B1gg_Randall
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I tried to teach my daddy how to play Madden 16 today..He also try to call me out on MK.
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Father and son Gaming moments
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whiterabbit
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He never played with me but he bought me some games and recently gave me back my Wii after a move, which was nice. I felt lucky because most of the other stuff including my PS3 are in storage. Yeah, he went with me to buy that console as well.
My first gaming memory is being about 6 and my dad took me to the arcade to play Donkey Kong. He was really hardcore with it.
I fell in love with the medium instantly.
He also played with me during the 8bit gen. Then slowly he started not being that interested in gaming anymore.
I fell in love with the medium instantly.
He also played with me during the 8bit gen. Then slowly he started not being that interested in gaming anymore.
Y2H
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Half-Life with my dad. He'd let me stay up late on weekends when I was 6 so we could play it together. At first I was terrified of the headcrab zombies but when he jokingly called them 'turkey heads' because they genuinely look like they have a turkey stuck on their heads my fear turned to laughter.
From that moment I wanted to see the rest of the game because it looked amazing (at the time) and no matter how scary it got for me my dad would always find a way to make me laugh.
Even today we still do all the sound effects and use some of the dialogue in our conversations (the wall-mounted health chargers and marine voices are personal favourites). Also whenever I buy a new game he always asks me "Is it better than Half-Life", my response is always no (unless it's Metal Gear Solid).
From that moment I wanted to see the rest of the game because it looked amazing (at the time) and no matter how scary it got for me my dad would always find a way to make me laugh.
Even today we still do all the sound effects and use some of the dialogue in our conversations (the wall-mounted health chargers and marine voices are personal favourites). Also whenever I buy a new game he always asks me "Is it better than Half-Life", my response is always no (unless it's Metal Gear Solid).
Most of the games I played with my dad were sports games. Loved baseball games and that's part of the reason I love baseball so much.
My best gaming memories overall are the ones I've had with my son though. Recently we've been playing Rocket League in doubles and kicking some ass. He's pretty good for being 11. Unless we lose and then it's his goddamn fault. Goddamnit!
My best gaming memories overall are the ones I've had with my son though. Recently we've been playing Rocket League in doubles and kicking some ass. He's pretty good for being 11. Unless we lose and then it's his goddamn fault. Goddamnit!
Always-honest
Banned
I only played a few games with my dad.
I remember playing competitive with him on some handheld game when i was really young.
I remember playing a Rally game on PS3 with him (Dirt?). He was amazed about how realistic games looked at that point.
I do have a lot of father and son gaming moments with my son.
We played Minecraft yesterday but we often play MarioKart 8, Lego games and Fifa.
I remember playing competitive with him on some handheld game when i was really young.
I remember playing a Rally game on PS3 with him (Dirt?). He was amazed about how realistic games looked at that point.
I do have a lot of father and son gaming moments with my son.
We played Minecraft yesterday but we often play MarioKart 8, Lego games and Fifa.
Turnstyle
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I used to play text adventures on the Acorn Electron and C64 with my Dad. We'd map out the rooms on dot matrix printer paper. Really great memories.
Now I'm a Dad myself, and my son is just starting to acknowledge video games. He pesters me every day to play LittleBigPlanet, especially the Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig community levels (thank you so much to whoever made those!). He also likes going into people's houses in Minecraft and seeing what's in there. So much so that I recreated our own house in the world, and he loves walking around and going into 'his room'.
Now I'm a Dad myself, and my son is just starting to acknowledge video games. He pesters me every day to play LittleBigPlanet, especially the Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig community levels (thank you so much to whoever made those!). He also likes going into people's houses in Minecraft and seeing what's in there. So much so that I recreated our own house in the world, and he loves walking around and going into 'his room'.
He bought a Sega Genesis back then. I couldn't believe it. I never imagined he would do it. When he asked me what I wanted as a gaming system I asked for the Gameboy. Couldn't get less "modest". Then there it was and we had tons of fun.
