/vr/ - Retro Games

My dad played Super Mario Bros. a bit with my sister and I the first night we had the NES and then never touched the thing again. He saw Nintendo as a wussy activity and would call me and the Nintendo "ninny" sometimes.
Kids nowadays have parents who grew up playing video games and nowadays there really isn't a stigma attached to adults who play video games, so the dynamic has sort of shifted.

Only my mom used to play some SNES and PSX with us. Although it was only Tetris and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. And she still rocks in both games.

>>1721359

>two controllers at the same time
>nes isn't plugged in
>smb isn't even in the nes
>nobody is actually looking at the screen

>>1721359
My Dad owned an NES and let me play duck hunt. My first true game. I was around 2 at the time. Then he bought a super nintendo for us.

We would play street fighter 2 all the time and he would cheese with e-honda hand spam.

Later on we would beat super mario world together while drunk and new super mario bros. wii a week before it came out.

My Aunt was younger than my mom and into games, but my mom played sometimes. She used to say her favorite game was Kaboom! The first game I ever played was Pressure Cooker on my Aunt's Atari 2600. I was the youngest of three brothers so I didn't get to play as much starting out because game systems were considered really expensive and less expendable back then so they were worried about me trashing it somehow.

We eventually got our own Atari and I remember being a kid and watching my dad play while listening to rock music and sneaking off to his room to smoke a bong between games. I distinctly remember a time watching him play Breakout while blasting Genesis, and also remember watching him play Crystal Castles, Q-Bert, and Pitfall.

By the time the NES came out I was old enough to play games more often. When we went to Ohio to visit my Grandparents one time I remember my entire family playing Anticipation, trading the controller off during games so everyone could get a turn and the people not playing trying to yell guesses to the questions and cheering people on to put in the answers in time. It's the only time I remember seeing my Grandparents playing video games, and the only time I remember my whole family getting in on it. My mom would sometimes play Super Mario Bros. but as newer and more involved games were released she lost interest in gaming. My Aunt just kind of gave it up for some reason I don't know, maybe she felt like she was too grown up for it anymore or something.

My dad still played games along with us until he passed away in 96. Some of the SNES games I remember him playing were U.N. Squadron, Street Fighter II, Mega Man X, etc.

Both of my brothers are like me and have played games all our lives, and still play games. We grew up a Nintendo family and didn't own a non-Nintendo system till my oldest brother bought a Dreamcast on 9/9/99.

>>1721359

My old man and I used to play this when I was younger. Before we had a Genesis, sometimes he'd bring out his Atari 2600 my mom gave him before they were married.

>>1724304
The kid is holding A and Mario is jumping, so that's something at least.

My mom plays Dr Mario on SNES, she's very good, I mean, on HI level 20 she can clear the screen. She's 60. But she only plays puzzle games.

Does anyone remember that story about the bubble bobble lady stuck at lvl 99?

I read it in a magazine where she sent in a level asking for the password to get past the last boss. She was like 90 herself.

My mom loved Pac-Man, and still does.

My dad was never into video games.

>>1721359
dad used to play nes and mega drive games with my brother and i like mario bros, ninja turtles, umk3, sonic. a lot of shit actually. then we got a n64 and he used to play some mario 64, turok and goldeneye. he eventually grew out of it and today all he ever plays is solitaire games on the pc.

Whenever the topic comes up my mom raves about Galaga and my dad immediately goes to a "fishing game" for the Genesis. Of which I am sure there are several.

My dad never really played on his own but he was always down to play with us, especially any thing sports or racing related. Got big into the original Mario Kart for a while.

He tried to get the Sega Channel for me because he thought it sounded cool too but our cable company didn't support it :(

Pa used to play before I was born, and played for the first 5 years of my life (or so) then stopped.

Ma played (and plays still) Tetris, but hates vidya with rabid passion and did everything she could to stop me from playing.
I was only able to play 30 min/day, I would only get carts as birthday/christmas/children's day gifts, and always from others, never from her.

Buying consoles on day one? Pffft, two generations behind was a minimum condition to consider purchasing!

And then my father joined her.

Even with all that, they failed.

When I beat Mega Man 5 in two half-hour sittings I knew there was no turning back.

