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wirm 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 25	I remember one of the worse memories i ever had as a child.. teaching my mom to play nintendo.. The actually teaching part wasnt so bad, the bad part was when i came home from school my mom would be playing tetris.. and wouldnt let me play, and the terribly horrible part was when i came home and the screen was on the stupid dancing guys.. she had beat Game B level 9-5 and kept it there to rub it in my face. Other addicting Adult NES games.. super mario 1, jaws and bubble bobble.

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System 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	Man, even if one of your parents were enjoying it, you should consider yourself fortunate. Mine were completely anti-gaming, even though they would fork out the cash on birthdays and Christmas. You know, the whole "it'll rot your brain" attitude. If I were on the NES for more than a couple of hours, I'd get hell for it. My old man's hand-eye coordination was awful too...he'd storm out of my bedroom in a fitful cussing rage after three minutes of Super Mario Bros. I'd giggle myself to sleep some nights.

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System 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	Oh man, my parents used to love Tetris. I have fond memories of my mom playing Al Unser Jr's Turbo Racing and she would steer the controller as if she were driving a real car and scream. lol...I miss those days...

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System 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	My mom is completely techno-challenged. She can't even turn a computer on. My dad used to play Tetris and Dr. Mario, though. You should be proud of your mom. Tetris B game level 9-5 is very hard to beat.

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adventure_of_link 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 9769	my mom used to hog all my computers so she can play dr. mario she used to hog my gameboy to play tetris and my dad atm hogs my ps2 to play mvp baseball 2k5 WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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izumi
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me and my dad use to play resident evil together
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System 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	Playing video games with the folks is the greatest, although teaching my mom was a little rough. they were never much competition though, maybe i just play too much lol

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System
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yah my mom Hoged the NES To Play tetris,Super Mario Brothers and Rad Racer.
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System 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	The only time I got my dad to play with me, was with the NES, we played Duck Hunt for a while... just a few minutes before he got tired of the dog making fun of him... one of my fondest memories. Oh, and yes, he was drunk at the time, I guess that's why he played with me that time and then he never did.

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When I showed my mom how a computer worked, she became addicted to solitaire and freecell.
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Wilson 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 53	Tetris and Dr. Mario were what my parents were obsessed with. They stopped playing video games when the super nintendo came out.

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Daniel85 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 1699	When I got my SNES for Christmas, the game I got was Super Metroid. I love that game now that I can appreciate it, but when I was ten I was like 'Jesus Christ, grandma, what part of 'Super Mario All Stars' don't you understand?' Anyway, there was this kid named Christopher who used to be at his dad's house on weekends, just around the corner from me, and he let me borrow his Super Mario All Stars in exchange for my Super Metroid. His dad was some unemployed bum who used to sit around in his dressing gown drinking Nestle's Quik out of a Wile E Coyote figural mug and watching the midday movie. He took a liking to the SNES, and became addicted to Super Metroid. He kept it for ages, even after I'd given Chris back his Mario game. Eventually I told my step-dad about it, and he went up there to ask for the game back. I got it back, but then Chris's dad was suffering withdrawal symptoms or something, so he offered me $50 for it. Good deal.
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System 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	Way to go Dan, you only aided in that man's addiction. Instead of going out and finding a job, he played your game all day.

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Daniel85
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Yeah, but... fifty bucks!
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BlueRain 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 311	I like this topic. When my brother got the NES he taught my mom how to play Super Mario Bros. It was pretty funny, she would move the controller up and down in the air and make arcs as Mario jumped. She burned our food once because of that. But when we taught her Tetris (a couple of years ago)she became super addicted. It was so bad. She would get mad at herself for being so bad since she's not good at the games. Now she's a bit addicted to the Gameboy Advance with the original Super Mario game. But my dad came back and now we can't play. he hates video games. My mom hates it when too much time is spent on them which I think is reasonable. But other than that she's okay if they are pretty clean games. Oh on a side note, when we went to Mexico we set up the NES to play Duck Hunt and gave the gun to my aunt. We told her to just press the trigger. She jumped and screamed at the noise the gun made on the screen, it was so funny. She didn't want to pick it up again.

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ninjamonkey 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 572	my mother bought me my NES when i was four. she knew how to play super mario brothers before i did, and she could make it to world 4. then shed die too much. i think not 5 months after getting it, playing sparatically since i was an outdoorsy-type at that age, i bet the game in like 15 minutes. at this point, she could get to world five, so she was really jealous. she took away the NES and said if im that good at the game, ive been playing it too much. if i was my age back then, i would call her on her bullshit now, but what r u gonna do.....

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woodels 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 68	I use to race my dad in mario kart for snes but then we got a playstaion and the controller got to complicated for him haha

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Predaking 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 920	Hearing all this talk about how parents will make driving motions and moving the controller up and down trying to make their character jump makes me think about how the Ninetendo Revolutions controller seems to make more sense.
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Jomero 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 105	My mom never got into video games too much. But, before I ever truly beat a video game, she did it before me. It was "Star Strike" for the Intellivision (a console system she won from the radio). I remember being upstairs and hear her screaming for joy. She beat the game, then showed me how she did it. Years later, when she didn't play video games anymore and I was a gaming junkie, she started playing The Legend of Zelda. She got pretty far. To 5th or 6th dungeon I think. I remember she hated the "cakes" (Like-Likes) that ate her shield.
	"When magic is explained, it is no longer magic." -Haggar the Witch, Voltron
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sewage 8 years 10 months ago Posts: 835	Games my mom love/ed: Crash Bandicoot, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country 2 & 3, Super Star Wars
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