Played Sonic 1 with us, sometimes even deep into the night.
Bought us King's Bounty because the cover hyped him. Was kinda dissapointed about the graphics but once he saw us play it over weeks he became hooked as well. King's Bounty was hugely fascinating.
Played Sonic 1 with us, sometimes even deep into the night.
Bought us King's Bounty because the cover hyped him. Was kinda dissapointed about the graphics but once he saw us play it over weeks he became hooked as well. King's Bounty was hugely fascinating.Mr. Giggles
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Playing super Mario with him when I was 10
Playing MW2 with him when I was 24.
He passed on shortly after, miss you dad
:'(
Playing MW2 with him when I was 24.
He passed on shortly after, miss you dad
:'(
Atomic Airplanes
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Wow, this is a great topic for a thread!
Can't help but smile reading through all of these.
My Dad was never one for video games, with the exception of Power Rangers The Movie: The Game for SNES.
We would play that for long stretches of time just trying to see how far we could get.
Awhh the memories
He would also dabble in some Mario Golf for the N64 and an occasional Madden 03' game with me.
Can't help but smile reading through all of these.
My Dad was never one for video games, with the exception of Power Rangers The Movie: The Game for SNES.
We would play that for long stretches of time just trying to see how far we could get.
Awhh the memories
He would also dabble in some Mario Golf for the N64 and an occasional Madden 03' game with me.
I got a Nintendo 64 sometime around 1999. Just before the summer holidays. Unfortunately I spent most of that summer in a country that didn't sell N64 games and I had forgotten to purchase any games with the console. After a few months of sitting staring at a unopened console box we eventually flew back to civilisation and picked up Mario Kart 64 from a local shop.
A few days later we had the console all set up, Me and my dad spent a whole day beating the game from start to finish. Me as Yoshi and Dad as Luigi ( I could never understand why he liked Luigi. Who likes Luigi)
A few days later we had the console all set up, Me and my dad spent a whole day beating the game from start to finish. Me as Yoshi and Dad as Luigi ( I could never understand why he liked Luigi. Who likes Luigi)
megashock5
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I'm old, so I'm going back to the early 80s here.
We had Colecovision with the steering wheel peripheral to play Turbo, we'd set it up on a TV tray in the family room.
One day, my dad came home from work and I informed him that I'd beaten his high score. A bit later, dinner is on the table and he's not there. We found him in the family room attached to that steering wheel. Once he beat my score, he came to the kitchen to eat.
My parents are not big gamers, but I always remember this particular incident where my dad would not be denied the high score in the house for Turbo.
We had Colecovision with the steering wheel peripheral to play Turbo, we'd set it up on a TV tray in the family room.
One day, my dad came home from work and I informed him that I'd beaten his high score. A bit later, dinner is on the table and he's not there. We found him in the family room attached to that steering wheel. Once he beat my score, he came to the kitchen to eat.
My parents are not big gamers, but I always remember this particular incident where my dad would not be denied the high score in the house for Turbo.
AlwaysPlaying
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My dad called me one day and wa freaking out because he figured out how to get to Bowser in NES Super Mario Bros. That was his first and last gaming accomplishment
socksfelloff
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Dad and I used to played doom and doom 2 over LAN. The only games he's ever played. I remember those times fondly.
I remember some story about a guy who's father passed away and be would race his father's ghost car on some xbox racing game on the anniversary of his death. I was so touched reading it.
I remember some story about a guy who's father passed away and be would race his father's ghost car on some xbox racing game on the anniversary of his death. I was so touched reading it.
Tame Deity
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Playing Shmups and Guitar Hero 3 for hours. He pretty much hates games other than those.
DrunkShogun
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Was once sick and my dad thought to play a few wrestling matches in wwe smackdown on the ps1. I completely destroyed him as I knew this moment would never happen again but then lied and said he was the other character. The other moment was when he brought a shoe box full of ps1 games that had tekken 3, castlevania sotn and ff7. These were random picks he made and I was lucky he chose such good games by chance.
