Video Games Your Parents Play

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My mom has only ever enjoyed gaming on mobile devices for some reason. I tried to get her into consoles. No interest.

She has only ever put more than 10 hours into 3 games over the past 32 years. Tetris (gameboy), Words with friends (ios) and candy crush (ios). I think she must have about 3500-4000 hours in Candy Crush. She plays several hours every day and has been playing since it released.

She is very interested in airplanes. Tried to get her into FSX. Nope. Interested in driving. Tried to get her into Gran Turismo. Nope. Interested in RPGs, tried to get her into Zelda, nope. However, Ocarina of Time was the only game she ever watched me play and enjoyed from that standpoint.

She briefly tried to get into the original Super Mario on NES back in the 80s but kept dying at the first gumba and gave it up.

I'd like to get her into more games. I got her into the Sims for awhile but she got bored after about 10 hours and never touched it again.

Immersive games with depth are no fun to her. She likes shallow, repetetive, easy to pick up, lame-o games.

She is the definition of an uber casual gamer.

My dad is one of those "I'm too cool for this" guys, until his friend (who will play anything his kids play) talks him into playing something. It took a bit of prodding, but eventually we got him play Halo and he loved that. Then we went through a Rock Band phase. Now, it's any new edition of Call of Duty.

My folks are in their 80's. Computers terrify them, as do phones not physically plugged into a wall jack. Basically anything that is not accessed via actual physical controls is too confounding.

If my daughter was posting here, she'd say one parent plays LOTRO heavily & the SIMS occasionally (until it crashes one too many times) and the other parent hasn't found a game that she can really get into.

My parents don't play video-games but they did play Super Mario alittle when they bought me a Super Nintendo for Christmas. When they were younger my mom played pinball & I think my dad played some arcade games.

My dad and I actually play a lot of the same games, mostly ones that fall into the RPG, adventure, platforming, and puzzle genres. We also have some hack-and-slash games and real-time strategy games. My mom generally likes puzzle games and Halo.

My dad also likes Command&Conquer, which I was never interested in, and DOOM. My old man's basically the reason I'm into video games, tbh.

None. They consider video games an abject vice.

My mother is a Candy Crush Saga fangirl.

I know. That is very sad.

My parents don't play games, nor grandparents, siblings seem to be the same, maybe thats my mistake in life, investing too much time in playing and not enough in working, even though I don't have a job

I wish my mom would get a 3DS and play Animal Crossing New leaf so I can actually visit another village and she could visit mine, but I don't think that will ever happen. Whenever I've described my Animal Crossing games to her she thinks they are very complicated, and I can't see her spending her free time trying to catch virtual fish or build a virtual house.

Plus we'd only get to connect and play when I come visit her on holidays.

My mum used to play D&D with my dad. Er, she doesn't really play any games right now, but she likes Half Life and Dead Space.

My dad played through all of Phantasy Star Online for Gamecube with me. We did it all together split-screen.