play any games. Even my brother quit playing games in his late 20s, that's now a decade ago. Didn't even play the new releases in his "favorite" series. Makes me wonder if he ever liked games at all, he doesn't show any interest in them at all now

>>9686420
My dad in his 80 now has never been huge on games, but did play Tetris at night for a number of years. I actually feel a little bad because once we tried playing versus and he thought he was quite good. But I was used to game type B level 9, 5 high which was my nightly ritual and I destroyed him every time. He never played as much after that...

My mom on the other hand is quite into games still. She plays boatloads of animal crossing and was obsessed with Pokémon for a long time. When I was in college she moved to Korea to teach English for a few years and I would get overseas phone calls at some crazy hour of the day and it would be entirely to say "my cubone wants to learn bonemarang, should I teach it to him?" Good times.

I played all the nes classics with my dad late into the night long ago until he lost custody and we were forced to live with our sociopath mother. I saw him again 30 years later and we made plans to catch up but he died a few days later.

My dad only likes Pac Man/Ms Pac Man.

My mother was an insanely dedicated Mario fan, even now I'm not certain as to why. Would never get tired of them, no matter how many years passed. Was the person who introduced me to video games. Her two favourites were Yoshi's Island for the Super Nintendo and Luigi's Mansion for the GameCube. Isn't that funny? Such a big fan of the Mario series, and both her favourite games in the series are two spin off titles. Funny how that is.

>>9686538
The timeline suggests that your mother is much younger than the father. Is your family super rich?

>>9686420
My dad was a hardcore flight sim fan. Buying professional training courses and either buying high end flight controllers or building them, just for stuff like flight sim 98. I grew up on pc games that were pack in software from all the flight sticks and constant graphic card upgrades he would do. Ironically, he saw my cousins get addicted to console games and didn't want me playing them, yet he went way more hardcore into this stuff then i ever did and was the one setting up pc games for me to play.

>>9686420
My dad bought a pong console in the mid 70's. Everyone in the family beat him at it so he rage quit and threw it out. He never played another video game his entire life. He constantly shat on them as being a fad, despite living through multiple epic gaming periods. kwab

>>9686559
No, my dad is 83 and my mom is 81. Not sure what made it seem like she was much younger.

>>9686420
My dad used to spend hours playing racing games on the Xbox. Gran Turismo, Project Gotham and a few other ones. I could never beat him, even when I would try to spear my car directly into his because I was a young angry child.

>>9686582
The whole moving to Korea bit. Sounds like something a young woman would do but I guess she was about 60 then. Weird

>>9686594
>Gran Turismo
>Xbox
The stories in this thread are becoming less and less believable

my dad used to play mortal kombat 3 every night, and lose every single time.
i know it probably bored him to tears but he never bitched about it, and it made me happy.

>>9686629
>59 years later anon still haven't figured out that his dad was losing on purpose

>>9686605
Ahh yeah that makes sense. She had quite bad agoraphobia when she was younger, before me and my brother, and I think later in life when much wasn't holding her down to stick around she wanted to expand her horizons and ended up really liking it. I checked out her switch profile, it's as funny as I expected.

i remember watching my dad play lots of SNES games like Yoshi's Island, StarFox, and DKC, we also played Smash Bros and Soul Calibur later on. when he was bored he played through the first Halo when he found it installed on the family PC kek

>>9686420
I am 52 years old. I used write games as well. My children are in their early 20s. I have my original big boxes for starcraft, diablo etc as well as shelves full fo console games. I had to stop entirely basically from when my children were born until a couple of years ago so have been having great fun buying up and playing xbox360 as well as rounding out my PS1 and 2 stuff. You've a;ll used software I've written

>>9686454
>>9686457
Huh, I'm sure you are telling the truth but it sounds really strange unless you are Japanese or something. Very very very few women ever played games until the PS1 era and none in 1991. Honestly? I don't believe you and think maybe you are nuts. If something bad happened with your mom then chill anon.

>>9686479
>My dad loved Battlezone in the 80s
Based, defenders asteroids, space invaders, galaxians, galga, spy hunter, and vector star wars. Always fucking hated pacman though.

>>9686819
>Very very very few women ever played games until the PS1 era and none in 1991.

Are you baiting or just incredibly clueless?