I got into gaming because of him. Funny thing, he's not a gamer at all - I think the only game he played back then was Pac-Man and that once in a while. But still...
when I was a little kid, I'm talking about 3 or 4 years old, my dad took home an Atari that belonged to one of his brothers and showed me how to use it. I had never seen anything like it, and even though it was during the early 90s (thus, that particular Atari model was pretty much obsolete) I was in awe.
The only times my dad and I played some games together were back then, playing some Montezuma's Revenge. That will always stay with me, to be honest - it was such a warm, nice, carefree moment of bonding between my dad and I that never was replicated. Not even when they got me a SNES with Super Mario World for my birthday (or was it christmas?) the following year - I spent more time with my mom then, but she didn't have the time to actually play SMW with me, so she mostly watched and commented. Dad just listened to whatever the hell I said about the game when he came back from work.
And now... now we're both too old and too grumpy (and living in different cities) to really bond in such a carefree manner over something. Too burdened with concerns and too filled with regrets. Even small moments can turn into bickering if one of us says something and the other doesn't get it, or interprets it the wrong way. There's always something in the way...
But still, I treasure those moments. Those days when a young dad sat down with his little kid to play an old game on an obsolete console, laughing and translating the words I didn't understand (english isn't my first language, and I started learning from him) and forgetting about the small room in a small house that surrounded us. Just a father and his son. Thank you, dad.
when I was a little kid, I'm talking about 3 or 4 years old, my dad took home an Atari that belonged to one of his brothers and showed me how to use it. I had never seen anything like it, and even though it was during the early 90s (thus, that particular Atari model was pretty much obsolete) I was in awe.
The only times my dad and I played some games together were back then, playing some Montezuma's Revenge. That will always stay with me, to be honest - it was such a warm, nice, carefree moment of bonding between my dad and I that never was replicated. Not even when they got me a SNES with Super Mario World for my birthday (or was it christmas?) the following year - I spent more time with my mom then, but she didn't have the time to actually play SMW with me, so she mostly watched and commented. Dad just listened to whatever the hell I said about the game when he came back from work.
And now... now we're both too old and too grumpy (and living in different cities) to really bond in such a carefree manner over something. Too burdened with concerns and too filled with regrets. Even small moments can turn into bickering if one of us says something and the other doesn't get it, or interprets it the wrong way. There's always something in the way...
But still, I treasure those moments. Those days when a young dad sat down with his little kid to play an old game on an obsolete console, laughing and translating the words I didn't understand (english isn't my first language, and I started learning from him) and forgetting about the small room in a small house that surrounded us. Just a father and his son. Thank you, dad.
Lucky Seven
Banned
I wish we couldve played more games together but we really only played mario kart, smash, mario party.
DistortionOfReality
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Not my dad, he died before then, but I saw a lot of my Uncle and some of my best memories were he and I completing Super Mario World on the SNES. Later in life we played a load of Need for Speed Underground, then Underground 2 and so on.
He doesn't play much anymore but when I see him we usually have a quick blast on Gran Tourismo 6 or something. He also played through Bioshock like 4 times hah but that was more on his own a couple of years back, though I did introduce him to it. Great memories with him though.
He doesn't play much anymore but when I see him we usually have a quick blast on Gran Tourismo 6 or something. He also played through Bioshock like 4 times hah but that was more on his own a couple of years back, though I did introduce him to it. Great memories with him though.
My father used to play rpgs with me, he once grinded until like 3am in the morning at Final Fantasy , I was not able to beat a boss so he grinded some lvl for me 
In the morning, my party was over lvl and was able to beat the boss lol.
We also played Secret of Mana together .
Hes 77 now and still playing game, I got him Witcher 3 for last Christmas on PC and still playing it to this day .