The only one who liked/didn't hate my gaming habits was my (now gone) grandpa. The old man took me to the arcades once or twice a week and gave me a $2 bill to spend every time (back then, 8 credits).

It makes me feel awful how, looking back, I never invited him to play with me.
I wish I could go back in time and fix that.

>>1724429
I remember the Dragon Quest lady that waited for one of the games to get localized and dies before it came to NA

>>1721359
When my mom first started dating my step dad he has a psx and n64 at his place. I don't think he ever touched it though, it was his burnout loser roomates.
Shortly after going over there for the first time he bought me and my brother a psx.

>>1724407
This, my mom really enjoyed playing Dr.Mario on the NES, I never could beat her since she was a wizard with combos and shit.

She died in 2002 when I was 12 ;_;

>>1721359
The NES was originally for my dad, so he played more vidyas than me and my bro.
He played the original Mario, Mario Bros 3, Tetris, Arkanoid and a baseball one.

When we got a Snes, he played Super Mario World. My mom also used to play SMW, and also MegaMan X.

The Snes is, as of now, hooked up to an old TV and whenever my mom or dad want to play, they just call us to connect the console

>>1721359
I don't think my mom ever played anything, and my dad only liked the stuff arcades had back in the day. Hell, in general they viewed me wanting to play video games as a waste of my time and their money, so I never had very much for the few systems I owned at the time. Think the most games I had at once on a given system for a LONG time was five on the the PS1, and even to them that was way more than I should ever have need of.

I know my dad played some arcade games when he was younger. There were only a couple times I remember my dad playing video games. A football game on NES and Virtua Fighter 2. I know he tried to play Vice City a couple times but he could not get into it.
As far as I know my mom has never played any vidya.

>>1721359

the first game we got was metroid, and my mom actually beat it, but didn't have much interest in playing anything else. my dad had no interest at all.

My mom got into Tetris, and still plays puzzle games to this day.
My dad got into Legend of Zelda, then beat me to Rhone in Dragon Warrior 2. He played the shit out of Colonization, Ultimate Domain(Genesia), Might and Magic 2, C&C Red Alert, and Sim City.

For a while he started drifting into crappy online flash games, but I got him a copy of HoMM3, and he's been hooked on that since.

His first video game was pong. A couple of months ago he asked me if there were any good NEW games, or if it was all just graphics and colors.

And right now he's out buying hash. I love my dad.

My Dad could make the score count on Asteroids Roll over to 0 multiple times
My Mom knew every secret in the original Super Mario Bros.
Me? I Suck at everything.

my dad has an astroids cabinet in his garage

>>1721359
My dad never played them. My mom would play dr. Mario with me. She played tetris on my GB a lot, and even beat super mario land before I did.

Not exactly in tune with this thread, but I'm only 20 years old, my father is the retro gamer. Huge collection of Commodore, Atari, TurboGrafx, NES, SNES, MegaDrive, Saturn, Playstation and N64 collection of games, along with a few arcade cabinets.

He always seems a bit disappointed when he sees me playing a modern game, ignoring his huge collection of games.

He's playing through Shovel Knight now, though. He seems to like it

Both of my parents played a fair amount of arcade games in the late 70s-early 80s. They owned a 2600, my dad got into Zelda early on. Now pretty much they only play Tetris and Dr Mario, which is fine. My mom can kick my ass at Dr Mario to this day. By the time I came around (89) they basically were done with keeping up with newer games.

>>1721359
I had wizardry: proving grounds of the mad overlord for the NES. I often got my ass kicked, but my dad was pretty good. we would play together a lot. Turns out when he was a kid he played wizardry: proving grounds of the mad overlord on apple II back in the day.

>>1721392
Hahahaha, just keep telling yourself that. Games are GAMES, video or not. They are not serious by definition. In children, they're excusable since they're still learning to do real things and game is a safe mode of learning, kinda like wooden sword vs. steel blade.
Adults with games are never seen as developed.

My mother claims to have been a Joust champion. She really loved that game, apparently.

>>1728305
Holy shit my dad bought that for us when I was a kid. We had the DOS version.

My Dad was a computer guy in the 80s. My first video games were his leftover PC games

Space Quest, Pinball Construction Set (pictured), Zork.

By the time I was old enough to remember shit, he had long since stopped giving a shit.