>>9686420
not anymore but my parents used to be huge tomb raider fans, they were actually going to name my sister Lara but they changed their minds

My mom is going to be 66 this year. She was addicted to Animal Crossing New Leaf on the 3DS for a while. I actually bought her a 2DS so that I could reclaim my console. She never bought a single game for the 2DS and I'm pretty sure the Animal Crossing cartridge was never ejected from the console.

My dad is 68 and a total Romeaboo, loves everything associated with Roman Civilization, has dozens of DVD documentaries about the Romans, literally hundreds of books, and a huge coin collection. He was also completely engrossed by Rome: Total War. That game single-handedly converted him from the Macintosh to the PC for a while; we bought a $2,500 P4 system so he could max out the settings on RTW. He would kick me off the computer and tell me to save my RTW game so that he could play. Eventually we started playing multiplayer battles over LAN after getting a wireless network, those were some good times. He later got Medieval II: Total War with the express aim of playing as the Byzantines (by extension, he loved the Byzantine Empire as well) and covering the map in Byzantine purple.

What's hilarious is that when I was growing up, my parents were both quintessential boomers. They fundamentally did not understand the appeal of video games. My parents weren't faggots like some of my friends' parents, so they had nothing against video games per se, they just really did not understand them. It was really quite a shock for me to watch my dad in front of a computer screen muttering "fucking Gauls" instead of channel surfing or reading one of his Rome-themed books. Nowadays he doesn't play anymore, and he is back on Macs (although his Mac has an Intel processor so it can run Windows, meaning he can go back to RTW if he likes). My mom plays New Horizons on the Switch Lite I bought her, but her total time in that games is maybe 1/5 of what she had in New Leaf.

I'm 37 and got kids of my own now, so I guess I'm the gaming dad.

I own some long-lived houseplants, and I guess you could say that I am their dad. I play video games incessantly. Thank you for reading my blogpost.

>>9686928
Only if they're very old. A plant less than about 40 years old is far too intelligent to pass as a human child of the same age.

>>9686842
You are trying to invent a fake history and narrative. Gaming and personal computing was nearly entirely male in that era.

My dad had a few consoles, mostly PS1 and PS2 before we got the family Wii. His tastes though were fucking bizarre
>MGS 2 on release
>Dark Cloud 2
>several RE games
>Monster Rancher
>OddWorld
>Monopoly and other board game ports
>Parasite Eve
>Sim City 2000
There were others but yeah, just a lot of different genres. Exposes me to some great games though. He used be big into DOTA2 and World of Tanks too. Afaik nowadays he plays a lot of mobile games on his phone.

>>9687501
Whatever you say, zoomy

>>9686819
I mean if all she plays is Animal Crossing or Pokemon or Zelda something else that's aimed at women, that happens, that's pretty normal. A mom who just plays all the big AAA games, that would be weird

>>9686420
My dad used to play in the arcades as a kid in the early 80s so he likes the old Namco stuff and Donkey Kong. Apparently he had an Atari as a kid but his dad cut the cord or something.
He would sometimes play games very casually. When I was a kid he played some stuff on the SNES, and he enjoyed Wii Sports, but he's not really a gamer. He has a plug and play system with some old Namco games like Pacman and Dig Dug and he plays that sometimes.

As for my mom, one time when I was 6 I was able to convince her to play Goof Troop with me on the SNES. Unfortunately Goof Troop requires working together in coordination so while trying to talk her through the level with me she accused me of cheating because I grabbed the hookshot and then she quit and never played anything ever again. To this day she still accuses me of cheating. I have explained to her so many times over the last few decades that I wasn't cheating, it's a cooperative game, and there's more than one hookshot, but she doesn't seem to understand anything and literally holds it against me. Also I was 6.

Obviously I still game. I have kids of my own now and the oldest is interested in games. He's just now at the age where he can really start playing. It's exciting to introduce him to games. Recently I'm playing Sonic Frontiers so I've had fun letting him run around the map. He likes it a lot.

My dad was insanely good at Galaga.

>>9686420
My dad played a lot of RPGs, and they were the only games I ever had growing up, so they're the only games I've ever played. The first RPG I can recall him playing was Wizardry 1, but I also remember him playing a ton of other stuff too - Realms of Arkania: Star Trail, Stonekeep, Elder Scrolls: Arena, Betrayal at Krondor, Baldur's Gate. He bought this one game, Druid: Daemons of the Mind, and got stuck on a puzzle, so he called the hint line and ended up talking to them for like 2 hours straight.