In the morning, my party was over lvl and was able to beat the boss lol.
We also played Secret of Mana together .
Hes 77 now and still playing game, I got him Witcher 3 for last Christmas on PC and still playing it to this day .
I play Mario Kart with my 8 year old sometimes, but she's not super into games except mobile ones.
A few weeks ago my 1.5 year old son woke up from his nap and I was playing infamous: first light, so he sat in my lap while I ran around town jumping off buildings and such and he thought it was hilarious. I then booted up Driveclub cause he loves cars and did one race and he thought that was pretty cool. He also loves messing with the Wii u game pad and the ds4 but most of the time they're off.
A few weeks ago my 1.5 year old son woke up from his nap and I was playing infamous: first light, so he sat in my lap while I ran around town jumping off buildings and such and he thought it was hilarious. I then booted up Driveclub cause he loves cars and did one race and he thought that was pretty cool. He also loves messing with the Wii u game pad and the ds4 but most of the time they're off.
ThatStupidLion
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only time ive ever seen my dad remotely intrigued by a videogame was him smiling while watching us play wii bowling/tennis from the couch
my mom at least tried wii bowling/tennis once and i got her to play tetris on the gameboy OG once or twice back in the day.
my mom at least tried wii bowling/tennis once and i got her to play tetris on the gameboy OG once or twice back in the day.
Sourtreats
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For me my two biggest gaming memories with my dad are:
Playing through Day of the Tentacle, this one is extremely strong with the nostalgia as I'm currently playing the remastered edition through and its still as wonderful as it was all those years ago. We managed to finish it without using any walkthroughs, which for a father and his 8 year old son as impressive imo.
The second has to be playing through the James Bond games on the Gamecube, we played Agent under fire through first and finally most notably, he managed to beat the final boss on Agent Underfire. I was stuck on that boss for a week.
I miss those times.
Playing through Day of the Tentacle, this one is extremely strong with the nostalgia as I'm currently playing the remastered edition through and its still as wonderful as it was all those years ago. We managed to finish it without using any walkthroughs, which for a father and his 8 year old son as impressive imo.
The second has to be playing through the James Bond games on the Gamecube, we played Agent under fire through first and finally most notably, he managed to beat the final boss on Agent Underfire. I was stuck on that boss for a week.
I miss those times.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I have a lot of special memories that are very important to me.
DOS PC:
-Doom 1
-Doom 2
PC:
-Myst
-Riven
-Myst Exile
Sega Genesis:
-Sonic
-Sewer Shard CD
-Triple Play baseball and more
Nintendo 64:
-Diddy Kong Racing
-Mario Kart 64
Xbox:
-Halo CE co-op. Introduced/taught him how to play FPS on console. Now he plays Gears of War and every Halo release.
DOS PC:
-Doom 1
-Doom 2
PC:
-Myst
-Riven
-Myst Exile
Sega Genesis:
-Sonic
-Sewer Shard CD
-Triple Play baseball and more
Nintendo 64:
-Diddy Kong Racing
-Mario Kart 64
Xbox:
-Halo CE co-op. Introduced/taught him how to play FPS on console. Now he plays Gears of War and every Halo release.
Lys Skygge
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The last game I played a game with my dad was Downhill Domination for PS2. He saw me playing the demo one day, he thought it looked fun! We played the shit out of that demo. We got him the game for his birthday and we played the shit out of it too!
My dad fell out of gaming after Turok for N64, so it was nice to have him back for a few months with Downhill Domination. He doesn't play games anymore, but he does enjoy watching others play cinematic games like Uncharted. He made me wait until he got off from work before I could play Uncharted 3 because he wanted to watch haha.
My dad fell out of gaming after Turok for N64, so it was nice to have him back for a few months with Downhill Domination. He doesn't play games anymore, but he does enjoy watching others play cinematic games like Uncharted. He made me wait until he got off from work before I could play Uncharted 3 because he wanted to watch haha.