He smashed three NES's and one SNES in my lifetime. Passed away in 1997. Found weird shit in his belongings like "How to write science fiction". I think my Dad was a cool guy before I was born and just died a bitter old man who didn't give a shit about anything anymore.

I play games with my son all the time now.

Neither of my parents ever played video games, though my dad was into computers. We had a Commodore 64 family computer when I was a kid, but no games for it, and after that a Windows 95 computer for us kids that I remember playing some DOS games and StarCraft and stuff on. I don't remember my parents ever playing any computer games. My dad mostly just messed around with Linux and smack talked Microsoft, and my mom just sucked in general with technology (still does).

They weren't big fans of video games. They never bought us any consoles or games. If we wanted a game console we had to save up our own money to buy it, then still have to deal with them putting restrictions on our gameplay. The first console we ever had was an N64 that my brothers and I bought in 2002, along with a small handful of games. Never really bought any more games, just had the six or seven that we initially bought.

My whole time growing up I had a total of two consoles: The N64 in 2002, and an Xbox in 2004 or 2005. Only had a total of, like, a dozen games over both systems. I only really started getting interested a few years ago.

We were relatively poor, but my little brother got a snes with SMW and DKC when he was around 7 years old, I was 9 at the time, and my dad would sometimes play it. He'd also play DKC 2 & 3, and got Secret of Mana for his fathers' day, which he managed to finish even though his English wasn't very good.
He gave SoM to me last week when I asked for it, with the (pretty beat-up) map and instruction booklet, in the back it has some notes from him, from way back then. Dem feels mang.
Nowadays he only plays Mahjong or Snood on pc.
>found out my ex-best friend deleted my dads' save a few years ago
>instead of one of the sub 15% other saves
>his save was sub 10%
>mfw

I once had my mom play Super Mario Kart's battle mode against my dad, but that was it

>>1721359
fucking christ that pictures urks my autism. That one kid cannot even fucking see the screen, and Mario isn't even a 2 player at the same time kind of game so why the fuck are you holding the controller you little shit? now that i think about it, the father cannot even fucking see it. hes just staring at the side of the screen with a giant fucking grin. the cartridge isn't even in the fucking system, the system isn't even plugged in, i don't even fucking know why the zapper is there when only two controllers can be plugged in at the same time. that picture bothers me almost as much as this one

also my parents didn't play too many games with me until we got the nintendo 64, when we would play mario kart 64 and starfox 64 together. my mother and him were big computer fans though. when quake came out they had to fucking have it, and when they did, holy fuck. day and day out, matching each other and then fucking like rabid animals after a ferocious match. online battles were fucking hectic too, they often screamed but i still dont know for sure if they were yelling from quake or sex.

>>1721359
My dad was a huge gamer before I was born and that kept up right into the Playstation era and he's the reason I got into them from a very young age. Apparently I was playing NES games before I could walk, not sure how true that is mind you though.

He's not much of a gamer anymore unfortunately, he will always by a copy of any new Mario or Tomb Raider game but that's about it. After Final Fantasy VII he started complaining that games required to much time to beat these days

>>1721359

My old man (62) used to go with me to rent Genesis carts as a kid. Even nowadays he still loves Comix Zone, and gets all nostalgic when he sees me playing it. He also digs flying simulators since he used to be a pilot.

My mom (61) is by far the best Tetris player I've ever seen - she literally spent nights upon nights drinking coffee, going through boxes and boxes of Wonka Nerds and raking huge scores until 5am while she was pregnant with me. I fancy myself a very competent puzzle game player, but she fucking WRECKS me when we go head to head

My Dad used to play a little Gauntlet Legends with me but not long after that he turned his back on vidya for good. My Mom has never really cared at all. You people with parents that had or have even an inkling of respect for video games as more than just evil brain-rotting life-ruining children's toys should count yourselves lucky.

>>1728985
Yeah, doesn't help growing up in the 90s with a bunch of school massacres and politicians trying to ban violent videogames.