Anyway, he eventually got addicted to Everquest and my mom divorced him.

>>9686420
That sounds so fucking based.

Your dad is correct and you should buy him Diablo 3 or a good diablo-like game.
Shit what was the good /vr/ game with the guy and the big pilgrim hat ? Blood---
Whatever, go play with your dad.

>>9687501
I am >>9686538 and have known many women who played games through my whole life. Where are you from?

>>9687608
>you should buy him Diablo 3
Leave the man alone he suffered enough

>>9686819
>My children are in their early 20s.
>I had to stop entirely basically from when my children were born until a couple of years ago
I'd like to say you're a failure as a father and a human being. But sounds like you're just a failure as a larper.
>Very very very few women ever played games until the PS1 era and none in 1991.
Yup. Confirmed underage larper.

>>9686420
Yeah my dad loves the NES to death and N64 he missed out 16 bit era but played N64 when I was little all the time and we buy retro games together and all that all the time and play some shit too.

>>9686420
My grandpa was a pinball wizard, I never to this day seen anyone as good at pinball as him also knew how to work on a computer even in his 60's.

>>9687641
Not him but even when I was a kid in the 90s no girls in our classes in school or in uni were even remotely interested in games whereas pretty much all guys were. Now you're seeing them starting to play games, but not in the 90s. So your narrative is strange to me. But then I'm in poor Eastern Europe and maybe women are just super traditional here or something. I don't think they are really

>>9687635
Which one was the good sequel as long as you don't buy lootboxes ? Sounds like OP based grinding dad would do fine, no ?

>>9687679
Not him but I am this guy >>9687627 again and 49. In my experience, the 16 bit era was the low point for girls being into games, when they started getting marketed more heavily towards boys. In the early days, atari and NES it was very common for both. By the 32 bit era things were evening out more though which is why I agree what he says sounds a little fishy. If he's really 52 he would have remembered. That said, cultures change with location so where he's from might have something to do with it.

The guy does have a point that computing specifically was male dominated and so computer games held that bias longer. But even at that, my mom would dick around with a lot of the dos games wehad and got quite into flight simulator later. I don't think he's larping necessarily but I think ge has a skewed perspective that he thinks is universal.

>>9686420
my dad has never played a single game except for pong. one time he walked in on me playing a bot match in Timesplitters 2 and asked if i was having fun with my "little friends"

my dad is 60. the only thing he plays is angry birds on his phone. I try to introduce him to different games even just plants vs zombies, but "no thanks this is all I need". ah well I guess

>>9687679
I saw girls playing in the 70s, and in every decade since. They usually made up a good percentage of people in arcades in the 70's and 80's. That seemed to drop off when places filled up with fightan games. I don't think it was because gurlz don't like the genre. They just have an acute sense of smell when it comes to loser BO.

>>9686420
Both my dad and his father played video games from at least the early 1980's together. My grandfather apparently loved Lode Runner and played it all the time, he even wrote my dad a letter one time to let him know when he had beat the final level. He was born in 1917, so I guess he would've been in his 60's when he got into gaming. He was one of those people really fascinated by new tech, got a VHS player early on and recorded lots of movies shown on TV.

My dad was born in the early 1950's and died last year, he was the one who got me into video games. Some of my earliest memories were sitting with him watching him play games like The Lost Vikings, Earthworm Jim, the Goblins series, the Lode Runner sequel, just tons of early 90s PC games. As I got older, he got obsessed with LucasArts adventures. Monkey Island was his favorite. He also loved Grim Fandango. In the last decade or so, he played a Choplifter clone over and over again when he was killing a few minutes at a time. Add to that, flight simulators (he was a licensed amateur pilot), and a few Civil War sims (just boomer things). The last game he and I played together at the same time was Cuphead (not retro, I know, but he was in awe of the Max Fleischer-style animation).

Miss you dad, when I play games lately I think of what you might have enjoyed. I think you would've gotten into Castlevania, had I introduced it to you. And when I play the old games we played together I'll think of you. Thanks OP for this thread.

>>9686819
I don't really gain anything from lying. At any rate, I understand your perspective, coming from your experience I can see how it would sound far fetched. I don't really see how you would come to the conclusion I had a bad experience with my mother, though. I only recounted fond memories in my post. Sure, I had arguments and disagreements, but who hasn't, right?
>>9687679
I had that same experience in America. The only girl in my school who was interested in games was an outcast who drew weird furry yaoi. No one really believed my mom loved playing Zelda when I was in school in the 90s and mid 2000s, so I suppose nothing has really changed since then. It's a bit funny.

