/vr/ - Retro Games

>>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.