My dad was never into games up until we got PS2 for Christmas '01 when he was literally attached to Medal of Honor: Frontline, he could spend 6 hours playing that game, replaying missions and all sort of stuff fur at least 1 month, then he started playing other games like World Rally Championships, Ratchet & Clank (stopped when I accidentally deleted his save, didn't touch it ever since), nowadays he still plays but it's nothing AAA anymore, recently he started playing War Thunder. I don't recall seeing him playing something other besides that.
As for my mom, nowadays she only plays Facebook-tier games and that's probably all. Before that she used to play Crash Bandicoot but that was rather occasional and she was really bad at it (I copied my save and got 99 lives on it, she was able to spend all of that in 1 warp room)

Growing up, my Uncle gave me a super nintendo when I was 2 in 1994. My mother proceeded to sit down with me, and teach me how to play video games. We beat Super Metroid, A Link to the Past and Super Mario World together before I was 4. I beat all of them on my own by 6, including Megaman X 1 and 2, D-Force, Shadowrun, BrainLord, Blackthorne, ChronoTrigger and Final Fantasy 4.

She then played a little Crash Bandicoot 1 and 2 with me when the playstation came out.

I tried repeatedly to get my dad into gaming when I was a kid. Never worked. My mom and I spent a lot of time playing Toejam and Earl together, but that was the only game she ever got into. My folks had no problem dumping money into the vidya to keep me occupied, but neither of them ever got into the hobby.

Father owned an arcade until mid 90's. He dislikes any game made after 96.

My parents house still has robotron, Time pilot, and lifeforce in the garage to occasionally play. Robotron is his favorite game for some reason.

Mother and sister have no hobbies and are boring as fuck.

>>1729187
a lot of great games came out past 96. why did he dislike it? did he go out of business that year or something?

Father of one of my friends was a serious gamer. He hooked me up with games. And played games with us sometimes.

>>1729193
Probably when 3D games became mainstream.

>>1729202

This is back when games were a floppy copy away. And disks got corrupted and stopped your progress

>>1729204
>>1729193

Nah he sold the arcade because he realized the decrease in profits were just going to get worse due to the ever increasing popularity of consoles. He foresaw that the internet would also increase this problem for his business further, which was correct.

The reason he doesn't like newer games is more related to controls. He just hates console controllers, thinks they are too small and cheap compared to the arcade experience. The newest thing he owns is a SNES with the arcade stick, and he uses the arcade stick for EVERY game even Zelda.

My mom plays Wolfenstein 3D right now. Doom, once she's done with it.
On easiest.
The way she plays the game is kind of silly (pushes the buttons really hard and doesn't seem to ever use more than one action), her boss fights are basically "stand on medkits and power through".
>playing some map I don't recall
>she sees the exit after seeing the whole level
>opens it
>it's oddly roomy, but she doesn't notice
>barges in happy to finish the level
>suddenly gets shot at
>gets confused, instead of running to the exit she turns around superslowly
>gets shredded by 2 SS Guards
>dies
>lays off the mouse
>faceplants into my sweater
>"They killed meeee, I was so cloooseee"

My mom can't be this cute

My mom plays Wolfenstein 3D right now. Doom, once she's done with it.
On easiest.
The way she plays the game is kind of silly (pushes the buttons really hard and doesn't seem to ever use more than one action), her boss fights are basically "stand on medkits and power through".
>playing some map I don't recall
>she sees the exit after seeing the whole level
>opens it
>it's oddly roomy, but she doesn't notice
>barges in happy to finish the level
>suddenly gets shot at
>gets confused, instead of running to the exit she turns around superslowly with the keyboard
>gets shredded by 2 SS Guards
>dies
>lays off the keyboard
>faceplants into my sweater
>"They killed meeee, I was so cloooseee"

My mom can't be this cute.
And she doesn't use cheats like my casual dad, who can't play Civilization 2 without all techs and summoning two tanks "for scouting" (he actually doesn't ever use his advantage to win the game in 3000 BC, so points for that) and mechanized infantry "for defense".

>>1729839
I did that growing up, it's actually not that bad because so few SNES games use L and R anyway.

playing perfect dark my mom got mad at me for never doing my homework and pulled the cartridge out of the n64 while it was one and threw it across the room.

so what was my parents relationship with retro games like? yah.. not so good. it was always a waste of time to them

>>1731869
This. Parent's didn't play games, always figured it was something I would grow out of, or they didn't get it.