>>9687728
>>9687954
Yeah, 34 here, grew up in the 90s and early 2000s and went to fairly affluent schools - girls really didn't play games much. There were a few, and once I got the internet in my teens I would talk to some online, but in real life there was kind of a stigma around video games. I did go to school with a girl who played the Lands of Lore games, and when I was a kid, I remember going to my babysitter's house and playing King's Quest on her PC. They were pretty rare, though.

>>9687917
Ah so that's what your narrative is based on, people you see in arcades. That's a very different crowd from those who play at home. My assumption is those places used to be gimmicky date spots in the early days rather than places where gamers go to game, and the ones who played something like Wizardry and Ultima at home were as you put it "smelly losers" rather than girls. But I never experienced that era so I'm not going to argue about a time before I was born

Back when my parents were still dating, they went to arcades to play Asteroids and Centipede while drunk. He didn't get back into it until we got an NES, then he would play Pinball and Dragon Warrior 2. He actually reached Rhone before I did. Then we got a DOS PC and he stopped playing console games. He used to play almost anything, then he played Colonization and got hooked. He would spend hours working on his trade routes, and managed to hit both the global unit limit and trade route limit. In the late 90's he got into RTS games and Simcity 3000 and 4.
These days he mostly plays modern non-/vr/ games with the exception of the C&C Collection.

>>9686437
Lol. Subtle.

>>9686457
>>9686454
That made me sad, Anon. Your old lady sounds like a sweetheart

>>9687981
I suppose I could "base my narrative" off my sisters not playing games at home. If that were the case, but it wasn't. They played. But yes, a samples size hundreds of times larger than a few siblings is much better to base anything on.
Obviously no one was playing Ultima in an arcade. And no one was having friends over to play Ultima. So yeah, largely friendless smelly losers. And as those games gained popularity the user base shifted away from average people who just wanted to have some fun and more towards smelly losers. But that really didn't happen until arcades died out, PC gaming took off, and technology allows for game that took many many hours to beat.

>>9687575
Your dad was a kid in the 80s? How fucking old are you?

> be 4
> dad works nights and haven't seen him in a bit
> wake up in the middle of the night and go see if he's around
> he's in the basement on the computer, that TV he does taxes on
> he sees me, think I'm about to be shooed off to bed
> calls me over, sits me his lap and shows me his new game
> starts explaining the Lord of the Rings with the passion of someone who's memorized the Silmarillion
> I'm hooked
> he starts reading me The Hobbit the next day

>>9686474
I've thought about doing this with my kids, telling them not to play games, (I won't do the retarded american christian part though) but apparently it won't work anyway. Maybe I should do the opposite and play games so much that they think they're lame and stupid.

>>9686647
>solitaire

boomers never change lmao

>>9688250
not that anon but imagine this:

>father born in early 70s
>is a preteen in 1980 or so
>knocks a girl up in his early 20s, son is born in early 90s

normal timeline for a guy to be about 30 and to have a father in his early 50s. you could even push the birth up to the mid-90s and end up with a /vr/ age range especially given the >retrobtw rule.

>>9688152
Thank you

Thanks to everyone for sharing about your gaming Dads. Sorry to all the anons who had shit dads (lower case d). Not to sound cold but it makes me more grateful for mine. Be good Dads, anons. And always be better than your kid at the game you play so as to not break illusions.

>>9686909
My mom would love Animal Crossing if she would just try. She prefers tablet apps that are just classic card or word games. Just can't train the millenial into some of these old ladies I guess. She enjoyed watching Mario 64 when my Dad played it and would repeat "wahoo!" intermittently in unironic non-sarcastic enjoyment

>>9686647
Wholesome

>>9686685
My Dad refused to play Smash Bros with me after it was clear that I was better than him. He had a "don't let this give you any ideas" attitude and went back to handing my ass to me in turn based games

>>9687971
I think a shift happened some time in the 80's. I remember it being slightly skewed towards boys in the Atari and NES days, but very few girls who moved on to the super nintendo. My wife was like that, two years older than me and grew up playing quite a bit of both but then fell off and pretty much didn't play games at all when I met her. Now she probably plays more than I do.

