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Reader Discussion: It’s Father’s Day

It's Father's Day today, and we want to know if you have gaming memories with your father.

My dad, while always supportive of my hobby (unless somebody needed to rake the yard), has never been into video games. He, my brother, and I dabbled in Myst together, and I got him to try out Guitar Hero once (he's an expert bluegrass mandolin player), but that's about it. These days he watches Netflix on the Wii, but that's about as close as he gets to playing a game console.

How about you? Did you and your father play a lot of video games together?

Be sure to check out our special edition Resident Evil 4 Father's Day Replay guest starring Dan Ryckert's father, Paul Ryckert who knows me only as Ramis, because he started calling me that after he decided I sound like Harold Ramis the actor/director.

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  • My father left when I was three-years-old, so no XD
  • I used to watch my dad play the 1st and 2nd Metal Gear when i was a kid.
  • When i was younger my father taught me how to play sci-fi space shooters like Starlancer and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. He dosn't play too many games with me any more, but he does like watching me play games like Fallout, being the devil on my shouler telling me to kill people for their stuff XD
  • I have great memories playing with my Dad before he passed away, playing with him in Halo.

    http://www.gameinformer.com/blogs/members/b/imcmandrshepard_blog/archive/2012/04/22/spartans-never-die-they-just-respawn.aspx
  • My dad used to play the Genesis Madden's and NHL games more than I got to play Earthworm Jim!

  • My father and I played the entirety of Star Wars Bounty Hunter when it first came out. I gave up when some giant tiger things freaked me out, but I watched him finish it.

  • When I was really little, I would watch my brother and my dad play Tecmo. He didn't really play video games much after that, but I think that if he never bought that Sega Genesis, I would never have gotten into video games, since that's how I started out, and soon that led to me getting a PlayStation

  • I played a crapload of PC with my dad when I was really young, and  I have really fond memories of him and I playing through the old Final Fantasy games with him trying to help me get through them. Ahhh, good times.

  • My dad never played video games with me. The last game we played together was Star Fox 64.

  • My dad used to beat my brother and I down in Madden when we were kids. He wasn't very gracious about it either. I blame my competitive nature on him.

  • Ya my dad doesn't play any video games.
  • My dad is the reason I play video games. He already owned the NES and SNES when I was born so I grew up playing Super Mario Bros. 3 and Earthworm Jim with him. We still play games a lot and his favorites are GTA Vice City, Red Dead Redemption and the Batman Arkham games.
  • One of my earliest gaming memories is playing through Zelda: Wind Waker with my dad and my brother, it's still one of my favorite games.

  • My dad thinks video games are a waste of time and money...so no I have no memories of playing games with my dad.
  • My father doesn't play games. However, when I first got my Super Nintendo he did play some Pilot Wings with me.  The only other time I can remember was a baseball game for my Tandy Color Computer 3.

  • I remember my dad buying all of our systems and playing the crap out of mario brothers. He got me into gaming when he bought me my ps1 and ff7 and i play games with him to this day. He currently plays world of Warcraft at the age of 55 and without him I wouldn't be gaming.
  • I tried to have my father play Halo with me, but he could't coordinate the two thumbsticks. Guitar Hero didn't go down so well, either :P
  • My father never played video games, but I do have the distinct memory of him setting up my first game system(NES), and being enraptured with The Legend of Zelda. I had never even asked or was really aware of what it was, glad he did though, hooked ever since.

    BTW as ridiculous as Paul Ryckert is, I don't think it's a terribly bad to be compared to Egun Spangler, better than Janine Melnitz.
  • My father didn't play video games, but I'm already breaking that pattern with my children. Ask this question again in a decade and hopefully one of them will be on here to share.
  • Adult pigeons are more susceptible to free food schemes than their younger counterparts. Desperation grows as time goes on. Raise them right in the early years and this won't happen.
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