>>1721359
My parents' relationship with video games started even before I, the would-be gamer of the family, was born

My mom never had an interest in video games, although my uncle and aunts played an NES
when she was still living with them, so she knew about them.

My dad, on the other hand, could be considered the "gamer" of the two. I'm guessing he bought an NES shortly before getting a place with my mom and took it with him when they moved in together, and then bought a SNES shortly before I was born. I never asked him how or when he got them.
But supposedly, his relationship with video games started even before that. He would tell me of how he would always go to the arcade and play "this game" as a young teenager when we occasionally went to the mall's arcade and he played Pac-man or Galaxian when I was a young child. He was a bit of a pinball wizard, to, according to him.

However, at home, he never really played the NES nor the SNES, and he never played with me. There are a few rare occasions that I remember watching him play Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II, though. I couldn't have been older than five. But after I was born the NES and SNES basically became mine.

Over the years, my dad played a couple of my games at times. I remember he would sometimes ask me to start the original Donkey Kong for him after I found out about it being in Donkey Kong 64. Later on, He would sometimes ask me where my DS was so he could play Metroid Prime Pinball. Hell, he was even played the Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire game I had when he got me a Game Boy Player. The last time I remember him playing any game was in 2007, I think. He took me to a local used game store and waited for me in the car. I went back to the car to find him playing Pac-man on my PSP that I had left on my seat.

>>1728274
He's probably planning on passing his collection on to you or any kids you have, but is worried that you eventually won't want it.

>>1728346
A lot of shit older people do isn't serious.
Real sports are also games.
And you're assuming games in general are learning tools

>>1732759
Oh, I want it, and I'll show my kids the wonders of retro gaming, if I ever have them.

>>1721359
My dad played Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 with me even though he didn't know the moves and always lost. I memorized the entire roster's full movesets since as a kid you have that luxury, so I'd always perform fatalities on him.

I thought about buying a second PS2 controller so he could play some of the PSX and PS2 fighting games I got since then, but he said he wouldn't, they'd be too hard :(

>>1728995
>tfw your mom had no problem with you playing violent games because she thought they would only negatively impact kids who already had a disposition towards unusually violent behavior

>>1721359
born in '84
my parents used to rent a NES before we got for christmas one year (89 I think). I remember it used to come in a big suitcase type thing from the video store.
The games I remember them playing were Super Mario Bros, Golf, Duck Hunt, Wheel of Fortune and Slalom
They never ever played anything on super NES
The only 64 game I remember my dad playing was Mario Kart 64. He would play that one with us quite a bit actually. Other than that, they have no real interest in video games besides app type games for tablets. I think I'll play video games with my kids though. I would have loved to play goldeneye and games like that with them.

I played Battletoads 2-player with my mum when I was young. Not quite as /vr/ but my Dad loved the Medal of Honour games, don't know how long he spent on Allied Assault. He got pretty good at it, too.

Neither of us could get any further than the 3rd level, but it was great fun.

>>1721359
The only vidya memory I have with my mom was playing Faxanadu together on the NES.

My dad used to play all of the Star Wars flight sim games like X-wing vs. Tie Fighter. Also got me into Doom and Quake. He doesn't play anything now though...

I really have no idea.
My mother, next to none.
My father played quite a few I think.
Last time I checked, he played stuff like Rogue at some point in time.

>>1724641
that's sad.
Mine can easily beat me in that, but it's not fair, she only plays that.
She would love dr luigi, but the Wii U is mine.

ceconsid Ramon

My dad had great taste and he tried as hard as possible to pass it on to me. We would play Diablo and Warcraft 3 together, and we took turns playing Ultima series, Myst, Doom, and others.

Now he's a huge casual and only plays Second Life. I think he's secretly a furfag or something, I'm not really interested in finding out.

Y'know, I never really thought of my parents as gamers. They occasionally buy a game for themselves here or there, but now that I think about it... I did grow up with an Atari, NES a shitton of DOS games and all before I was old enough to start asking for them myself.

>>1732925
>only plays Second Life

I bet he's a huge pimp that gets with all the furry ladies.

>>1721359
My parents were pretty cool with video games. I remember playing a ton of Genesis games with them growing up... Sonic, Gunstar Heroes, Ms. Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat I and II (My mom used to beat the crap out of my dad and myself in Mortal Kombat it was fucking hilarious), ToeJam and Earl, just to name a few.