>>9686420
I played vidya with my dad for an hour once when i got my first console in the early 90s.
I think vidya is to complex for him. He hasn't kept up with technology at all, cant use a smart phone or a computer and gets angry that the world has moved on from TV and Home Phones.

>>9687947
Your Dad and Grandpa sound like they were good men. Bet you are, too.

>>9688142
>He would spend hours working on his trade routes, and managed to hit both the global unit limit and trade route limit.
Based Dad. I have tried to transition mine from Diablo to RTS type of stuff but he isn't very interested. He will play adventure games where you micro manage a small team in classic isometric, and that's what appealed to him in Diablo I think, but make it a fort or a town or a city with a bunch of moving parts and he's outtie. I don't think he understands that by reaching his ceiling with Diablo he has inadvertently taught himself to be a good at digesting a certain brand of UI as well as having fast faced management skills.

>>9688540
Based Dad, mine read me the books when I was little at when the Peter Jackson liscenced games came out with FUCKING CO-OP it was just amazing. Wonderful memories with my Dad and LOTR fanhood torch passing.

Between your description that and the other anon's Zelda-Mom I have that pressure behind my eyes from when you could cry a bit but choose not to.

>>9688932
If you can hook them on just 1 game they used to love but can't really experience anymore, they will develop a rapport with the device they play it on and eventually use it for more stuff.

My dad once tried SMB after he bought us our NES in the summer of 88. To make Mario jump, he would push the button while also moving his hands and the controller upwards, mimicking the jump. Many boomers did that back in the day. Miyamoto must have seen them waving their hands like that when he invented the Wii. Anyhow, my father never touched a controller again UNTIL Wii Sports in 2009. He was extremely good at Wii Bowling, making it a point to ask us to create avatars of his kids and grandkids so he can bowl perfect games for everyone of us. He lost interest some time in 2010 and never grabbed a controller again for the decade or so he lived afterward.

My dad thought games were a big waste of time and used to scold me for playing them too much. He played Sega GT on the original Xbox a few times with me after watching because he loves cars and seemed to really enjoy it then decided it was a waste of time and stopped. He spends several hours a day watching TV and doesn't seem to really enjoy it.

>>9688932
Actually iv thought more about my post so here is part 2.
My father came to visit me when Battlefield 3 first came out. I had a 1440p rig and display and was a good jet pilot. Randomly while i was playing I see him standing behind me, watching for a good 5 minutes.
I ask him what's up and he just tells me is absolutely amazed at how far graphics have come and starts asking me questions about what is going on and starts implying the other "Enemies" are computer controlled. "No dad its a 64 player server, they are controlled by real people via the internet"
I then got off and he asked me how it all worked for like 10 minutes and kept saying "Its too late for me to get into this kind of stuff now" which just made me sad. Iv tried to teach him stuff but he just gets frustrated and gives up.

>>9686647
Solitaire is the only game my mother plays on her ipad.
She was in an accident and lost one of her hands so she can't hold a controller. Iv tried to get her into things like Darkest Dungeon or Slay the Spire for Ipad, but she just goes straight back to Solitare like a typical boomer.

>>9686420
My dad and I have been playing games together basically as long as I can remember. He taught me how to play fighting games as a kid and we spent many weekends together playing co-op Beat 'em Ups together. These days we still hang out and play retro games together on occasion, and he likes playing Monster Hunter online with me. I honestly think that he spends more time playing games than I do.

>>9688959
The tears will come, anon

>>9689224
You might be genuinely retarded.

>>9688984
>he would push the button while also moving his hands and the controller upwards, mimicking the jump. Many boomers did that back in the day. Miyamoto must have seen them waving their hands like that when he invented the Wii
Interesting observation, anon

>>9686473
I like your dad. Sounds like he was a cool guy.

>>9686474
Same. My oldest is 4 and started getting into Mario Kart 8 from watching lets plays of it on YouTube so we got it for him. Whenever I get tired of seeing him play Mario Kart terribly I've taught him how to use a fightstick and I have him play shmups with me on the saturn or dreamcast. He's pretty bad at that too, but I showed him how to credit feed and at least get a few bombs off each life to help me out.

He's getting better, but man after 30 years of playing games it's painful seeing someone who's never played them before struggle with learning the basics.

>>9688540
I am moved by this.