They kind of fell off the video game bandwagon during the Saturn/PlayStation/N64 era. Most of the 32-bit era for me was spent with my cousins.

My parents will play a game every now and again now but not nearly as much as they used to.

>>1721359
My dad kept playing games with me on sega mega drive. We played mortal kombat, streets or rage, battle toads and etc. mom only played tetris

We had a couple of computers that my parents needed for their accounting jobs, and they had a some small DOS and Windows games on them. I remember my mom liked playing Pacman somewhere in the early 1990s or so, whereas my dad sometimes played Freecell or Tetris. But for the most part, they felt pretty neutral about videogames and didn't care much for them either way. It was mostly just me and my sister playing them. Since the computers were primarily meant for work, we had to ask for permission every time before turning on the computer on and playing, though.

The one time my mom freaked out at a videogame was when we were playing this disc with a bunch of shareware games, and it had a game where you were supposed to buy and sell drugs. She saw us playing and thought we were actually buying drugs for real. This was before we even had an internet connection, so we found her horrified reaction kinda amusing.

>>1726351
Are you me?
Does the tubes need to be replaced?

My mother knows the first metal gear solid pretty well and played tekken with me sometimes. She wasn't great at it, though.

Really liked worms armageddon, though. These days she's really into mass effect

>>1728346
my boss plays facebook games all day
she makes 20.000 a month

>>1734321
works perfectly.

My mom, god bless her soul and my aunt always used to play this one game on the DOS called Bumpy. They were crazy about it, she beat the game like 10 times.

They even memorized the codes to each of the levels but I never even beaten the game once.

>>1724372
For some reason, that story scares the living shit outta me.

>>1724574
Maybe he was just happy to see his grandson happy. Trust me, for them, that's more than enough.

Both of my parents were heavy into console gaming, particularly RPGs, until the mid 90s. Around that time, my dad got his first PC since he sold his Apple II several years prior, and that became his main gaming platform. Meanwhile, my mother mainly stuck with console games. We never really played anything "together" as we didn't have many multiplayer games, but we would watch each other play various games, and we shared a few games as well.

Being an only child whose parents were adverse to physical activity, gaming was kind of our thing.

My parents hated (and still hate) video games. They just could never understand them. They regularly took them off me if they thought I was playing them too much. They didn't even have an ounce of respect for them. Once my mother took my GBA SP off me, lost it and refused to replace it. I was only allowed one hour a week at weekends. For someone who is passionate about video games (or anything else) it can be awful to have your passion so restricted. For various diffirent reasons I never had much self esteem as a child, and my parents hating one of my favourite hobbies only made it worse. In fact, I recently found an old agreement from about 12 or 13 years ago made between my parents and my brother. He had to promise to do hours of homework and study, as well as do loads of jobs around the house just to be able to play (not saying you shouldn't help out around the house, but it's not as if he was particularly lazy). Thankfully those days are over (I'm nearly finished college now), but even today I can't play a game with my parents in the room. If they ever walk in I just pause the game. I suppose inside I just don't want to disappoint my parents by letting them see me play video games. So the lesson here is, don't hate what your children are passionate about, embrace it. You'll be a better parent for it.

I used to play Streets of Rage with my dad. Now I don't talk to him anymore cause he's a dick. I still enjoy Streets of Rage.

>dad likes playing RTS, used to play Cossacks all the time
>whenever he saw me playing a different kind of game he'd say it's childish

What a casual.

My dad was very keen on Tetris. He prided on the fact he could get better scores than the kids. He also played Fighting Golf with us on the NES and also won most of the time. We sometimes said he should show his skills with SMB, but he wisely backed down knowing he'd get nowhere.

One christmas me and my brother got him playing Rock Band and he was pretty good on the drums. Other than that he hasn't played anything in years but always asks me about what games I've bought lately, since he knows I'm a casual collector.

>>1738563
Your parents were assholes.

My brother was born in 89 and I was born in 94, so most of my /vr/ experiences came from him. He would let me sit behind him and watch whatever he was playing at the moment.

He had some great taste too, now that I think about it. Deux Ex, Counter Strike, all the Lucasarts adventures, Dark Forces II, Starcraft, Alpha Centauri, everything.