>>9686454
>>9686457
Thanks for sharing OC anon. Your mom is awesome and you're awesome for gaming with her. Keep it up and you'll just continue piling up the lovely memories

One tip: quadruple-check the save backup. I'm not sure how the Pocket Operator works (I use a Joey Jr to backup game boy saves), but i accidentally erased my nightmare in dream land save, on the cartridge itself, before i backed it up. No big deal since there's not much unique to its save file, but I would've been crushed if I'd lost my pokemon saves or something

>>9686556
That is pretty funny. I think once you give into something, you really appreciate its offshoots or variants. Having mostly only played pokemon mainline games through gen 3, even now i find a lot of novelty and charm in side games like puzzle league or stadium. Really want to play conquest

>>9686420
my dad is 76 and I'm in my early 20s we've never played video games together. He has seen me play war games and we talk about the weapons and history behind the battles while I'm playing.

My dad was seriously into Pinball as a teen / young adult, to the point he won a few local tournaments. "Local tournament "meaning between the regulars at the bar who regularly played the single pinball machine, and the reward being a cool refillable lighter, but those were the seventies).

Some years after i was born, he would dig out the Pong clone with multiple games and we would play together.

Then we got the Amstrad CPC, and that's when things went downhill. Every game we would play was too hard, broken and impossible, and for a reason. Not reading magazines or getting recommendations, every game we purchased was an unplayable mess by Dinamic, followed by a shit port of an already bad and hard game; Renegade.

Playing with a joystic and jumping with Up (keyboard phobia was a thing) did not help, and the Pinball videogames had pretty mediocre physics. He pretty much slowly lost interest in games to the point of hating them, and to this day he still blames the Amstrad CPC for ruining games for him, although it sounds more like a excuse.

Over the years, he would get Pinball games for every console we owned. Revenge of the Gator, Super Pinball, Tilt, Pro-Pinball Timeshock... It was something we could do together, but there was a problem: a) The games were getting more complex, with digital panels, modes, mini games and b) they were in english (not his native language). He simply did not have the time to invest on a game and compensate, and he gave up completely.

The fact that i went though several years of videogame addiction as a way of coping with... not everybody has a happy childhood or is popular at class, let's leave it there. Were the final nail in the coffin of his now full blown dislike of games.

To this date, even if it got better for me (getting a demanding job did wonders for me), I have not managed to get him into games again. Other than digital sudokus, nothing has worked. Brain Training, the Wii... nothing.

My dad plays games still, usually Call of Duty, but he had played games since the NES/C64 days. My mom stopped playing video games after beating Ocarina of Time, now she only plays those dumb mobile puzzle games.

>>9686420
Anon, your dad is dangerously based. Great read! Thanks!

My dad doesn't like anything I like, and if I like something he likes, he'll begin to lowkey hate it for the span that I like it. Pretty cool!

Blog post aside, I am myself a gaming dad, but I try to keep my kids from becoming gamers themselves. As a compromise, I am kind of an IRL streamer for them. They watch me play and we talk about the games. Nothing against your dad, OP, but gaming for hours on end alone is degenerate, I know from first-hand experience. Time alone should be spent reading or using your hands. I only started to realize this as I turned 30.

>>9690284
Oh yeah, to make this post more /vr/, in the last year we played through the entire mainline Mega Man saga (skipping ZX, which is kind of boring and gay) and Ys 1 for Sega System.

my dad just turned 50. he had an xbox when i was in middle school and we would play halo and call of duty together but when my younger brother broke the xbox he stopped playing games.
when i was getting really into metroid when i was like 8/9 he also told me about a time that he and my uncle stayed up all night playing the original on nes.

>>9686482
>Makes me wonder if he ever liked games at all
Try playing the old ones next to him and check his reactions. Some people only relate to what they're familiar with.

>>9686420

This is amazing

the only video game my father ever played was tetris on my gameboy

my mom was a jrpg nerd, remember her taking me to funcoland to get Phantasy Star IV when it was released.

My dad’s in his early 50s and has always been into video games since he had an Intellivision as a kid. He used to mod maps for Doom, Duke Nukem and Quake before I was born. When my brother and I were young my dad and his friends from work would have LAN parties at the house. We had a lot of fun playing Battlefield Vietnam, Counter Strike and Fear. He’s getting real into using the Oculus lately. We were cleaning out the basement recently and found a haunted house map he made back in 1996 on a Floppy Disk. I have it in my game collection now.

>>9688934
Thank you anon, I try to be the best of what they were. And I'm sure I will share those games with my kids the same way someday.

My father is a military historian and classic boomer sperg. When I was growing up he had an NES with Zelda 1&2, Kid Icarus, Mario 1 and Metroid. Pretty good taste, then he sold it to buy me and my sister a PS1 and didn't play games for a long time. Then when I was a teenager he bought a new PC and started getting deep into grand strategy, RTS and flightsims. About 10 years later and he's still going at it.

Some of his all-time favourites:
>Age of Empires 2
>Hearts of Iron series (he played 2 everyday for about a decade after work)
>Pretty much every Total War game
>The X-Com reboots
>Civilization 4, 5 and 6

He played the original Halo, Mass Effect 1 and the PS2 Ratchet and Clank games but that's about it as far as console games go.

We've never had all that great of a relationship. Not because he doesn't try, but because undiagnosed autism/bipolar means he can be a difficult guy and he had a very rough childhood himself. He puts in the effort, he was there the whole time I was growing up, never hit me, and he treats my girlfriend very nicely, so I can't complain. Nobody's dad is perfect. I built him a new gaming PC last year and he always tells my mum how happy he is with it. The older boomers aren't the most talkative or approachable people but doing things that show you care really goes a long way with them.

>>9693273
Forgot to post his steam most played

>>9693273
you sound like such a fucking fag

>>9693287
Why

>>9688250
I'm 26, and I'm the youngest of 4. Dad is either 55 or 56. He graduated high school in the mid-1980s and I was born in 1996.

>>9693301
That anon probably has a way worse dad and thinks you sound ungrateful or unappreciative.

>>9687679
yeah, its an eastern europe thing actually for men to be more into technology of any kind, there are pretty set in stone gender norms over there where men are like the scientist types and women are more like assistants to the men in the workforce.

I'm not from there but I do study the shit out of slavic cultures so I do see what you are talking about, there are a few female russian streamers and shit like that but not too much girl gamers outside of just super casual sessions.

I wanna say this is also due to how there was limited money to go around for an entire family so boys stuck with boy stuff, usually, and girls stuck with girl's stuff, there wasn't the ability to take a gamble to see if you liked something or not cuz slavs be poor sometimes.

>>9686420
My dad and I played SOCOM 2 and 3 together online every day. Playing SOCOM 2 and Time Splitters 2/3 with my dad were some of the best days of my life and I didn't know it. He still games on a ps4. He got his PS2 slim back from my bro and Im sending him a FMCB and SD mem card reader with all the games we played. He's going to be 73 this year.

>>9686420
My dad was never much of a gamer at all, he liked Blades Of Steel for NES (and I'm not a sports guy, but it's pretty fun, actually), and he liked Space Cadet Pinball for Windows. He doesn't like anything particularly violent.

>>9686454
>>9686457
Your mom sounds cool.

>>9686582
just curious, how old are you?

>>9693273
Don't even know what to make of that blog. When you were growing up he had an NES but never played. He sold it to buy a PS1. Yes, surely the $10 he got for it went a long way towards that. Was your family super poor or something?

>>9695407
>he had an NES but never played
Nowhere in my post did I say he never played the NES, he played it all the time. Learn to read, dipshit.
>Yes, surely the $10 he got for it went a long way towards that.
My parents are normies, I have no idea what they got for it back in the day but it certainly wasn't just $10. Normies regularly got fleeced selling old consoles for new ones back in the day, but we were all so blindsided by the new tech that most people just thought "whatever, I probably wont play that old junk again"

But you wouldn't know that, would you zoomie?

>>9695706
>He played the original Halo, Mass Effect 1 and the PS2 Ratchet and Clank games but that's about it as far as console games go.
So halo and me2 on the nes. Impressive!
>But you wouldn't know that, would you zoomie?
And the projecting begins

>>9694695
I turned 49 last week.

>>9695407
Not him but that doesn't sound like a strange scenario. I sold my NES to fund getting a super NES. That with the games pretty much funded it.

>>9695798
DAMN

>>9695798
Nice to know we've got some middle aged people around. What kinda games did you like a lot as a kid, and what kind of games do you find yourself playing the most these days?

>>9695805
"His" scenario doesn't sound nearly as strange as one where someone old enough to have sold their NES to buy an SNES doesn't understand that the PS1 came out years later when NES was even older and worth even less. You could literally pick up an NES with games at a garage sale for $10 once the PS1 hit the market.

I told my dad Doom was 30 years old and he said what's that

>>9695779
You clearly cannot read English or comprehend very basic sentences. So I'll stop responding to you now, moron.

>>9696043
>You're right, my blog was retarded zoomer gibberish. So I'll it's your fault you and stop replying.
As long as you stop your shitposting it's a win for the whole board

I never will ;>)

>>9695989
It still would have helped, especially if they also sold the games. I don't know, it really just doesn't seem that odd to me.

>>9695980
On NES I liked the Castlevanias, Final Fantasy, Bard's Tale, faxanadu. I had the Marios but never loved them for some reason, only ever beat 2 probably because it was so easy. We had a computer then too and I played a lot if weird dose stuff which was mostly pretty bad but I did get obsessed with Rogue even though I had no clue how to play well and never got far then. Also was a huge fan of FF Legend on Gameboy and played Tetris constantly.

Was a huge star wars nerd back then and pretty much got the snes for super star wars which I loved. I got others, spent a lot of time with Mario Paint, Demon's Crest (also loved gargoyles quest on gb) as well as Street Fighter 2. I never had a ton of games for it though, when I got a Genesis I found a lot more games I dug. Ecco the Dolphin is one of the huge ones and one of the old games I still play again the most. Also Mortal Kombat 2 became a huge, huge thing me and friends would play constantly. Other favorites were Humans, Ranger X, Shining Force, Beyond Oasis, Comix Zone, Flashback. Genesis is probably my favorite system overall. Lots of later stuff, but getting tired of listing. Nethack, Tribes 1 and 2, King of Fighters all major games for me over the years.

These days it's a smattering of stuff, Monster Hunter Generations still, MH being my favorite series of all time. Puyo vs Tetris, Civilization 6, Powder, Etrian Odyssey. Played Etrian Mystery Dungeon a while but got bored.

My dad is a massive autist and have been into computers since they were consumer friendly. For reference, he was born in 1960, so when he first saw someone talking to a japanese guy over the internet, he was fucking shocked. He started building his own computers as soon as they were consumer friendly. Nowadays he plays a lot of flight simulator (and by play, I mean obsessively tweak his mod list for a day and then fly one flight) and Sim City, although he also buys the yearly baseball/football/basketball game 2K puts out. It's kind of surreal knowing that he has probably played a football game in every generation, from Tecmo Bowl to 2K23. And despite all of his technical knowledge, he could never get into Linux.
Mom mostly just played the PS1 back in the day, although she also got into Midtown Madness when that was coming out. She used to love to drive cars into the river while playing the London expansion pack. Even these days she likes to watch people drive insanely in video games, even graphic ones like GTA. It's kind of weird considering she has a massive phobia of cars and detests violence otherwise. These days she mostly just plays facebook games or watches dad play.

Dad here, Lufia 2 for the SNES is the best JRPG! Fuck Dragon Quest.

My dad doesn't game anymore, but he played Gauntlet Legends, Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts and the LotR hack and slash games when they were newer.

I'm several years older now than he was when he played some of them.

>>9688646
That's my family! My grandpa is 72 and played a bit of SMW withy dad's half brother in the 90s (he always referred to Yoshi as Pokey, I get the Gumby reference, but it was still kind of weird), my dad is 52 and played a lot of arcade games in the 80s and their console sequels in the 90s and 2000s with my brothers and me, I'm 32 and have been playing games as long as I can remember, but now that I'm an old fart I mostly stick to /vr/, and my son is 2 and I let him play on the paint game I pirated for my switch.

>>9689514
>it's painful seeing someone who's never played them before struggle with learning the basics.
>oldest is 4
Time to reroll the character sheet.

>>9695805
>>9693273
Didn't you feel bad having all those games just gone? Why not just wait, you could still have them.

>>9686420
My dad has always loved gaming, but unfortunately doesn't play much in recent years. I think this is in large part due to my mom, who hates video games and doesn't understand the appeal+general Boomerisms around computers and tech. He did get really excited when I told him I had started playing Unreal Tournament; unfortunately, he only ever played against bots, so all of his advice was useless in actual multiplayer games.

>>9698872
Anon I was like 7

>>9688634
Why would take something away from your kids knowing they will love it? Why not just teach them how to practice delayed gratification, discipline, self control, make it so they have to do a certain number of chores before they play.

Just don't let them become a faggot for fuck sake, it's not hard. You don't have to deprive them of shit they want to do that. You just have to teach them how to value it.